Free Thursdays CHANGE YOUR THURSDAY-NIGHT PROGRAMMING A WEEKLY SAMPLER OF FREE TOURS, FILMS, TALKS, AND MORE THURSDAYS, OCTOBER 2, 9, 16, 23 AND 30, 2003 FREE

Chain Times Three  Gail Scott photo: Jean-Francois Berube The World Stopped Watching  Style Wars

OCTOBER 2
FREE FILM: CHAIN TIMES THREE, 8 PM, AUDITORIUM
A VIDEO INSTALLATION DIRECTED BY JEM COHEN
A three-projector panoramic triptych, Chain Times Three presents a "superlandscape" comprised of malls, highways, franchises, hotels, and corporate centers set to original music by Montréal's Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Before the screening, University of Minnesota Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature John Archer discusses the homogenization of architecture, a central theme of Cohen's installation. 2002, U.S., color, video, 41 minutes. Presented as part of the Sound Unseen Festival.
FREE TOUR: THE SQUARED CIRCLE: BOXING IN CONTEMPORARY ART, 6:30 PM
Exhibition curator Olukemi Ilesanmi and free-jazz pianist Matthew Shipp bob and weave through The Squared Circle to explore links between boxing and jazz.. 

OCTOBER 9
FREE VERSE: GAIL SCOTT, 7 PM, LECTURE ROOM
Montréal novelist/essayist/translator Gail Scott is described by the Globe and Mail as "one of the most gutsy writers around." Taking up issues of feminism, art, and political action in fiction, she creates an impressive blend of feeling and thinking. Her new novel, My Paris, is the diary of a disillusioned visitor to the City of Lights, who assembles in her journal fragments of the present and past, pieces of art, philosophy, herself, and the world outside. Scott's other books include the novels Heroine and Main Brides, the story collection Spare Parts Plus Two, and the critical work Spaces Like Stairs. She coedits Narrativity, a Web journal sponsored by the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University and devoted to discussing new forms of narrative.
FREE VERSE IS COSPONSORED BY RAIN TAXI REVIEW OF BOOKS.
FREE TOUR: 1 AND 6 PM
Tour a different Walker exhibition every Thursday at 1 and 6 pm. Meet in the lobby. Pick up a complete schedule at the lobby desk.

OCTOBER 16
FREE FILMS: WAR, PEACE, AND RESISTANCE: A FILM SERIES, AUDITORIUM
Part of an ongoing series that promotes international tolerance through cinema, these documentaries focus on news coverage in Nicaragua during the 1980s and today.
THE WORLD IS WATCHING, 6:30 PM
INTRODUCED BY DIRECTOR PETER RAYMONT 
1987, Canada, color, video, 58 minutes.
THE WORLD STOPPED WATCHING, 8 PM
INTRODUCED BY DIRECTOR PETER RAYMONT
2003, Canada, color, video, 81 minutes. A Q&A with the director follows.
FREE TOUR: BETTER LOOKING: BREAKIN' THE RULES, 1 AND 6 PM, MEET IN THE LOBBY
Many of the artists working during the past 50 years have tended to push boundaries, break rules, and in many ways stretch our idea of what art is. During the 1950s and '60s, they experimented with new modes of abstraction; performance artists of the 1970s challenged the viewers' notion of the static nature of art; and practitioners today, like Kara Walker and Rineke Dijkstra, ask us to reconsider the connection between the visual and the narrative. This tour examines the many ways that artists have shaken up traditional notions of art.

OCTOBER 23
FREE FILM: STYLE WARS, 8 PM, AUDITORIUM
DIRECTED BY TONY SILVER
INTRODUCED BY POPMASTER FABEL
This film, regarded by many as the definitive document of the emerging hip-hop culture, captures the MCs, DJs, and B-Boys who rocked New York's urban landscape with new sounds and moves. 1983/2003, U.S., color, video, 70 minutes.
FREE TOUR: 1 AND 6 PM
Tour a different Walker exhibition every Thursday at 1 and 6 pm. Meet in the lobby. Pick up a complete schedule at the lobby desk.

OCTOBER 30
FREE FILM: DIRECTING DIVAS DIGITAL VIDEO SCREENING, 6 PM, LECTURE ROOM
DIRECTED BY ANAND PATWARDHAN
This program features premieres of digital video works created by young women from the Directing Divas workshop held at the Walker in October 2002.
FREE TALK: THE MUSIC AND VOICES OF FACING MEKKA, 7 PM, AUDITORIUM
Global musicians and vocalists from Rennie Harris' groundbreaking new work, Facing Mekka, share their experiences.
FREE TOUR: 1 AND 6 PM
Tour a different Walker exhibition every Thursday at 1 and 6 pm. Meet in the lobby. Pick up a complete schedule at the lobby desk.

FREE THURSDAYS ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM THE WALLACE FOUNDATION.