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14 • Lögberg-Heimskringla July 1 2015
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The Gimli Film Festival (GFF) is considered by many to be Manitoba’s premier film
industry event, offering a combination
of amazing films, unique venues, and
lakeside verve that keeps film fans
flocking back.
Now in its fifteenth year, GFF is
gearing up to once again transform the
picturesque lakeshore community of
Gimli into a film-lovers’ paradise for
five days; on July 22-26 2015 the GFF
comes to life! But this transformation
can only take place with the hard
work of volunteers, who are the drive
behind the festival.
“We need lively volunteers to help
make our Festival a success,” said
Emily Lair, logistics and volunteer
coordinator for the 2015 Gimli Film
Festival. “Our volunteers will be
involved at our box office, indoor
screenings, free beach screenings, and
hospitality events.”
Lair stressed that volunteering
at the Gimli Film Festival is truly
an experience like no other, having
been intimately involved with the
behind-the-scenes workings of the
festival herself since the tender age
of fourteen. “Being a GFF volunteer
formed an unforgettable part of my
own childhood memories,” said Lair,
“and until you’ve sat in the sand
and watched a movie, you haven’t
experienced Gimli or the GFF!”
Volunteer benefits include
flexible hours, access to films and
festival events, a volunteer t-shirt
and hospitality. The 2015 Gimli
Film Festival will be showcasing the
best new films from Canada’s and
Manitoba’s most promising directors
and an exceptional selection of
features, documentaries and shorts
from around the world.
This year, the GFF also has a
new box office location at 77B First
Avenue in Gimli, Manitoba, which
will double as volunteer headquarters
for the duration of the festival.
Recently GFF sponsor RBC donated a
Day of Service – with RBC employees
mopping floors, scrubbing windows,
and lining the walls with film posters
– to help redesign the retail space into
the official 2015 GFF box office.
“Today we’re here for RBC,
doing whatever we can to make this
a great-looking box office,” smiled
Michelle Aitkenhead, RBC employee
and development chair for GFF.
“Volunteering is the best way to
experience the Festival. And with this
being our fifteenth anniversary, this
is the year you want to volunteer for
Gimli Film Festival—it’s going to be
big. Very, very big.”
If you are interested in volunteering
for the Gimli Film Festival, call the
festival office at 204-642-8846 or visit
our website at gimlifilm.com.
Visit our website anytime for
the most up-to-date information on
everything you need to know about the
festival! Our shiny new GFF app will
be available after June 17 – download
it and enter to win a GFF film pass.
Gimli Film Festival seeks volunteers for its 15th annual festival
Gilmi Film Festival Sunset Screenings where volunteers like Kirk
made magic happen
PHOTO COURTESY OF GIMLI FILM FESTIVAL TWITTER #GIMLIFILM
The Gimli Unitarian Church has announced its 22nd summer
program since the landmark
church reopened its doors
for summer services in 1994.
Services are held on the
“odd” Sundays of each month
at 11:00 a.m., from Canada
Day until Labour Day. Dress
is casual since it’s vacation
season and Gimli is a vacation
destination.
Most services are conducted
by Rev. Stefan Jonasson, who
has been editor of Lögberg-
Heimskringla since January,
so this is an opportunity to
hear him say out loud some of
the things that he writes. The
service on Íslendingadagurinn
weekend will feature Rev.
Wayne B. Arnason and Rev.
Kathleen Rolenz, co-ministers
of West Shore Unitarian
Universalist Church in
Cleveland, Ohio.
July 5: Stumbling into Heaven
Heaven has been the topic
of several books in recent
years, from imaginative
volumes like The Five
People You Meet in Heaven
to the wishful thinking of
pop theology like Heaven is
for Real. The Universalist
showman P.T. Barnum
insisted that heaven isn’t a
place at all, but rather a state
of being right here on earth.
July 19: Surprised by Joy
“Life is a series of
surprises,” said Ralph Waldo
Emerson, and it certainly
seems to be true. And while
it’s also common to hear
people, especially bosses, say,
“I don’t like surprises,” I’ve
been surprised by joy so often
that I relish the surprises that
come my way.
August 2: May I Change Your
Mind?
Some years ago a Buddhist
magazine, Tricycle, sponsored
“Change Your Mind” Days
across the country, involving
meditation events in public
places. The title was a pun
on the usual way we think
about “Changing Your Mind,”
which usually means changing
your opinions. It turns out the
changing your opinions may
be even harder than changing
your mind through spiritual
discipline. In fact, it turns out
that changing your mind by
changing your opinions takes
a special kind of spiritual
discipline. (Rev. Wayne
Arnason and Rev. Kathleen
Rolenz will lead this service.)
August 16: Faith in Things
Unseen
The most precious things
in life are intangible for most
people and our deepest values
stand upon beliefs we cannot
prove and experiences we often
cannot articulate. Even those
of us who fancy ourselves
humanists and materialists
have a faith in things unseen.
August 30: From Chaos to
Creation –
“Invention,” according to
Mary Shelley, “does not consist
of creating out of void, but out
of chaos.” The old mythologies
teach us to believe in creation
ex nihilo – out of nothing – but
is creation not better understood
as the emergence of order out
of chaos?
September 6: The Good We
Seek for All
“The good we secure for
ourselves is precarious and
uncertain,” claimed Jane
Addams, “until it is secured for
all of us and incorporated into
our common life.” On Labour
Day weekend, we do well to
reflect upon what a good and
just society looks like.
Known to many residents
and visitors as the A-Spire
Theatre, a local theatre group that
uses it for various entertainment
events, the church building has
actually always been home to
the Gimli Unitarians since it
was built in 1905. This liberal
congregation is deeply rooted
in the Icelandic heritage of the
town and, while it declined
in numbers in the 1950s and
stopped holding regular services
in the 1960s, it bounced back
in 1994 when its tiny remnant
of members decided to take
a chance on holding summer
services. The experiment proved
a success and, since then, local
residents, cottagers, and visitors
have gathered each summer – an
odd mix of worshippers on the
odd Sundays of the month.
Gimli Unitarians announce summer program for 2015
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