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Wednesday, 3rd August 6-8pm
British Societies’ Annual Summer Garden Party
Union Theological Seminary 3041 Broadway at 121st Street
Reservations required by Friday July 29th (includes open bar, Sandwiches & Salad, Music)
http://shop.stgeorgessociety.org/SearchResults.asp?Cat=20
12-18 August 2011 Film Premier.
Film Screening – “Unfinished Spaces”
In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba's National Art Schools on the grounds of a former Havana golf course. Construction of their radical designs began immediately and artists from all over the country reveled in the beauty of the schools. But as the dream of the Revolution quickly became a reality, construction was halted and the architects and their designs were deemed irrelevant in the prevailing political climate. Forty years later, the schools are in use, but decaying. Castro has invited the exiled architects back to finish their unrealized dream. Directed and produced by Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray of Ajna Films
DOCUWeeks Festival IFC Center 323 Sixth Avenue at West 3rd Street
About the film: http://www.unfinishedspaces.com/about.html
Film showtimes: http://www.documentary.org/docuweeks2011
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Saturday August 6th – Tuesday August 9th
SF International Gift Fair
Event Host
Urban Expositions
Moscone Center - West Hall 800 Howard Street San Francisco
For further Information see: http://www.urban-expo.com/344/san-francisco-international-gift-fair-home.htm
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DETROIT
Saturday, 13th August 2011
Building tour. . Detroit“Destination Detroit”
Join the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy for a Usonian trilogy in the Motor City featuring three houses with similar plans but dramatically different relationships to the surrounding environment. Sited in a wooded natural amphitheater, participants will enter the Gregor and Elizabeth Affleck House (1941) at grade and peer out the cantilevered living area at a streambed below. The Melvin Maxwell and Sara Stein Smith House (1946) presents a more serene lakefront lot while the Dorothy Turkel House (1955), Frank Lloyd Wright’s only realized two-story Usonian Automatic, is sited on a large urban lot. The Turkel House will also host an evening wine and hors d’oeuvres reception, allowing participants to tour the house and grounds at their leisure.
Saturday August 13, 3:30-10:00pm Detroit, MI
http://www.savewright.org/index.php?t=news_focus&story_id=62
Spring Green WI
Saturday, 27th August 2011
Life at Taliesin
Colloquium. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the start of construction of Frank Lloyd Wright’s legendary Wisconsin home, Taliesin Preservation is hosting a day of lectures and workshops led by men and women who have lived, studied, and worked at Taliesin—many of whom directly shared Fellowship life with Mr. Wright and his family. The day will include a series of morning and afternoon lectures, a walking tour highlighting the buildings and landscape at Taliesin, interactive design activities, and will conclude with afternoon tea, a Fellowship tradition at Taliesin.
Attendance will be strictly limited to 100 guests and advance reservation is required; however, the lecture presentations will also be webcast to enable participants from around the world to experience a rare glimpse into the private life of Frank Lloyd Wright and his Fellowship at Taliesin. Proceeds from this event will support restoration activities needed to preserve Taliesin’s Hillside Theatre complex for future generations.
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