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We are proud to announce our official premiere date & time! A red carpet movie night in Bellingham. Our All-New Sci-Fi Adventure will take center screen at the Pickford Cinema on Wednesday, April 13th!
Come and enjoy a Social Mixer with Light Apps provided and a red carpet photo-op at 8 pm. Bar Service Available for patrons over 21+ Film premier showing is from 9 pm-10 pm. Get to know and learn from the Cast and Crew with a Q&A after the showing.
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I’m writing to put an event on your students radar–it’s an a/v event at a local underground venue, all ages, with sliding scale donation. More info:
“THREE FILMS BY HALI AUTUMN”
Three films constructed and re-worked by Hali Autumn, where neither imagery or sound take precedence. The films will be screened with a live score featuring; Ceremonial Abyss (Portland), Katrena Marie (Olympia), and Identity Theft (Bellingham). The curatorial idea is to not coordinate the imagery and music but to honor the synchronicity in the various unplanned approaches, combining to envelop the room into an immersive environment. One night only!
April 30th, 2022
at Karate Church
519 E Maple St., Bellingham, WA
9pm, sliding scale $7-2
Event website:
https://www.facebook.com/events/503425491429939/
Thanks!
An online film discussion series!
When Commander Adams and his crew are sent to investigate why there were no communications from a previous mission to a planet explored 20 years earlier by scientists, he finds only two survivors, Dr. Morbius and his daughter. Unknown to Adams, Morbius has made a discovery, a discovery of great power, and has no intention of sharing it with anyone.
Participants are strongly encouraged to watch the film before the event. Rent it from Scarecrow or stream it online. This program is free but registration is required.
Registration: bit.ly/saucercinema
A weekend of fun & affordable film workshops for kids & teens, ages 10+! Jan 21 & 22nd.
Tell it.
A script writing workshop for visual storytellers.Students will write a one page script to take home and continue on and/or to perform in the Act it workshop!
Act it.
Acting for film intro workshop.Students will get to perform a short scene with the skills they’ve learned!
Film It.
Learn about different styles, techniques, & tips using your phone and/or digital camera. Students will make a one minute video during the workshop.
Fly It.
Intro to drones workshop. Learn about different drones, techniques, & tricks. Students will get to try a drone simulator!
A weekend of fun & affordable film workshops for kids & teens, ages 10+! Jan 21 & 22nd.
Tell it.
A script writing workshop for visual storytellers.Students will write a one page script to take home and continue on and/or to perform in the Act it workshop!
Act it.
Acting for film intro workshop.Students will get to perform a short scene with the skills they’ve learned!
Film It.
Learn about different styles, techniques, & tips using your phone and/or digital camera. Students will make a one minute video during the workshop.
Fly It.
Intro to drones workshop. Learn about different drones, techniques, & tricks. Students will get to try a drone simulator!
You know about last year’s blockbusters, you’ve heard about the critics’ award-winners, you’ve endured the Oscar buzz. In this free online Zeitgeist ‘23! talk, we pick a crop of 2022 films unfairly overlooked by the hypemeisters. Film critic Robert Horton promises a varied selection of titles, rumored to include at least one droll indie comedy, a superbly directed paranoid thriller by a first-time filmmaker, and a harrowing period piece on a hot-button topic. We’re also looking forward to hearing your nominations for overlooked movies, so be ready to make your case!
Attendance is free, registration is required: https://bit.ly/sazoverlooked
Finlandia Foundation Suomi Chapter presents an eclectic, three-day Festival of Finnish films. Throughout the first weekend of February 2023, the Finlandia Foundation Suomi Chapter will be presenting a showcase of films from Finland. Screened at the Firehouse Arts and Events Center in beautiful Fairhaven, this will be a weekend with something for everyone: from hard-to-find remastered classics, new takes on beloved characters, to current perspectives in present-day Finland.
The festival kicks off on Friday evening with a showing of the classic 2002 film, The Man Without a Past (original title Mies vailla menneisyyttä), by acclaimed director Aki Kaurismäki. Attendees are also invited to a talk by University of Washington Scandinavian Studies professor Andy Nestingen (details coming soon).
On Saturday we focus on a series of documentaries including the 2016 Tale of a Lake (Järven tarina) which takes a spellbinding journey through the seasons into the life of lakes and their connections with Finnish mythology. Later in the day, learn of the Sami people’s present-day struggle to maintain their indigenous culture and way of life with 2021’s Our Silent Struggle (Eatnameamet). Make sure you stick around for Any Day Now (Ensilumi), the 2020 exploration of an Iranian refugee family awaiting asylum in present-day Finland. Wrapping it up on Saturday evening is Aki Kaurismäki’s 1985 near-cult film Calamari Union, a hilariously absurd tale centered on fourteen Finnish men all named Frank.
