International Student Union
Ohio University
Association of Cultural Exchange (ACE)
Chinese and American Business Organization (CABO)
Indian Student Association (ISA)
International Student and Faculty Services (ISFS)
International Student Union (ISU) and Paschal Younge
International Student Union (ISU)
Japanese Student Association (JSA)
PERMIAS: Indonesian Student Association
Southeast Asian Student Association
Students for Justice in Palestine and Israel
Association of Cultural Exchange (ACE)
Program Title: ACE/OPIE Ice Skating Party
Date: 1/24/13
Time:
7:30-9:00 PM
Program Title: Valentine's Party
Date: 2/13/13
Time:
7:30-9:00 PM
Program Title: Sushi Making 101
Date: 4/3/13
Time:
7:30-8:30 PM
Program Title: African Heroes Night
Date: 3/16/13
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Program Title: African Cultural Week
Date: 4/8/13, 4/9/13
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Program Title: Picnic
Date: 4/27/13
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Chinese and American Business Organization (CABO)
Program Title: Working With Asia
Date: 2/6/13
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Indian Student Association (ISA)
Program Title: Holi' 2013
Date: 3/31/13
Time:
7:30-8:30 PM
International Student and Faculty Services (ISFS)
Program Title: Global Meet and Greet
Dates: 1/23/13, 2/6/13, 2/20/13, 3/613, 3/20/13, 4/3/13, 4/17/13
Time:
4:00-5:00 PM
ISU, UPC, BSCPB
Program Title: Baker Takeover
Date: 1/23/13
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International Student Union and Paschal Younge
Program Title: A Taste of International Snack
Date: 2/2/13
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International Student Union (ISU)
Program Title: International Research Symposium
Date: 2/22/13
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Program Title: Global Scoop
Date: 4/18/13
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Program Title: Talent Show
Date: 4/19/13
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Program Title: International Street Fair
Date: 4/20/13
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Program Title: World Cup
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Japanese Student Association (JSA)
Program Title: Sakura Festival
Date: 3/24/13
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Program Title: Japanese Cultural Night
Date: 1/23/13
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Program Title: Latin American Film Festival
Dates: 1/25/13, 2/1/13, 2/8/13, 2/15/13, 2/22/13, 3/1/13, 3/15/13, 3/22/13, 3/29/13, 4/5/13, 4/12/13
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2/1/13: Fish Child [El Niño Pez] /Lucía Puenzo / 96 min. / 2011 / Argentina, Spain, France
Lala (Inés Efron, in a performance called evocative of early Sissy Spacek and Chloë Sevigny) is the privileged teenage daughter of a powerful judge, and she’s fallen hard for her family’s maid, La Guayi (singer Mariela Vitale, making her feature-film debut). The two women plot to escape Buenos Aires and live together on the remote shores of Paraguay’s Lake Ypoá. Before they can carry out their plan, Lala’s father is murdered and she runs away from home and heads toward Guayi’s village in Paraguay, hoping that her lover will follow. While in Paraguay, she begins to explore Guayi’s troubled past.
2/8/13: The Man Next Door [El Hombre de Al Lado]/ Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat / 103 min. / 2010
In this black comedy, Leonardo (Rafael Spregelburd) is a prestigious designer who lives with his family in a famous house designed by Le Corbusier. Life is seemingly ideal for Leonardo until one day his neighbor Victor (Daniel Aráoz), a boorish used-car salesman, breaks through a common wall to make a window in order to “catch a few rays of sun.” Unfortunately, Victor’s new window looks directly into Leonardo’s living space. As the tension mounts between Leonardo and Victor, the film explores the complex relationships between class differences, social barriers, and right and wrong.
2/15/13: Chico y Rita [Chico and Rita]/ Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal and Tono Errando / 94 min. / 2012
Oscar®-winning director Fernando Trueba (The Age of Beauty) and famous artist Javier Mariscal, have teamed up to make Chico & Rita, an animated love story starring the music, culture and people of Cuba. Chico is a dashing piano player and Rita is an enchanting and beautiful Havana nightclub singer. When they meet, the sparks fly and they fall madly in love. An epic romance unfolds as the pair travels the glamorous stages of 1940s/1950s Havana, New York City, Las Vegas, Hollywood and Paris.
2/22/13: La Yuma [La Yuma]/ Florence Jaugey / 91 min. / 2011
Nicaragua’s first full-length feature in 20 years, La Yuma tells the story of a young woman who dreams of transcending her bleak life in the slums of Managua by becoming a boxer. Looking beyond the meager possibilities that seem available to her (and ignoring the advice of her gang-member friends), she finds solace and hope in her training and falls in love with a middle-class journalism student.
