Thursday, September 9 at 8:00

"Special Fundraiser Screening for Anne O'Shea for Queen of Fantasy Fest Benefiting AIDS Help, Inc."

With special appearances by:

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Friday, September 10
2pm EDT Live Opera: 7pm encore

Live Opera from the Royal Opera House in London.
Cosi fan tutte, Mozart

The new Royal Opera Season begins with a great audience favourite – both in opera and in its production. This great comedy with an edge brings a classic score by Mozart to a witty story of deception and trust tested to its limit. Can two apparently faithful couples have their affections altered by some apparently harmless deception? Jonathan Miller’s ever-popular production updates the 18th-century to today – while fashions and technology may have changed since Mozart’s time, human behaviour remains as fickle and manipulative as ever. Royal Opera favourite Thomas Allen returns in a strong cast of singers under acclaimed German conductor Thomas Hengelbrock. The title may suggest that it is the way of women to behave this way – ’such is the way they are’ – but then it seems to be true of the men too. In this most sophisticated of operas with the most sublime of scores, no-one escapes unscathed. — Courtesy of Opus Arte

Tickets $20, $18 KWFS Members

Saturday, September 11

Concert on Film Series:
Leonard Cohen Songs From the Road

USA, 72min, Sony Music

“When legend Cohen takes to the stage, it’s no less than a cultural event of Biblical dimensions.” - The Independent

In 2008, following the celebration of his 40th year as a Columbia recording artist and coinciding with his induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Leonard Cohen thrilled his fans by announcing his first tour dates in 15 years. Cohen went on to play the most prestigious and beautiful venues in virtually every corner of the globe, mesmerizing and charming audiences with performances that were hailed as some of the best of his career.

SONGS FROM THE ROAD, a dozen of Cohen’s most famous songs from that world tour, will be presented. We will treat you to the best of Cohen’s performances at auditoriums, arenas, and stadiums from Tel Aviv to London to the California desert, all filmed in stunning high-definition.

CD / DVD Give-a-ways!
The "Songs From The Road" CD+DVD is presented in a beautiful softpak with a 12-page book, and includes a DVD of concert performances filmed in high definition, along with a CD of the audio recordings in 5.1 surround sound. The winners will be shipped the prize after the Sept 14 release date.

October 18

Costume Contest
Special LIVE perfprance by Arora Glory Alice

More details to follow

To benefit the Industry Standard Digital Projector(incl 3D) Fund

October 13
2pm EDT Live, 7pm encore

Live Opera, from the Gran Teatre del Liceu
Carmen, Bizet
(NEW production)

Carmen is the story of fatal attraction between Carmen, the hot-blooded gypsy, and Don José, the upstanding corporal in the Spanish army who’s already engaged to another woman. Don José begins to fall for Carmen as she sings the famous song of seduction, the Habañera. When he helps her avoid arrest, he is thrown in prison. Upon his release, he seeks her out; as a result, his life continues to unravel. Upon hearing his mother is dying, he heads home, vowing to Carmen that they will be together again soon. When he returns, he discovers Carmen in a rapturous affair with Escamillo, a dashing toreador. Don José, now bitter and angry, stabs her to death just as Escamillo wins the fight in the bullring. As the spectators leave the arena, Don José throws himself on her dead body and confesses his guilt.

Tickets $20, $18 KWFS Members

IN THE TROPIC GALLERY

KEY WEST'S ICONIC COTTAGES

In 2002 Sharon Wells opened KW LIGHT GALLERY in Key West to display fine art photography, digital creations and original paintings. Her works include imagery from Key West, Cuba, Mexico, Europe and South America. The subject matter includes Architecture, Wallscapes, Cemeteries, Digital Creations, Color Abstractions, Street Photography. Formats include: Giclee Prints - Large and Small Formats Gelatin Silver Black and White & Infrared archival prints Paintings-original Watercolors, Acrylics and Oils Sharon Wells' interest in photography began in 1965 with the gift of an Instamatic. From that time on, she has held camera in hand. She is largely a self-taught photographer, who has extensively documented Key West for over 25 years in color and black/white. Her love of travel and art museums has provided venues for capturing her own "decisive moments." She counts her primary artistic influences as painters Milton Avery, Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hoffman and Joan Miro, and photographers Manuel Bravo, Helen Levitt and Walker Evans. Her photographs have been published by Random House, Old House Journal, Southern Living, Florida Heritage and Historic Preservation among others.

>Sharon was born in 1948 in Phoenix, Arizona and educated in California, Illinois, Tokyo, Japan, and Honolulu, Hawaii. She studied art, photography and history at the University of Florida. Inspired to continue a career in historic preservation, she moved to Key West in May,1976 and worked professionally as a photographer and historic preservationist. In 1995 Wells established Island City Heritage Press to write and publish books of fine art photography and local history. The Sharon Wells' Key West Walking & Biking Guide is published annually. Her company offers historic preservation consulting; photography; historical and legal research; and House Histories, called Gingerbread Biographies. Sharon Wells is also the author of Portraits: Wooden Houses of Key West , and Forgotten Legacy: Blacks In Nineteenth Century Key West. Both books are available at KW LIGHT Gallery, signed by the author.

Pictured, one of the framed pieces in KEY WEST ARCHITECTURE:  Illuminations  

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