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January 14, 8:00 pm at The Nyack Center

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Directed by Jafar Panahi
2025, Iran, 103 minutes, in Farsi with English Subtitles

Winner of the Palm d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, and the first film by Jafar Panahi since his most recent imprisonment in Iran, It Was Just An Accident is a moral dilemma of a man who has a random encounter with someone he suspects was his torturer while in prison. To decide what action to take, if any, he contacts others who were tortured, possibly by the same man. What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences, and questions are raised about the way that tyrannical rule corrupts a society.

Discussion with the cinematographer, Amin Jafari, via zoom.

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Our weekly poets circle, Circle Up, is happening every Thursday night from 6 PM to 7 PM at X House in Nyack. This week, I’m thinking on doing a performance/delivery workshop, but usually we do either writing or editing. If you want weekly emails or texts about that, let me know and I can add you to the proper list. If you can swing it, cost is $5, paid directly to the venue.

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On Friday, January 9, 2026 Edward Hopper House Museum is hosting, with Perry Lawson Fine Art, a SCREENING & TALKBACK of “Imber’s Left Hand” with director Richard Kane and artist Jill Hoy.  Come celebrate resilience and the power of art and witness the incredible true story of Hoy’s late husband artist Jon Imber and his inspiring commitment to painting after an ALS diagnosis.

Friday, January 9, 2026, 6:00-8:00 PM (deep open 5:45)

Location: The Angel Nyack (Pitkin Room), 18 S. Broadway, Nyack, NY

Tickets: $10 EHHM Members, $15 General Public

Reserve your ticket online  edwardhopperhouse.org

Optional pre-screening exhibition visits:

5:00–5:45 PM: Ticket holders may view the exhibitions at Edward Hopper House Museum (82 N Broadway) & Perry Lawson Fine Art (90 N Broadway), with light refreshments.

On view through Feb 15, 2026, “Side by Side,” at Edward Hopper House, celebrates the shared artistic life of Jon Imber and Jill Hoy, and right next door at Perry Lawson Fine Art, see “Jill Hoy: Narratives of Form and Color” through Jan 11, 2026.

About Richard Kane is an independent director whose work is focused on the intersection of art and contemporary American life. Previous film releases include, TRUTH TELLERS, Building Hope: Ending Homeless; J. Fred Woell: An American Vision, I Know a Man … Ashley Bryan, Imber’s Left Hand, and 17 others, most part of the Maine Masters collection, a New England Emmy-nominated series of portraits that airs on public television. 

 

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Award-winning nonfiction author Nancy Castaldo has been writing books about our planet for decades from her home in the Hudson Valley for children and adults. Her work has received numerous honors, including the Green Earth Book Award, National Science Teachers Association Best STEM Book designation, Eureka Honors, Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing honors, and multiple Junior Library Guild Gold selections.

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Start the new year with a winter collaborative playwriting class for Middle-graders (3rd-6th). Teacher Victoria Oltarsh, sci-fi author of the award-winning book, The Boy and the Secret of the Stars, published lyricist, and lifelong playwriting and theater teacher will guide the young writers in how to write a 10-minute play. At session’s end, there will be a table read of the students’ plays in a showcase for family and friends.

Register by phone at 845-875-7707 or in-person

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