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The Global Lens 2009 Film Series Comes to the University YMCA

Gems of world cinema from countries rarely represented at the multiplex to screen for University of Illinois audiences

 

San Francisco, CA – August 18, 2009 The Global Film Initiative announced today that its Global Lens film series – ten award-winning narrative, feature films from Argentina, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Morocco and Mozambique –will screen at the University YMCA at the University of Illinois, on Thursdays at 7pm, beginning August 27 through October 29, 2009.

The University YMCA is located at the corner of Wright and Chalmers in Champaign, adjacent to the University of Illinois campus. For information, visit: www.universityymca.org, call 217-337-1500, or email Ann Rasmus, Program Coordinator: ann@universityymca.org.

The 62nd Annual DPI/NGO Conference is being held 9 to 11 September, 2009, in Mexico City under the banner “For Peace and Development: Disarm Now!”

The DPI/NGO Conference is the main NGO event of the year at the United Nations. It typically attracts 2,000 representatives from some 90 countries. Participants will gather  to discuss how they can contribute to reducing arms while advancing peace. The current global economic and food crises have necessitated a realignment of the world’s financial resources. This can only be enhanced by effect comprehensive disarmament.

The Center for Global Studies is an NGO affiliate to the Department of Public Information of the United Nations.

The registration deadline to attend is 21 August 2009. http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/conference/

Since returning on 5 June 2009 from their international reporting trip to Romania and Italy, ten students taking Journalism Professor Nancy Bensons course have been finalizing their stories. The broadcast will debut on UI-7 this Thursday, 18 June, at 7pm with a repeat showing at 9pm; UI-7 is the cable television service of the University of Illinois. Later this summer youll be able hear a one-hour radio program on WILL-AM 580, the universitys public radio station; the program is expected to air in August.