Taylor Ho Bynum Acoustic Bicycle Tour with Stephen Haynes and Special Guests

Cornetist and composer Taylor Ho Bynum will be performing at Real Art Ways as part of his Acoustic Bicycle Tour, a carbon-neutral concert tour of New England that celebrates both the interconnectedness of the region's creative arts communities and alternative ways of thinking about our world. Bynum will be joined by Stephen Haynes on brass and Tyshawn Sorey on percussion and trombone.

Critics have called Taylor Ho Bynum "a young brass master and compelling composer" (Jon Garelick, Boston Phoenix), "a remarkable writer, improviser and bandleader" (Troy Collins, AllAboutJazz.com) and "one of the most exciting figures in jazz's new power generation" (Steve Dollar, Time Out Chicago).

• Taylor Ho Bynum Bio

Victoire

[Listen to "A Door Into the Dark"]

All-female chamber-rock quintet Victoire will release their debut album "Cathedral City" September 28th on New Amsterdam Records. Victoire is Missy Mazzoli (compositions, keyboards, piano, melodica, toys), Olivia De Prato (violin), Lorna Krier (keyboards), Eileen Mack (clarinet), and Eleonore Oppenheim (double bass, electric bass).

The group has shared stages with the likes of Tortoise, Twi The Humble Feather and Bing and Ruth in addition to performing at the Bang on a Can Marathon and the Whitney Museum.

• Missy Mazzoli dot com
  

35th Anniversary Celebration
Celebrate our past, present, and future with us.

Coinciding with Executive Director Will K. Wilkins’s twentieth year of service, Real Art Ways looks back on 35 years as a key component of Hartford’s cultural scene and as an important innovator in connecting people to art and ideas.

The celebrations will include a roast of Wilkins, symposia, a "reuinion" fete," and a Creative Cocktail Hour kicking off the festivities.

The 35th anniversary weekend begins a year of anniversary events.

Schedule of Events
Thursday, October 21, 2010:            
Creative Cocktail Hour, 35th Kick-Off | 6-10 PM

Friday, October 22, 2010:            
Where We Live @ Real Art Ways, Live! | 9 AM
Banquet, Roast of Will K. Wilkins | 7 PM

Saturday, October 23, 2010:            
Opening Reception - Olu Oguibe and Saya Woolfalk
| 6-8 PM

[visit the 35th Anniversary page for more info]

Silent Film/Live Music: Metropolis
With the Alloy Orchestra

[Watch the Alloy Orchestra
work on the Metropolis score]

The Alloy Orchestra accompany the fully restored version of Metropolis, the Fritz Lang classic dystopian epic.

25 additional minutes of footage, once thought forever lost, were discovered in Buenos Aires in 2008. Now newly restored, Metropolis is being screened in its complete form for the first time since its 1927 premiere in Berlin.

Roger Ebert calls the Alloy Orchestra "the best in the world at accompanying silent films." The three-man ensemble work with an outrageous assemblage of peculiar objects. They thrash and grind soulful music from unlikely sources.

• Alloy Orchestra
  

Writers & Readers

A gathering for everybody who loves the written and spoken word. For people in writing groups or book clubs; for those passionate about writing, reading and thinking. Each evening has a theme, with time before and after for conversation and connecting.