AroundFortWayne Community Calendar Blog

Today is a Fall Saturday with perfect weather, and a day to “get out.”

Today is a day with many community, fun, outdoor events day and nite.

To name a few:   It’s Fort to Fitness this morning downtown, and the Hunger Walk at Lawton Park.

At 10:00 at Headwaters Park, Mayor Tom Henry, after doing the Fort to Fitness run/walk or jog, will issue a proclamation officially noting Hispanic Heritage Month.

From 10-11:00 p.m. is the Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration at Headwaters.  All proceeds will go to the Jorge’ Gonzalez Trust at National City Bank.  This is a huge benefit for Fort Wayne’s 15-year-old who needs a kidney transplant at Riley Hospital.   The schedule of events is amazing with day and nite music, food, fun for children  and more.   The bands are donating their time for this cause.

From 10-2:00 p.m. is the Celebrate Reading and more at the Fort Wayne Urban League.  The Urban League, local Pontiac Library, Brown Mackie College, and HealthVisions will all be open on the Urban League campus on South Hannah and Creighton for this big event.

And there is so much more today publicized already.  

It is a day to “get out” and enjoy and be part of community events that better the overall community with  fun doing it.

Tickled Pink Registration Update

Join us for the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer’s fifth annual Tickled Pink Party!

Top-selling Australian musical artist Delta Goodrem will be performing live!

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HISPANIC HERITAGE CELEBRATION

FUNDRAISE AGENDA
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 27TH 2008
HEADWATERS PARK
333 South Clinton Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana

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Join NIPR for Sunday in the Park with Jazz!

Sunday, September 28th in downtown Fort Wayne at Headwaters Park West, 12:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M.

Spend a relaxing day at the park enjoying great live music…from jazz to eclectic.  Food and drink will be available.

Don’t miss this Northeast Indiana Public Radio Event!  Admission is FREE!!!

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This weekend, there’s a Military Symposium hosted by the Genealogy Department at the Main Branch of the Allen County Public Library.

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Cinema Center Movies for 9/26 - 10/2
Cinema Center Downtown - 437 E. Berry St.

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When:
October 4th 2008

Where:
Lincoln Financial Pavilion
in Headwaters Park 

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From a Press Release:

Easter Seals Arc of Northeast Indiana to Host “Vino, Java & Jazz” Gala

Rarely does a night of live music and fine wine directly improve the lives of adults and children with disabilities. So Easter Seals Arc of Northeast Indiana has decided to host its second annual “Vino, Java & Jazz,” a different kind of gala, to let you live with purpose, and party with a cause.

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From a Press Release:

Center for Nonviolence to host fund-raising walk against Domestic Violence

The Center for Nonviolence, with its main office located at 235 W. Creighton Ave. and a second office located at 1825 McKinnie, is hosting a fund-raising walk to increase awareness about domestic and other forms of violence while raising funds to support programming.

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If you are interested in health and health care, today is your day.

There are two community events that have it all.

The first is the Public 1-sponsored Summit City Health Care Summit at the Downtown Library from 9-3:00 p.m.  It is a free consumer event brought about by a citizen volunteer coalition of interested Fort Wayne-area residents.  The theme is the “Health of the Community,” and we will now find out how we rate and how we can do better.  This is informational, educational, and public awareness all in one.

How do we compare among industrialized nations?  Dr. Jon Walker, recent Business Weekly’s Health Care Heroes Award Winner,  will present this.

How do we compare to other communities and how rich are we in healthcare resources?  Dr. Deb McMahan, City-County Health Commisioner, will present this.

How about the Health of Hoosiers?  The State’s Health Commissioner, Judy Monroe, M.D., will tell us.

What about community health care resources in the community?   Local community healthcare groups will have resource tables with information.  At noon, there will be a panel discussing the Fort Wayne VA and Medical Center and its future.  Paul Wilson, CEO of Park Center, will discuss behavioral and mental health services.

Can we do better?   Both the Sen. Obama and Sen. McCain campaign representatives will present the national health care plans for the future.

The second event  of the day is a “Health Information Fair” at Anthony Medical Center on “Getting Covered” sponsored by Lutheran Hospital Network and others.  This is from 2-6:00 p.m.

At both events, there will resource people from the State of Indiana and the Healthy Indiana Plan to help people learn about and to get covered by state programs for the uninsured and low income people.

This is a great opportunity to learn and increase awareness on the Health of the Community. 

For information on the program schedule, call (260)-442-8619.

Cinema Center Movies for 9/19 - 9/25
Cinema Center Downtown - 437 E. Berry St.

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Cinema Center Movies for 9/12 - 9/18
Cinema Center Downtown - 437 E. Berry St.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Friday at 7PM & 9PM, Saturday at 7PM & 9PM, Sunday at 2PM & 4PM
Monday & Tuesday at 6:30PM & 8:30PM, Wednesday at 8:30PM, Thursday at 6:30PM & 8:30PM
“4/5 Stars. Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a rueful comedy about two young American women who savor many Continental delicacies.”—New York Times. “As exhilarating, captivating and enjoyable as a summer romance in an exotic city.”—USA Today. “Rich, complex, funny, erotic, compassionate and thoughtful, Vicky Cristina Barcelona may be the most fully realized film Woody Allen has made in two decades.”—Detroit News. 96 min., Rated PG-13. Official website.

