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Marcus D WileyFriday, August 27 at 7 p.m.
Christian scene-stealer Marcus D. Wiley has taken clean comedy to the upper echelon of entertainment. Wooing the masses (and not just Catholics), Wiley's widespread appeal is contemporary enough to entice the fashion-savvy and culturally conscious Generation Xs, Ys, and Zs, but traditional enough to melt the matriarchs as he recounts Mama's mandates. Needless to say, Wiley's never satisfied with benefiting a few when he can bless the multitude. He's sure Wileywood's a place where everyone should be able to go.
Tickets are: $24 Advanced; $29 Day of Show (additional service fees may apply). Tickets can be purchased online, by phone at 912-525-5050, or at the Savannah Box Office window, 216 E. Broughton St., or at the door 1 hour prior to the event. |
The Glass HouseMonday, September 13 at 8 p.m.
Presented by the Lucas Theatre Part of the Southern Circuit of Independent Filmmakers The fringes of Iranian society can be a lonely place, especially if you are a teenage girl with few resources. The girls of The Glass House take us on a never-before-seen tour of the underclass of Iran as they strive to pull themselves from the margins of society by attending a one-of-kind rehabilitation center in uptown Tehran. This groundbreaking documentary reflects a side of Iran to which few have access: a society lost in its traditions with nothing meaningful to replace them, and a group of courageous women working to instill a sense of empowerment and hope into the minds and lives of otherwise discarded teenage girls. Hamid Rahmanian, director, will tour with the film.
92 minutes. Documentary. Official site. Tickets are $8 each, available soon.  
 Hamid Rahmanian is originally from Tehran, Iran. He earned a M.F.A. in Computer Animation in 1997 from Pratt Institute and was nominated for a Student Academy Award for his animated film, The Seventh Day. He has worked for Disney and recently completed his first feature-length fiction film, Daybreak, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Shadows and Light: Surrealism and the Cinematic CanvasTuesday, September 28 at 8 p.m.
The Lucas Theatre is pleased to present a selection of surreal and experimental films from the 1920s in conjunction with the Twilight Visions exhibit at the Jepson Center from June 11 - October 10. These films were chosen for their influence on cinema and art of the times.
 Brumes d'automne (1928) by Dimitri Kirsanoff. Moody, visual poem by Russian ex-patriot filmmaker in Paris. 12 min.
Tickets are a "pass" for the entire day of films. $10 general public, $5 with SCAD ID, $5 seniors and military and $5 with any student ID. You must present ID in person to receive discount. Available by calling 912-525-5050 or online.  Presented in conjunction with Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris 1924-1939, on exhibit at the Jepson Center from June 11 - October 10.
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Die Abentuer Des Prinzen Achmed (1926)The Adventures of Prince Achmed
Inspired by the tales from the Arabian Nights, the film tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed onto a magical flying horse, sending him off to his death in the night. The prince foils the plan and soars into adventures with monsters, demons, scorpions, and witches. This painstakingly-detailed, piece of cinema is the earliest feature-length animation film. Director Lotte Reiniger hand-cut hundreds of silhouettes, fitted with wire hinges to creating marionettes and cut from layers of transparent paper to make backgrounds with the illusion of depth.
Tickets to this film are $10 general public, $5 with SCAD ID, $5 for seniors, military or student ID. Available by calling 912-525-5050 or online.
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Quai des Brumes (1938)Port of Shadows
This is a quintessential example of poetic realism and a classic film from the golden age of French cinema from director Marcel Carne. Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean (Jean Gabin), an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news. Also starring the blue-eyed phenomenon Michèle Morgan in her first major role, and the menacing Michel Simon, Port of Shadows (Le Quai des brumes) starkly portrays an underworld of lonely souls wrestling with their own destinies. So moody and self-defeatist is this film that the failing French government of the late 1930s often pointed to it as the reason the Nazi regime so easily took Paris. France, 1938
Shown with special arrangement from Tamasa Distribution, 122 rue La Boétie, 75008 Paris. Tickets are $10 general public, $7 for Telfair members, $5 with SCAD ID, $5 seniors and military and $5 with any student ID. You must present ID in person to receive discount. Available by calling 912-525-5050 or online.  Presented in conjunction with Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris 1924-1939, on exhibit at the Jepson Center from June 11 - October 10.
