PASSING STRANGE: THE MOVIE (Spike Lee, Dir.) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16TH @ 6:30pm - [Final Event in our Talk +Music Film Series]
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PASSING STRANGE (Thursday, Dec 16th)
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MUSIC IN MOTION is a 4-part film and interactive multimedia series spotlighting four extremely talented music artists. Each artist represents a different era, genre and level of success, yet all share the ability to inspire both fans and other artists. Their influence extends well beyond Billboard charts or box office receipts.
Each film event features a very special guest brought here exclusively to share their extensive knowledge and unique perspective of the artist and their work. All of our guest experts have extremely impressive credentials as journalists and authors, producers and music historians. As well, they each share a close association with the featured artist along with a deep knowledge and understanding of their work.
These events promise to be a fun and interesting evening for both the serious and casual music fan!
Audience Q&A sessions will be held at the end of each event, so be prepared for a lively evening of music, film and conversation!
(see event details below)
FINAL TALK+MUSIC EVENT: (PT 4 of 4)...
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16TH @ 6:30PM
PASSING STRANGE: THE MOVIE
THE CRITICS AGREE:
"MESMERIZING" & "BRILLIANT"
SPIKE LEE'S FILM OF THE AWARD WINNING
BROADWAY MUSICAL IS "A MUST SEE"!
Broadway at it's best...truly unlike anything you've seen! - USA Today
Call it a rock concert with a story to tell...Call it a sprawling work of
performance art...I'll just call it wonderful! - New York Times
One of the best musicals I've seen…one of Spike Lee's best films! - Roger Ebert
Brilliant! - The New Yorker
Grade A! A mesmerizing experience! - Entertainment Weekly
Invigorating...In every way a knockout! - Rolling Stone
Compelling and moving! - Associated Press
A Must See! There’s never been a musical quite like Passing Strange...Lee has raised the bar for filming live performances - San Francisco Chronicle
Spike Lee’s eye proves both a benevolent and beneficial addition to the imaginative canvas of “Passing Strange,” the buoyant coming-of-age musical - Washington Post
Passing Strange was a highly acclaimed and groundbreaking rock musical. It garnered a diverse and passionate following and won numerous awards, including Broadway's highest award – a Tony! Spike Lee made a permanent record of the Broadway production "for generations and generations to see" by filming the last 3 performances in front of audiences.
From Los Angeles to Amsterdam to Berlin and back, Passing Strange takes musical theater on a whole new trip. From singer-songwriter and performance artist Stew comes Passing Strange, a daring new musical that takes you on a journey across boundaries of place, identity and theatrical convention. Stew, a popular music performer with his group The Negro Problem, won the prestigious TONY award for his heartfelt and hilarious story of a young bohemian who charts a course for “the real” through sex, drugs and rock and roll. Loaded with soulful lyrics and overflowing with passion, the show takes us from black, middle-class America to Amsterdam, Berlin and beyond on a journey towards personal and artistic authenticity.
A LOCAL STAR IS BORN: Daniel Breaker, a graduate of Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, was nominated for a Tony Award for his critically acclaimed lead performance in Passing Strange!!!
In addition to Daniel Breaker, Passing Strange introduced audiences to a core of supremely talented young actors, several of whom are currently featured in Broadway’s hottest musical hits (Green Day’s American Idiot, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and The Scottsboro Boys).
Our Talk+Music film event should appeal to music and theater fans who appreciate an engaging story with an amazing soundtrack and the talent to deliver it perfectly!
[SPECIAL PROMOTION: Each ticket you purchase enters you in to a drawing at the event to win a DVD of Passing Strange signed by Tony Award winning writer/lyricist & star-Stew & his songwriting partner & co-star Heidi Rodewald
BILL BRAGIN 
Bill currently serves as the Director of Public Programming at Lincoln Center. It was in his previous position as Director of the prestigious Joe's Pub at The Public Theater where Bill was able to help sheperd Stew along the path of theatrical development, off-Broadway and then Broadway production and finally Spike Lee film for the critically acclaimed and award winning rock musical Passing Strange. Bill also wrote the Foreward and Liner Notes for both the Passing Strange book and soundtrack. Among other projects, Bill also serves as Music Advisor to the TED Conferences (TED.com). Joining Bill in this discussion will also be AL LETSON. Al is well known to local fans as a brilliant actor, playwright, poet and now host of the popular NPR show State of the ReUnion.
