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February IMC Calendar
Regular
Events:
OPEN CABARET:
Every Friday, 8-10pm, Food! Drink! Open Mic/Stage!
DRAWING CLASS:
Every Tuesday and Thursday, 7-9pm. Drawing on the right
side of the brain, no experience necessary. Contact
Sandra Ahten at spiritofsandra@hotmail.com
PRAIRIE GREENS:
Wednesday 6th and 20th, 7-9pm. Meeting of local green
party members, all are welcome.
Special
Events:
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19:
7pm. Black Cat Music with The Retaliation Project and
the Gunga Dins.(see right)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21:
8pm-10pm. Adam Brodsky with special guest Joni Lawrence
opening.(see right)
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23:
7-10pm. The Dynamo Theorem with Little Joe Gould and
Mudskipper.
Other
Events:
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23:
9am-6pm Temple Buell Hall, UIUC
The graduate students of the Center for African Studies
present "Post-WCAR: Reviving the Dialogue for Africans
and African Descendants". This conference seeks
to follow up on the dialogue and actions generated by
the United Nations World Conference Against Racism,
Racial Descrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerence
held in Durban, South Africa in 2001
The day's activities will include moderated presentations
by student, faculty and community panels.
The conference will be concluded with an open lecture
by guest speakers, activist & African policy analyst
Ezekiel Pajibo and human rights advocate & teacher,
Prexy Nesbitt.
A.W.A.R.E.
Anti-War, Anti-Racism Effort
Meets Every Sunday at the University YMCA at 6:00
The third A.W.A.R.E. teach-in is being planned for april.
For details, visit http://www.anti-war.net
Sustaining Contributors
The public i wishes to espress its
deep appreciation to the following sustaining contributors
for their financial and material support:
WORLD HARVEST INTERNATIONAL AND GOURMET FOODS
THE SOCIAL EQUITY GROUP, FINANCIAL WEST
THE AFL-CIO OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY
THE UNION OF PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES (UPE)
If you or your organization would like to become a sustaining
contributor to the Public I, or would like more information
about it, please call 344-7265, or send an e-mail to
imc-print@publici.ucimc.org
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From Oakland, California Black
Cat Music has their roots in punk, but their bluesy-rock-urgent-gothic
sound appears to be influenced by a mix of Nick Cave,
early Alice Cooper, Social Distortion, The Cure, and
the Rolling Stones.For more information on Black Cat
Music, go to the site of their independent record
label Lookout Records: www.lookoutrecords.com.
The Retaliation Project is from Peoria and
describe their music as “spazzy horrorcore punk":
http://retaliate.cjb.net/.
The Gunga Dins are a punk/hardcore/emo/grind/metal
band from Springfield: for more information, check
out www.thegungadins.com.
 
Recently named “Best Folk Performer”
in the Philadelphia City Paper Music Awards, Adam
Brodsky is one of the more distinct voices of
folk in Philadelphia today. Adam Brodsky sings and
strums the same way he writes - relentlessly and without
compromise - saying what everyone else wishes they
could say. His music is a voice for oppressed rights,
oppressed cubicle workers and oppressed boyfriends
everywhere, writing with a brash sense of humor and
a healthy respect for the roots of American Folk Music.That
respect has been highlighted this year. Adam spent
the summer presenting a program called “A Brief History
of Folk Music” at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia.
Sponsored by Smithsonian Folkways, the program offered
an overview of the folk tradition including murder
ballads, cowboy songs, sea shanties, antifolk and
protest songs. For more information, visit www.adambrodsky.com.
Local musician Joni Laurence
sings, plays guitar and writes songs with strong vocals
that are a unique blend of irony, imagination and
introspection. On her newest record “Daphne Speaks”
Joni experiments with a variety of musical styles
including a traditional folk sound along with blues
and pop. Joni was greatly influenced by musicians
such as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Suzanne Vega, Nanci
Griffith, and the Indigo Girls. Her songs of love
and relationships are distinctively realistic, and
she writes of common occurrences in the human experience
like performance anxiety, self-confidence and growing
affections for people and places. For more information,
visit www.jonilaurence.com.
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