Real Art Ways

12/10/2024

12/09/2024

"Nasheet Waits is second-generation jazz royalty." - Stereogum

You're invited to experience an afternoon of totally unrehearsed, innovative music performed by Nasheet Waits, Darius Jones, Adam Lane, and Joe Morris - this Sunday 12/15, 2:30 pm, at Real Art Ways.

Tix on sale here: https://realartways.easy-ware-ticketing.com/generaladmission/jRQS6udWoi5IayCYVy6WBw

$15 General admission
$12 Member
$8 Students w/ valid ID

Check out this Stereogum spotlight on Nasheet and get pumped for this upcoming Improvisations NOW performance!
https://www.stereogum.com/2269388/nasheet-waits-steps-into-the-spotlight/columns/ugly-beauty/

Plus: the best new jazz releases of the month.

12/06/2024

See you tomorrow night at 7! ¡Vamos a bailar!

12/05/2024

We are screening 2 of the Top 10 movies this year (the 10 that made Hartford Courant's list): https://www.courant.com/2024/12/05/top-10-movies-2024/

See ANORA and A REAL PAIN while they are in our cinema through Thursday, 12/12.

For all showtimes and tix: https://www.realartways.org/film/screen/

The year’s best films span the globe, including “Nickel Boys,” “All We Imagine as Light” and that tennis movie.

12/05/2024

Friends and Neighbors,

We are sharing exciting plans for our expansion and will host a tour of 56 Arbor.

Friday, December 6 at 3:00 pm
Wednesday, December 11 at 5:30 pm

RSVP by emailing [email protected] and let us know your preferred date and time.

We hope to share more with you during one of these upcoming tours!

12/04/2024

Timothée Chalamet stars (and does his own singing) in the new Bob Dylan biopic, A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, opening in our cinema on Thursday, Dec 26. Spend part of your holiday with us at the movies!

For showtimes and advance tix: https://www.realartways.org/event/a-complete-unknown/

12/03/2024

Join us for an opening reception of Doug Beattie's solo exhibition "False/idle" tonight 5:30 - 7 pm at 56 Arbor Street. We'll be on the 2nd floor.

Refreshments provided and free to the public!

(Poster by Marie Vega)

12/02/2024

Next up for Improvisations Now - Sunday 12/15 2:30pm

Tickets on sale now! https://realartways.easy-ware-ticketing.com/generaladmission/jRQS6udWoi5IayCYVy6WBw

More info: https://www.realartways.org/event/improvisations-now-dec-15/

Next up!

Real Art Ways

11/26/2024

Parranda on our minds...with Papo Vazquez and the Mighty Pirates Troubadours on Saturday, Dec 7th, 7pm @ RAW - you are invited!

Real Art Ways
56 Arbor St, Hartford, CT
(860)232-1006

$10 general admission OR bring an instrument (anything that can be used as an instrument) and get in free!

Advance tickets:
https://realartways.easy-ware-ticketing.com/generaladmission/V0YKURAoSyuFfJWOCey3AA

More info: https://www.realartways.org/event/2024-holiday-parranda-papo-vazquez-and-the-mighty-pirates-troubadours/

11/25/2024

Real Art Ways is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2024 by presenting "Red Reminds Me...," a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today.

The program features new work by Gian Cruz, Milko Delgado, Imani Maryahm Harrington, David Oscar Harvey, Mariana Iacono and Juan De La Mar, Nixie, and Vasilios Papapitsios,

A day of mourning and action that uses art to respond to the ongoing HIV and AIDS crisis, Day With(out) Art encourages museums, universities, and art institutions to present related programming on or around December 1, World AIDS Day, because AIDS is not over!

We will be looping this video presentation in our Video Gallery from Monday through Wednesday, Dec 2-4, 1-7pm.

Learn more:
https://www.realartways.org/event/day-without-art-2024-red-reminds-me/

11/25/2024

Who's ready to PARRANDA?

You're invited to a holiday jazz and Latin jazz performance by Papo Vazquez and The Mighty Pirates Troubadours! Bring a friend who's never been to a parranda, or bring someone who comes out every year for this soulful and spirited celebration!

Real Art Ways
56 Arbor St, Hartford
Saturday 12/7
7pm

For advance tickets & more info:
https://www.realartways.org/event/2024-holiday-parranda-papo-vazquez-and-the-mighty-pirates-troubadours/

Walkups are welcome. If you bring an instrument, you get free admission!

¡Todos están invitados!

11/25/2024

From a precise papal drama to a s*x worker's high-octane Cinderella story and a heartfelt and inspiring story about communes in the 70s, we have it all in our cinema this week through Wednesday.

Note, we will be closed this Thursday 11/28 for the holiday.

Showtimes and tickets for Conclave, Anora, and Far Out: https://www.realartways.org/film/screen/

Along with ‘The Substance’ and ‘Conclave,’ festival darlings are actually turning great reviews into commercial success—despite other contenders struggling to gain traction.

11/21/2024

Join us in welcoming Alexander Pastrana Sotto for his first performance in Hartford! Alex will be performing with Maria Escobar (vocals), Alex Apolo (upright bass), and Julian Miltenberger (drums) starting at 7 tonight during CCH!

Get a taste for his sound when you check out a recent performance in NY: https://youtu.be/RFNQDvx8tdc?si=rx6EJjaTM2jmo_La

See you tonight!

11/20/2024

"I was wowed by the connection between these communes and what became the NO NUKES concerts and can’t imagine what it would have been like to see your big family movement become a country-wide movement, and how a small group of people could
change the world so quickly, while also changing their lives. We need films like this—films that remind us that it only takes a few brave people to make the world a different place." - Kenn Rabin, Archival Producer, Consultant, Author, Educator

Don't wait. Save your spot for a screening of FAR OUT starting this Friday, 11/22. We will be showing this new documentary every day through Wednesday, 11/27.

Get a behind-the-scenes peek into the making of the film (and really the creation and fostering of these communities) when you get tix for Saturday's screening and panel featuring director and editor Charles Light, poet and former commune resident Verandah Porche, and musician Patty Carpenter.

Saturday 11/23 tix:
https://realartways.easy-ware-ticketing.com/generaladmission/31Rhkpsdbrg4mNPPjhHoDA

All other showtimes on 11/22, 11/24-27:
https://www.realartways.org/event/far-out-life-on-and-after-the-commune/

11/20/2024

When Emily Gilmore discovers that we will be hosting Ann Hood, Rand Richards Cooper, and Tracey Minkin tonight for a book talk at 7...

$25 General admission comes with the new "Life's Short, Talk Fast" book!
https://realartways.easy-ware-ticketing.com/generaladmission/wLH2_hFT96pBoLgYows_jw

11/19/2024

Whether you're a superfan of OR you're just catching up on the seasons, you're invited to a book talk celebrating the new anthology "Life's Short, Talk Fast: 15 Writers on Why We Can't Stop Watching Gilmore Girls" with editor Ann Hood and contributing writers Rand Richards Cooper and Tracey Minkin (who will be available to sign your books).

Real Art Ways
Wednesday, 11/20, 7pm
Mulled wine and warm spiced cider will be available at concessions (while supplies last)

Get your tickets here (comes with the new book!): https://realartways.easy-ware-ticketing.com/generaladmission/wLH2_hFT96pBoLgYows_jw

River Bend Bookshop will be onsite with the books. See you tomorrow night!