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SUMMARY:Hairspray (1988)
DESCRIPTION:Screening Venue: Theatre Lawrence\n(4660 Bauer Farm Dr.)\nDirector: John Waters\nNarrative feature. Running Time: 1 hour 32 minutes\n1960s Baltimore teenager Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake) finally gets her big break and lands on an American Bandstand-inspired TV show. Tracy soon forces the issue of integrated dancing on the previously all white program\, much to the horror of her square parents (Waters’ longtime muse Divine and comedian Jerry Stiller).  \n“In a very real sense\, Hairspray is Waters’ most daring movie. It took more courage and judgment to make a comedy like Hairspray than it did to make Pink Flamingos.”—Kevin Thomas\, Los Angeles Times. \nPre-show experience:\nTo set the stage for an evening of movie-revelry\, pageant queens Miss Gay Kansas 2020 Deja Brooks and Miss Kansas 2020 Annika Wooton team up for a Divinely-inspired music number and speed-painting. Deja performs as the character of Tracy Turnblad while Annika demonstrates her award-winning pageant talent of speed painting Miss Brooks in action – all in just under seven minutes!   \nSpecial appearance by Kathy Eisman as Edna Turnblad!  \nWhile you are waiting for the movie to start\, you can also enjoy movie-centric puzzle experiences by Breakout Lawrence\, buy raffle tickets for a chance to win prizes from Game Nut. \nEvent Details:\n\nEvent is FREE\, but registration is required!\nSign up for a family/group pod\, not individual members of a family/group pod that can accommodate between 2 and 6 people.\nBe sure to bring lawn or camping chairs (this is not a drive-in and parking will be available close to the venue).\nGates open at 8pm. Arrive by 8:30 to secure your spot.\nConcessions are available on site. No outside food or drinks.\nIf it rains\, this event will move inside Theatre Lawrence.\n\n  \nDeja Brooks\, Miss Gay Kansas 2020\nAnnika Wooton\, Miss Kansas 2020\n  \nEvent Sponsors & Partners: \n \n \n \n\n 
URL:https://freestatefestival.org/event/hairspray/
LOCATION:Theatre Lawrence\, 4660 Bauer Farm Dr.\, Lawrence\, 66049\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Film,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210625T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210625T210000
DTSTAMP:20260817T051516
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SUMMARY:ART OPENINGS: Tonja Torgerson & Ashlyn Pope
DESCRIPTION:Tonja Torgerson: Succumb\nCider Gallery (810 Pennsylvania St.)\nTonja Torgerson\nAs part of her project-based residency at the Lawrence Arts Center\, Torgerson uses prints\, cut paper\, and collage to create a fallen Garden of Eden in which life-size figures grapple with the recognition of their mortality. These works provide an intimate pause in which to consider the frailty of the body\, allowing us to dwell on uncomfortable truths. \nTorgerson’s exhibit will be open to the public starting Friday\, June 25\, but attendees of the festival’s One Reel Under the Stars short film program can get a sneak peek of her process and progress on Wednesday\, June 23! \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAshlyn Pope: Witnessing Dandelions\nLawrence Arts Center (940 New Hampshire St.)\n \n  \nAshlyn Pope’s work is a reflection not only of her own experience\, but also an expression of her history. Pope has spent her time in residency at the Arts Center exploring themes of her ancestry and symbolism\, and how to relay that information through her ceramics. Working in both hand-building and throwing\, she uses her art to champion diversity through a body of work that discusses her own Gullah history\, as well as the past and present of the Black community. While Pope works in a variety of mediums\, she truly enjoys the challenges of working in clay\, “having to take the time to become acquainted and learn to work together with the clay\, and become a partner in its formation.” \nAlso on display at the Lawrence Arts Center…\nExperimental Film Showcase + Midden sculpture by Adriana Gramly \nAaron Hughes | Poetry Despite/Music Despite Eternal War Requiem
URL:https://freestatefestival.org/event/art-openings/
LOCATION:Cider Gallery\, 810 Pennsylvania St.\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210621T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210621T230000
DTSTAMP:20260817T051516
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SUMMARY:Triumph
DESCRIPTION:Screening Venue: Lawrence Public Library Lawn\n(707 Vermont St.)\nDirector: Brett Leonard\nWriter & a Producer: Michael D. Coffey\nNarrative feature. Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes.\nSpecial Guest: Writer/Producer Michael D. Coffey\nInspired by a true story\, a bright and determined high school senior strives one last time to be a wrestler despite having cerebral palsy. Going to extreme lengths\, he crushes obstacles and inspires others along his journey to prove his abilities. \nThis semi-autobiographical film is written by Lawrence filmmaker Michael Coffey and stars RJ Mitte of Breaking Bad. \nActor RJ Mitte & Writer/Producer Michael D. Coffey\n\n\nEvent Sponsors & Partners: \n \nEvent Details:\n\nEvent is FREE\, but registration is required!\nDoors open: 8pm / Screening time: 9pm\nYou must arrive 30 minutes prior to the screening time to guarantee your reservation.\nPlease bring your own lawn chairs and blankets. Bathrooms will be available on site.