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Real Art Ways E-News - October 19, 2022
Arts and Entertainment
October 20, 2022
From: Real Art WaysCreative Cocktail Hour
Thursday, 10/20 6pm
Express yourself, experience community. Come as you are!
Featuring:
Live music:
Tipa Tipo:
Peruvian 70's disco redux
2 Exhibition Openings:
Danny Giles
Rashmi Talpade
Exhibitions by:
Howard el-Yasin
Joe Bun Keo
Benjamin Spalding
Food Truck:
East-West Grille
Hands-on art
making activities, great for kids and adults!
Purchase your tickets online!
Real Art Ways members on bikes receive free admission.
Save the Date! Creative Cocktail Hour: The Reunion
Thursday, 11/17 6pm
MacArthur Genius Grantees
On Tuesday the MacArthur Foundation announced its annual MacArthur Fellowship grantees.
We're so pleased for Tomeka, Paul, and Kiese, each of whom we've worked with. They add to the remarkable number of MacArthur "geniuses" that Real Art Ways has presented - now a total of 43!
Tomeka Reid
Tomeka Reid is a jazz cellist, composer, and improviser. Tomeka has performed at Real Art Ways multiple times, most recently in May of 2022 as part of Real Art Ways' ImprovisationsNow series.
Paul Chan
Paul Chan is an interdisciplinary artist who makes drawings, sculptures, and digital projections; writes essays on culture and history; ran a publishing enterprise; and staged a play. His video work animating the work of outsider artist Henry Darger was in Real Art Ways' exhibition Lean Too in 2003.
Kiese Laymon
Kiese Laymon is a writer bearing witness to the myriad forms of violence that mark the Black experience. Kiese, the author of Heavy and other books, brilliantly discussed Felandus Thames' work in Real Art Ways' main gallery during an online presentation in 2021.
CINEMA
Last Days - Wednesday & Thursday
(10/19 and 10/20)
The Woman King
"Majestic. Monumental." - The Washington Post
Final Week!
Moonage Daydream
"Electrifying. Among the best films about any artist I've ever seen." - Vogue
Opens Friday, 10/21!
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
A full length film based on a three minute home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland. These three minutes are examined to unravel the human stories hidden in the celluloid.
100% on Rotten Tomatoes
"A powerful, essential piece of filmmaking." - RogerEbert.com
"A gripping act of historical detective work." - Digital Trends
"Ruefully poetic." - TIME Magazine
"A narrative of discovery, an exploration of memory, a meditation on loss and cinema, all in a lengthening of three minutes." - NPR
Opens Friday, 10/21!
Hello, Bookstore
A small town rallies to protect a beloved local bookstore. A landmark in Lenox, Massachusetts, The Bookstore is a magical, beatnik gem thanks to its owner, Matt Tannenbaum, whose passion for stories runs deep.
"A beautiful thing to behold." - The New York Times
"Soul-affirming." - TheWrap
"Uplifting...hopeful...a celebration of how capable Americans can be in dark times." - The Film Stage
Opens Friday, 10/28!
Tár
94% on Rotten Tomatoes
Featuring Academy Award Winner Cate Blanchett
"Breathtaking entertainment." - Vanity Fair
"An absolute stunner." - ABC News
"A genuine art film." - RogerEbert.com
"You will leave the theater with questions, arguments, demands - but most of all a supremely fulfilling sense of satisfaction." - Globe and Mail
Terry Jenoure & The Portal
Sunday, 10/30 2:30
Terry Jenoure is a composer, violinist & vocalist. Over the past ten years, Jenoure's performances have had a fascinating memoir focus. Her new composition for Real Art Ways merges story with innovation.
Jenoure has assembled a sextet of longtime collaborators including Angelica Sanchez (piano), Wayne Smith (cello), Avery Sharpe (bass), Joe Fonda (bass), and Reggie Nicholson (drums) for this performance.
This event was made possible with funding by the New England Foundation for the Arts' New Work New England program, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Rescue Plan, Seedlings Foundation, the Fund for the Arts at NEFA and individual donors. This grant is in honor of Dr. Larry Simpson, a NEFA board member from 2006-2020, including six years as chair, and a champion of the arts.
Save the Date!
Improvisations Now
Sunday, 11/13 2:30
Music created on the spot and in the moment!
Featuring:
Future Dates:
Matthew Shipp
Sunday, 12/11 2:30
Angelica Sanchez
Hery Paz
Juan Pablo Carletti
Kenneth Jimenez
Joe Morris
Anna Webber
Sunday, 1/22 2:30
Matana Roberts
Melanie Dyer
Joe Morris
Joe Morris
Sunday, 2/12 2:30
Wadada Leo Smith
Joe Morris
In Our Galleries:
Joe Bun Keo
bitter melons / bitter pills
2021 Real Art Award Recipient
Poetic assemblages and installations.
Gallery Talk with Joe Bun Keo
Wednesday, 10/26 6:00-7:00pm
Connecticut-based artist Joe Bun Keo uses found and altered objects to create poetic installations and assemblages. His recent work is informed by personal experiences with mental health, debt, and Khmer (Cambodian) – American identity.
Joe Bun Keo will discuss his artistic practice and current exhibition bitter melons / bitter pills with Khmer artist/scholar Sokunthary Svay at Real Art Ways.
More information on Joe Bun Keo.
More information on Sokunthary.
Benjamin Spalding Supernature
Dancers, birds of paradise, and the moments where we slip into wilder states.
Photo by: John Groo
Howard el-Yasin Specific Matter
An immersive suspended piece comprised of thousands of baked banana peels sourced from el-Yasin's community.
Photo by: John Groo
From Our Friends at Hartford Art School
Komatsu Hiroko: Second Decade Opening
Gallery Exhibition Opening Reception 10/27 5-7pm in the Joseloff Gallery.
Become a Real Art Ways Member Today!
When you choose to become a Real Art Ways member, you foster community in so many ways. For that, we are grateful.
Your collage of memories is waiting to be created.