Wednesday, November 11, 2009

This evening for the “Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice” hosts a “Veterans Day” Candlelight Vigil. The theme is “stand up for the guard.” This is on the corner of Park Street and University Avenue at 5:00. Call 250-9240 for details.

This evening the “Madison Arcatao Sister City Project” and others host bilingual presentation by Mary Sanderson and Barabar Alvarado. It is entitled “Gold Mining, Radio of the Brave, Protecting Human Rights in El Salvador and Honduras”. This is at 7:00 in the Madison South Police Precinct building, 825 Hughes Place. Call 276-8397 for details.

This evening Rainbow Community Bookstore hosts a “Veteran’s Day” showing of a new movie entitled “The Good Soldier.” This is 3:30, 5:35 and 7:40 in the Sundance Hilldale theater, 702 North Midvale Boulevard. The 3:30 and 7:40 showings will feature a talk by Madison “Vet for Peace,” Will Williams. Call 251-6050 for details.

Ongoing the Portage Center for the Arts presents art by Debra Grall. The series entitled, “Snow” is quote “a body of work that questions traditional stereotypical images of aging and exhibits qualities that are not part of the culture’s concept of being an elder”. This is Wednesday through Saturday at various times in the “Druary Gallery,” 301 East Cook Street in Portage through November twenty-eighth . Call 608-742-5655 for details.

Ongoing the Chazen Museum of Art, 800 University Avenue exhibits photographs by James Gill. These large-format color portraits feature veterans from World War II, Korea and Vietnam. They have talked about their experiences with the “Wisconsin Stories Project”. Call 263-2068 for details. It runs daily except Monday until January third.