dinner
The President presents ‘Film Night’
Friday, 23rd October • 18:30 – 22:30
Hosted by Ann Seddon
Screening of Skin Deep, a reflection on beauty and ageing, filmed at The London Sketch Club. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the directors.
The evening will include a light Buffet and drinks prior to the screening of the documentary ‘Alice Neel’: Written and directed by Alice’s grandson, the film explores the struggles she faced as a woman artist, a single mother, and a painter who defied convention.
Alice Neel (2007)
Written and directed by Andrew Neel
Alice Neel was one of the great portrait painters of the 20th century. She reinvented the genre of portraiture by expressing the inner landscape of her varied sitters, among them Andy Warhol, Annie Sprinkle, Bella Abzug, and Allen Ginsberg. Painting a diverse cross-section of humanity, from Community Party leaders to art world personalities to her neighbors in Spanish Harlem, Neel created a body of work that serves as a social document of New York and America in the 20th Century. (1h 21min)
£20 online.
