Daily Archives: November 18, 2019

Omni Family Thanksgiving

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Saturday Nov 23 – 4:00-7:00 pm – Omni Center Come hang out with Omni folks and friends for a holiday that might sometimes be fraught with emotional and political challenges. A bit of conversation will happen about how to talk to your conservative relatives about all the issues we may disagree on. Gather at 4:00, dinner served at 4:30, mingle as long as we wish. Omni will bake a turkey and furnish coffee and tea. Bring holiday side dishes and wine if you wish. Hey, please join the event invitation and share it with friends, FRIENDS. Omni Family Thanksgiving Event […]

Meet the IDEALS Institute

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Meet the IDEALS Institute Fri Nov 22 – 9:30 am-noon – 640 Garland Ave Open House for new Institute for Diversity and Inclusion on UA campus New Institute developed by the UA Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and directed by Dr. Elecia Smith. IDEALS stands for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access, Leadership Development and Strategic Supports. I’ts a new Institute to support expansion of diversity values and goals in Arkansas. Find out more here and meet the staff at the open house. Meet the IDEALS Institute Omni Center is a community partner of the Institute and friend of diversity and inclusion […]

Portals for Peace – Omni Film Series

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Portals for Peace – Omni Film SeriesWeds Nov 20 – 7:00 pm – Omni CenterThis month showing“Come and See” If you need an escape from the Democratic debates, please come and see ComeandSee (U.S.S.R., 1985), Elem Klimov’s masterpiece about Partisan resistance to the Nazi invasion of Belarus during WW2, witnessed through the eyes (and ears) of a teenage boy, Florya, briefly thrown into the company of Glascha, a beguiling peasant girl. Cited by some as the greatest war movie ever made, it “never stoops to conventional heroic catharsis or genre movie narrative symmetry” (from the liner notes). Some of the images, captured […]