Baton Rouge Gallery will open its spring 2025 series of Movies & Music on the Lawn on April 26.
Baton Rouge Gallery — center for contemporary art, 1515 Dalrymple Drive, will open its 2025 spring season "Movies & Music on the Lawn" movie series with its annual Kids Night on April 26. The spring season will finish on May 24.
Admission is free with complimentary bottomless popcorn.
Since 1998, the series has engaged contemporary Louisiana-based musicians to compose and perform original scores for silent-era classic films that are projected on a towering inflatable screen under the stars in BREC’s City-Brooks Community Park.
The series kicks off April 26 with Kids Night with "Flow" with music by kids from BR Music Studios.
The evening will begin at 7:30 p.m. with activities for families courtesy of Knock Knock Children’s Museum. Then at roughly 8:30 p.m., kids of all ages will have the chance to enjoy this year’s Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature, "Flow," while students from Baton Rouge Music Studios perform an original score from the film live.
Baton Rouge Gallery will open its spring 2025 series of Movies & Music on the Lawn with the Oscar-winning children's film, 'Flow.'
Audiences the world over continue to be captivated by this film from Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis. A tale of survival, "Flow" takes audiences on a journey alongside a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood.
Then, on at 8 p.m. May 24, Movies & Music on the Lawn is set to feature one of the strangest, wildest — and furriest — slapstick comedies ever made.
Quickly achieving status as a new cult classic, the 2022 film, "Hundreds of Beavers," will be presented alongside an original score from Baton Rouge’s own Breadstick Space Opera; and in a first for Movies & Music on the Lawn, the night will also feature live Foley effects from Clay Achee and Michael Russo.
From director Mike Cheslik, "Hundreds of Beavers" is set in a 19th-century winter and follows an applejack salesman who finds himself up against an army of beavers after losing everything in a freak snowstorm. With no weapons or supplies, he's forced to rely on sheer cunning and pure luck to outsmart the beavers — all played by actors in full-sized mascot costumes — and survive in the wilderness.
Providing an original and never-before-heard score for the film will be a local band built on the fusion of sounds from earth and elsewhere, The Breadstick Space Opera, which has shared the stage and opened for musicians such as George Porter Jr. and The Honey Island Swamp Band.
The band will be accompanied by a pair of experienced Foley artists creating sound effects for the film.
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