•Bill T. Jones & Arnie Zang Dance Co.
Saturday, Nov. 21
Whitney Hall, Kentucky Center
501 W. Main St.
562-0100
$20-$38; 8 p.m.
All right, try this on for size: an interpretation of Lincoln. Sounds a little stiff and boring, eh? All right, let’s modify this in an important way: interpretations of Lincoln through dance. And this isn’t just a ton [...]
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Weekender: Nov. 21-22
November 20, 2009 – 10:00 am
VP of Republic of Ghana @ Speed
November 19, 2009 – 9:54 am
Thursday, Nov. 19
Speed Art Museum
www.louisville.edu/artsandsciences/vpghana
Free; 5:30 p.m.
The vice president of the Republic of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, will give a free, public talk about “The Challenges of Good Governance in Africa” tonight when he visits the University of Louisville. Mahama was elected vice president last year, and Louisville is the first stop during his first official [...]
Year of Astronomy @ U of L
November 19, 2009 – 9:52 am
Thursday, Nov. 19
Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium
U of L
852-6171
Free; 7 p.m.
The 2009 International Year of Astronomy marks the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei’s first telescopic view of the heavens. The University of Louisville and Bellarmine University are joining the celebration with an unveiling of unprecedented new NASA images of our galaxy and a panel discussion tonight.
‘Living on the Edge of Chaos’ @ Carnegie Center
November 17, 2009 – 9:31 am
Tuesday, Nov. 17
Carnegie Center for Art and History
201 E. Spring St.
New Albany, Ind.
(812) 944-7336
carnegiecenter.org
Free; noon
Claude Stephens is lecturing on “Living on the Edge of Chaos: Danger, Opportunity and Sustainability.” Stephens is the Education Director at Bernheim Forest, a founding partner of Generation 14 (a sustainable design consulting firm), a backyard chicken farmer and the father of [...]
Films of Mimi Pickering @ 21c
November 17, 2009 – 9:28 am
Tuesday, Nov. 17
21 Museum Hotel
700 W. Main St.
www.louisvillefilm.org
Free; 7 p.m.
Mimi Pickering is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and director of Appalshop’s Community Media Initiative (CMI). Pickering’s documentaries often feature women as principle storytellers, focus on injustice and inequity, and explore the efforts of grassroots people to deal with community problems and work for positive solutions. The [...]
Author Timothy Keller @ Calvin Presbyterian Church
November 16, 2009 – 10:05 am
Monday, Nov. 16
Calvin Presbyterian Church
2501 Rudy Lane
896-6950
Free; 7 p.m.
In COUNTERFEIT GODS: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters, Timothy Keller helps readers identify the false idols in our hearts, which range from the material – money and homes – to relationships and success, and explains how we can replace [...]
Topics in Wine @ Westport Whiskey & Wine
November 16, 2009 – 10:01 am
Monday, Nov. 16
Westport Whiskey & Wine
1115 Herr Lane Suite 140
708-1313
www.westportwhiskeyandwine.com
$35; 6:30 p.m.
Topic: Food and Wine pairing for Thanksgiving. Matt Baugher, certified wine educator, wine manager, Republic National Distributing, Cumberland Division, will be the instructor. Gobble, gobble, it’s time to make sure the wine you select for your family and friends is no turkey! Should it be white [...]
Tori Murden McClure @ Filson Historical Society
November 16, 2009 – 9:58 am
Monday, Nov. 16
Filson Historical Society
1310 S. Third St.
635-5083
www.filsonhistorical.org
Free; 6 p.m.
Tori Murden McClure visits The Filson to discuss the journey outlined in her book, ”A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean.” In the book, McClure details her attempts to be the first woman to row across the Atlantic [...]
Weekender: Nov. 14-15
November 13, 2009 – 2:36 pm
•Viva La Diva: A Celebration of Louisville’s Women Musicians
Sunday, Nov. 15
Jim Porter’s
2345 Lexington Road
452-9531
www.merfbenefit.org
$7; 5 p.m.-midnight
From the Americana of Brigid Kaelin, the blues of Tanita Gaines, the country sounds of Karen Kraft to the rock of The Blue Umbrellas and Kimmet Cantwell, the performers for Viva La Diva! run the gamut of Louisville music. Because this [...]
‘The Changing Faces of Appalachia’ @ Filson Historical Society
November 12, 2009 – 10:31 am
Thursday, Nov. 12
Filson Historical Society
1310 S. Third St.
635-5083
www.filsonhistorical.org
$5 (free for members); 5:15 p.m.
