Exhibition Opening
Friday, March 10, 7–10 p.m.; $5, Members/students free
Reynolda House’s spring exhibition, Moving Pictures: American Art and
Early Film, 1880–1910, opens with a party for the general public with live music
and cash bar.

Symposium
Saturday, May 6, 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; $35, Members/students $25
The public is invited to a symposium featuring a keynote address by Moving
Pictures curator Nancy Mowll Mathews and talks by film historian Tom
Gunning and art historians Joyce Schiller and Ellery Foutch.

Lectures:
Moving Pictures and American Literary Realism: Edwin S. Porter
and Stephen Crane in New York City
Wednesday, April 5, 5:30 p.m.; $7, Members/students $5
Wake Forest University professor Barry Maine will speak on Stephen
Crane’s 1894 literary sketch The Men in the Storm, and will compare it with
Edwin S. Porter’s film New York City in a Blizzard (1901).

Take Your Girlie to the Movies
Tuesday, June 13, 5:30 p.m.; $7, Members/students $5
Michael Lasser is a music historian and host of the Peabody Award-winning
radio program “Fascinatin’ Rhythm.” His talks on popular American
music are nationally renowned for their humor and vivacity.

Sandow and Houdini: The Perfect Man and the Greatest Escape Artist
Tuesday, June 27, 5:30 p.m.; $7, Members/students $5
John Kasson, professor of history and American Studies at UNC-Chapel
Hill, is a leading scholar in the field of cultural studies. He will speak
about his research into body artist Eugen Sandow, a key subject in
Moving Pictures.

Gallery Talks:
Tuesdays, 5:30–6:30 p.m.; $5; Reception follows

Historian Anthony Parent – March 28

Assistant Curator Allison Slaby – April 4

Film Historian Peter Brunette – April 11

Dean Dale Pollock – April 18

Film Historian Renata Jackson – April 25

Provost Emeritus Edwin G. Wilson – May 2

Director of Adult Programs Phil Archer – May 9

Costume Curator Ruth Mullen – May 23

Curator Thomas Denenberg – June 6

Curator of Education Kathleen Hutton – June 20

Play: Moving Pictures, by Dan O’Brien
Thursday, April 27–Saturday, April 29, 8 p.m.; Sunday April 30, 3 p.m.; $12,
Members/students $8. Dress rehearsal Thursday, April 27, 8 p.m.; $6.
Dan O’Brien’s 1991 play Moving Pictures is set at the dawn of cinema.
Inventor Thomas Edison wants his moving images to win over the world.
This vaudevillian comedy is directed by WFU adjunct professor Ray Collins.

Dance: Time Lapse Dance Company
Friday, June 2, 8 p.m.; $15, Members/students $10
Jody Sperling will discuss American dancer and choreographer Loie Fuller’s
influence on art, dance, and cinema. Her Time Lapse Dance Company will
perform dance popular at the turn of the twentieth century with images
from Terry Borton and his American Magic-Lantern Theater.

Video Screenings:
Thursdays, 11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.; Free

Expo: Magic of the White City (60 min.) – April 13

The World’s Greatest Fair (60 min.) – April 27

Cinema Under the Stars
Cosponsored by the School of Filmmaking of the North Carolina
School of the Arts. Saturdays, Gates open 8 p.m., Films begin 9 p.m.; $5,
Members/students $3

Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989) (120 min.)
preceded by silent film by Lee – June 17

Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1967) (111 min.)
preceded by silent film by Penn – June 24

Milos Forman’s Ragtime (1981) (155 min.) – July 1

Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso (1988) (155 min.) – July 8

Festival: Coney Island Community Day
Sunday, April 23, 2–4 p.m.; Free
Join us for a Sunday afternoon festival in the style of Coney Island at
the turn of the twentieth century. Enjoy an original working calliope,
a flea circus, jugglers, games of skill, waltzing lessons, boxing
demonstrations, choral music, stations for making animation toys and
flipbooks, and traditional boardwalk refreshments.

Workshops for Children:
Sunday, 2–4 p.m.; $7 per person
For elementary school-aged children accompanied by an adult
Reservations required. Please call 336-758-5389.

Monotypes in Motion – April 2

Kinetic Characters – May 7

Workshop for Teachers:
Friday, May 5, 4–6 p.m. and Saturday, May 6, 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; $35,
Members/students $25. Reservations required. Please call 336-758-5394.
Teacher Renewal Credit Workshop including talks at the Moving Pictures
Symposium, Saturday, May 6. Earns one hour of renewal credit.

Portals of Discovery Continuing Education Courses:
Call (336) 758-5900 or Click Here for a complete course listing.

Intaglio: The Art of Simple Printmaking – Beginning March 4

The Art of Animal Portraiture – Beginning April 8

From the Figure to the Body: Drawing – Beginning April 8