Daytime Programming
Our daytime programming takes several forms:
- Culture & Conversation offers you the chance to experience compelling art and ideas within the context of a social hour. Programs start at 1PM and include a light lunch. Admission $7 ($5 for Real Art Ways Members).
- Matinée Movies are thought-provoking films and discussions presented by community and artistic leaders. The films are preceded by a light lunch at 1PM, they screen at 1:30PM, and they are followed by an insightful discussion.
- Our Day Trips allow you to visit organizations that share Real Art Ways' sensibility with members of our staff.
Culture & Conversation
Jeanne Manzelli
Local muralist and painter Jeanne Manzelli will be setting up shop in our Real Room. Her paintings exhibit a gestural quality that's filled with movement and vitality. Learn about her art and her process while watching her work right before your eyes.
A Lecturer on Visual Arts at Tunxis Community College, Jeanne will host a guided tour of our exhibitions following her workshop. We're looking forward to hearing her perspective on the work!
Jeanne on her art: "At this point my imagination is caught by Hartford and the changes that
bring its past and present into balance. Murals, print, and folding screens are the art forms that this interest is taking."
Matinée Movies
King of Masks
Real Art Ways screened this film years ago and audiences loved it. We're presenting it again, as a one-time screening, with a discussion following.
At the end of his life, The King of Masks (Chu Yuk), a master of an ancient and revered form of mask making, seeks to pass on his craft. However, tradition dictates that he can only teach the form to a male heir. Desperate to preserve his art, and in some sense himself, the heirless old man purchases a destitute child on the black market. When the boy reveals an unexpected secret, The King of Masks is torn between filial affection and ancient customs.
Culture & Conversation
Sam McKinniss and Corinne Beardsley
Meet Sam McKinniss and Corinne Rae Beardsley for a special conversation between these emerging New England artists. You will have a tour of our latest exhibitions from the artists themselves. This program includes a light lunch.
Matinée Movies
Brief Encounter
Though he might be best remembered for sweeping epics such as DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, renowned British director David Lean began his film career with small-scale character studies based on the plays of Noel Coward. Lean's fourth film, BRIEF ENCOUNTER - which was also his fourth and final collaboration with Coward - adapts the playwright's heartbreaking tale of two ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary power of love.
Laura (Celia Johnson) is a seemingly happy, middle-class housewife who meets the equally married physician Alec (a young Trevor Howard in only his third screen role) when he removes a speck of dust from her eye at a London railway station. The pair soon find themselves drawn together through weekly meetings at the station cafe, their casual encounters blooming into a chaste love affair marked by intimate conversation, longing glances - and the tragic realization that neither of them will be able to break the bonds of social propriety that keep them wedded to other people.
Seen by some as quintessentially English, Lean's achingly lovely exploration of the conflicting demands of personal happiness and social responsibility remains nonetheless universal and timeless. Johnson and Howard's nuanced performances, Robert Krasker's shadowy cinematography, and a soundtrack of hauntingly romantic Rachmaninov piano concertos only add to the film's aura of quiet desperation.
(UK, 87 min.)
Schedule of Events
Monday, June 30, 1PM Light Lunch; 1:30PM Screening; Discussion to Follow
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Matinée Movie
Thursday, July 3, 1PM
DEMONSTRATION BY ARTIST JEANNE MANZELLI
Culture & Conversation
Friday, July 25, 1PM Light Lunch; 1:30PM Screening; Discussion to Follow
KING OF MASKS
Matinée Movie
Thursday, August 7, 1PM
ARTIST CONVERSATION BY SAM MCKINNIS AND CORINNE RAE BEARDSLEY
Culture & Conversation
Friday, August 29, 1PM Light Lunch; 1:30PM Screening; Discussion to Follow
BRIEF ENCOUNTER
Matinée Movie
September, 2008 (date TBA)
DAYTRIP TO ICA/BOSTON
Join members of Real Art Ways staff on a trip to the new building that houses this contemporary art collection.
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