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Real Art Ways News - December 6, 2022
Arts and Entertainment
December 8, 2022
From: Real Art WaysCinema
Opens Friday, 12/9!
The Menu
A couple travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Starring Emmy nominee Anya Taylor Joy and Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes.
“Bizarre, original, and loaded with revelatory surprises with every turn of the page.” – Observer
“Perfectly executed meal of a movie.” – Financial Times
"Maliciously entertaining." - Observer (UK)
Opens Friday, 12/9!
Exposing Muybridge
Ambition, betrayal, murder, deception… and the birth of moving pictures! Exposing Muybridge is the first feature documentary about the trailblazing 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge.
Directed by Marc Shaffer. Featuring Academy Award winner
Gary Oldman.
100% on Rotten Tomatoes
"The film, like Muybridge, is full of mystery, playfulness, and complexity...illuminating and engaging."
- The Film Stage
"Exposing Muybridge makes clear that its subject’s images still have a lot to show us." - New York Times
Coming Soon!
EO
EO, a grey donkey, endures the wheel of fortune randomly and turns his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss.
97% on Rotten Tomatoes
"EO compels us to see the world differently, and therefore helps us see it from a perspective outside our own." - Globe and Mail
"A thrillingly imaginative piece of filmmaking." - NPR
"An engrossing experience." - Hollywood Reporter
In Polish with English Subtitles
Final Days Wed. and Thurs. (12/7 & 12/8)!
Utama
When an uncommonly long drought threatens the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple Virginio and Sisa must decide whether to stay and maintain their traditional way of life or admit defeat and move in with family members in the city.
95% on Rotten Tomatoes
"A powerful tale of survival." - The Hollywood Reporter
In Quechua and Spanish with English subtitles
Final Days Wed. and Thurs. (12/7 & 12/8)!
You Resemble Me
You Resemble Me tells the true story of Hasna Ait Boulahcen, a woman who was falsely accused of being Europe's first female suicide bomber.
"A blunt, most effective portrait of someone pushed and pulled into a state of permanent imbalance." - TheWrap
"A gripping story of dislocation and belonging."
- The Hollywood Reporter
In French with English Subtitles
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Creative Cocktail Hour
Holiday Maker's Market
Thursday, 12/15 6-10pm
Shop locally at CCH!
Also featuring:
Music from: DJ Mr. Realistic
Three Art Exhibitions:
Joe Bun Keo: bitter melons / bitter pills
Howard el-Yasin: Specific Matter
Rashmi Talpade: Every Little Thing
Food Truck: Auntie's Pasta
Hands on art-making
..and you!
Eastern White Pine:
The Tree Rooted in American History
Saturday, 12/10
Free Admission
Join us for a multi-sensory program, where attendees will experience white pines via their senses of light, smell, and even taste!
1pm: A walk that includes large pine trees in Hartford
(Meet at the parking lot accessed from 457 Tower Ave Hartford)
2:30pm: Piney-reception at Real Art Ways
3pm: Film showing at Real Art Ways
4pm: Post-film Q&A and continued reception at Real Art Ways
Free admission provided by the Connecticut Valley Garden Club.
Reception Sponsored by Trinity College.
Improvisations Now
Sunday, 12/11 2:30pm
Experience music created in real time.
Featuring:
Angelica Sanchez - Piano
Juan Pablo Carletti - Drums
Hery Paz - Tenor, Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet
Kenneth Jimenez - Bass
Joe Morris - Guitar
Riverwood Poetry Series
Wednesday, 12/14 7pm
Free Admission
The Series takes place in-person on the second Wednesday of the month from Sept. 2022-May 2023. Each night begins with a poetry reading featuring regionally- or nationally- known poets, followed by an open mic -
one poem, one page!
Featuring:
Terry Blackhawk
n Our Galleries:
Joe Bun Keo
bitter melons / bitter pills
Extended through Sunday 1/15/23
2021 Real Art Award Recipient
Poetic assemblages and installations.
Photo: John Groo
Day With(out) Art 2022: Being and Belonging
Real Art Ways is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2022 by presenting Being & Belonging, a program of seven short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV and AIDS from the perspective of artists living with HIV across the world.
On view through Thursday 12/8!
Watch the trailer here!
Rashmi Talpade
Every Little Thing
Intricate photo collages exploring environmental change and challenges.
Howard el-Yasin
Specific Matter
An immersive piece comprised of thousands of baked banana peels sourced from el-Yasin's community.
Photo: John Groo