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Community Events
March
Movie: Up in the Air
Friday, March 12, 8 p.m., Saturday, March 13, 8 p.m., Sunday, March 14, 7 p.m.
The Little Theater @ Mt. Airy’s Video Library, 7141 Germantown Avenue
Question: What do you get when you combine 4 nominations for the most coveted Oscars: one for Best Picture, one for Best Actor (George Clooney) and two--
for Best Screenplay and Best Director (Jason Reitman --Juno)? Answer Up in the Air.
Clooney plays a cold man who’s more comfortable on a plane or in an airport than he is at home base. He is sent to meet employees of his company, one by
one, all over the country to inform them that they’re out and outsourcing is in. He’s content with his life—no complexity, no ties—until 2 women enter his
life, shake him out of his complacency and show him other ways to live. It’s 2010, so though there are comic moments, at its heart, this film is a serious
study of moral dilemmas and how the characters (and we) respond to them throughout the film. Tickets (including popcorn): $6.
Website: www.mtairyvideolibrary.com.
Movie: Kebab Connection, 96 minutes
Saturday, March 13, 7 p.m. (doors open 6:30 p.m.)
542 West Carpenter Lane
The Flickering Light presents a mini-tribute to one of its favorite filmmakers, Fatih Akin. Kebab Connection is directed by Anno Saul and written
by Fatih Akin. In Kebab Connection Ibo, an aspiring filmmaker, creates a rhapsodic commercial for his uncle's snack shack in a bid to impress the
big-time producers and direct Germany's first kung fu feature movie. Things are looking good until his girlfriend finds herself pregnant and his father
disowns him. Where will the hapless Ibo find himself a break? Lucky for him, his guardian angel looks an awful lot like Bruce Lee. Admission: $5.
Free parking at Henry School lot. Website: www.flickeringfilms.com
Quality of Life Meeting
Wednesday, March 17, 7:30 p.m.
Summit Presbyterian Church, 6757 Greene Street
For more info call WMAN at (215) 438-6022 or email wman@wman.net
Pruning Workshop
Saturday, March 13, 2 p.m.
Wyck, 6026 Germantown Avenue
When is the best time to prune your roses? What is the best method? How do you know if your shrubs and trees are healthy? Learn the answers to these
questions and more from Wyck’s horticulturalist, Nicole Juday, as she teaches you how to prune your plants successfully. Cost: $5 members, $7 non-members.
Registration required. To register, please contact Lori Litchman at llitchman@wyck.org or (215) 848-1690. Website: www.wyck.org
Quality of Life Meeting
Wednesday, March 17, 7:30 p.m.
Summit Presbyterian Church, 6757 Greene Street
For more info call WMAN at (215) 438-6022 or email wman@wman.net
Movie: Broken Embraces
Friday, March 19, 8 p.m., Saturday, March 20, 8 p.m., Sunday, March 21, 7 p.m.
The Little Theater @ Mt. Airy’s Video Library, 7141 Germantown Avenue
Pedro Almodóvar and his muse Penelope Cruz once again treat us to a mysterious, complicated tale in which every character and all relationships are
ever-changing. Lena (Cruz) is a fantasy in the eyes of every man she meets, but she finds no pleasure in her superficial beauty. Nor is she amused by her
professional life as an actress. When she plays a role in a comedy—a movie within the movie—she is again assuming a part that others give her. Who really
knows her? Who knows that she is concealing a past she’d rather forget?
Lena is only one of the many characters in the film who chooses a new identity. Central to the story is Harry, who assumes a new name and a new identity
after an accident takes his wife and leaves him blind. Preferring anonymity, he abandons his life as a filmmaker. Everyone in Broken Embraces is
involved directly or indirectly with films and film-making, No wonder: it’s Almodóvar’s favorite subject.
Broken Embraces has been nominated for Best Picture not in the English language.
Tickets (including popcorn): $6.
Website: www.mtairyvideolibrary.com.
Permaculture/Sheetmulching Workshop
Saturday, March 20, 2 p.m.
Wyck, 6026 Germantown Avenue
This workshop introduces the basic ethics and principles of Permaculture design. A particular emphasis on urban food growing will cover polycultures,
plant guilds, and edible forest gardens. Workshop led by Phil Forsyth of Forsyth Gardens (forsythgardens.com) and the
Philadelphia Orchard Project (phillyorchards.org). Cost: $10. Registration required. To register, please contact Lori Litchman at llitchman@wyck.org or (215) 848-1690.
Website: www.wyck.org
Exhibit – Home: Reflections and Projections
Through Saturday, March 20
Mount Airy Contemporary Artists Space, 25 West Mt. Airy Avenue
Mount Airy Contemporary Artists Space is pleased to present Home: Reflections and Projections, an exhibition of the works of Christina Day
and Brenna K. Murphy.
Guided by personal history and memory, Christina Day's sculptural works act as free-standing reflections of dimensional place. Her sculptures
reconfigure and compress domestic architectural elements like doorways, corners, and stairwells.
Working primarily with her own hair, Brenna K. Murphy creates works on paper and site-specific installations of domestic objects and spaces. As the product
of a nomadic upbringing, moving eight times and living in six states by the age of eighteen, she is interested in the relationship between the ideal of
home and the body.
For more info including gallery hours, visit www.mountairycontemporary.com.
Survival in Shanghai: An Author and Book Event
Wednesday, March 24, 7 p.m.
Germantown Jewish Centre, 400 W. Ellet Street
Author Audrey Friedman Marcus will discuss her book Survival in Shanghai: The Journals of Fred Marcus 1939-49. This event is sponsored by the
Germantown Jewish Centre’s Women’s Club. For more info and/or to RSVP contact program@germantownjewishcentre.org or (215) 844-1507, ext. 19.
Movie: Precious
Friday, March 26, 8 p.m., Saturday, March 27, 8 p.m., Sunday, March 28, 7 p.m.
The Little Theater @ Mt. Airy’s Video Library, 7141 Germantown Avenue
Precious comes from a most heinous household. Repeatedly raped by her father and abused by her mother, she has no choice but to give birth to one child
and carry a second. Her life is hell even in school, where she is taunted as the obese, unworthy kid. When she transfers to another school, she encounters
people for the first time who care about her. She has always escaped from her abuse by creating fantasies of a different life. But there are glimmers of
hope; her resilience just might help her turn her magical world into a new reality, a life of dignity. For her stellar performance as Precious,
Gabourey Sidibe has been nominated for Best Actress Oscar.
The film has also been nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture. Tickets (including popcorn): $6.
Website: www.mtairyvideolibrary.com.
Egg Hunt at Historic RittenhouseTown
Saturday, March 27, 11 a.m.
Historic RittenhouseTown, 206 Lincoln Drive
Children ages 12 and under are invited to search for prize-filled eggs at Historic RittenhouseTown's annual egg hunt. The egg hunt starts promptly at
11 a.m. and will go until all the eggs have been collected. Eggs are scooped up quickly so please arrive on-time. Children will be split into two age
groups, 6 & under and 7 & above. The egg hunt is free and refreshments will be available for purchase. Please bring your own bag or basket. For info
email information@rittenhousetown.org or all (215) 438-5711. Website: www.rittenhousetown.org
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