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SUMMARY:GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE
DESCRIPTION:When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force\, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second ice age. \nDirector: Gil Kenan \nStars: Paul Rudd\, Carrie Coon\, Finn Wolfhard
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/ghostbusters-frozen-empire/
LOCATION:Gorton Center – John & Nancy Hughes Theater\, 400 E. Illinois Road\, Lake Forest\, IL\, 60045\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:HOW TO RAISE A CITIZEN (AND WHY IT'S UP TO YOU TO DO IT)
DESCRIPTION:The numbers don’t lie. American civic knowledge is alarmingly low\, and many people dread talking about politics—often choosing to avoid the subject altogether. Studies continue to reveal how little Americans know about their government. Young voters are the least likely to be registered to vote\, and the least likely to turn out. Civics instruction receives the lowest number of K-12 classroom hours out of any subject\, and it shows – AP US Government & Politics has one of the lowest average scores each year out of all AP classes offered in high schools. But Lindsey Cormack\, Ph.D.\, associate professor of political science and director of the Diplomacy Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology\, argues that all is not lost for the next generation of Americans. \nIn her new book\, How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It’s Up to You to Do It)\, Cormack shows how engaging with children about our political system at a young age can help to better prepare them to engage with and understand politics and be catalysts for change. She argues that we all bear a little responsibility for our children’s lack of understanding about these subjects; our political system is a complicated one to understand\, our society has an aversion to talking about politics\, and our schools are stretched. \nCormack will be in conversation with Heidi Stevens\, Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health\, and creative director for Parent Nation\, an initiative of the TMW Center. Prior to joining TMW\, Stevens worked at the Chicago Tribune for 23 years\, where she wrote a daily column called “Balancing Act.” She maintains a weekly nationally syndicated column. Stevens also serves as a FAN board member. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of How to Raise a Citizen from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Cormack and Stevens that will start immediately after the webinar. AND: FAN will gift a second copy of the book to After-Hours guests! Details on the webinar registration page. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel..
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/how-to-raise-a-citizen-and-why-its-up-to-you-to-do-it/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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SUMMARY:THE SHAPE OF WATER
DESCRIPTION:At a top secret research facility in the 1960s\, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity. \nDirector: Guillermo del Toro \nStars: Sally Hawkins\, Octavia Spencer\, Michael Shannon
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/the-shape-of-water/
LOCATION:Gorton Center – John & Nancy Hughes Theater\, 400 E. Illinois Road\, Lake Forest\, IL\, 60045\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:LAKE COUNTY FILM FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT FEATURE - ROOM SIX
DESCRIPTION:OPENING NIGHT FEATURE FILM \nOpening night (Halloween) will be the Horror/Thriller film “Room Six”\, made in Lake County. Filmmakers will be in attendance and will have a post screening Q & A. We will also be screening a collection of short films from filmmakers from Lake County preceding “Room Six”. This film is likely not suitable for children. \nRoom Six is the story of Maxx\, a college student\, who is working the night shift at a vacant\, rundown motel before the late-night arrival of two brothers. After a few suspicious incidents\, Maxx’s curiosity (or paranoia) gets the best of her\, and she decides to investigate the situation. Maxx quickly finds herself in danger as she uncovers what lies hidden in the brothers’ room. \nThe festival will be showing about two dozen features and over 80 short films. Gorton Center is thrilled to be partnering up as one of the host venues. The full slate of films\, along with the schedule\, will be available in early September. \nThe 14th Lake County Film Festival will be held from October 31-November 3 & November 8-11. \nScreenings will also be held at The College Of Lake County in Grayslake\, IL\,
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/lake-forest-film-festival/
LOCATION:Gorton Center – John & Nancy Hughes Theater\, 400 E. Illinois Road\, Lake Forest\, IL\, 60045\, United States
CATEGORIES:Festivals,Film
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SUMMARY:GATHER ME: MEMOIR IN PRAISE OF THE BOOKS THAT SAVED ME
