Community Calendar

*Q &A with Laurel Masse and director Reilly Tillman*
As a founding member of the Grammy-winning vocal jazz group The Manhattan Transfer, singer Laurel Massé achieved international success in the 70’s and was on track to keep soaring–until she nearly lost everything one tragic night. Overcoming numerous obstacles in an industry that saw her as a product to be discarded, she survived via her vocal prowess and has endured to have a decades-long career that has delighted millions.
As an added bonus, Ms. Massé will be in attendance for a Q&A after the film and is going to grace us with an acapella song or two!

Join the Woodstock Film Festival for a screening of the Short Documentary, now on the Oscars Short List, CHILDREN NO MORE: “WERE AND ARE GONE” followed by a Q&A with Director Hilla Medalia.

Please note this screening is showing at The Mark, which is on the second floor of the Orpheum Theatre. Unfortunately, there is no elevator, so it is not handicap accessible.

CHILDREN NO MORE: “WERE AND ARE GONE” is an observational documentary short about a vigil that began in March 2025, when a handful of women stood silently in a public square in Tel Aviv, each holding a photograph of a child killed in Gaza. On every image: the child’s name, age, date of death, and the words “WAS AND IS NO MORE.” Their stillness is heavy, pressing against the rhythm of ordinary life. Some passersby look away; others respond with denial, sorrow, or rage. Yet week after week, new names are added, new photographs are printed and lifted high. And each week, more people step forward to join this quiet act of protest.

Hilla Medalia is a Peabody Award-winning director, producer, and has received six Emmy award nominations. Her projects have garnered critical acclaim and screened internationally in theaters and on platforms including HBO, Netflix, Paramount+, PBS, BBC and ARTE.

Meet Harry Blacker and his friends. They have gathered at Bloom’s Kosher Restaurant in London’s East End to celebrate the 82nd birthday of Blacker, an artist, satirist, and cartoonist. They are busy schmoozing about the Jewish East End in the 1930s: “an eternal ghetto” of Eastern European immigrants, where poverty was noble, Yiddish theater was the synagogue, and the anarchists practiced the loving religion of rachmones and zedakah (compassion and charity). Punctuated with archival footage, animations of Blacker’s quirky cartoons, and the Yiddish swing music of the Barry Sisters, this is a social history of Jewish London at its most personal.
Runtime: 52 minutes

Bob Dylan’s life has been studied and analyzed more than almost any other artist of the 20th Century. But Martin Scorsese still managed to create a revelatory documentary about his early days by fusing together never-before-seen footage from the Dylan vault along with new interviews with Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, Liam Clancy, Pete Seeger, Mavis Staples, Suze Rotolo, Dave Van Ronk, and many other key figures from his past. Dylan himself even sat for a rare on-camera interview. “I had ambitions to set out and find…like an odyssey, going home somewhere,” Dylan says near at the beginning. “I was born very far from where I’m supposed to be, and so I’m on my way home.” The centerpiece of the film is thrilling footage from the 1966 tour with the Hawks where Dylan was booed most nights for playing electric music, including the fabled moment in Birmingham, England where a furious fan calls him “Judas.” — Rolling Stone

This will be screened over two nights:
Part 1: Wednesday, January 14 @ 7:00pm
Part 2: Wednesday, January 21 @ 7:00pm

In Texas, the Krause List targets 850 books focused on race and LGBTQIA+ stories – triggering sweeping book bans across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate. As tensions escalate, librarians connect the dots from heated school and library board meetings nationwide to lay bare the underpinnings of extremism fueling the censorship efforts. Despite facing harassment, threats and laws aimed at criminalizing their work – the librarians’ rallying cry for freedom to read is a chilling cautionary tale for all of us.

Following the incredible response to our August 2025 screening, we’re pleased to offer another opportunity to experience this urgent and timely film. Stay after the screening for a post-film panel discussion moderated by Jennifer Brown, award-winning author and DEI thought leader, who will introduce additional special guests. Although this screening is free, an RSVP is required.

THE LIBRARIANS, which made its world premiere at Sundance and continued on to SXSW and Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, explores the urgent moment we find ourselves in. As an unprecedented wave of book banning is sparked in Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting for intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy, flanked by concerned community members and young readers. THE LIBRARIANS is a chilling cautionary tale and rallying cry for freedom – told through the personal experiences of librarians under siege and the everyday patriots who join their ranks in defense of the books.

