Author Book Signing: Julia Nunnally Duncan
World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
February 28th we’ll be watching Alain Resnais’s 1960 French/German film: Last Year at Marienbad (94m)! “In this unconventional French drama, a group of unnamed aristocrats interact at a palatial château, resulting in an enigmatic tale told partially in flashback. X (Giorgio Albertazzi) is convinced that he has met the beautiful A (Delphine Seyrig) before in the Czech resort town of Marienbad, and implies they had a romantic relationship. M (Sacha Pitoeff), who may be A’s husband or boyfriend, confronts her mysterious suitor, leading to conflict and questions about the truth behind his story.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Tvl1Fuxt8
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!
True Home Open Mic
Join us every Thursday from 6:30pm – 8:30pm for music, poetry, comedy and stories performed by our favorite local artists! Feel free to bring your own food/drinks or anything you’d like to share!
Sign up begins at 6pm, show begins at 6:30pm. Each performer will have twelve minutes, and the show is always livestreamed on our Facebook account.
Flooded Poetry
Every Monday Ivy Rozen, Senior Editor of The Black Mountain Press, will host a poetry-specific open mic from 6:30pm-9pm. Each poet will be able to share 2-3 poems, and and then we’ll close out the evening with a special reading from Mary Arnold: a writer of haiku, haibun and senryu. She is particularly drawn to the openness of these forms of poetry, the breathing room they offer to the reader. In addition to being a poet, Mary works as an administrator for a Head Start program in Asheville. She is a novice, but enthusiastic player of the ukulele and enjoys living in beautiful western North Carolina with Beckett, her husband, and Trixie, their canine companion. One of her poems is currently under consideration for a 2024 Touchstone Award.
(Email Ivy at [email protected] if you’d like to be a featured poet.)
Flooded Poetry
Every Monday Ivy Rozen, Senior Editor of The Black Mountain Press, will host a poetry-specific open mic from 6:30pm-9pm. Each poet will be able to share 2-3 poems, and then we’ll close out the evening with a special reading from Luke Hankins: the author of several poetry collections, a collection of essays, and a volume of translations, and is the editor or co-editor of several anthologies. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, EuropeNow, Image, New England Review, Pleiades, Poetry International, 32 Poems, Verse, World Literature Today, and The Writer’s Chronicle, as well as on the American Public Media radio program “On Being”. He is the founder and editor of Orison Books, a non-profit literary press focused on the life of the spirit from a broad and inclusive range of perspectives, and is the director of UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program.
(Email Ivy at [email protected] if you’d like to be a featured poet.)
Flooded Poetry
Every Monday, Ivy Rozen, Senior Editor of The Black Mountain Press, will host a poetry-specific open mic from 6:30pm-9pm. Each poet will be able to share 2-3 poems, and then we’ll close out the evening with a special reading from David Hopes, a Professor Emeritus of English at UNCA who has participated in the literary, theatrical, and musical life of Asheville since 1983. His latest book of poetry, The Ones with Difficult Names, is available from Amazon and, probably, here tonight. His novel The Falls of the Wyona is a winner of Red Hen’s Quill Prize for queer fiction. His play, Washington Place, will be produced (for the 3rd time locally) at HART in Waynesville this October. Despite advanced age and decrepitude, he continues to write and paint at a ferocious pace.
(Email Ivy at [email protected] if you’d like to be a featured poet.)
World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
March 21st we’ll be watching Francois Truffaut’s 1959 French film, The 400 Blows (99m): “For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents (Claire Maurier, Albert Remy), Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene (Patrick Auffray), trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAVOlu8WP1Q
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!
World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
March 14th we’ll be watching Federico Fellini’s 1972 Italian film: Roma (1h59m)! “As a young man, Fellini (Peter Gonzales) leaves his small Italian town to go to the big city of Rome, live in a boarding house and cavort with the natives in the 1930s and ’40s. In an alternating storyline, the older Fellini (Federico Fellini) goes back to make a movie about Rome, filming things like traffic jams at the Colosseum and the subway system, which hides underground crypts. By inter-cutting this footage, Fellini the director draws comparisons to the old Rome and the new. ” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-83XJB9mr0
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!
World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays DOUBLE FEATURE
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
February 7th we’ll be watching a French double feature! First, we’ll watch Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 film The Red Balloon (34m), which elegantly captures the adventures of a boy who befriends a seemingly sentient balloon and follows it through the streets of Paris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DU9SFT5B6I Then, we’ll watch Chris Marker’s 1962 La Jetée (27m), a science fiction film constructed almost entirely from still photos that tells the stable time loop story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WstrUci5Fbg
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!
World Cinema: Foreign Film Fridays
Every Friday we’ll be having a cozy movie night in the gallery featuring some amazing foreign films curated by our very own film-buff Carlos Steward!
March 28th we’ll be watching Joshua Marston’s 2004 Ecuadorian film Maria Full of Grace (101m): “Seventeen-year-old Colombian Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno) is desperate: pregnant and with a large family to care for, she’s forced to leave a demanding job after an altercation with her boss. Needing work as soon as possible, she encounters charming Franklin (John Álex Toro), who offers her a dangerous job as a drug mule. With cocaine pellets in her stomach, Maria flies to New York for the drug drop-off, but finds her new line of work may be far riskier than it initially seemed.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkdFcCtrFzI
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!