Attend: Music & Film

  • Film: “Sin Nombre”

    May 20, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Seeking the promise of America, a beautiful young Honduran woman joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to the United States. Along the way, she crosses paths with a Mexican gang member who is trying to outrun his violent past and elude his former associates. Together they must rely on faith, trust and street smarts if they are to...

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  • Film: “La Lengua de las Mariposas”

    May 28, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Set in 1936, this touching story of the power of friendship explores the relationship between a shy young boy and a compassionate teacher who helps him find his way in an increasingly frightening world. Their lives unexpectedly change when the Spanish Civil War breaks out. In Spanish with English subtitles. Part of the Spanish film...

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  • Listen Local

    June 2, 2013 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Join us for an afternoon of acoustic music by local musicians performing both originals and cover songs. Featured musicians include vocalist Helen O'Shea accompanied by Ed Hermann and Jeff Friedman along with the band Morph the Cat.

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  • “Downton Abbey” Tea Time

    June 4, 2013 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Join us for tea and two episodes of “Downton Abbey,” the acclaimed British period drama about the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants who live in the fictional Yorkshire country estate. The series has played for three seasons as part of “Masterpiece Classic” on PBS. This event will continue weekly...

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  • McCarter Live at the Library with Stewart Goodyear and Scott Burnham

    June 4, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Goodyear, the Canadian pianist who will perform all 32 of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas at McCarter Theatre on June 22 during the course of three concerts; and Burnham, Princeton University Scheide Professor of Music, author and Beethoven scholar, discuss their respective interest in Beethoven, his life and music, with emphasis on the...

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  • Film: “Set for Life”

    June 5, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Director Susan Sipprelle conducts a Q&A session following the screening of her award-winning documentary.  Based on the “Over Fifty and Out of Work” video project she conducted with filmmaker Sam Newman, the film follows three Baby Boomers who lose their jobs during the recession and find their futures are no longer...

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  • Piano and Cello Student Concert

    June 9, 2013 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Advanced and intermediate piano and cello students ages 6-17 years old will perform. Community Room

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  • “Downton Abbey” Tea Time

    June 11, 2013 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Join us for tea and two episodes of “Downton Abbey,” the acclaimed British period drama about the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants who live in the fictional Yorkshire country estate. The series has played for three seasons as part of “Masterpiece Classic” on PBS. This event will continue weekly...

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  • Film: “Shored Up”

    June 12, 2013 - 6:30pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Garden Theatre, Nassau Street

    The screening of this documentary, an urgent call to action in the face of the accelerating rise in sea level, is a special event of the Princeton Environmental Film Festival. Set in Long Beach Island and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the film explores the political conflicts and personal stakes of communities along the shore....

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  • Princeton Festival Preview

    June 13, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    A preview of The Princeton Festival’s production of Wagner’s “Der fliegende Hollander”  (“The Flying Dutchman”) includes scenes from the opera and a discussion with the artistic team. Community Room

    Co-sponsored by the library and The Princeton Festival.

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