[FAC] 2 great Fresno Met Museum events Fri and Sat!

[John English]

Visit the Fresno Metropolitan Museum for these great events!!

FRIDAY
Friday Brownbag Cinema
May 1, 2009, Noon-1pm
Join us for the first installment of Friday Brownbag Cinema on May 1, 2009 at noon in the Met's 4th Floor Lyles Theater.
Friday Brownbag Cinema is a new noontime film series featuring cinematic classics in a presentation that will leave you longing for the golden age of American movies.  Bring your brownbag lunch and enjoy a reduced admission of $5 per person.
The first installment of Friday Brownbag Cinema will focus on the 1919 Charlie Chaplin silent classic, "A Day's Pleasure."  Chaplin's antics will leave you in stitches, as his best efforts to take a simple family outing go amusingly awry.

SATURDAY
Lecture: Dr. Gina Strumwasser
May 2, 2009, 2pm
Join us on Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 2pm in the Met's 5th Floor Founders Room for a lecture about the Dutch Italianate style by Dr. Gina Strumwasser of CSU Fresno.
Strumwasser received her Ph.D. in Art History from UCLA and is a Professor of Art, specializing in Renaissance and Baroque art. She has published articles and presented papers on a diversity of subjects including Leonardo da Vinci, Jan van Eyck, Rembrandt, heroic women from the Old Testament, problems of gender in art, humor, popular culture and advertising.  The lecture is free with paid Museum admission


John M. English
Manager, Marketing and Communications
Fresno Metropolitan Museum
1555 Van Ness Avenue
Fresno, CA 93721
(559) 441-1444 ext. 227
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johne at fresnomet.org
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