SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 2011 >>>
1. The Tacoma Cult Movie Club and welcomed guests will gather at 7 p.m. inside the Acme Grub Cage to watch flicks centered around the theme "Chicks Who Kick Ass." A slew of shorts, trailers and snippets will also be screened. Popcorn will be consumed. Hugs will be exchanged. Then they'll head home and throw their remotes at HBO.
2. Nilaja Sun's insightful and hilarious play No Child..., which is being presented by the South Puget Sound Community College Drama Program at 2 p.m. inside the Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts, grabbed the 2007 Obie, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, and Theater World Awards. The show - based on Sun's experiences as a teaching artist in New York City's public schools - follows a group of students at the fictional Malcolm X High School as they prepare for a play of their own. Funny, troubling, and humane, the 75-minute tour de force takes its name from the Bush Administration's No Child Left Behind legislation, which, with its emphasis on standardized testing, in Sun's estimation leaves lots behind.
3. The Broadway Center presents a staged reading of August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle VI: Fences at 3 p.m. inside the Washington State History Museum. Fences follows Troy Maxson, a trash collector who has long abandoned his dream of becoming a professional baseball player.
4. Put simply - the immigration situation in this country is a little fucked right now. It's ruining innocent lives every day, and until we do something about it the problem is only going to escalate. At 4 p.m., Tacoma Community House presents a panel discussion titled "Demystifying Immigration," at St. Mark's Lutheran Church. Panel members include Rosie Clark, an immigration staffer for Congressman Norm Dicks; Sok-Khieng Lim, immigration attorney for Davies Pearson; and Ken Morse, an advisory board member at the Northwest Detention Center.
5. Collective Love Unlimited, Random Abiladeze and Cloud Eaters perform an 8 p.m. all-age sshow at Northern in downtown Olympia.