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ABOUT TONIGHT Were Worn During the Day, Headbands, Called Talkspot | TALKS Bandeaus, Were Seen in the Evenings with the Most Formal Dresses Make an Egyptian inspired 20s Headdress jewellery and more! Audrey has owned shops | ACTIVITY in Glasgow, and dressed actors on stage and Have you come to LiveFriday sans-headdress? screen, so she knows her Vintage! Come and make one in the Egyptian Galleries with museum volunteers! While cloche hats The Rothermere American Institute ABOUT TONIGHT were worn during the day, headbands, called Talkspot | TALKS Bandeaus, were seen in the evenings with the most formal dresses. The trend started when 7.30–7.45 King Tut’s tomb was discovered in 1924. Soon Immerse yourself in 1920s and 1930s film stars Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George Dr. Tessa Roynon (RAI, Oxford): African- after, everyone wanted to look like an Egyptian America at this evening event tracing F. Marion, and Marie Dressler. It was marketed American Literature: Coolness and/or Power? queen. Join in! America from the Roaring Twenties using the slogan “Garbo Talks!”, as it was her 7.50–8.05 through to the end of the Great first talkie. Of all its stars, Garbo was the one John Lewis 20s Fashion Show Edit | SEE Dr. James Cetkovski (Trinity College Oxford): Depression. that MGM kept out of talking films the longest Grace Under Pressure: Hemingway’s ‘American’ for fear that one of their biggest stars, like so Fancy being a flapper girl or Jay Gatsby? Be inspired by the 20s look in the modern jazz Masculinity Explore our #AmericasCoolModernism many others, would not succeed in them. Her age, with a special fashion show styled by John exhibition, discover the glamour of 1930s famous first line is: “Gimme a whisky, ginger 8.10–8.25 Lewis’s personal styling team. Like the look? Buy Hollywood alongside the American rural ale on the side, and don’t be stingy, baby!” Prof Oenone Kubie (RAI Oxford): Child gangs in it at John Lewis Westgate! Historian Dr Helen farmstead, and be inspired by The Machine Alex Goody will set the scene and highlight key Prohibition Chicago Saunders will set the scene, with an introduction Age, The Great Gatsby and the effects of points in this iconic film. to the history of 20s and 30s fashions. 8.30–8.45 Prohibition. Dr Eric White (Brookes):1930s E-Reader: 1930s E-Reader: Machine-Age Augmented Machine-Age Augmented Reality Tonight’s LiveFriday is the headline event of Reality | ACTIVITY Talking Pictures | ACTIVITY Pegasus Theatre’s Young Company will pop-up the Ashmolean’s American Cool Arts Festival, In 1931, the American Surrealist writer Bob 8.50–9.05 throughout the museum performing epic silent a month long series of events celebrating Brown invented a reading machine that Helen Saunders (KCL): The Little Black Dress in movie chases and scenes from the 1930 play, American art, literature, music, drama and anticipated the internet, text messaging and 1920s America film from the 1920s–40s. For this LiveFriday even augmented reality; together with his Once In A Lifetime by Moss Hart & George S. the Ashmolean is working with Blackwell’s expatriate collaborators, he built a prototype Kaufman. The piece will showcase the transition 9.10–9.25 Bookshop, Curzon Oxford, the Oxford and collected modernists texts called ‘readies’ from silent movies to ‘talkies’ in the golden age Dr. Tara Stubbs (RAI, Oxford): Fitzgerald Playhouse & the Rothermere American Institute. by Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and William of motion pictures and explore prohibition-era Beyond Gatsby stories. They will be seen at various locations Be greeted by the fabulous The Gatsby Girls, Carlos Williams and others to demonstrate 9.30–9.45 listen to some bite-size talks on America in the its potential. The machine never went into during the evening, and can even give you clues to the secret speakeasy saloon - The Blue Ruin Dr. Michael Walsh (Oxford): The Secret History 20s and 30s, make a Georgia O’Keeffe collage, production, but now, the Avant-Gardes and of Cool Meet a Modernist and find out the password for Speculative Technology (AGAST) Project at Bar. the Ashmolean Speakeasy “The Blue Ruin” from Oxford Brookes and the Ashmolean Museum Great Gatsby Read-a-thon with Blackwell’s the “silent” movie actors from Pegasus Theatre. have reconstructed this legendary Machine-Age Bookshop | ACTIVITY experiment. LEVEL 1 Join Blackwell’s Bookshop as they attempt to read an entire book- “The Great Gatsby” in 3 LEVEL -1 The Medium of Modernism: Watercolour Swing by and get creative! | ACTIVITY ½ hours! Come and cheer them on, read a bit in America from Homer to Hopper with Swing by and get inspired by the vibrant and yourself and find out more about the America’s colourful industrial paintings from the American The Gatsby Girls and Guys | SEE Timothy Wilcox | TALK Cool Modernism Book display. “I’ll say there’s nothing finer than the Learn about the emergence of watercolour Cool exhibition. Take part in a collaborative Charleston” - Cecil Mack 1923. With authentic painting in the early 20th