New York Landscapes - Special Film Screening Friday May 17!
**Explore the Connection Between Music & Mental Heath with The Soundshop**
Discussion and Performances at the Reliquary May 25!
**A Psychic Bash is in our Future!**
Friend of the Reliquary Harley J. Spiller Celebrates his 60th Birthday and Release of his Artist's Book *Happy Media: Fortune Teller Handbills 1980-2002*
<a href="http://www.patrickohare.com/" style="text-decoration: none;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;"><u style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; background-color:transparent; color:#1155cc; font-family:lora,serif; font-size:12pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Patrick O’Hare</u></a> is a photographer and filmmaker who explores the architecture and landscape of the modern world. His films evoke that strange language of merging and omission that allows reality to slip and hints at the invisible. Through the cracks, something startles and vanishes - the shape-shifting riddle of inside and outside.
On May 17, the City Reliquary will screen three of O’Hare’s recent films: *Chimera, New York City Landscapes*; *The Highlands*; and *The Ecstasy of Ruins*. Shot in 2018 in New York City, the Hudson River Valley, and upstate New York respectively, these works explore the natural and manufactured elements of our landscape, blurring the line between permanence and the evanescent to form a more elusive state of being. A discussion with the artist and reception will follow the screening. *Chimera, New York City Landscapes* will be on continuous view in the City Reliquary’s gallery in the following weeks.
The May 17 screening is free with late night admission to the City Reliquary Museum.
Patrick O’Hare’s photographs have been exhibited at MoMA PS1, Parsons School of Design, and Rhode Island School of Design. He has screened his films at UnionDocs in Brooklyn, New York and the Unseen Film Festival in Denver, Colorado.
Musical activity, whether listening to, playing, or creating music, activates virtually all parts of the brain. Even so, the connection between music and the mental health are rarely discussed in depth.
In the 28th event from the music community [The Soundshop](https://www.the-soundshop.com/about), we will begin exploring this important topic. Musicians will present on the connection between of music and mental health, both as a musician and as a music listener, in a mix of performance, intellectual conversation, and audience participation.
Join The Soundshop at the City Reliquary on **Saturday, May 25**! Doors open at 1:30 and presentations by participating artists will start at 2:00. [Advance tickets are available from Kinvite!](https://kinvite.co/p/AP0uqcEy)
As you may know, it's Harley's collection of fortune teller handbills currently on view at the Reliquary as the exhibit *Psychic City: The Medium of Mediums*. To accompany the exhibit, Harley has created a limited edition artist's book, *Happy Media: Fortune Teller Handbills 1980-2002*. They're in the Museum store now and we recommend picking yours up soon - these won't last long!
*Psychic City* will be on view through Sunday, May 26.
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