Saturday, December 10, 2011
ALLOY ORCHESTRA AT SOMERVILLE THEATRE - February 4, 2012
Date: Saturday, February 4, 8pm
Name: ALLOY ORCHESTRA / WILD AND WEIRD
Location: Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Sq., Somerville, 02238
Description: Wild and Weird, Alloy Orchestra's newest collection of short silent movies, collects some of the oddest examples of early filmmaking you're likely to see. Included are Wadislaw Starewicz's 1912 The Cameraman's Revenge, a soap opera of animated insects; Hans Richter's 1926 Dadaist masterpiece Filmstudie; Edwin S. Porter's 1906 Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend, which explores a the hallucinations brought on to a man who has eaten too much rich food, and Princess Nicotine or the Smoke Fairy, about an impish sprite living in a gentleman's pipe. Tremendously entertaining, fast paced, truly wild and weird, these films will dispel any preconceptions you might have about silent films. And, of course, Alloy's audacious scores make these mini masterpieces all the more fun.
Tickets: $25
Website: http://www.worldmusic.org/alloy-orchestra-0-903
Name: ALLOY ORCHESTRA / WILD AND WEIRD
Location: Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Sq., Somerville, 02238
Description: Wild and Weird, Alloy Orchestra's newest collection of short silent movies, collects some of the oddest examples of early filmmaking you're likely to see. Included are Wadislaw Starewicz's 1912 The Cameraman's Revenge, a soap opera of animated insects; Hans Richter's 1926 Dadaist masterpiece Filmstudie; Edwin S. Porter's 1906 Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend, which explores a the hallucinations brought on to a man who has eaten too much rich food, and Princess Nicotine or the Smoke Fairy, about an impish sprite living in a gentleman's pipe. Tremendously entertaining, fast paced, truly wild and weird, these films will dispel any preconceptions you might have about silent films. And, of course, Alloy's audacious scores make these mini masterpieces all the more fun.
Tickets: $25
Website: http://www.worldmusic.org/alloy-orchestra-0-903
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
SOMERVILLE GEOCACHING ADVENTURE - February 24, 2012
All nine shrines of the "Geocaching Urban Shrines" project are now hidden all over Somerville. Get off the couch and have fun while exploring parts of the city that you might not have known about. You may win a prize!
For more information, see www.paulinelim.net/GeocachingUrbanShrines
To read the "Somerville Journal" article about this project, see:
http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerville/features/x729317129/Somerville-artist-launches-hide-and-seek-Urban-Shrines-Project#axzz1ekHYmWyj
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Pauline Lim
Brickbottom Artists Building
One Fitchburg St. C414
Somerville, MA 02143-2128
(617) 623-8842
Check out my art and music website: www.paulinelim.net
For more information, see www.paulinelim.net/GeocachingUrbanShrines
To read the "Somerville Journal" article about this project, see:
http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerville/features/x729317129/Somerville-artist-launches-hide-and-seek-Urban-Shrines-Project#axzz1ekHYmWyj
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Pauline Lim
Brickbottom Artists Building
One Fitchburg St. C414
Somerville, MA 02143-2128
(617) 623-8842
Check out my art and music website: www.paulinelim.net
Sunday, December 04, 2011
SOMERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING - December 15, 2011
Mass 1978: a FREE COMMUNITY SCREENING of two 1978 documentaries about cities in transition, both filmed in Massachusetts:
When: Thursday, Dec. 15, 6 p.m.
Where: Somerville Public Library, 79 Highland Ave
Coordinated by Nellie Kluz as part of a community benefit for a Somerville Arts Council LCC fellowship grant.