\nPlease seat your party socially distanced from others. Festival personnel will be on site to assist.\nIn the event of inclement weather\, this film will screen at Liberty Hall (644 Massachusetts St). Registered patrons will receive an email of the change no later than 5pm on the day of show and the venue change will be posted on the Free State Festival website and social media.\nPhysical tickets are not required. Please check in with festival personnel at the Free State Festival information table upon arrival and we’ll check your name off the list.\nLet us know if you’d like to reserve accessible seating. We are happy to accommodate! \n\nPre-show experience:\nDoors open at 8pm for live music by Lem Sheppard\, prizes from Game Nut\, puzzle experiences from Breakout Lawrence\, food available for purchase by Pedestrian Cheese and a special appearance by Triumph writer-producer Michael D. Coffey.  \n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://freestatefestival.org/event/opening-night-film-triumph/
LOCATION:Lawrence Public Library\, 707 Vermont Street\, Lawrence\, 66044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Film,Ideas,Music
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SUMMARY:Experimental Film Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Screening venue: Lawrence Arts Center (940 New Hampshire St.)\nFilms will be screened on a loop in the Lawrence Arts Center’s front gallery for the entire week of the Free State Festival. Please come and go at your leisure (masks required).\n  \nMidden – Adriana Gramly (4 minutes)\nScraps and trash are brought together through animation to realize hidden potential. \n* Midden will be accompanied by a 3D sculptural art installation  \nArtist Statement:  \nMy home has hardly changed\, as far as appearances\, in the twenty years we’ve lived there. Well except for the twenty years worth of collected junk. I now am separated enough to appreciate\, not cringe\, at its eccentricities. The opossum coming through the window was no longer embarrassing\, nor the stray cats snakes\, and raccoons. And now the packrat in the side-room comically chews up my dad’s collection of wires\, beads\, and clothes\, finding pieces for its own nest\, or midden. \nIn retaining my dad’s spirit to create my own hoarder’s nest\, I collected and made things that I was attracted to\, and found their purpose as I went. By bringing all of these scraps and trash together in an animation\, I’m realizing their potential in a way that my dad has never seemed to manage with his own treasures. \n  \nThe View – Elizabeth Stehling (7 minutes)\nHypnotic\, transient realities continuously fracture with frames of majestic landscapes. As the sands flow and seconds pass\, two women fall deeper into a disorienting new space of lost time. \nRiptide Rhapsody – Kenton Brett and David Jarred (7 minutes)\nFive furry\, fluffy and feathered friends are swept out to sea and into an amazing adventure. They encounter sea monsters\, robots\, and mutants in this stylistically inventive and hand-made animation. \n 
URL:https://freestatefestival.org/event/experimental-film-showcase/
LOCATION:Lawrence Arts Center\, 940 New Hampshire St\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Film
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SUMMARY:ART // Echoes Through a Greenspace
DESCRIPTION:Echoes Through a Green Space is a collaborative public art project based around South Park. The project aims to celebrate the history of the public green space by creating an interactive light installation and live musical performance\, echoing the park’s unique history as a place for public performance and social gathering. \nThe creation of a new multi-disciplinary work\, to be premiered as the closing event of the 2018 Free State Festival\, will be the culmination of a summer-long campaign of outreach events\, workshops and social media promotion\, inviting the public to share and explore their memories and experiences of the city park. The artists will respond to the images\, stories and sounds gathered\, with a work incorporating live music\, recorded audio\, crowdsourced photos and video\, and historical imagery\, presented during a public installation in South Park. \nGet Involved!\n\nVisit South Park in Lawrence\, KS\nShare a social media post with the hashtags #EchoesLFK #SouthParkLFK or geotag  South Park\, Lawrence\, KS\nCome to an event and share your story!\nShare the project with your friends and followers on Facebook\, and on Twitter
URL:https://freestatefestival.org/event/art-echoes-of-a-greenspace/
LOCATION:South Park\, 1141 Massachusetts Street\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66044\, United States
CATEGORIES:All,Art
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SUMMARY:ART // Synthesizer Performance. Luke DuBois
DESCRIPTION:Using the Lawrence Public Library’s custom modular analog synthesizer\, avant-garde electronic performer Luke DuBois will perform live.  This performance will be a unique opportunity for the community to see this instrument being used. The modular synthesizer is a type of synthesizer\, which exists in both physical and virtual forms\, consisting of separate specialized modules. The specialization is usually in the module being designed to allow the modification or processing a signal\, such as the frequency (oscillator)\, spectrum (filter)\, or amplitude (amplifier). The modules are not hardwired together but are connected together with patch cords\, a matrix patching system\, or switches to create a patch.
