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 21st we’ll be watching Pavel Chukhrai’s 1997 Russian film: The Thief (94m)! “In 1946, a soldier fathers a child then dies before its birth. Jump to 1952: on a train, the child and his mother meet a handsome soldier who makes a play for her. She accepts. Posing as a married family, the soldier finds them a place to stay where he becomes everyone’s favorite through his good looks and generosity. Meanwhile the widowed Russian with a young son falls for a soldier who turns out to have another identity.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs7FGGvRQYU
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!
February 14th we’ll be celebrating love with Mira Nair’s 2002 Indian film: Monsoon Wedding (1h55m)! “A BAFTA-winning film about a father, Lalit Verma, trying to marry off his daughter, Aditi, in the traditional manner. Aditi is having second thoughts, while her cousin Ayesha Verma, 17, is just beginning to realize she’s attractive to boys, and her other cousin, Ria, has a shocking revelation ready. Her brother, however, just wants to dance.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjQjw-UyAX0
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 7th we’ll be watching Ang Lee’s 2000 Chinese film: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (120m)! “In 19th century Qing Dynasty China, a warrior (Chow Yun-Fat) gives his sword, Green Destiny, to his lover (Michelle Yeoh) to deliver to safe keeping, but it is stolen, and the chase is on to find it. The search leads to the House of Yu where the story takes on a whole different level.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr6KyDfmWic
The movie starts at 7PM sharp; B.Y.O. snacks/drinks!
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 Michael Hettich, who’s most recent book of poetry, The Halo of Bees: New and Selected Poems, 1990-2022 won the 2024 Brockman-Campbell Book Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in many journals and anthologies, and he has published more than a dozen books of poetry across four decades. His other honors include several Individual Artist Fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, The Tampa Review Prize in Poetry, the David Martinson/Meadowhawk Prize, a Florida Book Award, the Lena M. Shull Book Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society, and the inaugural Hudson-Fowler Prize from Slant magazine at the University of Central Arkansas. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Miami and taught for many years at Miami Dade College where he was awarded an Endowed Teaching Chair. A new book, And the Poet Said… was published in 2024.
(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 during the open mic portion of our evening, then occasionally a local poet will close out our night with a featured reading!
[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 E. Poston, author of three poetry collections, including Postmodern Bourgeois Poetaster Blues, which won the North Carolina Writers’ Network’s Randall Jarrell Chapbook Competition. His poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in Broad River Review, Pedestal, Cider Press Review, Pembroke, and NC Literary Review, among others. A former Kakalak editor, he has a new poetry collection, Letting Go, forthcoming from Fernwood Press in fall 2025.
(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 Tim Peeler: a retired educator from Western North Carolina who has written twenty-two books of poetry, short stories, and regional history. He has twice been a finalist for the Casey Award for baseball book of the year, and five of his books are housed in the library at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. Most recently he has collaborated with the Appalachian photographer Clayton Young on books that combine verse narratives and rural images.
(Email Ivy at [email protected] if you’d like to be a featured poet.)
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.