Join the Conversation

One of the most important things we do at the Cinema Arts Centre is create opportunities for members of our community to connect with and talk to us, to our guests, and to one another. Many of our films include Q&A time with directors, film artists, film scholars, and other experts. Many of our programs include panel discussions or other facilitated discussion. We have a robust and vibrant online community full of fun and meaningful discussion.

Here are some places where you can join the conversation.

Upcoming Film Programs:

IndieGirl Film Picks presents

MERMAIDS

In Person: Author Patty Dann

Hosted by Isil Bagdadi-Sergio

Sunday, May 7th at 2:30 PM

Members $10 | Public $15

HARRY CHAPIN – HIS AMERICA & BEGINNINGS AS A FILMMAKER

Live Reading by Tom Chapin of “Searching for Harry Chapin's America: Remember When the Music” and Film Screening of Harry Chapin’s LEGENDARY CHAMPIONS

Thursday, May 11th at 6:30 PM

Members $10 | Public $15

Q&A after the film with Josh Chapin and historian Michael Silver

IT AIN’T OVER - WITH YOGI BERRA'S SONS, LARRY & TIM BERRA IN-PERSON

Saturday, May 13 at 1pm

Members $10 | Public $15

Featuring a post-film discussion with Larry and Tim Berra (Yogi Berra’s sons) in-person. Hosted by Wallace Matthews, Former sports columnist for Newsday, the New York Post and ESPN

Sunday Schmooze

Hosted by Fred Craden

Pedro Almodóvar’s

WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

Sunday, May 21st

Bagels at 10 AM | Film at 11 AM

Members $15 | Public $20

Monthly In-Person Discussion Group:

Cinema Arts Centre is the home of the Long Island Chapter of Crossing Party Lines.

Crossing Party Lines is YOUR brave space to meet and talk with people you disagree with and may not even understand. You might even have fun! We meet as small groups where you can talk to real people about the issues that divide us, with an experienced facilitator. Share your unique insights, encounter new perspectives and new ways of looking at the world, and experience what it's like to feel heard and understood. You'll find that it is possible to disagree in a way that leaves you feeling true to yourself and your beliefs without losing your friends or your cool. CLICK HERE to learn more.

Join the conversation online:

Cinema Arts Centre Members and Friends is our discussion group on Facebook. Tell us what you you think of the last film you saw at the Cinema, or chime in on a variety of film and community topics.

Join, Renew, or Upgrade during our Spring membership Sale and Save!

Membership is on sale April 1 - June 30!

Members receive discounts on all of our daily first-run features, and our special events - well over 300 special events a year! Check out our Calendar to see what's coming up!

Members also save money with dozens of local restaurants and businesses who participate in our Reel Deals Discounts for Members program.

There are so many ways your membership can pay for itself, and bring great benefits to you, but it does so much more than that...

Your membership brings great benefits to our community and makes you part of our Cinema Family.

Members are the heart of all we do, and make all of our programs possible. We can't do it without you. Your membership brings cultural, educational, social, and economic benefits to our area.

This is our first Spring Membership Sale since we re-opened our doors last May. We are so excited about the films, special events, and cultural programs we are able to present. Your Membership support will help to ensure that we can keep going!

Click HERE to join, renew, or upgrade your Membership today.

OR join, renew or upgrade at the Box Office, via mail, or arrange for a member of our team to give you a call by clicking HERE.

A Word from Our Friends at the Vanderbilt Museum:

Vanderbilt Museum's First Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition 

The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum recently opened Wendy Klemperer: Wrought Taxonomies, the first exhibition of outdoor sculpture at the historic summer estate of William Kissam Vanderbilt II. The works will be on display through April 22, 2024.

Wendy Klemperer’s sculptures—a haunting assemblage of animal forms that span imaginary, endangered, familiar, and exotic species—celebrate natural history and the nonhuman world through evocative interactions with the surrounding environment.

Using materials salvaged from scrapyards, she composes ecological narratives that respond to the history and collections of Suffolk County’s first public park and museum. Her brilliant use of gestural lines captures the spectator’s attention and invites museumgoers to reflect on the relationship between an interest in animal life and the incessant push of human industry.

Wrought Taxonomies is the inaugural exhibition in the Vanderbilt Museum’s outdoor sculpture program and the institution’s second exhibition of contemporary art focused on the relationship between culture and animals.

The Vanderbilt Museum occupies the former Gold Coast estate of William Kissam Vanderbilt II, the great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt and a pioneer of American motorsport. Located in Centerport on the north shore of Long Island, it is renowned for its extensive marine and natural history collections, Spanish revival architecture, and picturesque parklands.

All sculptures are viewable with general admission to the Museum grounds. Educational programs and workshops associated with themes and content of Wendy Klemperer: Wrought Taxonomies will be offered throughout the exhibition. A special thanks is due to the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, whose generous support made Wrought Taxonomies possible.

Join Us for more great conversations with Crossing Party Lines!

Our next meeting is Thursday, May 18 at 7:00PM. Our topic will be: Shades of Red and Blue: What's YOUR Political Color?

Space is limited. Please RSVP HERE.

At Crossing Party Lines, we understand that politics is not a simple matter of Red or Blue - there’s an enormous range of colors on the political spectrum. You can even find different “shades” within a single party.

The Pew Research Center recently released a report titled Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology that offers a fresh look into American politics, finding that it's about more than the Democratic and Republican parties. Their survey of over 10,000 people yielded nine distinct political sub-groups:

Progressive Left

• Establishment Liberals
• Democratic Mainstays
• Outsider Left
• Stressed Sideliners
• Faith and Flag Conservatives
• Committed Conservatives
• Populist Right
• Ambivalent Right

You can read summaries of the groups here: https://crossingpartylines.com/PewTypologySummary.pdf - Does reading this report change the way you talk or think about American politics today? Let’s discuss!

Join the Crossing Party Lines discussion and have a voice in our Nation’s Conversation! People of all views are welcomed, appreciated, and heard.

Please plan to arrive at the beginning of the meetup for Meet & Greet before we sit down for conversation.

Want more information?

– Pew Typology Summary (https://crossingpartylines.com/PewTypologySummary.pdf)

– Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology (https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology-2/)