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Dear all 2Ls, 3Ls and LLM students,
Ken Sanchez of Bloomberg will be located downstairs in the Lexis lab (off the Library's after-hours reading room) to set up new accounts, so please stop by if you would like to get an account.
Ken will also be providing the following training sessions on a drop-in basis to both new and experienced users:
October 20th:
Room 1327: 12:00 - 1:00pm Bloomberg 101
Room 1327: 4:05 - 5:05pm Corporate Insolvency & Restructuring
October 21st:
Room A122: 12:00 - 1:00pm Bloomberg 101
Room 1337: 4:00 - 5:00pm Litigation Tools on Bloomberg
Thank you,
Kevin
WHAT: Uptown Underground: OC
WHERE: Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa
WHEN: Saturday, October 11 at 10:00 p.m. to midnight
COST: Cost of admission is FREE! For information regarding parking, please click here.
Join KCRW DJ Jason Bentley for an evening of art, music and dancing under the stars at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. From KCRW: "Bentley will offer up a mix of urban beats and hypnotic rhythms in a live DJ set that will serve as the soundtrack to David Michalek's outdoor art installation Slow Dancing--larger-than-life, hyper-slow-motion video portraits of famous dancers from around the world that will be projected onto the east facade of the Center's Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall above the community plaza." Dancers depicted in the art installation include modern and ballet artists, krump artist Lil C, Bill T Jones and many others. A big thanks to Donna Gulnac for the head's up on this event! [Info source]
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WHAT: Voyage to the Bottom of Sunday
WHERE: The Groundlings Theatre, 7307 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, (323) 934-4747
WHEN: Sunday, October 12 at 7:30 p.m.
COST: Cost of admission is $15.00.
Join today's up-and-coming sketch comedians for an evening of laughs as they improve their way through a sea voyaged-themed skit. Directed by Mikey Day. [Info source]
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Got a tip for an upcoming show, exhibition, or screening? Did you attend one of the events posted on this blog? If so, we'd love to hear from you! Please leave a comment below. Thanks!
WHAT: TarFest Art Show
WHERE: Korean Cultural Center, 5505 Wilshire Blvd., (323) 936-7141
WHEN: Friday, October 3 at 6:00 p.m.
COST: Cost of admission to opening reception is FREE!
Held every year since 2003, TarFest is an annual festival of emerging film, music and art held at the La Brea Tar Pits and the surrounding Museum Row in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles. Kicking off this year's TarFest is the TarFest Art Show, which features 45 pieces by 38 artists selected by Howard Fox of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. TarFest continues through the weekend with film and music festivals on Saturday, October 4 and a one-mile run on Sunday, October 5. [Info source]
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WHAT: 10th Annual Eagle Rock Music Festival
WHERE: Various venues along Colorado Blvd., (323) 254-5295
WHEN: Saturday, October 4, 5:00 p.m. to midnight
COST: Cost of admission is FREE!
If you don't want to spend $40 to attend the Detour Music Festival this weekend, check out this year's Eagle Rock Music Festival for FREE! ERMF will feature 50 local bands with appeal to lovers of indie-rock, world-music, folk, punk, and experimental music. Some of the highlights include Earlimart, Abe Vigoda, Crystal Antlers, and Radar Bros. A festival map and schedule may be viewed here. [Info source]
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WHAT: Fowler in Focus: Ancient Ceramics from Colombia and Caras vemos, corazones no sabemos / Faces Seen, Hearts Unknown: Landscape of Mexican Migration
WHERE: UCLA, Fowler Museum
WHEN: Both exhibitions open this Sunday, October 5; Museum will be open from noon to 5:00 p.m.
COST: Cost of admission is FREE!
The Law Library recently purchased a copy of Daoud Hari’s The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur.
Do you remember the news story about an American reporter, Paul Salopek, accused of espionage and jailed by the Sudanese Government two years ago, while in the Darfur region on assignment for National Geographic? This book is written by the Zaghawa tribesman who was his translator, Daoud Hari.
Although Hari relates the events surrounding his association with Salopek, he does so within the much broader scope of events that informed his own youth and young adult life, his family’s history and current situation, the destruction of his village, the devastation of his people and the region. Through his simple, clear voice he places before you, his “reader friend,” the questions that the genocide in Darfur raises concerning the application of justice within the global community. (You will find a copy of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the back of the book).
Some of what Hari writes is extremely difficult to read, much less imagine as reality, because so horrific . At one point, as he speaks to children in his sister’s village, the smallest detail brought his images oddly back home:
“Tell me what happened,” I asked the eldest boy, who was perhaps fourteen and would surely be among the resistance troops in a few days or weeks. He was wearing torn jeans and a shredded UCLA sweatshirt that probably had come through the marketplaces from Algeria to El Fasher, having first been donated years ago in the United States.” (p40)
What follows is the description of a Sudanese government airborne attack: poisoned wells, chemical and shrapnel-laden bombs that kill or wound villagers and destroy the resources those who survive would need.
Hari also speaks of human compassion, even among “enemies,” of the strong and lasting bonds of family and friends, and the hope to return and re-build. Overlooking a vast refugee camp in Chad he writes:
“... the women wore their beautiful colors, which stood out through the sticks: clean and bright reds, oranges, yellows, brilliant blues and greens. ... The bold colors they had put away before the attacks were now waving from their lean bodies with defiance – the flags of resilient life.” (p72/3)
At the end of the book, you will find a brief and useful introduction to the history of the Darfur conflicts, a nine-page Darfur Primer.
For more information and reviews see:
For Field Notes of Paul Salopek see:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/04/sahel/salopek-field-notes
Lastly, the Fall Newsletter of Amnesty International has an article about Hari and the book.
The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur. Daoud Hari. As Told to Dennis Michael Burke and Megan M. McKenna. New York: Random House, 2008. Pp. xii, 204. ISBN978-1-4000-6744-2 $23.00