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Thursday, August 4, 2022 NRBQ THE MINUS 5 $25 GA / $20 OFS 7:00PM Doors / 8:00PM Show Tickets go on sale 2/17 “One of the world’s greatest bands … an American treasure.” -Entertainment Weekly NRBQ is Terry Adams, Scott Ligon, Casey McDonough, and John Perrin. “NRBQ”, which stands for New Rhythm and Blues Quartet, […]
Saturday, August 6, 2022 LoveOly SummerFest is brought to you by the Olympia Downtown Alliance and produced by OFS SUPERSUCKERS SPEEDEALER THE STUNTMEN Capitol Theater outdoor stage 4pm to 7pm FREE to attend! “You’ve heard our name, you’ve seen our records, our t-shirts and our stickers. We’re probably the favorite band of someone you know […]
July 22 – 31, 2022 FIRE OF LOVE $11 General Admission & $8 OFS members Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things — each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple roamed the planet, chasing eruptions and documenting their discoveries. Ultimately, they lost their lives in a 1991 volcanic explosion, leaving […]
VALLEY GIRL (1983) Q&A w/ DEBORAH FOREMAN Saturday, July 30, 2022 6:00PM doors / 7:00PM show $25 GA & $20 OFS A girl from the San Fernando Valley (Deborah Foreman) falls for a Hollywood punker (Nicolas Cage), much to the dismay of her socially-conscious friends. Will she decide to forgo popularity for true love? Deborah […]
APRIL FOOL’S DAY POST-FILM Q&A w/ DEBORAH FOREMAN Friday, July 29, 2022 6:00PM doors / 7:00PM show $15 GA & $10 OFS When Muffy St. John (Deborah Foreman, Valley Girl) invited her college friends up to her parents’ secluded island home for the time of their lives, she just forgot to tell them it just […]
July 10, 14, 15 & 22, 2022 GIANT (1956): NEW 4K RESTORATION The Film Foundation has restored more than 900 movies. Martin Scorsese and fellow board member Steven Spielberg hand-picked Giant as one of the group’s latest restoration projects, working with the Warner Bros. archives team for a year to complete the process. Elizabeth Taylor, […]
THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2022 Black Baled Films presents: BUFFALO SOLDIERS: FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS POST-FILM DISCUSSION w/ DIRECTOR DRU HOLLEY 6:30p doors / 7pm film Free Screening / All Donations Go to The Women of Color in Leadership Movement Join us for a special screening of Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts, a documentary film […]
Mississippi Masala (1991): New 4K Restoration June 25, July 8 & 21, 2022 $11 GA / $8 OFS The vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South come together in Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala, a luminous look at the complexities of love in the modern melting pot. Years after her Indian family was […]
Saturday, August 20, 2022 LoveOly SummerFest is brought to you by the Olympia Downtown Alliance and produced by the Olympia Film Society J. GRAVES KELSEY MAGNUSON GREGORY BORTNICHAK 4pm to 7pm Free to Attend J. Graves is passionate dance-punk. Tense relationship rock, sanguine lyricism, guitar music, chord changes that sound like secret longing, a rhythm […]
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2022 INTERFAITH WORKS & MEANINGFUL MOVIES PROJECT (OLYMPIA CHAPTER) PRESENT MISSION: JOY FINDING HAPPINESS IN TROUBLED TIMES POST-FILM DISCUSSION w/ TIBETAN BUDDHIST TEACHER GESHE JAMYANG TSULTRIM & SR. ANNA-CAMILLE WOODEN OSB 6:30p doors / 7pm film $10 suggested donation at the door This documentary from 2021 celebrates the interfaith friendship between His […]