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Schwartz CentqI:r to screen Oscar-winning f'dm 'Talk to Her'
The Schwartz Center for the
Arts will present one of the most
acclaimed films of the past year in
its ongoing film series. Pedro
Almod6var's "Talk to Her" will
semen at the Center for two week-
ends: May 2 at 7 p.m., May.9 at 7
p.m. and May 10 at 7:30 p.m. The
film recendy won the Oscar for
Best Screenplay and the Golden
Globe for Best Foreign Language
Film. It also won major awards as
Best Film in Great Britain,
France, Spain and the Czech Re-
public.
'q'alk to Her" follows the lives
of four people who meet by
chance and who become inter-
twined in each other's lives. Be-
nigno and Marco sit together at a
dance performance. They meet
again, months later, at the private
clinic where Benigno works. Ly-
dia, Marco's girlfriend and a bull-
fighter by profession, has been
gored and is in a coma. It just so
happens that Benigno is looking
after another woman in a coma,
Alicia, a young ballet student.
The lives of these four characters
flow in all directions, past, present
and future, dragging all of them
towards an unsuspected destiny.
Pedro Almod6var was born in a
small town in the impoverished
Spanisl region ofLa Mancha. He
arrived in Madrid in 1968, and
survived by selling used items in
the flea-market. He couldn't
study filmmaking I/ecanse be did-
n't have the money to afford it.
Besides, the fdmmaking schools
were dosed in early 70s by Fran-
co's government. Instead, he
found a job in the Spanish phone
company and saved his salary to
buy a Super 8 camera. From 1972
to 1978, he devoted himself to
make short films with the. help of
his friends. The "premieres" of
those early films were famous in
the rapidly growing world of the
Spanish counter-culture." In few
years, Almod6var became a star
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Novelist to read with
poet laureate on May 3
Booksandcoffee's Spring read-
ing series continues at 8 p.m., Sat-
urday, May 3 with readings by
Delaware Poet Laureate Fleda
Brown and novelist/essayist
Maribeth Fischer.
Their reading will be followed
by Booksandcoffee's monthly
"coffeehouse night" with the
Player's Club, local musicians
and poets, hosted by Regina Aa-
Macha.
Fischer has won a number of
national awards for her personal
essays, including a Pushcart Prize
in 1994 for her essay, "Stillborn,"
and a Smart Family Prize for the
best essay published by "The Yale
Review" in 1996.
Two of her essays have been
mentioned as "notable" in Robert
Atwan's Best American Essays,
and her essay s have appeared in
Art Loop
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645-5181.
The Zwaanendael Gallery of
Art, Lewes's newest gallery, is
owned and operated by award
winning artist Michael Sprouse.
Zwaanendael Gallery features
works of art by international, na-
tional and local artists. Sprouse
spent the past 10 years as the own-
er and curator of the prestigious
Eklekikos Gallery of Art in Wash-
ington, D.C. The gallery features
new exhibits monthly with open-
ing receptions the first Friday of
each month. A group exhibit fea-
turing the work from some of the
Mid-Atlantie's top artists high-
lights Zwaanendael Gallery's in-
clusion in the Art Loop. Visit the
gallery online at www.zwaan-
gallery.corn or call 645-1005 for
more information.
The Saxon Swan, a gallery of
fine art and crafts, is located on
the corner of Second Street and
Savannah Road. Established in
1986, the gallery shows the work
of more than 75 regional and in-
ternational artists and craftspeo-
pie. Featured artist Pam Carr is an
award winning artist who works
in a variety of media and will be
on hand to discuss her work. For
liteiary magazines such as "I'ne
Iowa Review" anti "The Yale Re-
view."
She'is the author of "The Lan-
guage of Goodbye" and is at
work on her second novel. She is
currently teaching in the Graduate
Writing Program at Virginia
Commonwealth University in
Richmond. She lives part time in
Rehoboth.
All readings in this series are
free and open to the public. For
more information, call Booksand-
coffee at 226-9959.
Museum to host family
music festival June 29
The Delaware Museum of Nat-
ural History is gearing up for an-
other family music festival from
noon to 4:30 p.m., Sunday, June
19, featuring the popular, musical
duo, Trout Fishing in America.
For more than two decades, this
Grammy nominated folk/rock
group has been entertaining audi-
ences with their witty children's
music and catchy adult acoustic
tues.
Tickets.for adults are $15 in ad-
vanoe, and $20 at the door, and
$13 for kids and $15 at the door.
Museum members receive $1 off
the ticket price.
The Delaware Museum of Nat-
ural History is located on Route
52 in Wilmington. For more in-
formation, call 302-658-9111 or
visit www.delmnh.org.
Cape community band
to resume rehearsals
The Cape Henlopen Communi-
ty Band will resume its rehearsals
for the upcoming summer from 7
to 9 p.m., Monday, May 5, at
Cape Henlopen High School.
New members are welcome and
may contact Barry Eli, director,
for more information by calling
645-7711, Ext. 259 or 645-6897,
or via email at jazzmanl @mch-
si.com.
Rehearsal schedules will be
discussed as well as tentative per-
formance dates.
The creation of a possible Cape
Big Band will also be on the
agenda.
• more information, call 645-7488.
Thistles, located at 203 Second
Street, is entering its third year as
a fine art gallery and custom
frame shop..The gallery carries
fine art graphics, original oil
paintings, art glass, hand made ac-
cessories for the home and ster-
ling silver jewelry from artisans
around the world. For the Art
Loop; Thistles will host husband
and wife team Jim and Lynn Le-
myre, whose paintings are an ex-
tension of their relationship, an
ongoing conversation between
two people exploring the thresh-
old of imagination and the world
of reality. They will be present for
the Art Loop to discuss their
work. For more information, call
644-2323.
For more information about the
Art Loop, visit the website at
www.lewesartloop.com.
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