Sunday brings us the beloved Moomins, a series of animated adventures that speak to the child in us all, followed by a special short film from our local Sister Cities chapter. We are presenting these two features free of charge. We follow with 2020’s Tove which brings to the big screen the creative life of Tove Jansson, the artist behind the internationally acclaimed Moomins. Experience the flavor of Finland’s southern neighbor Estonia with the inspiring 2015 film, The Fencer (Miekkailija), and step back into the past with The White Reindeer (Valkoinen peura), the 1952 fantasy/horror film and only Finnish film to win a Golden Globe.
You can find us on the web on Facebook and at https://www.ffsuomi.com/ where you can read more about the Film Festival and how to purchase tickets. All films will be in English or English subtitles.
The Finlandia Foundation Suomi Chapter was founded in 2010 in Bellingham, WA. The national Finlandia Foundation’s mission is to promote Finnish-American culture in the United States and ancestral ties with Finland.
The Firehouse Arts and Events Center is located at 1314 Harris Ave, Bellingham, WA. life
Finlandia Foundation Suomi Chapter presents an eclectic, three-day Festival of Finnish films. Throughout the first weekend of February 2023, the Finlandia Foundation Suomi Chapter will be presenting a showcase of films from Finland. Screened at the Firehouse Arts and Events Center in beautiful Fairhaven, this will be a weekend with something for everyone: from hard-to-find remastered classics, new takes on beloved characters, to current perspectives in present-day Finland.
The festival kicks off on Friday evening with a showing of the classic 2002 film, The Man Without a Past (original title Mies vailla menneisyyttä), by acclaimed director Aki Kaurismäki. Attendees are also invited to a talk by University of Washington Scandinavian Studies professor Andy Nestingen (details coming soon).
On Saturday we focus on a series of documentaries including the 2016 Tale of a Lake (Järven tarina) which takes a spellbinding journey through the seasons into the life of lakes and their connections with Finnish mythology. Later in the day, learn of the Sami people’s present-day struggle to maintain their indigenous culture and way of life with 2021’s Our Silent Struggle (Eatnameamet). Make sure you stick around for Any Day Now (Ensilumi), the 2020 exploration of an Iranian refugee family awaiting asylum in present-day Finland. Wrapping it up on Saturday evening is Aki Kaurismäki’s 1985 near-cult film Calamari Union, a hilariously absurd tale centered on fourteen Finnish men all named Frank.
Sunday brings us the beloved Moomins, a series of animated adventures that speak to the child in us all, followed by a special short film from our local Sister Cities chapter. We are presenting these two features free of charge. We follow with 2020’s Tove which brings to the big screen the creative life of Tove Jansson, the artist behind the internationally acclaimed Moomins. Experience the flavor of Finland’s southern neighbor Estonia with the inspiring 2015 film, The Fencer (Miekkailija), and step back into the past with The White Reindeer (Valkoinen peura), the 1952 fantasy/horror film and only Finnish film to win a Golden Globe.
You can find us on the web on Facebook and at https://www.ffsuomi.com/ where you can read more about the Film Festival and how to purchase tickets. All films will be in English or English subtitles.
The Finlandia Foundation Suomi Chapter was founded in 2010 in Bellingham, WA. The national Finlandia Foundation’s mission is to promote Finnish-American culture in the United States and ancestral ties with Finland.
The Firehouse Arts and Events Center is located at 1314 Harris Ave, Bellingham, WA. life
Finlandia Foundation Suomi Chapter presents an eclectic, three-day Festival of Finnish films. Throughout the first weekend of February 2023, the Finlandia Foundation Suomi Chapter will be presenting a showcase of films from Finland. Screened at the Firehouse Arts and Events Center in beautiful Fairhaven, this will be a weekend with something for everyone: from hard-to-find remastered classics, new takes on beloved characters, to current perspectives in present-day Finland.
The festival kicks off on Friday evening with a showing of the classic 2002 film, The Man Without a Past (original title Mies vailla menneisyyttä), by acclaimed director Aki Kaurismäki. Attendees are also invited to a talk by University of Washington Scandinavian Studies professor Andy Nestingen (details coming soon).
