The Winder Cultural Arts Center – a host site for the 2012 - 2013 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers - presents “Joe Papp in Five Acts” with Co-Director, Producer, and Writer Karen Thorsen as part of the South Arts Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers in the Colleen O. Williams Theater at The Winder Cultural Arts Center, 105 East Athens Street, Winder, GA at 3:00 PM, September 9, 2012. At the completion of the film screening, there will be a moderated discussion with Ms. Thorsen about the film and her work. A light reception will follow.
This screening is free and open to be public. Sitting is limited to 225 persons.
“Joe Papp in Five Acts”, a feature-length documentary film, tells the story of New York’s indomitable, street-wise champion of the arts who introduced interracial casting to the American stage and created free “Shakespeare in the Park”, “Hair”, and “A Chorus Line”. From 1954 until his death in 1991, Joe Papp brought more theater to more people than any other producer in history. In his eyes, art was for everyone, not just a privileged few. “We have public libraries,” he would argue, “Why not public theaters?”
Papp recognized the role that art could play in building a more democratic, diverse society. At the same time, his personal story is riveting: a very poor boy that fell in love with Shakespeare and hid his immigrant roots for over 20 years. Papp became a tireless fighter who raised enduring debate about the value of the arts, to the lives of all people and to the health of all communities. Papp's great accomplishments and his own tumultuous personal history is told by the artists he helped create -- and sometimes tried to destroy--a “Who's Who” of stage and screen -- Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Kevin Kline, James Earl Jones, David Hare, Ntozake Shange, and Larry Kramer, among others.
Papp gave us a world where Ntozake Shange could celebrate “Colored Girls,” where a woman could be “Hamlet,” and James Earl Jones could be “King Lear.” He fought for gay rights and produced “The Normal Heart” at the height of the AIDS crisis, when no one else would. He slashed ticket prices, and took art to the streets. He created the Festival Latino, which became the largest Hispanic theater festival in the world. After more than a decade in the making, “Joe Papp in Five Acts” is now finished, and will reach a national audience through film festivals, and a national primetime PBS broadcast on American Masters in 2013.
The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a program of South Arts. Southern Circuit screenings are funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. South Arts, a nonprofit regional arts organization, was founded in 1975 to build on the South's unique heritage and enhance the public value of the arts. South Arts' work responds to the arts environment and cultural trends with a regional perspective. South Arts offers an annual portfolio of activities designed to address the role of the arts in impacting the issues important to our region, and to link the South with the nation and the world through the arts. For more information, visit www.southarts.org.
The Winder Cultural Arts Center is located at the intersection of East Athens Street and Park Avenue, just a block from the downtown Winder business district and is home to the Colleen O. Williams Theater - a state-of-the-art, fully equipped performance theater with comfortable seating & handicap accessible, with ample parking.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Winder Cultural Arts Center – a host site for the 2012 - 2013 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers - presents “Joe Papp in Five Acts” with Co-Director, Producer, and Writer Karen Thorsen as part of the South Arts Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers in the Colleen O. Williams Theater at The Winder Cultural Arts Center, 105 East Athens Street, Winder, GA at 3:00 PM, September 9, 2012. At the completion of the film screening, there will be a moderated discussion with Ms. Thorsen about the film and her work. A light reception will follow.
This screening is free and open to be public. Sitting is limited to 225 persons.
“Joe Papp in Five Acts”, a feature-length documentary film, tells the story of New York’s indomitable, street-wise champion of the arts who introduced interracial casting to the American stage and created free “Shakespeare in the Park”, “Hair”, and “A Chorus Line”. From 1954 until his death in 1991, Joe Papp brought more theater to more people than any other producer in history. In his eyes, art was for everyone, not just a privileged few. “We have public libraries,” he would argue, “Why not public theaters?”
Papp recognized the role that art could play in building a more democratic, diverse society. At the same time, his personal story is riveting: a very poor boy that fell in love with Shakespeare and hid his immigrant roots for over 20 years. Papp became a tireless fighter who raised enduring debate about the value of the arts, to the lives of all people and to the health of all communities. Papp's great accomplishments and his own tumultuous personal history is told by the artists he helped create -- and sometimes tried to destroy--a “Who's Who” of stage and screen -- Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Kevin Kline, James Earl Jones, David Hare, Ntozake Shange, and Larry Kramer, among others.
Papp gave us a world where Ntozake Shange could celebrate “Colored Girls,” where a woman could be “Hamlet,” and James Earl Jones could be “King Lear.” He fought for gay rights and produced “The Normal Heart” at the height of the AIDS crisis, when no one else would. He slashed ticket prices, and took art to the streets. He created the Festival Latino, which became the largest Hispanic theater festival in the world. After more than a decade in the making, “Joe Papp in Five Acts” is now finished, and will reach a national audience through film festivals, and a national primetime PBS broadcast on American Masters in 2013.
The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a program of South Arts. Southern Circuit screenings are funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. South Arts, a nonprofit regional arts organization, was founded in 1975 to build on the South's unique heritage and enhance the public value of the arts. South Arts' work responds to the arts environment and cultural trends with a regional perspective. South Arts offers an annual portfolio of activities designed to address the role of the arts in impacting the issues important to our region, and to link the South with the nation and the world through the arts. For more information, visit www.southarts.org.
The Winder Cultural Arts Center is located at the intersection of East Athens Street and Park Avenue, just a block from the downtown Winder business district and is home to the Colleen O. Williams Theater - a state-of-the-art, fully equipped performance theater with comfortable seating & handicap accessible, with ample parking.
LOCATION:Winder Cultural Arts Center\, 105 East Athens Street Downtown Winder\, Georgia CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR