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Oneota Film Festival to feature documentaries and short films Luther College and downdown Decorah

thu19apr(apr 19)7:00 pmsun22(apr 22)2:00 pmOneota Film Festival to feature documentaries and short films7:00 pm (19) - 2:00 pm (22) Luther College and downdown DecorahCost:Cost/Fee

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Including Academy Award nominated "Heroin(e)," and Luther College Professor Thomas C. Johnson and Luther Director of Visual Media Aaron Lurth's new short film "Marieke," the 2018 Oneota Film Festival will

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Including Academy Award nominated “Heroin(e),” and Luther College Professor Thomas C. Johnson and Luther Director of Visual Media Aaron Lurth’s new short film “Marieke,” the 2018 Oneota Film Festival will be held April 19-22, on the Luther campus and in downtown Decorah.

Featuring more than 85 films from around the world, the Oneota Film Festival is open to the public. Festival goers may purchase individual day passes for $10 each or an all-access pass that admits them for all three days plus access to the opening night event and the filmmaker’s reception for a discounted rate of $25. Tickets and passes are available online at oneotafilmfestival.org.

The festival opens at The Elks Lodge in downtown Decorah at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 19, with the first Oneota Film Festival film “Saving Brinton.” This work follows the journey of Historian Michael Zahs who discovers a rare collection of film and attempts to restore and exhibit his findings. A Q&A with the filmmakers will follow this showing.

Following the opening event, films will be available from 6 to 10:30 p.m. on Friday, 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, and from noon to 4:15 p.m. on Sunday; all on Luther’s campus. in Valders Hall of Science Rooms 206 and 362, Olin Room 102, and in the Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall. Each room features a variety of films and documentaries; the full schedule is available at: oneotafilmfestival.org/2018-schedule.

The festival’s feature film “Heroin(e)” is a documentary highlighting the efforts of three women working to change the narrative and cycle of drug abuse one person at a time in Huntington, West Virginia. The film will be shown at 3 p.m. on Saturday and is open to the public with no charge for admission.

The festival closing films begin at 2:10 p.m. Sunday, April 22, on Luther’s campus.

Festival passes may be picked up at the opening event on Thursday, April 19; at the festival headquarters in Luther’s Valders Hall of Science anytime during the festival from 4 p.m. Friday, April 20, to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 22; or at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 21, at the doors of the event located in the T-Bock’s Upstairs, in downtown Decorah.

The Oneota Film Festival was founded and is run by a group of representatives from Luther and local film lovers who have formed a non-profit corporation to host the festival. The mission of the festival is to “build and sustain a community of film lovers through screenings and discussions.”

This year’s festival focus is on themes related to making connections, and the weekend will provide many opportunities to connect with filmmakers, friends and members of the broader community. The board of directors hopes that through this festival, viewers and filmmakers alike will be inspired to view and discuss compelling issues in today’s society.

This will be the ninth year that the Oneota Film Festival has been held in Decorah. Inspired by Luther alumnus Walter Ordway, a world traveler and filmmaker, the Oneota Film Festival board has arranged a weekend of eclectic, artistic films intended to delight a diverse audience.

More information and a full schedule of events is available at oneotafilmfestival.org.

A national liberal arts college with an enrollment of 2,050, Luther offers an academic curriculum that leads to the Bachelor of Arts degree in more than 60 majors and pre-professional programs. For more information about Luther visit the college’s website: www.luther.edu.

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19 (Thursday) 7:00 pm - 22 (Sunday) 2:00 pm

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Luther College and downdown Decorah

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Friday Book Group Decorah Public Library 202 Winnebago St., Decorah, IA

fri20apr2:00 pmFriday Book Group2:00 pm Decorah Public Library, 202 Winnebago St., Decorah, IAAge Range:AdultCost:Free/Small Donation

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Decorah Public Library staff are hosting three book discussions in April. All groups are open to the public and newcomers are encouraged to attend. Anyone interested should call the library

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Decorah Public Library staff are hosting three book discussions in April. All groups are open to the public and newcomers are encouraged to attend. Anyone interested should call the library at 382-3717 to learn more or to reserve a book.

The Friday Book Group will meet at 2:00 p.m. Fri. April 20 on the 2nd floor of the library to discuss Paula McLain’s “Circling the Sun.” Brought to Kenya from England as a child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl Markham is raised by both her father and the native Kipsigis tribe who share his estate. She forges her own path as a horse trainer, and her uncommon style attracts the eye of a decadent, bohemian community of European expats who also live and love by their own set of rules. But it’s the ruggedly charismatic Denys Finch Hatton who ultimately helps Beryl navigate the uncharted territory of her own heart.

For more information, contact Kristin Torresdal (Happy Hour and History Book Groups) at 563-382-3717 or Carmen Buss (Friday Book Group) at cbuss@decorah.lib.ia.us.

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(Friday) 2:00 pm

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Decorah Public Library

202 Winnebago St., Decorah, IA

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FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES WITH THE ONEOTA FILM FESTIVAL Luther College 700 College Dr

fri20apr6:00 pmfri10:30 pmFRIDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES WITH THE ONEOTA FILM FESTIVAL6:00 pm - 10:30 pm Luther College, 700 College DrAge Range:AdultCost:Cost/Fee

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WHERE BETTER TO BE ON A FRIDAY NIGHT THAN AT THE ONEOTA FILM FESTIVAL ON THE LUTHER COLLEGE CAMPUS?The next question is "What films should I see?" Here's a small sampling

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WHERE BETTER TO BE ON A FRIDAY NIGHT THAN AT THE ONEOTA FILM FESTIVAL ON THE LUTHER COLLEGE CAMPUS?

The next question is “What films should I see?”
Here’s a small sampling of what will be shown from the more than 30 films to be shown that night at 4 different venues between 6:00pm and 10:30pm.

