Friday, May 23
Test your own perception
Cine-Fridays: “American Avant-Garde Film of the Sixties: From Narration to Perception”
Smithfield Cottage
118 W. Hall St.
Graduate student Steven Miecznikowski documents uncanny changes in filmmaking technique during the advent of the radical ’60s. He’ll explain the counterculture’s effect on how we make, and view, our cinema. 5 p.m.
Saturday, May 24
Off the chain, or on it
Bike Club
Gallery Espresso
245 Bull St.
All enthusiasts are welcome to celebrate this, the world’s greatest form of transportation, long since abandoned by its iconic enthusiasts in the Far East. This embattled alternative to the automobile is among the most worthwhile hobbies to practice in our beautiful city. No fee for entry. 8 p.m.
Sunday, May 25
One art leads to another
Gallery Talk: “Liberating Artistic Consciousness as an Act of Survival and Celebration in Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre’” by Fiona Le Brun, Ph.D.
SCAD Museum of Art
227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Women’s role in the arts is Professor Le Brun’s passion, and her lectures show her deep understanding of whichever subject she chooses, from the exclusion of women from modern textbooks to the personal struggle of Charlotte Brontë to find herself in either painting or writing. 1:30 p.m.
Monday, May 26
Out there stuff, man
Reception for “Surface Tension” exhibition
The 180 Center
31st and Drayton streets
Professors Mosche and Flynn will hold a joint show for their classes that will bring an unconventional eye to the discipline of drawing. Come out to scratch heads, and maybe learn a thing or two. 6 p.m.
Tuesday, May 27
I found it
Events Space, fourth floor, Building C, SCAD-Atlanta
1600 Peachtree St.
Atlanta
SCAD alumnus Marcus Kenney works with the same found objects as the recently-departed Rauschenberg to tell us a little something about our society. 6 p.m.
Wednesday, May 28
Sound familiar?
Psychotronic Film Night: The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie (1972, USA)
Sentient Bean
13 E. Park St.
Savannah’s dedicated society for the appreciation of lost screen gems is at it again with this demented ’70s tale of a woman keeping a man captive in her house, not at all like the later work of a renowned master of horror. Or is it? Decide for yourself at the Bean. Just bring your own popcorn. 8 p.m.
Thursday, May 29
Summer
Summertime finally
Last day of spring quarter classes
Anywhere
This is the last day, where the grind for the year is given a brief a reprieve and we bid our seniors goodbye. Enjoy this day however you see fit, seeing as it’s safe and legal.
