Special Events
Showing of "A Mighty Heart"
On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl's world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, the South Asia Bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi where a go-between had promised access to an elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane he might be late for dinner. He never returned. Starring Academy Award® winner Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted) as Mariane Pearl, and Dan Futterman, Oscar®-nominated for his Capote screenplay, as Daniel Pearl, A Mighty Heart is directed by Michael Winterbottom (The Road to Guantanamo, Tristram Shandy) and produced by Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner for Plan B Entertainment (Year of the Dog, THE Departed) and Andrew Eaton for Revolution Films (The Road to Guantanamo). John Orloff (BAND OF BROTHERS) wrote the screenplay.
Wednesday, April 9 and Sunday, April 13
9 pm, PSU Theater
Showing of "July '64"
Carvin Eison
Director, Carvin Eison will host his 60 min. PBS documentary. The movie is about the violence that erupted at a street dance one hot July night when a routine arrest took a turn for the worse - and ended with the National Guard being called to a Northern City for the first time during the civil rights era. July '64 gives voice to the people who lived it and tells the story of three days of conflict and unrest that altered the course of history in Rochester.
Thursday, April 17 from 3:30-4:45 pm in the PSU Theater
Responding to Child Abuse: Strategies to Prevent Burnout and Keep Children Safe
Victor La Cerva
Front-line workers who respond to child abuse frequently face burnout due to stress and emotional fatigue associated with their jobs. They frequently face conflict as they work with dysfunctional families in a complex organizational system. They work long hours and may spread their stress around the office or the living room when they get home. Social workers, health care workers, law enforcement personnel, and others involved in this important work do not always take care of themselves appropriately. In this workshop, through an interactive format, we will explore the following:
- Tools for balancing the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of ourselves.
- Twenty ways to reduce stress in the moment.
- The anatomy of anger and how to become more emotionally fluent.
- Techniques to avoid burnout, still contribute, and keep children safe.
Come relax, laugh, and learn some new tools to dance with stress!
Wednesday, April 16 from 2:00-4:30 pm in the Ballroom West
Art and Design Gallery
Refusing to look Away: Bearing Witness to Violence
Internationally recognized contemporary artists Laylah Ali, Ida Applebroog, Sue Coe, Lucinda Delvin, Peggy Diggs, Sharon Harper, Elka Kazmierczak, Bradley McCallum, Jacqueline Tarry and Sue Williams each expose through unique ways and means — some chilling, others disturbingly humorous — the complicity, tolerance, bigotry, social habits and disregard that perpetuate violent and aggressive behaviors in contemporary society. held at the Art and Design Gallery, located at 333 E. Walnut Avenue.
Gallery hours are Tuesday-Wednesday 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Thursday-Saturday 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Show runs from April 4-25.