On Saturday we focus on a series of documentaries including the 2016 Tale of a Lake (Järven tarina) which takes a spellbinding journey through the seasons into the life of lakes and their connections with Finnish mythology. Later in the day, learn of the Sami people’s present-day struggle to maintain their indigenous culture and way of life with 2021’s Our Silent Struggle (Eatnameamet). Make sure you stick around for Any Day Now (Ensilumi), the 2020 exploration of an Iranian refugee family awaiting asylum in present-day Finland. Wrapping it up on Saturday evening is Aki Kaurismäki’s 1985 near-cult film Calamari Union, a hilariously absurd tale centered on fourteen Finnish men all named Frank.
Sunday brings us the beloved Moomins, a series of animated adventures that speak to the child in us all, followed by a special short film from our local Sister Cities chapter. We are presenting these two features free of charge. We follow with 2020’s Tove which brings to the big screen the creative life of Tove Jansson, the artist behind the internationally acclaimed Moomins. Experience the flavor of Finland’s southern neighbor Estonia with the inspiring 2015 film, The Fencer (Miekkailija), and step back into the past with The White Reindeer (Valkoinen peura), the 1952 fantasy/horror film and only Finnish film to win a Golden Globe.
You can find us on the web on Facebook and at https://www.ffsuomi.com/ where you can read more about the Film Festival and how to purchase tickets. All films will be in English or English subtitles.
The Finlandia Foundation Suomi Chapter was founded in 2010 in Bellingham, WA. The national Finlandia Foundation’s mission is to promote Finnish-American culture in the United States and ancestral ties with Finland.
The Firehouse Arts and Events Center is located at 1314 Harris Ave, Bellingham, WA. life
Year Five of Scarecrow Academy brings an ambitious discussion series titled “Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film,” an in-depth look at an often-derided, but frequently glorious genre sometimes called “women’s pictures.” In these ten weeks of free online conversations, we explore the way imaginative filmmakers have put women at the center of their hothouse creative universes. David Lynch refuses to describe his films, but has sometimes summed them up with the phrase “A Woman in Trouble.” In this series we’ll see how potent that situation can be.
Discussions are led by National Society of Film Critics member Robert Horton, author of the Seasoned Ticket column at the Scarecrow blog and Scarecrow’s “Historian-Programmer in Residence.” The Zoom sessions are free and open to all; there’s no homework, but we ask that you register online in advance. We’ll be meeting on Saturdays at 2 p.m., beginning March 4, 2023. Note: there will be no class on April 29.
Attendance is free, registration is required: https://bit.ly/scarecrowacademy
Year Five of Scarecrow Academy brings an ambitious discussion series titled “Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film,” an in-depth look at an often-derided, but frequently glorious genre sometimes called “women’s pictures.” In these ten weeks of free online conversations, we explore the way imaginative filmmakers have put women at the center of their hothouse creative universes. David Lynch refuses to describe his films, but has sometimes summed them up with the phrase “A Woman in Trouble.” In this series we’ll see how potent that situation can be.
Discussions are led by National Society of Film Critics member Robert Horton, author of the Seasoned Ticket column at the Scarecrow blog and Scarecrow’s “Historian-Programmer in Residence.” The Zoom sessions are free and open to all; there’s no homework, but we ask that you register online in advance. We’ll be meeting on Saturdays at 2 p.m., beginning March 4, 2023. Note: there will be no class on April 29.
Attendance is free, registration is required: https://bit.ly/scarecrowacademy
Year Five of Scarecrow Academy brings an ambitious discussion series titled “Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film,” an in-depth look at an often-derided, but frequently glorious genre sometimes called “women’s pictures.” In these ten weeks of free online conversations, we explore the way imaginative filmmakers have put women at the center of their hothouse creative universes. David Lynch refuses to describe his films, but has sometimes summed them up with the phrase “A Woman in Trouble.” In this series we’ll see how potent that situation can be.
Discussions are led by National Society of Film Critics member Robert Horton, author of the Seasoned Ticket column at the Scarecrow blog and Scarecrow’s “Historian-Programmer in Residence.” The Zoom sessions are free and open to all; there’s no homework, but we ask that you register online in advance. We’ll be meeting on Saturdays at 2 p.m., beginning March 4, 2023. Note: there will be no class on April 29.
Attendance is free, registration is required: https://bit.ly/scarecrowacademy
Year Five of Scarecrow Academy brings an ambitious discussion series titled “Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film,” an in-depth look at an often-derided, but frequently glorious genre sometimes called “women’s pictures.” In these ten weeks of free online conversations, we explore the way imaginative filmmakers have put women at the center of their hothouse creative universes. David Lynch refuses to describe his films, but has sometimes summed them up with the phrase “A Woman in Trouble.” In this series we’ll see how potent that situation can be.
