My Life as a Dog, 1985 Swedish drama/comedy. The 12-year-old Ingemar is separated from his beloved dog and brother and sent to live with his uncle in rural Sweden after his mother becomes terminally ill in 1958-59. The town is full of wonderful and eccentric characters. The actor, Anton Glanzelius has been described as a…

PAGE to STAGE. How does a play get written and how do actors, director, and designers bring those words to life? Meet THE FOREVER QUESTION playwright Jim Christy, actors Sophia Barrett & Jake Blouch will read a funny scene, and discover the ways director Harriet Power and the team create a production.  Then come watch the…

Discussion of Amor Towles’ first novel, Rules of Civility (2011). A 25-year-old ambitious woman, Katey Kontent, finds her way through New York City’s high society in 1938. She rises from the Wall Street secretarial pool through the upper echelons of society in search of a brighter future. When this book was initially published, it was…

The classic film, Moonstruck, 1987. Romantic comedy. Older Italian American widow (Cher) falls for her fiancé’s estranged and hot-tempered younger brother (Nicholas Cage). Cher won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance. Some sexually suggestive content. Discussion will be led by Mary Anne Grabarek.

Film, Where the Tracks End (Mexico, 2023). A Mexican family, who lives in a railway car, travel across the country as the father works in the repair and construction of railways. This prevents the family from settling in one place for a while and for the son to attend school. However, at the last stop,…

July 18 – Tim O’Brien, TIME Magazine Covers and AI Tim O’Brien will share stories of his work in the past tumultuous decade and his thoughts about generative AI and the artist. Tim is an award-winning illustrator, whose works have appeared numerous times on the cover of TIME magazine and many other periodicals, as well…