May 27: New Britain Museum of American Art
Special Red Carpet EventConnecticut Premiere Thursday, May 27, 5:30pm By reservation only John Marin: Let the Paint be Paint!A new film by Michael Maglaras Ashford, Connecticut-based filmmakers Michael Maglaras and Terri Templeton of 217 Films will debut their new documentary John Marin: Let the Paint be Paint! at the New Britain Museum of American Art. […]
Annie Finch on Michael Maglaras
Don’t miss Annie Finch’s post on the Poetry Foundation’s blog: Audacity of Voice: The Poet as Actor, Michael Maglaras’ Hiawatha Marathon, and How I Made my CD. An excerpt follows below: Michael Maglaras is an professional reader-aloud of poetry. He trained as an opera singer, and he loves poetry, and one of the things he […]
Full house for Michael Maglaras poetry reading at Longfellow’s Wayside Inn
View photos at this link. On Sunday, April 18, Michael Maglaras, founder of 217 Records, performed a dramatic reading of excerpts from The Song of Hiawatha at the Longfellow Big Read at the Martha Mary Chapel at Longfellow’s Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts. This hour-long reading was performed with a full score of pre-recorded sound […]
This is not your grandmother’s “Hiawatha”
Longfellow’s best-loved poems to be read Sunday By Chris Bergeron/DAILY NEWS STAFF Apr 16, 2010 Though Henry Wadsworth Longfellow never spent a night at the Wayside Inn, the 19th century bard’s verse will resound through the Martha-Mary Chapel Sunday afternoon in dramatic readings of two of his best-loved poems. Former opera singer Michael Maglaras will […]
April 18: Longfellow Big Read features Michael Maglaras
MARK YOUR CALENDARSunday, April 18 — 4:00pmMichael Maglaras will perform a dramatic reading of excerpts from The Song of Hiawatha at the Longfellow Big Read at Longfellow’s Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts. This hour-long reading will be performed with a full score of pre-recorded sound effects and music by Native American musicians. Michael will also […]
April 10: Visible Silence to air on MPBN Televsion
(Marsden Hartley photographed by George Platt Lynes. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Used by permission.) 217 Films‘ documentary Visible Silence: Marsden Hartley, Painter and Poet which illuminates the life and work of world-renowned painter Marsden Hartley, will air on the television stations of MPBN on Saturday, April 10 at 11:00am. This is […]
National Gallery of Art — John Marin: Let the Paint be Paint!
New screening date added: 217 Films‘ “John Marin: Let the Paint be Paint!” will screen at the National Gallery of Art in Washington on July 3. Filmmakers Michael Maglaras and Terri Templeton will introduce the film. More details coming soon.
Great Day in Gloucester
217 Films‘ new documentary “John Marin: Let the Paint be Paint!” made its Massachusetts premiere today at the Cape Ann Community Cinema in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Filmmakers Michael Maglaras and Terri Templeton introduced the film and took questions following the screening. This truly one of a kind cinema is run by Robert Newton. Read a recent […]
Gloucester Daily Times: Marin and modernism on film
Marin and modernism on filmMarch 18, 2010Gail McCarthy A new film about the master of American modern art, John Marin (1870-1953), will have its Massachusetts premiere in Gloucester on Sunday at Cape Ann Community Cinema. “What we know about modern art, abstractionism, and the direction that art has gone since the 1950s, we know because […]
Massachusetts Premiere — John Marin: Let the Paint be Paint!
Don’t miss 217 Films‘ new documentary “John Marin: Let the Paint be Paint!” at the Cape Ann Community Cinema in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Filmmakers Michael Maglaras and Terri Templeton will introduce the film and take questions following the screening. WHAT: “John Marin: Let the Paint be Paint!“ 2009. Not rated. 110 minutes. WHEN: THIS Sunday, March […]