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Small Star Seminar

With Cory McAbee in person

Small Star Seminar
Made possible in part by Space Month: Our Space. Our Future.

Cory McAbee is best known as writer, director, songwriter and composer for the feature films, The American Astronaut (2001), Stingray Sam (2009), Crazy and Thief (2012) and as singer/songwriter for the musical group The Billy Nayer Show (1989–2011). He has created award-winning short films and has worked as both an actor and musician in American and European features.

In 2012 McAbee began the international arts collaborative, Captain Ahab’s Motorcycle Club. McAbee wrote songs for CAMC that were developed by its members throughout the world. From 2012 through 2014 McAbee performed concerts in support of the project throughout the US, Europe and Australia. From 2012 through 2015 McAbee wrote the screenplay for his first feature length opera, while illustrating his graphic novel series entitled RABBIT. In December of 2014 McAbee began recording and producing a solo show, called the Small Star Seminar. The Small Star Seminar premiered in Wroclaw, Poland in 2015 and is available now on Bandcamp.

Small Star Seminar is to be a crowd-generated road film, concert film, documentary and narrative slated for release in January of 2017 with the support of the Sundance Institute. The first leg of the U.S. tour starts here in Colorado - and you are invited to participate by joining us tonight to see Cory perform his solo album as a singing representative of the Small Star Corporation, a company that urges people to give up their goals, stop reaching for the stars and start looking for the stars within their minds.

All live events will be crowd-generated. McAbee will be passed between event organizers and supporters like a baton in a relay race. Artists in each location will capture footage before, during and after the regional seminars that they will help coordinate. This material will be used to create the story for the concert-road documentary to be released in 2017.

Small Star Seminar

Sponsored by Space Month: Our Space. Our Future.

Sat September 19, 2015, 7:30 only, Muenzinger Auditorium

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Tickets

10 films for $60 with punch card
$9 general admission. $7 w/UCB student ID, $7 for senior citizens
$1 discount to anyone with a bike helmet
Free on your birthday! CU Cinema Studies students get in free.

Parking

Pay lot 360 (now only $1/hour!), across from the buffalo statue and next to the Duane Physics tower, is closest to Muenzinger. Free parking can be found after 5pm at the meters along Colorado Ave east of Folsom stadium and along University Ave west of Macky.

RTD Bus

Park elsewhere and catch the HOP to campus

International Film Series

(Originally called The University Film Commission)
Established 1941 by James Sandoe.

First Person Cinema

(Originally called The Experimental Cinema Group)
Established 1955 by Carla Selby, Gladney Oakley, Bruce Conner and Stan Brakhage.

C.U. Film Program

(AKA The Rocky Mountain Film Center)
First offered degrees in filmmaking and critical studies in 1989 under the guidance of Virgil Grillo.

Celebrating Stan

Created by Suranjan Ganguly in 2003.

C.U. Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts

Established 2017 by Chair Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz.

Thank you, sponsors!
Boulder International Film Festival
Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts

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