An intimate portrait of a hidden world, following a crew of Mexican guest workers over the course of a season as they plant trees throughout the United States. The crew struggles to balance the job’s physical demands and its extreme isolation with remaining connected to the life they are providing for back home.
Panel Discussion @ 6:15 PM | Film Screening @ 7:00 PM | Post-Show Q&A with Director Noam Osband
An award-winning documentary about survivors of domestic violence who are unjustly incarcerated for killing their abusers in self-defense. These women paid a steep price with long prison sentences, lost time with loved ones, and painful memories.
Note: This film contains mature themes and depictions of violence. Viewer discretion is advised.
A radical reframing of the use of disabled characters in film, gathering hundreds of clips from over a century of Hollywood favorites – viewed with a fresh perspective by on-the-ground disability activists, artists, and scholars. Taking its title from Tod Browning’s 1932 classic, Code of the Freaks counters formulaic “inspiration porn” with a powerful corrective, daring to imagine a cinematic landscape that centers the voices of disabled people.
Panel Discussion @ 6:15 PM | Film Screening @ 7:00 PM | Post-Show Q&A with Director Salome Chasnoff
ACCESSIBILITY • ASL interpretation is available upon request. Please use this form to request accessibility services at least two weeks prior to the performance.
Presented in partnership with the MU Disability Film Festival & MU Learning Institute.
Law professor and former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade will discuss the tactics of disinformation, how technology is exacerbating the problem, and how it is affecting American society. She will also offer potential solutions to help us mitigate the challenges of disinformation in an evolving world.
Lecture begins at 7:00 pm in Biemesderfer Concert Hall, Winter Center.
Dr. Norman Naimark is one of the most well-known international scholars on genocide. He is a professor of East European Studies at Stanford University and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Dr. Naimark is an author of such widely recognized books as Fires of Hatred: A History of Ethnic Cleansing and Stalin’s Genocides.
This event is made possible by the continued generous support of P. Alan and Linda Loss.
Celebrating Native American Heritage Month
Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project
Friday, November 4, 2022 | 6:30 P.M.
Steinman Hall | Ware Center
FREE
The Jingle Dress Project takes the healing power of the Ojibwe jingle dress across the nation. Through the project’s travels, dance and images of the spiritual places our ancestors once walked, it unites and gives healing hope to the world through art, dance and culture.
ART: Eugene Tapahe Photography
Friday, November 4
Opening Reception | 6-8 P.M.
Lyet Lobby | Ware Center
On display November 4 through 29
ART: The Woodcut Portraits of Dan Miller
Friday, November 4
Opening Reception | 6-8 P.M.
Regitz Gallery | Ware Center
On display November 4 through 29
At age 94, Lancaster County woodcut artist Dan Miller still makes the train commute to Philadelphia for his full-time professorship at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) where he has taught for nearly 60 years.
A well-known artist in the galleries of Philadelphia, Miller is holding his first-ever show in Lancaster at 6 PM on (First) Friday, November 4 at the Ware Center.
Miller discovered the woodcut during visits to Japan in the early 1950s. Later, during his studies as a painting major at PAFA, he gradually drifted toward the medium for its directness of process and expressive strength.
You can learn much more about Miller’s life and process from a film by one of his former students, “The Reward of Art.”
ARTIST STATEMENT
The woodcut conceived in China in the 9th Century as a simple illustration of religious text has, over the centuries, achieved multiple levels of expression. Unlike other art forms in need of patronage approval, the graphic artist has been free to give voice to the personal and the controversial. The woodcut’s independence of spirit has been its power. My own introduction to the woodcut began with visits to Japan in the early 1950s, but no efforts on my part were made until 1955 with my entrance into the Pennsylvania Academy as a painting major. I gradually began drifting toward the woodcut because of its directness of process and its expressive strength. The world of wood, printing ink and paper became a way of life. There seemed no better way to give voice to a needed desire to search for content and meaning.
Breast-A-Ville “Pink Out” for Breast Cancer Awareness
Steinman Hall | Ware Center
Entertainment, raffle baskets, breast health information, and more. Musical guest Lavacave! Gypsybilly Cabaret stylings, with violinist Robin Chambers, and Nick DiSanto of one-man band fame, wailing and crooning their original fare.
Art: Jan Yatsko – 52 DIVAS
Regitz Gallery | Ware Center
Friday, October 7, 2022
Opening Reception | 6-8 P.M.
On display October 3 through 28
ARTIST STATEMENT
The 52 self-portraits are a conversation and visual discovery of my own image, with myself, as an artist and with the viewer.
Since 2013, I have taught a workshop for women titled “Discover Your Inner Diva”. 2 years later, I decided to use the same exercises in the workshop for my own development. From January 2015 to March 2022, I painted 52 self-portraits of my life with its ups and downs, my dreams, my thoughts, and my visual interpretation of spiritual classes that I have taken as well as certain phrases from books. During this process, I realized that it has also been a visual interpretation of Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero’s Journey”. The colors, symbols and images reflect my life in Costa Rica since 1999. It is a “visual journey” of my interior self as well as an artist over 7 years.
A heartwarming story of the beloved Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. Join founders Zina and Michael Gooden, their amazing staff, and over one hundred plus senior pooches as they parade to their new 20,000 square foot state-of-the-art home.
6:15 P.M. Community Panel Discussion – – Lancaster Center for Animal Life-Saving, Humane PA represented by CEO Karel Minor
– ORCA (Organization for the Responsible Care of Animals) represented by Founder/Director Connie Kondravy
– K-Pets (Keystone Pet Enhanced Therapy Services represented by Director Laura Heller
– Paws On Deck (The Millersville University student branch of Susquehanna Service Dogs) represented by MU student president Jami Ebersole
7 P.M. Screening | Post-Show Q & A with film director Gorman Bechard
Running Time: 1 hour, 58 minutes.
But wait, there’s more! Join artist Loryn Spangler-Jones from 4-7 in front of the Ware for “puppies’ paws & prints”! Bring your furry friend and leave with art. Proceeds will be shared with participating orgs listed above. Learn more: https://fb.me/e/3wQKAVEnG
Annual Veteran’s Day event that celebrates and showcases the writings of veterans, and their family members and caregivers. Partners include Music for Everyone, and The Lebanon VA Medical Center. This year’s show features poems, songs and stories that will entertain, inform, and educate the general public regarding the issues the writers experience when they return to civilian life. Thanks to virtual platforms, participants will join us from across Pennsylvania and as far away as California.