During the 1920s and 30s, Paris was a site of cultural, social, and political transformations. Twilight Visions, organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee, examines the ways in which the city of Paris was constructed through photography, film, and the illustrated press. This exhibition will include over 100 photographs, films, books, and period ephemera that have been selected for their power to suggest the mystery, wonder, and anticipation in the chance encounters experienced by surrealist writers and artists as they wandered through the labyrinthine streets of Paris. |
Valerie CaseyEthos Design Lecture
While the principal role of visual communication has remained unchanged throughout history, a broader realm of human interaction must be acknowledged. Even as debate surrounding the fundamental issues of content and audience has raised the graphic design field to a new level of maturity, visual communicators are confronted with evidence that their work is negatively impacting nature's life-giving system and the socioeconomic balance around the globe. At the center of this debate is the need for a new ethos that addresses global equity, sustainability and the downsides to overconsumption on a populated planet.
Tickets are $15 (additional service fees may apply) and may be purchased online, by phone at 912-525-5050.
Valerie Casey
The Designers Accord - the global design coalition of designers, educators, and business leaders focused on creating positive social and environmental impact - is Casey's brainchild. Fast Company writes that Casey's vision around design thinking and impact is "on a path to change the culture of the creative community from bottom to top, and with it, the way everything is made, from toothbrushes to airplanes." Before starting her own practice, Casey held executive leadership positions at the most respected design companies in the world. At IDEO, she led the digital experience group, focusing on maximizing the effects and opportunities of networked culture. Before that, she was the Executive Creative Director at frog design, where she led the design research and design strategy practices worldwide. Casey was also an Associate Partner at Pentagram Design, where she started the interaction design group. Casey speaks globally on cultural change and sustainability, and is an Adjunct Professor in the graduate design program at CCA. She holds a master's degree in cultural theory and design from Yale University and a BA from Swarthmore College.
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Terry IrwinEthos Design Lecture
In this lecture Terry Irwin will discuss design's relationship to our unsustainable dominant economic paradigm (and consumer-led marketplace) and the beliefs and assumptions (ethos) that underpin it. She will propose that designers and design educators look outside the design discipline for new information, knowledge and wisdom about the interdependencies between people, planet and the things people make and do (design) in order to design for relationship. In particular Terry will focus on the difference between 'wants and desires' and genuine human needs and contrast the types of products, services, processes and designed communications connected to each. Finally, she will propose several topic areas around which a new, sustainable, design ethos might develop.
Chair of Design at Carnegie Mellon School of Design Terry Irwin is the Head of the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Terry received her MFA from the Basel School of Design, Switzerland and was a founding partner/creative director in the San Francisco office of MetaDesign, an international design firm with offices in London, Berlin and Zurich. Since 1986 Terry has taught design at the University level and has been on the faculty of Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles, California College of Arts and Crafts and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, Scotland and has lectured and taught at Art Center College of Design, RISD, Arizona Statue University, North Carolina State University and Bozen Bolano, Italy, among others. In 2003 Terry moved to the UK to do a second masters degree in Holistic Science at Schumacher College, UK, a center for environmental studies. After finishing her degree, she joined the faculty and taught design thinking to masters students from disciplines such as science, environmental studies, biology, anthropology and the arts. She is currently a PhD researcher in the Centre for the Study of Natural Design at The University of Dundee, Scotland where her research explores how principles from living systems can inform a more appropriate and responsible design process.
To register for the Design Ethos Conference 2010, please click here. To download the brochure, please click here. |
Mississippi DamnedSaturday, October 9 at 8 p.m.
Mississippi Damned tells the tale of three poor, African-American children in rural Mississippi who must face the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction and violence. They struggle to escape their circumstances and must decide whether to confront what has plagued their family for generations or succumb to being forever damned in Mississippi.
Writer/director Tina Mabry will tour with the film. 120 minutes. Narrative. Official site. Tickets are $8 each, available soon.  
 Tina Mabry is a native of Tupelo, Mississippi and graduated from the University of Southern California with a M.F.A. in Film Production in 2005. She co-wrote a feature screenplay, Itty Bitty Titty Committee, which won Best Narrative Feature at SXSW in 2007. Tina participated in the FIND Director's Lab with Mississippi Damned and was awarded the Kodak Film Grant.
