Jane Austen Wrecked My Life at Real Art Ways

Agathe, hopelessly clumsy yet charming and full of contradictions, finds herself in desperate singlehood. Her dream is to experience love akin to a Jane Austen novel and her ultimate aspiration is to become a writer. Instead, she spends her days selling books in the legendary British Bookshop, Shakespeare & Co, in Paris. Invited to the Jane Austen Writers’ Residency in England, she must confront her insecurities to finally fulfill her ambition of becoming a novelist and put an end to…

“When Hollywood meets humanity, powerful stories emerge. That’s what happens in Caregiving, a new PBS documentary that pushes back the curtain on one of America’s most underrecognized — and essential — roles: family caregivers.” – AARP.com (Read the full story here.) Join Connecticut Public, at Real Art Ways, for a free screening of national documentary, “Caregiving” from Executive Producer, Bradley Cooper! This event will feature excerpts of the film which explores the untold story of caregiving, intertwining intimate personal stories and revealing…

98% on Rotten Tomatoes “Splicing together real archival video, fake documentary footage about the making of a fake biopic, and real conversations with the present-day band, Pavements is delightfully chaotic.” – NPR “Though Pavement is the star and the performers in its orbit are all in supporting roles, “Pavements” is distinguished by cinematic artistry that’s as distinctive as it is personal.” – The New Yorker “Part spoof and part serious, the film is about mythmaking as much as it is…

“With “Friendship,” DeYoung hasn’t just called his audience to look at how they approach their own relationships; he’s created a film that men can see together that demands a discussion afterward.” – Salon.com “It suggests not just a subversion but a putrefaction of the Ruddy-comedy genre — a portrait of male loneliness so totalizing, and so scarily close to the bone, that laughs and screams all but bleed together.” – Justin Chang, The New Yorker ‘Friendship’ Review: Are Men OK?…

Join us Thursday, June 19, from 6 to 9 PM for our Creative Cocktail Hour. Admission is free. We’ll have music, a food truck, custom cocktails, hands-on art-making activities, and exhibitions on view! But most importantly, you’ll be there!   Solo Exhibitions: Opening reception for “Megafauna (these desperate earthly forms)” Ezra Moth “thick, hazy, cleer, blew” Shona Macdonald “After Progress” Adam Viens Music Selector AR (DJ) Food: Southern Bell Soul Food      

“Wes Anderson returns with another intricately designed film, and an inquiry into the meaning of goodness.” – NYT Wes Anderson’s latest release is a stylized espionage comedy-drama following Anatole “Zsa-Zsa” Korda (Benicio del Toro), a flamboyant European industrialist and arms dealer. After surviving a series of assassination attempts, Korda seeks to secure his legacy by appointing his estranged daughter, Sister Liesl (Mia Threapleton), a novice nun, as his heir. Together with Bjørn (Michael Cera), a Norwegian entomologist, they navigate a complex web…

Join us on Monday, June 16, 6:00 pm for a reading and conversation with author Reginald Dwayne Betts to celebrate the launch of his new book, Doggerel.  “Doggerel is an apt name for this lovely collection, with the canine hidden in plain sight in its title and coursing through so many of the poems. Betts manages to capture essences of memory, of hope or loss, of oft-overlooked everydayness—in a way that feels surprising and familiar at once.”—Dr. Alexandra Horowitz, author of the #1…

We are hosting a one-time screening of this film, based on the inspiring true story of Afghanistan’s first all-girl robotics team. “…the film is a beam of light — about math, science and the ability of girls to achieve — arriving at a moment when not only the Taliban continues to aggressively deny girls an education in Afghanistan, but also science in our own country is taking a hit. We can all use some light.” – Variety In a nation (Afghanistan) where…

BURNT SUGAR THE ARKESTRA CHAMBER’S first New England “Toast & Roast the Coast” tour kicks off at Real Art Ways on Friday, June 6, at 7 pm. The tour supports their latest release, If You Can’t Dazzle Them With Your Brilliance Then Baffle Them With Your Blisluth Pt. Two, and their latest sonic “play pen,” The Burnt Sugar SmokeHouse!  Each Show of “Never Playing Anything the Same Way Once” will be special unto itself. Funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New…

“There’s pleasure in much of this excess, in seeing how Coogler takes his imaginative detours and the fluidity with which he draws from past, present, myth and speculative fiction, including in a masterpiece of a sequence in which men and women from across history — traditional dancers and B-boys among others — converge at the juke joint. There’s great horror in this world, in the fields haunted by slavers and in a mean little house where a Klansman’s white hood…