From the Art – Rise! Exhibition by Al Ebanks

Date Saturday, June 07 at 8:00 AM to Saturday, June 21 at 6:00 PM

Launch Night: 7:00 PM Saturday, 7 June 2014.

Dart Auditorium/Community Gallery

National Gallery of the Cayman Islands

Canapes and Cocktails

Help Al Ebanks raise money to rebuild his studio destroyed by an early morning fire.

Art show runs through 21 June 2014.

Originals and prints will be on sale.

Late Night At The Gallery, Lectures & Screenings

Date Friday, June 13 at 5:00 PM to Friday, June 13 at 9:00 PM

Venue The National Gallery

The National Gallery will be open to the public with special late night hours on Friday, 13 June 2014 in celebration of the new exhibition titled Metamorphoses. In addition to the Exhibition Hall’s special hours, the Auditorium will be screening two documentaries about the Spanish masters, Francisco Goya and Salvador Dali. Admission to the screenings and to the late night opening of the exhibition is free. All ages are welcome, however the film screenings are for mature audiences only.

For details contact [email protected]

Screenings:

Goya: Crazy like a Genius

Dali: The Great Spanish Painter and Self-Styled Genius

Goya: Crazy Like A Genius, Lectures & Screenings

Date Friday, June 13 at 5:30 PM to Friday, June 13 at 7:00 PM

Venue Dart Auditorium

Written and presented by renowned art critic Robert Hughes, this film explores the world of Francisco Goya, charting his achievements as a court painter, satirist and war reporter, as well as a topographer of the inner self – of madness, fear and despair. This programme offers a detailed visual and intellectual analysis of Goya’s masterpieces, including Witches in the Air, The Third of May and The Dream of Reason. Hughes professes himself incapable of summing up Goya’s achievements neatly, but concludes that “to meet Goya is still to meet ourselves.”

‘One of those rare programs where you feel afterwards as if a layer of dead skin has been stripped from your eyeballs and your powers of perception have shot up accordingly.’ (Sunday Telegraph)

Current Exhibition: Metamorphoses

Dali: The Great Spanish Painter And Self-Styled Genius, Lectures & Screenings

Date Friday, June 13 at 7:30 PM to Friday, June 13 at 9:00 PM

Venue Dart Auditorium

This major critical film biography of Salvador Dali presents Dali’s entire body of work in the context of his extraordinary life and international career. It has been constructed through a combination of specially shot location footage, archive film, feature film material, rostrum filming of Dali’s paintings and interviews with Dali’s friends and colleagues. The narration of the film has been drawn from Dali’s own writings, principally My Secret Life and The Unspeakable Confessions of Salvador Dali, as well as from other critical writings.

“The difference between me and a madman… is that I am not mad!” (Salvador Dali)

Current Exhibition: Metamorphoses

Cine Club – Monsoon Wedding, Lectures & Screenings

Date Monday, June 16 at 7:00 PM to Monday, June 16 at 9:00 PM

Venue Dart Auditorium

Monsoon Wedding. 2001. International co-production. 114 mins.

$10 drop-in per session ($8 NGCI members)

or $50 for 6 meetings ($40 NGCI members)

All welcome!

Movie description:

A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.

Cine Club – Bride & Prejudice, Lectures & Screenings

Date Monday, June 30 at 7:00 PM to Monday, June 30 at 8:00 PM

Venue Dart Auditorium

More Info

Bride & Prejudice. 2004. UK/US/India. 111 mins.

$10 drop-in per session ($8 NGCI members) or $50 for 6 meetings ($40 NGCI members). All welcome!

Movie description:

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice gets a Bollywood treatment.