Screen Scene: Tallgrass event at Wichita Art Museum

The Tallgrass Film Association and the Wichita Art Museum are teaming again for the third annual “Tunes + Tallgrass” event on Friday in the art museum’s parking lot at 1400 W. Museum Blvd. Lawn chairs are welcome, all ages are admitted, and admission is free.

Joplin, Mo.-based band Me Like Bees will kick things off with a performance at 7 p.m., followed by an outdoor screening of the acclaimed 1984 concert film “Stop Making Sense” with the Talking Heads.

Directed by Jonathan Demme, the film won the National Society of Film Critics award for best documentary.

Food trucks will be present with food for purchase. Scheduled vendors include Funky Monkey Munchies, Small Cakes, Let ’em Eat Brats, Chinos Parrilla, BS Sandwich Press, Kona Ice, Lynn’s Curbside Cookout, Sunflower Espresso, the Muse Food Cart and Dead Canary’s Frankenbus.

There also will be a cash bar.

For more information, go to www.tallgrassfilmfest.com.

▪ “Inside Out” – Disney/Pixar’s latest animated feature is about an 11-year-old girl who is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, as her emotions – Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness – conflict on how to best navigate a new city, house and school. Early word is that this is a return to form for Pixar.

▪ “Dope” – This Sundance Film Festival hit is a coming-of-age story about three inner-city high school outcasts who get a chance invitation to an underground party that leads them on an adventure trying to outrun drug dealers.

▪ “Hook” – The 1991 adventure finds the now-adult Peter Pan (Robin Williams) returning to Neverland when his children are kidnapped by Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman). Showing at 7 p.m. Monday at the Orpheum, 200 N. Broadway. Tickets are $5, $4 for students, seniors and military.

This new event started on Thursday and continues from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday in downtown Mulvane. The festival features films by Kansas filmmakers as well as entries from around the world. Individual tickets to films are $2; an all-inclusive pass is $39, available at the festival’s box office at 100 W. Main St. in Mulvane. For more information, go to www.docsunbackfilmfest.com.

This story was originally published June 19, 2015 at 11:14 AM with the headline "Screen Scene: Tallgrass event at Wichita Art Museum."