The Culture Club (Book: “Slam”, Nick Hornby) October 18, 2009

This is the next study session in a series of culture studies where something from the media (e.g. a book, a film, a music album) is discussed from a Christian perspective but the session is for people of all faiths and people of no faith at all who want to explore the message behind the media.

The session will start at 6:30pm.

There is no charge for this event and is open to all.

BOOK INFO
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Nick Hornby talks about the book:



Summary of the film taken from the Damaris study Guide @ http://www.damaris.org/content/content.php?type=1&id=399:

"Sam is a fifteen-year-old skating enthusiast. His life isn’t perfect, but it’s ‘ticking along quite nicely’. Until he meets Alicia, and makes a mistake that will change his life forever. Slam follows Sam’s life through meeting a girl, falling in and out of love, and then discovering that the girl is pregnant with his child. With his life falling to pieces around him, Sam is guided by his hero, skating legend Tony Hawk (or a poster of him with apparent mystical powers, anyway). The poster somehow takes him on a number of trips forward in time where he sees his future and grapples with how to deal with what lies ahead. Sam’s responses to the changes in his circumstances will strike a chord with most readers, even if they are not, themselves, teenage boys. Fluctuating between denial, panic (‘So I had breakfast with my mum, and when she’d gone to work, I packed a bag and picked up my skateboard and went to live in Hastings’), resignation and naïve optimism, the character is never heroic but always sympathetic. However, with the help of Tony Hawk’s time-warping powers and often cryptic advice, Sam slowly learns to live with the future he has created for himself."

Previous Sessions
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This series continues to be popular. Previous evenings have looked at "Black Gold" (fim), "Heima" (Sigur Rós) (film/music), "The Squid and the Whale" (film), "The Bourne Supremacy" (film), "Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling" (book), "Into The Wild" (film), "Atonement" (film), "Iron Man" (film), "The Lives of Others" (film), "Pan's Labyrinth" (film), "Utopian Dreams" (book), "Breaking and Entering" (film), "Little Miss Sunshine" (film), "Evan Almighty" (film), "Babel" (film), "The Zahir" (book), "Paradise Now" (film), "Life on Mars" (TV series), "Collateral" (film), "Arthur and George" (book), "Moulin Rouge" (film), the Robbie Williams album "Intensive Care", "Lost in Translation" (film), "Whale Rider" (film), "The Incredibles" (film), "The Da Vinci Code" (book), the U2 album "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" and "Chocolat" (film).