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HOLIDAY FILM SERIES: Christmas Classics on the Big Screen!
Support Athens Food Pantries! Celebrate the holidays with loved ones! Enjoy the nostalgia of classic films on the big screen! It’s the 10th annual Holiday Film Series & Canned Food… Read More
HOLIDAY FILM SERIES: Christmas Classics on the Big Screen!
Support Athens Food Pantries! Celebrate the holidays with loved ones! Enjoy the nostalgia of classic films on the big screen! It’s the 10th annual Holiday Film Series & Canned Food… Read More
HOLIDAY FILM SERIES: Christmas Classics on the Big Screen!
Support Athens Food Pantries! Celebrate the holidays with loved ones! Enjoy the nostalgia of classic films on the big screen! It’s the 10th annual Holiday Film Series & Canned Food… Read More
BEETLEJUICE HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY
Beetlejuice…Beetlejuice…be…at the Athena Cinema on Monday, October 31st at 7pm for a screening of BEETLEJUICE! The ghost with the most requests your best costume attire, babe. Regular admission $10. Members and children… Read More
DIRTY DANCING: Fundraiser for Abortion Fund of Ohio
Join us Thursday, September 22nd at 7pm for a screening of DIRTY DANCING. This year marks the 35th anniversary of this timeless film, and the storyline started a dialogue about… Read More
The Met: Live in HD: Mozart’s DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
Nathalie Stutzmann conducts her second Mozart work this season with a new production of Die Zauberflöte. In his Met-debut staging, Simon McBurney incorporates projections, sound effects, and acrobatics to match… Read More
The Met: Live in HD: Mozart’s DON GIOVANNI
Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes his Met debut with a new staging of Mozart’s tragicomedy Don Giovanni. The tale of deceit and damnation is set in an abstract… Read More
The Met: Live in HD: Terence Blanchard’s CHAMPION
Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones made history in the 2021–22 season. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo… Read More
The Met: Live in HD: Strauss’ DER ROSENKAVALIER
A stellar trio assembles to take on the lead roles of Strauss’s comedy, with soprano Lise Davidsen in her Met role debut as the Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard in… Read More
The Met: Live in HD: Verdi’s FALSTAFF
Verdi’s Shakespearean comedy features a brilliant ensemble cast in Robert Carsen’s celebrated staging. Baritone Michael Volle sings his first Verdi role at the Met as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully… Read More
The Met: Live in HD: Wagner’s LOHENGRIN
Wagner’s Lohengrin returns to the Met stage after an absence of 17 years with this atmospheric new staging by François Girard. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a cast led by tenor Piotr… Read More
The Met: Live in HD: Giordano’s FEDORA
Giordano’s exhilarating drama Fedora returns to the Met for the first time in 25 years, starring soprano Sonya Yoncheva in the title role of the 19th-century princess who falls in… Read More
The Met: Live in HD: Kevin Puts’ THE HOURS
The world-premiere staging of Kevin Puts’s The Hours, adapted from Michael Cunningham’s acclaimed novel, which also served as the inspiration for the Oscar-winning film, arrives in cinemas this December. In… Read More
The Met: Live in HD: Mozart’s THE MAGIC FLUTE
The Met made history in December 2006 when it presented its first Live in HD transmission to cinemas worldwide—the abridged English-language version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Julie Taymor’s whimsical… Read More
The Met: Live in HD: Cherubini’s MEDEA
Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory’s fiercest soprano roles, Sondra Radvanovsky stars as the mythic sorceress who will stop at nothing in her quest for vengeance…. Read More
LIVING YEARS: Conversation With The Director
Join us Tuesday, August 30th at 7pm for a conversation with the director of Living Years, Brenda Williams Gillis, who made a documentary about her father’s life as a… Read More
Member Appreciation Screening: MILDRED PIERCE
Join us for a one night only screening of the the Michael Curtiz classic noir, MILDRED PIERCE. Free to Athena Cinema Members! About the film When Mildred Pierce’s (Joan Crawford)… Read More
OU Dads Weekend Movie Classics: BACK TO THE FUTURE
THE TIMELESS CLASSIC ORIGINAL Great Scott! Marty and Doc are setting the time circuits to 2022 Parents Weekend! With its thrilling twists and endless charm, Back to the Future is… Read More
OU PARENTS WEEKEND: Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Sing Along!
We’re celebrating OU Parents weekend with a showing of MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL, a classic comedy sure to have your parents in stitches. From its opening multi-language titles… Read More
Fall Sustainability Series: DISAPPEARING VOICES & HELLBENT
Theme: Ecological Systems: From Ecuador to Appalachia About the film DISAPPEARING VOICES (20 minutes) Little was known about the indigenous peoples living in Yasuní National Park until the middle of the 20th… Read More
Fall Sustainability Series: FOOD FOR CHANGE & CAMP YOSHI
Sustainability Series Theme: Food and Community About the film FOOD FOR CHANGE (82 minutes) Food For Change focuses on food co-ops as a force for dynamic social and economic change in American… Read More
Fall Sustainability Series: THE STORY OF PLASTIC
Sustainability Series Theme: Pollution Prevention Week About the film The Story of Plastic is a searing exposé revealing the ugly truth behind plastic pollution and the false solution of plastic recycling…. Read More
Fall Sustainability Series: REVOLUTION GENERATION
Sustainability Series Theme: Get Involved About the film The number of Millennials in the United States — those born between approximately 1978 and 2000 — is near 80 million people. They’re… Read More
From the Hills and Hollers: DARK WATERS with Harry Deitzler
About the film A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world’s largest corporations. While trying to expose the… Read More
From the Hills and Hollers: DELIVERANCE with Jack Wright
About the film Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it’s dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they’ll never… Read More