PAST EVENTS IN THIS SERIES INCLUDE...
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH
MILES DAVIS: KIND OF BLUE AT 50
Clip from 50th anniversary documentary co-directed & produced by Ashley Kahn
One of the single greatest achievements in recorded music. Miles Davis is the essence of hipness - the way he looked...the way he played. - Ed Bradley
It is a cornerstone record, not only for Jazz...for [all] music - Herbie Hancock
If you own just one jazz album, chances are it's Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
-Renee Montaigne, NPR Morning Edition
Please join us as we welcome to Jacksonville, critically acclaimed author, music journalist and Jazz historian, ASHLEY KAHN,
for a very special evening spotlighting the amazing legacy of Miles
Davis! This event is part listening session (featuring rare cuts and
video clips), part discussion and an engaging demonstration of cultural
detective work that celebrates the first 15 years of Miles' career. Kind of Blue
is widely considered the greatest Jazz recording of all time, as well
as one of the most influential modern recordings of any style. Well
known as a leading expert on Miles Davis, Ashley's wealth of knowledge
combined with his
affable style (as heard on his reports for NPR) should make this a
really unique and enjoyable event for both the serious and casual fan
alike.
Ashley Kahn's books include
- Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
- A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album
- The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records.
- Somethin’ El se: The Story of Blue Note Records and the Birth of Modern Jazz (Ashley is currently writing this 70-year history of the most famous Jazz record label)
ASHLEY KAHN 
Ashley’s voice is often heard on National Public Radio's “Morning Edition.” He also teaches courses on music at New York University's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music. During a thirty-year career in the music business, Kahn has served as a music editor at VH1, the primary editor of Rolling Stone: The Seventies (Little, Brown), a deejay on a variety of radio stations, and – for a ten-year stint – tour manager for a multitude of music groups, including: Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel and...Britney Spears.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15TH @ 6:00pm
EVERYDAY SUNSHINE: THE STORY OF FISHBONE
From
the shifting fault-lines of Hollywood fantasies and the economic and
racial tensions of Reagan's America, Fishbone rose to become one of the
most original bands of the last 25 years. With a blistering combination
of punk and funk they demolished the walls of genre and challenged the
racial stereotypes and political order of the music industry and the
nation. EVERYDAY SUNSHINE is a story about music, history, fear, courage
and funking on the one.
At the heart of the film's story is
lead singer Angelo Moore and bassist Norwood Fisher who show how they
keep the band rolling out of pride, desperation and love for their art.
To overcome money woes, family strife, and the strain of being aging
Punk rockers on the road, Norwood and Angelo are challenged to re-invent
themselves in the face of dysfunction and ghosts from a painful past.
The
film is narrated by the award-winning actor Lawrence Fishbourne and
features interviews with Flea, Gwen Stefani, Ice-T, Perry Farrell,
Branford Marsalis, George Clinton, Tim Robbins, Gogol Bordello,
?uestlove, Vernon Reid and many others. EVERYDAY SUNSHINE traces
Fishbone’s history, wide-ranging influence, and struggle as
individualistic, genre-blending artists up against an unforgiving music
industry that threatens to pass them by.
NOTE: Tickets for this film are only available via the Jacksonville Film Festival (click here).
GREG TATE 
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Greg
Tate is a writer and musician who lives in Harlem. He was one of the
principal agents responsible for the founding of the Black Rock
Coalition in 1985 (along with Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid).
Since 1999 Tate has led the umpteen member conducted improv ensemble
BURNT SUGAR THE ARKESTRA CHAMBER. The group recently performed in Paris
with Director Melvin Van Peebles during the operatic stage revival of
his 1971 film "Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song". Burnt Sugar also embarked
on a week-long residency at The Apollo Theatre performing James Brown's
music, Fall 2010.
Greg's books include:
- Flyboy In the Buttermilk ( 1993)
- Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience" (2003)
- Everything But the Burden:What White People Are Taking From Black Culture" (2003)
Greg is currently working on Flyboy 2:The Greg Tate Reader (Duke University Press, 2011) and James Brown's Body Vs The Revolution of the Mind (Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 2012).
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH @ 6:30p
BOB MARLEY - UP CLOSE & PERSONAL
Watch the Classic Documentary Film
REBEL MUSIC: THE BOB MARLEY STORY
The definitive, official Bob Marley documentary film as told by those who knew him best!