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Turtle Island Quartet with Cyrus Chestnut & Mike MarshallFriday, October 22 at 8 p.m. Presented by the Lucas Theatre Started in 1985, and named for Native American creation mythology, The Turtle Island Quartet has been pushing the boundaries of chamber music for strings. They combine classic quartet aesthetic with contemporary American music styles. Most recent accolades include 2006 and 2008 Grammy Awards for Best Classic Crossover album. This rare concert will also feature Americana legends Cyrus Chestnut on piano and Mike Marshall on mandolin.
Turtle Island Quartet continues their grail-like quest in a program that matches a reinterpretation of Brahms celebrated piano quintet with a gospel-tinged fantasy of Down by the Riverside. The giants of jazz such as Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Louis Armstrong are given their just due and bluegrass legends like Bill Monroe and Flatt and Scruggs are brought to the table for this musical feast.  
Tickets are $55, $48, $38 and $20, available soon. Listen to "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" |
The MikadoNew York Gilbert & Sullivan Players
The Mikado, or The Town of Titipu, is a comic operetta in two acts by the master British satirists, Gilbert & Sullivan. The location is a fictitious Japanese town full of colorful characters - 3 little maids from school, a wandering minstrel, a hilariously corrupt public official, and a Lord High Executioner who may have a list of potential victims but is too tenderhearted to actually perform his duties. A romantic triangle takes the usual course of thwarted romance, until the arrival first of the fearsome Katisha, claiming Nanki-Poo as her "perjured lover," and later of the emperor, or Mikado, himself. In order to resolve the ensuing complications, Ko-Ko must use his wits to convince the most unattractive Katisha to marry him - in record time. Fast, funny, and witty - not unlike a Victorian-era Some Like It Hot - the Mikado is one of the most performed of the Gilbert & Sullivan canon. Tickets are $48, $38 and $20 available soon.
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Artois the GoatThursday, November 18 at 8 p.m. Presented by the Lucas Theatre Part of the Southern Circuit of Independent Filmmakers Virgil Gurdies doesn't eat to live, he lives to eat. Unfortunately for Virgil, his passion for fine cheese doesn't jive with his day job: manufacturing artificial flavor additives for TV dinners. When Virgil is stripped of his lab coat, he comes face-to-face with the strange inhabitants of an unfamiliar world: that of artisanal goat cheese. Discovering his passion, he buys Artois, a scrawny young buck, putting his operation in motion. Now all Virgil has to do is figure out how to explain to his girlfriend that he spent the money he was saving for her engagement ring on a goat.
Producer Richard Reininger will tour with the film. 109 minutes. Narrative. Official site. Tickets are $8 each, available soon.  
 Richard Reininger has been enraptured with the creation of motion pictures ever since discovering his family's video camera during his freshman year of high school. Diving into media technology classes and independent studies programs left in him a burning desire to work in pictures. Attending the University of Texas at Austin, he received a Bachelor's degree in film production. Artois the Goat premiered at SXSW in Narrative Competition, the first of many festivals and honors. Richard currently resides in Austin, Texas. |
WoodpeckerJanuary TBD at 8 p.m.
Presented by the Lucas Theatre Part of the Southern Circuit of Independent Filmmakers Woodpecker is a mockumentary about amateur birder Johnny Neander's quest to find the ivory billed woodpecker. Declared extinct in the 1940's, the bird has apparently been spotted by numerous experts in the Arkansas bayou. Fanatical birdwatchers have descended in hopes of finding the elusive woodpecker. The ensuing chaos divides the small town between believers and non-believers, rabid environmentalists and opportunistic entrepreneurs. Director Alex Karpovsky will tour with this comedy. 83 minutes. Mockumentary. Official site.  
 Alex Karpovsky has been selected as one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" by Filmmaker Magazine. A formidable actor, in the past year Alex played the voices of several Russian gangsters in Grand Theft Auto IV. Alex's newest film, Trust Us, This Is All Made Up, premiered at the SXSW film festival this past March. |
International Guitar NightThursday, January 27 at 8 p.m.
International Guitar Night, North America's premier mobile guitar festival, returns to the Lucas Theatre. Back by popular demand after last year's show, it is the only production of its kind to have grassroots origins. Ever since its beginning in 1995 in a converted laundromat in the California Bay Area, IGN has featured the best performing guitar composers from around the world.
