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Culture Club: The week's top art and culture events
Posted: Feb 20, 2008 in Things to do, Culture
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1. 'The Future of News -- Good News or Bad?'
4 p.m. Feb. 21, free, Ransburg Auditorium, University of Indianapolis, 1400 E. Hanna Ave. (317) 788-3373.
Get the scoop on the news business as Los Angeles Times publisher David H. Hiller visits the University of Indianapolis to talk about where the American news media is headed. Hiller, who has been publisher, president and CEO of the Times since October 2006, previously worked as the publisher of the Chicago Tribune. Hiller oversees one of the nation's biggest and most respected metro newspaper in the Times, which has more than 20 foreign bureaus and has won 38 Pulitzer Prize awards since 1942.
2. The Really Big Short Film Festival
7:30 Feb. 22, 11 a.m. Feb. 23, $9 Friday, $9 per film block or $27 for entire day Saturday, IMAX Theater in the Indiana State Museum, 650 W. Washington St., (317) 233-4629.
Thirty-two Indiana filmmakers submitted entries to the second annual Really Big Short Film Festival, and this weekend the top entries will be honored on a bigger-than-life screen at the Indiana State Museum. IMAX will host an awards ceremony for the winners on Friday night, followed by a screening of the three winning films. On Saturday, IMAX will screen 21 selected submissions in four different programming blocks. A screening of "Hup 'n' Dub Pre sent The Top 8 Tour: From MySpace to YourSpace" will serve as the event's grand finale.
3. International Violin Competition of Indianapolis: Laureate Series with the Ronen Chamber Ensemble
7:30 p.m. Feb. 26, $10-$20, Indiana History Center Basile Theater,! 450 W. Ohio St., (317) 637-4574.
French violinist Virginie Robilliard joins the local Ronen Chamber Ensemble for a night of mostly French classics by Chausson, Ravel and more. Robilliard, a laureate from the 1990 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, has made an international name for herself in the ensuing years. Debuting in New York at age 19, Robilliard's performance elicited the following response from the New York Times: "In the lyrical parts of her work, she produced a tone that was round and singing." Today, Robilliard lives in Caracas, Venezuela, where she heads up a community school of music for violin.
4. 'Proof'
8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 5 p.m. Sundays, Feb. 22 through March 15, $20-$25, Theatre on the Square, 627 Massachusetts Ave., (317) 685-8687, www.tots.org.
In "Proof," Theatre On The Square executive artistic director Ron Spencer takes the stage as Robert, a mentally ill math genius who's locked in a battle with his equally bright daughter. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, written by David Auburn, was adapted for the big screen in 2005 in a movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins and Jake Gyllenhaal. While this TOTS production lacks that star power, the intimate venue and live energy should make for an even more powerful experience.
5. Michael Pollan
7:30 p.m. Feb. 25, free, Atherton Union Reilly Room, Butler University, 4600 Sunset Ave., (317) 940-8000, www.butler.edu/woodslectures.>
From "Fast Food Nation" to "Super Size Me," the 21st century is shaping up as a century of inquiry into how we eat. "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food" author Michael Pollan is one of the latest to make a name for himself while exploring the question. In "Dilemma," the best-selling author follows food -- industrial, organic, and foraged -- from its origins to our plates. According to his Web site, to the readers of "The Omnivore's Dilemma," "dinner will never again look, or taste, quite the same."
