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SUMMARY:Free Screening and Artist Talk: The Plastic Bag Store -- the Film
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 10 at 7 pm\n\nFree film screening celebrates art\, environmental activism\, and community\n\nWatch live at the Regent Theater or stream at home\n\n \n\nTo celebrate the final months of Persistence\, Michelle Lougee's installation crocheted from thousands of plastic bags\, ArtsArlington and EcoWeek present a rare screening of Robin Frohardt's The Plastic Bag Store the Film followed by a Q&A with both artists.\n\n \n\nFrohardt uses whimsical puppets to follow a plastic bottle into a dystopian future where it is misinterpreted as a precious artifact of a lost civilization ours. Michelle and Robin's works emphasize that plastic never "goes away" and prompt reflection on capitalism's disposable culture.\n\n \n\nThe New York Times called the film "an emphatic work of activism that is also a wistful work of art."\n\n \n\nPersistence will be on view along the Minuteman Bikeway near Spy Pond through June 17\; some of the 38 sculptures will be on sale during Porchfest on June 18.\n\n \n\nVisit ArtsArlington.org/plastic for more information.\n\n \n\nTo reserve your free tickets for a live screening at the Regent Theater\, 7 Medford Street\, Arlington\, OR to reserve your tickets for simultaneous live stream at home via email RSVP to: plarnartplanet@gmail.com
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Tuesday\, May 10 at 7 pm
\nFree film screening celebrates art\, environmental activism\, and community
\nWatch live at the Regent Theater or stream at home
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\n\nTo celebrate the final months of
Persistence\, Michelle Lougee&rsquo\;s installation crocheted from thousands of plastic bags\, ArtsArlington and EcoWeek present a rare screening of Robin Frohardt&rsquo\;s
The Plastic Bag Store &mdash\; the Film followed by a Q&\;A with both artists.
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Frohardt uses whimsical puppets to follow a plastic bottle into a dystopian future where it is misinterpreted as a precious artifact of a lost civilization &mdash\; ours. Michelle and Robin&rsquo\;s works emphasize that plastic never &ldquo\;goes away&rdquo\; and prompt reflection on capitalism&rsquo\;s disposable culture.
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\n\nThe New York Times called the film &ldquo\;an emphatic work of activism that is also a wistful work of art.&rdquo\;
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\n\nPersistence will be on view along the Minuteman Bikeway near Spy Pond through June 17\; some of the 38 sculptures will be on sale during Porchfest on June 18.
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\n\n\n\nTo reserve your free tickets for a live screening at the Regent Theater\, 7 Medford Street\, Arlington\, OR to reserve your tickets for simultaneous live stream at home via email RSVP to:
plarnartplanet@gmail.com