BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard Animation program scheduled at DIVA The multimedia collective Cartune Xprez will bring its collection of animated videos and performers to the Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts visual arts npl → artes fpl plásticas visual arts npl → arts mpl plastiques visual arts npl → , 110 W. Broadway, for an 8:30 p.m. show today. Tickets are $5 for the general public, or $3 for students. A curated program of experimental animation from throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Canada, Cartune Xprez features animation in a variety of genres: hyper-color flash, digital motion graphics, traditional hand drawn, chalk board, newspaper cutout cut·out n. 1. Something cut out or intended to be cut out from something else. 2. Electricity A device that interrupts, bypasses, or disconnects a circuit or circuit element. 3. and photo animation. The live music and animation performance group Slow Dance Recyttal and the electronic rock animation duo Hooliganship also will perform. The creative trio behind Slow Dance Recyttal uses a mix of flash, motion graphics and found photo animation. Hooliganship combines electronic melodies with "freak-out animations." Documentary depicts environmental godfather One of the founding fathers of the modern day environmental movement is the focus of a film, "Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America," coming to Eugene next week. The movie screens at 7 p.m. Thursday at REI, 306 Lawrence St. The screening is part of Oregon Wilderness Week. The movie is one of a host of free events sponsored by the group Oregon Wild, which seeks to raise awareness about proposed wilderness areas in the state. Brower, the first executive director of the Sierra Club Sierra Club, national organization in the United States dedicated to the preservation and expansion of the world's parks, wildlife, and wilderness areas. Founded (1892) in California by a group led by the Scottish-American conservationist John Muir, the Sierra Club and the founder of the group Earth Island Institute The Earth Island Institute was founded in 1982 by environmentalist David Brower. It organizes and encourages activism around environmental issues and provides public education. Funding comes from individual members and supporting organizations. , was instrumental in preventing the flooding of the Grand Canyon. He helped found the group Friends of the Earth, and is credited with creating the slogan, "Think globally, act locally Think Globally, Act Locally was reportedly coined by David Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth, as the slogan for FOE when it was founded in 1969, although others have stated it was originated by Rene Dubos as an advisor to the United Nations Conference on the Human ." Brower, who died in 2000, also helped establish numerous wilderness preserves, including the Olympic National Park Olympic National Park National park, northwestern Washington, U.S. Established in 1938 to preserve the Olympic Mountains and their forests and wildlife, it covers 1,442 sq mi (3,735 sq km); it includes a strip of Pacific Northwest shoreline geographically separated from the in northwestern Washington state. - The Register-Guard |
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