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!
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!
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 the evening, and then we’ll close out the evening with a special reading from Scott Owens: author of 22 collections of poetry, most recently eventually, a collection of haiku illustrated by Missy Cleveland, and An Augury of Birds, with photos by Clayton Joe Young. Lenard Moore, past president of the Haiku Society of America, says “eventually will whisper like wind at our ears until we take it with us.” Dave Russo, founding member of The Haiku Federation, notes that the book “refreshes our sense of the extraordinary in the ordinary.” Owens is recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, the Next Generation/Indie Lit Awards, the NC Writers Network, the NC Poetry Society, and the Poetry Society of SC. His poems have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac eight times, and his articles about writing poetry have been used in Poet’s Market four times. He has twice been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and to be NC Poet Laureate. Owens holds degrees from Ohio University, UNC Charlotte, and UNC Greensboro. He is Professor of Poetry at Lenoir Rhyne University, and former editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review and Southern Poetry Review. He owns and operates Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse and Gallery and coordinates Poetry Hickory in Hickory, NC.
[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.)