Arts Array Spring Semester 2018 The Washington (DC) Saxophone Quartet Victoria and Abdul Sunday, January 14, at 3 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, January 22 and 23 Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. $10 General Admission Abingdon Cinemall The saxophone is a relatively new instrument, invented $7.75 Community Admission in about 1840. Adolphe Sax, the Belgian inventor, An Indian clerk named Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal) travels conceived it actually as a family of instruments, from to London to present Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) with highest to lowest, much like a choir of voices. And like a ceremonial coin for her Golden Jubilee. The pair form the human voice, it has the flexibility to create a wide an unexpected bond upon meeting, but the lifelong range of sounds, from brassy trumpets to warm winds friendship that develops is threatened by the disapproval and strings. And, a quartet of saxophones – soprano, of Victoria’s inner circle. As the Queen contemplates alto, tenor, baritone – can even sound like an organ. The what her life of service has meant and the restrictions Washington Saxophone Quartet takes full advantage it has placed on her, Abdul brings her joy as he indulges of all that by performing music in virtually all periods her fascination with the country she rules over from of music, from the renaissance to the contemporary half a world away. Directed by Stephen Frears. Michael … J. S. Bach to Leonard Bernstein...from Archangelo Gambon, Eddie Izzard, and Olivia Williams co-star. (Rated Corelli to Duke Ellington and everything in between. The PG-13—112 minutes) possibilities for repertoire are almost limitless! Lecture: Jack Wright presents - Loving Vincent In the Gallery at Last; Fred Carter’s Artistic Journey Monday and Tuesday, January 29 and 30 Sunday, January 14, at 2 p.m. 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. William King Museum of Art Abingdon Cinemall $7.75 Community Admission More than two decades after his death in 1992, Loving Vincent brings the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh Dickenson County visual artist Fred Jerome Carter from to life to tell his remarkable story. Every one of the Clintwood, Virginia is finally getting some much-deserved 65,000 frames of the film is an oil painting, hand-painted recognition in the art world. Carter was a prolific by 125 professional oil painters who traveled across the self-taught painter and wood sculptor who operated world to the Loving Vincent studios in Poland and Greece the Cumberland Museum in his hometown where he to be a part of the production. First shot as a live action displayed cultural artifacts from the region as well as film with actors, it was then hand-painted over frame- his own artwork. This presentation by Jack Wright will by-frame in oils. The final effect is the interaction of look at Carter’s art works with a view of beginning to the performance of the actors playing Vincent’s famous place them into the contexts of their origins and what portraits, and the performance of the painting animators, makes these works mostly “Outsider Art” or “Visionary bringing these characters into the medium of paint. Art.” The influence of his mentors and friends will also be (Rated PG-13—95 minutes) discussed. Dunkirk Coal Country Monday and Tuesday, January 15 and 16 Opening Reception 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Thursday, February 1 from 6-8 p.m. Abingdon Cinemall William King Museum of Art $7.75 Community Admission Many towns in the southern Appalachian region were built on Acclaimed author Christopher Nolan (Memento, The the back of coal. Generations of miners tunneled their way Prestige, The Dark Knight) wrote and directed this into the mountainsides of Appalachia, digging ever deeper in historical thriller about the Dunkirk evacuation during search of those rich seams of shining black running through the early days of World War II. When 400,000 British and the rock. Wherever those deposits were found, communities Allied troops end up trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk, sprang up around them, built by the companies that owned France, following a catastrophic defeat, a number of the mines. These company towns, or coal camps, were entirely civilian boats set out to rescue them before they are self-sufficient, complete with company houses, company decimated by the approaching Nazi forces. Kenneth stores, hospitals, churches, dance halls, even marching bands Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, and Tom Hardy and baseball teams. Coal Country examines the rich history star. (Rated PG-13—105 minutes) and culture of coal in Southwest Virginia through the stories of the coal companies, the mines and towns they built, and the people who called those towns home. Earl Carter Sunday, January 21 3 p.m. Washington County Public Library