URL:https://freestatefestival.org/event/synthesizer-luke-dubois/
LOCATION:Lawrence Public Library\, 707 Vermont Street\, Lawrence\, 66044\, United States
CATEGORIES:All,Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180921T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180921T200000
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CREATED:20180905T223040Z
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SUMMARY:ART // Johanna Winters: The Middle Tell
DESCRIPTION:The Middle Tell is a shadow-puppet performance created by Johanna Winters chronicling a trio of female bards as they reluctantly surrender to a deteriorating condition. These middle women reveal their story through a muted language of hinging limbs and dousing light. Suspended in a time that is both passing and returning\, sustaining and releasing\, the middle women hover in a state of hesitation between undoing their youth and summoning the process of aging. They are neither bitter nor tolerant of their inevitable decline – they tepidly hinge against and toward it. \nPuppeteering assistance from Olivia Hernández\, Alicia Kelly\, and Anne Luben. Music and sound design by Jeff Stolz.\n\n\nJohanna Winters\n\nJohanna Winters is the current Printmaking Artist-in-Residence at the Lawrence Arts Center. Johanna received her MFA from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville\, and was the 2017-18 recipient of the University of Tennessee College of Arts and Sciences Thomas Fellowship. She has taught printmaking as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay\, and recently completed a residency at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław\, Poland. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
URL:https://freestatefestival.org/event/art-johanna-winters-the-middle-tell/
LOCATION:Lawrence Arts Center\, 940 New Hampshire St\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66044\, United States
CATEGORIES:All,Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180921T150000
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SUMMARY:ART // Mind Expanding VR Experience. Luke DuBois
DESCRIPTION:SEPTEMBER 21\, 3-5 PM 1 & SEPTEMBER 22\, 6-9 PM \nLuke DuBois is a multidisciplinary artist who exhibits and performs internationally. This recent virtual reality project puts the user on a psychedelic adventure. An artificial world of images and sounds created by a computer are affected by the actions of a person who is experiencing it. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://freestatefestival.org/event/art-mind-expanding-vr-experience-luke-dubois/
LOCATION:Lawrence Arts Center\, 940 New Hampshire St\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66044\, United States
CATEGORIES:All,Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180917T090000
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SUMMARY:ART // Flower Matrix. Claudia Hart
DESCRIPTION:Hart’s decorative patterns are in fact also computer codes – augmented “tags” functioning like QR – that permit users to see her fantastical animations embedded in them through Hart’s Looking Glass augmented app. Through the Looking Glass\, one can glimpse a world of pulsing invisible flowers covered with animated graphics culled from Internet signage\, computer code\, and emoji graphics. Programmed by the artist\, her multimedia craft objects are metaphors that unfold\, using computer-vision to reveal “magical” layers of new information. \nWallpaper and ceramic tiles were specifically created as décor for a new kind of “virtual-reality” lounge\, a seductive environment made for viewing Hart’s Flower Matrix VR world. She is building another liminal space\, but this one in the real world where one might don VR goggles and view her parallel VR one: a mixed reality fantastical architecture that randomly grows and decays using an esthetic of fakeness where technology has replaced nature\, both sugary sweet and chemically toxic in equal measures. \nArtwork courtesy of bitforms gallery\, NYC
URL:https://freestatefestival.org/event/art-claudia-hart-flower-matrix-plates-wallpaper-flower-matrix/
LOCATION:Lawrence Arts Center\, 940 New Hampshire St\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66044\, United States
CATEGORIES:All,Art
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