On September 7, Metro Art and Los Angeles Union Station will host a free special screening of the Academy Award-winning documentary “The Last Repair Shop” followed by performances and a moderated conversation from featured members of the cast.
Academy Award®-winning directing duo Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoot show the profound life stories of four staff master craftspeople as well as the students whose lives have been transformed by their instrument. In the repair people’s stories, music has been the continuous thread that has mended their hearts and brought them to where they are now — fixing broken instruments to get them back into the longing hands of Los Angeles’ public school youth.
The evening at Union Station will also include live orchestral performances of songs from the film and an enlightening conversation between featured instrument repair artists Dana Atkinson (Strings) and Duane Michaels (Woodwinds), student instrumentalist Ismerai Calcaneo (Saxophone) and editor of “The Last Repair Shop,” Nick Garnham Wright (Executive Creative Director of Breakwater Studios).
Once commonplace in the United States, today Los Angeles is by far the largest and one of the last American cities to provide free and freely repaired musical instruments to its public schoolchildren, a continuous service since 1959.
From Academy Award®-winning directing duo Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoot, “The Last Repair Shop” grants an all access pass to the nondescript downtown warehouse where a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople keep over 80,000 student instruments in good repair.
Witness the profound life stories of four staff master craftspeople as well as the students whose lives have been transformed by their instrument. In the repair people’s stories, music has been the continuous thread that has mended their hearts and brought them to where they are now — fixing broken instruments to get them back into the longing hands of Los Angeles’ public school youth.
The event is free and open to the public; those looking to attend can RSVP here. Doors open at 6:30. To learn more about Los Angeles Union Station, visit unionstationla.com. #Celebrating85Years #UnionStationLA.
Academy Award®-winning directing duo Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoot show the profound life stories of four staff master craftspeople as well as the students whose lives have been transformed by their instrument. In the repair people’s stories, music has been the continuous thread that has mended their hearts and brought them to where they are now — fixing broken instruments to get them back into the longing hands of Los Angeles’ public school youth.
The evening at Union Station will also include live orchestral performances of songs from the film and an enlightening conversation between featured instrument repair artists Dana Atkinson (Strings) and Duane Michaels (Woodwinds), student instrumentalist Ismerai Calcaneo (Saxophone) and editor of “The Last Repair Shop,” Nick Garnham Wright (Executive Creative Director of Breakwater Studios).
Once commonplace in the United States, today Los Angeles is by far the largest and one of the last American cities to provide free and freely repaired musical instruments to its public schoolchildren, a continuous service since 1959.
From Academy Award®-winning directing duo Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoot, “The Last Repair Shop” grants an all access pass to the nondescript downtown warehouse where a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople keep over 80,000 student instruments in good repair.
Witness the profound life stories of four staff master craftspeople as well as the students whose lives have been transformed by their instrument. In the repair people’s stories, music has been the continuous thread that has mended their hearts and brought them to where they are now — fixing broken instruments to get them back into the longing hands of Los Angeles’ public school youth.
The event is free and open to the public; those looking to attend can RSVP here. Doors open at 6:30. To learn more about Los Angeles Union Station, visit unionstationla.com. #Celebrating85Years #UnionStationLA.
