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Free musical, dance, cinema or speaking engagements on Sundays!
Thanks in part to a generous contribution from Brown-Forman, anyone can visit the Speed for free on Sundays. While visiting, guests can also enjoy special free programming hosted by the Museum or one of our community partners!
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Cinema Sunday Showcase - Kusama: Inifinity
Monthly, July through December
Inspired by the 1960s American political and social revolutions, Kusama’s avant-garde innovation garnered notoriety but little fame or success as she pioneered audacious and unprecedented soft sculptures, staged nude Vietnam protests, and fashioned dazzling polka-dot creations. After working as an artist for over six decades, people around the globe are experiencing her installation Infinity Mirrored Rooms in record numbers, as Kusama continues to create new work every day.
Screened in conjunction with the exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room: LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER on view July 12, 2024-January 12, 2025
Cinema Sunday Showcase: The People Could Fly
November 24
The People Could Fly is a poetic documentary about the history of Black gathering spaces in Louisville, Kentucky, from the 1960s to mid-2000s. In this intimate video portrait, we delve into the ritual of roller skating and how roller rinks emerged as sanctuaries for Black culture.
CINEMA+ with a post-screening discussion with director Imani Dennison and producers Bryn Silverman and Naveen Chaubal.
Cinema Sunday Showcase: World AIDS Day: Red Reminds Me. . .
December 1
For Day With(out) Art 2024, Visual AIDS is working with the Speed to present Red Reminds Me. . ., a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today. Through the red ribbon and other visuals, HIV and AIDS has been long associated with the color red and its connotations—blood, pain, tragedy, and anger. Red Reminds Me . . . invites viewers to consider a complex range of images and feelings surrounding HIV, from eroticism and intimacy, mothering and kinship, luck and chance, memory and haunting.
Sunday Showcase: Louisville Folk School
December 8
Join us for a Sunday Showcase with the Louisville Folk School for a compilation of performances including drumming, string band, and staff performances.
Sunday Showcase: The Art of the Violin with Louisville Orchestra
January 12
Join us for a fascinating exploration into the world of high-end violin-making with the Louisville Orchestra.