The YWCA Diversity Dialogue presents
Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes - Wednesday at 7PM & Monday, 9/22 at 6:30PM followed by a discussion of the film

Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes takes an in-depth look at manhood in rap music and hip-hop culture – where creative genius, poetic beauty, and mad beats collide with misogyny, violence and homophobia. The groundbreaking documentary is a ‘loving critique’ of certain disturbing developments in rap music culture from the point of view of a fan who challenges the art form’s representations of masculinity. 61 min.

On Wednesday, 9/24 at 12:00PM there will also be a panel discussion of the film.
-All showings of this film and discussions are free and open to the public

Cinema Center @ Indiana Tech
1600 East Washington Blvd on the campus of Indiana Tech

The Devil Music Ensemble presents Red Heroine - Saturday, September 13th at 8PM
Tickets are $15 for General Admission, $10 for Students & Cinema Center Members.

American Teen
Friday at 7PM & 9PM, Sunday at 2PM & 4PM
Monday & Tuesday at 7PM & 9PM
“4/4 Stars. American Teen shows how a documentary can be as moving and suspenseful as the best narrative feature.”—San Francisco Chronicle. “Burstein (who won best director at Sundance 2008) has achieved an engrossing film.”—Roger Ebert. “You’ll be totally riveted.”—Rolling Stone. 95 min., Rated PG-13. Official Website.

Upcoming Films

Man on Wire 
Bottle Shock - Coming in September
Henry Poole is Here 
Gonzo  
The Wackness - Coming in September 
Encounters at the End of the World  
Bigger, Stronger, Faster

The Devil Music Ensemble will be performing their original score to Red Heroine, Live on Saturday September 13 at Cinema Center @ Indiana Tech, 8PM

Don’t miss this one of a kind performance!

Tickets are $15. General Admission $10. Cinema Center Members & Students Advance tickets are available at Cinema Center Downtown (437 E. Berry St.) or at Cinema Center at Indiana Tech (1600 E. Washington Blvd.) during box office hours. (Box office is open 30 min. before each show)

The Devil Music Ensemble
The DME have performed Nosferatu, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Big Stakes and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari at Cinema Center and have been on numerous tours playing soundtracks for silent film; performing in museums, theaters, performing arts centers, and college campuses. Their current 2008 tour will take them all over the entire United States. The DME, formed in Boston in 1999, is comprised of Brendon Wood on guitars, lap steel, and synthesizer; Jonah Rapino on electric violin, vibraphone, and synthesizer; and Tim Nylander on drums, percussion and synthesizer. Brendon Wood, from Tiverton RI, has his Bachelors of Fine Arts in Music from the University of Mass. Jonah Rapino, from Toledo Ohio, received his Bachelors Fine Arts in classical music performance from Boston University. Tim Nylander, from Portsmouth NH, received his Bachelors in Fine Arts from Harvard University.

Red Heroine
On Saturday, September 13th at 8PM the Devil Music Ensemble will perform a live music performance with an amazing and virtually unknown classic silent Chinese Kung Fu film called Red Heroine (directed by Wen Yimin 1929). The performance consists of a projection of this amazing film accompanied by a new original soundtrack performed live by the DME.

This film is the only feature length Chinese martial arts film from the silent era that still exists in its entirety! The score created by the DME will be the only modern score to be written specifically for this film!

The DME offers a very unique multimedia experience, presenting a synthesis of live music and movie to entertain and inspire audiences. The greatest asset of the DME is their ability through music to control the audiences’ responses to what is being presented to them visually via a silent film. Audience members often forget that a live band is playing the soundtrack and are all of sudden snatched out of the suspension of disbelief to see exactly how the music for the film is unfolding before their eyes. It’s a thrilling effect.

Starring Fan Xuepeng and directed by Wen Yimin 1929, episode six of RED KNIGHT-ERRANT a.k.a. RED HEROINE, the only surviving episode of the 13-part serial, is also one of the few complete and earliest extant silent martial arts films. This a prime example of the Wuxia pain (errant knight swordplay genre) often based on published novels or serials. A band of outlaws raids a village and kidnaps a maiden, causing the death of the young woman’s grandmother. The captive maiden is rescued by a mysterious Daoist hermit and reemerges three years later as a full-fledged warrior, flying to the sky to revenge her grandmother’s death. While generously sprinkled with anachronisms and prurient incongruities (imagine a bandit’s harem of beauties in bikinis!), the film remains a robust telling of a young woman’s transformation from abject victim to resolute warrior.

Tonight’s Fort Wayne City Council Agenda may be downloaded here.  

Related AFW Post:
City Council Meeting - 9/9/2008
History and the City Council Veto Override Vote