Movie Matinee: Mary Shelley FREE

Woodlawn Library 31 Eisener Blvd,, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Learn more about the life of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at age 18 met 21-year-old poet Percy Shelley, whom she married. Later, as Mary Shelley, she wrote Frankenstein. Starring Starring Elle Fanning, Maisie Williams, and Bel Powley. Tickets will be given out 60 minutes before the start time.

Jodie Foster Film Series: Nell – FREE

Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Rd, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Paul O'Regan Hall | Floor 1 Rated 14A | 1994 | 1h 53min Featuring an introduction by Tara Thorne, an arts and entertainment journalist with The Coast and the CBC. Cut off from the modern world, Nell is a wild child, who has lived her entire life with her mother in an isolated mountain cabin in North […]

Descriptive Movie Matinee: American Made – FREE

Alderney Gate Library 60 Alderney Dr, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Alderney Gate Library Rated R | 2018 |1h 55min Tom Cruise reunites with his Edge of Tomorrow Director, Doug Liman, in an international escapade based on the outrageous, true exploits of a hustler and pilot recruited to run one of the biggest covert operations in U.S. history. Based on an incredible true story of the […]

The Radical Imagination Series: Halifax Premiere of What Is Democracy?

Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Rd, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, What Is Democracy? reflects on a world we too often take for granted. Spanning millennia and continents and featuring a diverse cast this urgent film connects the past and the present, the emotional and the intellectual, the personal and the political, in order to provoke […]