Free Movie – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof:
Orinda Theatre
4 Orinda Theatre Square, Orinda
Thursday, May 9th, 2019
7:00pm | FreeBrick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Orinda Theatre Square
Anytime Fitness, which we learned would be coming to Orinda Theatre Square last summer, is finally opening this week. Find out more about the membership here and coaching and training services here.
Orinda Books
276 Village Square, Orinda
Sunday, April 28th, 2019
1:00 – 3:00pm | FreeThe featured writers for April 28, 2019 will be Cynthia Leslie-Bole and Sally Bolger.
Cynthia Leslie-Bole is a writing coach, editor, and certified Amherst Writers and Artists Method group leader who has published in Pure Slush, Rootstalk, Moonshine Ink’s Creative Brew and the just-released anthology Fire and Rain: Eco poetry of California. Her first collection of poetry, The Luminous In-Between, invites us to experience the radiance of one woman’s evolution through marriage, motherhood, spiritual individuation, and kinship with nature. This lyrical volume celebrates our innate capacity to create, heal, and perceive what lies beyond the ordinary in ‘the luminous in-between.’ Cynthia lives in Orinda.Sally Bolger is a writer, explorer, and conservationist who follows her heart beyond the boundaries of her comfort zone into the unknown. Born in Lafayette and raised in Orinda, Sally now travels the world, engaging in on-the-ground conservation efforts, returning to tell the tales of her adventures in poetry, fiction, and spoken word. Sally’s first book for children, Fun in the Mud – a Wetlands Tale, has been named a Hot Off the Press pick by the Children’s Book Council.
Free Movie – The Goodbye Girl:
Orinda Theatre
4 Orinda Theatre Square, Orinda
Thursday, April 11th, 2019
7:00pm | FreeAfter being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.
I’ve noticed new signs popping up all over Orinda including this Orinda Theatre District sign on Moraga Way. Compared to other theater districts with multiple theaters, you might wonder exactly how many theaters are located in the Orinda Theatre district. The answer is one. A movie theater. They do host concerts there.
Lamorinda Arts Council’s Poet Laureate Amy Glynn Hosts “Live Poets Society”:
Orinda Books
276 Village Square, Orinda
Sunday, March 24th, 2019
1:00 – 3:00pm | FreeThe featured writers for March 24, 2019 will be Sojourner Kincaid Rolle and Connie Post.
Sojourner Kincaid Rolle is a poet, playwright, peacemaker, and community activist, and was 2015-2017 Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, CA. She is the author of Common Ancestry (Mille Grazie Press, 1999) and Black Street (UCSB Center for Black Studies Research, 2009). Her bilingual book of poems for young people, The Yellow Mellow Global Umbrella was published in 2019 by Lucky Penny Press. Her recent work has been published in several anthologies including To Give Life a Shape (SBMA, 2017) and Looking Backward, Moving Forward (SBMNH, 2018).Connie Post’s work has appeared in Calyx, River Styx, Slipstream, Spoon River Poetry Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review and Verse Daily. Her first full length book, Floodwater (Glass Lyre Press) won the Lyrebird Award. She is the winner of the 2016 Crab Creek Poetry Award and the 2018 Liakoura Award.
Author Robert S. Murillo presents “The Make-Up Room”:
Orinda Books
276 Village Square, Orinda
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
6:00 – 7:30pm | FreeRobert S. Murillo’s newest cross-time novel of mystery and intrigue featuring film noir star Veronica Lake!
Orinda Theatre
4 Orinda Theatre Square, Orinda
Thursday, March 7th, 2019
7:00pm | FreeA former Secret Service agent takes on the job of bodyguard to an R&B singer, whose lifestyle is most unlike a President’s.
Orinda Theatre
4 Orinda Theatre Square, Orinda
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
7:00pm | Free(1957) – Directed by Billy Wilder and starring Gary Cooper & Audrey Hepburn
A middle-aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client.
Orinda Books
276 Village Square, Orinda
Sunday, January 27th, 2019
1:00 – 3:00pm | FreeLamorinda Arts Council’s Poet Laureate, Amy Glynn, is hosting the monthly Reading Series entitled “Live Poets Society” at Orinda Books 276 Village Square, Orinda. Each month the featured writers will delight guests with a reading of their creative writings.
The guest readers for January 2019 will be Dani Gabriel, Jeremy Benson and Lisa Rosenberg.
Dani Gabriel is the author of a forthcoming children’s book (Penny Candy Books), The Woman You Write Poems About (Civil Defense Press) and coauthor of Molotov Mouths (Manic D Press). Jeremy Benson, the Poet Laureate of Napa Valley, has written novels, short stories, articles, personal essays, stand-up comedy routines, short films, and many letters. Lisa Rosenberg is the author of A Different Physics (winner of the 2017 Red Mountain Poetry Prize).
