january – february - Colonial Williamsburg

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Happy Days! A 1950s Rock ‘n’ Roll Celebration
Friday, January 22 at 7 pm
Some of Williamsburg’s finest musicians will take you on a journey
back to the 50s to the beginning of rock ‘n’ roll through the music of
such legends as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino,
Richie Valens, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, and more. Featuring Billy
Joe Daniel & His Band, The Blue Pills, the Rickety Crickets, Nick Kuhn,
and Andrew Shield. Wear your dancing shoes! All seats are $17.
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The Williamsburg Youth Orchestras in Concert
Sunday, February 7 at 4 pm
A varied program featuring both string
and
symphony orchestras. The WYO symphony
is led by Mr. David Grandis while the
three string orchestras, led by Mrs.
Karey Sitzler, showcase the talents of
students ranging in age from six to 16. WYO
proudly presents the collective musical efforts of 80 young musicians.
See www.wyomusic.org for more information. Adults $10, Children
12 & under, and Students $2.
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation presents
An Evening with
the Presidents
Sunday, February 14 at
7:30 pm
Join presidents Washington,
Jefferson, and Madison in a
discussion about how they
as Presidents interacted and
negotiated with the Congresses
of their times.
General Admission $13,
PAID
THE COLONIAL
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WILLIAMSBURG
Williamsburg, VA 23185
FOUNDATION
2016
For tickets call
1-855-923-8015
or visit us at
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J A N UA RY – F E B RUA RY
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Youths age 6-12. $6.50.
Affairs of the Heart
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, February 26-28 at 7:30 pm
It’s wedding day for William and Anne, a day of celebration for
themselves and their families. The enslaved members of the household
are also preparing for the festivities, but their minds are filled with the
uncertainty of change. How will this union affect the household? And
what will it mean for the relationships that have already been forged
between the free and enslaved members of the house? What will this
mean for the lives they’ve always known? General Admission $13,
Youths age 6-12. $6.50.
The Williamsburg Land Conservancy presents
Williamsburg’s Got Talent
Saturday, January 23 at 7 pm
Be there for season five
of the most exhilarating
local talent showcase in
our region. The hottest
performers will compete in front of you and celebrity judges, vying
for their chance to win cash prizes and the coveted trophy. General
Admission $35, Under 12 $25.
K I M B A L L T H E AT R E F I L M F E S T I VA L S
The Last Mentsch
15th Annual Virginia Peninsula Jewish Film Festival on Merchants Square**
The Last Mentsch – January 17, 18 & 19
Marcus Schwarz is a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who stays in Germany after the war, giving up his Jewish identity. As Schwarz gets older, he
wants to be buried in a Jewish cemetery but needs to prove he is Jewish. He enlists a young woman to drive him to his native village in Hungary
in search of his documented Jewish identity. What follows is an emotional examination of post-Holocaust feelings and a journey towards
friendship and healing. German, Hungarian, Hebrew, English, and Yiddish with subtitles. Rated NR/89 min/2014.
Belle & Sebastian
Belle & Sebastian – February 8, 9 & 10
The story takes place in 1943, in WWII-occupied France near the Swiss border, where a secret crossing for Jews is being planned. A resourceful
six-year-old boy and his gentle sheepdog look to foil a Nazi effort to capture French Resistance fighters. French and German with subtitles.
Rated G/104 min/2013.
**The Jewish Film Festival concludes with Gett on March 6, 7 & 8
The W&M Botetourt Chamber Singers present
2016 W&M Global Film Festival – “Film & Community” — February 14 & 17-21
Gala fundraiser concert “L-O-V-E”
Saturday, February 6 at 7 pm
Just in time for Valentine’s Day,
under the direction of Dr. Jamie
C. Bartlett, these talented singers
thrill with a wide variety of duets,
trios, and group performances
of Broadway and movie standards.
Special guest artist Harris Simon
plays harmonica and jazz piano. Every ticket sold goes directly to support
student scholarship funding for the International Choral Tour ’16. Adults
$15, Students $5.
* Please refer to calendars on page 4 for show times.
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We are committed to a “global” approach in our programming and bringing films to town from around the world. The GFF started as—and remains—a small-town
event driven by a commitment to community engagement and cultural enrichment. For our ninth year, we’re shining the spotlight on the many ways film can
manifest, enrich, challenge, and complicate community from the local to global. From the collaborative work of making films to the communal experience of
viewing them, movies help make communities.
The festival will feature an array of fictional, animated, and documentary shorts and feature films about community dynamics, pressures, benefits, problems, and
promises. We’ll feature picks from Sundance along with critically acclaimed films from the global film festival circuit. Classic, cult, and family films—from the
silent era to the 21st century—will be renewed as local community events with an emphasis on audience participation. Guest filmmakers, film scholars from overseas,
cinephiles, returning alumni, family, and rising young talents competing in our international student short film competition; live music, complimentary food and
drink, after parties, and morning coffee klatches…all these will come together in a community/film event not to be missed
and long to be remembered.
