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And for Chaplin buffs looking for an even greater challenge, play our advanced version by matching each image to its corresponding film title in as few turns as possible!

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Experience the magic of Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush this month with orchestras performing Chaplin's own score live!

Winnipeg, Canada - Saturday, April 20, 2013, 8:00 PM

The Gold Rush with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra at the Centennial Concert Hall
Tickets available on the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's website.

Sheffield, England - Sunday, April 28, 2013, 7:30 PM

The Gold Rush with the Sheffield University Salon Orchestra at Firth Hall
For information and tickets, visit the Sheffield University website.

If you can't make it to these screenings, check out our full regularly-updated list of live orchestral screenings of Chaplin films.

Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in London, England, on April 16th, 1889!

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to perform original songs from the music halls of Victorian London?

The Porter House of Publishing has just released a songbook by Cecilia H. Porter featuring six long lost songs that were originally performed on the Victorian Music Hall stage more than a hundred years ago by Charles Chaplin Senior, father of the famous Little Tramp.

The book comes with a CD so that you can hear the songs, but there's also an additional sing-along version of each song! For those who like to "tickle the ivories," sheet music is included, as sold on the original song sheets.

Interested in experiencing those far away days with your family and friends? Visit the Porter House of Publishing website for details.

And see our page on Charles Chaplin Sr. to read more about Charlie Chaplin's father.

Call for Papers - The Birth of Chaplin’s Little Tramp: A 100th Anniversary Celebration

JUNE 26, 27 & 28, 2014 - CINETECA DI BOLOGNA, ITALY

STATEMENT OF INTENT

This 100th anniversary celebration of Charlie Chaplin’s iconic persona, the Little Tramp, or as he himself named him, the Little Fellow, will be an event geared towards the public first and film scholars and aficionados second and third. We wish to invite abstracts/proposals from speakers who can accommodate this audience effectively, i.e., potential speakers should suggest topics dealing with historical or humanities-related foci, rather than theoretical or academic. The best proposals will discuss the Little Tramp persona in some manner.

The event will be held in the beautiful northern Italian city of Bologna, with one day of the celebration to coincide with the beginning of the world-renowned Il Cinema Ritrovato festival (June 28-July 5, 2014).

PROVISIONAL KEYNOTE AND/OR FEATURED SPEAKERS (OTHERS TBA):

• David Robinson, Film Critic and author of Chaplin: His Life and Art
• Kevin Brownlow, film historian and director of The Unknown Chaplin
• Kate Guyonvarch, Director of Roy Export S.A.S. /Association Chaplin office, Paris
• Cecilia Cenciarelli, Archivist and Head of The Chaplin Project, Cineteca di Bologna, Italy
• Lisa Stein Haven, Associate Professor of English and author of Syd Chaplin: A Biography

The following topics are meant to generate ideas for presentations, not limit creativity or exclude participation:

• The Little Tramp’s Music Hall origins
• Chaplin at Keystone: The Process of Creating a Character
• The Little Tramp’s Final Appearance: The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux, or Limelight?
• The Chaplin Imitator Phenomenon (Feel free to discuss a circumscribed time period for this topic)
• The Little Tramp in Contemporary Film Criticism
• Audience Reception: The Little Tramp
• Consequences of A Woman of Paris: Chaplin’s Film Endeavor without the Tramp

All are welcome to submit proposals for consideration.

Please send a 500-word abstract, a short bio and your contact information by June 30th, 2013 to Kate Guyonvarch (office@charliechaplin.com). Please place Birth of the Tramp event in your subject line.

Conference Organizers:
Kate Guyonvarch
Roy Export S.A.S.
58 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau
75001 Paris
www.charliechaplin.com
http://www.facebook.com/CharlieChaplinOfficial

Cecilia Cenciarelli
The Chaplin Project
Cineteca di Bologna
Via Riva di Reno, 72
40122 Bologna
http://www.cinetecadibologna.it
www.charliechaplinarchive.org