[Michlib-l] FW: Featured Events at PIDL Owned Rogers City Theater

Wed Sep 12 17:09:41 EDT 2018

From: Anne Belanger-Presque Isle District Library <annebelanger at pidl.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 4:52 PM
To: 'michlib-1 at mcls.org' <michlib-1 at mcls.org>
Cc: Amber Alexander - PIDL <director at pidl.org>
Subject: Featured Events at PIDL Owned Rogers City Theater

Since the Presque Isle District Library took ownership of the historic
Rogers City Theater in 2016, we have been very active in showcasing a
diversity of talent and special featured events putting northeast Michigan
on the map with arts and cultural events.  Coming up, The MANHATTAN SHORT
Film Festival will be screened at the Rogers City Theater on Friday,
September 28 through Sunday, September 30th starting at 7:30 pm each night.
Audience members will be able to cast their vote for Best Picture and Best
Actor/Actress.  Nine outstanding short films were chosen as finalists.
Filmgoers in Rogers City will unite with audiences in over 300 cities
spanning six continents to view and judge the work of the next generation of
filmmakers from around the world.  

The nine MANHATTAN SHORT film finalists are from eight countries with films
from Austria, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Kosovo, New Zealand, USA and the
United Kingdom.  All nine films are eligible for an Academy Award
nomination, an Oscar-contender.  A complete list of screenings can be found
at www.pidl.org <http://www.pidl.org> .  

The following week, the library hosts the first TEDx
PresqueIsleDistrictLIbrary event at the Rogers City Theater on Friday,
October 5th at 7:30 pm featuring LIVE speakers, John Dempsey and John
O'Shea.  TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people
together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called
TEDxPresqueIsleDistrictLibrary, where x = independently organized TED event.
At our TEDx PresqueIsleDistrictLIbrary event, TED Talk videos and live
speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small
group. 

John Dempsey, an internationally acclaimed artist who is featured in the
Norman Rockwell Museum  touring exhibit, "Re-imagining the Four Freedoms"
will address the perspective of an "artist communicating the meaning behind
his work". John's art work was selected for inclusion in this major
traveling exhibition organized by Norman Rockwell Museum.   His work,
"Sunday Night/Monday Morning" is on a national tour as part of the Enduring
Ideals:  Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms.  John will talk about what
the four freedoms mean to him and the meaning behind his work.  Freedom of
speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear; as
those were President Roosevelt's four freedoms.  John is a resident of
Presque Isle County and is an acclaimed artist whose work is exhibited
throughout the United States and Europe.  

John O'Shea, Curator of Great Lakes Archaeology at University of Michigan
Museum of Anthropological Archaeology whose focus is on prehistoric cultures
and 19th century shipwrecks in the Great Lakes.  John will present a new
historical perspective of Paleo Indians from 9,900 years ago using new
research and technology advancements.  John was the key person who upon
examining new underwater topographical maps of Lake Huron discovered a
continuous underwater ridge stretching 112 miles from northeastern Michigan
to southern Ontario known as the Amberley Ridge.  He realized that around
the last Ice Age, 9,900 years ago it was a land bridge known as the
Alpena-Amberley Ridge.  He is working with a team using technology upgrades
that have yielded Ice Age landscapes of campsites from Paleo Indians, stone
circles, remnants of a fire hearth and much more.  For over a decade,
O'Shea's team discovered archaeological sites intact all through the
Amberley Ridge. His three-person submersible was used in summer 2018 to
investigate the bottom of a 500 foot deep cliff that has never been
explored.  This Ice Age landscape once sustained caribou and its hunters for
two millennia.  It disappeared under the waves of Lake Huron some 8,000
years ago.

Then on Saturday, October 6th at 7:30 pm, the talents of the internationally
acclaimed musical artist, Sofia Talvik will perform live at the Rogers City
Theater.  Unmistakably Nordic in flavor, Sofia Talvik somehow still conforms
to American interpretations of her own original music, a North Sea siren
blending sparkle and melancholy. A veteran performer with 6 full length
albums as well as numerous EPs, singles and tours behind her.  Complete bios
and detailed information about all of the above events can be found on the
library's website at  <http://www.pidl.org> www.pidl.org  Tickets can be
purchased at the Rogers City Theater box office.  Doors open at 6:30 pm.

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