Join us in celebrating and learning from film’s powerful mix of the real and the magical as a means of enriching and expanding the senses of
community we know, think we know, and of which we consider or aspire to make ourselves a part.
In order to bring audiences the latest films from festival circuits we will advertise movie times, descriptions, and prices
as soon as they become available on our website: filmfestival.wm.edu
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KIMBALL THEATRE FILMS * Please refer to calendars on page 4 for show times.
18TH- CENTURY WOODWORKING
GLOBAL FILM FESTIVAL MUG NIGHTS
Join us as we explore cabinetmaker creations in conjunction with
Colonial Williamsburg’s annual Woodworking Forum. First, enjoy an
archive trade video showing techniques handed down from master to
apprentice. Then become mesmerized by the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,
a silent film whose magical cabinet was created in the late 1700s.
Support our local Global Film
Festival by purchasing their logo
mug in our lobby and having
it filled for $5 with AleWerks
Brewing Company beer, on tap
for your enjoyment.
The Art and Mystery of the Cabinetmaker – Crafting a Card Table
January 17, 18, 19, 21, 22 & 23
Colonial Williamsburg’s trade video will interest collectors, producers of fine
furniture, and anyone fascinated by the art and mystery of transforming
rough sawn planks into graceful objects. Observe Mack Headly, Jr., former
master of the Williamsburg shop, as he uses tools and technology of the era to
reproduce a 1760s card table attributed to Anthony Hay’s 18th-century shop. 36
min/1999. Free. No extra ticket required.
18th-Century Woodworking
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Suffragette
Trumbo
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari – January 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 & 24
Allow Dr. Caligari to mesmerize you with his cabinet in a quintessential,
digitally restored work of German Expressionist cinema. This silent film
tells the story of an insane hypnotist (Werner Krauss) who uses a sleepwalker
(Conrad Veidt) to commit murders. It features dark and twisted visual styles,
sharp-pointed forms, and structures and landscapes that lean and twist in
unusual angles with shadows and streaks of light painted directly onto the sets.
Rated NR/78 min/1920. Tickets $4 per person.
Suffragette – January 20-28
The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement were women who were
forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an
increasingly brutal state. Starring Meryl Streep, Anne-Marie Duff, and Helena
Bonham Carter. Arrive early as your ticket includes a short newsreel created
by the March of Time about Colonial Williamsburg prior to each show. Rated
PG-13/106 min.
“Colonial Williamsburg Produced by the March of Time” –
Back by popular demand! Arrive 20 minutes prior to each showing of
Suffragette and enjoy a nostalgic wartime film commonly shown before movies
in the 1940s and ‘50s. This reel showcases Williamsburg as an attraction, from
history to shopping and lodging. 1942.
Looney Tunes Classics – January 22, 23 & 24
What’s up Doc? Glad you asked because Kimball Theatre will offer free Looney Tunes
cartoons in conjunction with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck visiting the new
Liberty’s Ice Pavilion! Stop by anytime
during the cartoon schedule as these will
run continuously in our main theater.
The Princess Bride –
January 30 & 31
Based on William Goldman’s novel
of the same name, The Princess Bride
is staged as a book read by grandfather (Peter Falk) to his ill grandson (Fred
Savage). Falk’s character assures a romance-weary Savage that the book has
much more to deliver than a simpering love story, including but not limited
to fencing, fighting, torture, death, true love, giants, and pirates. PG/98
min/1987 Tix $4 each
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The Big Lebowski
GFF Mug Night: The Big Lebowski – January 28
Mark it a 10, Donny, it’s going to be league game night at the Kimball. Come
out and take’r easy for the official abide-fication of the Williamsburg Chapter
of dudeism. That might mean tying the whole Kimball Theatre together with
an ordination ceremony for new dudeist priests on a persian rug. Or it might
mean presenting Little Lebowski Urban Achiever Awards for outstanding
demonstrations of duderonomy. And then again, it might just mean coming to
the Kimball to abide and experience on the big screen one of the greatest cult
films of all time. Regardless, you’ll need to be careful: there will be beverages,
man…including GFF Mugfuls of Williamsburg Alewerks draft beer.
Rated R/117 min/1998.
GFF Mug Night: Do The Right Thing – February 4
You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can… Do the Right Thing
by coming out to see one of the greatest living filmmaker’s best films. Calling
it “a powerful and persuasive look at an ethnic community and what makes
it tick,” the Chicago Reader’s Jonathan Rosenbaum lauded Spike Lee’s Do the
Right Thing as “funky, entertaining, packed with insight, and political in the
best, most responsible sense.” Rated R/120 min/1989.
