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Fall Sustainability Series: TAKING ROOT: THE VISION OF WANGARI MAATHAI

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

About the film Taking Root tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy—a movement for which this charismatic woman became an icon and an international inspiration. This film, by co-directors Alan... Read More

Free, but ticketed.
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The Met: Live in HD: Heggie’s DEAD MAN WALKING

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

American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, sees its premiere at the Met: Live in HD in a haunting new production by Ivo van Hove. Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, Dead Man Walking matches the high drama of... Read More

$8 – $20

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The Met: Live in HD: Davis’s X: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X

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

Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, finally sees its premiere at the Met! Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O’Hara oversees a potent new staging that imagines Malcolm as an Everyman whose story transcends time and space. An exceptional cast of breakout artists and young Met stars enliven the operatic... Read More

$8 – $20
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Holiday Film Series: ELF

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

This event will be held at The Ridges Auditorium. See event schedule below. About the film Will Ferrell stars as Buddy, a regular-sized man who was raised as an elf by Santa Claus. When the news is finally broken to Buddy that he’s not a real elf, he decides to head back to his place... Read More

Non-perishable food or cash donation
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The Met: Live in HD: Catán’s FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS

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

Sung in Spanish and inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera tells the enchanting story of a Brazilian opera diva who returns to her homeland to perform at the legendary opera house of Manaus—and to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle. The... Read More

$8 – $20
A film still from the movie "It's a Wonderful Life."

Holiday Film Series: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

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

This event will be held at The Ridges Auditorium on Saturday, December 23rd at 5:00 p.m. About the film Frank Capra’s classic stars the great James Stewart as George Bailey, the eternally-in-debt manager of his late father’s bank in the typical American small town of Bedford Falls. Long considering himself a failure and now facing... Read More

Non-perishable food or cash donation

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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

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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
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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
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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