Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.
Synopsis:
Three young Native Americans – an adopted Christian girl, a rebellious father-to-be, and a promiscuous transsexual – strive to escape the hardships of life on an Indian reservation.
Get your scare on and celebrate Halloween the right way with an all-day movie marathon on Thursday, October 31st. See the dark side of urban legends with this collection of Frightful Films. Snacks served throughout the day.
In a small town in Massachusetts, a group of friends, fascinated by the internet lore of the Slender Man, attempt to prove that he doesn’t actually exist – until one of them mysteriously goes missing.
Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm.
Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, relocate from Boston to rural Maine with their two young children. The couple soon discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near their new home.
Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.
Synopsis:
A lonely woman befriends a group of teenagers and decides to let them party at her house. Just when the kids think their luck couldn’t get any better, things start happening that make them question the intention of their host.
Film and video productions can vividly depict the impact of censorship on individuals and society. A First Amendment film festival for Banned Books Week will be hosted in the Meeting Room of the Main Library.
Join us for film screenings based on book titles that have been censored.
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
Film Screenings:
Footloose (2011)
Monday, September 23rd at 5:30 p.m.
City teenager Ren MacCormack moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.
A drama set in New Mexico during WWII centered on the relationship between a young man and an elderly medicine woman who helps him contend with the battle between good and evil that rages in his village.
In New York City’s Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.
Each year, the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) records hundreds of attempts by individuals and groups to have books removed from libraries shelves and from classrooms. The OIF tracked 347 challenges to library, school and university materials and services. Overall, 483 books were challenged or banned in 2018.
A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials.
Banned Books Week (September 22-28, 2019) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. It brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.