GFF Mug Night: Remember the Titans –
February 11
Come out to remember, re-watch—or perhaps experience
for the first time—this true titan of the sports movie genre.
Offering a not-to-be-missed star performance by Denzel
Washington, Remember the Titans is also—in the words
of Rotten Tomatoes—“An inspirational crowd-pleaser
with a healthy dose of social commentary.”
Rated PG/114 min/2000.
Trumbo – February 13-23
In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood’s top screenwriter—until he and
other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. Starring
Bryan Cranston and Helen Mirren. Rated R/124 min.
SUNDAY
JA N 2 0 1 6
BLACK HISTORY MONTH FILM SERIES
Kimball Theatre is honored to have Director Jeff
Lieberman introduce his documentary The Amazing
Nina Simone on January 29 and 30 at 7:30 p.m. with
Q&A afterwards. Mr. Lieberman is an award-winning
journalist, producer, documentary filmmaker and the
founder of RE-EMERGING films.
The Amazing Nina Simone –
January 29 — February 7
The story of America’s most overlooked musical genius –
much beloved and often misunderstood – is finally brought
to light. Witness Nina’s journey from the segregated
American South through the worlds of classical music,
jazz joints, and international concert halls. Navigating
through the 1960s fight for racial equality, the film delves
into Nina’s artistry and intentions, answering long-held
questions about her most beloved songs, her bold style,
her controversial statements, and the reason she left
America. Hear the story of the singer, songwriter, pianist,
and activist through interviews with friends, family,
musicians, and fellow activists. Documentary/110 min.
Lee Daniels’ The Butler –
February 15
As Cecil Gaines serves eight
presidents during his tenure as
a butler at the White House, the
Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam,
and other major events affect his
life, his family, and American
society. Starring Forest Whitaker
and Oprah Winfrey. PG-13/132
min/2013. Tickets $4 per person.
Selma –
February 1 & February 5
A chronicle of Martin Luther King’s campaign
to secure equal voting rights via an epic 1965
march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery.
PG-13/128 min/2014. Tickets $4 per person.
4 Little Girls –
February 5
A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist
bombing of an African-American church during
the Civil Rights Movement. Directed by Spike
Lee. NR/102 min/1997. Tickets $4 per person.
Rosenwald –
February 22 —March 3
The incredible story of Julius Rosenwald, who
never finished high school, but rose to become
the president of Sears. Influenced by writings
of the educator Booker T. Washington, this
Jewish philanthropist joined forces with AfricanAmerican communities during the Jim Crow
South to build over 5,300 schools during the early
part of the 20th century. He awarded fellowship
grants to a who’s who of African-American
intellectuals of his day so they could pursue their
scholarship and art, including Marian Anderson,
James Baldwin, the father and uncle of civil rights
leader Julian Bond, Ralph Bunche, Langston
Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gordon Parks, Jacob
Lawrence, and Augusta Savage. NR/100 min.
12 Years a Slave –
February 12
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black
man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
R/134 min/2013. Tickets $4 per person.
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Kimball Theatre will be closed January 1 – 16.
• Main Auditorium Occupancy 410. Screening Room Occupancy 35.
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Featured Live Performances*
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n Princess Bride
30Noon,
2:00 & 4:00 pm
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n Art & Mystery of
the Cabinetmaker–
Crafting a Card Table
Noon & 2:15 pm
n Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
12:45 pm
SR 5:00 & 7:15 pm
n The Last Mentsch
4:30 & 7:15 pm
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n Art & Mystery of
the Cabinetmaker–
Crafting a Card Table
Noon & 2:15 pm
n Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
12:45 pm
SR 5:00 & 7:15 pm
n The Last Mentsch
4:30 & 7:15 pm
Classics
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n Suffragette
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
SR Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
5:00 & 7:15 pm
n Princess Bride
Noon & 2:00 pm
n The Amazing Nina Simone
4:30 & 7:00 pm
SUNDAY
Black History Month
Film Series (highlighted)
MONDAY
n Let Freedom Ring
Ceremony at
First Baptist Church
10:00-11:30 am
n Selma –12:45 pm
n The Amazing
Nina Simone
4:30 & 7:00 pm
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l Williamsburg Youth
Orchestras in Concert
4:00 pm
n Suffragette
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
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n Art & Mystery of
the Cabinetmaker–
Crafting a Card Table
Noon & 2:15 pm
n Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
12:45 pm
SR 5:00 & 7:15 pm
n The Last Mentsch
4:30 & 7:15 pm
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n Suffragette
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
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n Suffragette
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
SR Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
5:00 & 7:15 pm
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n Suffragette
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
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n Belle & Sebastian –
4:30 & 7:15 pm
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TUESDAY
n The Amazing
Nina Simone
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
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WEDNESDAY
n The Amazing
Nina Simone
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
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THURSDAY
SR The Amazing
Nina Simone
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
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GFF Mug Night:
– 10 n Belle & Sebastian – 11
9 n Belle &4:30Sebastian
& 7:15 pm
4:30 & 7:15 pm
n Lee Daniels’
The Butler
1:00, 4:00 & 7:00 pm
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n Trumbo
2:30, 5:00 & 7:30 pm
n The Amazing
n The Amazing
w/ Director Jeff Lieberman
FRIDAY
n 4 Little Girls
1:30 & 7:00 pm
n Selma – 4:00 pm
SR The Amazing
Nina Simone
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
w/ Director Jeff Lieberman
SATURDAY
SR The Amazing
Nina Simone
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
Nina Simone
7:30 pm
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n 12 Years a Slave
12:45 & 7:00 pm
n Amistad
3:30 pm
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SR Rosenwald
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
n Rosenwald
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 p.m.
