Wyrd Movie Night

Friday, February 7
8:15 pm
9 S. Washington
Downtown Ypsilanti

The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
Directed by: Sergei Parajanov
Runtime: 78 Minutes

Join us Friday, February 7 at Wyrd Byrd as we watch The Color of Pomegranates!

A breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema, Sergei Parajanov's masterwork overflows with unforgettable images and sounds. In a series of tableaux that blend the tactile with the abstract, The Color of Pomegranates revives the splendors of Armenian culture through the story of the eighteenth-century troubadour Sayat-Nova, charting his intellectual, artistic, and spiritual growth through iconographic compositions rather than traditional narrative. The film's tapestry of folklore and metaphor departed from the realism that dominated the Soviet cinema of its era, leading authorities to block its distribution, with rare underground screenings presenting it in a restructured form.

Wyrd Open Mic Night

Thursday, February 13
8 PM
FREE

Come share your songs, stories, writing, poetry, or pretty much anything else.