This week in Lublin...

GENERAL



Pakamera (Storeroom): A new spot has opened at Chatka Żaka; it's a place where you can bring stuff that you no longer need, such as books, magazines, CDs or DVDs, and exchange it for other stuff. It's a library, video rental shop and second-hand bookshop rolled into one, all free of charge, with no membership cards or undue formalities. It's open three times a week: Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Chatka Żaka, ul. Radziszewskiego 16



SPAM - Student Review of Alternative Music: If you have your own band and would like a chance to be heard, take part in SPAM. The best bands will be able to perform at the FAMA Festival in Świnoujście and play as support to bands at the Lublin Student Festival of Culture this May. The band that wins the greatest approval of the audience will be awarded 500 PLN.
Fill in the application and send it to spam.umcs@gmail.com by 27th April.



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CULTURAL NEWS



CINEMA


Tektura
ul. Wieniawska 15a

25th April (Mon), 8 p.m. Swing
dir. Tony Gatlif, France/ Japan 2002, 90'
(language French/Romany)
During the summer holidays, Max, a 10-year old boy, stays with his grandmother in the Alsace region of France.  Frequently, he slips away to visit a community of Manouche gypsies, having befriended a young gypsy girl named Swing.  A fan of the gypsy jazz musician Django Reinhardt, Max trades his Walkman for a guitar and takes music lessons from one of the gypsies, Miraldo.  The experiences this summer gives Max will last him a lifetime…

Admission free


Anti-nuclear alter-cinema
(25th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe)
27th April (Weds), 7 p.m.

1. The Battle of Chernobyl
dir. Thomas Johnson, France/Russia/Ukraine 2006, 93'
(language: French)
Based on top-secret government documents that came to light only in the Nineties, during the collapse of the Soviet Union, THE BATTLE OF CHERNOBYL reveals a systematic cover-up of the true scope of the disaster, including the possibility of a secondary explosion of the still-smoldering magma, whose radioactive clouds would have rendered Europe uninhabitable. The government effort to prevent such a catastrophe lasted for more than seven months and sacrificed the lives of thousands of soldiers, miners and other workers.

2. Only Believe the Wind. Chernobyl, 20 Years Later (Vieryc tolki vietru. Charnobyl, 20 hadou pasla)
dir. Viktar Korzoun, Belarus 2007, 30'
(lg: Belarusian)
Documentary about the current situation in the zone polluted by the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident and about the scientists' attitude to nuclear energy in general.The film makes one think about the dangerous games the humankind plays with the enormous power of nuclear energy.

3. The China Syndrome
dir. James Bridges, USA 1979, 120'
A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.

Admission free



Cafe-bookshop Spółdzielnia
ul. Peowiaków 11

29th April (Fri), 6 p.m. Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo
dir. Polly Nash and Andy Worthington, UK 2009
The Lublin Amnesty International group presents a documentary telling the story of Guantánamo (and including sections on extraordinary rendition and secret prisons) with a particular focus on how the Bush administration turned its back on domestic and international laws, how prisoners were rounded up in Afghanistan and Pakistan without adequate screening (and often for bounty payments), and why some of these men may have been in Afghanistan or Pakistan for reasons unconnected with militancy or terrorism (as missionaries or humanitarian aid workers, for example). Focusing on the stories of three particular prisoners — Shaker Aamer (still held), Binyam Mohamed (released Feb. 2009) and Omar Deghayes, the film provides a powerful rebuke to those who believe that Guantánamo holds “the worst of the worst” and that the Bush administration was justified in responding to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 by holding men neither as prisoners of war, protected by the Geneva Conventions, nor as criminal suspects with habeas corpus rights, but as “illegal enemy combatants” with no rights whatsoever.

Admission free



CLUBBING


28th April (Thu), 8 p.m.  ROCKOTEKA (Rock music party)
Graffiti, ul. Piłsudskiego 13
Admission 5 PLN


30th April (Sat), 8 p.m. Saturday at Graffiti
Graffiti, ul. Piłsudskiego 13
An alternative to Lublin's clubs. Dance hits of the 60's, 70s, 80s and 90s.
Admission 5 PLN
First year students FREE


30th April (Sat), 9 p.m. PSYCHO INFINITY: EPIX + GRAPHIC + GREEN ANEMO + DESPER OF ŚLEPCY + DIABEL + HYHRYRRO – psytrance, dark psytrance, goa and fullon party
Tektura, ul. Wieniawska 15a
Admission 8 PLN