Saturday, September 11 at 4pm
Town Talks: A Free Community Event in Support of Lambertville
On Wednesday September 1, the Acme Screening Room was flooded and our indoor reopening is delayed until further notice. We are moving the event to outdoors at our Drive-in location at 204 N Union St.
We ask that you bring chairs to sit outside, park cars midtown, and walk in via the entrance on Elm St. We will have Acme signage to guide you at the entrance.
NO CARS will be able to enter the lot. We hope to have an uplifting event inspired by Dar, after this stressful week.
Joins us for an evening with Dar Williams as she shares a few songs and introduces us to her book “What I Found in a Thousand Towns”, a very relevant theme for our small town of Lambertville at this time. She will then be joined by members of the community to discuss events of the past week, and to engage questions from the audience. We will also be joined by musician and Lambertville native Alex Toth of Rubblebucket and Toth, for a set of music dedicated to his hometown. Please feel free to BYO picnic or to patronize Thai Tida or Bells Tavern for takeout. More updates to come.
A beloved folk singer presents an impassioned account of the fall and rise of the small American towns she cherishes.
Dubbed by the New Yorker as "one of America's very best singer-songwriters," Dar Williams has made her career not in stadiums, but touring America's small towns. She has played their venues, composed in their coffee shops, and drunk in their bars. She has seen these communities struggle, but also seen them thrive in the face of postindustrial identity crises.
Here, Williams muses on why some towns flourish while others fail, examining elements from the significance of history and nature to the uniting power of public spaces and food. Drawing on her own travels and the work of urban theorists, Williams offers real solutions to rebuild communities.
Free Community Event.
PLEASE PRE-REGISTER.
Donations are very much appreciated at this time and will be generously shared with other organizations as needed in our town of Lambertville.
We recommend listening to the audio book before the discussion available at https://tinyurl.com/DarWilliamsbook.