TUESDAY, NOV. 25, 2011 >>>

1. French director Catherine Breillat takes Charles Perrault's late 17th-century Sleeping Beauty and turns it into a heady, witty exploration of a young girl becoming a young woman. She's considerably aided in this endeavor by Carla Besnaïnou, the young actress who occupies the bulk of the movie as the prepubescent Anastasia, a 19th-century tomboyish princess cursed to sleep for 100 years and wake up at 16. This French film with English subtitles screens at 2 and 6:30 p.m. inside The Grand Cinema as part of the Tacoma art house's Tuesday Film Series.

2. Sonia Nazario, named one of the most influential Latinos by Hispanic Business Magazine, has tackled issues such as hunger, drug addiction and immigration in her 20-year career as a news reporter. Nazario wrote the Pulitzer-prize winning national best-seller Enrique's Journey, which deals with the struggles faced by a Honduran boy. Nazario will tell all at 11:30 a.m. inside Tacoma Community College's Bldg. 11 Student Center.

3. Artist Colleen Carrigan will discuss her art cards editions and originals in a power point presentation at the Peninsula Art League at 7 p.m. inside the Cottesmore in Gig Harbor.

4. Author Lisa Wade, Ph.D, from Occidental College will lecture on "The Promise and Peril of Hook Up ‘Culture'" at 7 p.m. inside theScandinavian Cultural Center on the campus of Pacific Lutheran University.

5. Under the banner "Forward With Scotland's Past," Battlefield Band has been cranking out Scottish music since the sixties. The Scottish band mixes the old songs with new self-penned material and will perform them on a unique fusion of ancient and modern instruments at 8 p.m. inside Traditions Café in Olympia.

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