Sunday, February 28
| Kristin Cashore's Fire (the companion to Graceling) Thalia Kids’ Book Club Culture Spot
The author talks about the companion to her mesmerizing debut novel for fantasy lovers, which was an Indies Choice Book Award finalist, with teens ages 14 and up. The event includes a discussion with the audience, a creative writing project, and a book signing. Note: this event has been canceled. See More... |
| Amreeka Thalia Film Sundays
Amreeka chronicles the adventures of Muna, a single mother who leaves the West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of small town Illinois. In America, as her son navigates high school hallways the way he used to move through military checkpoints, the indomitable Muna scrambles together a new life cooking up falafel burgers as well as hamburgers at the local White Castle. See More... |
Le nozze di Figaro
New York City's finest emerging singers join the Osh Opera Orchestra for a one-night-only performance of Mozart and da Ponte's comic opera Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro). Based on the controversial play by the celebrated French dramatist Beaumarchais, Le nozze di Figaro is story of romantic intrigue and deception. See More... |
| Off and Running Thalia Film Sundays
Avery is a typical Brooklyn teen living in an atypical, United Nations-style melting pot. Her adoptive parents are white Jewish lesbians, her younger brother is Korean, her older brother is mixed-race, and she is black. Though her household is loving, she can't quite quell her curiosity about her biological African-American roots. The decision to contact her birth mother sparks a complicated exploration of race and identity. See More... |












