Please join CCA for our ongoing Community Reading Series in the Munoz Waxman Gallery. Please join CCA for this special poetry reading in the Studio Theater with Michele Bombardier and Miriam Sagan. Introductions will be made by Carol Moldaw.

London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.

All families are mad, not least the Canavans. A drama comedy with a twist, set in the wild West of Ireland. When Colm, the head of the family, dies, there are few who mourn his passing, not even his four estranged adult children. But, the legalities of his will must be observed, and more than one Canavan sibling is harbouring secrets. As the Canavans return to the family home, the fate of the family unit, their sanity, and the Canavan estate all hang in the balance.

Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia and Devlin, but she starts to get too involved in her work.

Saturday, Sept. 26, 2-3:30 pm In-person in the CCA Conference Room Once a poem, at some point in the writing process, begins to come into focus, we devote our time to sharpening the focus that has emerged. But, what might happen if we resisted the urge to “finish” the poem? What if, instead, we paused and considered new directions suggested by a line, a sentence, or a stanza--maybe even a syllable, vowel, or consonant! --that point toward a different focus, a different vision for the poem, a vision perhaps far from our original intentions? What might happen if we were to “dwell in possibility,” as Emily Dickinson suggests? In this workshop, we’ll take Dickinson as our guide. Grounded in a variety of contemplative practices, we’ll read a few poems by others and, informed and inspired by those, we’ll draft our own poems. We’ll identify new directions to explore, suggested by what we’ve already written. As we head in one or more of these new directions, we will gain a sense of how our work can grow in ways we may only discover by “dwelling in possibility”. Please bring your writing tools. Richard Chess is the author of four books of poetry, including Love Nailed to the Doorpost (University of Tampa Press 2017) and The Loneliest Monk (Orison Books, July 2026). His work has been included in Best American Spiritual Writing 2005 and The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary American Jewish Poetry. He is a regular contributor to “Close Reading,” the blog hosted by SLANT Books. He was a founding member of the board of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry. He also served on the board of Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center. He is professor emeritus from the UNC Asheville, where, for 30 years, he directed UNC Asheville’s Center for Jewish Studies. www.richardchess.com This program is supported by the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry

A Phoenix secretary steals $40,000 from her employer's client, gors on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

Tenor Madness in Jazz: From Coleman Hawkins to Sonny Rollins Renesan Course Information:The history of jazz can be understood by listening to how musicians have played their instruments over the years. Listeners can appreciate different jazz styles—swing, bop, hard bop, cool, and modal—by listening to the great tenor improvisers. Just as the guitar has come to signify rock ’n roll, the saxophone has become a symbol of jazz. We’ll explore stylistic masters of the instrument from Coleman Hawkins to Sonny Rollins. About The Instructor: Mark Davis has presented numerous jazz sessions for Renesan, most recently on Miles Davis in December 2025.

Join us at CCA September 26th @ 6:30pm for a special fundraiser evening for Cole Forrest’s upcoming film “Saddle”. Tickets are $22 and a portion of every ticket goes towards production costs for Saddle including paying for Celluloid 16mm film, technician fees, and actor fees. Donations will also be accepted throughout the evening!

Explores the romantic journey of PK Mahanandia, a Delhi street artist who trekked 6,000 miles by bicycle in 1977, venturing across continents to reunite with the woman he loved.

Filmmaker Rustin Thompson journeys into the American West on a search for traces of what was once a center of small-town life: the movie theater. On the trip, he finds long abandoned and forgotten cinemas; movie houses that have fallen into disrepair; theaters recently closed, theaters struggling to hold on, and theaters that—thanks to their thoughtful caretakers—are not only surviving but thriving. Between the stops along the way, Rustin poetically intersperses excerpts from Peter Bogdanovich’s 1971 classic film The Last Picture Show, as well as reflections on past and present hardships facing the film exhibition industry. The Last Picture Shows is not only a timely portrait of an industry in crisis, one facing the headwinds of consolidation, streaming, and the diminishing theatrical experience, but it also reminds viewers that even in vast cinema deserts, there are oases of community and gathering that remain, where the movie house continues to be a place of wonder, contemplation, and connection.

While attending a medical conference in Paris, American physician Dr. Ben McKenna, his wife, retired musical theater actress and singer Jo McKenna née Conway, and their adolescent son Hank McKenna decide to take a side trip to among other places Marrekesh, French Morocco. With a knife plunged into his back, Frenchman Louis Bernard, who the family met earlier in their bus ride into Marrakesh and who is now masquerading as an Arab, approaches Ben, cryptically whispering into Ben's ears that there will be an attempted assassination in London of a statesman, this news whispered just before Bernard dies. Ben is reluctant to provide any information of this news to the authorities because concurrently Hank is kidnapped by British couple, Edward and Lucy Drayton, who also befriended the McKennas in Marrakesh and who probably have taken Hank out of the country back to England. Whoever the unknown people the Draytons are working for have threatened to kill Hank if Ben divulges any information ...

Assigned to a county-mandated drug court program, Cody Parsons embarks on the tenuous journey toward recovery amid the opioid epidemic in rural Ohio.

In a frontier landscape at the beginning of the 20th century, gunmen descend on a remote farmhouse, determined to exact revenge. Their target, a doctor — alone with his son and daughter — tries desperately to protect his children. Inevitably, bullets fly.