HCNJ presents a private screening of The Librarians (2025)
Beyond the Book: An Evening of Film, Conversation & Intellectual Freedom
Date: Sunday, October 25th, 2026
Time: 4:00 - 6:30pm
Location: Madison Community Arts Center, 10 Kings Rd, Madison, NJ 07940
In association with Banned Books Week (Oct. 4 - 10), the Harvard Club of NJ and Inter-Ivy+ is hosting a private screening of The Librarians (2025), a documentary examining the growing movement to restrict access to books in communities across the country.
But the afternoon doesn’t end when the credits roll!
Join us afterward for a conversation with a librarian featured in the film, and watch another short film in development presented for audience commentary.
Come watch. Come listen. Come share your perspective. One afternoon. Two films. A conversation worth having.
Book banning is as old as public libraries, but the battlegrounds are freshly polarized and the stakes as high as ever, as witnessed by Oscar®-nominated Kim A. Snyder in her paean to librarians, and the parents and students who flank them, on the frontlines. Filmmaker Kim Snyder (Newtown, Us Kids, 2025 Oscar®-Nominated Death By Numbers) takes us to an unexpected front line where librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy, free access to information, and our First Amendment Rights. As they well know, controlling the flow of ideas means control over communities.
Click here to watch the trailer.
Free street parking can be found on Kings Road and the surrounding streets. There are also free parking lots nearby. Train MCAC is an hour from NYC by train on the NJ Transit Morris & Essex Line, and a five-minute walk from the Madison Train Station, Madison, NJ 07940