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ARTIST
LECTURES & DISCUSSIONS
Artist Lecture: Liz Magor
Friday, September 12, 6:30 PM
Auditorium
FREE to members; $5 general admission
Tickets available at the Henry Admission Desk beginning
September 5; seating is limited.
Exhibiting artist Liz Magor will discuss the unexpected relationship
of photography to her sculptures. Magor’s favored techniques
of casting and molding offer an illusionistic connection to
the objects they represent in much in the same way photographic
images mirror their subjects.
ART
DIALOGUES
Art Dialogue: John Kaufmann on Josiah McElheny's The
Last Scattering Surface
Thursday, July 24, 7 PM
East Gallery
FREE
Writer, actor, and director John Kaufmann leads an informal
conversation in the Henry's East Gallery about Josiah McElheny's
representation of the Big Bang. Kaufmann's production of Starball
married astronomy, poetry, science, Jungian dream analysis,
and improvised Irish drinking songs. Join us for what is sure
to be a lively discussion of The Last Scattering Surface.
Music Dialogue: Blow, Gabriel: Music of the Apocalypse
Wednesday, July 30, 7 PM
Auditorium
FREE to members; $5 general admission
Tickets available at the Henry Admission Desk beginning
July 23; seating is limited.
What is the sound the world makes as it ends — a whimper
or a bang? YETI editor and eMusic gospel music columnist Mike McGonigal presents a multimedia look at music and the idea of apocalypse in popular culture. This talk will cover many bases, from a look at gospel songs that celebrate the apocalypse to the music made by modern cults, including Jim Jones, Charles Manson, and (the allegedly apocalyptic) Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. The ways that music figures in apocalypse-themed films will be looked at, as well as musical responses to the atomic bomb, from the infamous “Duck & Cover” PSA to Pere Ubu’s “30 Seconds Over Tokyo” and the Swan Silvertones’ “Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb.” The lecture will end with Pierre Henry’s musique concrete works Le Voyage and L’Apocalypse de Jean, two thrilling and visceral looks at the end of the world as we know it.
Mike McGonigal has written about music since 1984, when he started the fanzine Chemical Imbalance. His book on My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless was published in Continuum’s 33 and 1/3 series. A former Seattle resident and Amazon.com music editor, today McGonigal lives in Portland, OR, where he oversees editorial for YETI publications. His books Buked & Scorned: The YETI Guide to Sanctified Blues & Gritty Gospel (YETI) and In Love With Those Times: The Chemical Imbalance Reader (Verse Chorus) will both be published in 2009.
AFFILIATED
PROGRAMS
Open Floor
Tuesdays, July 29, August 26, and September 30, 7 PM
Auditorium
FREE
Open Floor is a monthly laboratory of ideas brought
to you by Henry Art Gallery staff. Part artist survey, part
lecture, part sing-along, part belly of the beast, each month
Henry Staff, local artists, musicians, performers, and filmmakers
present work with the hope of generating new creative relationships.
As its title suggests, Open Floor encourages the release
of whatever vibrancy you may have swirling in your chest.
Discussion is appropriate. Debate seems necessary. Random
shouting is required. Contact us at openfloor@henryart.org
for more information, or visit us at openfloored.com.
Skyspace Meditations
Linda Tennant, Seattle Insight Meditation Society
Saturdays, July 19, August 23, and September 13, 10 AM
James Turrell Skyspace
Admission is by donation
Linda Tennant leads a 30-minute Vipassana meditation in the
contemplative space of James Turrell’s Skyspace, Light
Reign. Please wear loose clothing; a meditation pillow
is optional. Space is limited so reservations are required.
Come and enjoy this unique meditation experience. Please call
206.616.9894 to make your reservation.
Northwest Film Forum presents
The Silence Before Bach (Pere Portabella, Spain, 2007, 35mm, 102 min)
Friday, August 1 – Thursday, August 7, 7 PM and 9 PM
Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, Seattle
$5 NWFF and Henry members; $8.50 general admission
The meaning is in the music, or so the story goes in veteran
surrealist filmmaker Pere Portabella’s The Silence Before Bach. The film’s title refers to a poem by the Swedish poet Lars Gustafsson, The Silence of the World Before Bach. Filled with stunning images, this film is as much music for your eyes as for your ears.
The Warren Report presents
Film Rap
Henry Auditorium
FREE to Warren Report and Henry members, RSVP required: rsvp@thewarrenreport.com.