For the winter 2011 U.S. tour, San Francisco guitar poet Brian Gore will be joined by Clive Carroll, England's show-stopping steel string guitarist and favorite IGN alumnus; Alexandre Gismonti, the son and protégé of legendary Brazilian guitarist Egberto Gismonti, and Pino Forastiere from Italy, whose two handed melodic style has placed him at the forefront of the new contemporary steel string guitar world. Tickets are $55, $40, $28 and $20, available soon.
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThursday through Saturday, March 10, 11 & 12 at 8 p.m.
FAHRENHEIT 451 is author Ray Bradbury's adaptation of his classic American novel. The story takes place in an unspecified future time in an anti-intellectual America where the possession and reading of books is considered an illegal activity. Firemen, employed by the government, burn books and houses, and a horrifying "mechanical hound" is sent to hunt down and kill offenders. SCADs multi-media production will feature film, motion graphics and animation to bring this eerily relevant classic to the stage.
March 11, 11 a.m. matinee for middleschool and highschool audiences on March 11. For school show information, e-mail Sarah Lasseter. Tickets are $15 general admission; $10 with senior, military or student ID; $5 with valid SCAD ID; and free with valid SCAD ID for March 10 performance only. |
Southern Stories - 3 Films by Paul Harill and Ashley MaynorWednesday, March 23 at 8 p.m.
Directors Paul Harill and Ashley Maynor will tour with the films. 77 minutes. Narrative and documentary. Official site. Tickets are $8 each, available soon.
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Scrappers - Recycling the American DreamMonday, April 4 at 8 p.m.
Set in Chicago, Scrappers is a verité portrait of Oscar and Otis, two metal scavengers searching for a living with brains, brawn and battered pickup trucks. The film not only explores how the 2008 financial collapse and crackdowns on undocumented immigrants affect these men and their families, but also questions popular notions of poverty, race relations and recycling, while examining dreams of personal self-sufficiency and urban sustainability.
Co-directors and co-producers Brian Ashby and Ben Kolak will tour with the film. 90 minutes. Documentary. Official site. Tickets are $8 each, available soon.  
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HairThursday through Saturday, May 12 -14 at 8 p.m.
The American Tribal Love-rock Musical.
The classic musical of the hippie counter-culture, sexual revolution and anti-Vietnam War peace movement of the 1960s, HAIR has earned its rightful place in the pantheon of the great American musicals of the 20th century. Many of its songs (Aquarius, Easy to be Hard, Good Morning Starshine) have become classics. HAIR literally changed the shape of musical theatre after its explosion onto the scene. Reviewing the recent Broadway production, Time Magazine said, "HAIR seems, if anything, more daring than ever."
Contains adult material and situations. Not suitable for all audiences. Tickets are $20 general admission; $15 with senior, military or student ID; $5 with valid SCAD ID; and free with valid SCAD ID for May 12 performance only. |
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Menilmontant (1926) by Dimitri Kirsanoff. Shot on location in Paris, this stunningly beautiful, silent film uses no inter-titles - nor does it need any. A touching story of tragedy and redemption between sisters. 37 min.
Vormittagspuk (1928) by Hans Richter. Amusing and playful short film about inanimate objects that tease their human counterparts. The Nazi regime tried to destroy all copies of the print, but one remains. 9 min.
Ballet Mechanique (1924) by Ferdinand Leger. A hypnotic experiment in stop motion techniques and double-exposure on a moving canvas. 11 min.
Manhatta (1921) by Paul Strand and Charles Scheeler. Another visual poem, this time by photographer Strand and painter Scheeler. Shot entirely on location in New York City, it exposes the unseen serenity of a bustling city. 10 min.
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Paul Harrill's narrative films and documentary videos have screened on five continents at film festivals, museums and on television. Harrill's work has been supported by the Independent Television Service and the Aperture Film Grant and by residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. 
Ashley Maynor is an award-winning documentarian whose films and new media works have been exhibited around the country. Maynor's creative work, outreach and research have been supported by the Southern Humanities Media Fund, the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Her most recent documentary, For Memories' Sake, was awarded the Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2009 University Film and Video Association Competition.
Brian Ashby studied Political Science at the University of Chicago, and has conducted research in India and Cambodia. He currently assists the photographer Laura Letinsky and works in freelance photography and videography. This is his first film.
Ben Kolakproduced the documentary THAXand co-produced Crime Fiction, which screened at the Slamdance, Vail and GenArt Film Festivals. He assists the video artist Catherine Sullivan and produces video for clients including Brand New World and Catherine Edelman Gallery.