Now Showing at Your Library!

A free monthly screening series of popular PBS films made possible through a partnership with Arizona Public Media.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

6:00pm - 7:45pm

Joel D. Valdez Main Library

Today's Now Showing at your Library film:

Here's your chance to watch and discuss the film The Eyes of Me by Keith Maitland at a Community Cinema screening event.

How do you see yourself, when you can't see at all? At the Texas School for the Blind students juggle all the usual pressures of high school along with the added struggles of growing up blind. Spend a dynamic year with four blind teens learning how to fit in and live independently. Forced to confront the world without sight, they share their inner-visions of the outer world. Ultimately, you cannot understand their perceptions without challenging your own.

Additional information:

This one hour free screening will be followed by a half hour moderated discussion. There will be 18 assisted listening headsets available for listening to an audio description of the film. First come, first serve. This event is in partnership with Arizona Public Media and Community Cinema which features films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. For more information call 791-4010.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

9:00am - 11:00am

Quincie Douglas Branch Library

Today's Now Showing at your Library film:

Here's your chance to watch and discuss the film The Eyes of Me by Keith Maitland at a Community Cinema screening event.

How do you see yourself, when you can't see at all? At the Texas School for the Blind students juggle all the usual pressures of high school along with the added struggles of growing up blind. Spend a dynamic year with four blind teens learning how to fit in and live independently. Forced to confront the world without sight, they share their inner-visions of the outer world. Ultimately, you cannot understand their perceptions without challenging your own.

Additional information:

This one hour free screening will be followed by a half hour moderated discussion. This event is in partnership with Arizona Public Media and Community Cinema which features films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. For more information call 791-4010.

Friday, February 19, 2010

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Miller-Golf Links Branch Library

Today's Now Showing at your Library film:

Here's your chance to watch and discuss the film The Eyes of Me by Keith Maitland at a Community Cinema screening event.

How do you see yourself, when you can't see at all? At the Texas School for the Blind students juggle all the usual pressures of high school along with the added struggles of growing up blind. Spend a dynamic year with four blind teens learning how to fit in and live independently. Forced to confront the world without sight, they share their inner-visions of the outer world. Ultimately, you cannot understand their perceptions without challenging your own.

Additional information:

This one hour free screening will be followed by a half hour moderated discussion. This event is in partnership with Arizona Public Media and Community Cinema which features films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. For more information call 791-4010.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Valencia Branch Library

Today's Now Showing at your Library film:

Here's your chance to watch and discuss the film The Eyes of Me by Keith Maitland at a Community Cinema screening event.

How do you see yourself, when you can't see at all? At the Texas School for the Blind students juggle all the usual pressures of high school along with the added struggles of growing up blind. Spend a dynamic year with four blind teens learning how to fit in and live independently. Forced to confront the world without sight, they share their inner-visions of the outer world. Ultimately, you cannot understand their perceptions without challenging your own.

Additional information:

This one hour free screening will be followed by a half hour moderated discussion. This event is in partnership with Arizona Public Media and Community Cinema which features films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. For more information call 791-4010.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

6:00pm - 7:45pm

Joel D. Valdez Main Library

Today's Now Showing at your Library film:

Here's your chance to watch and discuss the film Dirt! The Movie by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow at a Community Cinema screening event.

It's under our feet and under our fingernails, but what is it? And how did it get there? Inspired by William Bryant Logan's acclaimed book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, find out how industrial farming, mining and urban development have led us toward cataclysmic droughts, starvation, floods and climate change. Dirt is a part of everything we eat, drink and breathe. Which is why we should stop treating it like, well…dirt.

Additional information:

This one hour free screening will be followed by a half hour moderated discussion. This event is in partnership with Arizona Public Media and Community Cinema which features films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. For more information call 791-4010.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

9:00am - 11:00am

Quincie Douglas Branch Library

Today's Now Showing at your Library film:

Here's your chance to watch and discuss the film Dirt! The Movie by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow at a Community Cinema screening event.

It's under our feet and under our fingernails, but what is it? And how did it get there? Inspired by William Bryant Logan's acclaimed book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, find out how industrial farming, mining and urban development have led us toward cataclysmic droughts, starvation, floods and climate change. Dirt is a part of everything we eat, drink and breathe. Which is why we should stop treating it like, well…dirt.

