Art notes, March 10
By Casey Gillis on Mar. 09, 2010
LC continues film series
Lynchburg College’s Sustainable Film Series, which started in February with a screening of “Food, Inc.,” examines food, energy and culture.
The series continues on March 17 with “Power of Community,” which shows how Cuban communities pulled together and thrived after the country’s economy tanked in the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1990.
The rest of the schedule is as follows:
• March 31: “Coal Country,” a look at modern coal mining, with the stories of miners, coal company officials and the activists who are battling them.
• April 15: “Idiocracy,” a sci-fi comedy starring Luke Wilson as a dim man who, after participating in a government hibernation experiment, wakes up in the year 2025 to find a society so dumbed down by mass commercialism and mindless TV that he’s the smartest guy on the planet.
• April 28: “No Impact Man,” which follows Colin Beavan as he and his family go “off the grid,” attempting to live in New York City for a year with as little environmental impact as possible.
Each film begins at 6 p.m. in the Hopwood Auditorium, with a short discussion after. For more information, call (434) 544-8100 or visit http://www.lynchburg.edu.
Charlottesville artist speaks
Charlottesville artist and UVa art professor Richard Crozier is the Academy Gallery’s featured artist this month. He’ll be giving a free talk about his oil paintings at 11:30 a.m. Friday in the gallery, located at 600 Main St. For more information, call (434) 528-3256 or visit http://www.AcademyFineArts.com.
Rockabilly act at White Hart
Rockabilly singer Wrenn Mangum will be performing his brand of high-energy rock ‘n’ roll, mostly from the ’50s and ’60s, at The White Hart at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
Mangum grew up on rockabilly and Elvis tunes. After graduating from VCU with a degree in painting and printmaking, he fronted the popular Richmond band Frog Legs and Donkey Balls, which incorporated performance art and comedy. He also sang with rockabilly group The Wild One.
His current project is a solo salute to the original rockabilly pioneers and artists of the 1950s, channeling early Elvis and the traditional spirit of rock ‘n’ roll with only a microphone, guitar, amp and some serious sideburns.
Tickets to the show are $5. For more information, call (434) 455-1659 or visit http://www.inklingswhitehart.com.
CVCC opens new show
The work of North Carolina artists Patricia Hayes and Henry Stindt will be on display in Central Virginia Community College’s Merritt Hall Gallery in March and April.
The exhibit, “A Decade of Travels in Central America,” will open with a reception at 5:30 p.m. Friday.
The fine arts photographs document their 10-year journal of travel through Central America, a continuing project that began in 2000. Both are adjunct professor at East Carolina University School of Art & Design; Hayes is also a studio artist, and Stindt is a commercial and fine art photographer.
For more information, call (434) 832-7609.
65-voice choir to perform
Westminster Choir College’s 65-voice Schola Cantorum will perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday at First Presbyterian Church on V.E.S. Road.
The choir, which is made up of second-year students from the internationally known music school, will present a program of a cappella works from the classical repertoire, including excerpts from Stravinsky’s “Symphony of Psalms,” Faure’s “Requiem” and Moses Hogan’s arrangement of “Wade in the Water,” as well as works by Rutter and Mendelssohn.
James Jordan, senior conductor at Westminster, directs the group.
For more information about the free concert, call (434) 384-6231.
Local band at The Ellington
Dragonfly will perform at this week’s Ellington Fridays, which runs from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Tickets, available at the door, are $8. No children under 12 admitted, and those under 21 must be with a parent. A cash bar will be open. Call (434) 845-2162 or visit http://www.theellington.org for more information.
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