Sunday, Feb. 1, 2 PM – Family Movie Matinee: Kung Fu Panda Rated PG, 92 minutes (2008). Directed by Mark Osborne and John Stevenson. Featuring: Jack Black, Jackie Chan, and Angelina Jolie.
Po is a lazy, irreverent slacker panda who is a fan of Kung Fu but that doesn’t help his boredom at working in his family’s noodle shop. Unexpectedly chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy, Po’s dreams become reality when he comes under the leadership of Kung Fu guru Shifu and trains to hilarious result. Po must use his training to fight the treacherous snow leopard Tai Lung in this animated adventure.
Monday, Feb. 2, 7 PM – Page to Stage: A Sneak Peek at the 2009 Signature in the School’s Production of Joe Calarco’s AFTERSHOCK.
Director Marcia Gardner hosts a discussion with this year’s cast of Aftershock written by director and playwright Joe Calarco. The cast of Wakefield and Yorktown High School students, joined by guest artist Michael Grew, will perform a scene from the show.
Tuesday Feb. 3, 7 PM – Shirlington Screens: Films of Spike Lee
Crooklyn (1994) Rated PG-13, 114 minutes. Featuring: Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, and Zelda Harris.
From Spike Lee comes this semi-autobiographical look at life in a Brooklyn family during the 1970s. A loving but careworn mother (Alfre Woodard) struggles to make ends meet and make a home for her unemployed musician husband and their five children.
Thursday, Feb. 5, 1 PM – Shirlington Screens: Films of Spike Lee, Jungle Fever (1991) Rated R, 132 minutes. Featuring: Wesley Snipes and Annabella Sciorra.
This contemporary love story deals with the harsh realities of interracial relationships. When a successful black architect (Wesley Snipes) has an affair with his white secretary (Annabella Sciorra), the couple finds that they are forced to confront some hard truths about how their families and friends deal with their love.
Friday, Feb. 6, 2PM – Intro to Firefox
Saturday, Feb. 7, 3 PM – Musical Performance: PS24. PS24 is the Alternative/Folk Hop Trio comprised of musicians Psalmayene 24, Waldo Robertson and Jali-D. Their music is a fusion of Hip-Hop and Folk with a unique urban/world flavor.
Sunday, Feb. 8, 3 PM- Author Talk and Roundtable Discussion about Hubert Harrison.
Jeffrey B. Perry, Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918
The Author Talk will be followed by a panel discussion about Harrison’s life and importance. Panelists including E. Ethelbert Miller, Board Chair, Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and author of The Fifth Inning (forthcoming), Bill Fletcher Jr., Co-author of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice, and Joyce Moore Turner, editor with W. Burghardt Turner of Richard B. Moore: Caribbean Militant in Harlem and author of Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance. A book signing will follow at Busboys and Poets.
As an intellectual, Harrison was an unrivaled soapbox orator, a featured lecturer for the New York City Board of Education’s prestigious “Trend of the Times” series, a prolific and influential writer, and, reportedly, the first Black person to write regularly published book reviews in history. Harlem-based writer, orator, educator, critic, and radical political activist was described by the activist A. Philip Randolph as “the father of Harlem radicalism” and by the historian Joel Augustus Rogers as “the foremost Afro-American intellect of his time.
Monday, Feb. 9, 7 PM – Monday Night Musicals: Funny Face (1957) Not rated, 103 minutes. Directed by Stanley Donen. Featuring: Fred Astaire, and Audrey Hepburn.
Funny Face is a stylish musical about Paris, the world of high fashion photographers, models, beatniks, and love. Filmed on location, with dance sequences at the Eiffel Tower and the Left Bank, this delightful film includes songs by Ira and George Gershwin.
Wednesday, Feb. 11, 7 PM – Featured Film: Killer of Sheep (1977). Not rated, 83 minutes. Directed by Charles Burnett.
Killer of Sheep examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse. The Chicago Tribune has called Burnett “one of America’s very best filmmakers” and the New York Times named him “the nation’s least-known great filmmaker and most gifted black director.”
Saturday, Feb. 14, 2 PM – Computer Class: Intro to Email
Sunday, Feb. 15 – Author Talk: Che Joplin, I am Hip-Hop I am Health. This health book focuses on providing a voice for the Global Hip-Hop Communities on health awareness and prevention. It was written to educate the older hip hop generations (old school and the golden age) and the new hip hop generation about the health disparities plaguing our communities in a non-partisan, cross-culturally informative and entertaining way.
Monday, February 16, The Shirlington Library will be closed on for Presidents Day
Tuesday, Feb. 17, 7 PM – Shirlington Screens: Films of Spike Lee, The Inside Man (2006). Rated R, 129 minutes. Featuring: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, and Willem Dafoe.
Tough cop Detective Frazier matches wits with a clever bank robber Dalton in a tense hostage drama. Dalton is calling the shots in this dangerous cat and mouse game but a wild card emerges. Madeliene is a power broker with a hidden agenda who brings even more instability into an already volatile situation.
Thursday, Feb. 19 – Shirlington Screens: Films of Spike Lee, Malcolm X (1992). Rated PG-13, 201 minutes. Featuring: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall,
Al Freeman Jr., Delroy Lindo, and Spike Lee.
The fascinating look at the life of the visionary black leader, vividly brought to the screen by premier filmmaker, Spike Lee. Controversial and critically-acclaimed, MALCOLM X, tells the story of a man whose ideas touched the lives of millions and have continued to do so long after his death.
Friday, Feb 20, 2 PM – Intro to Social Software
Saturday, Feb. 21, 2 PM – Real Life Reels: 500 Years Later (2005), 106 minutes. Directed by Owen Alik Shahadah.
500 Years Later is an independent documentary film directed by Owen ‘Alik Shahadah, written by M.K. Asante, Jr. released in 2005. It won 5 international film festival awards and has been heralded as one of the most powerful African and African-American documentaries of this century. 500 years from the onset of slavery and subsequent colonialism, Africans are still struggling for basic freedom. Filmed in five continents, and over twenty countries, “500 Years Later” engages the retrospective voice, told from the African vantage-point.
Sunday, Feb. 22, 2 PM – Tween & Teen Screens: Journey to the Center of the Earth Rated PG, 92 minutes. Directed by Eric Brevig (2008). Featuring: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, and Anita Briem.
A scientist whose radical theories have completely tarnished his reputation goes backpacking across Iceland and finds a cave that leads him deep down into the bowels of the planet. He follows it trying to find out what has happened to his missing brother. He discovers a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth filled with bizarre landscapes and terrifying creatures.
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