* Note: All program titles link to each respective artist’s websites.
‘Through Different Eyes: The Faces of Poverty in Virginia’
Presented by
The 2008-2009 Library Gallery Series in partnership withThe Virginia Museum of
Fine Arts and the Library Gallery
August 1 - Sept 26, 2008
The Library Gallery • Wise, Virginia
• Sunday Best by Susi Lawson
Through Different Eyes: The Faces of Poverty in Virginia is a large-scale effort
to capture through visual images the lives of those in our society who are most
invisible. The project intends to educate the public through art about the
lives of low-income families and individuals in the Commonwealth. These
families share many qualities that are universal including triumphs and
tragedies, pleasure and sorrow, pride and pain, sacrifice and excess, courage
and fear, love and anger, spirituality and thoughtlessness.
The Barter Theatre in
by Duke Ernsberger and Virginia Cate
Presented by
The W. Campbell Edmonds
Memorial Concert Series
September 7, 2008 - 3:00 p.m.
• Performing Arts Center
Pound, Virginia
Hilarious, irreverent and mostly true! It is 1939, and David O. Selznick has
already begun filming Gone with the Wind, but he needs a new script. There is
only one writer up to the task, the legendary Ben Hecht. The only problem,
Hecht has never read the book, and they have only a week to write a new script.
So Selznick locks himself, Hecht and director Victor Flemming in his office
with the mission to write a screenplay for Gone With the Wind in one week, the
book that took Margaret Mitchell ten years to write. You will laugh until you
are out of breath at the antics which produce one of the classic movies of all
time.
Irving Berlin’s:
I Love a Piano
Presented by
The W. Campbell Edmonds Memorial Concert Series
September 24, 2008 - 7:30 p.m.
• Performing Arts Center
Pound, Virginia
I LOVE A PIANO is an enchanting new musical journey spanning seven decades of
American history as seen through the perceptive and hopeful eyes of Irving
Berlin.
Using 64 of Berlin’s enduring and popular favorites, I LOVE A PIANO captures the spirit of America
from the Ragtime rhythms of the early 20th century through the swinging
sophistication of the 1920s and 30s. From the sentimental songs that inspired a nation during two World Wars to the
innocent optimism of the 1950’s. Timeless classics, such as “White Christmas,” “God Bless America,” “Puttin’ On The Ritz,” and “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” do more than define the music of a generation, they define the music of our
country.
Jeffrey W. Allison
Chasing the Illusive Image:
The Origins of Photography
Presented by
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Lecture Series
These programs have been organized by the Office of Statewide Partnerships of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, VA. and are
supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
September 25, 2008 - 7:30 p.m.
• Chapel of All Faiths
Wise, Virginia
Although the notion of photography goes back at least to the fifth century
B.C.E. when Chinese philosopher, Mo Ti described the principle of the Camera
Obscura, photography as we know it today was not officially announced to the
world until 1839. In this lecture, Jeffrey W. Allison, Paul Mellon Collection
Educator, investigates the almost simultaneous development of two completely
different systems of photography in France and in England. The contributions of members of the Lunar Society, alternative photographic
processes created by now almost forgotten amateur inventors and the sometimes
violent struggles to gain control of the new medium will also be explored.
