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SOUTHERN CIRCUIT TOUR OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS
Drivers Wanted (with short I Beat Mike Tyson)
Filmmaker:  Joshua Weinstein

7:00 PM Screening

Tickets:  $5 member/ $7 non-member
Admission includes screening, post-screening discussion, and a reception with filmmaker.

Synopsis: DRIVERS WANTED reveals the impossibly eclectic community inhabiting a taxi garage in Queens, New York. Each day, a million New Yorkers depend on the anonymous faces behind the wheels, the men who tirelessly drive the city that doesn't sleep. 
The film follows Eric, a new immigrant from China with a fresh start in America. With dreams of his own business, and a wife and two young sons to support, he turns to a simple job: driving a taxicab. But the easy route proves to be a Herculean struggle for Eric, who can neither speak the language of his customers nor navigate the city's 6,174 miles of streets.
Website:  www.driverswantedfilm.com

A program of SouthArts.  Southern Circuit screenings are funded in part by a grant from SouthArts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and local partner organizations.  Special support for Southern Circuit was provided by the Academy of Motion Pictures Art and Sciences.

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CONSEQUENCES OF WAR
Visual Arts Exhibit Opening Reception
6-8 PM

Free and open to the public

8 – February 24

CONSEQUENCES OF WAR
Visual Arts Exhibit

Benefactor Sponsor: Cox Family Fund: In memory of Willie and Ruth Still Cox, Marilyn Cox Elliott and Suzanne Cox Hartness

Consequences of War features the exhibit Flight

Flight is an exhibit of lithographs by 12 mid-century masters, such as Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, and Alexander Calder. Many of the artists in this exhibit were rescued from France in 1940 by Varian Fry on behalf of the Emergency Rescue Committee, now known as the International Rescue Committee (IRC).  The works share the experience of war from a civilian point of view, from firebombs to fear to flight. 

The exhibit, Graffiti of War, has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond the control of the Cultural Center.  We apologize to those who were looking forward to this one component of the exhibit.

Information:  706-342-4743 or dlamar@mmcc-arts.org

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LETTERS HOME
Mainstage Performance

Mainstage Performance
7:30 PM

Tickets: $25 Member/$35 Non-Member/$15 Student
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Contributing Sponsors:  Carol & Jim Jones
                                       Law Firm of O. Elizabeth Bell

Letters Home puts the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq front and center by bringing to life actual letters written by soldiers serving in the Middle East.  Without politicizing, the play gives audiences a powerful portrait of the soldier experience in the ongoing war.  Although the title of the play implies that all the letters are from soldiers, the piece includes a small number of correspondences from parents – their words being no less important.  

The play from Griffin Theatre reveals the humanity that lies within the war as seen through the eyes of the men and women fighting it.

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MARTHA SPEAKS

(Grades PreK – 4)

9:30 am & 1 pm performances

Tickets: $5 (Teachers are FREE!)

Martha was an ordinary dog until the day she ate a bowl full of alphabet soup. Something unusual happened: all those letters went up to Martha’s brain instead of down to her stomach. And she became literally outspoken!

This Theatre Works performance will take place in Madison-Morgan Cultural Center’s 1895 original school auditorium and lasts approximately one hour.   Click here for more information.

To Book Your Class, please call Robert Seymour the center 706-342-4743 ext. 22 or email rseymour@mmcc-arts.org

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