Images Cinema to Show Ukrainian Film 'The Guide'

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The "Stand With Ukraine Through Film" project is coming to Images Cinema.  
 
Images Cinema will host a special screening of "The Guide" on May 30 at 7:30 p.m.  
 
Tickets are available for purchase through their website (https://imagescinema.org/movie/the-guide-2014/), and patrons will contribute as they wish. Donations will be also accepted through QR codes, which will be placed in the lobby for moviegoers to scan, and donation jars will also be placed on-site.  All event proceeds will go toward supporting Ukraine.  
 
Featured everywhere from Good Morning America (Community theaters come together to raise money for Ukraine) to Capitol Hill, the project has raised more than $150,000 to support Ukraine and continues to grow.
 
"The Guide" is a two-hour dramatic film produced by Ukrainian Director Oles Sanin in 2014, which is set against Soviet efforts to exterminate the Ukrainian people in the 1930s through starvation and other policies.   It was selected as the Ukrainian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, and despite the film's historical setting, it feels quite current. 
 
Last year, a small, community cinema in Salem kickstarted the global release of the 2014 film to support Ukraine. The first showing at Cinema Salem in March 2022 raised $12,000 in one evening. Immediately after its premiere in Massachusetts, "The Guide" was released nationwide, and within days, 600 cinemas across the U.S. agreed to screen it. Cinemas in Canada, Holland and Australia soon followed.
 
The Guide has now been screened at nearly 700 cinemas. It has also been shown on Capitol Hill with Congressman Seth Moulton among the notable speakers.  The project has issued grants, with recipients including José Andrés' World Central Kitchen, Ukrainian Studies Fund, Razom, the International Organization on Migration and Plast.  
 
"We are delighted to partner with Images Cinema, as we continue to offer support to Ukraine through philanthropic efforts and the education of Americans.  This historic venue will be providing its community members with a unique opportunity to both learn about and discuss the war's impacts.  We're grateful for their participation, and we're proud to be working with them in this endeavor," said Lisa Vucelich, spokesperson for the project.
 
Marshall Strauss, Project Organizer, added, "We are so excited that Images Cinema is playing The Guide, a film which provides a powerful insight into the tragedy of Russian efforts to dominate – indeed, to exterminate – the people of Ukraine.  Cinemas around the U.S. and in other countries are providing badly needed support to Ukrainians – support which they deeply appreciate."
 
 

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WCMA: 'Cracking the Code on Numerology'

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) opens a new exhibition, "Cracking the Cosmic Code: Numerology in Medieval Art."
 
The exhibit opened on March 22.
 
According to a press release: 
 
The idea that numbers emanate sacred significance, and connect the past with the future, is prehistoric and global. Rooted in the Babylonian science of astrology, medieval Christian numerology taught that God created a well-ordered universe. Deciphering the universe's numerical patterns would reveal the Creator's grand plan for humanity, including individual fates. 
 
This unquestioned concept deeply pervaded European cultures through centuries. Theologians and lay people alike fervently interpreted the Bible literally and figuratively via number theory, because as King Solomon told God, "Thou hast ordered all things in measure, and number, and weight" (Wisdom 11:22). 
 
"Cracking the Cosmic Code" explores medieval relationships among numbers, events, and works of art. The medieval and Renaissance art on display in this exhibition from the 5th to 17th centuries—including a 15th-century birth platter by Lippo d'Andrea from Florence; a 14th-century panel fragment with courtly scenes from Palace Curiel de los Ajos, Valladolid, Spain; and a 12th-century wall capital from the Monastery at Moutiers-Saint-Jean—reveal numerical patterns as they relate to architecture, literature, gender, and timekeeping. 
 
"There was no realm of thought that was not influenced by the all-consuming belief that all things were celestially ordered, from human life to stones, herbs, and metals," said WCMA Assistant Curator Elizabeth Sandoval, who curated the exhibition. "As Vincent Foster Hopper expounds, numbers were 'fundamental realities, alive with memories and eloquent with meaning.' These artworks tease out numerical patterns and their multiple possible meanings, in relation to gender, literature, and the celestial sphere. 
 
"The exhibition looks back while moving forward: It relies on the collection's strengths in Western medieval Christianity, but points to the future with goals of acquiring works from the global Middle Ages. It also nods to the history of the gallery as a medieval period room at this pivotal time in WCMA's history before the momentous move to a new building," Sandoval said.
 
Cracking the Cosmic Code runs through Dec. 22.
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