The Walker Art Center presents the area premiere of Gary Hustwit's Helvetica, Thursday, May 31, 7 and 9:30 pm. A discussion with the director follows the first screening, and he will introduce the second. If the trend in documentary filmmaking is the exposé (think Who Killed the Electric Car? or This Film Is Not Yet Rated, which casts light on the shadowy world of the motion picture ratings board), then Helvetica both fits and breaks this mold.

From June 27-30, the Walker Art Center presents Queer Takes: Standing Out, a series showcasing daring films which feature stories of those who oppose homogeneity. While some members of the GLBT community relish the acceptance they receive from society through assimilation (marriage, children, and white picket fences), others embrace the freedom their difference gives them.

The Walker Art Center's Target Free Thursday Nights in April are highlighted by programs related to the exhibition Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love (through May 13).

Families can take part in a day of fun at Everyday Wrap, the Walker Art Center's Free First Saturday event from 10 am-5 pm Saturday, April 7.

April tours at the Walker Art Center offer patrons the chance to see up close ongoing exhibitions, including Paper Trail: A Decade of Acquisitions (through June 17), which addresses the means by which artists today are exploring notions of time, place, and narrative through the intimacy of paper, and highlights works acquired by the Walker within the last 10 years.

A young girl in Mozambique dreams of becoming a doctor but must show that educating a woman isn't a waste of time. A photographer documenting the construction of a bridge in Argentina is stunned when the literal becomes metaphorical. Three children experience hilarious mishaps in a public market in Jakarta. From April 11-22, the Walker Art Center presents Global Lens 2007: Developing a New World Cinema.

In conjunction with mnartists.org's April release of the poetry anthology What Light, a book launch and reading will take place on Sunday, April 15, from 5-7 pm, at Lucia's Bakery, 1432 West 31st Street, and at Magers & Quinn Booksellers on 31st and Hennepin Avenue in Uptown Minneapolis. What Light contributing poets will read from their work.