DESCRIPTION:For Glory Edim\, that “friend of my mind” is books. Edim\, who grew up in Virginia to Nigerian immigrant parents\, started the popular Well-Read Black Girl book club at age thirty\, eventually reaching a community of half a million readers. But her own love of books stretches far back. \nEdim’s father moved back to Nigeria while she was still a child\, marking the beginning of a series of traumatic changes and losses for her family. What became an escape\, a safe space\, and a second home for her and her brother was their local library. Books were where Edim found community\, and as she grew older\, she discovered authors and ideas that she wasn’t being taught about in class. Reading wherever and whenever she could\, be it in her dorm room or when traveling by subway or plane\, Edim found the Black writers whose words would forever change her life: Nikki Giovanni\, through children’s poetry cassettes; Maya Angelou\, through a critical high school English teacher; Toni Morrison\, while attending Morrison’s alma mater\, Howard University; Audre Lorde\, on a flight to Nigeria. In prose full of both joy and heartbreak\, Edim recounts how these writers and so many others taught her how to value herself by helping her to find her own voice when her mother lost hers\, to trust her feelings when her father remarried\, and to create bonds with other Black women and uplift their stories. \nEdim’s new book\, Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me\, is a glowing testament to how the power of representation in literature can gather the disparate parts that make us who we are and assemble them into a portrait of discovery. \nEdim will be in conversation with Natalie Y. Moore\, an award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Gather Me to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page. \n“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me\, man. The pieces I am\, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”—Toni Morrison\, Beloved \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/gather-me-memoir-in-praise-of-the-books-that-saved-me/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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SUMMARY:LAKE COUNTY FILM FESTIVAL - Selected Shorts Program
DESCRIPTION:Come check out an exciting program of 10 short films from the Lake County Film Festival\, specifically selected for Gorton Center!\nThe Selected Shorts Program at Gorton Includes: \nHandle With Care (d. Michael Glover Smith)\n8 Minutes / USA\nA woman and a man go on a date\, both for the first time in years. Each faces the dilemma of how open and honest they should be.\nNight Session (d. Ballard C. Boyd)\n11 Minutes / USA\nWhen a burglar unexpectedly runs into a homeowner during a theft\, the robbery morphs into a makeshift therapy session\, with the burglar helping the homeowner process his impending divorce – all while the homeowner helps to rob his own apartment.\nThe Brown Dog (d. Nadia Hallgren & Jamie-James Medina)\n14 Minutes / USA\nNight after night\, a watchman clocks into his lonely booth and spends hours composing endless security logs to stay awake\, as he slowly descends into darkness.\nQuem Salva (d. Laure Devin\, Maxime Bourstin\, Nathan Medam\, Charles Hechinger & Titouan Jaouen)\n7 Minutes / France\nSidnei is a young recruit of the fire department fighting forest fires in the Amazon. During his first mission\, he will be separated from the group and will have to undertake a perilous mission\, guided by his mentor\, Joao. Sidnei will be confronted with a choice: follow the orders of the hierarchy or save a thousand-year-old tree at the risk of his life.\nFitting Descriptions (d. Tiffany Bedwell & John Mossman)\n10 Minutes / USA\nDina\, an aging CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) stage actor haunted by a past humiliation\, tries to jump-start her failing on-camera career by rebranding. Outside a Chicago coffeehouse Dina begrudgingly solicits passersby for first impressions\, then weathers the resulting IRL likes\, comments\, and plain indifference of strangers and her industry alike. But when her past and present collide\, Dina’s authorial CODA “voice” awakens.\nUnibrow (d. Nedda Sarshar)\n14 Minutes / Canada\nLeyla is an Irani-Canadian girl with a complicated relationship with the Irani part– she does not want to speak Farsi at home to her mother and grandmother\, she does not have any Irani friends\, and she HATES her unibrow. In an attempt to get rid of her unibrow\, Leyla accidentally makes things worst and now has to go to school with ruined brows! Fortunately the new girl at school\, Sahar\, offers to help “fix” her brows and invites Leyla to her home. Leyla cannot help but be intrigued by Sahar’s connection to Iran and her community\, and feels her own world begin to grow bigger.\n[INSERT SHORT FILM TITLE] (d. Kory Orban)\n12 Minutes / USA\nIn the mind of every filmmaker\, there are two wolves locked in an epic\, eternal\, and fierce battle for control and influence. The combatants? The analytical left brain and the whimsical right. [INSERT SHORT FILM TITLE] personifies these cerebral hemispheres in the monumentally (or at least marginally) comedic performances of Chrissy Mozylisky and Matthew MacCaull\, evoking the cinematic manifestation of that cerebrum arm wrestle in the form of a meta-troll of the short film genre.\nDon’t Forget (d. Jeremy Stuart Thompson)\n7 Minutes / Canada\nA story about a fella and his wife about to drive to an event. Well\, Just as long as he remembered everything of course.\nShoes (d. Mostafa Keshvari)\n5 Minutes / Canada\nThe tale of an Iranian girl is told through the eyes of her shoes\, capturing her journey from the first steps to the very last.\nThe Venus Gambit (d. Thomas Nicol)\n7 Minutes / USA\nA casual date turns into a match of minds and hearts on the chessboard. \nThe festival will be showing about two dozen features and over 80 short films. Gorton Center is thrilled to be partnering up as one of the host venues. The full slate of films\, along with the schedule\, can be found here. \nThe 14th Lake County Film Festival will be held from October 31-November 3 & November 8-11. \nScreenings will also be held at The College Of Lake County in Grayslake\, IL\,
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/lake-county-film-festival/
LOCATION:Gorton Center – John & Nancy Hughes Theater\, 400 E. Illinois Road\, Lake Forest\, IL\, 60045\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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