CALENDAR
ATTENTION
The feature debut from director Garth Davis, Lion tells the incredible
true-life story (based on the memoir A Long Way Home) of Saroo
Bierley, who as a 5-year-old boy (Sunny Pawar) in India falls asleep
on an empty train and travels some 1,600 kilometers to Calcutta,
where — utterly lost and alone, and unable to speak Bengali — he
falls in with street children, is nearly abducted, twice, before ending
up in an orphanage, from where he is adopted out to Australian
parents (David Wenham and Nicole Kidman). Fast-forward two
decades and Saroo (Dev Patel), now a deracinated bourgeois
Australian citizen with a girlfriend (Rooney Mara) and a college
degree, is profoundly stricken with a sudden need to find his birth
family. Even Michael Bay couldn’t have ruined this heartbreaking
and miraculous story, though at moments Davis comes close to
ham-fisting it: The first and last thirds of the movie are emotionally
stunning and often gut-wrenching, but the film’s middle section
loses its way, delivering rote cinematic clichés that lead you around
faithlessly by the nose. Nonetheless, this is a powerful film about
one man’s long, difficult journey home, and at its most compelling it
speaks to our eternal search for an authentic self, often against the
most impossible odds.
OPPORTUNITIES
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Call to artists interested in
displaying work at Framin’
Artworks Gallery. Email 10 to
15 images to galleryfaw@gmail.
com by Saturday, Feb. 4.
Call to artists for 2018 The Arts
Center exhibition program,
deadline Feb. 5. Online submis-
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ters-2018-exhibition-program/.
Call to photographers: Albany
Visitors Association holds its 10th
annual Albany Photography Con-
test. Submit photos by 5pm Friday,
Feb. 17. More info at 928-0911.
PeaceHealth Hospice seeks vol-
unteers. Informational meeting
at hospice office, 1-3pm, Thurs-
day, Feb. 2, 677 E. 12th Ave.
Skipping Stones Magazine student
Haiku contest submissions due
5pm Monday, Feb. 13. Email edi-
tor@skippingstones.org. Students
of all ages welcome to participate.
Sponsors Inc. seeks mentors
interested in helping men &
women transition out of state &
federal corrections institutions.
Call 505-5662 for information.
St. Vincent de Paul Eugene Ser-
vice Station is looking for kitch-
en help. Contact Ashley Hensley
at 743-7147 for information.
Lion is currently playing at Bijou Art Cinemas; bijou-cinemas.com or
541-357-0375. — Rick Levin
Cribbage Tournament continues.
See Thursday, Jan. 26
Duplicate Bridge continues. See
Thursday, Jan. 26.
Info Session on Eugene’s
Proposed Urbal Growth Boundary
continues. See Thursday, Jan. 26.
Lunchtime Tap & Growler
Running Group continues. See
Thursday, Jan. 26.
Pool Hall for seniors continues.
See Thursday, Jan. 26.
WDYK Trivia w/Rick continues.
See Thursday, Jan. 26.
SOCIAL DANCE Community
Ecstatic Dance, 7-9pm, WOW
Hall, 291 E. 8th Ave. $5-$15
sug. don.
Fall Dance Sampler Series, Cha
Cha, 7:30pm, In Shape Athletic
Club, 2681 Willamette St. $10.
English & Scottish Country
Dancing continues. See Thurs-
day, Jan. 26.
Music & Dance Workshops w/
Taller de Son Jarocho continues.
See Thursday, Jan. 26.
SPIRITUAL Insight Meditation
continues. See Thursday, Jan. 26.
Zen Meditation continues. See
Thursday, Jan. 26.
TEENS Japanese Manga & Car-
toon Drawing Club! continues.
See Thursday, Jan. 26.
No Shame Workshop continues.
See Thursday, Jan. 26.
THEATER The Emperor of the
Moon continues. See Thursday,
Jan. 26.
The Explorer’s Club continues.
See Friday.
Oregon Contemporary Theatre:
The 39 Steps continues. See
Thursday, Jan. 26.
VOLUNTEER Care for Owen
Rose Garden continues. See
Thursday, Jan. 26.
Friends of Buford Park & Mt. Pis-
gah Native Plant Volunteer Work
Party continues. See Thursday,
Jan. 26.
Native Plant Nursery Volunteer
Work Party continues. See
Thursday, Jan. 26.
CORVALLIS
AND THE REGION
THURSDAY, JAN. 26: Lecture:
Former GRAMMY museum
director Bob Santelli, 7:30pm,
LaSells Stewart Center, OSU,
Corvallis. FREE.
WEDNESDAY, FEB 1: Death
Café, noon, Interzone, Corvallis.
FREE.
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