3/1/13: Forbidden to Forbid [Proibido Proibir] / Jorge Duran / 105 min / 2007 / Brazil / Not rated
The story of three friends in Rio de Janeiro: Leon (Alexandre Rodrigues), a sociology student; his girlfriend Leticia (Maria Flor), an architecture student; and Paulo (Caio Blat), a medical student and Leon's best friend and roommate. When Rosalind (Edyr Duqui), a leukemia patient at the hospital where Paulo interns, asks him to get in touch with her sons, the three friends are pulled out of their relatively tranquil lives and drawn into the violence and police corruption in one of Rio's infamous favelas.
3/15/13: Machuca [Machuca] / Andrés Wood / 121 min / 2004 / Chile / Not rated
Set in 1973 Santiago during Salvador Allende's socialist government and shortly before General Augusto Pinochet's military coup in 1973, the film tells the story of two friends, one of them the very poor Pedro Machuca who is integrated into the elite school of his friend Gonzalo Infante. The director of the school, Father McEnroe, heads the social integration project.
3/22/13: Innocent Voices [Voces inocentes ] / Luis Mandoki /120 min / 2004 / El Salvador / R
A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him.
3/29/13: Sleep Dealer [Traficante de sueños] / Alex Rivera / 90 min / 2008 / Mexico / PG13
Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.
4/5/13: Subterra [Subterra] / Marcelo Ferrari / 105min / 2003 / CHILE / Not Rated
This true story took place in the Chilean town of Lota in 1897. In the depths of the larges cold mine in the world, Chiflón del Diablo, a large revolt happened in the heart of one man. While the aristocratic family
Cousiño Goyene-
chea dreamed of the
advent of progress,
the coal miners
struggle to improve
their dangerous
working conditions.
4/12/13 The Colors of the Mountain [Los Colores De La Montaña] / Carlos César Arbeláez / 93min / 2010 / Colombia/ Not rated When a 9-year-old Colombian boy receives a new football from his father, his dreams of becoming a pro goalie become ever more magnified -- until the ball accidentally ends up in a minefield by his home, and he must figure out how to recover it.
4/19/13: Strawberry & Chocolate [Fresa y Chocolate] / Tomás Gutiérrez Alea& Juan Carlos Tabío / 108min / 1993 / Cuba / R This Academy Award-nominated dramedy set during the Cuban Revolution mines the complex, special bond between stick-in-the-mud conservative David (Vladimir Cruz) and his cultivated, homosexual, anti-Castro neighbor, Diego (Jorge Perugorría). Can two people from opposed sides of the political coin be friends? Apparently so. When Diego's subversive adventures land him in hot water with the authorities, David decides that friendship trumps politics.
Program Title: Cesar Chavez Blood Drive Challenge
Date: 4/8/13
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Program Title: Poverty Awareness Film Screenings
Dates: 2/4/13, 3/18/13, 4/15/13
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7:00 PM
Description: The poverty-awareness organization ONE is hosting a chocolate tasting and showing the film "The Dark Side of Chocolate." This is a short documentary about the production of chocolate for major corporations, which often involves child labor in Africa. Fair trade chocolate will be provided, and this event is completely FREE!
PERMIAS: Indonesian Student Association
Program Title: Badminton Tournament
Date: 1/26/13
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Program Title: Indonesian Night
Date: 2/15/13
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Program Title: Somali Benefit Dinner
Date: 3/2/13
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Southeast Asian Student Association
Program Title: Karaoke
Date: 4/19/13
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Program Title: Story Telling
Date: 3/1/13
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Program Title: Khmer Studies Forum
Date: 3/15/13
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Students for Justice in Palestine and Israel
Program Title: Palestinian Cultural Night
Date: 3/30/13
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Program Title: Art and Activism with Omekongo Dibinga
Date: 4/8/13
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Program Title: Bone-Making Event
Date: 2/19/13
Time:7 PM
Description: We will be making clay bones and hear a presentation by Professor Hoffman of the sociology department. The bones will be displayed on campus this March. Afterward, they will be donated to the organization One Million Bones for use in a demonstration against genocide and mass atrocities on the Washington Mall later this spring. Free food will be provided at our event with the help of Vegan Cooking Workshop.
Program Title: Taiwanese Movie Night
Date: 2/1/13
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Description: Ticket: $3 per person (included dinner). Film description: This is a story about you and me, about love and friendships, and a story that brings you back to those bygone years, the age of innocence. This true love story begins in 1994 in Taiwan. A close group of boys in high school had a crush on one outstanding student, Shen, Chia-yi. The leading actor, Ko Ching-teng, is a mischievous and difficult student who claims that he has no interest in her. However, Ko gradually fell for Shen. Shen encouraged and helped him to study harder for the university entrance exam, and she became impressed by the contrasting values Ko represented.
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