Discussions are led by National Society of Film Critics member Robert Horton, author of the Seasoned Ticket column at the Scarecrow blog and Scarecrow’s “Historian-Programmer in Residence.” The Zoom sessions are free and open to all; there’s no homework, but we ask that you register online in advance. We’ll be meeting on Saturdays at 2 p.m., beginning March 4, 2023. Note: there will be no class on April 29.
Attendance is free, registration is required: https://bit.ly/scarecrowacademy
When Small Axe premiered in 2020, many were quick to identify which of the individual films was best or most cinematic or most engaging. In this online conversation, we’ll discuss how the intricacies of the anthology’s aesthetic, structural and thematic ambitions only works when we think of it as a single piece where each piece works as a polyphonic part of a larger whole. This reading, where McQueen realizes the dramatic possibilities of an anthology, is central to fully inhabiting the searing message of communality and togetherness (despite differences) that is so important to the Jamaican proverb the series gets its name from. It is community, and not individual fragmentation, that assures success; and similarly it is the collectivism of the Windrush generation that forms the “small axe” that confronts the blindness of the British empire.
Admission is free. Registration is required: bit.ly/svzeitgeist
Year Five of Scarecrow Academy brings an ambitious discussion series titled “Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film,” an in-depth look at an often-derided, but frequently glorious genre sometimes called “women’s pictures.” In these ten weeks of free online conversations, we explore the way imaginative filmmakers have put women at the center of their hothouse creative universes. David Lynch refuses to describe his films, but has sometimes summed them up with the phrase “A Woman in Trouble.” In this series we’ll see how potent that situation can be.
Discussions are led by National Society of Film Critics member Robert Horton, author of the Seasoned Ticket column at the Scarecrow blog and Scarecrow’s “Historian-Programmer in Residence.” The Zoom sessions are free and open to all; there’s no homework, but we ask that you register online in advance. We’ll be meeting on Saturdays at 2 p.m., beginning March 4, 2023. Note: there will be no class on April 29.
Attendance is free, registration is required: https://bit.ly/scarecrowacademy
Year Five of Scarecrow Academy brings an ambitious discussion series titled “Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film,” an in-depth look at an often-derided, but frequently glorious genre sometimes called “women’s pictures.” In these ten weeks of free online conversations, we explore the way imaginative filmmakers have put women at the center of their hothouse creative universes. David Lynch refuses to describe his films, but has sometimes summed them up with the phrase “A Woman in Trouble.” In this series we’ll see how potent that situation can be.
Discussions are led by National Society of Film Critics member Robert Horton, author of the Seasoned Ticket column at the Scarecrow blog and Scarecrow’s “Historian-Programmer in Residence.” The Zoom sessions are free and open to all; there’s no homework, but we ask that you register online in advance. We’ll be meeting on Saturdays at 2 p.m., beginning March 4, 2023. Note: there will be no class on April 29.
Attendance is free, registration is required: https://bit.ly/scarecrowacademy
Year Five of Scarecrow Academy brings an ambitious discussion series titled “Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film,” an in-depth look at an often-derided, but frequently glorious genre sometimes called “women’s pictures.” In these ten weeks of free online conversations, we explore the way imaginative filmmakers have put women at the center of their hothouse creative universes. David Lynch refuses to describe his films, but has sometimes summed them up with the phrase “A Woman in Trouble.” In this series we’ll see how potent that situation can be.
Discussions are led by National Society of Film Critics member Robert Horton, author of the Seasoned Ticket column at the Scarecrow blog and Scarecrow’s “Historian-Programmer in Residence.” The Zoom sessions are free and open to all; there’s no homework, but we ask that you register online in advance. We’ll be meeting on Saturdays at 2 p.m., beginning March 4, 2023. Note: there will be no class on April 29.
Attendance is free, registration is required: https://bit.ly/scarecrowacademy
Year Five of Scarecrow Academy brings an ambitious discussion series titled “Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film,” an in-depth look at an often-derided, but frequently glorious genre sometimes called “women’s pictures.” In these ten weeks of free online conversations, we explore the way imaginative filmmakers have put women at the center of their hothouse creative universes. David Lynch refuses to describe his films, but has sometimes summed them up with the phrase “A Woman in Trouble.” In this series we’ll see how potent that situation can be.
Discussions are led by National Society of Film Critics member Robert Horton, author of the Seasoned Ticket column at the Scarecrow blog and Scarecrow’s “Historian-Programmer in Residence.” The Zoom sessions are free and open to all; there’s no homework, but we ask that you register online in advance. We’ll be meeting on Saturdays at 2 p.m., beginning March 4, 2023. Note: there will be no class on April 29.
