Thursday, December 2, 2010

This afternoon, the Pyle Center hosts Anthony Shadid of the New York Times who will talk on The Truths We Tell: Reportingon Faith, War, and the Fate of Iraq”. This is in the Alumni Lounge of the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, at 4:30.

This evening, the Lucky Mojo Studio hosts a Winter Solstice Lantern Making Workshop. They will show you how to use willow twigs and tissue paper to make lanterns in fanciful shapes. This is at the Lucky Mojo Studio, 2717 Atwood Avenue, from 5:30 to 8:30. Check luckymojostudio.com for more details.

This evening, the Multicultural Student Center, as part of its Social Justice Speakers Series, hosts Raza Educators from Tucson Unified School District on the value of ethnic studies and on their resistance to Arizona H.B. 2281, the anti-ethnic studies ban. As part of their presentation, they will screen clips from “Precious Knowledge,” a documentary film that profiles them and other Raza educators engaged in the struggle for the survival of ethnic studies in Arizona. This is hosted in collaboration with UW College of Letters & Science, Chican and Latin Studies Program, Afro-American Studies, Department of Sociology, and La Follette High School. This is in the Multicultural Student Center Lounge on the second floor of the Red Gym, 716 Langdon Street from 6 to 7:30. Contact Cynthia Lin at 262-9669 or cslin@studentlife@wisc.edu for more information.

Tonight, Rush Mor Records in Milwuakee hosts Steven Blush to promote the launch of the Second Edition of his book American Hardcore. The book is a chronicle of the early eighties hard core scene in the United States. The event includes slide show on the rise of the American Hardcore punk scene with an emphasis on underground music subculture in Milwaukee and the Midwest. This is free and open to the public. This is at Rush Mor Records, 2635 South Kinnickinnic Avenue in Milwaukee at 7. CHeck rushmor.com for directions.

Guitars for Vets provides free music lessons to Vets. After 6 lessons, the student can keep a guitar that has been donated to the Vet Center. Other instruments are available. Call The Madison Vet Center at 264-5342 or stop at 706 Williamson Street Suite #4 across from the Elks Club.