BONK Festival of New Music, festival opening - Concert
Saturday, April 2 / 8:00pm (doors open at 7:00pm)
Now celebrating its fourteenth year, the BONK Festival of New Music is a weeklong festival in the Bay Area featuring irreverent experimental/post-modern music by local and international composers with attitudes. Since its inception in 1992, BONK has featured more than 300 works by over 70 composers, guided by Tampa Bay area composers/luminaries Robert C. Constable and David Rogers. While the music could be described as difficult, falling outside the realm of most prescribed genres and exhibiting such variety, it is an exhilarating experience and one of the most popular events at the Dalí Museum. Concert $5 for Dalí Museum Members, $10 general, $8 students. Concert begins at 8pm. For more information, please call (813) 225-2594, or visit http://www. bonkfest. org/.

Coffee with a Dalí Curator (Peter Tush: "Dalí Sources: Mythology") - Gallery walks
Wednesday, April 6 / 9:45am - 10:30am
Overview of the mythology theme of the "Dalí Sources" exhibition with Peter Tush, Curator of Education.
Coffee in store at 9:45 followed by a gallery walk with a curator. The event is free with Museum admission. Admission to the Dalí Museum is always free to Dalí Museum Members and those with USF identification cards.

Wine & Song IV - Poetry and Wine Tasting
Wednesday, April 6 / 6pm - 8pm
Enjoy an evening of wine featuring the flavors of Spanish Sherry, coupled with the poetry of Andalusia, Spain in the fourth in the Museum's series of evening lecture/wine tastings celebrating the mutual pleasures of fermented grapes and the written word.
Wine & Song takes place in the Raymond James Community room of the Salvador Dalí Museum. Admission is $7 Dalí Members, $15 for non-members. Seating is limited and an RSVP to (727) 823-3767 x3024 is required.

Europe After the Rain pt. 1 - art@2:00 Film
Thursday, April 7 / 2:00pm
This popular afternoon films series returns after a 4-month hiatus. This year the series of art films on topics from Dalí to artists of related interest will be shown once a week every Thursday at 2pm Free with museum admission.

Alejandro Amenabar Thesis (Tesis) - Dalí & Beyond Film Series
Thursday, April 7 / 6:00pm
Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar grabbed the attention of American audiences with his dreamy thriller Open Your Eyes, but he earlier sent shock waves throughout Spain in 1996 with this disturbing debut. Thesis is a quietly creepy psychological thriller about a young college student, Ángela (Ana Torrent) investigating the social fascination with sensational violence for her thesis project. In her search for violent video footage, she stumbles onto what may be a real live snuff film, a videotape that her professor was watching before his untimely death. With the help of a geeky gore junkie she uncovers a conspiracy that may include her handsome but sinister new boyfriend, her thesis advisor, and even her weirdo partner. When she uncovers one too many secrets lying in the catacombs of the university basement, she realizes that she may be the next victim. --Sean Axmaker Amazon-- Rated R; Spanish language edition; English subtitles; Free with museum admission ($5 after 5:00 p. m. every Thursday).

Jorge Nef: Poets of the Southern Cone
Friday, April 8 / 6:00pm – 8:30pm
Although not widely known in North America, poetic and overall literary production in Latin America's Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay) has been both prolific and innovative. Names such as Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda — both Nobel laureates — as well as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar and many others are part of the global cultural heritage. The Dali Museum, USF's Latin American and Caribbean Studies, USF's Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of World Languages Education and College of Visual and Performing Arts presents a sample, concentrating on readings and translations of Pablo Neruda by Susan Money, Christine Probes and Pablo Brescia and a presentation of original readings and translations by Ida Vitale, Enrique Fierro and Jorge Nef. Poems will be read in Spanish and English.
Free event. Doors open at 5:30.

Dalí's Le Pink Grapefruit - art@2:00 Film
Thursday, April 14 / 2:00pm
This popular afternoon films series returns after a 4-month hiatus. This year the series of art films on topics from Dalí to artists of related interest will be shown once a week every Thursday at 2pm Free with museum admission.

