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Arts Array Fall 2017 Visiting Author Opening Reception Reading with Mandy Catron in the Trenches Sunday, August 27 September 7 3 P.M Arts Array Fall 2017 Visiting Author Opening Reception Reading with Mandy Catron In the Trenches Sunday, August 27 September 7 3 p.m. 6-8 p.m. Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church William King Museum Free for everyone As a companion exhibit to The Great War: Printmakers of World War I the William King Museum of Art has collected memorabilia from the Great War— Abingdon native, Mandy Catron, will read from her best-selling new book, How uniforms, weapons, mess kits—to give visitors a chance to imagine the lives of To Fall in Love with Anyone and lecture on the book’s development. Part memoir, soldiers and civilians who lived during this violent and uncertain period of world part philosophical musing, and part scientific findings, Catron’s book explores history. The full exhibit is available September 1 to November 5. what it means to love someone, to be loved and how we present our love to the world. What makes love last? Can love ever work the way it seems to in Spencer-Miller Concert Series movies and books and on social media? Is there a right way to fall in love? Or even a right person to fall in love with? Copies of the book will be for sale at The Checkers of Sound the event. Sponsored by Washington County Public Library’s “Friends of the Library.” Sunday, September 10 3 p.m. Film Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church Hidden Figures $10 Monday and Tuesday, August 28 and 29 The annual Spencer-Miller concert series 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. kicks off with an afternoon of classical music Abingdon Cinemall $7.75 Community Admission from a group of talented performers. Dr. Priscilla Porterfield, Dr. Andrea Cheeseman, Dr. Joseph Trivette, Dr. Karen L. Robertson, and Dr. Rodney Reynersen will each perform during this special event. As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Based on the unbelievably true life stories of three of these women, known as “human computers”, we follow these women as they quickly rose the ranks Day of Service of NASA alongside many of history’s greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance VHCC will provide volunteer opportunities for students on September and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes. 11 as part of the annual National Day of Service. Please contact Ben Directed by Theodore Melfi. (Rated PG – 127 minutes) King at [email protected] for a list of planned activities. Film Film Lion Monday and Tuesday, September 4 and 5 The Lost City of Z 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, September 11 and 12 Abingdon Cinemall 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. $7.75 Community Admission Abingdon Cinemall $7.75 Community Admission In this adaptation of the memoir A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley, a five-year- old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after he gets lost in Calcutta. During an expedition in the Amazon in 1906, British explorer Percy Fawcett Years later, he struggles with his memories of his birth family, and decides to begin (Charlie Hunnam) grows obsessed with finding a lost city that could be the key a search for them. Dev Patel stars as the adult Brierley in this drama directed by to understanding the origins of human civilization. Over the next two decades, Garth Davis. Nicole Kidman, David Wenham, and Rooney Mara co-star. (Rated he returns to the Amazon multiple times in the hope of unearthing its location. PG-13 – 121 minutes) Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, and Angus MacFadyen co-star in this adaptation of David Grann’s 2009 nonfiction novel. Directed by James Gray Opening Reception (The Immigrant, We Own the Night). (Rated PG-13 – 140 minutes) The Great War: Printmakers of World War I Film September 7 Certain Women 6-8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, September 18 and 19 William King Museum 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Abingdon Cinemall $7.75 Community Admission World War I, when it began in 1914, was called the war to end all wars, the Great War. It was, at that time, the bloodiest conflict in history, involving more than thirty nations and costing more than seventeen million lives. It was a war fought A lawyer (Laura Dern) deals with a hostage crisis in this ensemble drama about in the trenches with machine guns and chemical weapons. For the first time in a women living in Montana. Elsewhere, a wife and mother (Michelle Williams) conflict, war planes took to the skies and armed submarines lurked in the seas. tries to build a cottage home, and a female ranch worker (Lily Gladstone) falls for The stories and emotional impact of the war are documented in 27 prints by a young woman (Kristen Stewart) who teaches adult-education classes. Written British and American artists from the Frank Raysor Collection, on loan from and directed by Kelly Reichardt, Certain Women made its world premiere at the the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The full exhibit is available September 1 to 2016 Sundance Film Festival. (Rated R – 108 minutes) November 5. Film Opening Reception Wakefield From These Hills Monday and Tuesday, September 25 and 26 October 5 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. 6-8 p.m. Abingdon Cinemall William King Museum $7.75 Community Admission William King Museum of Art continues to celebrate the diversity of regional Television legend, Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) stars in this character study artistic talent with its biennial exhibition, From These Hills: Contemporary Art about the triumphs and tragedies of personal isolation. A lawyer and family in the Southern Appalachian Highlands, a major exhibition of new works by man (Cranston), unable to deal with life’s frustrations any longer, starts living artists working in all media in Southwest Virginia, Northeast Tennessee, Western in the attic of his suburban home. He then spies on his wife (Jennifer Garner) North Carolina, Southern West Virginia, and Eastern Kentucky. The full exhibit and children, who believe he has vanished without a trace. Written and directed is available October 5 to February 11. by Robin Swicord. (Rated R – 109 minutes) Spencer-Miller Concert Series Washington County Library “Big Read” Film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Monday, October 2 7:30 p.m. Abingdon Cinemall Free for Everyone This is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence Paramount Chamber Players by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world Sunday, October 8 • 3 p.m. at Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church, $10 completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that We refer to the 65 Mustang, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, the I Love Lucy happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon Show, and Elvis’ Can’t Help Falling in Love with You as classics because each in finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he their own way clearly defined a cultural moment. Similarly, the music of Haydn would have imagined. NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for Mozart, and Beethoven defines The Classical Period, music composed between the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. 1750-1820. The Paramount Chamber Players along with guest pianist, Wayne Johnson of Kingsport, TN, presents a program illustrating the pure classicism of these great composers. Film A Monster Calls Washington County Library “Big Read” Event Monday and Tuesday, October 2 and 3 Fantasy Icon Charles Vess 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, October 8 Abingdon Cinemall 3 p.m. $7.75 Community Admission Washington County Public Library Free for Everyone A young boy (Lewis MacDougall) befriends a wise tree monster (voiced by Liam Neeson) while coping with bullying and the terminal illness of his mother Internationally-acclaimed fantasy artist Charles Vess is the keynote speaker for (Felicity Jones). He moves in with his grandmother (Sigourney Weaver) as his The Big Read and is illustrating the 50th-anniversary re-issue of Ursula K. Le mom’s condition deteriorates, and uses his imagination and friendship with Guin’s Earthsea series. He discusses the books, Le Guin and how he brought the monster to escape reality. J.A. Bayona (The Impossible) directed this fantasy her vision of a world to life. He has exhibited in New York, San Francisco, drama. (Rated PG-13 – 108 minutes) Atlanta, Spain and Italy, among others. He drew 175 illustrations for Neil Gaiman’s Stardust, which became a major motion picture. He has received many awards including a Locus Award, World Fantasy Awards for Best Artist and Best Short Story, Eisner Awards and more. NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. Barter Theatre Production Sherlock Holmes Non-Credit Music Classes at VHCC Tuesday, October 3 Class Voice 1 is offered Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:30 to 1:45 pm, $80 7:30 p.m.
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