Daytime Programming
Our daytime programming takes several forms:
- Culture & Conversation offers you the chance to experience compelling art and ideas within the context of a social hour. Programs start at 1PM and include a light lunch. Admission $7 ($5 for Real Art Ways Members).
- Matinée Movies are thought-provoking films and discussions presented by community and artistic leaders. The films are preceded by a light lunch at 1PM, they screen at 1:30PM, and they are followed by an insightful discussion.
- Our Day Trips allow you to visit organizations that share Real Art Ways' sensibility with members of our staff.
Matinée Movies
Chris and Don: A Love Story
This is one of those legendary but true L.A. stories that confounds the city's cliched Tinseltown image, and "Chris & Don: A Love Story" is well-attuned to this, focusing on the texture and sweetness of a particularly beguiling real-life gay love saga. The 20 year love affair between writer Christopher Isherwood (who wrote the memoir that was the basis of Cabaret) and celebrated American portrait artist Don Bachardy, who Isherwood met (and seduced) when Bachardy was in his teens. Made with gentle grace and sensitivity by Guido Santi and Tina Mascara, the film has a rich supply of archival and home movie material, showing the heady life in Weimar Berlin that drew Isherwood like a moth to a flame, and inspired his classic "Berlin Stories". He fled Germany during the Nazi rise, and landed in Manhattan alongside the brilliant poet and pal W. H. Auden (also seen in rare homemovie glimpses). Isherwood soon moved to Los Angeles, where he met Bachardy, as well as a dazzling cultural circle including Igor Stravinsky and Aldous Huxley. Michael York, who played the Isherwood character in Cabaret, narrates with perfect pitch.
(US, 2007) 90 min.
Anita O'Day, Life of a Jazz Singer
1PM Light Lunch; 1:30PM Screening; discussion to follow
Before her death in November 2006 at age 86, Anita O'Day, one of jazz's most complex and rhythmic vocalists, smiled on the music world for six decades. This film portrait captures all the magic that took this sly Chicago native, a girl who could hold her own against Billie and Ella, from Gene Krupa's bandstand to solo stardom. Film footage of Anita O'Day's appearance at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, immortalized in the 1960 documentary Jazz on a Summer's Day and excerpted here, may be the defining moment of the post-bebop era.
(US, 2007, 90 min)
ICA/Boston Daytrip
We really enjoyed the trip that Real Art Ways staff members and supporters made to dia:beacon earlier this year. And we're insatiable! We want to go on more trips with you.
An influential forum for multi-disciplinary arts, the Institute of Contemporary Art has been at the leading edge of art in Boston for seventy years. Like its iconic building on Boston's waterfront, the ICA offers new ways of engaging with the world around us. Its exhibitions and programs provide access to contemporary art, artists, and the creative process, inviting audiences of all ages and backgrounds to participate in the excitement of new art and ideas.
Words and Music
Monday, November 3
1PM Light Lunch; 1:30PM Screening; Discussion (with Director Amber Edwards) to follow
The life stories of Broadway tunesmiths Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart are prettified for the screen in MGM's Words and Music. Billed fourth, the colorless Tom Drake plays Rodgers, but never mind that: the film belongs to Mickey Rooney, as the dynamic, self-destructive Lorenz Hart. Understandably, Hart's bisexuality is downplayed. According to MGM, his biggest problem in life is that he was never satisfied with his work. We are, however, especially when those great Rodgers & Hart tunes are performed by the likes of Judy Garland, Janet Leigh, Perry Como, Lena Horne, June Allyson, Cyd Charisse, Betty Garrett, Ann Sothern, Mel Torme, Allyn McLerie, Gene Kelly and Vera-Ellen. The musical highlights include Garland's powerhouse rendition of Johnny One-Note, Kelly's Slaughter on 10th Avenue dance solo, Horne's interpretation of Where or When, Allyson's take on Thou Swell, and, best of all, Rooney's premiere performance of I'll Take Manhattan, which he allegedly had just written on the back of an automobile advertisement!
(1948, US, 122 min)
Tous les matins du monde
1PM Light Lunch; 1:30PM Screening; Discussion to follow
Racked with grief after his wife's untimely death, gifted viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe moves into a small house in his garden to keep himself and his two young daughters safe from the outside world. But their solitude is broken when a young musician comes calling in search of a lesson.
Schedule of Events
Thursday, September 25, 1PM Light Lunch; 1:30PM Screening; Discussion to Follow
CHRIS AND DON: A LOVE STORY
Matinée Movie
Monday, October 6, 1PM Light Lunch; 1:30PM Screening; Discussion to Follow
ANITA O'DAY LIFE OF A JAZZ SINGER
Matinée Movie
Thursday, October 23
DAYTRIP TO ICA/BOSTON
Join members of Real Art Ways staff on a trip to the new building that houses this contemporary art collection.
Monday, November 3, 1PM Light Lunch; 1:30PM Screening; Discussion to Follow
WORDS AND MUSIC, WITH SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY DIRECTOR
Matinée Movies
Monday, December 1, 1PM Light Lunch; 1:30PM Screening; Discussion to Follow
TOUS LES MATINS DU MONDE
Matinée Movies
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