A new Out Look
This week marks yet another milestone for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community at the University. Tonight and Friday night, the LGBTU Cultural Programming Board will host a film festival called "Out Looks," which is free and open to the public.
"I think [the festival] is an unprecedented cultural event at U.Va.," said Sean Kennedy, a fourth-year College student and Out Looks' principle organizer.
"The reason why it's so cool is it's a uniquely queer aesthetic that's on display here," Kennedy said.
Tonight in Newcomb Hall Theater the festival will feature 60s "cult classics" of lgbt cinema, while Friday, in Old Cabell Hall, the movies viewed will focus primarily on more contemporary representations of lgbt cinema. Both nights' screenings begin at 7:30 p.m.
Although Kennedy said he will be graduating this spring, he and the event's other planners, Kate Ransom-Walsh and Marc Haeringer, have discussed continuing the event in years to come.
"I hope it will happen again," Kennedy said.
This year, "we're expecting probably at least a hundred people ... I wouldn't be surprised if more people turned out," he said.
He added that during his years at the University, he has seen improved awareness of the lgbt community, but "there hasn't been as much of a cultural element."
The presence of an event such as a film festival is sure to add "this extra element into everything else that is going on" in the area of lgbt awareness, Kennedy said.
Farewell, poets
At 8 tonight at the University bookstore, the graduating poets of the MFA program will read selected poems from the body of work they have created during their time at the University. Lara Glenum, Angie Hogan, Kevin McFadden, Deborah Slicer and Kyle Thompson are the five poets graduating from the program this year.
"I love the program because it's small," said Hogan, who next year will work on a Ph.D. in creative writing at the University of Missouri.
"I like to write about people ... not what's bad or good but the complexities that make us do what we do," she said of her work.
Tonight each poet will read for approximately 10 to 12 minutes.
"Everybody's glad that we have this at the end" of our time at the University, she added.
Albanian, anyone?
It takes more than just good doctors to help a hospital do its job. Often, a language barrier hinders the ability for a physician to diagnose and treat a patient effectively.
In order to hurdle such an obstacle, the University Hospital Language Bank currently is looking for volunteers who speak Serbo-Croation or Albanian. These volunteers would aid doctors directly, allowing them to help certain patients more efficiently. Anyone interested can contact Kristin Wenger at the Department of Volunteer Services by calling 924-5251 or e-mailing her at klw2s@virgina.edu.
Compiled by Allison Botos
Odds ideas? Call Ryann or D.J. at 924-1092
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