Community Calendar

Join filmmakers Gary Bohan Jr. and Stephen Blauweiss for an entertaining multimedia presentation that will include several completed segments from their feature documentary Sharkey & His Pals. Sharkey was a sea lion with a sense of humor so uncanny and spontaneous, many considered him practically human. Trained in Kingston at a unique facility called Seal College, Sharkey starred on Broadway and worked with many entertainers and celebrities. His success resulted from the bond between him and his loving trainer, whose secret was showering Sharkey with kindness. This presentation will offer many surprises and laughs along with lots of show business history.

Friday, May 29, 4:00 PM. THE GIRL WHO WORE FREEDOM. A documentary telling the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women, and children who lived through German occupation and Allied liberation of Normandy, France. Film runs 1 hr 29 minutes. Unrated. Free admission. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main Street, Rosendale, NY. Reserve tickets in advance at www.rosendaletheatre.org/movies/the-girl-who-wore-freedom/ There will a drawing to award a 14 to 18-year old student a $500 scholarship for attending and participating!

Celebrate the 200th birthday of artist Frederic Church with the premiere screening of WMHT Public Media’s new documentary Language in Landscape: The Art of Frederic Church. Through rare archival materials and exclusive interviews with leading experts, discover Church’s most iconic paintings, and see how his legacy continues to shape our current understanding of art, nature, and landscape. Explore Olana, Church’s greatest masterwork and a living work of art where ongoing efforts are restoring Church’s original intent and design.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with Sean Sawyer, President of The Olana Partnership; Elizabeth Kornhauser, Senior Curator for the Frederic Church Bicentennial Committee and Curator Emerita at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Victoria Johnson, author of the new Frederic Church biography, Glorious Country: How Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World (2026), moderated by director Catherine Rafferty.

An evening featuring film excerpts of One Little Goat Theatre's FINNEGANS WAKE project, plus a performance of Joyce songs by John Cage.

A special event, just in time for Bloomsday, the annual celebration of James Joyce! . . .

Since 2023, ”Toronto’s enterprising One Little Goat Theatre Company" (The New York Times) has been filming all 17 chapters (30 Hours) of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake before live audiences in various cities and locations, screening and releasing each chapter as completed, marking this as the first "audio-video book" of Joyce’s extraordinary novel. They will complete the film project in time for the 90th anniversary of the book’s publication, May 4, 2029.
John Cage loved Finnegans Wake and created multiple works engaging with it, from what became a beloved staple of the Cunningham Dance Company, Roaratorio, to his several “writings through” of Finnegans Wake performance texts, to individual songs.

The John Cage Trust invites you to an evening at Time & Space Limited featuring excerpts from the first five filmed chapters of One Little Goat Theatre’s monumental Finnegans Wake project, presented by Director Adam Seelig and featuring virtuousic peformances by Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte. Intended to be heard as much as read, Joyce’s 628-page novel is essentially impossible to read, and yet Dublin-born actor Richard Harte has a remarkable knack for it. The evening will also include a performance of a set of John Cage songs related to Finnegans Wake, performed by soprano Jaclyn Hopping, accompanied by John Cage Trust Executive Director Jeffrey Lependorf, who will also join Adam Seelig in conversation.

Finnegans Wake (1939) is that very incomprehensibility that anyone can understand because Joyce’s notoriously gnarly dream-novel is oddly, absurdly, obsessively funny. It is, in short, a comedy, a comedy that, in Joyce’s words, “is all so simple. If anyone doesn’t understand a passage, all [they] need do is read it aloud.

FERRIS 40: Celebrating the iconic 80’s film FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF exactly 40-years since everyone’s favorite intellectual slacker broke the fourth wall.
Preceded by the short film OH YEAH! Plus Q&A with Director Nick Canfield

Additionally:

Twist & Shout 80’s Dance Party

Day Off Costume Contest

Themed Drinks + Food

Following its World Premiere at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival (where it received the Editing Award), BARBARA FOREVER is an expansive, immersive exploration of the life, work, and ongoing cultural impact of iconic lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer – a pioneering artist who lived boldly, created urgently, and transformed cinema through her singular vision.
Join us after for a post-screening discussion with Hammer’s protégé, Joey Carducci.

CLASSIC 1970S SCI-FI HORROR DOUBLE FEATURE!
Plus!!!
Your evening Horror Host- THE MONSTER!

Doors: 6:00pm
Classic Sci-Fi/Horror Clip Show Start: 6:30pm
Film Start: 7:00pm

COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT (1970)
The horrifying first film to depict what might happen if AI is allowed to control man's destiny.

Dr. Charles Forbin (Eric Braeden) and his team have built a supercomputer buried deep inside a mountain intended as the perfect defense against nuclear attack.

Of course, all goes well until.........

An outstanding Sci-Fi classic that's as relevant today as it was in 1970!

THE SENTINEL (1977)
Brooklyn is the setting where fashion model Alison Parker (Cristina Raines) moves into an old brownstone that's occupied by a bizarre group of tenants. Terror follows as Cristina slowly learns the truth about the mysterious occupants all around her!

And what about the blind priest on the top floor who stares out the window 24 hours a day?!?

One of the best loved horror films of the 1970s!

Come by for the fun with BIG SOUND on the BIG SCREEN!