Every month, The Warren Report invites critically-acclaimed
filmmakers from around the world to share their movies and
their secrets. At Film Rap, Oscar®-winners and independently-spirited
auteurs present a film of their choice from their own filmography
at 12, followed by an in-depth conversation with Warren Etheridge
about their craft at 2.
This week's Film Rap: An afternoon with... Rod Lurie
Saturday, July 19 at 12 PM.
Rod Lurie wrote and directed the widely praised Academy Award
and Golden Globe Award nominated political thriller The
Contender starring Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges, Gary Oldman
and Christian Slater. The film was honored by the Broadcast
Film Critics with the first-ever Alan J. Pakula Award. His
latest film, Resurrecting the Champ starring Samuel
L. Jackson and Josh Hartnett is in theaters now.
Lurie’s other most recent projects include the ABC drama Commander in Chief, a show centered on the first female President of the United States starring Geena Davis and Donald Sutherland, and the military prison thriller The Last Castle, which starred Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, and Mark Ruffalo. Rod recently completed his latest film Nothing But the Truth starring Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, David Schwimmer, and Noah Wyle.
Lurie made his film writing and directing debut in 1998 with the dramatic short “Four Second Delay,” which won the Best Short Film award at the Atlanta Film Festival and the Crested Butte Reel Fest. The film also won the Prix du Jury at the Festival of American Cinema in Deauville, France.
Next Film Rap: An afternoon with... John August
Saturday, July 26 at 12 PM
John August’s feature directing debut, The Nines, premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
As a screenwriter, John’s credits include Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish and both Charlie's Angels movies. He wrote and co-produced Go, which debuted at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival.
For updates and details, visit thewarrenreport.com
Wednesday University
Wednesday University, a program of Seattle Arts & Lectures
and the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, provides
Puget Sound residents with an intellectually stimulating and
fun way to continue their education in the arts and humanities.
Each year, the Wednesday University offers three courses taught
by distinguished professors at the University of Washington.
These courses, which meet on Wednesday evenings in the Henry's
Auditorium, are open to anyone—from high school students
to senior citizens. Past courses have included Early Modern
Art, Greek Myth, Silent Film, and Race in the American West,
among others, and are taught by professors at the University
of Washington known for both their scholarship and their teaching
ability.
Subscriptions for the 2008-09 Wednesday University Series
are on sale now online
or by phone at 206-621-2230. (Single course tickets will go
on sale Monday, August 4, 2008.)
2008-09 Wednesday University courses:
FALL: For the Good of the Nation? Media Politics in America
(David Domke)
Wednesdays, September 10, September 24, October 8, October
22, November 5 at 7:30 PM
Henry Auditorium
$80/person for the Fall 2008 series; register online at http://www.lectures.org/boxoffice.html,
in person at the Seattle Arts & Lectures office, or by
calling (206) 621-2230.
David Domke is Professor of Communication and Head of Journalism
at the University of Washington. His research and teaching focus
on the relationships among U.S. politics, journalism, and public
opinion. His is the author of God Willing? Political Fundamentalism
in the White House, the War on Terror, and the Echoing Press
(2004) and The God Strategy: How Religion Became A Political
Weapon in America (2008, with Kevin Coe).
WINTER: Food for Thought: The Ethics, Culture, and Politics
of Eating
Ann Anagnost (Anthropology and Chinese Studies) and Lucy Jarosz
(Geography)
January 14, January 28, February 11, February 25, March 11
SPRING: Art and its Publics, from the Renaissance to the
Present
JoLynn Edwards (Art History)
April 1, April 15, April 29, May 13, May 27
For more information about Wednesday University, please visit
Seattle
Arts & Lectures' website.
Open Satellite Artist Lecture: Anna Hepler
Wednesday, August 27, 7 PM
Auditorium
FREE
Anna Hepler, a Portland, Maine artist, creates two and three-dimensional work – drawing, sculpture and installation
– that captures the delicate transitory essence of the moment. Her drawings and installations consist of small repetitive marks or fragments that evolve into suspended systems of tiny geometries or exploded spatial volumes. Her exhibition at Open Satellite, curated by Beth Sellars, is on view August 21 until October 4. For more information,
visit opensatellite.org.
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EXHIBITION
GUIDE TOURS
Specially
trained exhibition guides are available in the galleries
to answer your questions and give tours
Thursdays and Saturdays, between 1 and 3 PM.
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