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Classic World Cinema Foreign Film Series Every Friday 8 pm
December 2 "My Night at Maud's" (France 1969) by Eric Rohmer
The narrator, a devoutCatholic, moves to a provincial town and vows to marry Francoise, a pretty blond he notices at mass. Vidal, an old school friend, invites him to visit the recently divorced Maud, and the narrator ends up staying the night, having philosophical discussions in her bedroom.
December 9 "Closely Watched Trains" (Czechoslovakia 1966) by Jiri Menzel
A young man follows his father's footsteps and joins the railway company, where helearns the job and has his first affair. Set in the country, during the German occupation.
December 16 Lipsett and Deren: A combined retrospective on experimental filmmakers
Arthur Lipsett and Maya Deren A collection of short experimental films will be shown and discussed.
December 23 & 30 NO FILMS - HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Classic World Cinema Foreign Film Series Films Every Friday 8 pm Presentedby Courtyard Gallery. Doors open at 7:45 / close at 8:15. Film begins at 8:00 pm. Come on in, get comfortable, have some refreshments and enjoy great films from around the world! Check our website for the film schedule or Cranky Hanke's Reviews under Special Showings. Donations appreciated. In the Railroad Library, Phil Mechanic Studios. http://www.ashevillecourtyard.com 828-273-3332
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Still showing: "Anything Goes-Everything Shows"
5th Annual International Mail Art Exhibition Located on the Mezzanine Floor, Phil Mechanic Studios Using the postal system as a medium, participants have sent in a variety of fascinating entries! ALL entries that made it through the postal system are exhibited! Artists were encouraged to explore imagery, themes, sizes and shapes of any kind. |
Still showing:
"Anything Goes—Everything Shows"
5th Annual International Mail Art Exhibition Located on the Mezzanine Floor, Phil Mechanic Studios Using the postal system as a medium, participants have sent in a variety of fascinating entries! ALL entries that made it through the postal system are exhibited! Artists were encouraged to explore imagery, themes, sizes and shapes of any kind.
If you haven’t been by yet, the Mezzanine Floor of Phil Mechanic Studios is hosting the Courtyard Gallery’s Annual MAIL ART SHOW!
Courtyard Gallery • Mezzanine Floor
Phil Mechanic Studios • 109 Roberts St. • Asheville, NC
Using the postal system as a medium, participants have sent in a variety of fascinating entries! Artists were encouraged to explore imagery and themes of any kind, and use a variety of sizes, shapes and media. Viewers are encouraged to touch the entries, even interact. Favorite pieces from previous years are also included. Click here for more.
2011 article by James Shea - "Mail It In"2010 4th Annual Mail Art Exhibit--
"Anything Goes--Everything Shows III"
2009 Photo Gallery by Steve Dixon
2008 Review by Marshall Gordon
2007 Review by Connie Bostic
Flood Poetry Reading Series
We are delighted that poet Pat Riviere-Seel and fiction writer, Abagail DeWitt will read in Posana Cafe's back room on Monday, October 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Posana Cafe. Please come and enjoy a wonderful evening featuring two writers whose work has won critical recognition.
Pat Riviere-Seel is a recovering newspaper journalist, lobbyist, publicist, and editor. Her poetry collections include: The Serial Killer's Daughter (Main Street Rag, 2009), winner of the Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry, and No Turning Back Now (Finishing Line Press, 2004), which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have been published in several journals and have won a few prizes. She is an associate editor of the Asheville Poetry Review has taught in UNCA's Great Smokies Writing Program. A 2003 graduate of the Queens University of Charlotte MFA Program, she has run three marathons and continues to race and run trails. She lives in Asheville with two spoiled housecats and her husband, Ed Seel.
Abigail DeWitt is the author of two novels, Lili (W.W.Norton) and Dogs (Lorimer Press) as well as short stories which have been published in several literary journals, including The Carolina Quarterly, Salamander and The Journal. The recipient of a Michener Fellowship and a Tyrone Guthrie Residency Fellowship, as well as grants from the North Carolina Arts Council and the Asheville Arts Alliance, Abigail DeWitt received her BA from Harvard University and her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. She has taught Creative Writing at Harvard Summer School, The Duke Writers Workshop, Lenoir-Rhyne University, Appalachian State University and UNC-Asheville. Currently, she leads private workshops and works one-on-one with students around the country. She lives with her husband and daughter in western North Carolina.
