Up & Coming Music, Movie and Poetry Events

Award winning, Blue Gold: World Water Wars takes us straight to the source of the water crisis by exploring how U.S., Canadian, British, French, and Japanese multinational corporations–by trying to privatize water as a commodity–are polluting and diverting water resources at the expense of local communities, resuling in large-scale desertification and wars fought over the most precious resource on our planet.

Prices and access map here. You can read more about the movie at the blog 10,000 Things.

Lastly, a quick reminder of the next JIPS poetry event:

On Sunday April 11th, Bill Berkson, visiting poet, art critic and curator from the USA, will read from a selection of 50 years of his poetry entitled Portrait and Dream. He will also talk and answer questions about his work as a poet including how it connects with his years as a professor and writer on visual art. You can read some of his poetry at these sites Milk magazine, Jacket magazine, Bigbridge.org, and Shampoopoetry.com. You can listen to his poems here. Time: 6:00 to 9:00 PM
Location: Heartpia Kyoto AV room
Admission price: 1000 yen
Directions: Heartpia Kyoto is at Marutamachi Station on Subway Karasuma Line. From Kyoto station the train will take approximately 7 minutes (4 stops). Just go out from Exit #5 of Marutamachi station, and you will be standing just below the building of Heartpia Kyoto. Here is a map.