Peter Tush: "Dalí's Monumental Canvases: From William Tell to Lincoln" – Lecture
Thursday, April 14 / 6:30 pm
To mark to Dalí Museum's acquisition of its seventh Dalí monumental canvas, Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean…Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, Peter Tush, Curator of Education, will explore Dalí's "Monumental" canvases and the continuing controversy over their place in his oeuvre. These ambitious canvases, predominantly produced after Dalí's return to Spain in 1948, create a remarkable, reactionary response to Abstract Expressionism and a severe departure from Surrealism. Combining Catholic mysticism, scientific obsession, myth and history, the monumental canvases are fascinating studies of Dalí's extreme tendencies.
Free with museum admission ($5 after 5:00 p.m.).

Breakfast with Dalí - Children & Family Event
Saturday, April 16 / 9:00am - 11:00am
Explore the Dalí Museum galleries in a tour suitable for children ages 6 to 12, led by docent Jill Henaghen. The tour is interactive, and the paintings analyzed are especially chosen to appeal to children. The tour is followed by a delightful breakfast with the docent and staff members in attendance.
Pre-registration is required. Limited to 20 children plus adult companions. General admission $20 per family of two, plus $10 for each additional immediate family member. Others $20. Members $15 per family of two, plus $10 for each additional person. Anna Otero (727) 823. 3767 ext. 3026e-mail: aotero@salvadorDalímuseum. org

Peter Tush: "Surrealism in America" - Dalí Lecture Series
Thursday, April 14 / 6:30pm
Peter Tush, Dalí Museum Curator of Education, will present this lecture on the often unacknowledged role Dalí and Surrealism played in helping American art make the transitions from representational painting exemplified by Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood to the process-oriented work of Abstract Expressionists Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock. Lecture explores the early role Dalí played in this transition, and how his influence was superseded during the first years of World War II by such Surrealists as André Breton and Roberto Matta who found themselves exiled in New York City. Free with museum admission ($5 after 5:00 p. m. every Thursday).

Europe After the Rain pt. 2 - art@2:00 Film
Thursday, April 21 / 2:00pm
This popular afternoon films series returns after a 4-month hiatus. This year the series of art films on topics from Dalí to artists of related interest will be shown once a week every Thursday at 2pm Free with museum admission.

Alex de la Iglesia's Day of the Beast - Dalí & Beyond Film Series
Thursday, April 21 / 6:00pm
Spanish filmmaker Alex de la Iglesia followed his outlandish sci-fi/horror debut, Accion Mutante, with this colorful apocalypse fantasy about Father Angel (Alex Angulo), a scholarly priest whose intensive research into cabalistic "Bible Code" prophecies leads to a horrific discovery: the exact birthdate of the Antichrist. Convinced that Satan's spawn will be born somewhere in Madrid on Christmas Day, Father Angel embarks on a bizarre journey down the path of sin, committing the foulest possible acts against God and humanity in order to worm his way into the Devil's inner circle and face the ultimate foe on his own turf. Comprised of equal parts high-concept horror and scathing social satire (in the mode of the director's peer and former collaborator Pedro Almodovar), this ambitious horror film has garnered a sizable cult following. -- moviesonline. Free with museum admission ($5 after 5:00 p. m. every Thursday).

Spirited Away - Off the Wall Film Series
Friday, April 22 / Films begin at dusk.
The Off the Wall Film Series presents a selection of 4 family movies which loosely tie in with themes in the current exhibition, "Dalí Revealed. "To focus on the theme of mythology, we begin with Hayao Miyazaki's animated masterpiece Spirited Away. The highest grossing film in Japan box office history, Spirited Away is a dazzling story of bravery when the young girl Chihiro needs to overcome her fears in order to rescue her parents who have been trapped by a spell and turned into pigs. Like a Japanese Alice in Wonderland, Chihiro encounters an alternative world filled with Japanese ghosts and mythical spirits, both fascinating and menacing, and she must learn from them in order to persevere. (Japan, 2001, DVD, 132 minutes; rated PG).
The Off the Wall films are FREE and are projected onto the outside wall of the Museum. Museum will remain open until 7pm with reduced admission 5pm - 7pm (only $5). Snacks, beer and wine will be available for purchase - no food or beverages may be brought onto the Museum grounds.

