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Thursday, May 7th at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room

Join us for a special screening of From Here To Eternity. Enjoy Frank Sinatra in this classic film on our big movie screen. All are welcome at this free event.

Monday, May 4th at 6:00 p.m. in the Community Room

All teens in grades 6-12 are welcome to attend our evening of anime watching and dancing foolishness! The feature of the evening will be The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Please register in person, online, or by phone at (203)265-6754.

Friday, April 24th at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room

Winner of 8 Oscars, this is an absolute must-see! Danny Boyle directed this wildly energetic Dickensian drama about the desultory life and times of an Indian boy whose bleak formative experiences lead to an appearance on his country's version of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?

Refreshments will be served. Rated: R

Tuesday, May 5th at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room

What is the nature of guilt--and how can the human spirit survive when confronted with deep and horrifying truths? The Reader, a hushed and haunting meditation on these knotty questions, is sorrowful and shocking, yet leavened by a deep love story that is its heart. In postwar Germany, young schoolboy Michael meets and begins a tender romance with the older, mysterious Hanna. Years later, the two cross paths again, and Michael learns, slowly, horrifyingly, of acts that Hanna may have been involved in during the war. There is a war crimes trial, and the accused at one point asks the panel of prosecutors: "Well, what would you have done?" It is that question--as one German professor says later: "How can the next generation of Germans come to terms with the Holocaust?"--that is both heartbreaking and unanswerable.

Discussion to follow movie. Refreshments will be served. Rated: R

Wednesday, April 22nd at 7:00 p.m. in the Collins Room

Kamishibai is a special form of Japanese storytelling told through art. Dianne Clouet is an elementary school teacher from Vermont, who will introduce this very special art form to elementary school students. Come and join us at the library for an evening of Japanese storytelling. This program is for kids in grades K-5.

To register for this program stop by or call the Children's Library at (203)284-6436.