*SOLD OUT*
Join us in welcoming Jay Schwartz of Secret Cinema and guest organist Don Kinnier for a special evening of film screenings featuring The King on Main Street (1925) with live pipe organ accompaniment in our beautiful Art Gallery!
Online registration opens on April 2nd.
Please note that the art gallery is on the second floor of the building with stair access only.
Please contact Arts & Culture Program Manager Alice with questions: athompson@glenfoerd.org (215) 632-5330 x13.
This performance and the restoration of Glen Foerd’s Pipe Organ was made possible by a generous grant from the Wyncote Foundation.
Since 1992, the Secret Cinema has been the Philadelphia area’s premiere floating repertory cinema series, bringing hundreds of unique programs to nightclubs, bars, coffee houses, museums, open fields, colleges, art galleries, bookstores, and sometimes even theaters and film festivals. Drawing on its own large private film archive (as well as other collections), the Secret Cinema attempts to explore uncharted territory and the genres that fall between the cracks, with programs devoted to educational and industrial films, cult and exploitation features, cartoons, rare television, local history, home movies, erotic films, politically incorrect material, and the odd Hollywood classic.
As long as it exists on real celluloid, that is—Secret Cinema screenings never use video/digital projection. While mainly based in Philadelphia, the Secret Cinema has also brought programming to other cities and countries.
A Philadelphia area native, Don Kinnier toured internationally, and served as house organist at the Lansdowne Theatre in suburban Philadelphia, and Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville, PA. In addition to his work with the Betzwood Film Festival, Don accompanies classic silent films at the Philadelphia Film Festival, the Secret Cinema’s showings at Moore College of Art and the University of Pennsylvania. He has maintained a long and fruitful relationship with Longwood Gardens, playing recently at the Fanfare Weekend rededication of the large Aeolian organ there. He also plays at The Strand Capitol Performing Arts Center, and the Allen Theatre. He has completed a DVD , accompanying the 1925 Rudolph Valentino silent film “The Eagle”.