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SR Trumbo
2:30, 5:00 & 7:30 pm
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n Trumbo
2:30, 5:00 & 7:30 pm
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Nina Simone
7:30 pm
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l Gala Fundraiser
Concert “L-O-V-E”
7:00 pm
13 2:30, 5:00SR& Trumbo
7:30 pm
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W&M GFF – “Film & Community” W&M GFF – “Film & Community” W&M GFF – “Film & Community”
SR Trumbo
2:30, 5:00 & 7:30 pm
SR Trumbo
2:30, 5:00 & 7:30 pm
n Say Amen,
Somebody
11:00, 1:30 & 4:00 p.m.
SR Rosenwald
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
l Affairs of the Heart
7:30 pm
SR Suffragette
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
GFF Mug Night:
W&M GFF – “Film & Community”
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n Looney Tunes
Classics
9:30 am - noon
n Art & Mystery of
the Cabinetmaker–
Crafting a Card Table
Noon & 2:15 pm
n Cabinet of Dr.
Caligari
12:45 pm
SR Suffragette
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
l Williamsburg’s
Got Talent
7:00 pm
n Remember the Titans
7:00 & 9:30 pm
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SR Trumbo
2:30, 5:00 & 7:30 pm
l An Evening with the
Presidents – 7:30 pm
n Art & Mystery of
the Cabinetmaker–
Crafting a Card Table
Noon & 2:15 pm
n Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
12:45 pm
SR Suffragette
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
n Do The Right Thing
7:00 & 9:30 pm
n The Amazing
Nina Simone
7:30 pm
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n Looney Tunes
Classics
9:30 am to noon
n Art & Mystery of
the Cabinetmaker–
Crafting a Card Table
Noon & 2:15 pm
n Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
12:45 pm
SR Suffragette
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
l Happy Days! A 1950s
Rock ’n Roll Celebration
7:00 pm
n GFF Mug Night:
The Big Lebowski
7:00 & 9:45 pm
W&M GFF – “Film & Community”
Say Amen, Somebody –
February 28
Documentary about the
American gospel music
scene focusing on two of
the movement’s pioneers,
Thomas A. Dorsey and
Willie May Ford Smith.
G/100 min/1982.
Tickets $4 per person.
TUESDAY
• Tickets are not refundable after day of performance.
Amistad –
February 12
In 1839, a mutiny takes place aboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the
northeastern coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama
about the free man who led the revolt. Starring Morgan Freeman. R/152
min/1997. Tickets $4 per person.
Let Freedom Ring Ceremony at First Baptist Church –
February 1
Kimball Theatre will run a live video feed of the ceremonial kick-off held at
First Baptist Church on Scotland St. An uplifting ceremony hosted by Reverend
Reginald Davis, national dignitaries, religious, civic, and educational leaders
culminating with the ringing of the First Baptist Church bell. Free to the public.
MONDAY
SR Rosenwald
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
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n Rosenwald
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
SR Trumbo
2:30, 5:00 & 7:30 pm
SR Trumbo
2:30, 5:00 & 7:30 pm
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SR Rosenwald
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
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W&M GFF –
“Film & Community”
SR Trumbo
2:30, 5:00 & 7:30 pm
SR Rosenwald
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
272:00,SR4:30Rosenwald
& 7:00 pm
l Affairs of the Heart
7:30 pm
l Affairs of the Heart
7:30 pm
n Trumbo
2:30, 5:00 & 7:30 pm
MARCH
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SR Rosenwald
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
MARCH
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SR Rosenwald
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
MARCH
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SR Rosenwald
2:00, 4:30 & 7:00 pm
UPCOMING: Pilgrimage Movie Series
March 20-30 featuring Walking the
Camino: Six Ways to Santiago
* More information about live performances on p. 5
** More information about films on pp. 2-3
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