Come spend an evening in Italy. Enjoy the local premiere of three recent, critically acclaimed Italian films at the 2014 Italian Film Festival USA of Boulder. All films shown in Italian with English subtitles, on the University of Colorado Boulder campus. "La Prima Neve" (First Snowfall) April 18, 6 p.m., ATLAS 100; "Teorema Venezia" (The Venice Syndrome) April 21, 6 p.m., ATLAS 100; "Viva La Liberta" (Long Live Freedom) April 22, 6 p.m., HUMN 250. All films are free and open to the public.

Join Muslim Student Association and the Cultural Events Board in celebrating the 10th annual Sights & Sounds of the Islamic World in the Glenn Miller Ballroom on Tuesday, April 15, at 6 p.m. Free Middle Eastern Buffet, Special performance by Azhar Usman, henna, calligraphy, photo booth, and so much more.

With nearly half its population under the age of 15 “a fertile source of unclaimed souls” Uganda is attractive to missionaries. "God Loves Uganda" depicts the development in Uganda via a bill that has come before the parliament that threatens homosexuals. Moving back and forth between scenes in Kansas City and Uganda, the film weaves the divergent material together into a compelling portrait of a volatile situation that is, at heart, fueled and financed by American cultural wars. https://www.facebook.com/events/1407926216140987/

How have scientists and artists reconstructed the extinct dinosaurs, and why have they remained so popular? Karen Chin, CU-Boulder associate professor of geological sciences and curator of paleontology, will discuss how our understanding of dinosaurs has changed since the first discoveries of dinosaur bones hundreds of years ago. Join Chin on Monday, April 21, at 7 p.m. at The Dairy Center for the Arts. Part of Science on Screen, the program will be followed by a special presentation of the 1925 classic film, “The Lost World.”

Help CU Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and Boulder startup Uwingu raise money to support local and international STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) education, research and outreach by naming your very own crater on Mars. Visit www.uwingu.com/mars/116 to name a crater today. When you're looking for a crater to name, zoom in to see smaller craters and other features. Craters start at $5 and rise from there. Include #CUBoulder in the citations box. Find CUSEDS at cuseds.org and Uwingu at uwingu.com.

Looking for an unforgettable summer job? Summer Study is looking for energetic, outgoing staff to mentor, teach and coach high school students this summer for 3 - 5 weeks. Juniors, seniors, graduate students, faculty and alumni are welcome to apply. Compensation includes salary, room, board and expenses. On-campus interviews will be held on April 17, from 5 - 9 p.m. at Continuing Education. For more information call David Wolk at 800-666-2556 or Barbara Russell at 303-492-7735. Offered through the Division of Continuing Education.

A celebration of French-speaking culture from around the world. Join us on April 17, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. in Eaton Humanities Living Room for food, games, prizes and a live band at 4 p.m. Sponsored by the Cultural Events Board. Free and open to the public.

The Center for Humanities and the Arts invites you to this month’s Performance Friday! featuring the science fiction comedy "Bill, The Galactic Hero," a collaborative film with Alex Cox of Film Studies and Chip Persons of Theatre and Dance. The hour will be shared with excerpts from the Ubuntu African Festival; directed by Nii Armah Sowah, senior instructor of dance. Please join us April 18, from 12 - 1 p.m., in the Center for British and Irish Studies (Norlin Library’s 5th Floor). Doors open at 11:30 a.m. for a free, light lunch.

In her talk, Anna Shields, associate professor of Chinese at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, explores the impact of elite male friendship on the literary culture of the mid-Tang period (780s–820s), an era of great social and cultural change and the beginning of the epochal Tang-Song transition. Drawing from her book “One Who Knows Me: Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid- Tang China," Shields focuses on images of the “body” of the friend in mid-Tang poems, letters, and funerary texts. Thursday, April 24, 5 p.m., Humanities 180.

The Archives & Special Collections Department invites the public to an open house, featuring “A Century on: Remembering the Great War", our commemoration of the centenary of World War One, and “Between the Wars & the Aftermath,” a display of important war-time documentary photography. Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, August Sander and anonymous Signal Corps photographers are among the those whose works will be on display. Join us in Special Collections, Norlin Library N345, Friday April 11, from 1 - 4 p.m.