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Real Art Ways E-News - October 11, 2023
Arts and Entertainment
October 12, 2023
From: Real Art WaysCinema
We've Got Big News, and Even Greater Progress!
On Friday, October 6, the State of Connecticut's Community Bond Commission met to consider support for Real Art Ways' expansion in the amount of $9.1 million. Approval was unanimous. Here are links to two articles about the project - The Hartford Courant and The Hartford Business Journal.
Your support for Real Art Ways strengthens us, and puts us in a position to undertake this project.
We have more to do. We are moving forward with confidence. Stay tuned for information on how you can be a part of it.
Thank you!
Will K. Wilkins
Executive Director
Cinema
Opens Friday, 10/13!
Joan Baez I Am a Noise
This documentary is a raw and intimate portrait of the legendary folk singer and activist Joan Baez that shifts back and forth through time as it follows Baez on her final tour and delves into her extraordinary archive. The film includes newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings. Baez is remarkably revealing about her life on and off stage — from her lifelong emotional struggles to her civil rights work with MLK and a heartbreaking romance with a young Bob Dylan.
A searingly honest look at a living legend, this film is a compelling and deeply personal exploration of an iconic artist who has never told the full truth of her life, as she experienced it, until now.
“Anyone with an interest in the key artists of the counterculture movement will find much to appreciate here.” – Hollywood Reporter
This documentary was recently reviewed in the New York Times.
Click here to read the full article.
100% on Rotten Tomatoes
Last Week!
Stop Making Sense
For its 40th anniversary, experience/re-experience the (arguably) greatest concert film of all time. Director Jonathan Demme captures the frantic energy and artsy groove of Talking Heads in this concert movie shot at the
Hollywood Pantages Theatre in 1983.
“Truly captivating.” – Empire Magazine
“It’s a treat for fans…and a chance for the uninitiated to tune in to the band that has come to personify postmodernist rock ‘n’ roll.” – Washington Post
“Stop Making Sense successfully captures almost everything that was great about the Talking Heads, and there’s no better endorsement of a concert film than that.” – Austin Chronicle
100% on Rotten Tomatoes
Last Days Wednesday (10/11) and Thursday (10/12)!
Carlos
100% on Rotten Tomatoes
Carlos Santana is one of the music world’s premiere artists. This electric documentary utilizes new interviews with Santana and his family alongside extraordinary, never-before-seen archival footage — including home video recordings Santana himself made, concert footage, and behind-the-scenes moments.
“Enthralling! Revels in Carlos Santana’s musical life force.” - Variety
"This controlled documentary captivates as a soulful personal history." -
New York Times
Last Days Wednesday (10/11) and Thursday (10/12)!
Exhibition on Screen:
Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman
Presenting her astonishing prints, pastels and paintings, this film introduces us to the often-overlooked Impressionist whose own career was as full of contradiction as the women she painted. She printed, sketched and painted dozens of images of mothers and children yet she never married or had children herself. She was a classically trained artist but chose to join a group of Parisian radicals – the Impressionists – a movement that transformed the language of art. She was as much a part of the group as Degas, Monet or Renoir.
The world’s most eminent Cassatt curators and scholars reveal a riveting tale of great social and cultural change; a time when women were fighting for their rights and the language of art was completely re-written. Mary Cassatt and her modern women were at the heart of it all.
“A luminous, fascinating look at the life and times of Mary Cassatt.” –
Sydney Arts Guide
Coming Soon!
Killers of the Flower Moon
A new film based on David Grann’s broadly lauded best-selling book, “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Set in 1920s Oklahoma, this adaptation depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as The Reign of Terror.
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Brendan Fraser.
“It’s a masterpiece.” – Rolling Stone
"Monumental...a story about the deadly legacy of America’s colonial sins, both vast and intimate in scope. Exceptional filmmaking." - Empire Magazine
“…it shocks, resounds, and haunts.” – Vanity Fair
“The best performance of Leonardo DiCaprio’s entire career.” – indieWire
97% on Rotten Tomatoes
Riverwood Poetry
Wednesday, 10/11 7pm
Free Admission!
The series takes place on the second Wednesday of the month. An open mic will precede the featured reader - one poem, one page. The poet's books will be available for purchase.
Rennie McQuilkin & Clare Rossini
CT Lit Fest
Saturday, 10/14
10am-6pm
Our free literary festival that includes readings, panels, open mic, a book fair, food trucks, music, and a typewriter gallery!
Featuring more than 30 writers including:
Wally Lamb, Victoria Buitron, Sean Frederick Forbes, Catina Bacote,
Steve Ostrowski, Frederick-Douglas Knowles II, Lara Ehrlich,
Margaret Gibson, Julien Strong, José B. Gonzalez, Hirsh Sawhney,
Janae Marks, Susan Campbell, Sarah Darer Littman, Natasha Grambell, Bessy Reyna, Ryan Parker, and Connecticut Poet Laureate
Antoinette Brim-Bell, plus readers from the 2023 CT Literary Anthology and a recording - live! - of Writer Mother Monster Podcast.
Food Truck: Rolling Roti & Muncher's International
Interested in Volunteering?
Morning and afternoon shifts are available, which will be four hours each. Email [email protected] with questions and to get involved!
Save the Date!
Creative Cocktail Hour
Thursday, 10/19 6-10pm
Live Music
Art Exhibitions and Openings
Food Truck (Rolling Roti) and Beverages
DJ - Kasey Cortez
Immersive, Hands-On Art Activities
& Community!