The Filson welcomes keynote speaker — author, educator and historian Dr. Ron Eller. Eller has spent the last 30 years writing and teaching about the Appalachian region. His recently published book, Uneven Ground: Appalachia Since 1945, “examines the politics of development in Appalachia since [...]
Terrance Hayes @ Ekstrom Library
November 12, 2009 – 10:09 am
Thursday, Nov. 12
Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library
University of Louisville
Free; 7:30 p.m.
Author and poet Terrance Hayes is stopping in town Thursday for a reading and discussion at U of L. Currently a professor of creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University, Hayes’s poems blend African-American pop culture with a variety of verse and rhetorical forms. His latest collection, [...]
‘Who Killed the Electric Car?’ @ U of L
November 10, 2009 – 9:55 am
Tuesday, Nov. 10
Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium
U of L
Free; 7 p.m.
Sponsored by Group Recycling and Sustainable Solutions (GRASS), a U of L student organization. The 92-minute movie explores how the auto and oil industries resisted developing electric cars in the 1980s even though they were shown to be viable. Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006, the film was nominated [...]
Joyce Ogden @ LVAA
November 10, 2009 – 9:50 am
Tuesday, Nov. 10
Louisville Visual Art Association3005 River Road
896-2146 x100
www.louisvillevisualart.org
$30 ($20 members)
Joyce Ogden earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in fibers and sculpture at Indiana University (Bloomington) in 1990. She has been teaching studio art at Spalding since 1993. Her teaching bridges interests in studio production and community-based art making. She’ll be [...]
Historian Michael Honey @ U of L
November 10, 2009 – 9:41 am
Tuesday, Nov. 10
Ekstrom Library’s Chao Auditorium
U of L
Free; 5:30 p.m.
Historian Michael Honey, an award-winning author whose latest book examines the final days of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, will give the third annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture tonight at the University of Louisville.
Honey, a former civil rights activist who worked in Louisville with Anne [...]
Weekender: Nov. 7-8
November 6, 2009 – 5:00 pm
•Harvest Hootenanny
Saturday, Nov. 7
Willow Park
www.mightykindness.org
Free; 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
When I asked Mighty Kindness co-founder Aim Me Smiley what her favorite part of autumn is, I got this: “… the collage of color on the canvas of this dream … a pumpkin patch, the crunch of leaves underfoot on a wooded trail, costumes, the smell of fireplaces, [...]
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Author Tom Kohler @ Louisville Presbyterian Seminary
November 5, 2009 – 10:12 am
Thursday, Nov. 5
Caldwell Chapel
Louisville Presbyterian Seminary
1044 Alta Vista Road
417-9585
Free; 6-9 p.m.
Waddie Welcome: Hear this amazing story of a remarkable man and the people who surrounded him to make their community stronger.
Southern Historical Association @ Marriott Downtown
November 5, 2009 – 9:56 am
Nov. 5-8
Marriott Downtown
280 W. Jefferson St.
www.uga.edu/sha/
History buffs: Consider this your lucky week. The Southern Historical Association is bringing its multi-day annual meeting to Louisville. The public’s invited to come to any of the panel discussions on any day, without any need to register. So come on down, listen and bring your questions to the experts. [...]
Festival of Faiths @ Henry Clay Building
November 4, 2009 – 10:45 am
Nov. 4-13
Henry Clay Building (unless noted)
604 S. Third St.
www.interfaithrelations.org
Scientifically speaking, water is simple — two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen. Spiritually, however, this basic but ubiquitous liquid is quite complex, a topic The Center for Interfaith Relations will explore during the 14th annual Festival of Faiths. Through a series of presentations, exhibits and panel discussions [...]
Attorney & Author Jeffrey Haas @ Muhammad Ali Center
November 3, 2009 – 9:39 am
Tuesday, Nov. 3
Muhammad Ali Center
992-5315
Free; 6 p.m.
Carmichael’s Bookstore and the Muhammad Ali Center host a discussion and book signing for civil rights attorney and author Jeffrey Hass tonight at the Muhammad Ali Center. Jeffrey Haas is the author of the newly published book, ”The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther.” And [...]
Space Shuttle Challenger discussion @ U of L
November 3, 2009 – 9:34 am
Tuesday, Nov. 3
Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium
U of L
852-0586
Free; 7:30 p.m.
An engineer who tried to stop the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986 will give a free talk at U of L tonight. Allan McDonald, co-author of “Truth, Lies and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster,” will speak at Gheens Science Hall.
McDonald will describe the [...]