Music Lectures || Art Lectures

Film & Wine: Flicks on the Bricks
Thursdays, July 30, August 6, 13, 20
Series: $52/72, Single evening: $15/20

Join us on four warm summer nights in the courtyard of the Athenaeum for memorable films and coordinated wines. Wine expert Barbara Baxter will introduce the wines that relate to the films.

July 30, 7:30 PM
Bottle Shock
Bottle Shock is a testament to California winemakers as well as a cinematographic feast with its stunning aerials of Sonoma’s sumptuous valleys. Barbara Baxter will conduct a blind wine tasting between French and Californian wines.

August 6, 8 PM
Eat Drink Man Woman
Director Ang Lee sets this sumptuous film about love, family, and loss against the artistry of Chinese cooking. Barbara will serve crisp and dry red and white wines from Europe, which pair deliciously with Asian cuisine.

August 13, 8 PM
Big Night
Two Italian brothers struggle to run a restaurant in America, despite few patrons besides a poor artist who pays with his paintings. We will sample a new wave of great wines from the south of Italy.

August 20, 8 PM
Casablanca
This final film is a timeless classic that offers us a chance to enjoy the contrast between today’s hard times and fine Champagne, alongside notables like Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Raines, and music by Max Steiner.

 

Book Arts Lecture
Thursday, September 18, 7:30 PM
Free

Artists who choose books as vehicles for their art have evolved in the last few years to a group of determined authors/artists that insist on visual and literal interplay in their work. This lecture covers the work of many of these artists and their particular stories: the seeds that inspire the books, and the stories that come from making them. Presented with San Diego Book Arts.

 

Check back this fall!

 

 

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