Upcoming film screening and talk by Jim Venturi at Mercer County Community College as part of their Distinguished Lecture Series.

Nov 19, 2008, 12:00 pm
Mercer County Community College
Communications Building, Room 107
West Windsor Campus
1200 Old Trenton Road
West Windsor, NJ 08550
Directions
(Free and open to public)

Many thanks to Mel Leipzig and Judy Katz for making this event possible.

More information is available at MCCC’s website.

PS. Our Melbourne screening yesterday evening was a full success. 130 people attended the event. Thank you to all who joined!!

Learning from Bob and Denise is coming to Melbourne, Australia!

Rooftop Cinema will host a showing of our 13-minute film preview. Guest speaker: Peter Corrigan

Nov 10, 2008, 9:00pm
Rooftop Cinema
Curtin House, 252 Swanston Street
Melbourne, Australia
$10 Admission
(Proceeds directly support the production of the film)

A special thank you to event organizer David White and event hosts Barrie Barton and Tim Peach.

Learning from Bob and Denise will be part of Open House New York Weekend 2008!

Saturday, October 4, 2008
Show times: 1pm 2:30pm 4pm

Location:
Kimmel Center for University Life (Room 808) at 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY
You will need to have a photo ID to get into the building and sign-in.

Program:
Screening of the 13-minute film preview
Brief talk by Jim Venturi
Q&A session with the audience after the film

Please RSVP at christina@BobandDenise.org and let us know what show time works best for you.

A special thank you to the Open House New York team for all their support and for making this event possible. To learn more about Open House New York, please visit their website at www.ohny.org.

Thank you.

Learning from Bob and Denise is coming to Chicago!
The film preview will be the opening act of Pecha Kucha Night Volume 5.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 7:45pm
Martyrs’
3855 N. Lincoln Avenue
Chicago, IL 60613
Map and directions

I will give a brief talk after the screening. To learn more about Pecha Kucha Chicago and how to by tickets click here.

We are racing to complete the film by the end of this year. In the meantime, please join us for another film preview screening event in New York.

Friday, April 11, 6:00-8:00pm
Center for Architecture
AIA New York Chapter
536 LaGuardia Place
Main Lecture Hall
New York
(Map and directions)

The event is free of charge. Please RSVP here.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Best,
Jim

PS. This past Monday, I gave a talk at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Design, coupled with a screening of our trailer. Lisa Roberts, author of Antiques of the Future, made an exciting introduction of the project. Over 150 people joined the event! Thank you.

Learning from Bob and Denise receives the 2007 Arnold W. Brunner Grant of the New York Chapter, the American Institute of Architects.

We are having another screening of our new film trailer here in New York!

Thursday, February 7, 2008, 6:15pm–8:00pm
Parsons The New School for Design
Department of Architecture
25 East 13th Street, 2nd floor
Between University Place and 5th Avenue
www2parsons.edu/architecture/AIDL/contact.htm

Henry Smith-Miller and I will be part of a panel moderated by Fred Schwartz. We will be showing the new trailer afterwards and I will answer questions from the audience.

I look forward to seeing you there.

-Jim

The new trailer of Learning from Bob and Denise premiered yesterday at the Architecture School of Columbia University in New York. It went really well. More than 100 people joined the event and we received lots of valuable feedback. The unanimous response: they all look forward to seeing the feature-length film in 2008.

Thank you to all of you who joined us.

Best,
Jim

Mark your calendars! We are almost finished with our new trailer and will be screening it twice at the end of the year.

Here are the details:

November 26, 2007, 6:30pm-8:30pm

Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning and Preservation
Columbia University
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

Nathaniel Kahn and I will be part of a moderated discussion on growing up with architects. We will be showing the new trailer afterwards.

December 7, 2007 at 7:00 pm

The Architectural League of New York
457 Madison Avenue
Between 50th and 51st Streets
New York, New York 10022

After the screening there will be a Q&A session with the audience.

I would be happy to see you there.

Thanks,
Jim

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown received this year’s Cooper-Hewitt Design Mind Award, which recognizes a visionary who has affected a paradigm shift in design thinking or practice through writing, research, and scholarship. Each year, the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, a New York arm of the Smithsonian Institution, presents the National Design Award in more than ten categories, “celebrating the best in American design.” To learn more, visit www.nationaldesignawards.org.