Jazz, Manhattan Short Film Festival at library
The Bloomfield Township Public Library has offerings for a variety of audiences coming up, beginning with an evening of acapella vocal jazz performed by The Grunyons on Friday, September 27, at 7 p.m.
The Grunyons are a male vocal ensemble based in southeast Michigan and originally formed by Yale alumni in 1949. Incorporating rhythm patterns, melodic variations, and harmonic treatments reflecting techniques used by musicians in the early 20th century along with close harmony, the Grunyons perform an extensive repertoire and feature an enthusiastic love of singing.
The program is open to all with no registration required.
Once again, the Bloomfield Township Public Library is excited to be a participating site for the highly acclaimed Manhattan Short Film Festival. This prestigious event brings together filmmakers and enthusiasts to celebrate the art of short filmmaking on a global scale.
The library will host two sessions of the 2024 Manhattan Short Film Festival: Saturday, September 28, at 2 p.m., and Thursday, October 3, at 6:30 p.m. Both sessions have the same content.
The library will join over 100,000 film lovers world-wide uniting in over 500 cities across six continents to view and vote on the ten finalists’ films in the 27th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival. The finalists will screen simultaneously across the world during a one-week period, with the Best Film and Best Actor awards determined by ballots cast by the audiences in each participating venue. By virtue of their selection by Manhattan Short, each short film is automatically Oscar-qualified.
The Manhattan Short Final Ten are: The Talent (UK); I'm Not a Robot (The Netherlands); Mother (Ukraine); Dovecote (Italy); Pathological (USA); Alarms (France); Favourite (Australia); The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (Croatia); Room Taken (Ireland); and Jane Austen's Period Drama (USA).
Everyone is welcome with no registration required.
