The Container
October-November 2013
Encounters: A Performance of Spoken Word, Dance, and Music
February-March 2014
Shakespeare in Hollywood
April 2014
Seventh Annual TFMS Film Series: Toil and Trouble: The Reel History of Working Women
Where do we find the history of women’s work? Canadian documentary filmmakers Caroline Martel (“The Phantom of the Operator,” 2004) and Maya Gallus (”Dish: Women, Waitressing, & the Art of Service,” 2010) and Academy Award-nominated U.S. filmmaker Connie Field (“The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter,” 1981) presented work that addressed the elusiveness of Find out more »
Sixth Annual TFMS Film Series: Ethnography & Alterity
eth·nog·ra·phy \eth-nog-ruh-fee, ɛθˈnɒgrəfi \ noun: a branch of anthropology dealing with the scientific description of individual cultures. al·ter·i·ty \ȯl-ˈter-ə-tē, -ˈte-rə-\ noun: otherness; specifically: the quality or state of being radically alien to the conscious self or a particular cultural orientation. TFMS’s Sixth Annual Film Series, fall 2012, focused the work of ethnographic filmmakers whose subjects Find out more »
2012-2013 Main Stage Season
Laughing at Life: A Performance of Kyogen Plays
November 2012
On the Move! Dance for the 21st Century
February-March 2013
Working (A Musical)
April 2013
2011-2012 Main Stage Season
As You Like It
October 2011
St. Mary’s Hear and Now
December 2011
The Big Picture App?
March-April 2012
Fifth Annual TFMS Film Series: Out of Bounds: Feminist Films and Filmmakers
Each filmmaker in the fifth annual series (fall 2011) — Yun Suh (“City of Borders”), Jenny Cool (“Home Economics”), and Michèle Stephenson (“Faces of Change”) — distributed the film she screened and discussed through the seminal feminist film collective, New Day Films, which marked its 40th anniversary in 2011. Formed in 1971 by a small Find out more »
2010-2011 Main Stage Season
Hay Fever
October 2010
The Bald Soprano
December 2010
Mother Hicks
March-April 2011
Fourth Annual TFMS Film Series: Alternative Animation and Collage
TFMS’s Fourth Annual Film Series, February 2011, offered a range in forms of alternative animation and collage. Participating filmmakers included cutout animator and collagist Lewis Klahr (California Institute of the Arts), computer animator and video installation artist James Duesing (Carnegie Mellon University), and animator Karen Aqua, whose short films have screened in Croatia, Japan, and Find out more »
2009-2010 Main Stage Season
Arms and the Man
November 2009
Cabaret
March 2010
Third Annual TFMS Film Series: Environmental Film
TFMS’s Third Annual Film Series, April 2010, focused on environmental film. Internationally acclaimed, award-winning filmmakers Scott Hamilton Kennedy (United States), Yung Chang (China/Canada), and Wolfgang Widerhofer (Austria) screened and discussed a variety of work that explored a range of environmental issues. Topics included environmental displacement, environmental racism, built environments and social activism, and dependence and Find out more »