Additional information:

This one hour free screening will be followed by a half hour moderated discussion. This event is in partnership with Arizona Public Media and Community Cinema which features films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. For more information call 791-4010.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Valencia Branch Library

Today's Now Showing at your Library film:

Here's your chance to watch and discuss the film Dirt! The Movie by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow at a Community Cinema screening event.

It's under our feet and under our fingernails, but what is it? And how did it get there? Inspired by William Bryant Logan's acclaimed book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, find out how industrial farming, mining and urban development have led us toward cataclysmic droughts, starvation, floods and climate change. Dirt is a part of everything we eat, drink and breathe. Which is why we should stop treating it like, well…dirt.

Additional information:

This one hour free screening will be followed by a half hour moderated discussion. This event is in partnership with Arizona Public Media and Community Cinema which features films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. For more information call 791-4010.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

1:00pm - 3:00pm

Himmel Park Branch Library

Today's Now Showing at your Library film:

Here's your chance to watch and discuss the PBS' P.O.V. award-winning independent non-fiction film Lomax the Songhunter by Rogier Kappers.

Alan Lomax, son of pioneer musicologist and folklorist John Lomax, loved folk music, the musical culture of the poor people of this world. He, like his father, feared that the encroachment of modern popular music, written and recorded by professionals, would overwhelm and destroy the beautiful old, traditional music which had been passed from mouth to ear from generation to generation. Many of the folk musicians were elderly and the last of their kind. As his father had done for American folk music, Dutchman Rogier Kappers' documentary tells of Alan's determined efforts to preserve the folk songs of Scotland, Spain, Italy, and other regions of the world before they slipped away to be lost forever in the mists of time.

Additional information:

This screening will be followed by a moderated discussion beginning at approximately 2:15pm. This event is a collaboration with P.O.V., PBS' award-winning nonfiction film series and in partnership with Arizona Public Media.

Friday, March 19, 2010

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Miller-Golf Links Branch Library

Today's Now Showing at your Library film:

Here's your chance to watch and discuss the film Dirt! The Movie by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow at a Community Cinema screening event.

It's under our feet and under our fingernails, but what is it? And how did it get there? Inspired by William Bryant Logan's acclaimed book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, find out how industrial farming, mining and urban development have led us toward cataclysmic droughts, starvation, floods and climate change. Dirt is a part of everything we eat, drink and breathe. Which is why we should stop treating it like, well…dirt.

Additional information:

This one hour free screening will be followed by a half hour moderated discussion. This event is in partnership with Arizona Public Media and Community Cinema which features films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. For more information call 791-4010.

Friday, April 9, 2010

9:00am - 11:00am

Quincie Douglas Branch Library

Today's Now Showing at your Library film:

Here's your chance to watch and discuss the film The Horse Boy by Michel Orion Scott at a Community Cinema screening event.

How far would you travel to heal someone you love? For one Texas couple, it means a spiritual journey halfway around the world to Mongolia. When their son is diagnosed with autism, they seek the best treatments but nothing works… Until they discover their son's connection to horses and the effect it has on him. Part travel adventure and shamanic quest, this is the story of how one family found a gateway into understanding their son's life.

Additional information:

This one hour free screening will be followed by a half hour moderated discussion. This event is in partnership with Arizona Public Media and Community Cinema which features films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. For more information call 791-4010.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

6:00pm - 7:45pm

Joel D. Valdez Main Library

Today's Now Showing at your Library film:

Here's your chance to watch and discuss the film The Horse Boy by Michel Orion Scott at a Community Cinema screening event.

How far would you travel to heal someone you love? For one Texas couple, it means a spiritual journey halfway around the world to Mongolia. When their son is diagnosed with autism, they seek the best treatments but nothing works… Until they discover their son's connection to horses and the effect it has on him. Part travel adventure and shamanic quest, this is the story of how one family found a gateway into understanding their son's life.

Additional information:

This one hour free screening will be followed by a half hour moderated discussion. This event is in partnership with Arizona Public Media and Community Cinema which features films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. For more information call 791-4010.

Friday, April 16, 2010

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Miller-Golf Links Branch Library

Today's Now Showing at your Library film:

Here's your chance to watch and discuss the film The Horse Boy by Michel Orion Scott at a Community Cinema screening event.

