Film:

African American Film Festival: We Wear the Masks
Free
Union Theatre
229-6997

Friday, Feb. 17

Black Men Defining Masculinity
7 p.m. “Scottsboro: An American Tragedy” (90 min.): The trial of nine black teenagers accused of rape in 1931.
8:30 p.m. “Black Is … Black Ain’t” (87 min.): A critique of sexism, patriarchy, homophobia and colorism in the Black family, church and other institutions.
10 p.m. “Classified X” (50 min.): Melvin Van Peebles examines African American Film History. A 1998 Sundance Film Festival selection.

Saturday, Feb. 18

A Sister’s Story
7 p.m. “Silence: In Search of Black Female Sexuality in America” (76 min.): Fifteen black women speak out for the first time about their sexual wants and needs.
8:30 p.m. “And Still I Rise” (30 min.): Inspired by a Maya Angelou poem, the film explores images of Black women in the media.
9 p.m. “A Place of Rage” (52 min.): Reassessing how women such as Rosa Parks revolutionized American society. It features interviews with Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker and music from Prince, Janet Jackson, the Neville Brothers and the Staple Singers.

Sunday, Feb. 19

2 p.m. “I Am a Promise” (90 min.): A portrait of the children of a Philadelphia elementary school where 90 percent of students live below the poverty line.
3:30 p.m. “In Search of Our Fathers” (56 min.): Documentary about the filmmaker’s seven-year search for his father.
4:30 p.m. “Are We Different?” (27 min.): Black students around the country articulate issues of race.

Workshop:

Feng Shui for the Bedroom

Saturday, Feb. 18, 1:30 p.m.-4 p.m.
Studio Arts and Crafts Centre
$10 UWM students, $25 non-students
(All supplies included)
229-5535

Instructor Juliane Rae Mueller teaches the ancient Chinese art of enhancing and harmonizing energy flow in one’s surroundings in the bedroom.

Dance:

Scheherazade
Milwaukee Ballet Company
Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 16-18, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 19, 1:30 p.m.
Uihlein Hall, Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, 929 N. Water St.
273-7206
$20-$80

In a land where the Sultan marries a new wife every night and executes her before dawn, Scheherazade marries the Sultan and forestalls her execution each night by telling stories so compelling he spares her life to hear the ending.

DVDs:

“Tarnation” by Jonathan Caouette (USA, 2004)
“Children Underground” (Romania, 2001)
“Sorry, Wrong Number” by Anatole Litvak (USA, 1948)

Downloads:

“She makes me wanna die” by Tricky
“Don’t wait too long” by Madeleine Peyroux
“Faut Oublier” by M

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