Champlain Valley Films: Fort Apache

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Saturday, May 25 8:00 pm At Whallonsburg Grange Hall  Tickets are $5 for adults and only $2 for those under 18.    Fort Apache Trailer from Addison Mehr on Vimeo. The film will be introduced by Westport writer/director Addison Mehr! Filmed in Westport, Moriah and Lake Placid, this coming of age story follows Walt, a precocious young [...]

Champlain Valley Films: Silver Linings Playbook

Silver Linings Playbook (poster)

Saturday, May 11 8:00 pm At Whallonsburg Grange Hall  Tickets are $5 for adults and only $2 for those under 18.     This crazy-boy-meets-wacky-girl comedy is about falling in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time. Nominated for 8 Academy Awards, including Best Actor, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress [...]

Champlain Valley Film Society 10th Anniversary

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Did you know that this is the 10th Anniversary of the Champlain Valley Film Society (CVFS)? They showed their first movie in 2003 and since then have screened and shared nearly 170 films with Champlain Valley residents! “We want to thank our loyal audience for their tremendous support over the years,” CVFS co-founder, David Reuther, [...]

Champlain Valley Films: Lincoln

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Saturday, April 27 8:00 pm At Whallonsburg Grange Hall    FREE It’s the Champlain Valley Film Society’s 10th Anniversary, so this film is being shown for free! Oscar winner as this year’s Best Actor, Daniel Day-Lewis stars in one of the most acclaimed movies of the year, Steven Spielberg’s deeply moving story about Lincoln’s fight to abolish [...]

Belden Noble Library: Lakeside School Puppet Show

The Rainbow Pony Puppet Show

Saturday, April 13 at 11 a.m  At Belden Noble Library   Free If you have or know children (or if you’re a child at heart!), then you might be interested in attending a puppet show occurring this weekend at the Belden Noble Library in Essex, NY! The Belden Noble Library will host The Rainbow Pony, a puppet show [...]

Champlain Valley Films: The Sessions

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Saturday, April 13 8:00 pm At Whallonsburg Grange Hall  Tickets are $5 for adults and only $2 for those under 18.    Winner, Best Picture, Sundance Film Festival. This funny, tender film is based on the true story of a man confined to an iron lunch who is determined to lose his virginity at age 38. Oscar winner [...]

Champlain Valley Films: Zero Dark Thirty

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Saturday, March 30 7:30 pm At Whallonsburg Grange Hall  Tickets are $5 for adults and only $2 for those under 18.  A real life thriller by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow about the greatest manhunt in history for the world’s most dangerous man, Osama bin Laden. Nominated for 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best [...]

Poetry Open Mic in Essex on Wednesday, March 27

Local, Organic, Free-Range Poetry in Essex

It’s time for another Poetry Open Mic in Essex, NY at the Belden Noble Library. Whether you participated in January’s poetry gathering and/or February’s Poetry Open Mic you are invited to attend and participate with your friends and neighbors on Wednesday, March 27 at 7:00pm. Fish around in your bureau (or your hard drive) for your [...]

Champlain Valley Films: Oscar Shorts

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Saturday, March 16 6:00 pm Animated Shorts • 8:00 pm Live Action Shorts At Whallonsburg Grange Hall  Tickets are $10 for both films and refreshments.  The Champlain Valley’s annual night of movies, food and fun as the 2013 Oscar-nominated live action and animated films come to the Grange in a double-feature. You’ll see great movies and get a [...]

Local, Organic, Free-Range Poetry Open Mic

Local, Organic, Free-Range Poetry in Essex

It’s time for another Poetry Open Mic in Essex! January’s poetry gathering at the Belden Noble Library celebrated local poetry ranging from poignant to amusing and formally structured to visual collage. Fish around in your bureau (or your hard drive) for your favorite wordsmithing artifacts and dust them off for “show and tell” next Wednesday [...]