The Top Three: Editors' picks for an art-filled Labor Day weekend in Savannah
Need help filling your calendar? These editors' picks will have you going from subtitled movie to an art gallery to a parade of museums ― without breaking the bank.
Thursday, Aug. 31
CinemaSavannah presents "Wild Tales"
CinemaSavannah screens the 2014 Argentinian film "Wild Tales" a part of the city-wide Reclaiming America celebration of Latin art and culture organized by SoyXSoy, which runs through Sept. 23 at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center.
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Winner of over 50 festival awards and prizes, "Wild Tales" comprises six vignettes, each exploring human behavior under extreme distress. It has been called the best omnibus dark comedy ever made. As "Sight and Sound" put it, “each morsel of well-rounded, perfectly structured storytelling becomes part of a coherent, exuberant whole, linked as much as anything by a potent political anger directed against inequality and abuse, be it emotional, physical or economic.”
When: Doors open at 6 p.m., 7 p.m. showing
Where: Savannah Cultural Arts Center, 201 W. Montgomery St.
Tickets: $10, cash preferred
Info: facebook.com
Friday, Sept. 1
Opening Reception: "Paper Cuts: An International Collage Exchange with Axelle Kieffer"
From Sulfur Studios:
"Local artist and exhibition curator Axelle Kieffer has collaborated on over 200 collages since 2019, mostly through the postal service. These art exchanges challenge the collaborating artists to interpret, expand upon, or completely change the initial ideas of what the final work will look like. During the process, a long-distance dialogue between two (or more) artists is created, where they encounter playful and surprising reactions to their contributions, pushing them out of their comfort zone. These works include imagery harvested from all sorts of ephemera: postcards, magazines, recycled images, photographs, and any material the collage artist may have on hand.
When: 5 to 9 p.m.
Where: Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St.
Tickets: Free
Info: artssoutheast.org
Labor Day Weekend, Sept. 2-4
Bank of America's 'Museums on Us'
Did you know if you are a Bank of America credit card or debit card holder, you can gain free admission into 225 cultural attractions the first full weekend of each month, including the Georgia State Railroad Museum, SCAD Museum of Art's Tyler Mitchell 'DOMESTIC IMAGINARIES', Old Fort Jackson, the Pin Point Heritage Museum, Savannah Children's Museum, and the Savannah History Museum's Loyalists & Liberty Battlefield Tours?
Well, now you know.
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