Salvador Dalí: Soft Self-Portrait - art@2:00 Film
Thursday, April 28 / 2:00pm
Free with museum admission.

Babe, Pig in the City - Off the Wall Film Series
Friday, April 29 / Films begin at dusk.
The Off the Wall Film Series presents a selection of 4 family movies which loosely tie in with themes in the current exhibition, "Dalí Revealed." To focus on the theme of landscape, we present George Miller's remarkable surreal family fantasy, Babe, Pig in the City. When Babe win a contest at sheepherding but Farmer Hoggett is injured, it is up to Babe to save the farm. He finds himself on a thrilling and scary adventure with his master's wife when they become lost in the big city (an amazing juxtaposition of all of the prominent features of major cities compressed into one threatening Übercity), and Babe must enlist the help of a strange and surly bunch of animals (Cats, dogs, chimpanzees, and a duck) to succeed. (Australia/USA, 1998, DVD, 97 minutes; rated PG).

Films begin at dusk. The Off the Wall films are FREE and are projected onto the outside wall of the Museum. Museum will remain open until 7pm with reduced admission 5pm – 7pm (only $5). Snacks, beer and wine will be available for purchase - no food or beverages may be brought onto the Museum grounds.

May 2005

Coffee with a Dalí Curator (Dirk Armstrong: "Dalí Sources: Landscape") - Gallery walks
Wednesday, May 4 / 9:45am - 10:30 am
Overview of the landscape theme of the "Dalí Sources" exhibition with Dirk Armstrong, Assistant Curator. Coffee in store at 9:45 followed by a gallery walk with a curator. The event is free with Museum admission. Admission to the Dalí Museum is always free to Dalí Museum Members and those with USF identification cards.

art@2:00 Film - title TBA
Thursday, May 5 / 2:00pm
Free with museum admission.

Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmejer: The Later Years, vol. 2 – Dalí & Beyond Film Series
Thursday, May 5 / 6:00pm
Seven wildly imaginative, animated stop-motion films from the mind of Svankmajer, the Czechoslovakian surrealist director of Alice and Little Otik. Svankmajer has influenced a generation of directors from the Brothers Quay to Tim Burton to Terry Gilliam. Shorts include Dimensions of Dialogue (1982), Down to the Cellar (1983), The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (1983), Meat Love (1988), Flora (1989), The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1990), and Food (1992). "[Svankmejer's movies] represent the essence of surrealism: the marvelous, the cruel, the erotic...Reality is viewed as an inexplicable game." - Movie critic Amos Vogel. (Czechoslovakia, 76 min., Czech with English subtitles, color and B&W, DVD; not rated, probably R).
Free with museum admission ($5 after 5:00 p.m. every Thursday); refreshments.

Yellow Submarine - Off the Wall Film Series
Friday, May 6 / Films begin at dusk.
The Off the Wall Film Series presents a selection of family movies which loosely tie in with themes in the current exhibition, "Dalí Revealed. "To focus on the theme of visual perception, we present this all-time favorite psychedelic cartoon featuring the Beatles. Yellow Submarine is a whimsical blend of childlike and psychedelic imagery, structured around the wonderful music of the Beatles. Join John, Paul, George and Ringo as they save Pepperland from the tyranny of the Blue Meanies. Music includes "A Day in the Life," "All You Need is Love," and "Hey Bulldog. "(Great Britain, 1968, DVD, 90 minutes; rated G).
The Off the Wall films are FREE and are projected onto the outside wall of the Museum. Museum will remain open until 7pm with reduced admission 5pm - 7pm (only $5). Snacks, beer and wine will be available for purchase - no food or beverages may be brought onto the Museum grounds.

art@2:00 Film - title TBA
Thursday, May 12 / 2:00pm
Free with museum admission.

