Monday, January 26, 1998
A&E Briefs
ARTS
‘Great Expectations’ available at the Bruin
Come into the Daily Bruin offices in 118 Kerckhoff Hall today
and pick up free "Great Expectations" stuff. Posters, journals and
free passes to the upcoming movie will be given out on a
first-come, first-serve basis. The screening will be on Wednesday
at 7:30 p.m. at the Mann.
UCLA shows screening of ‘Day of the Locust’
As part of the UCLA Film and Television Archive Desert Island
Movies series, there will be a showing "The Day of the Locust"
tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the James Bridges Theater. The film is
photographer Catherine Opie’s pick of the one movie she would want
if she was stranded on a desert island. Opie, who will be present
at the screening, says, "Some films remain completely memorable,
and keep appearing in your mind. ‘The Day of the Locust’ works that
way for me." For more information call (310) 206-FILM.
Beyond Baroque
offers free workshops
Beyond Baroque, a non-profit literary/arts foundation offers
various free workshops throughout the year at Literary Arts Center
in Venice.
On Mondays at 8 p.m. there is a fiction workshop led by Pi Ware
. And on Wednesdays starting at 6:30 p.m., Genet Bosque will lead a
HIV/AIDS creative writing/spoken word workshop, sponsored by the
California Arts Council and Open Paths Counseling Center of Culver
City. Afterwards at 8 p.m. Jessica Pompei will lead a poetry
workshop. And then on Thursdays, beginning at 8 p.m., poet Allan
Jalon will lead a poetry workshop stressing the search for the
personal voice, with reference to key poets of the present and
past.
For more information call Fred Dewey at (310) 822-3006.