This film series brings art house film flavor to your Tuesdays. Plus, meet new friends, hear from special guests, enjoy light refreshments, and have a discussion after the film. April 5: No film April 12: Icarus (2017), 2:00-4:05 p.m. Director Bryan Fogel’s investigation of doping in amateur sports led to more dangerous ground than he...
The Colonial Italian American Organization (CIAO) presents Il Postino (1995). When exiled Cuban poet Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret) arrives on a tiny Italian isle, there’s so much new mail that Mario (Massimo Troisi), an unemployed, uneducated layabout, is hired as a postman. His job is simply to deliver Neruda’s daily mail. Mario soon becomes a...
The Ampersand International Arts Festival presents An Evening of Film, Dance, and Music with the W&M Middle Eastern Music Ensemble featuring Nicole LeCorgne, and the Leah Glenn Modern IV Barefoot Dancers. Preceded by Sirens, a 2022 Sundance Festival documentary film about the first all-women thrash metal band in Lebanon directed by Rita Baghdadi. https://www.sirensdocumentary.com/ The...
The Ford’s Colony Dance Band, with its 17 musicians, will perform a “A Festival of Latin American Music” at the Williamsburg Library Theatre. They will be kicking off a week-long celebration leading up to Pan American Day on April 14th. That’s the day when the Organization of American States was founded in 1930. Its purpose...
Now in its 19th year, the Throwback Thursday Film Series screens a variety of classic movies for an adult audience. April Theme: April Fools April 7: Heaven Can Wait (1978), 2:00-3:45 p.m. Warren Beatty directs and stars in this appealing romantic comedy about angels, an accidental death, and getting a second chance at life and...
Fiddler crabs play a hoedown, a giant toad tells a ghost story, and a long-legged blue heron leads the big band as the fantastic performers of Rainbow Puppets tell the story of the wetlands. This event is bought to you by Williamsburg Regional Library.
The Asian Centennial and W&M Theatre proudly present Lloyd Suh’s award-winning play on the life story of Afong Moy, who at 14 years old was brought to the US from Guangdong Province in 1834. Allegedly the first Chinese woman to set foot on US soil, she is put on display for the American public as...
Compete in Williamsburg Regional Library's 1 v. 1 bracketed tournament for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate supremacy! Trophies and prizes will be awarded for first, second, and two runners-up. For ages 13 through adult. Email teens@wrl.org to register, or sign up at https://challonge.com/WRL_April_2022.
The Ewell Concert Series and Dewey Decibel Concert Series present Rev. Cora Harvey Armstrong and The Harvey Family. Born in King and Queen County, Virginia, Cora Harvey Armstrong is a singer, songwriter and recording artist who has been playing the piano for more than 60 years. Cora and her sisters and nieces, Clarissa Jackson, Kimberly...
An old American millionairess comes to Rome every year with her chaffeur to play a game of cards with a destitute ragman Peppino and his wife Antonia. The rite has repeated itself over the years and each time the lady has won shattering their dream of winning a large sum off her. Once again however...
The Higher Ground Big Band is a community outreach group that seeks to uplift and inspire with swing, Latin, and jazz standards as well as modern big band arrangements. The band, directed by Joel Joyner, is composed of 18 professional and amateur instrumentalists, along with vocalist. Free admission.
Legendary science fiction author David Weber will be at the Williamsburg Library for a reading, question and answer session, and book signing! David Weber was born in Cleveland a long, long time ago (1952 to be exact), and grew up in rural South Carolina. He was a bookworm from childhood, blessed with a father who...