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November 27, 2009

Georgia Fine Arts Academy presents Café Apollinaire

Submitted by the Georgia Fine Arts Academy

The Georgia Fine Arts Academy will present a Surrealist costume party where guests will be invited to come dressed as their favorite Surrealist artist, writer, or musician. The event will take place on Tuesday, December 1, at Cine Lab (http://athenscine.com/location.php), at 234 West Hancock Avenue in Athens, at 7:30 p.m. Prizes will be awarded for the best costumes. Admission is free.

Everyone can choose to come dressed as Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Blaise Cendrars, Man Ray, or any of the artists, writers or musicians who made Paris the center of the world of art at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. The Cine Lab will become Café Apollinaire, transformed into the outdoor cafes on the streets of Surrealist Paris a hundred years ago. The café is named for Guilluame Apollinaire (1880-1918), a leader of the Paris avant-garde, who coined the term "surrealism."

The program will include a presentation of the World of the Paris Avant-Garde by Dr. Nell Andrew, Assistant Professor of Modern Art at the University of Georgia; Georgia Writers Hall of Fame author Coleman Barks reading from the poetry of James Wright; The World of Blaise Cendrars discussed by David Ingle, Assistant Editor of the Georgia Review; A reading from the diary of KiKi, a famous model of Surrealist painters, by Dr. Mary Anne O’Neal, English instructor at UGA who was recently presented the Frederick Bornhauser Award; the world premier of a film by Patrick Williams on the art of Bart Lynch now on exhibit at the Top of the Stairs Gallery at the Athens-Clarke County Library; “The Vision of Surrealist architect Le Corbusier” presented by Jason Graham, Atlanta architect; “Remembrances of the Young Jack Kerouac” by Dr. Rick Brouillard, an Emory Professor, who grew up across the street from Kerouac’s home when he was a teenager in Lowell, MA.; and readings by Athens writers.

The Georgia Fine Arts Academy was founded in 1980. Over 29 years more than 1,000 students have benefited from its classes and programs at the Daffodil Farm and throughout Georgia. In 2006 the Georgia Fine Arts Academy founded The Art Spot Gallery at the Peachtree Branch of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System directly across Peachtree Street from the High Museum. In 2008 The Georgia Fine Arts Academy moved from Atlanta to Athens.

Beginning in 2009, at the conclusion of exhibits by Georgia artists at the Peachtree Branch of the Atlanta-Fulton County Library System in Atlanta the exhibits travel to the Athens-Clarke County Library the following month, enabling artists to have exposure both in Atlanta and Athens. More information is available at http://www.georgiafinearts.org/.





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