Events

[FILM AND MUSIC] A special coda to the summer season of outdoor performances that take risks and experiment with media will be found on Thursday on the front lawn of the Burchfield Penney Art Center where the massive projectors along Elmwood Avenue will be put to use to consider an ill-tempered populist of a bygone era. Variations on Napoleon will feature filmmaker Brian Milbrand doing a live remix of films that feature the story of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, including Abel Gance’s 1927 epic to a live soundtrack provided by a string quartet. Evan Courtin, Leanne Darling, Jonathan Golove, and Don Metz will play Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Sinfonia Eroica (Heroic Symphony aka Symphony No. 3 in E♭ major), a work originally dedicated to Napoleon. Bring a blanket or a lawn chair down to the front yard of the Buff State Campus to check out the latest installment of Squeaky Wheel’s Silent/Sound series.