LunaFest

• LunaFest: Presented by GaDuGi SafeCenter
Liberty Hall (803 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Sunday, March 6, 4-8pm

Annual Lunafest film festival. Lunafest will feature short films made by women about women starting at 5pm and an art show starting at 4pm. Tickets are available at the venue for $10 ($8 for students and seniors). Proceeds benefit the Breast Cancer Fund, GaDuGi SafeCenter and the KU Women in Film Scholarship Fund.

Films For Action presents: The Yes Men Fix the World

• Films For Action presents: The Yes Men Fix the World
Liberty Hall (803 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Monday, February 28, 7-9pm

From the organizers (Films For Action):
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world’s most outrageous pranks.

WATCH THE TRAILER: http://lawrence.filmsforaction.org/Event/The_Yes_Men_Fix_the_World/

From New Orleans to India to New York City, armed with little more than cheap thrift-store suits, the Yes Men squeeze raucous comedy out of all the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet. Brüno meets Michael Moore in this gut-busting wake-up call that proves a little imagination can go a long way towards vanquishing the Cult of Greed. Who knew fixing the world could be so much fun?

$4. Proceeds go towards bringing many more amazing new documentaries to Lawrence this year! Spread the word >> Check out our new city sub-site, dedicated to providing indy media for our local community. We’ve recently made a few enhancements to the layout. Cheers!

Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire

Aaron Storck

• Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire
Paragraph Gallery (23 East 12th Street in Kansas City, MO)
Friday, January 21, 6-9pm (Ongoing until Mar. 5)

From the organizers:
Charlotte Street Foundation’s Urban Culture Project is pleased to present “OUT OF THE FRYING PAN AND INTO THE FIRE,” new work by Aaron Storck and Lee Piechocki. Painting, video, and installation addressing—with fascination and skepticism—the boundary-blurring trends in contemporary art. Artists’ remarks at 6pm. Public discussion with artists: Saturday, February 26, 2pm. Free and open to the public.

“The stability of the modernist era has disintegrated into a multiplicity of art making approaches. Artists, historians, critics, and theorists have systematically dismantled barriers and effectively opened the floodgates. Art, it seems, can be anything. We are free, but this freedom does not come without a price. The current pluralistic art milieu is unpredictable and chaotic, a tangled mess of methodologies.” So write artists Lee Piechocki and Aaron Storck, whose new exhibition, Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire, explores this idea of the contemporary “mess,” its problematics and its potential. To do so, they draw subject matter from the immediate environments of their studios, and the messes, piles, stacks, and accumulations therein, while also drawing on their observations and perceptions of far-ranging aspects of contemporary culture and art, as well as theory, including the writings of Nicolas Bourriaud and his concept of Relational Aesthetics and the Altermodern. The exhibition will include new still-life paintings and a series of sculptural objects/arrangements by Lee Piechocki, and a new large-scale multi-media diptych painting, an installation, two videos, and studies by Aaron Storck.

Art Roundup: October 8, 2010 to October 15, 2010

Weekly roundup of the best art shows and art related events in and around the Lawrence/Kansas City area. If you come down to Astrokitty Comics on Saturday you will even see a Mighty Mugg from yours truly (Scott Stewart).

Check out the link below on our new calendar system October 8, 2010 through October 15, 2010.

Calendar link for events

Film Screening of Dirty Business & Climate Action Discussion

• Film Screening of Dirty Business & Climate Action Discussion
Ecumenical Christian Ministries (1204 Oread. St. in Lawrence, KS)
Sunday, October 10, 7-9:30pm

From the organizers (Films For Action):
Films For Action, the Sustainability Action Network, KU Eco-Justice & GPACE present a free encore screening of Dirty Business on Sunday October 10th. This event is being organized in solidarity with Bill McKibben’s 350.org campaign, calling for a global day of action on 10.10.10. See http://www.350.org.

After the film screening, around 8:30, several Lawrence groups committed to climate action will give a short introduction to the work they’re doing here locally, followed by a Q&A with Scott Allegrucci from the Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy. Scott is one of our local experts on the proposed coal plant issue, being closely involved in the campaign to oppose the boondoggle project since it was first proposed. Scott will have an update on the status of the campaign and offer ideas for how we can help oppose the project and support a smart, clean energy future for Kansas.

If you’ve already seen the film, this is a great change to get everyone you know who missed it to come see it. We can all become media activists by helping to spread the word and educate our city about the significant choice our state will be making in the coming months.

If you’d like to help promote the film to others but just want to come for the discussion, it will start around 8:30pm. If you haven’t seen the film yet, here’s your chance. Watch the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EZj7dZKxFU