Paint by Culture

Eternity VCU will have a “Painting by Culture” event. We are inviting you to come and paint with us! We have all the supplies available for you to express your culture through painting. Feel free to bring any friends along who enjoy painting or want to come.

We painted last year and are so grateful to get the chance to hang out with people again and throw some paint (on canvas of course).  There will also be some pencils and maybe some mediums that friends bring!

The painting event is located at 126 S. Laurel St. and will be Wednesday March 3rd from 5 to 9 p.m. All supplies and snacks will be provided free of charge. Please come and paint with us!

Kjell Bjarne! and now, Music!

We had a wonderful time with our first shopping trip this weekend. Thanks to everyone who helped get it going and we are glad to be able to provide transportation to groceries! We don’t have any pictures of it, but trust me, it was fun (although it was cold).

Coming up this Wednesday we’ll be having another potluck dinner. All are invited to join us. We’ll be playing music and having a good time in general. Feel free to bring any music, bring any instruments, bring any requests (as long as those requests come with patience!) As always we’ll start at 7 pm at 126 South Laurel, but feel free to come early as we are there cooking our dishes. If you ever want to come cook with us, or just hang out before we get started you are welcome to!

Robin introduced us to Norwegian film making last week as we watched the quiet film, Elling. She was kind enough to write a little about it for us:

This wednesday we watched Elling a Norwegian film from 2001. The film is a lighthearted comedy about Elling and Kjell Bjarne, two middle aged men who after a long time in a mental institution get an apartment together in Oslo. From there we follow their struggle to adapt to a normal life. It’s a comical story of the two friends surviving their obsessions and neurosis, and together finding the mechanisms that rid them of their fears, and thus in their own ways returning them to a more normal life. Elling presents a convincing and utterly sympathetic portrait of socially challenged people coping with everyday situations, without delving deeply into the clinical aspects of mental illness.

We’re planning on watching a film every month so if you have anything you want to watch, let us know or bring it and we might just watch it!

Keep your eyes open for a painting event we may have in the beginning of March!

Peace-

Landon Holbrook
President of Eternity at VCU
(804) 484-4984

International Movie Night

We hosted our first International Movie night this Wednesday! It was a great time and a good addition to our potluck. We are going to be watching a movie once a month during our normal dinner time. This time we watched War Dance. It is a story of a group of children from Northern Uganda who travel to Kampala to participate in a singing, dancing, and instrumental competition. A lot of the film was difficult to watch because of the tragic conditions and wartime lifestyle these children live in. Additionally, the scope of the pain that has been endured by this tribe is hard to imagine and hard to watch.

Also, to see the dancing as a therapy was beautiful. I wondered as we watched about the quiet moments they spent in prayer. About the prayers the young ones taught the babies they cared for.

International Dinner Time Changes

Hello, all!

Just wanted to let you know that the timing on our international dinners has changed from Tuesdays at 7:00pm to Wednesdays from 7:00 – 9:00pm, so we hope you all can come out and join us!

For those of you who don’t know, each Wednesday we have a potluck dinner at 7:00pm at 126 S. Laurel St.  Afterward we play games, talk, and make general merriment.  Its a ton of fun, so please come out.  It is a potluck which means feel free to bring any food that you have made to the dinner, but you don’t have to, so come by even if you don’t have anything to bring!