Brokeback Mountain Screenings and Related Events

[BayCityJohn]

Annie Proulx

Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center
Friday, October 22nd
7:30 p.m.

 The Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center is the childhood home of Pulitzer-prize winning author Katherine Anne Porter and hosts a literary reading series. Meet writers and hear them read in a small, intimate setting. The events are free and open to the public. The house also serves as a writers’ residence for graduates of the MFA program in creative-writing at Texas State University.



The Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center is located at 508 Center Street, Kyle, Texas.

Directions (from Austin)

     •   Take I-35 South to Kyle, exit 213
     •   Go to the stop sign on the feeder road
     •   Take a right onto Center Street
     •   Go past downtown and past Baptist Church on the right
     •   The KAP Literary Center is the next house at 508 Center Street



http://www.english.txstate.edu/kap/Events.html

[BayCityJohn]

2010 Los Angeles Film Festival

Kodak Focus: Rodrigo Prieto
Conversations and Talks
(90 mins)

With over 20 years experience Oscar® nominated Rodrigo Prieto is one of the premiere cinematographers of our time, having worked all over the world collaborating and bringing to the screen the vision of directors such as Alejandro González Iñárritu, Oliver Stone, Spike Lee, Pedro Almodovar, and Ang Lee. His diverse list of credits include: Broken Embraces, Babel, State of Play, Brokeback Mountain, 21 Grams, 25th Hour, Frida, Amores Perros and many others. Prieto comes to the Festival to discuss and show film clips of his unconventional and innovative techniques with Kodak’s Chris Russo.


Sun, Jun 20th 1:00pm
Regal 12

http://www.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2010/filmguide/Title/AZ/CONVE/filmguide/ALL/

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Singer-songwriter Mary McBride brings "The Way Home Tour" to New Orleans

Singer and songwriter Mary McBride couldn’t have arrived in Louisiana at a more appropriate time to begin her “The Way Home Tour.”
         
This incomparable place we call home is in on our minds constantly, as we worry about the Gulf oil spill and the start of hurricane season.
       
“I have lots of family in New Orleans,” she said. “I always try to make it the first part of my tours.”
       
Her latest tour, which celebrates the release of her album “The Way Home” on June 22, is different. It brings her and her band to “places that people call home,” including homeless shelters, homes for people with mental and physical disabilities, a veterans hospital in California, a farm worker community in Washington State.


http://www.nola.com/living/index.ssf/2010/06/singer_songwrite_mary_mcbride.html

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Pride Films and Plays

We are excited about fine writing for films like ‘Brokeback Mountain’, ‘Milk’, and “A Single Man” to name a few. And we hope to foster excellent writing with our Great Gay Screenplay Contest, produced in association with Chicago Filmmakers. Plays with GLBTQ themes have had a major impact on our cultural identity. To remind both our artists and our audiences of great gay writing throughout history, we launched our play reading series "Five Decades of Great Gay Plays" in May and June 2010. Featuring works from the '60s to the '00s, the series included Mart Crowley's Boys in the Band, Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July, William M. Hoffman's As Is, and Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing, and Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out.

In August and September, we explore the “Great Plays of Terrence McNally” including The Lisbon Traviata, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Corpus Christi, The Ritz, and the Chicago premiere of one of his newest plays Some Men.

Later we will be doing staged readings of great screenplays including Brokeback Mountain, Milk, Gods and Monsters, and A Single Man to name a few, and we are looking for help to put this series together.

And we have gotten many requests for readings of works with lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered themes. Anyone interested in tackling these projects?

Explore the Reading Series page for details.

We foster excellent writing important to the GLBTQ community and relevant to our world with contests, including the Great Gay Screenplay Contest, produced in association with Chicago Filmmakers.

Upcoming contests will focus on GLBTQ musicals and plays, and a special contest for women writing plays or screenplays with lesbian characters or themes. You will find information on our Contest Page.

Though based in Chicago, we are working with professionals, academics, and people with interest in GLBTQ issues from around the globe. Please sign our mailing list so we can keep you updated on upcoming projects and deadlines.

I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas at pridefilmsandplays@gmail.com. And we are always looking for volunteers for projects big and small.

Thanks for stopping by.

