Movie Screening: throughout Buffalo

The film, The Monuments Men (http://www.monumentsmen.com/) opens nationwide on Friday, February 7th. I will accept extra credit if you go see the movie and write a critical reaction paper on it. For more details on extra credit, please see your syllabus. 

FAH 480 Students: we will organize a group screening over the weekend of Feb. 15-16. Stay tuned for details, or feel free to go see it on your own. 

Squeaky Wheel: Exhibition Opening

Gallery Opening Kevin Kline & Pierce McCleary  Friday, January 31, Reception at 7:00pm, Artist talk at 8:00pm Our annual Regional Artist Access Residency program provides equipment and facilities access to emerging media artists living in Western New York. Each artist will exhibit work during our 2014 season and instruct a free workshop relevant to their practice.

Kevin Kline Industrial Mythology Kline's installation will explore Buffalo’s industrial past, looking at the mythological history that went into the construction of the city and the level of artificiality that would seep into our imaginations and replace the dream of natural forms. Pierce McCleary Mingalaba Where Are You Going? McCleary's short documentaryMingalaba follows the story of two refugee sisters from Burma as they transition into a life in Buffalo as single mothers. Where Are You Going? is a butoh installation which will include an interactive flower walking meditation and performance inspired by the story of a refugee's attempted suicide while leaving Burma.

WNYBAC - Exhibition Opening

Adam Weekley: Drift

January 31st – March 15th, 2014
Opening: January 31st, 2014 6pm-9pm
Originally conceived loosely as a children’s book, the work in Drift is Weekley’s most explicitly narrative work to date.  Issues of disconnect and ambiguity, both physical and emotional, are central to the story Drift tells. In building the world represented by the illustrations, a manufactured history and logic asserted itself – a jumble of memory and imagery inspired by the songs and visual legacy of country singer Dolly Parton.

Adam Weekley is a multi-media artist who has lived and worked in Buffalo since 2001. Born and raised in West Virginia, Weekley often mines personal history when developing imagery and content for his installations, sculptures, paintings and drawings. He is an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Villa Maria College.

ArtsCanisius Lecture

Canisius Lecture

Archaeological l Institute of America - Lecture

Canisius - Art Exhibition Opening and Film Festival

6:00 p.m.- SHIELDS AGAINST EVIL: Recent Paintings by ARTUR POPEK. 
Professor Popek chairs the Department of Art at the M. Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin. He designs prints and makes illustrations for books and magazines, including Nowy Dziennik in New York. Professor Popek will be present at the Opening Reception at 5:30 on Friday, the 15th. 

7:30 p.m. - POKŁOSIE (Aftermath,120’, 2012). Directed by Władysław Pasikowski. Franciszek Kalina returns to Poland after years of living abroad, alarmed that his younger brother is at odds with the residents of their village. The estranged brothers try to find out the truth. The secret, once revealed, will leave a tragic mark on the life of the two brothers and their neighbors. A film inspired by real events.

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Friday, November 15, 2013

5:30 p.m. - SHIELDS AGAINST EVIL: Recent Paintings by Artur Popek, Opening Reception (The Montante Cultural Center, Reception Room)

7:30 p.m. - PAN TADEUSZ (124', 1928). Directed by Ryszard Ordynski.
Silent movie based on an epic poem written by Adam Mickiewicz. The film has been reconstructed from its original 3-hour version. Live music by Marcin Pukaluk. The program is made in collaboration with the National Cinematheque in Warsaw.

****

Saturday, November 16, 2013

7:30 p.m. - UKŁAD ZAMKNIĘTY (Close Circuit, 100', 2013). Directed by Ryszard Bugajski. Q&A Session with the Director and Actress, Maria Mamona.
Polish with English subtitles. A thriller, loosely based on real-life experiences of three, much too successful businessmen who draw the ire of local officials and face a Kafkaesque nightmare of imprisonment.

****

Sunday, November 17, 2013

3:00 p.m. - RÓŻA (Rose, 98', 2011). Directed by Wojciech Smarzowski
Polish with English subtitles. A story of the tragic fates suffered by the inhabitants of the Mazurian region in the years following WWII, Variety terms it “almost unbearably brutal, yet hauntingly romantic.”

****

Cost $10, seniors/students $5 (Art Exhibit-Free). Tickets available at the door.

All the films, except for PAN TADEUSZ, have English subtitles.

Sponsored by The Permanent Chair of Polish Culture at Canisius College:www.canisius.edu/polish-chair/

For more info contact the Office of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at 888 2835, or e-mail Margaret Stefanski at stefansm@canisius.edu, Mary Lou Wyrobek wyrobem@canisius.edu