FESTIVAL DAY: Celebrating the Four Freedoms

September 8, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

FESTIVAL DAY
Celebrating the Four Freedoms
Saturday, September 8
1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms paintings with a day of programming that will explore these timeless artworks and the World War II period. Talks, tours, and performances will include a showing of The Cummington Story, a short documentary created in 1945 portraying the gradual absorption of members of a refugee hotel into a New England town. Music from the Great American Songbook and a performance by the Albany Berkshire Ballet will be featured. Free for Museum members, or included with Museum admission.

1:00 p.m.
Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms
with James J. Kimble, Ph.D., Professor of Communication, Seton Hall University

1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The Cummington Story, a 1945 documentary film, will play throughout the day in the Museum’s classroom.

2:00 p.m.
Russian posters of World War II, 1943/1944
with Natalia Smirnova, Assistant Professor, UCONN Storrs

2:30 p.m.
The Music of Woody Guthrie
with songwriter and performer Wes Buckley

3:00 p.m.
The Four Freedoms: Ballet Debut
with the Albany Berkshire Ballet

3:45 p.m.
Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms Gallery Talk
With Tom Daly, Curator of Education

Cummington Story runs throughout the afternoon in the classroom

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Land Acknowledgement

It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican people, who are the indigenous peoples of this land on which the Norman Rockwell Museum was built. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.

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