Free for Everyone Meet Earl Carter, one of the area’s finest photojournalists, who has published a retrospective of his 40-year career, Appalachian Album. Although he has worked at newspapers in Miami, Florida, and Huntsville, Alabama, he has spent most of his career as the chief photographer at the Kingsport Times-News. He has provided images to lots of publications and television networks. Carter will lecture about his career and show some of the 224 photographs that document the people and events in Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee over the last half-century: early images of the Carter Fold, June and Johnny Cash, Coal Country life, floods and natural disasters, and the everyday lives of people. Sponsored by Washington County Friends of the Library. The Paramount Chamber Players For the Love of Country Sunday, February 4, at 3 p.m. Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church $10 General Admission Music has always played an important part in creating cultural identity. The Paramount Chamber Players presents four composers, each important to the development of a sense of national identity and each created or expanded a musical style that became identified with his home country. Represented are France, Spain, Germany and the United States in the music of Gaubert, Turina, Bloch and Schumann. Repertoire: Ballade for Piano and Flute, Phillippe Gaubert Piano Quartet in A Minor, op. 67 by Joaquin Turina Concertino for Flute, Viola, and Piano by Ernest Bloch Piano Trio no. 3 in G minor, op. 110 by Robert Schumann BLACK FILM SERIES BLACK FILM SERIES Detroit Mudbound Monday and Tuesday, February 5 and 6 Monday and Tuesday, February 12 and 13 7 p.m. 7 p.m. VHCC, ISC-130 VHCC, ISC-130 Free For Everyone Free For Everyone In the summer of 1967, rioting and civil unrest starts Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her to tear apart the city of Detroit. Two days later, a report husband’s Mississippi Delta farm, a place she finds of gunshots prompts the Detroit Police Department, the foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family’s Michigan State Police, and the Michigan Army National struggles, two young men return from the war to work Guard to search and seize an annex of the nearby the land. Jamie, Laura’s brother-in-law, is everything Algiers Motel. Several policemen start to flout procedure her husband is not - charming and handsome, but he is by forcefully and viciously interrogating guests to get haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, a confession. At the end of the night, some will live, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the and others will be forever traumatized. (Rated R—143 McAllan farm, now battles the prejudice in the Jim Crow minutes) South. Rated R—134 minutes) Battle of the Sexes Spread the Love Monday and Tuesday, February 19 and 20 Saturday, February 10 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. 6-8 p.m. Abingdon Cinemall William King Museum of Art $7.75 Community Admission $25 per ticket/$40 per couple This sports docudrama recreates the legendary 1973 Bring a date and come prepared to create! Join us at “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match between Billie Jean WKMA for the annual Spread the Love art event! Enjoy King (Emma Stone) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell). When champagne and chocolates at 6 p.m. in the foyer the 55-year-old Riggs brags that he can beat any woman followed by a curator-led gallery tour at 6:30 p.m. At 7 in the world on the tennis court, 29-year-old King, then p.m. join WKMA Education staff for an instructional Sip the reigning champion, accepts his challenge. Their and Paint. Take your painting home as a memento or gift highly publicized match soon takes on a larger meaning it to your Valentine! as a milestone in the fight for gender equality. Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. Elisabeth Shue and Bill Pullman co-star. (Rated PG-13—121 minutes) Joe Reiff Sunday, February 11 Stephen Jett 3 p.m. Sunday, February 25 Washington County Public Library 3 p.m. Free for Everyone Washington County Public Library Free for Everyone Meet Dr. Joe Reiff, Professor of Religion at Emory & Henry College, whose book, Born of Conviction: White Meet Dr. Stephen Jett, retired Professor of Geography Methodists and Mississippi’s Closed Society, focuses from University of California, Davis, who has written a new on the response of the white Mississippi Methodists to book, Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Twenty-eight of Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas. It paints ministers signed a statement of their convictions, based a compelling picture of pre-Columbian cultures and Old on Jesus’ teachings to permit “no discrimination of race, World civilizations that, contrary to popular belief, were not color, or creed,” in an attempt to lead white Methodists isolated from one another.