Lakewood Public Library
Lakewood, Ohio
Enjoy royal treatment as professional musician Katherine Calvey performs a set of English airs and dances on the flute while accompanied by the historic sounds of the harpsichord and other instruments. Learn about the history of rarely heard compositions and composers from the late 16th to 18th centuries. The presentation includes lovely slides of English […]
Freya, a shield maiden blessed by the gods, battles to unite a nation under a power-hungry king—while also fighting her growing desire for his fiery son—in this Norse-inspired fantasy romance.
In this moving and beautifully orchestrated film, internationally acclaimed violinist and songwriter Kaoru Ishibashi, professionally know as Kishi Bashi, travels on a musical journey to understand World War II-era Japanese American incarceration, assimilation, and what it means to be a minority in America today.
Police detective Jim Wilson (Robert Ryan) is the type of cop you might expect to find in a film noir. He gets information with carefully parsed questions and carefully aimed fists. His boss decides to send him upstate to cool off, but his noirish tendencies follow him like a dark shadow. While investigating the death […]
Enjoy a performance of delicate, graceful Japanese dance accompanied by traditional Japanese music. This concert is intended for patrons and guests of all ages.
Yumo Daiko is a Japanese drum group that performs percussive music centered on traditional and contemporary taiko. Children, youth and families are all welcome to attend this exciting and informative program.
Forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and […]
Join Cleveland native Matthew Hashiguchi, Professor of Communication Arts at Georgia Southern University, for a screening and discussion of his film.
The book follows Grady Green, a once-successful author who retreats to a remote Scottish island after his wife Abby's disappearance, only to encounter unsettling events and a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.
Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic comes to life in Dune, a sweeping adaptation of the classic 1965 novel about politics, prophecy, and survival on the desert planet Arrakis. Timothée Chalamet stars as Paul Atreides, a young noble caught in a deadly struggle for control of the universe’s most valuable resource. Directed by Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Blade […]
Although the incarceration of Japanese Americans during the war is a painful chapter in American history, there are many beautiful stories that come from this troubling time, one of which involves a children's librarian at the San Diego Public Library, Clara Breed.
Nardine Taleb is a speech-language pathologist and a writer. She worked as a prose editor at Gordon Square Review for several issues. She is the author of warda, published in 2023 by Passengers Press. Her poetry and fiction stories have been published in award-winning online journals including Electric Literature, The Offing, The Rumpus, Rattle, Frontier Poetry, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, […]