Directed by Hal Ashby

Screenplay Jerzy Kosinski, Peter Sellers, Shirley Maclaine, Melvyn Douglas

A simple-minded gardener learns everything he knows from TV  and manages to become a revered insider among DC political elite. Classic acclaimed satire on our societal values.

Oscar, Best Supportig Actor (Douglas), Golden Globe: Best Actor/Supporting Actor, L.A. Film Critics: Best Supporting Actor, Natl Board of Review: Best Actor, Natl Soc of Film Critics: Best Cinematography, Writers Guild of America: Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium

“[Even now] Being There remains a vital statement on our TV reality, on how we develop our heroes, and on how power perpetuates itself. And it’s funny as hell” -amcfilmcritic.com

“Ashby’s film is a gift to treasure”. -Groucho Reviews

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ArtRage is handicapped accessible. Off street parking at 408 & 414 Lodi Street

Consuming Kids examines how marketing to children in the US has exploded after it was deregulated in the 1980s. Since then, it has become more intense, it has increased, and it has started to employ child psychology in pursuit of children. There’s nothing new about the notion of children as consumers. They get pocket money and they earn money in after-school jobs, so naturally, advertisers chase their dollars. But there’s more to it than that. This well-presented documentary sheds some light on just how insidious marketing to children can become. It’s quite eye-opening. And it’s a little frightening.

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ArtRage is handicapped accessible
Off street parking at 408 & 414 Lodi Street

Directed by Leonardo DiCaprio

This film presents visionary, radical, and no-nonsense solutions for countering global calamity, nurturing a sustainable planet and demanding accountability from corporations and politicans who stand to benefit from the status quo; with Stephen Hawkins, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ray Anderson and other  thinkers, scientists, native  American faith healers.

“visually stunning… a new voice to the global warming chorus”. -USA Today

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ArtRage is handicapped accessible
Off street parking at 408 & 414 Lodi Street

Plus an information meeting for traveling to Fort Benning, Georgia to protest the School of the Americas (SOA).

On June 28, under the command of SOA graduate General Romeo Vasquez Velasquez, the Honduran military overthrew the democratically-elected government of President Zelaya. Since then, security forces have brutally repressed dissent through torture, assassination, sexual abuses and the suspension of freedom of speech.

Join us to protest and act to CLOSE THE SOA! In 2008 over 20,000 people came to a vigil at the gates of the US army base at Fort Benning, Georgia to demand the close of the School of the Americas.  Every November since 1994 Central New Yorkers have demonstrated against the US Army’s Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. It is notorious for teaching Latin American military officers tactics to repress their own people in favor of the local oligarchies and US corporations doing lucrative business in their countries.