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OpenCon Cambridge 
Thursday 26 November 2015, 14:00-19:00
Betty and Gordon Moore Library - Wilberforce Rd, Cambridge CB3 0WD GB.
OpenCon is the conference for students and professionals on Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data.
Following the main event in Brussels, Belgium – we are delighted to invite you to the OpenCon Cambridge Satellite event. OpenCon Cambridge will provide a powerful catalyst for projects led by the next generation of Cambridge based initiatives advancing the OpenCon's three focus areas. Come and join us!
The event is free
This talk is part of the Open Research Cambridge series.
OpenCon Cambridge Website
Appeal
Pervasive digitization has led to massive opening of access to knowledge, shaking the structures of information management in academia, central to global knowledge management.
Great empowerment ensues along with worries over disruption of positive values.
Such a conference as this will see a scintillating mix of presentations from various fields addressing this new, heady frontier.
Artistic/Entertainment
Films at Light Cinema with Infinity Card membership - unlimited film viewing for £16.99 a month with 25% off food and drink
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Film : Bridge of Spies
'Bridge of Spies is a 2015 American historical drama-thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. The film stars Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, and Alan Alda. Based on the 1960 U-2 incident during the Cold War, the film tells the story of lawyer James B. Donovan who is entrusted with negotiating the release of Francis Gary Powers—a pilot whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union—in exchange for Rudolf Abel, a captive Soviet KGB spy held under the custody of the United States.'
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Appeal
What new way can the Cold War be presented to make it appealing a this point in history after the fall of the Berlin Wall?
I expect rich storytelling, powerful period visuals and a strong climax with memorable characterization.
Spielberg is one known as one of the greatest Hollywood directors of all time.
A Spielberg outing is often a landmark event in Hollywood history as demonstrated by Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Time : 20.35
Film: Black Mass
'The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.'
Light Cinema
Appeal
US directors are magnificent in depicting the machinery of state in action.
Coupled with an exploration of paradoxical morals in connection with gangsterdom, which these filmmakers are also very good at, this being a defining feature of US film history, something powerful is ascertain to happen.
Time : 20.35
Film : The Lady in the Van
'A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her car that's parked in his driveway.' Based on a true story.
Appeal
A fantastic film. Profound humanity dramatized in creative visual and oral storytelling. I need to watch it three times to embed it fully into myself. The acting is marvellous. The plot enters into you in a creatively cunning way.
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