David Zak
Artistic Director


http://www.pridefilmsandplays.com/index.html

[BayCityJohn]

About Annie Proulx Lecture June 25th CANCELLED
Chekhov Cultural Center, Moscow


Due to a problem with the visa -- not, it seems, by the Russians, but by the US people in Washington, DC -- Annie Proulx will not be coming to Moscow, so the lecture to ELE on June 25 has had to be cancelled.
The host of ELE apologizes for any inconvenience, and/or dashed hopes.


http://www.elemoscow.net/

[BayCityJohn]

Sketch to Screen Film Fest: Brokeback Mountain

Oklahoma City Museum of Art 415 Couch Drive, Oklahoma City, OK 73102 | (405) 236-3100

Thursday, Aug 5, 2010 7:30pm- 9:30pm

http://www.okcmoa.com/becomeamember/membersnews

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October 14 - 30, 2010
Laboratory Theater presents
GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES
http://vimeo.com/8540538
http://www.laboratorytheater.org

"Brokeback Mountain" meets "Naked Lunch" in Laboratory Theater's newest work, a cowboy dance-drama about the spiritual imprint of the windswept landscape of the American west. In an impressionistic narrative inspired by the work of William S. Burroughs and Annie Proulx, two outlaws conjure the violent forces of nature through sex-magic to take revenge on an old adversary. Commingling elements of country-western line dance and gay pornography, the performance
unfolds against a projected video landscape of repainted Marlboro cigarette TV commercials and within an immersive soundscape incorporating contemporary new age music for pedal steel guitar.

Directed by Yvan Greenberg, with Corey Dargel, Sheila Donovan, Oleg Dubson, and Wil Smith.


http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/The_Brick_Announces_Their_Fall_2010_Season_20100709

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Rufus Wainwright to Perform with San Francisco Symphony, 11/11-11/13


Rufus Wainwright will perform with The San Francisco Symphony in the world premiere of 'Five Shakespeare Sonnets,' www.rufuswainwright.com has announced.

The concert, to be held on November 11, 12, and 13, will also include Ravel's Piano Concerto and Kurt Weill's Second Symphony.  Jeffrey Kahane will conduct the concerto.

'Off the Podium,' a question and answer session with the performers, will be held after the November 12 performance



Read more: http://sanfrancisco.broadwayworld.com/article/Rufus_Wainwright_20010101#ixzz0uvsdK2dq

[BayCityJohn]

Brokeback Mountain

Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal star as two farmhands who begin a sexual relationship while tending sheep on Brokeback Mountain, only to discover that their feelings for each other are still strong when they meet again four years later.

Thu 12 Aug 2010

Odeon Cinema

Unit 13SF,
1 Victoria Square,
Belfast,
BT1 4QG

(0871) 224 4007  

http://www.viewbelfast.co.uk/films/brokeback-mountain-film-listings-14292.html

http://www.odeon.co.uk/fanatic/cinema_information/s170/

[BayCityJohn]

10th edition World Soundtrack Awards

The World Soundtrack Awards, an awards presentation honoring the best in film music established by the Ghent International Film Festival’s World Soundtrack Academy in 2001, has announced an all star line up to usher in its 10th year. Ten world class composers will be appearing live in concert at the awards presentation in Ghent, Belgium on October 23rd. Those confirmed include Oscar winners Howard Shore (Lord Of The Rings trilogy), Elliot Goldenthal (Frida, Interview With A Vampire), Gabriel Yared (The Talented Mr. Ripley), Gustavo Santaolalla (Babel, Brokeback Mountain), Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare In Love) as well as Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks), Craig Armstrong (Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Ray) Alberto Iglesias (The Kite Runner, Volver), Bruno Coulais (The Chorus), Frédéric Devreese (Un Soir, Un Train) and brilliant young composer Nico Muhly (The Reader).

Known as the world’s premiere festival for celebrating and honoring film music, the Ghent International Film Festival, which is celebrating its 37th year, formed the World Soundtrack Academy to honor composers in five different categories including Film Composer of the Year, Best Original Film Score of the Year, Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film, Discovery of the Year, and their Lifetime Achievement Award. The World Soundtrack Awards 10th anniversary gala will include a six minute suite from each composer performed by the Brussels Philharmonic – the Orchestra of Flanders, conducted by Dirk Brossé, and accompanied by a selection of illustrative film excerpts.

http://www.filmfestival.be/agenda2.cgi?go=detail&id=249&lang=en

[BayCityJohn]

The passion of the tango in Seoul



There is a famous saying: “Life is like the tango: sad, sensual, sexy, violent and quiet.”

The next two weeks will bring two opportunities to confirm that for yourself: a show by the electro-tango ensemble Bajofondo and a performance by the flamenco troupe Nuevo Ballet Espanol with star Spanish dancers Rojas and Rodriguez.

Bajofondo, named after the Spanish word for “underground,” will headline its first concert in Seoul on Saturday, two years after it debuted here at the annual Ulsan World Music Festival.

“The combination of passionate and sensual tango and electronic music will be synchronized to catchy video screen images, providing the audience with the chance to experience the ‘revolution of tango’,” said Eternity, the concert’s agency in Seoul, in a release.

