Posted on 15 July 2011
A doll come to life, love triangles, illusions, doubles—the story of Coppelia is just as intriguing and fanciful today as it was in 1870. From the Bolshoi Ballet, with original choreography by Marius Petipa re-created by Sergei Vikharev. Starring Viacheslav Lopatin and Natalia Osipova. Tickets are $15 each with a discount for groups of ten or more. This film will screen Saturday, July 23 at 12 p.m.; Sunday, July 24 at 12:30 p.m.; and Monday, July 25 at 7:30 p.m. To purchase tickets online, or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.
Posted on 15 July 2011
Fourteen-year-old Robbie lives in New Brighton across the River Mersey from Liverpool with his mum, Lynda, and “pain-in-the-arse” 9-year-old sister, Katie. Ever since his dad, Joe, walked out when Robbie was just 4 years old, Robbie has been a boy defined by the absence of a father. Ten years on, Robbie still feels hurt, angry, and lost. Despite Lynda’s failed relationship with Katie’s dad, Katie at least gets to see her dad every weekend—a part-time relationship Robbie covets. All Robbie has ever wanted in life is a dad. Instead, he gets something very different—a son. This film is part of the “From Britain With Love” series that is running at the Bill Cosford Cinema through July 24. For more information on all the films in the series, visit www.FromBritainWithLove.org. This film will screen Friday, July 22 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, July 23 at 4 p.m.; and Sunday, July 24 at 6:30 p.m. Admission is $7 for seniors and University of Miami alumni, faculty, non-UM students, and staff. General admission is $9. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online, or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.
Posted on 15 July 2011
Riva is a small-time operator who after a decade away has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo, with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful nightclub denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster. Into the mix comes an Angolan crime lord relentlessly seeking the return of his stolen shipment of gasoline. Director Djo Tunda Wa Munga’s Kinshasa is a seductively vibrant, lawless, fuel-starved sprawl of shantytowns, gated villas, bordellos, and nightclubs, and Riva is its perfect embodiment. Winner of the 2011 MTV Movie Award for Best African Film and winner of six African Movie Academy Awards including Best Film. In French and Lingala with English subtitles. This film will screen Friday, July 22 at 9 p.m.; Saturday, July 23 at 2, 6, and 8 p.m.; and Sunday, July 24 at 2:30, 4:30, and 8:30 p.m. Admission is $7 for seniors and University of Miami alumni, faculty, non-UM students, and staff. General admission is $9. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online, or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.
Posted on 29 June 2011
The University of Miami School of Architecture presents “La Habana,” an exhibition of photographs by Victoria Montoro. The exhibit will be on display from July 7 to August 12, Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Korach Gallery of the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center. A reception will be held on Wednesday, July 13 from 6 to 8 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.
Cuban–born Victoria Montoro left Havana in 1961 and returned for the first time in 2008. The daughter of a former political prisoner, she calls the trip the most important of her life. It was a time for her to reconcile her memories from those invented ones or imagined ones acquired through the years. This body of work reveals how the buildings in La Habana have endured.
Posted on 23 June 2011
Ashley Ford, untitled prints from Privy series, 2008.
The University of Miami presents a Master of Fine Arts exhibition by Ashley Ford. “Metrouroboros,” which will be on view at UM’s Wynwood Project Space beginning July 9, is the examination of the contemporary non-place. The term “non-place” as coined by French anthropologist Marc Augé indicates a kind of place that has a sense of liminality. These are spaces that are common to our everyday lives, that we pass through with frequency yet don’t hold enough significance to be regarded as places—highways, public restrooms, airports. “Metrouroboros” examines the psychological and sociological impact of these places and the interactions we have within them.
Ashley Ford has been exhibiting work in print, photography, drawing, and bookbinding since 2001. She received her B.F.A with honors in studio art as well as a B.A. in psychology from the University of Central Florida. Her work often has heavy psychological and anthropological themes. She has exhibited her prints and books across the country and has been collected by the Miami Dade Public Library System as well as the University of Alabama’s W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library.
“Metrouroboros” by Ashley Ford will be on view from July 9-29 at UM’s Wynwood Project Space, 2200A NW 2nd Avenue, Miami. There will be an opening reception for the artist on Saturday, July 9 at 6 p.m. A full schedule of exhibitions can be viewed at
www.as.miami.edu/art. For more information about the exhibition or Wynwood Project Space, call 305-284-2543 or email
[email protected].
