This month at the Frist
Saturday, September 9: Frist Center Kids Club: Makin’ Mummies
1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Meet in the Art Library and Resource Center
Ages: 5 – 10
Free
Call 615-744-3357 to register.
Kids Club offers exciting opportunities for children to discover, explore, and create art. Free membership includes a Kids Club card, art classes, and additional rewards for participation. Saturdays in September, Club members will learn about mummification by preparing their own apples for the afterlife. Each kid will place his or her mummified apple in its own mini sarcophagus for burial.
Thursday, September 14: Music in the Grand Lobby
5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Free
On Thursday evenings, the Frist Center presents free music in the Grand Lobby. Cash bars and bistro seating are offered, so visitors can relax, enjoy a variety of wines and other beverages and listen to music by some of Nashville’s great musicians.
Friday, September 15: Exhibition Opening: Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum
Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum (Upper Level Gallery)
• Presenting Sponsor: The Tiffany & Co. Foundation
• Organized by the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Exhibition on view until January 14, 2007
Friday, September 15: Torchlight Tour and Movie: The Mummy
9:00 p.m.
Ages: 16 years and older
Cost: $20 Frist members/$25 non-members – reservations required, call 744-3247 or visit www.fristcenter.org to register online.
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
Take a one-hour late-night flashlight tour through eerily darkened galleries to view The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt exhibition. Following the tour, patrons will meet at the Turner Courtyard tent to view the 1932 original movie, The Mummy, with Boris Karloff. Karloff stars as the condemned and mummified Egyptian prince Im-Ho-Tep accidentally brought back to life. Stunning cinematography and gripping performances make this film a classic. Free popcorn and a cash bar will be available.
Friday, September 15: Music in the Grand Lobby
5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Free
On Friday evenings, the Frist Center presents free music in the Grand Lobby. Cash bars and bistro seating are offered, so visitors can relax, enjoy a variety of wines and other beverages and listen to music by some of Nashville’s great musicians.
Friday, September 15: ARTini
7:00 p.m.
Meet in Frist Center Grand Lobby
Free (with purchase of gallery admission)
Frist Center Associate Curator Katie Delmez Welborn will lead an informal conversation about one or two works in Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum exhibition. Complete your evening with music in the Grand Lobby, martinis at the cash bar, and visiting with friends.
Saturday, September 16: Workshop: Felting Delicate Jewelry
10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Studio Classroom A
Cost: $30 for Frist Center members, $35 for non-members
Registration required, please visit the Calendar at www.fristcenter.org or call 615-744-3247.
Join local artist Lisa Klakulak to learn the properties of wool and employ the mechanics of felting to create beads and pendants of all sizes and shapes and ropes with felted clasps from special types of wool. This program is offered in conjunction with the exhibition, Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum.
Thursday, September 28: Lecture: “Marriage in a Jewish Colony in Persian Egypt”
6:30 p.m.
Nashville Public Library (Main), 615 Church Street
Free
Dr. Annalisa Azzoni, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible/Near Eastern Cultures at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, takes an in-depth look at unexpected revelations of women and family life in a Jewish colony in fifth century B.C.E. Egypt. Using archived legal marriage documents, Dr. Azzoni reveals details of their legal and social status, particularly regarding their rights as recorded in the texts.
