Merry Christmas
Happy Hanukkah
Happy Kwanzaa
and best wishes for the
New Year!

The Arlington Int'l Film Festival is grateful to all for your support over 12 years.  
As we prepare to enter 2023, AIFF remains focused on the mission...
'to foster appreciation for different cultures by exploring the lives of people around the globe through independent film - to nurture the next generation of filmmakers'.
We are grateful to be a contributor to the arts community of  greater Boston and it is indeed a privilege to bring the best indie films to our area, some beautiful and entertaining creations and others that address some of the most pressing global challenges of our times.

Taking a break as the year winds down, we share with you some very special holiday events that promise to feed your soul.

2023 AIFF Call for Submissions

The Arlington International Film Festival

2023 season is now open and accepting submissions.
Each year, AIFF provides a platform for challenging gender imbalance and the lack of diversity in the screen-based media industry through a combination of film screenings, discussions, and opportunities. The festival also offers artist talks, networking events, an awards ceremony
https://filmfreeway.com/arlingtoninternationalfilmfestival

SOLSTICE: Reflection on Winter Light

Join us for a unique experience imbued with an arrangement of light & sound-based artworks, candle lighting, and live music at Mount Auburn Cemetery. We invite you to share this moment with us, to slow down, go inward, and connect with your life and the landscape as we approach the Winter Solstice.

December 10 - 21, 2022 - Mount Auburn Cemetery  Cambridge, MA
When approaching the artworks of SOLSTICE: Reflections on Winter Light, we researched celestial moments and the cemetery to understand how the landscape, history, and seasonal moments can evoke creative expression. All of the installations are site-specific to Mount Auburn. Woven together with the Winter Solstice, the artworks invite guests to deepen, reflect, and connect as they embody their own cycles within the SOLSTICE experience.

SOLSTICE is an evolution of the collaborative relationship we started with Mount Auburn Cemetery in 2020 to reimagine their traditions of light, remembrance, music, and connection to one’s life and the kaleidoscopic world at the Winter Solstice. This year, we’ve taken monumental steps on this path through the invitation to compose this year’s event with four site-specific media artworks and to illuminate the vast landscape architecture that weaves all of the elements together.

click the link below to purchase your tickets to the event

https://www.mountauburnsolstice.org/tickets

"Souls of Objects": Lost & Found Exhibition at The Umbrella Arts Center

On view in The Umbrella Main Gallery, Lost and Found is a group art exhibition that presents a diverse array of artists transforming found objects into artworks that juror Jessica Straus calls "a praise-song to the ordinary. Lifted out of the continuum of daily life these objects have come to represent the complexities and richness of the human condition."

Ranging from whimsical to haunting, the 3D artworks in this collection examine our relationships with familiar, unfamiliar and defamiliarized things, and beg the question...might objects have souls?

"The artist’s love affair with found objects may have begun a few hundred years ago with the 'Wunderkammer'," Straus posits. "In these Cabinets of Curiosities, beautiful, soulful objects were
amassed and lovingly arranged in a way that elevated their status" and gave them new life. Inspired by how fine artists of the early 1900s such as Picasso, Schwitters and Duchamp could incorporate objects physically within works of art, Straus is interested in an artist's sensation of an object "beckoning to
them; asking to be used and even rescued."

It's that allure or "pull" that marks the artworks in Lost and Found, and the sense the artists have a deep connection to the object, and are helping it tell its story.

November 17 - December 30, 2022

The Umbrella Arts Center Main Gallery

40 Stow Street, Concord, MA

https://theumbrellaarts.org/lost-and-found

Arlington MLK Jr. Birthday Observance Committee

35th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Observance to be held at Arlington Town Hall featuring Tanisha Sullivan

We are delighted to share that our 35th annual celebration will be held again in-person at 6:30 pm at the Arlington Town Hall Auditorium on Martin Luther King Day,

Monday January 16, 2023.

Tanisha Sullivan, NAACP Boston President and former Secretary of State candidate has graciously agreed to be our keynote speaker. Her leadership and excellence in civil rights activism is a shining example of Dr. King’s legacy.

Thanks to our partnership with ACMI, Arlington Community Media Inc., the program will also be available for viewing on the local channel and live streamed.

When: Monday, January 16, 2023 Time: 6:30pm

Where: Arlington Town Hall, 730 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA 02476

Highlights: Tanisha Sullivan, NAACP Boston President and former Secretary of State candidate, performances by Arlington High School Music Department

See you there!

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