Following the film will be a lively Q&A discussion,
led by well known music journalist Vivien Goldman
(author of acclaimed Marley bio The Book of Exodus)
SPECIAL PROMOTION: Advance ticket purchase will automatically enter you
in a drawing to win exciting promotional items
- Personally autographed copy of The Book of Exodus
- Marley Family DVD (Africa Unite) signed by Ziggy Marley
- DVD of One Love: A Tribute Concert for Bob Marley (a star-studded tribute)
VIVIAN GOLDMAN 
Time Magazine crowned Exodus by Bob Marley & The Wailers as the BEST ALBUM of the ENTIRE 20th Century! They said, every
song is a classic, from the messages of love to the anthems of
revolution. But more than that, the album is a political and cultural
nexus, drawing inspiration from the Third World and then giving voice to
it the world over. We are truly honored to
have Vivien Goldman lead a post-film discussion that will focus on her unique
perspective of Bob Marley around the time of the making of Exodus –
giving special insights into Bob as a person, while also giving context
to him as a musical, political and social icon – beloved worldwide. It
will be a very special evening of Talk+Music!
Vivien Goldman
is one of the premier experts on Bob Marley, not just because she has
carefully studied his music, but also because she was there! As
publicist, journalist and friend, Vivien was around Bob and The Wailers
extensively - in the studio and on the road – before, during and after
that time when Marley & The Wailers went from being just a popular
reggae band with individual album sales of maybe 80K to that time after
Exodus when they became the global sensation that we are familiar with
today. Goldman's fifth book is The Book of Exodus: The Making & Meaning of Bob Marley & The Wailers’ Album of The Century,
described as "vivid and intimate" by Rolling Stone (due in large part
to her up-close work and deep friendship with Marley and The Wailers).
So close was Vivien to Bob and the Wailers that she was a guest at his
Kingston home just days before gunmen came there and made an attempt on
his life (which, in turn drove the band to Vivien’s home town - London –
where they stayed for well over a year to record Exodus)! In the
exquisite, brand new book The Story of Island Records, the
recording home to many great artists such as U2, Tom Waits, Traffic and
many, many great reggae artists, Vivien was given the honor of writing
the chapter on Island’s premier artist – Bob Marley. Among Vivien’s
other books is the very first Marley biography: Soul Rebel, Natural
Mystic.
Vivien is a well known and highly respected writer and
cult post-punk musician who has devoted much of her work since the
mid-70’s to chronicling punk and Afro-Caribbean music and culture. She
is a widely published and anthologized music journalist (Rolling Stone,
NY Times, NME, Spin and Vibe magazine just to name a few). Vivien also
teaches at New York University’s Clive Davis Dept. of Recorded Music
where she has one of the coolest job titles ever - Adjunct Professor of Punk and Reggae
(she is well known as the Punk Professor and for a while had a column
on the BBC’s website called Ask The Punk Professor)! A Londoner,
Goldman has lived in Paris and now resides in New York.
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News & Updates
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Tune in to WJCT-FM (89.9) on Thursday morning around 9:40am to hear Melissa Ross interview our Passing Strange post-film speakers, Bill Bragin & Al Letson. Melissa hosts the fantastic First Coast Connect every weekday between 9-10a.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
This week's FOLIO has a feature story on Atypical Arts & Passing Strange (it's film pick of the week!). Click here to read it online)
Friday, December 10, 2010
EU JACKSONVILLE has a terrific article on Passing Strange in it's December issue (click here to read it online)
Friday, December 10, 2010
ARBUS, Jacksonville's premiere arts magazine, has a full page story on Passing Strange & Atypical Arts in the current December issue (click here to read it online - pg 71)
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Passing Strange was an award-winning hit Broadway musical that featured an amazing array of cast members. Congratulations to three who are currently starring in new hit Broadway musicals:
de'Adre Aziza, who is starring in the musical adaptation of the Pedro Almodovar film, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, which just opened.
Colman Domingo, who is starring in The Scottsboro Boys, which just opened.
Rebecca Naomi Jones, who has been starring in Green Day's American Idiot since it opened earlier this year.
Friday, September 24, 2010
The Florida Times-Union had a feature article on Atypical Arts Presents and our Talk+Music Movie series. Click here to check it out!
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