1530 Newcastle Street
Brunswick, GA 31520
Tel: 912/262-6934
Fax: 912/262-1029
http://www.goldenislesarts.org
A Pre-Big Read event. Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, is determined to experience Life and sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives in New York to test the "modern" ideas she had been reading about back in Kansas. Musical comedy starring Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore and Carol Channing (1967, 138 minutes, Not Rated)
Event Location: Brunswick-Glynn County Library, 206 Gloucester Street, Brunswick, GA 31520
A Pre-Big Read event. Based on the play by Eugene O’Neill, a retelling of the myth of Phaedra, Hippolytus and Theseus set on a New England farm. Starring Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins and Burl Ives. (1958, 111 minutes, B&W, not rated)
Event Location: Brunswick-Glynn County Library, 206 Gloucester Street, Brunswick, GA 31520
Pre-Big Read event. A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and stationed in Alabama in 1919. Starring Richard Chamberlin and Blythe Danner ( 1974, 98 min USA, not rated)
Event Location: Brunswick-Glynn County Library, Brunswick, GA 31520
Pre-Big Read Event. Based on Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the lower-middle-class Adams family, where father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. Starring Katharine Hepburn and Fred MacMurray.(1935, 99 min B&W Not rated)
Event Location: Brunswick-Glynn County Library, 206 Gloucester Street, Brunswick, GA 31520
Pre-Big Read event. Based on the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the story of a man who ages backward but he meets the love of his life, Daisy, a beautiful red-haired, green-eyed child who grows into a beautiful woman while Benjamin grows into a handsome young man. Starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett (2008,166 min, PG-13)
Event Location: Brunswick-Glynn County Library, 206 Gloucester Street, Brunswick, GA 31520
A Teacher’s Discovery Traveling Exhibit featuring the writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
Event Location: Brunswick-Glynn County Library, 206 Gloucester Street, Brunswick, GA 31520
Coastal Georgia Reads "The Great Gatsby" kicks off during First Friday in downtown Brunswick with proclamations by elected officials, high school jazz bands, vintage cars on display and other surprises. Attendees are encouraged to dress in period clothes and follow a "Time Line of the 1920s" highlighting the historic moments in American culture, sports and politics. Along the way, they can pick up fact-filled "trading cards" representing each year of the decade. Copies of the novel and Big Read materials will be available at all participating locations.
Event Location: Historic Downtown Brunswick (Newcastle Street), Brunswick, GA 31520
McIntosh County kicks off The Big Read with The Roaring 20s-Gatsby exhibit created by members of the McIntosh Art Association. The exhibit opening will also feature high school jazz band performances, vintage cars, food and fun.
Event Location: McIntosh Art Association, 404 North Way , Darien, GA 31305
This movie is hailed as a classic in the gangster movie genre and the last film that James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart made together. Cagney's good/bad guy character, Eddie Bartlett, was in fact based on Larry Fay, a cab driver turned bootlegger. Fay is also believed to have been one of the inspirations for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." ( 1939, 104 min B&W Not rated)
Event Location: The Historic Ritz Theatre, 1530 Newcastle Street, Brunswick, GA 31520
Art works inspired by the novel and created by the members of the McIntosh Art Association on display through February and March.
Event Location: McIntosh Art Association, 404 North Way , DArien, GA 31305
Penn State University English professor James L. W. West II discusses Fitzgerald and his romance with Ginevra King, the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."
Event Location: College of Coastal GA, 3700 Altama Avenue, Brunswick, GA 31520
Penn State University English professor, James L. W. West III, talks about the creation of "The Great Gatsby." Prof. West is the editor of "TRIMALCHIO, An Early Version of the Great Gatsby," which is a reconstruction of Fitzgerald's first attempt at writing the novel and the version that was eventually corrected and rewritten when the novel was in galleys.
Event Location: Brunswick Library, 206 Gloucester Street, Brunswick, GA 31520
Penn State University English professor James L. W. West II discusses Fitzgerald and his romance with Ginevra King, the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."
Event Location: College of Coastal GA, Camden Campus, Lakes Blvd, Kingsland, GA 31548
Book discussion of "The Great Gatsby." Discussion leader TBA
Event Location: Brunswick-Glynn County Library, 206 Gloucester Street, Brunswick, GA 31520
A full day of classic silent films at the Historic Ritz Theatre. Films will run all day continuosly and patrons are encouraged to drop in, watch one, two, three or more films and then head on their way. Or stay all day! A complete listing of the films screened will be posted on www.goldenislesarts.org
Event Location: The Ritz Theatre, 1530 Newcastle Street, Brunswick, GA 31520
Screening of the 1974 film version the novel starring Robert Redford, Mia Farrow and Sam Waterson in three locations on the same evening. (144 min USA color not rated)
Event Location: Camden, McIntosh and Glynn Counties, St Marys, Darien and Brunswick, GA 31520
A “concert” that will be orchestrated to follow the decade and feature the music of the period with a special tribute to the songs mentioned in "Gatsby" and readings from writers and poets of the decade. Featuring The O'Reallys and local performers.
Event Location: The Ritz Theatre, 1530 Newcastle Street, Brunswick, GA 31520
Ruby Dee stars as Zora Neale Hurston in a teleplay of all of the stories the writer compiled in Eatonville, Florida straight from the mouths of the predominantly African-American community there. (1989 made for TV movie, not rated.)
Event Location: Brunswick-Glynn County Library, 206 Gloucester Street, Brunswick, GA 31520
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston and starring Halle Berry (2005, 113 min, Color made for TV NR)
Event Location: Brunswick- Glynn County Library, 206 Gloucester Street, Brunswick, GA 31520