Kim A. Snyder is an Academy Award® nominee and Peabody Award-winning Director / Producer whose latest feature, THE LIBRARIANS, premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and will release globally in late 2025. Her Oscar-nominated short DEATH BY NUMBERS, co-created with gun-violence survivor Sam Fuentes, has won multiple awards. Snyder’s acclaimed films include US KIDS (Sundance 2020), LESSONS FROM A SCHOOL SHOOTING (Netflix Original), and NEWTOWN (Sundance 2016, Peabody Award, PBS). Her earlier work includes WELCOME TO SHELBYVILLE (PBS) and I REMEMBER ME (Zeitgeist Films). She also associate produced the Oscar-winning short TREVOR, which spawned The Trevor Project. Snyder holds a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins SAIS and lives in New York City.

Catskills Energy Future is a film screening and conversation about a quiet but consequential shift in New York City’s infrastructure strategy. For decades, hundreds of thousands of acres in the Catskills were locked up to avoid building a filtration plant, freezing development across an entire region in the name of water protection. That era is on the verge of ending.

As filtration becomes an eventual engineering reality, the logic for holding vast tracts of upstate land is changing. New York City is no longer organizing its watershed around protecting water, but as a platform for renewable energy generation, battery storage, and future transmission, tying the Catskills directly to the city’s climate and power ambitions.

This transition is not without precedent. From the earliest days of the watershed system, influential voices argued that the only way to protect city water was to restrict population, suppress industry, and limit human presence in the Catskills altogether. The cold logic of treating people and productive land use as a threat rather than a resource has shaped a century of policy. Today, it risks reappearing in a new form: land preserved not for local prosperity, but for land-intensive infrastructure serving distant needs.

The evening features the world premiere of Unfiltered: New York’s Watershed Battle, followed by a moderated discussion and audience Q&A examining what this transition means for land use, grid reliability, workers, and local communities and whether the region will once again be asked to absorb the physical costs of New York City’s growth without a meaningful voice in the outcome.

IT'S A 1950S SPACE INVASION SATURDAY CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE!!

Doors: 6:00pm
Vintage Sci-Fi Clipshow start: 6:30pm
Film: 7:00pm

THIS ISLAND EARTH (1955)
Who is the mysterious "Exeter" (Jeff Morrow) and why has he assembled a team of Earth's top scientists in an isolated countryside manor?

THE MONOLITH MONSTERS (1957)
Gigantic alien monoliths crash across a California valley destroying everything in their path and threaten the entire planet!

Can anything stop them???

Plus!

Writer Tony Albarella returns to introduce the films with fun backstories, trivia and behind the scene photos!

Come by for two 1950s sci-fi classics with BIG THEATRE SOUND on the BIG SCREEN!

Join or Die is a film about why you should join a club — and why the fate of America depends on it. In this feature documentary, follow the half-century story of America's civic unraveling through the journey of legendary social scientist Robert Putnam, whose groundbreaking "Bowling Alone" research into America's decades-long decline in community connections could hold the answers to our democracy's present crisis. Flanked by influential fans and scholars — from Hillary Clinton, Pete Buttigieg, and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to Eddie Glaude Jr., Raj Chetty, and Priya Parker — as well as inspiring groups building community in neighborhoods across the country, join Bob as he explores three urgent civic questions: What makes democracy work? Why is American democracy in crisis? And, most importantly… What can we do about it?

Bob Dylan’s life has been studied and analyzed more than almost any other artist of the 20th Century. But Martin Scorsese still managed to create a revelatory documentary about his early days by fusing together never-before-seen footage from the Dylan vault along with new interviews with Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, Liam Clancy, Pete Seeger, Mavis Staples, Suze Rotolo, Dave Van Ronk, and many other key figures from his past. Dylan himself even sat for a rare on-camera interview. “I had ambitions to set out and find…like an odyssey, going home somewhere,” Dylan says near at the beginning. “I was born very far from where I’m supposed to be, and so I’m on my way home.” The centerpiece of the film is thrilling footage from the 1966 tour with the Hawks where Dylan was booed most nights for playing electric music, including the fabled moment in Birmingham, England where a furious fan calls him “Judas.” — Rolling Stone

This will be screened over two nights:
Part 1: Wednesday, January 14 @ 7:00pm
Part 2: Wednesday, January 21 @ 7:00pm

Cabin fever getting you down? It’s time to break the routine and get the kids out of the house! Join us in the Community Room for a fun, family-friendly morning kickoff.

We’ll start with a delicious build-your-own cereal bar, plus classic board games, card games, and Twister (about 30 minutes of play). Once everyone is fueled up and awake, we’ll turn up the volume for a high-energy sing-along of the famous K-pop–powered supernatural action film (95 minutes of action!).

Details & Pricing
Kids and Students: $5
Adults: Free

Note: All children under age 12 must be accompanied by an adult for the duration of the event.