The Little will screen The 100 Years Show (Alison Klayman, U.S. 2015, 30 min.) followed by a Panel Discussion with Debrorah Ronnen, and Rachel Haidu.

Carmen Herrera sketches by the window of her New York City apartment every morning. She is coming up on her 100th birthday and is bound to a wheelchair, but she still vibrates with the energy of a much younger woman. At midday most days she treats herself to a scotch. Then she returns to her work. Her canvases are radiant and disciplined, straight lines and shapes in just two colors. She has been painting since her youth in Cuba, but it was only in the last few years that she found recognition. In the last decade, major institutions from MoMA to Tate Modern have acquired her paintings. London's The Observer called Carmen the "discovery of the decade," and her work is now acknowledged as a precursor to many modernist styles—minimalism, geometric and modernist abstraction, and concrete painting. Central to Carmen's work is a drive for formal simplicity and a striking sense of color.

[source: Little Theatre website, 2017-May-8]