Join us - Third Thursdays - for
the CREATIVE COCKTAIL HOUR
Admission $10/ $5 for Real Art Ways Members
September's Real Room opening features Reka Reisinger's uncanny photographs. Reisinger makes life-sized photographic cut-outs of herself which she then rephotographs in iconic landscapes. The result plays with the aesthetics of the digital manipulation to which we've become accustomed these days, but with exclusively traditional film-based photographic techniques.
Music? Terry Dame's Electric Junkyard Gamelan. Their sound is inventive and infectious. After seeing them, you're sure to look at everyday objects in new ways.
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Coming Creative Cocktail Hour Events
Thursday, October 16, 6-10PM
Join us - on the Third Full Weekend of Each Month - for FAMILY WEEKENDS
FREE thanks to the generous support of the Evelyn W. Preston Memorial Trust Fund.
PETER PAN (1924)
One of the gems of the (silent) silver screen, this adapation of J. M. Barrie's classic delights children and adults as much
now as it did in 1924 (see the period New York Times review linked below, for a description of the 1924 audiences!). Directed by Herbert Brenon, this adaptation makes the Darlings and the Lost Boys come alive before your eyes.
We are pleased to be able to offer this classic film in the context it was meant to be seen - with live musical accompaniment.
THE STUNTMEN
Formed in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1992, the Stuntmen create at the forefront of Insurgent Country (sometimes called Alt Country). Drawing on such broad influences as American roots music, country, and indie rock, their music has been described as “a rollicking blast of earthy garage rock … [that fits] nicely alongside such similar exercises in musical cross pollination as Wilco’s A.M.” (by esteemed indie music producer Mike Flood).
In 2002, The Stuntmen began working collaboratively with the Young at Heart Chorus, a group of seniors who perform everything from Frank Sinatra to Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin to Outkast. The performances with the Young at Heart Chorus were so successful that they gave rise to a DVD live concert release and a European tour.
The Stuntmen offer energized, honest Americana at its very best. The group has released three full-length albums and has earned critical acclaim from such sources as Time and No Depression.
- Peter Pan on Rotten Tomatoes
- 1924 New York Times Review of Peter Pan
- The Stuntmen Official Website
- The Stuntmen on MySpace
Coming Family Weekend Events:
Mystic Paper Beasts Theatre Company
Saturday, October 18, 2PM
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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.
In Concert DHAFER YOUSSEF
Tunisian-born singer and oud (Arabic lute) virtuoso Dhafer Youssef’s hypnotic, Sufi-inspired music connects the ancient with the modern, the East with the West in an enticing coalescence of culture. Youssef draws on the evocative sound of his Islamic heritage, combining it with new directions in European jazz and “a voice that could stop wars” (Songlines) to create timeless atmospheres of sound. In his Real Art Ways debut, he is joined by compelling Vietnamese guitarist – Nguyen Lê and omnidexterous percussionist Satoshi Takeishi.
Coming Live Arts Events: Konk Pack
Friday, October 10
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