MISSION HILL AND THE MIRACLE OF BOSTON
by Richard Broadman (60 min)
"The story of what happened to Mission Hill is the story of many of America's older ethnic neighborhoods. Seventy years ago, Mission Hill was an Irish neighborhood of homes and small stores in which people lived near their schools, their church, and their shopping area. But between 1940 and 1980 it changed: thousands of units of public housing were built and decayed there. Nearby hospitals expanded, displacing people from their homes. Developers and speculators bought and sold property and built twenty-story apartment houses. A new, poor population and an affluent professional population arrived to compete for parts of the old neighborhood."
http://www.der.org/films/mission-hill.html
IF IT FITS
by John Marshall (58 minutes)
"The once thriving industrial town of Haverhill, Massachusetts on the Merrimack River now resembles, in the words of one of the film's subjects, "a ghost town where you expect to see tumbleweeds come rolling down Main Street." This film examines a dying industrial town and its politicians' search for votes over such issues as municipal spending, rising taxes, the revitalization of depressed areas, and attracting new industry. The film's central event is the 1976 Mayoral election."
http://www.der.org/films/if-it-fits.html
Gregory Jenkins
Executive Director
Somerville Arts Council
617.625.6600 ext. 2985
www.somervilleartscouncil.org
When: Thursday, Dec. 15, 6 p.m.
Where: Somerville Public Library, 79 Highland Ave
Coordinated by Nellie Kluz as part of a community benefit for a Somerville Arts Council LCC fellowship grant.
MISSION HILL AND THE MIRACLE OF BOSTON
by Richard Broadman (60 min)
"The story of what happened to Mission Hill is the story of many of America's older ethnic neighborhoods. Seventy years ago, Mission Hill was an Irish neighborhood of homes and small stores in which people lived near their schools, their church, and their shopping area. But between 1940 and 1980 it changed: thousands of units of public housing were built and decayed there. Nearby hospitals expanded, displacing people from their homes. Developers and speculators bought and sold property and built twenty-story apartment houses. A new, poor population and an affluent professional population arrived to compete for parts of the old neighborhood."
http://www.der.org/films/mission-hill.html
IF IT FITS
by John Marshall (58 minutes)
"The once thriving industrial town of Haverhill, Massachusetts on the Merrimack River now resembles, in the words of one of the film's subjects, "a ghost town where you expect to see tumbleweeds come rolling down Main Street." This film examines a dying industrial town and its politicians' search for votes over such issues as municipal spending, rising taxes, the revitalization of depressed areas, and attracting new industry. The film's central event is the 1976 Mayoral election."
http://www.der.org/films/if-it-fits.html
Gregory Jenkins
Executive Director
Somerville Arts Council
617.625.6600 ext. 2985
www.somervilleartscouncil.org
Friday, December 02, 2011
SOMERVILLE BLOC 11 CAFE EXHIBITION OPENING - November 15 - January 2, 2012
Please join Rifrákt tomorrow, Saturday December 3rd for our opening reception at Bloc 11 Cafe in Union Square!
From 5-7 pm view artwork on display and available to purchase by Rifrákt Artist Collective. Complimentary hors d'oeuvre from Bloc 11! A special performance by local musician Heather Smist will start at 6pm.
See you there!
On display November 15 - January 2nd 2012
Work by:
Leah Cunningham
Sarah Gay
Stephanie Goode
Carolyn Hulbert
Nick Kent
Aaron Morris
Chris O'Neill
Saturday December 3rd : 5-7pm
Bloc 11 Cafe
11 Bow Street
Somerville, MA
www.rifrakt.com
www.rifrakt.tumblr.com
www.bloc11.com
Facebook Invite!
http://www.facebook.com/events/266951486685820
From 5-7 pm view artwork on display and available to purchase by Rifrákt Artist Collective. Complimentary hors d'oeuvre from Bloc 11! A special performance by local musician Heather Smist will start at 6pm.
See you there!
On display November 15 - January 2nd 2012
Work by:
Leah Cunningham
Sarah Gay
Stephanie Goode
Carolyn Hulbert
Nick Kent
Aaron Morris
Chris O'Neill
Saturday December 3rd : 5-7pm
Bloc 11 Cafe
11 Bow Street
Somerville, MA
www.rifrakt.com
www.rifrakt.tumblr.com
www.bloc11.com
Facebook Invite!
http://www.facebook.com/events/266951486685820
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