Community Cinema, presented by the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and The Mancos Public Library are excited to present this month’s screening of Pushing the Elephant. When civil war came to Rose’s Congolese village, she was separated from her five-year-old daughter, Nangabire. Rose managed to escape with nine of her 10 children and was eventually resettled in Phoenix, Arizona. More than a decade later, mother and daughter are reunited in the U.S. where they must come to terms with the past and build a new future.

Date: Thursday, March 10th

Time: Doors Open at 6:30

This film will show at the Mancos Public Library, 211 West First Street, and the hour-long film will begin at 7:00pm.  A panel-led discussion will follow the film.  Free!  For more information please call the Mancos Public Library at 533-7600.

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Local writer Kate Niles will be at the Mancos Public Library on Tuesday, March 8th, to read from and introduce her new book The Book of John.

The book is about archaelogist John Thompson who thinks he’s going to have an easy summer. Instead he runs into an archeological discovery that will shake the field, his field, to its core. Fifty years old, overweight, married to someone who has aided and abetted his career while never forcing him to deal with his own deep-seated insecurities, John flees to the most extreme place he knows: the Makah Indian community at Neah Bay, Washington. Exposed to the endless rain and relentless sea of the Olympic Peninsula, John is confronted with a people desperate to rejuvenate their ancient whaling tradition, and the ghost of an old love affair John has tried to bury for years. In surefooted, lyrical prose, Niles explores what it means to excavate a life out of the wreckage of the past, and the ramifications of keeping secrets for far too long.

Date: Tuesday, March 8

Time: 6:30 p.m.

This event is free and open to all ages. Copies of The Book of John will be available for purchase. For more information please call MPL at 533-7600.