"Flight"
An installation by Zeph Fishlyn & Beatriz Mendoza
Flight is an outdoor installation in an industrial no-mans-land, featuring giant paper cutouts of endangered and persecuted species of the Southeastern U.S.. The piece is made entirely from found wood, paper, cordage and detritus from the Asheville area and will be subject to wind, weather and human interference for the three weeks it'll be on display.
Zeph Fishlyn (zephlyn.com) & Beatriz Mendoza (beatrizmendoza.com) are also affiliated with the Beehive Design Collective (beehivecollective.org), an all-volunteer collective of artists, activists and educators dedicated to cross-pollinating the grassroots by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images for use as educational and organizing tools.
LOCAL GUERRILLA DOCUMENTARY FILM PREMIERING AT FIRESTORM CAFÉ & BOOKS
The locally produced documentary film We Created This will premiere at Firestorm Café & Books on July 22nd at 7:00pm. We Created This is a guerrilla-style art documentary directed and shot by local filmmaker/photographer Andrew Fedynak.
For seven months in 2009, Andrew traveled across Europe and the continental U.S. interviewing artists, musicians, and fellow travelers about art, music, what makes a fulfilling life and their place in the global community. Andrew documents an amazing cross-section of creative people in We Created This, from small town musicians to internationally recognized artists; from San Francisco mural painters to emerging photographers; from a street-busking musician in Nice, France, to a single father in Richmond Virginia.
Armed with only a Sony PDX10 DVCAM camera, a backpack and some sound equipment, Andrew documented their lives and came back with the footage that would become We Created This. The final product is a fast-paced pastiche of interviews, landscapes and footage documenting the restless movement of traveling and searching.
We Created This is a production of the Serenity Arts Project, in conjunction with the Flood Gallery in the Phil Mechanic Studios.
Gareth Hinds
Flood Gallery is proud to collaborate with several departments, including Art and Art History, at the University of North Carolina at Asheville in bringing GARETH HINDS to the Humanities Lecture Hall for a lecture at 7:00pm on Tuesday, March 1st.
Hinds is the creator of several critically-acclaimed graphic novel adaptations of classic literature, including Beowulf, The Odyssey, King Lear, and The Merchant of Venice. He will discuss the evolution of his work, the process of creating graphic novels, and the fine points related to working with classic works as well as aspects of production such as staying on schedule, getting published, and marketing.
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. So join us!
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RE-NUDE
RE-VIEWING BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE 2:
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Multi-faceted schedule includes panels, performance, poetry and film
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and UNC Asheville are pleased to release the schedule for the upcoming conference RE-VIEWING Black Mountain College 2. Details about the rich variety of sessions planned for the October 8-10 conference can be found at http://blackmountaincollege.org/content/view/161/60/
Conference presenters include noted BMC scholar and author Mary Emma Harris, Asheville filmmaker Cathryn Davis Zommer, UNC-A faculty members Seamus McNerny and Ann Dunn, Morganton poet Ted Pope, Asheville-based dancer/choreographer Julie Becton Gillum, Josef Albers scholar Fred Horowitz, and many, many more. The keynote address will be delivered on Saturday, Oct. 9 at 7:00 p.m. by former BMC student and internationally recognized sculptor Kenneth Snelson. This presentation, along with most conference sessions, will take place at Highsmith Student Union on the UNCA campus.
RE-VIEWING Black Mountain College 2 begins on Friday afternoon (Oct. 8) and continues to Sunday afternoon (Oct. 10). Events will include a Friday evening reception at BMCM+AC with an after party at 5 Walnut to include performance, poetry and the dedication of the new Black Mountain College Tribute Wall on Carolina Lane. In addition to the conference sessions, there will be an exhibition in the UNCA Highsmith Gallery of work from the BMCM+AC permanent collection and a Mail Art show curated by John Held, Jr. The conference will close on Sunday afternoon with a tour of the Lake Eden BMC campus. There’s a small additional fee to participate in the tour.
All are invited to come experience an incredible array of sessions and performances, from experiential to scholarly. Weekend cost for the conference is $20; daily admission is $15; free for all students w/ID and UNC Asheville faculty and staff.
Details about the films, performances, panels, and art exhibits are available at the BMCM+AC website: http://www.blackmountaincollege.org or by calling 828-350-8484.