Play in the Gray will screen as a part of Trans Awareness Week Movie Night along with an episode from short film series Falling in love with Chris and Greg. Screening begins at 7:30 at the Bright Family Screening Room at Emerson College. Free and open to the public. http://www.masstpc.org/events/taw/
Performing live in Boston on November 19, 2010 at PURE:FRIDAYS at PEARL, All The Kings Men come home for one night only at the recession buster price of just $15. Tickets are purchased at the door, and include admission to the show and dancing afterwards!
Two parts Tracey Ullman, a cup of Carol Burnett, a hint of Jim Carrey and a huge dose of inspiration, these Victor/Victorias master every point on the gender spectrum with a collection of performances as poignant as they are audacious. Outrageous, hilarious, dynamic and gifted, a whole lotta woman AND man, this show will have you laughing long and loud but it will also make you think. The entertaining act strikes at the heart of gender and world issues in its melange of everything current.
You can come expecting the unexpected and count on more than 40 hilarious comedy characters, tongue-in-cheek burlesque, spot on dance, biting satire, and poptastic performances in a modern Vaudevillian spectacle that critics call “just plain amazing”.
WHEN:
November 19, 2010
8pm
WHERE:
PURE:FRIDAYS @ Pearl
75 Warrenton Street
Boston, MA 02116
TICKETS:
$15 at the door
Play in the Gray will be screening as a part of the Suffolk Cinema Series. Screening is Free and open to the public. More details here: http://www.suffolk.edu/44077.html
Women in Film & Video New England (WIFVNE) programs its popular Chicks Make Flicksfilm series this month with WIFVNE Kaitlin Meelia’s PLAY IN THE GRAY on Monday OCTOBER 25TH at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus at 7:00 p.m.
The screening is free and open to the public. It will take place on the MIT campus, 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room 6-120 Cambridge, MA. Space is limited so please RSVP by email to rsvp@womeninfilmvideo.org.
The WIFVNE Chicks Make Flicks series is sponsored by The MIT Program in Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS). WGS continues to build on its success as an interdisciplinary undergraduate program and to provide a framework and community for scholarly inquiry focusing on women and gender. Exploring gender cross-culturally, historically, and artistically with respect to other identity categories such as race, nation, sexuality, religion, and class, WGS subjects are designed to help MIT students better understand various constructions of knowledge and value and realize the range of personal and intellectual discoveries made possible by using gender as a category of analysis.
Founded in 1981, WIFVNE promotes the participation, education, and representation of women in the film, video, and media industry in New England. The non-profit organization is a member of the umbrella group Women in Film & Television International, a global network with over 38 chapters and more than 10,000 members.
Program funding is made possible by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council,and our sponsor at MIT. For more information about Women in Film & Video New England, go to www.wifvne.org.
Lynchburg College Professor Virgina Cylke (pictured in Pink) sponsored this screening and discussion that was spearheaded by Vanessa Alberto (pictured with Director Kaitlin Meelia) and supported by the Gay/Straight Alliance. We talked with students after the film, and they had lots of thoughts! Here are some of them (in order of appearance):
“Very entertaining but with a real message. Don’t try and label yourself. Don’t let others label you. Don’t try and live up to labels. I really liked the old Jewish grandmother because I have an old Jewish grandmother and I know what that’s like.” – Matt Behringer
“Everyone can identify with being the ‘weird kid’ every once in a while. (PITG) is about people and it’s something you can get emotionally attached to. You can find yourself identifying with any or all of the people in the film even if you’re not queer.” -Kari Edwards
“PITG opens up boundaries to ask questions and think. To live in the gray is to live outside of this binary system where you have to be one or the other. We’re not black and white creatures who have on and off codes. We are complicated and things interact. As we move throughout our lives we change people and they change us. We learn. That’s living in the gray.” – Ariana Stelling
We asked people after the Atlanta screening what they thought of the film. Here are some responses:
“It’s a thought provoking, very intimate, in depth, intimate portrait. It’s about how important it is to be yourself. I’d never really thought of it that way.” – Candace Murdoch
“Even within the gay community we talk in terms of binary. Our generation is all about “the gray” area in life, and this is stuff we need to talk about. This film is articulating that.” -Bianca
“Hilarious. It gives a lot of people hope. It reinforces the comfort level people need to have with themselves.” -Janine
