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"Why are you at Verge?"
We've given you reasons why we think you should support Verge. Now we pose the question to our artists- "Why are you at Verge?"
To see our new backer reward, courtesy of Jose di Gregorio, please visit our Kickstarter page!
Kickstarter Campaign for Verge!
Our second Kickstarter campaign has begun! Check out what we've been up to this past year since our last campaign, including our accomplishments and accolades.
Funds raised for this campaign will help continue operations at VCA, so that we can focus on bringing the Sacramento community more events such as Art Golf, the Southern Foodways dinner and movie event, and our quarterly film screenings at the Crest. A successful Kickstarter campaign will also allow us to concentrate efforts on raising funds for the expansion of the project. Please check out our Kickstarter page, and consider a donation towards the completion of Sacramento's first multi-disciplinary art center!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1757600170/support-verge-center-for-...
Second Saturday Art Mini Golf ENCORE!
Couldn't make it to our Holiday Party? Well here's your chance to experience ART MINI GOLF at Verge THIS SATURDAY!! Our course was such a smash hit that we are opening it up again for those that missed it, and for those who loved it the first time around. Only $5 per person, so bring all your friends and family over to Verge for Second Saturday!!
Our one of a kind mini golf course was designed by VCA artists: Aleksander Bohnak, Rich Baumhoffer, Amanda Cook, Nathan Cordero, Gioia Fonda, Chelsea Greninger, Liv Moe, Patrick Marasso, Scott Soriano, Eric Wood, and Jiayi Young.
SEE YOU SATURDAY!!!
ART GOLF
Join us for another one of Verge's unique extravaganzas! Continuing our mission to one up ourselves, this time around we are hosting a one of a kind mini golf course designed by our VCA artists!! Artists include Aleksander Bohnak, Rich Baumhoffer, Amanda Cook, Nathan Cordero, Gioia Fonda, Chelsea Greninger, Liv Moe, Patrick Marasso, Scott Soriano, Eric Wood, and Jiayi Young.
Noted local foodtrucks will be serving food, while beer and soda will be free flowing. Axis@Verge will be showing in the Temporary Gallery, studios will be open, and DJ Scott Soriano will be playing golf inspired hits!
Admission to the party is FREE!! Join us Thursday, November 10th, from 6pm - 10pm. Golf is $15 a piece, or a team of 4 for $40. Reserve your tee time early by purchasing a pack of tickets for your team here! http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/209438
Thank you to our sponsors!
Farmers Insurance
Trumpette
Rex Moore Electrical Contractors
Ruhstaller Brewing Company
IT CAME FROM KUCHAR
With an Introduction by Artist Christine Shields
October 27, 7:30pm
Students $12
Adults $15
The Crest Theatre will be teaming up once more with Verge Center for the Arts on October 27 at 7:30 for the next installment of our quarterly film screening.
This time around we'll be featuring It Came From Kuchar, introduced by past student of George Kuchar, Christine Shields. The film is a hilarious and touching story of artistic obsession, compulsion and inspiration.
Long before YouTube, there were the outrageous, no-budget movies of underground, filmmaking twins George and Mike Kuchar. George and Mike grew up in the Bronx in the 1950's. At the age of twelve, they became obsessed with Hollywood melodramas and began making their own homespun melodramas with their aunt's 8mm camera. They used their friends and family as actors and their Bronx neighborhood as their set. Early Kuchar titles featured in this film include "I Was A Teenage Rumpot" and "Born of the Wind".
In the early 1960's, alongside Andy Warhol, the Kuchar brothers shaped the New York underground film scene. Known as the "8mm Mozarts", their films were noticeably different than other underground films of the time. They were wildly funny, but also human and vulnerable.
Their films have inspired many filmmakers, including John Waters, Buck Henry, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin and Wayne Wang (all are interviewed in this film). Despite having high profile fans, the Kuchars remain largely unknown because they are only ambitious to make movies, not to be famous.
"It Came From Kuchar" interweaves the brothers' lives, their admirers, a history of underground film and a "greatest hits" of Kuchar clips into a mesmerizing stream of consciousness tale.
Affectionately directed by one of George's former students, Jennifer M. Kroot, "It Came From Kuchar" will introduce you to the amazing Kuchar brothers - two brothers who love to make movies and continue to inspire others.
See you at the movies!