TO THIS DAY: REMEMBERING NORDIC CHOIR FIRST INTERNATIONAL TOUR directed by Aiden Spencer, Decorah Iowa.
Valders 206, 6:00pm.
Best of the Fest: Student Documentary Award Winner

DEPRESSION! THE MUSICAL followed by Q&A with the filmmaker.
Olin 102, 6:00pm.

PICTURES FROM A HIROSHIMA SCHOOLYARD (FREE No pass required) directed by Bryan Reichhardt
CFL Recital Hall, 7:45pm

More information on films and the daily schedule and membership can be found at www.oneotafilmfestival.org.
Tickets are $10 for a day pass, $25 for an ALL ACCESS pass or FREE with your membership support of $30 or more.

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(Friday) 6:00 pm - 10:30 pm

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Luther College

700 College Dr

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Patrick Scully in "leaves of Grass Illuminated" St. Mane Theatre 206 Parkway Ave N, Lanesboro, MN

fri20apr7:30 pmfri9:30 pmPatrick Scully in "leaves of Grass Illuminated"7:30 pm - 9:30 pm St. Mane Theatre, 206 Parkway Ave N, Lanesboro, MNCost:Cost/Fee

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Lanesboro Arts presents "Leaves of Grass – Illuminated" at the St. Mane Theatre in Lanesboro on Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m. Patrick Scully, a Minnesota native

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Lanesboro Arts presents “Leaves of Grass – Illuminated” at the St. Mane Theatre in Lanesboro on Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m. Patrick Scully, a Minnesota native and the founder of Patrick’s Cabaret in Minneapolis, summons the spirit of Walt Whitman in this one-man show, voicing the poet’s words and adding his own artistic flavor. The performance is a physical embodiment of Whitman’s work through dance and a reflection of the poet’s art, spirituality, sexuality, and gender expression.

“Leave of Grass” was Walt Whitman’s life project. First published in 1855, the book of poems was controversial at best and offensive at worst. The collection has continued to inspire thought, interpretation, and speculation ever since.

“Leaves of Grass – Illuminated” pulls from history, art, literature, even opera, and presents aspects of Whitman’s life and work that are fascinating in our time, now that discussions of male/male relations have finally moved out of the shadows into the light of day. On stage, this world includes projected video images of eighteen men dancing together, ranging from tender and sensual to boisterous. The audience is invited to interpret the presence of the dancers. Are they Whitman’s fantasy? A memory? The future? Or something else altogether? The video work by created by Bessie Award winner Nancy Mason Hauser.

Scully explained that his life as a performer has been about performing his own work on stage, most of it autobiographical. “I have dealt a lot with being a gay man in a world that wasn’t quite ready for gay people to be as out and as open as I was eager to be,” he said.

“With ‘Whitman,’ I continue to work with these very similar themes, but just on someone from a different historical period—someone whose life has mirrored my own in some ways, but someone whose challenges have been different.” Scully considered it an opportunity to work with someone whose name was well recognized but whose sensuality is often not known. He called the one-man play a way to out Walt Whitman in a manner that Whitman would have liked.

He uses Whitman as a vehicle to address the same themes the poet sought to tackle – the struggle for liberation and human rights – but to do it in a way that has a broader reach. “Whitman had a utopian vision of what men’s relationships could be, and how that could transform not just locally but the world,” Scully said. “He saw it as a balm for the crass materialism that he saw in his time.”

“You think about Whitman as a gardener,” Scully continued. “He was not only someone who tended his garden but expanded it as life went on. So although ‘Leaves of Grass’ was his life’s work, when he first published it in 1855, it was a very thin volume. When he published the deathbed version in 1892, it was a pretty fat volume. He didn’t just add to it. Like a gardener, he pruned and trimmed.”

This show is the product of over 10 years of research and development. Over the past few years, Scully has read 55 books by and about Whitman. “The intention was to have a broad enough understanding of him so that if I were doing a show for Whitman scholars, I could morph this show to make it more specifically interesting for them. Or if I’m doing it in Germany, I could make it more relevant to German literature and German writers.”

This incarnation of the show: “Leaves of Grass – Illuminated” manifests Scully’s original vision for this work, as a high-tech one-man show. “Leaves of Grass – Uncut,” the full cast version of the show, opened in Minneapolis to critical acclaim in 2014. Scully’s workshop process led to a residency at MANCC at Florida Sate University in 2015, followed by “Leaves of Grass – Illuminated” premiering in NYC in May of 2017. Scully explains, “I call this version ‘Leaves of Grass – Illuminated’ because of the clear reference to shining a light on something, but also illuminated manuscripts with added beauty on the page. And I use the video projectors to illuminate parts of the set.”

Through the show, you may learn something about Whitman, something tiny or something profound you didn’t know about the literary icon. Though much of the show focuses on Whitman’s struggle with sexuality, Scully says sexuality is “not necessarily what may make you feel out of sync with the times. People can vibrate at different frequencies than those around them. The question is how we stay true to ourselves and adapt the world to us, not the other way around.”

Scully, who got his master’s in 2008 in teaching English as a second language, is currently teaching part-time at the University of Minnesota. But most of his artistic focus is on the Whitman shows. “Right now in my creative life, this pretty much takes up all the space and energy I have,” he said. “Recently I have been thinking about other things I might do. There’s nothing concrete yet, but little wisps of thought come drifting through my head and then evaporate and drift away.”

“Both Whitman and Scully are major figures; they contain multitudes.” (Village Voice)

“Patrick Scully was born to play Walt Whitman.” (Lavender Magazine)

“Scully is the perfect caretaker for Whitman’s legacy.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Time

(Friday) 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Location

St. Mane Theatre

206 Parkway Ave N, Lanesboro, MN

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