The School of Law’s HOPE Public Interest Resource Center will hold its 12th Annual Hope Auction on Friday, October 29 at 6 p.m. at the Lowe Art Museum. Proceeds support Summer HOPE Fellows. Auction items range from vacation getaways to donated items guaranteed to delight and surprise.

Calling all goblins, ghouls, and ghosts. University Advancement’s Halloween Dessert Party will offer first-, second-, and third-place prizes for the best costumes, as well as door prizes that range from Miami Dolphins and UM men’s basketball tickets to a bike and a Mayfair Hotel and Spa stay, plus more. The event takes place on Friday, October 29 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at Gables One Tower, 1320 S. Dixie Highway, Suite 300. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at Gables One, Suite 300, with all the proceeds benefiting the United Way.

Robert Shebert, associate professor of clinical neurology and pathology and director of the Muscle and Nerve Pathology Laboratory in the Neuromuscular Division, and Steven Fuhr, of the Department of Radiology at the Miller School of Medicine, will be present “57-Year-Old Female with Progressive Lower Extremities Numbness” on Friday, October 29 at 2 p.m. at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Retter Auditorium. For more information, please contact Jessica Busquets at 305-243-8785 or [email protected].

Charles Smith, the Robert P. and Mildred Moores Professor in Alzheimer’s Research at the Sanders-Brown Research Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky, will present “What Have We Learned from ADNI (Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative)?” on Friday, October 29 at 1 p.m. at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Retter Auditorium. For more information, please contact Jessica Busquets at 305-243-8785 or [email protected].

This feel-good documentary follows Irlan and Isabela, two teenagers from the violent favelas of Rio de Janeiro, as they pursue their dreams of becoming professional ballet dancers. This inspiring story takes us from Rio, where their communities must raise the funds to support their ambitions, to exhilarating ballet competitions in New York and Switzerland. In Portuguese and English with English subtitles. The film screens on Friday, October 29 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, October 30 at 2 and 6 p.m.; and Sunday, October 31 at 4 p.m. Admission is $6 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non-UM students, and staff. General admission is $8. Cash only. Free for UM students. For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.