10% of ticket sales will benefit Vashon Island Pet Protectors! The NY Cat Film Festival™ is an exploration through film of the fascinating felines who share our lives, creating a shared audience experience that inspires, educates and entertains. The 21 films in the 8th Annual NY Cat Film Festival were carefully picked from 70 films totaling 9 ½ hours, submitted from 14 countries in addition to the United States - Australia, Canada, Croatia, Ecuador, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Russian Federation, Taiwan, UAE, and Uzbekistan. Apparently, cats rule the world! These chosen films make for a totally delightful experience for humans of all ages.

10% of ticket sales will benefit Vashon Island Pet Protectors! The NY Dog Film Festival® is an annual philanthropic celebration of the love between dogs and their people. The Festival is a two-hour medley of animated, documentary and narrative short films from around the world with a canine theme. The Festival premieres every year in New York City, then travels to theaters across the United States with 10% of every ticket benefiting a local dog rescue. The 15 films in the 10th Annual Dog Film Festival were chosen from 64 submissions from the United States as well as Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, Germany, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, Switzerland and the UK. We continue a decade of celebrating the relationship between people and dogs in short films that will take you on a roller-coaster ride of emotions. In particular, there are 2 films that won the Purina Dog Chow Service Dog Salute, depicting the life-saving bond between specially trained service dogs and veterans with PTSD. All the films are appropriate to delight and inspire all members of the human family.

Please join us for a tasty breakfast brunch during the first intermission of our live streaming of the Metropolitan Opera. Prepay in advance ($12) and help us know how many goodies to bring! We like to present a variety of breakfast brunch favorites, such as bagels & cream cheese, fresh fruit, yogurt, and local pastries. Offerings may change for each Opera, but we guarantee they will be delicious!

Vashon Youth & Family Services presents Adventures in Movies & Emotions Free community showing & film discussion Winner of six Academy Awards®* including Best Picture, Actor (Tom Hanks) and Director (Robert Zemeckis), the generation-defining film is a stunning journey through some of the most memorable events and cultural touchstones of the later 20th century, courtesy of Forrest and the powerful cast of characters. Hanks, Sally Field, Robin Wright, Mykelti Williamson and Gary Sinise all shine their brightest. Then, now, always — the world is simply never the same once you’ve seen it through the eyes of Forrest Gump.

From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, HAMNET tells the powerful love story that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

Fundraiser for Black on Vashon's 2026 Juneteenth Celebration A compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife.

Sponsored by Ukraine Defense Support For more info & tickets visit https://www.tickettailor.com/events/ukrainedefensesupport/1944334 Ukrainian musicians cope with the Russian invasion through their art, showcasing creativity and resilience through adversity while offering a vision of music's power during war.

Members of the Vashon Faith Community, Vashon Maury SURJ and the Friends of Thunderbird invite you to a free screening of SUGARCANE, part of a nation-wide Faith Community Screening Tour developed in partnership with Land Justice Futures. The film, an award-winning feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie is a groundbreaking investigation into an Indian residential school. It sheds light on years of forced separation, assimilation and abuse that Indigenous children experienced at the hands of Church and government. This urgent and timely film brings the hidden story of cultural genocide to audiences worldwide while celebrating the resilience of Native people as they work to overcome cycles of intergenerational trauma. The film will be followed by a brief opportunity for reflection and response, concluding by 8 PM. While admission is free, donations for the Thunderbird Treatment Centerwill be gratefully accepted at the door. If you are not able to join the documentary screening please feel free to donate directly to the Thank you to our sponsors: Vashon Theatre Island Greentech Church of the Holy Spirit Northwest Washington Synod - Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Vashon Friends Worship Group ~ Quakers Vashon Havurah Vashon Island Unitarian Universalists Vashon Presbyterian Church Vashon United Methodist Church Friends of Thunderbird Vashon Maury Standing Up for Racial Justice

The Lost Salmon is a poignant and inspiring film that captures the challenges facing salmon populations and highlights the hopeful ways scientists, conservationists, and communities are coming together to protect these vital species. This film is for anyone interested in the future of salmon and the role we can play in their recovery, and offers a unique opportunity to connect, learn, and be inspired by the stories of salmon and the people dedicated to their survival. The evening will also include a brief introduction to the Land Trust and our restoration work in Vashon Island creeks, followed by a Q&A with Land Trust staff and local ecology experts. This event free and open to the public—everyone is welcome. Donations to the Land Trust will be accepted for those who wish to support our work.

Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.

The Allies, led by the unyielding chief prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson (Michael Shannon), have the task of ensuring the Nazi regime answers for the unveiled horrors of the Holocaust while a US Army psychiatrist (Rami Malek) is locked in a dramatic psychological duel with former Reichsmarschall Herman Göring (Russell Crowe).

Teen sensations Molly Ringwald (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club) and Andrew McCarthy (St. Elmo’s Fire) drew rave reviews for their starring performances in this hit love story produced and written by John Hughes (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles). Andie is a high school girl from the other side of town. Blane’s the wealthy heartthrob who asks her to the prom. But as fast as their romance builds, it’s threatened by the painful reality of peer pressure. From its bittersweet story to its New Wave soundtrack, the film features great supporting performances from Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, James Spader, and Annie Potts.  This special anniversary release will also include the short featurette, FILMMAKER FOCUS: Director Howard Deutch on PRETTY IN PINK. 

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American composer Gabriela Lena Frank makes her Met debut with her first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met premiere of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker, following her remarkable 2024 debut staging of Ainadamar.

ACT I Russia, 19th century. Autumn in the country. On the Larin estate. Madame Larina reflects upon the days before she married, when she was courted by her husband but loved another. She is now a widow with two daughters: Tatiana and Olga. While Tatiana spends her time reading novels, with whose heroines she closely identifies, Olga is being courted by their neighbor, the poet Lenski. He arrives unexpectedly, bringing with him a new visitor, Eugene Onegin, with whom Tatiana falls in love. Tatiana asks her nurse Filippyevna to tell her of her first love and marriage. Tatiana stays up all night writing a passionate letter to Onegin and persuades Filippyevna to have her grandson deliver it in the morning. Tatiana waits for Onegin’s response in the garden. He admits that he was touched by her declaration but explains that he cannot accept it and can only offer her friendship. He advises her to control her emotions, lest another man take advantage of her innocence. ACT II January. The local community has been invited to the Larin estate to celebrate Tatiana’s name day. Onegin has reluctantly agreed to accompany Lenski to what he mistakenly believes will be an intimate family celebration. Annoyed to find himself trapped at an enormous party and bored by the occasion, Onegin takes his revenge on Lenski by flirting and dancing with Olga. Lenski’s jealousy is aroused to such a height that he challenges Onegin to a duel. The party breaks up. Before the duel, Lenski meditates upon his poetry, upon his love for Olga, and upon death. Lenski’s second finds Onegin’s late arrival and his choice of a second insulting. Although both Lenski and Onegin are full of remorse, neither stops the duel. Lenski is killed. ACT III St. Petersburg. Having travelled abroad for several years since the duel, Onegin has returned to the capital. At a ball, Prince Gremin introduces his young wife. Onegin is astonished to recognize her as Tatiana and to realize that he is in love with her. Onegin has sent a letter to Tatiana. He arrives at the Gremin palace and begs her to run away with him. Tatiana admits that she still loves him, but that she has made her decision and will not leave her husband. Onegin is left desperate. —Reprinted courtesy of English National Opera

