Community Calendar

Doug Pardy will be speaking about rose propagation on Thursday, October 16, at 6:30 pm at the Calloway County Extension Office meeting hall. He will discuss how to propagate plants in November and will demonstrate with live plants. This will be the last Thursday Night Talk of the season. It is free and open to the public. For more information call 270-753-1452.

Cinema International is part of Murray State University’s educational mission and hosts a post-screening discussion for every film. Admission is free. All screenings are in Faculty Hall 208 at 7:30pm.

“Sugarcane.” Canada/US, 2024

Directed by Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat. Starring Willie Sellars, Charlene Belleau, and Whitney Spearing.

In English and Secwepemctsín with English subtitles. NR, 107 minutes.

In this documentary, indigenous community members in British Columbia launch an investigation into the unmarked graves at St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School. The quest for truth is personal for co-director Julian Brave NoiseCat, whose own father was victimized by the school; the film is part of Canada’s national reckoning over state-sponsored violence against First Nations people. Presented with the support of the Department of English and Philosophy.

Cinema International is part of Murray State University’s educational mission and hosts a post-screening discussion for every film. Admission is free. All screenings are in Faculty Hall 208 at 7:30pm.

“Sugarcane.” Canada/US, 2024.

Directed by Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat. Starring Willie Sellars, Charlene Belleau, and Whitney Spearing.

In English and Secwepemctsín with English subtitles. NR, 107 minutes.

In this documentary, indigenous community members in British Columbia launch an investigation into the unmarked graves at St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School. The quest for truth is personal for co-director Julian Brave NoiseCat, whose own father was victimized by the school; the film is part of Canada’s national reckoning over state-sponsored violence against First Nations people. Presented with the support of the Department of English and Philosophy.

Kentucky Haunts
Thursday October 23, 2025
led by author Daniel Meyer
5:30-6:30 PM

Join Author Daniel Meyer as he tells us about the ghostly findings from his book "Kentucky Haunts!"

Cinema International is part of Murray State University’s educational mission and hosts a post-screening discussion for every film. Admission is free. All screenings are in Faculty Hall 208 at 7:30pm.

“Memories of my Father.”
Colombia, 2022.

Directed by Fernando Trueba. Starring Javier Cámara, Nicolás Reyes Cano, and Juan Pablo Urrego.

In Spanish with English subtitles. NR, 136 minutes.

This drama portrays two decades in the life of Héctor Abad Gómez, a doctor, human rights activist, and politician whose fight for public health and poverty reduction in Colombia strains his relationship with his family and earns him dangerous enemies. Told from the perspective of Abad Gómez’s son, who in real life wrote the bestselling semiautobiographical novel on which the movie is based. Presented as part of the Spanish Film Club series with the support of Pragda and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

Cinema International is part of Murray State University’s educational mission and hosts a post-screening discussion for every film. Admission is free. All screenings are in Faculty Hall 208 at 7:30pm.

“Memories of my Father.”
Colombia, 2022.

Directed by Fernando Trueba. Starring Javier Cámara, Nicolás Reyes Cano, and Juan Pablo Urrego.

In Spanish with English subtitles. NR, 136 minutes.

This drama portrays two decades in the life of Héctor Abad Gómez, a doctor, human rights activist, and politician whose fight for public health and poverty reduction in Colombia strains his relationship with his family and earns him dangerous enemies. Told from the perspective of Abad Gómez’s son, who in real life wrote the bestselling semiautobiographical novel on which the movie is based. Presented as part of the Spanish Film Club series with the support of Pragda and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

Cinema International is part of Murray State University’s educational mission and hosts a post-screening discussion for every film. Admission is free. All screenings are in Faculty Hall 208 at 7:30pm.

“Vampire Cleanup Department”. Hong Kong, 2017.

Directed by Sin-Hang Chiu and Pak-Win Yan. Starring Babyjohn Choi, Min Chen Lin, and Siu-Ho Chin.

In Cantonese with English subtitles. NR, 93 minutes.

In this horror/comedy/romance/martial arts mashup, a young street sweeper with a tragic past joins a government agency that fights vampires in Hong Kong. As he trains to become a vampire hunter, he falls in love with a seemingly innocent vampire girl, who may or may not be able to regain her humanity. Drawing on Chinese vampire mythology, Daoist spirituality, and Western zombie and vampire films, Vampire Cleanup Department—like Hong Kong itself—lives at the intersection of multiple worlds.

Winter Weather Preparedness 
Thursday November 6, 2025
Led by Meteorologist Christine Wielgos, National Weather Service 
5:30 -6:30 PM. 

As the winter months approach, so will the chances for very cold temperatures, snow, freezing rain, sleet, and strong winds and the impacts of those weather elements.Join Christine Wielgos,  as she discusses the dangers of various winter weather types and explains ways for you how to prepare and stay safe for the upcoming winter season.