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Events in Bloomington, IN

Margaret Mead Traveling Film & Video Festival

The Mathers Museum will be hosting the American Museum of Natural History’s Margaret Mead Traveling Film & Video Festival this winter. The Festival presents highlights of the premiere showcase for independent cultural documentaries in the United States. Each year titles are selected from the annual Mead Festival in New York City to travel to selected venues, bringing innovative non-fiction work to communities across the U.S. The films are grouped by program themes, and will be shown at the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology’s auditorium on the following dates:

Friday, February 23, at 7 p.m.
Music and Borderlands featuring Al Otro Lado

Saturday, February 24, at 2 p.m.
Women’s Rights featuring Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan and Children of the Decree

Sunday, February 25, at 2 p.m.
Unexpected Cultural Ties featuring Awake Zion

Friday, March 2, at 7 p.m.
Reconsidered Identities featuring Ryan, Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night, and Phantom Limb

Saturday, March 3, 2007, at 2 p.m.
Housing in America featuring Home

Sunday, March 4, 2007, at 2 p.m.
Love in War featuring Land Mines: A Love Story

Several university departments are coming together to sponsor this film series in Bloomington and present it free to the university and community. Sponsoring organizations include the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Center for the Study of Global Change, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Communication and Culture, the Department of Gender Studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, the International Studies Program, the La Casa Cultural Center, the Latino Studies Program, the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, and the Russian & East European Institute.

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