ACT I Isolde, an Irish princess, is being taken to Cornwall aboard the ship of Tristan, whose uncle, King Marke, plans to marry her. She becomes enraged by a sailor’s song about an Irish girl, and her maid, Brangäne, tries to calm her. Isolde interrogates Tristan, but he replies evasively. His companion Kurwenal loudly ridicules the Irish women and sings a mocking verse about Morold, Isolde’s fiancé, who was killed by Tristan when he came to Cornwall to exact tribute for Ireland. Isolde, barely able to control her anger, tells Brangäne how the wounded Tristan came to her in disguise after his fight with Morold so that he could be healed by Isolde’s knowledge of herbs and magic, which she learned from her mother. Isolde explains to Brangäne that she recognized Tristan, but her determination to take revenge for Morold’s death dissolved when he pleadingly looked her in the eyes. She now bitterly regrets her reluctance to kill him and wishes death for him and herself. Brangäne reminds her that to marry a king is no dishonor and that Tristan is simply performing his duty. Isolde maintains that his behavior shows his lack of love for her, and asks Brangäne to prepare her mother’s death potion. Kurwenal tells the women to prepare to leave the ship, as shouts from the deck announce the sighting of land. Isolde insists that she will not accompany Tristan until he apologizes for his offenses. He appears and greets her with cool courtesy. When she tells him she wants satisfaction for Morold’s death, Tristan offers her his sword, but she will not kill him. Instead, Isolde suggests that she and Tristan make peace with a drink of friendship. He understands that she means to poison them both, but still drinks, and she does the same. Expecting death, they exchange a long look of love, then fall into each other’s arms. Brangäne admits that she has in fact mixed a love potion, as sailors’ voices announce the ship’s arrival in Cornwall. ACT II In the garden of Marke’s castle, Isolde waits impatiently for a rendezvous with Tristan, while distant horns signal the king’s departure on a hunting party. Isolde believes that the party is far off, but Brangäne warns her about spies, particularly Melot, a jealous knight whom she has noticed watching Tristan. Isolde replies that Melot is Tristan’s friend. She sends Brangäne off to stand watch and puts out the warning torch. When Tristan appears, she welcomes him passionately. They praise the darkness that shuts out the light of conventionality and false appearances and agree that they feel secure in the night’s embrace. Brangäne’s distant voice warns that it will be daylight soon, but the lovers are oblivious to any danger and compare the night to death, which will ultimately unite them. Kurwenal rushes in with a warning: the king and his followers have returned, led by Melot, who denounces the lovers. Moved and disturbed, Marke declares that it was Tristan himself who urged him to marry and choose the bride. He does not understand how someone so dear to him could dishonor him in such a way. Tristan cannot answer. He asks Isolde if she will follow him into the realm of death. When she accepts, Melot attacks Tristan, who falls wounded into Kurwenal’s arms. ACT III Back at his castle, the mortally ill Tristan is tended by Kurwenal. A shepherd inquires about his master, and Kurwenal explains that only Isolde, with her magic arts, could save him. The shepherd agrees to play a cheerful tune on his pipe as soon as he sees a ship approaching. Hallucinating, Tristan imagines the realm of night where he will return with Isolde. He thanks Kurwenal for his devotion, then envisions Isolde’s ship approaching, but the shepherd’s mournful tune signals that the sea is still empty. Tristan recalls the melody, which he heard as a child. It reminds him of the duel with Morold, and he wishes Isolde’s medicine had killed him then instead of making him suffer now. The shepherd’s tune finally turns cheerful. Tristan gets up from his sickbed in growing agitation and tears off his bandages, letting his wounds bleed. Isolde rushes in, and he falls, dying, in her arms. When the shepherd announces the arrival of another ship, Kurwenal assumes it carries Marke and Melot, and barricades the gate. Brangäne’s voice is heard from outside, trying to calm Kurwenal, but he will not listen and stabs Melot before he is killed himself by the king’s soldiers. Marke is overwhelmed with grief at the sight of the dead Tristan, while Brangäne explains to Isolde that the king has come to pardon the lovers. Isolde, transfigured, does not hear her, and with a vision of Tristan beckoning her to the world beyond, she sinks dying upon his body.

Tickets available at the door or VFI's website - https://vashonislandfilmfestival.ticketspice.com/vfipresents-mr-nobody-against-putin -- dir. David Borenstein starring Viktor Abakumov, Lavrenti Beria, Yevhen Konovalets A Russian teacher secretly documents his small town school's transformation into a war recruitment center during the Ukraine invasion, revealing the ethical dilemmas educators face amid propaganda and militarization. “This is a brilliant film, accessible yet profound, and already easily one of the best of the year.” - POV Magazine “It’s a striking work of rebel cinema” - The Daily Beast