Daily Archives: October 1, 2009

Monday, October 5, 7:00 pm – “HomeGrown”

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There will be a screening of the movie “HomeGrown” on Monday, October 5 at 7 pm at Studio Cinema, 376 Trapelo Road in Belmont. The Dervaes family turned their yard in the heart of urban Pasadena into a small organic farm. While living “off the grid,” they harvest over 6,000 pounds of produce on less than a quarter of an acre, make their own bio diesel, power their computers with the help of solar panels, and maintain a web site that gets 4,000 hits a day. The film is an intimate human portrait of what it’s like to live like Little House on the Prairie in the 21st Century.

For more info: 617-484-3980 or www.belmontworldfilm.org.
Tickets: $10, $8 students & seniors. Advance tickets available
at the Studio Cinema box office or at www.mktix.com.

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Tuesday, October 13, 5:30 – 8:00 pm – Environmental Artist Tally Forbes Reception

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On Tuesday, October 13, from 5:30 – 8:00 pm, enjoy a free reception at Legal Sea Foods, 100 Huntington Avenue (Copley Square) with Tally Forbes.  A naturalist at heart, Tally Forbes works with forms found in nature, then tests the boundaries between the tangible and the illusory to create her own visual language.  Ms. Forbes is also the former Executive Director of Development for Earthwatch Institute ®.  Attendees will be entered to win a $50 gift certificate to Legal Sea Foods®.  A portion of the proceeds from the sale of art will benefit The Singing Bowl: “Nourishing Your Spirit and Feeding the World.”  To learn more about Ms. Forbes, log on to www.canvasfinearts.com.

Saturday, October 17, 9:30 – 12:30 – Essential Elements of Botanical Drawing: Getting It Right

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Are you a beginner or even an advanced artist in need of a basic approach to drawing? Jump-start your drawing skills in this five session class with Jeanne Kunze, illustrator and Instructor in Art History and Studio Art. The techniques she teaches are designed to develop accurate observation and definition of shape–both essential to artistic renderings, botanical or not. Learn to represent plants through specialized observation and sketching exercises and techniques for making proportional measurements, depicting foreshortened petals, flowers, and leaves and representing perspective and compositional balance. Jeanne will help you develop your illustration skills through class demonstrations, exercises, and individual teaching moments. Class meets at the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens Visitor Center, and is co sponsored by the Arnold Arboretum and the Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture.  The first class is October 17, and remaining classes will take place Saturdays October 24, October 31, November 7, and November 14, all 9:30 – 12:30.   To register, log on to www.arboretum.harvard.edu, or www.wellesleycollege.edu/WCFH.

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