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Tuesday, April 20th Film Night – Animation!

For our eighth screening the Loring-Greenough House presents a program of fantastic locally-made animation!! Come by around 7 pm for cookies and refreshments, and the screening will begin, as usual, sometime around 7:30.

All works will be shown on video with the exception of Dan Sousa’s Minotaur (16mm).

Here is our sweet line-up…

DANIEL ROWE Travis

STEVE SUBOTNICK Hairyman Glass Crow Jelly Fishers

MATTHEW NEWMAN-LONG And What We Move Is Dead year of his birth, diaries and animation

ALAN JENNINGS Running in Darkness

AMY KRAVITZ River Lethe

RUTH LINGFORD Little Deaths

DAN SOUSA The Windmill Drift The Minotaur

…with the possibility of a couple surprise additions!

Visit http://lghfilm.blogspot.com for info about the animators and their works.

An Evening Talk on Women Artists Past and Present by Alicia Faxon, Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 7pm

The Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club

presents

an Evening Talk on

Women Artists Past and Present

by

Alicia Faxon

co-author of

SELF-PORTRAITS OF WOMEN PAINTERS*

(2009, New Academia Publishers)

Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 7pm

The Loring Greenough House

12 South Street, Jamaica Plain

Free for Members, $4 for non members

There will be slides of such artists as Hildegard of Bingen, Lavinia Fontana,

Elisabetta Sirani, Artemisia Gentileschi, Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Lady Elizabeth Butler,

Georgia O’Keefe, Helen Frankenthaler and many more, up to present day

Come and find your foremothers and their work!

*co-authored with Liana Cheney and Kathleen Russo

will be available for purchase

Presented as part of the JP Tuesday Night Club, this FYI Night is co-sponsored by The Jamaica Plain Artists Association (JPAA).

PAUL TURANO and MATT McWILLIAMS at LORING-GREENOUGH FILM! MARCH 16th, 2010 (TUESDAY) 7:00 pm

For our seventh screening we are happy to present the films of Roslindale-based filmmaker Paul Turano and his former student at Emerson, Matt McWilliams. Join us for drinks and snacks around 7 pm; screening begins at 7:30. If you can, please support our venue with a $4 donation.

BIOS

Paul Turano has independently produced numerous award-wining experimental films and videos over the last 15+ years. His work has been exhibited nationally and abroad at museums, micro-cinemas, alternative venues, colleges and universities and has been shown at festivals throughout North America including the Black Maria, Athens International, Hartford International, FLEX FEST Florida Experimental, and the New England Film and Video festivals. His recent digital video “I Covered My Eyes” screened this past summer at the Globians World and Culture Documentary Film Festival in Berlin, Germany and in Australia at the Sydney Underground Film Festival. Based in Boston, his films have been shown at the Harvard Film Archive, the Coolidge Corner Theater, the Embassy Theater, and the Museum of Fine Arts. He is the recipient of a Media Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a Moving Image Fund Grant from the LEF Foundation and has been an Artist-in-Residence at Emerson College since the fall of 2007. www.paulturano.com

Matt McWilliams is a graduate of Emerson College who is currently making and screening films here in Jamaica Plain and around New England.

PROGRAM

M A T T   M c W I L L I A M S

Sons and Cattle, 16mm, color, sound, 12 min, 2009 Sketches for Sons and Cattle, super8, color, silent, 5 min Untitled (co-created with Eileen Richardson), 16mm, b&w, silent, 3 min Counter, 16mm, b&w, silent, 3 min Harboring, 16mm, b&w, silent, 3 min Making Space, 16mm, color, 3 min

P A U L   T U R A N O

Porch Film: 76 Day St. Apt. #2, 16mm, color, sound, 18 min, 2004 Windows onto Montebello Road, 16mm, color, sound, 21 min, 2009

March 2nd 7pm Lecture – The Loring-Greenough House: A Treasure from the Past, a Treasure for the Future

In an informal talk, Dr. Barry Hannegan will briefly trace the history of changes at the House and its grounds and will share some future possibilities as part of the Club’s continuing commitment to the maintenance and enhancement of this great historic property.

Dr. Hannegan, a member of the Club’s Board of Directors, is an art historian by education, an historic preservationist by instinct, and a landscape historian by preference.

Jamaica Plain Tuesday Night Club / FYI Night

Tuesday March 2 at 7:00 P.M.

Free for members $4 for non-members

Refreshments will be served!

February 16th: FILM (Parkour) by Christopher May

February 16th: FILM (Parkour) by Christopher May

Doors open at 7:30pm (NOTE the later time!), screening begins at 8:00. Admission is $4.

PROGRAM:

Super-8 and 16mm experimental cinema featuring organic and intimate life portraits of traceurs. (Christopher May, 2008-2010, Argentina/Austria/U.S.A.)

1. “Deserted” (triple super-8 projection, sound, 14 min., USA/Austria/Argentina, 2008-2010) “I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.” – Jorge Luis Borges

2. “Flo” (single-image super-8 projection, silent, 4.min., Austria, 2009) Slo portrait of Florian Hatwagner featuring: …dirt…spit…shoes…dirt.

..hands…smiling face…

3. “Vienna” (triple super-8 projection, sound, 4 min., Austria, 2009-2010) Portrait of traceurs in their favorite places.

4. “Buenos Aires” (triple super-8 projection, sound/silent, 26 min., Argentina, 2008) Premiered at MALBA – Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires

5. “Colorado Springs” (double 16mm projection, sound, 15 min., USA, 2008-2009) pop…smile…run…jump…melody…chill…rain…sun…color! Filmed with an old military Bell + Howell 16mm camera. Featuring Jimmy & Dan / Pedro, Bryan, Chris