Friday 6/11 – Thursday 6/17
This weekend’s Robert Lepage Film Festival kicks off with an opening reception hosted by the Canadian consul general at 6, followed by a 7:30 showing of 1998’s No, which juxtaposes the 1970 world’s fair in Osaka with the separatist crisis in Quebec. Tickets are $10. Tomorrow at noon Reader contributor Ted Shen, Tribune film critic Michael Wilmington, and Sun-Times theater critic Hedy Weiss will lead an hour-long panel discussion on Lepage’s films; the festival continues with The Seven Streams of the River Ota at 1. It’s all at Facets, 1517 W. Fullerton. For more information, call 773-722-5463, or consult the Section Two movie listings.
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12 SATURDAY The groups behind today’s protest of President Clinton’s commencement speech at the University of Chicago are calling for an end to the bombings in Yugoslavia and the sanctions against Iraq. They’ll gather at 8 AM at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn. It’s free. Next Friday at 5 PM there will be a related protest at Northwestern University, which will award Madeleine Albright an honorary doctorate in law. Call 773-939-3316 for details on both events.
In her one-woman show The Queen Be, Clara Abellard promotes the importance of taking charge of your own destiny in her story about “a clairvoyant young girl growing up in an unsympathetic household.” It’s today at 3 at the Preston Bradley Center for the Arts, 941 W. Lawrence. Tickets are $14. Call 773-728-9177.
16 WEDNESDAY At 320 pages, David Foster Wallace’s new collection of short stories, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, is much more travel-friendly than the 1,000-plus page Infinite Jest. He’ll read from his stories of depression, sexual posturing, self-satisfaction, and fear of diving, among other things, tonight at 6 at Borders Books & Music, 830 N. Michigan (312-573-0564).