Attendance is free, registration is required: https://bit.ly/scarecrowacademy
Year Five of Scarecrow Academy brings an ambitious discussion series titled “Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film,” an in-depth look at an often-derided, but frequently glorious genre sometimes called “women’s pictures.” In these ten weeks of free online conversations, we explore the way imaginative filmmakers have put women at the center of their hothouse creative universes. David Lynch refuses to describe his films, but has sometimes summed them up with the phrase “A Woman in Trouble.” In this series we’ll see how potent that situation can be.
Discussions are led by National Society of Film Critics member Robert Horton, author of the Seasoned Ticket column at the Scarecrow blog and Scarecrow’s “Historian-Programmer in Residence.” The Zoom sessions are free and open to all; there’s no homework, but we ask that you register online in advance. We’ll be meeting on Saturdays at 2 p.m., beginning March 4, 2023. Note: there will be no class on April 29.
Attendance is free, registration is required: https://bit.ly/scarecrowacademy
Year Five of Scarecrow Academy brings an ambitious discussion series titled “Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film,” an in-depth look at an often-derided, but frequently glorious genre sometimes called “women’s pictures.” In these ten weeks of free online conversations, we explore the way imaginative filmmakers have put women at the center of their hothouse creative universes. David Lynch refuses to describe his films, but has sometimes summed them up with the phrase “A Woman in Trouble.” In this series we’ll see how potent that situation can be.
Discussions are led by National Society of Film Critics member Robert Horton, author of the Seasoned Ticket column at the Scarecrow blog and Scarecrow’s “Historian-Programmer in Residence.” The Zoom sessions are free and open to all; there’s no homework, but we ask that you register online in advance. We’ll be meeting on Saturdays at 2 p.m., beginning March 4, 2023. Note: there will be no class on April 29.
Attendance is free, registration is required: https://bit.ly/scarecrowacademy
As meowsters of zen relaxation and icons of flexibility: NEKO’s 20+ cats are here to guide your yoga purractice while being excessively cute. Join the adoptable kitties on May 18th at NEKO Bellingham fur Intuitive Flow Yoga! This 45min class is taught by Laura Orso-Richmond (of Elements Hot Yoga) and is suitable fur all levels. Whether you’re a purracticed yogi or rarely step paw on a mat: this class is fur you!
WHEN: May 18, 2023 | 6-7:30pm
(Check in between 6-6:10)
THE CLASS:
Intuitive Flow Yoga taught by Laura Orso-Richmond (of Elements Hot Yoga) fur all-levels!
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
– 45 minutes of yoga, followed by 30 minutes of kitty & beer time from 7-7:30
– A complementary tea or hot chocolate
– 20+ adoptable kitties
A lecture-discussion hosted by film critic Robert Horton
If you’re not anxious about artificial intelligence, are you even paying attention? Ever since the robot went hoochy-coochy in the sci-fi classic Metropolis, movies have explored the possibilities and consequences of what happens when we create something that might be smarter and quicker than we are. But do those hopes and worries say more about us than about technology? Given the current fretting about chatbots and AI hallucinations, it might be a good time to consider how movies have anticipated the AI revolution, from the paranoid computer of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the perfect boy of A.I. – Artificial Intelligence to the different personalities in Her and M3gan.
Admission is free. Registration is required: bit.ly/svzeitgeist
Scientists at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back to their station and he is accidentally thawed out! Based on the short story “Who Goes There?” by Joseph Campbell, this highly regarded classic by one of Hollywood’s greatest directors set the standard for decades. In 1982 it was remade by John Carpenter into a modern masterpiece – simply as The Thing – worthy of the original.
Cultural critic and author David Cotner visits Scarecrow Video for a signing of his book A History of Violence (1973). Its concept is simple: take the date in 1973 on which a violent film was first screened – and go beyond the film to see the world that exists outside the theatre. It’s a book that realizes that the line between life and cinema is as much a horizon as it is a terminator. A History of Violence (1973) takes you across that horizon to places in time you never even imagined existed. Because bombs don’t explode in only one direction.
Check out this Letterboxd list featuring some of the many films covered in the book: https://letterboxd.com/jaguar_ride/list/a-history-of-violence-1973
Hollywood film director Catherine Hardwicke will be at Pickford Film Center in Bellingham, WA on April 27th to introduce, in-person, a one-night-only screening of her 2008 film, Twilight, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.
Twilight (2008) is the first in a series of films adapted from the best-selling “Twilight Saga” book series written by Stephanie Meyer.
Tickets on sale now.
Special thanks to CASCADIA International Women’s FIlm Festival, who will be hosting Hardwicke as their guest of honor at this year’s festival.