Groundhog Day - Off the Wall Film Series
Friday, May 13 / Films begin at dusk.
The Off the Wall Film Series presents a selection of family movies which loosely tie in with themes in the current exhibition, "Dalí Revealed. "To focus on the theme of religion, we conclude with Harold Ramis' hilarious masterpiece of moral redemption, Groundhog Day. Bill Murray shines as the cynical weatherman who is covering Groundhog Day for the fourth year in a row, and then discovers he must re-live the worst day of his life…over and over and over again…until he becomes a better person. Ramis' film is a brilliant study of the various stages of rejection, denial, and ultimate acceptance of fate. (USA, 1993, DVD, 101 min. ; rated PG).
The Off the Wall films are FREE and are projected onto the outside wall of the Museum. Museum will remain open until 7pm with reduced admission 5pm - 7pm (only $5). Snacks, beer and wine will be available for purchase - no food or beverages may be brought onto the Museum grounds.

Breakfast with Dalí - Children & Family Event
Saturday, May 14 / 9:00am - 11:00am
Explore the Dalí Museum galleries in a tour suitable for children ages 6 to 12, led by docent Jill Henaghen. The tour is interactive, and the paintings analyzed are especially chosen to appeal to children. The tour is followed by a delightful breakfast with the docent and staff members in attendance.
Pre-registration is required. Limited to 20 children plus adult companions. General admission $20 per family of two, plus $10 for each additional immediate family member. Others $20. Members $15 per family of two, plus $10 for each additional person. Anna Otero (727) 823. 3767 ext. 3026e-mail: aotero@salvadorDalímuseum. org

The Beat Circus - emit Concert Series
Sunday, May 15 / 8:00pm (doors open at 7:00pm)
The Beat Circus is a completely unique entity, an eclectic group of musicians who have collaborated with circus performers, comedians, acrobats, and burlesque dancers. They create a music which is a fiction of the past, a crazy burlesque circus at the intersection of American Vaudeville and Weimer-era Germany. .. funeral dirges, circus waltzes, tangos, and experimental music all jump-started, braked, and accelerated by their ringleader. Co-presented with the EMIT Series of New Music. Admission is $10 general; $8 for seniors and students; $5 Dalí Members.

art@2:00 Film - title TBA
Thursday, May 19 / 2:00pm
Free with museum admission.

The Brothers Quay Collection – Dalí & Beyond Film Series
Thursday, May 19 / 6:00pm
An evening of 10 surrealist-inspired, stop-motion animated films that delve into the human psyche, produced by the astounding American twins the Brothers Quay. Born in Pennsylvania, the Brothers Quay currently reside and work in London. Their passion for detail, command of color and texture, and astonishing use of focus and camera movement turn their miniature sets into unforgettable worlds, suggestive of Kafkaesque nightmares of menace and decay, and long-repressed childhood dreams. Anthology of 10 short films includes their tribute to the great surrealist Czech animator in "The Cabinet of Jan Svankmayer" (1986), their extraordinary "Street of Crocodiles" (1984), and their skewed Dalínian study of optical phenomena in "Anamorphosis" (1991). (Great Britain, 1984 – 1993; 103 min., DVD; not rated, probably PG13).
Free with museum admission ($5 after 5:00 p.m. every Thursday); refreshments.

Dalí & Beyond Film Series - Brothers Quay

art@2:00 Film - title TBA
Thursday, May 26 / 2:00pm
Free with museum admission.

Information:
The Salvador Dalí Museum
1000 3rd Street South St. Petersburg, FL 33701
v: 727.823.3767  -  f: 727.894.6068
www.salvadordalimuseum.org

The Salvador Dalí Museum is sponsored in part by the Pinellas County Arts Council,
the City of St. Petersburg, the State of Florida, Department of State,
Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council.

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EL programa
Ofrece una agenda permanente y de acceso gratuito

Así como el Centro Patiño cree que el futuro está en los niños, y por eso comienza tomando en cuenta a ese segmento de la población como el destinatario de gran parte de su programa anual, también pone su fe en que la cultura y las manifestaciones creativas son gestoras de desarrollo humano integral.
Es por eso que durante el año mantendrá una agenda permanente de conciertos, exhibiciones cinematográficas -el Cine Comic-, conferencias, exposiciones de artes plásticas, entre otros quehaceres, con unas cinco a seis actividades fuertes por mes, a las que el público podrá acceder de modo gratuito.
Tres eventos de magnitud que generan expectativa son la Semana del Comic, en abril, la Semana dedicada a Jorge Luis Borges en julio y en agosto una semana literaria con la presencia de escritores nacionales y extranjeros invitados.

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