Lecture
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts will host a public talk tonight titled “Historic Tribal Art and Cultural Continuity: Persistence of Belief and Ritual,” by visiting artist and educator Arthur Amiotte at 7 p.m. in UMFA’s Dumke Auditorium. Amiotte serves as professor of native studies and art at Brandon University in Manitoba, Canada, and has more than 45 years of experience in teaching, from elementary to college level. He will explore historic tribal art and contemporary American Indian objects and explain how artwork similar to those in the Splendid Heritage exhibition are still made, used and respected for their spiritual significance.

Art
This month’s Gallery Stroll is today in the Union Lounge. The theme is “State Your Cause, Art with a Political Message,” and will feature student art, live music and free food. Presented by the Union Programming Council, the “stroll” is open from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Thursday

Concert
The School of Music will feature the Honors String Quartets Thursday from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Dumke Recital Hall, Room 400 in Libby Gardner Concert Hall building. The Mount Olympus and O.C. Tanner String Quartet, composed of undergraduate students from the U, will perform classics from Mozart and Beethoven as well as two new works from fellow U students in the music school’s composition program.

Movie
The Refugee Mentoring Program at the Bennion Community Service Center is hosting a screening of the film “Iraqi Exodus” on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the Union Theater. The film focuses on more than four million Iraqi refugees who have fled their homes and country since the 2003 invasion and the social issues that have arisen because of it. Afterward, there will be a panel discussion on refugees from Iraq with Caren Frost, associate director of the Middle East Center; Lily Avali, a professor; Faisal Fathiel, a resettled Iraqi; and Jonathon Codell from the International Rescue Committee.
Compiled by Joseph Peterson