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Fort Washington Library: Summer Adventure Finale Fiesta with Flor Bromley

Join us at Fort Washington Library for Fiesta with Flor Bromley.

Join GRAMMY® Latin GRAMMY® nominee Flor Bromley in a multicultural musicalcelebration! Kids and families will join in the fun as they learn about different musical genresthrough dance, storytelling and songs, traveling with Flor to the countries where the rhythms wereborn. This is not your typical children’s concert, it’s a whole family fiesta!

Fort Washington Library: Friday Matinee “Singing in the Rain”

Join us in our Community Room where films that will make you laugh, cry, scream, or sing.

We are showing the classic “Singing in the Rain” with Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O’Connor.

When the transition is being made from silent films to `talkies’, everyone has trouble adapting. Don and Lina have been cast repeatedly as a romantic couple, but when their latest film is remade into a musical, only Don has the voice for the new singing part. After a lot of practise with a diction coach, Lina still sounds terrible, and Kathy, a bright young aspiring actress, is hired to record over her voice.

Fort Washington Library: Friday Matinee “The Blues Brothers”

Join us at the Fort Washington Library in our Community Room as we screen films that may make you laugh,cry or just recall a memory from back in the day. Come join us for the screening of “The Blues Brothers”

The story is a tale of redemption for paroled convict Jake and his brother Elwood, who set out on “a mission from God” to prevent the foreclosure of the Roman Catholic orphanage in which they were raised. To do so, they must reunite their (R&B) band and organize a performance to earn the $5,000 needed to pay the orphanage’s property tax bill.

Features an all star cast of comedy and music legends .    Running Time: 133 minutes  MPAA Rating: R

End times are approximate. Events may end early or late.

Fort Washington Library: Friday Matinee “Music Man”

Join us at the Fort Washington Library in our Community Room as we screen films that may make you laugh,cry or just recall a memory from back in the day.

We will screen “The Music Man” ; this musical is considered an American classic. It holds a place of honor on both American Film Institute’s 100 years… 100 songs and its Greatest Movie Musical lists .It is the story of Harold Hill, a traveling con artist who convinces a skeptical Midwestern town to form a youth band. Yet that all backfires when he falls for Marian; the town librarian .

Starring : Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, and Ron Howard  Running Time: 2 hours 30 min.  MPAA Rating : G

End times are approximate. Events may end early or late.

Fort Washington Library: Teen Movie & Discussion “Top Gun Maverick”

Fort Washington Library: Teen Movie & Discussion “Top Gun Maverick”

When Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission, he encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw, call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose.”

For ages 13 to 18 years