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Professor’s Film about Women Painters of Naya Premieres Oct. 5
Brown University Anthropology Professor Lina Fruzzetti’s award-winning documentary, Singing Pictures: Women Painters of Naya, will premiere on campus on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2005, at 7 p.m. in 120 List Art Center. Fruzzetti and the three artists featured in the film will be in attendance. The screening is part of a week’s worth of opportunities to meet the artists, view their works and hear their songs. PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Brown University Anthropology Professor Lina Fruzzetti’s award-winning documentary, Singing Pictures: Women Painters of Naya, will premiere on campus on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2005, at 7 p.m. in 120 List Art Center. Fruzzetti and the three artists featured in the film will be in attendance. The screening is part of a week’s worth of opportunities to meet the artists, view their works and hear their songs (see schedule below). The events are sponsored by the Office of Campus Life and Student Services, and are open to the public without charge. For generations, Patua communities of West Bengal, India, have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. Recently a group of women from Naya village near Calcutta formed a scroll painters’ collaborative. The film, which received the Material Culture and Archaeology Film Prize last month from the Royal Anthropological Institute, follows their daily lives as they paint, sing, cook, tend to their children and meet with the cooperative. They discuss the problems and rewards of practicing their art, and speak freely about the social, religious and political changes in the village and the world beyond. Their wisdom, artistry and good humor amid many difficulties illuminate the lives around them. For more information, telephone (401) 863-9447. Schedule October 3-7, 2005
Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2005
Thursday, Oct. 6, 2005
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