Their music has gained attention for creating a hybrid tango with electronic samples and hard beats on the one hand, and live orchestras and rock and funk riffs on the other. The music is often compared to the Paris-based Gotan Project.

Consisting of eight Argentinian and Uruguayan musicians, Bajofondo is led by Oscar-winning composer and producer Gustavo Santaolalla.

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*Bajofondo will perform at 7 p.m. on Aug. 28 at AX-Korea in northeastern Seoul. Tickets are priced at 88,000 won ($74) for all seats. For English booking and inquiries, call (010) 4265-5352 or e-mail eternityseoul@gmail.com.

“Sangre Flamenca” will be staged from Sept. 8 to 12 at the Universal Arts Center in northeastern Seoul. Tickets cost between 55,000 won and 150,000 won. Visit www.superflamenco.com for information

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2924964

[BayCityJohn]

Welcome Week 2010: Back in the Saddle!
September 1, 2010- September 12, 2010

Welcome Week is an annual university tradition that is meant to welcome all students to campus through various interactive events. University departments and student organizations work to generate these events, and all activities are meant to show a commitment to the Jesuit ideals of diversity and inclusion. 
 
This year's Welcome Week theme is "Back in the Saddle!" The rodeo-inspired concept is meant to highlight Welcome Week as a time for students to jump into campus life and start off the school year ahead of the herd.

Thursday, September 9

Saddle Up Qatari Style
11:30am-3:30pm, Healy Lawn
SFS Qatar Liaison Office
 
Understanding the Core Curriculum: A Discussion with Mark Henrie, Chief Academic Officer at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute
4:00-5:00pm, Mortara Center Conference Room
Tocqueville Forum, Department of Government

The Second Sex in the 21st Century
4:15-6:00pm, Location TBD
Women’s and Gender Studies Department

Brokeback Georgetown Ice Cream Social
8:00-10:00pm, Bulldog Alley
GU Pride
http://studentorgs.georgetown.edu/welcomeweek/

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Friday Films: Brokeback Mountain

Date   Sep 10, 2010
       
  Time   2:00 pm   
       
  Location   LGBT Resource Center, 323 Illini Union
       
  Cost   FREE
       
  Sponsor   LGBT Resource Center
       
  E-Mail   bsocie@illinois.edu


A film screening and discussion of the film "Brokeback Mountain." Brokeback Mountain is a sweeping epic that explores the lives of two young men, a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection. The complications, joys and heartbreak they experience provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. Heath Ledger and Jack Gyllenhaal deliver emotionally charged, remarkably moving performances in a "movie that is destined to become one of the great classics of our time."


http://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?ACTION=VIEW_EVENT&calId=2040&skinId=1774&DATE=9/3/2010&eventId=184972

[BayCityJohn]

Brokeback Mountain
OUT WEST

GENERAL INFO
Date / Time:
Saturday, Dec 11, 2010, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm

Location:
Wells Fargo Theater, Griffith Park

Appropriate For:
Adults

Admission:
Free with museum admission (advance reservations recommended)


The Autry will commemorate the fifth anniversary of the iconic film Brokeback Mountain with a full day of programs and reflection. Attend a screening of this iconic film at 11:30 a.m., view the Brokeback Mountain shirts in the Autry’s Imagination Gallery and meet Jeffrey Richardson, the Autry’s Associate Curator of Film and Popular Culture. 

At 3:00 p.m. we will present a staged reading, scripted by Gregory Hinton, based on the book Beyond Brokeback, a powerful collection of stories about the film’s impact on the lives of so many.

http://theautry.org/programs/brokeback-mountain

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Beyond Brokeback
ALL ABOUT BOOKS, OUT WEST

GENERAL INFO
Date / Time:
Saturday, Dec 11, 2010, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Location:
Wells Fargo Theater, Griffith Park

Appropriate For:
Everyone

Admission:
Free with museum admission (advance reservations recommended)


The Autry will commemorate the fifth anniversary of the iconic film Brokeback Mountain on December 11th with a full day of programs and reflection. 

At 3:00 p.m. we will present a staged reading, scripted by Gregory Hinton, based on the book Beyond Brokeback, a powerful collection of stories about the film’s impact on the lives of so many.

This reading will be preceded by a special screening of Brokeback Mountain at 11:30 a.m.  All visitors are welcome to view the Brokeback Mountain shirts in the Autry’s Imagination Gallery and meet Jeffrey Richardson, the Autry’s Associate Curator of Film and Popular Culture.


http://theautry.org/programs/beyond-brokeback