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What's Happenin'

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Day
11
Month
April
Year
1975
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What’s Happenin’
Compiled by Dianne Ripley and Elaine Wright

APPROACHING 1984, a symposium on the political crisis in America continues its 4-day gathering here with such speakers as Florynce Kennedy, Donald Freed, Victor Marchetti and Doug Porter, all voices from a growing concern over the CIA, FBI. and other sordid technofascist institutions in America. Kennedy and Freed (author of "Executive Action" and "Glass House Tapes") will speak at Rackham Auditorium Saturday, April 12, at 7:30pm. Marchetti (author of "CIA and the Cult of Intelligence") and Porter (co-director of the Organizing Committee for the Fifth Estate) will speak at Rackham Sunday April 13, 2pm.

THE FESTIVAL OF LIFE keeps it going another year, with workshops on yoga, meditation, sufi dancing, poetry readings as well as a mini film festival. The outdoor events will take place in the Main Meadows of Nickels Arboretum, Saturday and Sunday, April 12 & 13, or in Mason Hall U of M in case of rain. For details call 764-7442 . . .

A CHILDREN'S FREE HEALTH FAIR for pre-school age children will be held Saturday and Sunday April 12 and 13 at the Arbor Park Nursery. Offered are vision, hearing, dental, and nutritional assessments, immunizations, physicals, lab tests, as well as referral for free follow-up care. This invaluable service is sponsored by the Free People's Clinic of Ann Arbor, call them for more information.

APRIL 10, Saturday, is the 200th Anniversary of the "Shot Heard Round the World" and the Peoples' Bicentennial Commission is calling for a parade to celebrate starting at McDonald's (where else?) at 11am and ending at Nickels Arb . . .

"MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT," a Cuban film depicting the before and after of the Cuban revolution through the eyes of one estranged man and some actual footage, will be presented by the Friends of the Ann Arbor SUN on Wednesday, April 16, at MLB3, 7 & 9pm, admission $1.50 . . . The Inmates Project is showing again the gripping documentary ATTICA, at Angell Hall April 20, 7:30pm. Stanley (Dr. Strangelove) Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is being shown April 18 & 19 by tries at 7 & 10pm in the Nat. Sci Aud . . . The Savages is at the Campus Theatre . . .

ANN ARBOR MUSIC: Sky King, an Ann Arbor group gone to the Big Apple to make it bigger, returns this week (with a first album under their belt) to strut their stuff at Chances Are Sunday April 13, and good stuff it is . . . Jackson Browne and Phoebe Snow take to Hill Auditorium Thursday, April 11), for a reserved seat show. Tickets are available at the Michigan Union. Then there's that dapper young lad Johnny Denver, singing his way into your heart at Crisler Arena Thursday April 24 . . . Interspersed between those national acts there's some fine talent with the Friends Road Show at Chances Are Monday April 14, Diamond Rio's swinging country style at the Pretzel Bell Monday and Wednesday nights, and Big Daddy G with his Night Train at Mr. Flood's Party Friday April 18 . . .

DETROIT MUSIC: New Riders of the Purple Sage will perform at Masonic Auditorium Sunday April 20 . . . Jazz guitarist Charles Earland at Watts Mozambique Friday April 11 through the 13th . . . Ann Arbor's Mixed Bag at the Red Carpet April 14 & 15 . . . Bob Seger and Freddie King for a sure rocker at the Michigan Palace Saturday April 19 . . . Elsewhere there's the Joe Farrell Quartet for 6 days at the Stables in East Lansing beginning Monday April 14 . . . Robin Trower and John Mayall at the Toledo Sports Arena Thursday April 24 . . .

THE TUBE offers a little more in the near future than recently. Cable 3 will broadcast the April 4 Hill Auditorium debate between William F. Buckley, Perry Bullard and Zolton Ferency on Friday April 11 at 8pm... Channel 56 is the place to learn about doing it yourself with Solar Energy at 8pm Tuesday April 15 ... The same evening, same channel is Dr. John on Soundstage at 10pm. "A China Memoir" is the title of a documentary on a women's tour through the People's Republic of China with Shirley MacLaine, Sunday April 20 at pm on Ch. 56 . . . And to top it all off see Alice Cooper do his entire new album "Welcome to My Nightmare" on In Concert Friday April 25 at 11:30pm.