LGBT Task Force Film Series presents "Kinky Boots":

Kinky Boots is a 2005 comedy with lessons about how unlikely alliances can lead to economic success and an appreciation for diversity. A black drag queen comes to the rescue of a white man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat. Charlie Price (Joel Edgerton) is trying to save the family business and travels to London to get ideas. In a chance encounter he meets sassy drag queen performer Lola (Chiwetel Ejiofor), the alter ego of Simon, and sees the possible market of shoes for male transvestites. With the styling eye of Lola, Charlie leads the traditional shoe factory to design and produce numerous shoes for the catwalk in Milan, Italy. It's funny and smart. Please join us wearing your favorite boots.

CHINA Town Hall is a national day of programming on China involving 50 cities throughout the United States. This event features a lecture given by Professor Renqiu Yu of Purchase College, State University of New York. Remarks begin at 6pm. This event also features a webcast by Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor and current counselor and trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. The webcast will be moderated by Mr. Stephen A. Orlins, President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.Webcast begins at 7pm.

November 16, 2011

Lecture begins at 6pm

Webcast begins at 7pm

Small Ballroom, UK Student Center

Sponsored by: Chinese Students & Scholars Association, National Committee on United States-China Relations

From the Diversity Project's website:

“The Diversity Project seeks to create a large piece of yarn-art as a visual representation of the diversity and identity of the LGBT community in Lexington, Kentucky. It is being produced by Catherine Brereton, a student at the University of Kentucky, Gaines Fellow, and member of Lexington’s LGBT community, and in collaboration with the Gaines Center for the Humanities.”

Please join the Diversity Project by attending the next knit-in.  Participants only need to bring knitting needles as there will be plenty of donated yarn on hand to make squares for the project.  There will also be people on hand to offer instruction to those new to knitting.

You can follow the Diversity Project on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/#!/UKDiversityProject

For more information about the Diversity Project, please visit the website at http://ukdiversityproject.wordpress.com/

Deborah Weiner, director of the Jewish Museum of Maryland, will give a public lecture on “Insiders and Outsiders:  Jewish Communities in the Appalachian Coalfields”.  Sponsored by the UK Jewish Studies program, UK Appalachian Studies program and Appalachian Center.  Free and open to the public.  Reception following the lecture at W T Young Library Gallery