WORLD TOUR COMES TO CORVALLIS: BANFF Mountain Film Fest, Fri. & Sat., Feb. 10 & 11, 7 pm at The Whiteside
Doors open at 6 pm, showtime is 7 pm. Two completely different nights of movies, 7 to 9 films each night. Featuring the best films Outdoor adventure, Mountain Culture and the Environment. From thrilling adventures that will keep you at the edge of your seat to well told outdoor tales of wild places and wild times. This will once again be a show not to miss.
Presale is $20 a night, door is $25. Purchase both nights for $38. Click here for tickets.
MOVIE EXTRAVAGANZA: The Princess Bride – 7:30 pm, Sat., Feb. 11 at The Majestic
Movie hosted by Rachel Kohler, Photo Ops, Costumes, Prizes, Themed Concessions!
Based on the novel by William Goldman, The Princess Bride tells the story of Buttercup, a beautiful peasant-turned-princess who, after being separated from her true love Westley, is captured by and forced to marry a conspiring prince. As the fateful wedding day approaches, Westley, along with vengeful Spaniard Inigo Montoya and kind giant Fezzik, come to her rescue.
Tickets $15. Click here to book or get info.
Here’s a MONDAY bonus for you….
OSU LECTURE: Ancestry, where do we come from and why do we care? Monday, February 13, from 4:30 to 5:30 pm, at The Memorial Union Horizon Room
This is a talk by Dr. Maya Jasanoff with a reception afterwards…. Jasanoff is the X.D. and Nancy Yang Professor and Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University.
An historian of British imperial and global history. Jasanoff’s books Edge of Empire (2005), Liberty’s Exiles (2011), and The Dawn Watch (2017) have won numerous accolades including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Cundill Prize in History, the George Washington Book Prize, and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction.
She is currently writing a history of the human preoccupation with ancestry and genealogy, the topic of a popular undergraduate course she teaches in Harvard’s General Education curriculum. She is also completing a short book on the craft of historical narrative, looking at ways to bring out the “story” in history.
Professor Jasanoff writes widely about history, literature, and world affairs for publications including The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. In 2021 she was chair of judges for the Booker Prize.
Free. Click here for more info.
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