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GAZE
On the first Friday of every month
Free
The H4 Socials are now GAZE (Gay Happy Hour), exclusively at Real Art Ways. Read more.
Real Board (Games)
On the first Tuesday of every month
Free
We'll provide the games! Bring your friends and, if you want, a game or two that you don't think we'll have. Want to donate a game to us? Email LB.
Stephen Haynes and Joe Morris present Improvisations V
In the Real Room
Sunday, February 12, 2012 | 2 PM
$15/$12 members
An evening of solos, duets, trios and quartet improvisations.
The Improvisations concert series is an artist-curated performance series centering on improvised music. The aim is to create a listening environment that will allow the audience intimate and deep contact with the music and those who make it. Come early and stay late, listen to and speak with the performing artists.
Featured Musicians
Wildlife
Joe Morris- bass
Jim Hobbs- alto saxophone
Petr Cancura- tenor saxophone
Luther Gray- drums
with
Stephen Haynes- trumpet
Science on Screen: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Join us for a film to get you in the mood (or reinforce your cynicism) this Valentine's Day!
A couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.
Nicole Dudukovic Assistant Professor of Psychology at Trinity College. Dudukovic is fascinated by the ways in which our memories shape who we are, providing us with our personal identities and giving meaning to the world around us. Dudukovic's most recent research explores the mechanics of memory.
Join Us Third Thursdays for
Creative Cocktail Hour
$10 | $5 for Real Art Ways Members
Exhibition Openings
Love You More Than Life (corpse series) is an exhibition by Connecticut artist Susan Classen-Sullivan, who creates human scale sculptures of frogs captured in a space between life and death, pleasure and pain, between the sacred and the profane.
Crime is part of a major multidisciplinary art project Crime, USA: Hartford by Alix Lambert who explores the ubiquitous nature of crime. Please vist the visual arts page find out more about Lambert's films, performance and curated Classic Crime Film Series.
The exhibition Crime represents a cross-section of Lambert's ongoing exploration into the world of crime. From a deck of cards made by Russian prisoners to a courtroom drawing done in Rochester, NY, to a photographic portrait of a former British gangster, the works in this show take a glimpse into both the creative and the transgressive impulses in the human spirit.
From 7-10 PM
Puppet Slam: Puppet Pot Pie
An evening of edgy, creative, short form adult puppetry
This stuff is not for kids. Puppet Pot Pie is the new, Hartford area puppet slam. A puppet slam is a bunch of 3-10 min. puppet shows grouped together to create a puppet variety show. There will be many different forms of puppetry performed by puppeteers from all over the northeast.
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Next Creative Cocktail Hour Events
Thursday, March
15, 2012
OSCAR NIGHT 2012
Sponsored by CARC
in collaboration with
Real Art Ways
Admission: $55 per person or $100 per couple
VIP Admission: $100 per person
Special features will include:
Exclusive VIP cocktail hour with auction preview.
Red carpet interviews with the Hartford Courant's Maryellen Fillo.
Private screening room for viewing the 84th Annual Academy Awards® live telecast.
Silent auction featuring a wide variety of fabulous items.
Black-tie or costumed attire, prizes awarded for Most Glamorous.
Delicious cuisine provided by several local restaurants.
Find out more and buy tickets .
Stephen Haynes and Joe Morris present Improvisations VI
Saturday, March 3, 2012 | 8 PM
$15/$12 members
An evening of solos, duets, trios and quartet improvisations.
The Improvisations concert series is an artist-curated performance series centering on improvised music. The aim is to create a listening environment that will allow the audience intimate and deep contact with the music and those who make it. Come early and stay late, listen to and speak with the performing artists.
Featured Musicians
Chris Cretella- Guitar
Nigel Taylor- Trumpet
with
Joe Morris- Guitar
Stephen Haynes- Trumpet
Matthew Shipp Trio
Saturday, March 17, 2012 | 8 PM
Presale Tickets: $25 / $21 for Members
Door Tickets:
$28 / $24 For Members
Join us for a rare intimate concert with Matthew Shipp a leading avant-garde jazz piano player and the curator of The Blue Series on Thirsty Ear Records.
Matthew Shipp - piano
Michael Bisio - bass
Whit Dickey - drums
"Piano trios don't come better than this"- All About Jazz
Lecture about the history of the KKK in New England
Friday, March 30 | 8:00 pm | FREE | Connecticut Historical SocietY
Lecture: Eileen M. Angelini, “A Little Known History of Discrimination in New England: The Ku Klux Klan Attacks on Franco-Americans in the first half of the 20th century”
Presented at the Connecticut Historical Society in collaboration with Real Art Ways
In the early 1900s, over one million French Catholic Quebecers moved into largely English Protestant New England factory towns. They created so many French neighborhoods that New England was called Québec en sud, “Lower Quebec.” These immigrants, only a day’s train-ride away from home, were extremely loyal to their French-Catholic way of life. English Protestant residents became fearful of this influx of people, who spoke a different language and practiced a different religion. In towns all over New England tensions rose. English-speaking Protestants formed branches of the Ku Klux Klan, which threatened many French communities, including some in Connecticut.
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