Coming Up in ELC:

Final Reception: TALENT SHOW

Friday, July 28
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
WCP Student Activity Center – Ballroom (WCP 2.410/2.412)
Winners of the Fall 2023 scholarships will be announced!
Dinner will be served.
Each semester, our final reception features a talent show.
Past shows have included:
- - songs- Karaoke style or musical instruments!
  - dances
  - martial arts demonstrations
  - poems in many languages
  - international fashion shows
Don’t feel shy! Grab your friends and classmates to help you out!
We will also put together a slide show of photos from throughout the spring. Please share your pictures here to add them to the show!
When you’ve decided what you’ll perform, send Jack an email so that we can add you to the program and coordinate your audio and video needs.
The deadline to let Jack know if you will be performing is Wednesday, July 12.
We can’t wait to hear what you have planned!

Admission is free!
Hours:
- Tuesday – Friday: 10 am – 5 pm
  Saturday – Sunday: 12 pm – 5 pm
  Closed Mondays
300 W 21st St, Austin, TX 78712

On display until July 16.
Discover the behind-the-scenes stories of some of the biggest films in cinema history by exploring the artworks and designs that shaped their final form.
See production art associated with iconic movies like Rebel Without a Cause, Raging Bull, Top Gun, Apollo 13, and Lawrence of Arabia. Many of these films are connected with innovative directors like Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, Mike Nichols, Michael Powell, Nicholas Ray, Martin Scorsese, Stephen Spielberg, King Vidor, and more.
This exhibition is perfect for movie lovers who want to learn more about some of the most famous and memorable films in history. It showcases unique items in the Ransom Center’s film archives and rare artifacts that have never been on display before.
Read more about this exhibition.

Frida Kahlo was a self-taught artist and painter living in the early 20th century.
She is one of the most famous modern Mexican artists.
Her life and many struggles continue to inspire women, Latinos, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people.
HRC has one of Kahlo’s best-known self-portraits.
Read more about Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait.

Made in 1827 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. 12 years before the photograph was invented!
“It is the earliest photograph produced with the aid of the camera obscura known to survive today.”
“He tried an array of chemicals, materials, and techniques to advance the process he ultimately called héliographie, or ‘sun writing.'”
“He inserted the plate into a camera obscura and positioned it near a window in his second-story workroom. After several days of exposure to sunlight, the plate yielded an impression of the courtyard, outbuildings, and trees outside.”
Niépce called these ghostly pictures “points de vue.”
Read more about The Niépce Heliograph.
And, if you need a reminder of what a camera obscura is (like I did), check out this simple explanation.

“In Mainz, Germany, in the mid-1450s, Johann Gutenberg and his partner Johann Fust published more than 150 large-format copies of the Bible in Latin.”
The Gutenberg Bible was the first book printed with a printing press to mass-produce books.
The printing press “helped change how information traveled in Europe and, later, the world.”
HRC has one of only twenty surviving copies in the world!
You can read more about it and browse the digitized pages of this nearly 600-year old book.