How far would you travel to heal someone you love? For one Texas couple, it means a spiritual journey halfway around the world to Mongolia. When their son is diagnosed with autism, they seek the best treatments but nothing works… Until they discover their son's connection to horses and the effect it has on him. Part travel adventure and shamanic quest, this is the story of how one family found a gateway into understanding their son's life.

Additional information:

This one hour free screening will be followed by a half hour moderated discussion. This event is in partnership with Arizona Public Media and Community Cinema which features films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. For more information call 791-4010.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Valencia Branch Library

Today's Now Showing at your Library film:

Here's your chance to watch and discuss the film The Horse Boy by Michel Orion Scott at a Community Cinema screening event.

How far would you travel to heal someone you love? For one Texas couple, it means a spiritual journey halfway around the world to Mongolia. When their son is diagnosed with autism, they seek the best treatments but nothing works… Until they discover their son's connection to horses and the effect it has on him. Part travel adventure and shamanic quest, this is the story of how one family found a gateway into understanding their son's life.

Additional information:

This one hour free screening will be followed by a half hour moderated discussion. This event is in partnership with Arizona Public Media and Community Cinema which features films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. For more information call 791-4010.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

6:00pm - 7:45pm

Joel D. Valdez Main Library

Today's Now Showing at your Library film:

Here's your chance to watch and discuss the film A Village Called Versailles by S. Leo Chiang at a Community Cinema screening event.

Welcome to Versailles, New Orleans—home to the densest ethnic Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam. For over 30 years, its residents lived a quiet existence on the edge of New Orleans. But then came Hurricane Katrina, the immense garbage piles and the shocking discovery of a toxic landfill planned in their neighborhood. Watch as they fight back, turning a devastating disaster into a catalyst for change and a chance to build a better future.

Additional information:

This one hour free screening will be followed by a half hour moderated discussion. This event is in partnership with Arizona Public Media and Community Cinema which features films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. For more information call 791-4010.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

9:00am - 11:00am

Quincie Douglas Branch Library

Today's Now Showing at your Library film:

Here's your chance to watch and discuss the film A Village Called Versailles by S. Leo Chiang at a Community Cinema screening event.

Welcome to Versailles, New Orleans—home to the densest ethnic Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam. For over 30 years, its residents lived a quiet existence on the edge of New Orleans. But then came Hurricane Katrina, the immense garbage piles and the shocking discovery of a toxic landfill planned in their neighborhood. Watch as they fight back, turning a devastating disaster into a catalyst for change and a chance to build a better future.

Additional information:

This one hour free screening will be followed by a half hour moderated discussion. This event is in partnership with Arizona Public Media and Community Cinema which features films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. For more information call 791-4010.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Valencia Branch Library

Today's Now Showing at your Library film:

Here's your chance to watch and discuss the film A Village Called Versailles by S. Leo Chiang at a Community Cinema screening event.

Welcome to Versailles, New Orleans—home to the densest ethnic Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam. For over 30 years, its residents lived a quiet existence on the edge of New Orleans. But then came Hurricane Katrina, the immense garbage piles and the shocking discovery of a toxic landfill planned in their neighborhood. Watch as they fight back, turning a devastating disaster into a catalyst for change and a chance to build a better future.

Additional information:

This one hour free screening will be followed by a half hour moderated discussion. This event is in partnership with Arizona Public Media and Community Cinema which features films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. For more information call 791-4010.

Friday, May 21, 2010

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Miller-Golf Links Branch Library

Today's Now Showing at your Library film:

Here's your chance to watch and discuss the film A Village Called Versailles by S. Leo Chiang at a Community Cinema screening event.

Welcome to Versailles, New Orleans—home to the densest ethnic Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam. For over 30 years, its residents lived a quiet existence on the edge of New Orleans. But then came Hurricane Katrina, the immense garbage piles and the shocking discovery of a toxic landfill planned in their neighborhood. Watch as they fight back, turning a devastating disaster into a catalyst for change and a chance to build a better future.

Additional information:

This one hour free screening will be followed by a half hour moderated discussion. This event is in partnership with Arizona Public Media and Community Cinema which features films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. For more information call 791-4010.