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Coming events Music on and off campus Friday you can catch the final performance of the 1980-81 Chamber Music Se ries, performed by Tashi at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall. The clarinet and strings en semble will perform Quintet in A Major for Clarinet and Strings, Op 146 by Max Reger among other selec tions. Some tickets for the Chamber Music concert are still available at $3. For more information call the music school at 686-5678. Tashi will also present a lecture-recital at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall on Saturday. Tickets will cost $1.50 each, and will be available at the door. Reilly and Maloney, warm hearted folk musicians, will play for you at the Communi ty Center for the Performing Arts Friday night. Tickets are $3. Ginny Reilly ana uavia Maloney's most recent al bum Everyday is a joy to listen to, and their concert is sure to make you high. For more information, contact the Center at 687-2746. The CCPA is sponsoring a week called "A Taste of the Arts.” This week, May 7-17, is full of benefit music, theater and dance events, and will be free to all. You'll also have a chance to become a CCPA member. The show starts off on Sunday with Lon Gui tarsky in two performances. The first will be an afternoon concert in the Washington Jefferson Street Bridge Park from 2:30 to 4:30; the second will be at 8 p.m. where the group will open the "All Arts Ball. For the rest of the run down, stay tuned, or call the Center. Speaking of books, philosophy Novelist John Keeble will visit both the University and Lane Community College today. At 11:30 a.m. at LCC, Keeble will read from his works in Forum 308. At 2:30 p.m., at the University, he will talk about his views of the development of contempor ary fiction in 234 Gilbert; at 8 p.m. he will give a reading >n 244 Gilbert. All the events are free and open to the public. Keeble's visit is part of a series of talks and readings by visiting writers made possible through the University’s Creative Writing Program and Kenny Moore, and Moore’s employers at Time/Life. Keeble’s latest work is Yel lowfish. Native Pulse: Playing for the people Eugene’s answer to Bob Marley or Jimmy Cliff comes to the Community Center for the Per forming Arts (corner of 8th Avenue and Lincoln Street) in the form of Native Pulse tomorrow night at a benefit for Zoo Zoo’s and Grower’s Market. Saturday Native Pulse performs for a No-Nuke benefit carnival. Tickets for the CCPA show are $3 for those in costume and $3.50 for those not Continuing to stress the importance of the social relevance of reggae and support of the oppressed peoples everywhere, Native Pulse plans a musical benefit to support the Co-Op Federatiion, Amnesty International and the University divesting itself out of South Africa. Dustin’ them blues University student John Nerenberg’s play Believe I'll Dust My Blues comes alive on stage May 7-9, 14-16 at 8 p.m. in the Pocket Theater in Villard Hall on campus. University Theatre 4:30 is sponsoring the event. Believe I’ll Dust My Blues is about people who live in life's creases and folds, and their constant struggle within themselves to change the direction of their lives. Nerenberg received special assistance in the creating of Believe I'll Dust My Blues from Pulitzer Prize Winner Sam Shepard. Helen Machin Smith directs the play. Donations of $1 will be accepted at the door. A special performance will be presented at the Community Center for the Performing Arts May 12 at 8 p.m. Bikes routed west The Eugene/Springfield Metropolitan Bicycle Com mittee and the Eugene Bicy cle Committe come together to sponsor the West Bank bike path dedication and grand opening, and to cele brate ten years of state bikeway funding on May 8. A bike decoration contest will take place at the Valley River Center parking lot at 6:30 p.m. And the bike path dedication, at the south end of the Greenway Bridge, will take place at 7:30 p m. There will be featured speakers. Film Blow Up Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni Playing at the Bifou Theater Blow Up, the celebrated film by Italian film-maker, Mi chelangelo Antonioni, dis plays the same unique and innovative style depicted in his past films, L'Avventurra and The Red Desert. A nebulous plot, the salient images and his evasive char acter relationships are con current techniques Antonioni has used throughout his film career, all concluding with the prevailing pursuit of his predominant theme on objec tive reality — what is real and what is not. Blow Up is no ex ception. It is however, Anton ioni’s first featured English film, set in London during the so-called “mod” era of the swinging 1960s, which recieves the brunt of his social comment. While Antonioni is more subtle than his Italian col league Fellini, who he col laborated with in The White Shiek, Blow Up is laced with chimerical images, an almost expressionistic portrayal of the human condition during the dynamic transition into the radical mid-60s. Antonioni’s form is wrapped around a vague, ambiguous plot concerning an egocentric fashion photographer, aptly portrayed by David Jennings, who harmlessly photographs an unknown couple in a tran quil, scenic park, then finds himself the target of the woman involved, (Vanessa Redgrave) who attempts to re trieve the undeveloped film. Jennings, then suspicious, develops the film, blows up the prints — hence the name Blow Up — and unravels bit by bit an occurring murder slightly dis cernible in the photographs’ shrouded background A de tective story? Hardly. The plot seems to halt here amidst an intangible, almost incongruent bed of uncertainty. Yet the thriller plot is only a mode or vehicle which is utilized by Antonioni to convey, create and explore his field of subtle illusion. Visually, the film is a tech nical masterpiece, the quality of images, angles, color and movement is first-rate cinema tography, which accounts for the film’s true appeal, rather than the tenuous development of an undiscernible motif which Antonioni left in Italy on the advent of his international career some 30 years before. At times the random, hectic pace and evasive actions are a bit drawn out, superfluous and an excessive dissolution of images with little direction or development. 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