Swing Girls

Tickets $15. Get swept up in joyful chaos and big-band rebellion with Swing Girls, a raucous slice of Japanese teen comedy from director Shinobu Yaguchi. Set in rural Yamagata, a group of bored high-school girls accidentally poisin their school brass band, and decide, on a whim, to form a swing jazz group instead. 

Tickets $15. Get swept up in joyful chaos and big-band rebellion with Swing Girls, a raucous slice of Japanese teen comedy from director Shinobu Yaguchi. Set in rural Yamagata, a group of bored high-school girls accidentally poisin their school brass band, and decide, on a whim, to form a swing jazz group instead. 

  1. 4:00 pm

Carte Blanche: Mickalene Thomas on Reimagining Beauty: Embodying Black Femininity in Visual Culture w/ Special Guests Thomas Lauderdale & Tanya Selvaratnam

Tickets $65. Renowned for her luminous, rhinestone-adorned compositions and her profound explorations of Black womanhood, love, desire, and celebration, Mickalene Thomas is recognized as one of the most influential voices in contemporary art. In this moderated conversation at PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater, she will reflect on her creative practice, formative influences, evolving artistic vision, and current projects. Mickalene will be joined in conversation with Tanya Selvaratnam and Thomas Lauderdale who worked on her short film Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman.

Tickets $65. Renowned for her luminous, rhinestone-adorned compositions and her profound explorations of Black womanhood, love, desire, and celebration, Mickalene Thomas is recognized as one of the most influential voices in contemporary art. In this moderated conversation at PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater, she will reflect on her creative practice, formative influences, evolving artistic vision, and current projects. Mickalene will be joined in conversation with Tanya Selvaratnam and Thomas Lauderdale who worked on her short film Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman.

  1. 7:00 pm