volunteers for the 2000 Film Festival.

The festival will take place from April 14 to 20.

Anyone interested in helping out should contact the director of volunteers Tony Fernandes at 238-3438.

*** The Alliance Francaise invite all to a French film evening tomorrow night at the Dalyesford Theatre.

The 1968 film, "La Mariee Etait en Noir'', with Jeanne Moreau will be screened. The film will include English sub-titles.

Admission is $3 for members, $5 for nonmembers.

*** The Garden Club of Bermuda's 2000 Open Houses & Gardens seasons begins tomorrow.

The annual event will run every Wednesday afternoon for the next six-week.

Tomorrow's featured homes are in Salt Kettle, Harbour Road in Paget and on Keith Hall Road in Warwick.

Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for children and include all the houses in each group along with refreshments.

*** Want to learn more about Bermuda's human and civil rights history through the guise of architecture? A Trail Through History will help you learn more about such important events like the women's suffrage movement and the emancipation of slavery.

And an exhibition of the role of the Gombey dancers in the evolution of human conscience in Bermuda, will be held with this walk on the last Tuesday of each month.

The trail will be held every Tuesday at 10 a.m. departing form the Cabinet Building on Front Street in Hamilton.

Each trail, which lasts between an hour and an hour-and-a-half, is $10 per person.

For more information The Gumba Trail at 293-7330.