A TRIP TO THE ATHENA: Paint & Sip

Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United States

Calling all cinephiles and dreamers! Join us for a movie-themed Paint & Sip event inspired by Méliès’ iconic 1902 silent film A TRIP TO THE MOON. Register for this two-hour paint lesson and bring home your own 16×20 A TRIP TO THE MOON inspired painting. Taught by Graduate Art Student, Brooke Ripley. Brooke will lead a... Read More

$30 – $40

Heroes In Color: BLACK PANTHER

Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United States

T’Challa, prince of the hidden nation of Wakanda, must return to his homeland in the wake of his father’s death to assume the throne and take up the mantle of the “Black Panther”. Killmonger, a rival from another tribe, also returns, seeking to take the throne for himself and reveal Wakanda’s advanced technological secrets to... Read More

$7.50

Heroes In Color: BLADE

Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United States

Say hello to Blade. He’s equal parts human and vampire, with all the supernatural attributes of his blood-thirsty brethren but with none of their vulnerabilities. This makes him the ultimate vampire hunter! It’s a good thing too, because Los Angeles is set to become ground zero for the onset of war between the fanged and... Read More

$7.50

The Met: Live in HD: Bizet’s CARMEN

Ohio University The Ridges Auditorium Building 23, Athens, OH, United States

Acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell brings a vital new production of one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day and finds at the heart of the drama issues that could not be more relevant today: gendered violence, abusive labor structures, and... Read More

$8 – $20

Heroes In Color: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United States

Michelle Yeoh stars as “Evelyn Quan Wang” in this genre-blendingly wild cinematic ride written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. One minute, Evelyn is a normal Chinese-American immigrant eking out an underwhelming existence running a laundromat with her husband; the next minute, she’s zipping thru parallel dimensions trying to save the multiverse and... Read More

$7.50

Sustainability Series: CHASING ICE

Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United States

In 2007, photojournalist James Balog and a team of researchers, climate scientists, engineers, and mountaineers, founded the EIS (Extreme Ice Survey) to study and document the climatic phenomenon of melting ice in the Earth’s seas and glaciers. Balog figured (correctly) that there was no better way to alert people to the effects of global warming... Read More

Free

Heroes In Color: SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE

Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United States

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, Miles Morales, is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and... Read More

$7.50

Classics & Cocktails: JACKIE BROWN

Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United States

Our Classics & Cocktails series wraps up with the 1997 Quentin Tarantino classic JACKIE BROWN on February 23rd at 7pm. We’ll be pairing the film with a fun specialty cocktail called the Jackie’s Rum Punch in honor of Elmore Leonard’s novel Rum Punch. Made with Pineapple Rum, orange, lime, ginger, sugar, tiki bitters, allspice dram, Skadi’s... Read More

$8

Heroes In Color: THE LAST DRAGON

Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United States

Leroy “Bruce Leeroy” Green embarks on a quest through the gritty streets of New York to complete his training and gain the level of martial arts mastery that will make him a true black belt like his hero Bruce Lee. When Sho’nuff, the self-proclaimed “Shogun of Harlem”, catches wind of Leroy’s abilities, he challenges the... Read More

$7.50

OU School of Film Winter Showcase

Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United States

OHIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FILM PRESENTS A WINTER SHOWCASE FEATURING NINE 2ND YEAR, EXPERIMENTAL AND SOPHOMORE SHORT FILMS The screening will take place at the Athena Cinema on March 1, 2024, at 7pm and is free to the public thanks to sponsorships from Arts for Ohio and the Ohio Arts Council. The films are directed by... Read More

Free, but ticketed.