By Alice Waugh
Lincoln will get a three-day taste of India next month during the inaugural Discover India! Lincoln Cultural Festival, which will include movie screenings, a food festival, folk and classical dance performances, an art exhibit and contemporary art lecture, a cooking class and many children’s activities. [Read more…] about India comes to Lincoln in October
The Lincoln Library Film Society will resume screenings tonight (September 10) at 7 p.m. with another installment of “cinemavericks”—innovative filmmakers who did their own thing and guided the art form beyond its inherited strictures. The LLFS will screen the film work of Forough Farrokhzad (1935-1967), one of Iran’s greatest 20th-century poets. Although she only made one film in her short life, it is considered today to be one of the finest moments in Iranian cinema. The House is Black merges visuals with poetry like no other film has done, configuring searing images of reality to match the lines of Farrokhzad’s beautifully sparse and devastating words.
Miranda Loud
By Alice Waugh
Do animals have feelings just as people do? Do they communicate? Do they deserve our consideration and respect as fellow species? Lincoln native Miranda Loud answers a heartfelt “yes” to these questions through her story-telling work in video and photography, including the photos and stories of dogs that have been hanging in the Lincoln Public Library this summer.
[Read more…] about Artist aims to help us connect with animals
In response to a New York Times opinion piece bemoaning the trend in contemporary art museums toward hands-on, “walk-through experiences” as opposed to traditional pieces meant for stationary contemplation, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park director Dennis Kois wrote a piece defending the more participatory approach.
“We have found that one type of art does not cheapen the other,” Kois wrote in Slate. “Some of our audience appreciates both; some favor one over the other. But unquestionably both are contemporary art and both are equally important for us, as a contemporary art museum, to present… Just as the boundaries of our culture and world have expanded exponentially in the past decades, our art and our museums have expanded to keep pace. It’s foolish to say that one type of art—object or experience—is better than the other. Why would, or should, museums, or our visitors, be forced to choose?”
The Lincoln Library Film Society presents “Sailor’s Song: The Films of Alberto Cavalcanti,” a four-part retrospective that kicks off tonight (August 6) in the Tarbell Room at 7 p.m. with three short films and two classic British documentaries.
[Read more…] about Cavalcanti film series starts tonight at library
Enjoy the music of Ryan Fitzsimmons and even take the mike yourself at LOMA (Lincoln Open-Mike Acoustic) on Monday, June 10 at 7 p.m. in the Lincoln Public Library’s Tarbell Room. Fitzsimmons has performed solo at the Newport Folk Festival, Club Passim, and Johnny D’s. This is a great opportunity to hear Ryan in a small informal venue.
LOMA is a monthly event of acoustic music and spoken word. Performers can sign up at the event or email Rich Eilbert at loma3re@gmail.com before noon on the day of the event for a slot (advance registration is encouraged). Names of performers will be drawn at random from those who are signed up by 7:15 p.m.
There will be no LOMA in July or August. Upcoming featured artists (click on the names for music samples and more info):
The Lincoln Library Film Society will resume its free screenings on the first Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. starting on May 7, followed by a series of four films from Brazil’s “Cinema Novo” movement starting on May 14.
[Read more…] about Film society screens shorts tonight, then four from Brazil
ABBA (photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
Sport the great fashions of the past and boogie to music from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s at this adults-only annual event to benefit Codman Community Farms on Saturday, May 18 starting at 7:30 p.m.
See and be seen in your craziest dance attire! No costumes required, but there will be much respect for the biggest hair and the most polyester. Come dance, watch your friends lip-sync on the patented Codman air guitar stage, or just hang out with other Codman Community Farms supporters.
This is a great fund-raising event that helps support the farm. Tickets are $25 and are available at the farm or by emailing info@codmanfarm.org.
Sometimes what happens behind closed doors at the White House is more fascinating than what goes on in public view. Peek into the lives of some U.S. presidents, their wives and their mothers when the Council on Aging presents a free performance of the Delvena Theatre Company’s All the Presidents’ Women at Bemis Hall on Sunday, May 19, at 2 p.m. All ages are welcome.
Have we already had a female president? Could one of our First Ladies have murdered her husband while he was still in office? Find out which of our most famous First Ladies was committed to a mental institution by her own son! These intriguing stories are lively entertainment and promote post-performance dialogue after the performance between the cast and the audience. All the Presidents’ Women, written by Fran Baron and directed by Joseph Zamparelli Jr., features Lynne Moulton and Fran Baron in multiple roles.
The Delvena Theatre Company was founded in 1992 and has performed at various venues, most often at the Boston Center for the Arts. The company was nominated for five Independent Reviewers of New England awards. Its production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was on Theatre Mirror’s Best List for acting, directing and production. Presentations of Anna Weiss and Beyond Therapy were included on Theatre Mirror’s best play list, and Blue Heart was placed on Aisle Say’s best list.
All The Presidents’ Women is supported in part by a grant from the Lincoln Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. For more information, please call the Council on Aging at (781) 259-8811.
Come hear excellent performances in an intimate setting by Lincoln-Sudbury’s instrumental and vocal jazz ensembles, as well as featured vocal soloists. The concert starts at 7:30 in the L-S Jazz cafe. Tickets are $5, with a $20 cap for families. Snacks and beverages will be sold by the L-S Friends of Music.
There will be vocal performances by the Acafellas, Achoired Taste, and Coro de Chicas. The evening will also feature vocal solo and duet performances of popular and musical theater selections. Performing instrumental groups include the Concert and Symphonic Jazz Ensembles (big bands), Jazz Warriors Combo, and Select Jazz Combo.
For more information, call the L-S Music Department at 978-443-9961 x2220 or x2210.