Sunday September 30th 5pm  $5

OPERA ON TAP AND ANTI-SOCIAL MUSIC HAVE AN OOTASM!

Opera on Tap joins forces with Anti-Social Music for a stress relieving, endorphan releasing inaugural OOTASM at Galapagos ArtSpace in Williamsburg!!

Opera on Tap!  --- a beer-swilling ensemble of young professional singers and instrumentalists takes opera out of the concert hall and into the bar!!

"Raucous and sublime.. un-elitist, imperfect, and fun." -NY SUN, Alec Magnet

Sunday 9/30 8pm - Part I
Sunday 10/28 8pm - Part II
Sunday 11/18 8pm - Part III

Polish Cultural Institute presents
RUSSIA-POLAND. NEW GAZE
A Series of new documentaries by young Polish and Russian Filmmakers

Three Programs of Short Films from an innovative experiment in international understanding: Russia in the eyes of Poles, Poland in the eyes of Russians

From an innovative program in cross-cultural encounter called Russia-Poland. New Gaze (www.newgaze.info/english), selected film students from a number of film schools in Russia “traded places” with their counterparts from film schools in Poland to make short documentary films about each other’s countrymen. As a group the films offer intriguing personal glimpses – a “new gaze” – into the lives of “others”, with the similarities at least as startling as the contrasts. The enthusiastic young film-school students used their talents and skills to explore who those "Poles" and "Russians" really are. These films thus came to life through the confrontation of prejudices with spontaneous interactions, and the collision of expectations with facts, bringing us closer to the truth about the stereotypes dividing these two nations. The films have been shown over 300 times throughout Europe and cumulatively have garnered nearly thirty awards.

Russia-Poland. New Gaze was co-produced by Eureka Media and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, with further financial support from the Polish Film Institute and in collaboration with the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing, Gerasimov All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television, K. Kieslowski Faculty of Radio and Television at University of Silesia, Polish Television, and the European Documentary Network.

Project curator: Mateusz Werner

Tutors and art supervisors: Maciej Drygas, Andrzej Fidyk, Vladimir Fienchenko, Dmitriy Kabakov, Tue Steen Müller, Jacek Petrycki, Dorota Ward?szkiewicz, Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

Producer: Krzysztof Kopczy?ski

Co-producer for Polish Television TVP SA: Witold B?dkowski