Wednesday, April 4 at 6:00 p.m. FCNV Board meeting at 1584 N. Van Ness (SE corner McKinley and Van Ness) Call 237-3223 11-3 Mon-Fri for details..
Wednesday, April 11 at 3 – 3:30 p.m. on KFCF 88.1 FM On the Center’s “Stir it Up” monthly radio show, Gerry Bill will host. Guest TBA. Call-ins are welcome at 559-266-8888. For information call 559-237-3223.
Wednesday, April 11 at 12 noon and at 7 p.m. (potluck at 6:30 p.m.) Our 2nd Wed. film will be “Nostalgia for the Light”. One of 2011’s top political films recommended by Feb’s “In These Times”.
For his new film master director Patricio Guzmán, famed for his political documentaries (THE BATTLE OF CHILE, THE PINOCHET CASE), travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. The sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe. The Atacama is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of Pre-Columbian mummies; 19th century explorers and miners; and the remains of political prisoners, “disappeared” by the Chilean army after the military coup of September, 1973
So while astronomers examine the most distant and oldest galaxies, at the foot of the mountains, women, surviving relatives of the disappeared whose bodies were dumped here, search, even after twenty-five years, for the remains of their loved ones, to reclaim their families’ histories. Melding the celestial quest of the astronomers and the earthly one of the women, NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT is a gorgeous, moving, and deeply personal odyssey. Free to the public and wheelchair accessible. For information call 11-3 Mon-Fri 559-237-3223.
