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Show CULTURE B2 •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• ••••••••• • • EVENTS ON CAMPUS • • • • THIS WEEK • • • • • • • • • NEXT WEEK • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • WEEKLY EVENTS • Hidden Voices: Graffiti Art exhibit at the Woodbury Art Museum, showing now until March 5. Featuring the art of youth culture and local urban artists, focusing on graffiti as an art form. • • Wednesday, Feb. 16: Shaun Dee the Hypno Hick, "Utah's Premier Hypnotist." 7-10 p.m. in the Grande Ballroom. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the door. Come enjoy a night of family-friendly entertaining stage hypnosis. Thursday, Feb. 17: Fundraiser for Food and Care Coalition, 7-9 p.m. in the Grande Ballroom. Spend some time raising funds for the Temporary Homeless Shelter, being built for the less fortunate by Provo's Food and Care Coalition. • • • • • Friday, Feb. 18 and Saturday, Feb. 19: UVU School of the Arts presents "Pulse 2011," a student showcase of theatrical arts, visual arts, dance and music. 7:30-9:30 p.m. in the Ragan Theater. Tuesday, Feb. 22: A UVU Tumbling Club Extravaganza, 6 p.m. at Progressive Power Tumbling in Provo, 2329 Mountain Vista Lane. Admission is half-price at $2. Come join the tumbling club for fun and pizza. • • Friday, Feb. 25: UVUSA presents a Mardi Gras Celebration, 9 p.m.-2 a.m. in the Student Center. Anticipated to be the biggest party of the semester, come see the Student Center get turned into Bourbon Street and have a night filled with music, dancing, hypnotists and of course, beads. Tickets are $8 with LIVID, $10 without. Must be 18 or older. • • Alex Band, former lead singer of The Calling, will be playing a concert immediately after the Utah Flash basketball game. Go for the game and stay for the concert. Tickets start at $8 and can be purchased at the UCCU Center box office. Inspiring creativity The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour By Tiara Maio Staff Writer The world's best mountain films are making their annual stop on campus once again. Hosted by the Outdoor Adventure Center along with presenting partners National Geographic and The North Face, the 2010/2011 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour will be here Feb. 15-16 in the Ragan Theater. Similar to the Sundance Film Festival, this festival's films have independent style but are all mountain-themed. The Banff Center is Canada's leader of inspiring creativity. It is located in the heart of Canada's Banff National Park, and they held their film festival in November. Those festival film winners are the films showing on this year's 2010/2011 world tour. There is a mixture of high adrenaline and culture films as athletes explore and document their adventures in different countries. As Kim Reynolds, Outdoor Adventure Center coordinator explains, "It's just an amazing festival; that's why we keep bringing it back." A time slot of two and-a-half hours is open for A scene from the Banff film "Living the Dream." Photo Courtesy of the Banff Centre showing films, and Reynolds decides what films fill that space. As the tour host, Reynolds chooses from about 30 films that she thinks will best fit with the Orem crowd. "I try to get a good mix of skiing, hiking, mountain biking — and cultural stuff too," Reynolds said. Reynolds started working at UVU 14 years ago and brought the Banff Mountain Film Festival with her. Before coming to Orem, she volunteered at Utah State and they had the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Logan. She knew Orem needed it too. So far, Reynolds has decided that there will be a couple films on kayaking, skiing and one on a backcountry snowboarder who hikes everything he snowboards down. Ramsay Beecher, a leader of adventure trips at the Outdoor Adventure Center, has been to the Banff Mountain Film Festival many times. "I've seen some pretty amazing films," Beecher said. "One guy walked over the entire country of Australia." Combining a wide variety of emotions and excitement, the films take audiences to places they normally wouldn't go or get to see. "It's just fun to watch these athletes do what they do," Reynolds said. The Lone of Discipline A letter from Akwasi Frimpong International student and sprinter ••■111■11W' ..imm ■IIS 1111. IMMEMEMMIMM— ■111■ Photo Courtesy of the UVU Track & Field Team The Track & Field team will travel to New York City in hopes of bringing home a championship. It is now t-minus 12 days until the UVU Track & Field Team travels to New York City for the 2011 Indoor Great West Conference Championships. Our goal? To work hard as a team and bring the title home. We plan to do this using what we call "the zone of discipline." Two months ago, our track and field coaches introduced this idea to the team. This concept teaches us, as a team, to train at an almost superhuman level of focus and discipline. The zone of discipline has become the team's secret to success because we have come to an understanding that it is a method to get ourselves into the mental state of being "in the zone." Being in the zone gives us a huge advantage. Being in the zone is similar to the concept of "flow," a mental state of operation in which a person is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, with full involvement and success in the process of the activity. The zone of discipline is divided in three parts: the left, the right and the middle. We practice staying in the middle of the zone. Too far to the left, and you're doing your own thing; too far to the right, and you're waiting for the coach to do everything for you. In the middle, you work hard but allow yourself to be coached. I have posted this on my door at home to make sure I am completely focused on being in the zone daily. The UVU Track & Field Team has won the Great West Outdoor Conference Championships for two years in a row, but we've never been able to win the Indoor Championships. I believe that, with the zone of discipline concept, we have a good shot of winning this year. We are mentally and physically fitter than ever, and with our new outdoor track facility on campus, are a solid and complete Division I Track & Field Team. Our time to win the Indoor Championships has come. New York City happens to be the city where dreams come true; but for us, this is not a dream anymore. We have worked hard as a team to turn our dreams into goals, and we will bring the title home using the zone of discipline! We do have to admit that we face different challenges; we don't have an indoor track for team practice, and we all know how cold it gets here, but we have heart. The taste of victory is near, and we are not letting this go. I hope that the city where dreams come true will also help me get one step closer to my 2012 Summer Olympic Games goal. Only time will tell, but one thing is for sure: I am in the zone and not willing to give up. I won't, and our team won't end up too far left or too far right. Follow Akwasi Frimpong's road to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games via www.AkwasiFrimpong.com . |