MHI Calendar 2008

connected by music, history, and daily interaction. Robbi K and Friends will have everyone in the audience dancing and singing in five different languages. Recommended for children and adults of all ages. From 2 to 4 pm, the fun continues with art making workshops, face painting, music, an ice cream concession, and more! Free admission. Rain or shine. No advance registration is required.

Sun 5/18 Parrish Art Museum Art Club Event: The Water Mill Center: Corporeal Mime 2:00 pm Founded over 15 years ago by artistic director Robert Wilson as an international, multi-disciplinary center for studies in the arts and humanities, the Water Mill Center has established a worldwide reputation as a unique laboratory for artists, students and individuals of all ages and backgrounds to explore the creative process. During our visit, the Belgian and Californian residents will be studying corporeal mime. Exclusively for Parrish Contributor level Members and higher. Call 631-283-2118, ext. 49, email membership@parrishart.org or visit parrishart.org for more details on becoming a member.

Fri 5/23 Film: Turtles Can Fly (2004) 7:00 pm $5 Parrish Members|$7 Non-Members Directed by Bahman Ghobadi. Starring Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif. In Kurdish with English subtitles. 95 minutes. Turtles Can Fly is set in a small, mountainous Kurdish village just before and just after the American invasion of Iraq. It focuses on a young boy named Satellite who installs satellite dishes so people can keep up with news of the impending invasion. Satellite and the other children are refugees living in a tent city and earning money by disarming land mines so they can be resold to arms dealers. Without sentimentality, this film depicts how young people endure and survive lives ravaged by war and poverty.

Fri 5/23 Identity and Survival: Films on Religion and Immigration 7:00 pm Free Our spring film series focuses on two provocative themes – religion and immigration – as explored in recent films by directors from Senegal, Israel, Iran, Afghanistan, Spain, Australia, Ireland and the United States. The films give depth and dimension to issues and people from other cultures and avoid the oversimplifications of chauvinism and propaganda. The programs have been curated by John K. Turnbull, who holds degrees in cinema studies from City College and Harvard and has taught film at colleges in the U.S. and abroad.

Fri 3/30 Film: In America (2002) 7:00 pm $5 Parrish Members/$7 Non-Members Directed by Jim Sheridan. Starring Paddy Considine, Samantha Morton. In English. 103 minutes. An Irish couple, Sarah and Johnny Sullivan, illegally cross the border from Canada into the U.S. so that Johnny can pursue his career as an actor and start afresh after the death of their young son. The film follows the struggles of Sarah, Johnny and their two daughters as they face life in a new city. Told from the point of view of 11-year-old Christy, the film portrays New York as a challenge and an adventure. Academy-Award-winning director Sheridan imbues their struggle with energy and avoids over-romanticization in a story that includes despair, poverty, adventure and hope.

Sat 5/31 Special Sneak Preview of the Documentary Between the Folds 7:00 pm Free This feature-length documentary illuminates the beauty, complexity and powerful duality of origami in the 21st century, and the unexpected lives it shapes. Viewers will travel far beyond conventional child's craft to discover unforeseen directions in origami that decidedly blur the line between dizzying science and dazzling art. With world-renowned master-artists as guides – many with extensive backgrounds in the advanced sciences – the film sheds light on how origami uniquely fuses form and function, history and politics, science and sculpture, ancient and new. Produced and directed by Vanessa Gould. Running time approximately 60 minutes. The filmmaker will be present to introduce the film and answer questions from the audience.

SOUTHAMPTON CULTURAL CENTER Levitas Center for the Arts, 2 Pond Lane, Southampton 298-1078, 929-5875 Fri 5/2 – Sun 5/4 The Hampton Ballet Theater School presents "The Three Sisters and the Magic Doll Shop" based on Leo Delibes "Coppelia" Fri 7:00 pm, Sat & Sun 2:00 pm $12, $6 for children under 12 Sat 5/10 The Southampton Cultural Center presents "Bo’s Global Birthday Party" 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Free From Asia to Africa – be part of the world’s biggest birthday party in honor of children everywhere! Join Respect All Cultures Everywhere and members of GlobalArts to Go for a day of globetrotting adventures. Experience art, music, dance storytelling, performances, birthday traditions, treasure hunts, entertainment, food and more from 5 continents. The event is geared for children from 4 – 10.

Sat 5/17 East End Composers 7:00 pm Four outstanding composers living on the East End of Long Island will present music for violin and piano. Victoria Bond's "Sacred Sisters" for violin and piano was inspired by three biblical women who shared a willingness to defy the conventions of their day to save their people using their brains at least as much as their beauty. Roger Trefousse is contributing selections from a work-in-progress, Sonata for Violin and Piano ("Spring"). Katherine Hoover's "Preludes" is a group of seven short, varied pieces for piano, which premiered in New York's Merkin Hall by Mirian Conti in 2005. Stephen Dickman is premiering a new piece for violin and piano in addition to a never-beforerevealed piece for solo violin that was inspired by a story by HP Lovecraft. Marc Levine, violin and Michael Mizrahi, piano, will be performing.