century as a dynamic, stain glass effect collage with Artist Amanda steps from the Charleston to the iconic moves modern means of expression. This talk will Beck by adding a skyscraper, bridge, factory LEVEL 3 from MGM studios, the girls and guys will focus on the work of Winslow Homer, a father- or a swirling street to get you in the 1920/30s transport you back with energy and style. The figure in watercolour painting, and his students creative frame of mind. America’s Cool Modernism: gals will show off their fancy footwork, high Georgia O’Keeffe, John Marin, and Charles O’Keeffe to Hopper | EXHIBITION kicks and fabulous tricks while the boys spin and Demuth. Decadent Times Photo Booth | ACTIVITY The first exhibition to explore the ‘cool’ in flip all over town! Tickets: £7/£6 Members & concessions. 1930s Decadence, 21st Century Delivery. American art in the early 20th century, from Authentic Props in a Unique Atmosphere early experiments in abstraction by artists Modern Technology Meets Vintage Style: The The Beatroots | LISTEN like Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove and Paul Oxford’s premier postgraduate mixed-voice LEVEL G oldest camera in history, the wooden obscura, Strand to the strict, clean precisionist paintings 12-piece vegetable-named a cappella group was also known as the field camera. Inside we of Charles Sheeler and Charles Demuth. See performing two jazz-infused sets. Keble String Orchestra Play American Cool have installed a modern camera, which takes the incredible loans from the Metropolitan Museum | LISTEN most awesome photos. Connected to our field of Art, New York, and the Terra Foundation for camera is the HMV Table Television. We have A Touch of Paris | LISTEN KSO play authentic music including a medley American Art, Chicago, including 35 paintings inserted a touch screen TV showing your photo A Touch Of Paris specialise in classic American of Dixieland favourites arranged by Kenneth that have never been seen in the UK before. set up and the finished product. Simply touch Swing, French Chanson and Cabaret. With a Abeling and Magnetic Rag by Scott Joplin This exhibition is ticketed. Entry is free for the the screen for the countdown to begin and bam! French born singer whose impressive vocals (1868-1917), and a new piece Cityscapes by Ashmolean Members or for those who have Your photo is ready. AMERICAN COOL cover a four octave range, the band are certain music student Gabby Woodward inspired bought a LiveFriday + Exhibition Combo ticket. to dazzle you with their unique, expressive by works in the America’s Cool Modernism Entrance via Gallery 58, tickets available at shop style. exhibition. Gabby’s piece reflects on elements Prohibition’s a Drag | SEE on level 3. of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ through the use of A short introductory talk by Katie Gardner on Friday 25 May 2018 American legal restrictions placed on artists Consuelo Vanderbilt – Blenheim Palace’s fused jazz sounds as well as capturing the busy and their work, particularly in regard to gender Dollar Princess by Blenheim Curator industrial scene by means of fast paced hypnotic LEVEL 4 expression, in the 20s and 30s followed by a 7.00–10.30pm Antonia Keaney | TALK ‘neo-minimalist’ repetition. performance by drag king/queen double act In the year which saw Prince Harry marry his Decadent Times Lounge @Rooftop The Dragprov Revue. Enter the underground American fiancée, it is worth noting that it was Cool Colourful Collage | ACTIVITY Restaurant | JAZZ, COCKTAILS AND GAMES and throw the rules out the window with these once common practice for British aristocrats Join in with a cool collective colourful collage of Listen to the cool jazz tunes of Luca Stoll and LiveFriday veterans, who will improvise dazzling to take an American bride. The 8th Duke of a painting from America’s Cool Modernism. Or his trio, chill out with a Prohibition-friendly Oxford’s Weekend Starts Here... songs and sketches based entirely on audience Marlborough and his brother, Lord Randolph, colour or make your own collage to take away. cocktail and play some authentic 20s games with suggestions. both wed Americans. It is perhaps fortunate Decadent Times. that Randolph’s whirlwind romance and Meet a Modernist Writer | ACTIVITY Immerse yourself in 1920s & 30s America. marriage to Jennie Jerome, resulted in the birth Have you ever wondered what you’d ask of the Anglo-American, Winston Churchill! By Ernest Hemingway or James Joyce after a From the glamour of 1930s Hollywood 1892, the upkeep of Blenheim Palace was costly few gin cocktails? Ever wished you could LEVEL 2 and the constant lack of funds was a problem; chat to Buster Keaton about his films or ask to the American rural farmstead. the 9th Duke – under his grandmother’s the Fitzgeralds about the jazz age? This is your Her Abstract Nature | ACTIVITY orders - addressed this situation by finding and chance! Scattered throughout the galleries A stall to explore the art and life of Georgia TICKETS www.ashmolean.org/livefriday marrying a Dollar Princess.
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