North Sun Book Launch Party at Real Art Ways

Join us on Friday, March 14, 6:30 pm for a conversation with author Ethan Rutherford to celebrate the launch of his new book, North Sun, or the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther.  “NORTH SUN is a deeply wonderful, strange and magnificent book. I swam through its unique pages with glee and horror and joy and came up for air gasping at what a deeply brilliant writer Ethan Rutherford is. The novel is completely exhilarating.”- Edward Carey, author of Little, The Swallowed Man, and…

The series takes place in person on the second Wednesday of the month from September 2024 through May 2025. Each night typically begins with a poetry reading featuring regionally or nationally known poets, followed by an open mic featuring readers with one poem (one page). On Wednesday, March 12, at 7 PM, Riverwood Poetry Series @ Real Art Ways will host Julie Choffel and Richard Michelson. Authors’ books will be available to buy for book signing and conversation. Food and drinks…

This screening is part of the Phyllis Hoffman Hartford Jewish Film Festival. Post-screening, there will be a “Reel Talk” with Elan Golod (Director/Editor), Rachel Spiegel Gerstein (Wadsworth Art Historian and Director of Jewish Arts & Culture Research Project), and Rhonda Heisler (Mosaic Fine Artist and Phyllis Hoffman Hartford Jewish Film Festival Committee Member).  Sunday, March 9 I 3:00 PM $15 General Admission (not including fees) Please purchase your tickets through the Mandell JCC of Greater Hartford website. Advance tickets: https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/mandelljcc/2172/event/1408572 This event…

“Reflections run through “Flow”, but none more so than the image of ourselves gazing back at it.” – Associated Press “This lovely, gorgeously rendered and unforgettable feature is Latvia’s official entry for next year’s best international film Oscar.” – Boston Globe “This is a wonderful film for children, its example of the give and take of friendship and the importance of mutual trust embedded organically in the narrative with clarity but without over-emphasis. It’s no less a film for adults…”…

Winner of Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, Best Editing, and Best Actress (Mikey Madison) at the 97th Academy Awards! We are bringing this film back into our cinema for a limited time – it will play every night through Thursday, March 13th. — “Altogether, Anora is a visceral experience, making its audience not voyeurs but one of the crew. Thus embedded, our pulses race, our eyes grow wide, our hearts dance as our heroes do. Anora offers a…

“…this ability to try on a new identity — something the movie shows him defending — is probably what’s made him endure for so long. With Dylan, you never quite know what you’re getting, and he is in on the trick.” – NYT New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives in the West Village with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course…

“For my money, one of the best things you can do this season is to run to see the French director Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance while it is still playing on the big screen.” – The New Yorker “Extraordinary… This is daring and stylish.” – FilmWeek (KPCC/NPR Los Angeles) “Demi Moore seizes the role of her lifetime as a movie star turned fitness guru who gets axed for committing the cardinal sin of aging. You’ve never seen anything like the…

“Conclave dares to dream of a kinder, bigger, and more inclusive version of the world—a world where doubt and faith go hand in hand, where one doesn’t have to choose between bad and worse, and absolutism is a sin.” – AV Club “…sophisticated and sharply enthralling thriller.” – Mashable “Conclave, adapted from the popular novel by Robert Harris, demonstrates Berger’s versatility and also offers one of the best roles of his career to Ralph Fiennes, who is supported by an…

  “Robert Carl’s music, to my ear at least, has always felt like the work of a particularly sensitive sonic observer of the world. Originally a student of history before he refocused his efforts into music, his interest in time, memory, and space are veins running through his compositions, his work more given to conjuring imagery than narrative plot. And whether inspiration is mined in the wake of a seascape or travelers on a speeding bullet train, the resulting music…

Join us on Saturday, February 22, 4:00 pm for a conversation with author Kent Dunlap to celebrate the launch of his new book, The Neck: A Natural and Cultural History.  “Attitude and attention, thought and speech, movement and sensation, air and sustenance, they all depend on the neck….Mr. Dunlap’s fascinating discourse travels through anatomy, paleontology, anthropology, the arts, the zoo, museums, medicine, murder and more.” – WSJ A 300-million-year tour of the prominent role of the neck in animal evolution and human culture.…