Films, both serious and silly, appear throughout this week’s Events Roundup. As always, other arts and entertainment opportunities are in the calendar.
A series of talks and a free film screening comprise the University of Idaho’s
East Asian Ecocinema Symposium today and Friday in Moscow.
Professor Kiu-wai Chu of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, delivers a keynote address at 1:30 p.m. today in the Student Union Building’s Clearwater Room, 875 S. Line St. Chu’s talk,
“Between Nation and Planet: Ecocinema and the New Wave of Chinese Science Fiction,” will explore the significance of recent Chinese sci-fi films in ecological perspective, according to a news release.
The film
“Okja,” PG-13, will be shown at 7 tonight at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, 508 S. Main St.
The movie follows a young South Korean girl’s efforts to save a giant, genetically modified pig, who has become her friend, from a multinational meat producer. The 2017 film, directed by Bong Joon-ho (“Parasite,” “Snowpiercer”) offers a “whimsical look at questions of corporate greed, GMOs and environmental sustainability.”
More information about the ecocinema symposium, which continues with a variety of presentations through Friday, is at
uidaho.edu/class/hias/events/ecocinema.
Nez Perce and Ojibwe artisan, educator and performing artist J.R. Spencer will present
“Music of the Nez Perce” from 5:30-7 p.m. today at the Lewiston City Library’s Event Space, 411 D. St.
The free event is part of the North Central Idaho Speakers Bureau Spirited Conversation Series.
Spencer’s presentations focus on sharing Native culture and the living traditions of his people.
The first episode of the new Apple Original series
“Masters of the Air” will be shown at 6 p.m. Friday in the University of Idaho’s Administration Building Auditorium, 851 Campus Drive, Moscow.
The university was one of 10 campuses in the U.S. selected to host a free screening of the show, which is produced by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, according to a UI news release.
The series, created by the executive producers of “Band of Brothers,” celebrates the heroism of World War II airmen in the 100th bomber group, known as the “Bloody 100th.”
Doors open at 5 p.m.; light refreshments will be served before the show.
More information is at
bit.ly/masters-showing.
Cult movie aficionados who consider themselves fans of the infamous 2003 comedy/romance
“The Room” can, for the fifth year in a row, take in Palouse Cult Film Revival’s interactive screening of the so-bad-it’s-good film at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Kenworthy.
Actor, director and New York Times best-selling author Greg Sestero, who stars in the film as Mark, will be present for the screening and an afterparty in the theater’s Backstage venue.
Moviegoers get prop bags and call-out scripts so they can react to the show’s most memorable moments and shout out lines now immortalized in countless memes and inside jokes.
Sestero will be at Moscow’s One World Cafe, 533 S. Main St., the night before, getting the last-Friday-of-the-month Open Mic underway at 6:30 p.m. with a reading from his book “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside ‘The Room,’ The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made.”
Tickets for Saturday’s showing of “The Room” are $15 at
kenworthy.org and
palousecultfilms.org.