My Bloody Valentine (2009)

Horror Series

Remake of the 1981 slasher classic about a homicidal maniac terrorizing a small mining town on Valentine’s Day. Jaime King, Jensen Ackles. Directed by Patrick Lussier.

Rated R

Running Time 101 minutes

Take a stroll through Downtown Jonesborough and pick up delicious chocolate treats in celebration of Jonesborough’s Chocolate Fest. There will be chocolate stops dotted throughout downtown provided by Jonesborough small businesses, each serving something unique and special, and of course, chocolate-themed. Attendees will discover endless options, everything from barks, fudges, truffles, cupcakes, and so much more.

Chocolate Fest will be a two-day event with four time slots available, and a limited number of tickets sold. The days and times are as follows: Friday, February 13, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.; and Saturday, February 14, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

During each workshop, led by Susan Ojanen certified chocolatier and owner of Beat Street Bites, attendees will create Dark Chocolate French Mendiants, a 2-ounce piece of rich dark chocolate bark topped with a variety of dried fruits and nuts. Your chocolate will be packaged and ready for pickup 30 minutes after your session.

A separate ticket is required for the Chocolate Workshop experience. Tickets are just $10.

Back by popular demand, JAMSA will offer a special ticket for patrons over 21 called Chocolate After Dark in addition to the regular ticket on Friday, February 13, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Attendees are encouraged to purchase the combo ticket (Chocolate Fest/Chocolate After Dark) for $35, which includes 5 beverage tasting tickets in addition to the chocolate stop tickets. Drink tickets cannot be shared, and anyone drinking will have a wristband and MUST bring their ID. 

Attendees will have the opportunity to experience live Ice Sculpture carving by the Ice Mill from Asheville, North Carolina, only on Saturday, February 14. Watch as these ice carvers work their magic and create a Jonesborough-themed piece of ice artwork. There will also be a cake walk where attendees can try their luck to win a bento cake, uniquely wrapped in a take-out box.

Chocolate Fest tickets will be sold in packs of 10 for $20, and Chocolate Fest/Chocolate After Dark combo tickets are $35. One ticket gives attendees access to one chocolate treat stop. Tickets need to be purchased in advance and are expected to sell out quickly.

Early ticket pick-up will begin on Wednesday, February 11, through Thursday, February 12, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Chocolate After Dark tickets must be picked up on Friday, beginning at 3 p.m., as they require an ID check. All ticket pick-ups will take place at the Historic Jonesborough Visitors Center located on Boone Street. At check-in, attendees will receive a bag with their chocolate tasting tickets and a list of chocolate stops and activities; the bag also doubles as chocolate storage.

JAMSA is operated by volunteers, consisting of local business owners and community members and is focused on promoting and serving local merchants as well as the growth of Jonesborough as a whole. Chocolate Fest is one of the ways JAMSA works to support locally owned businesses. The funds raised from Chocolate Fest go directly back to Jonesborough small businesses and the community.

Chocolate Fest will take place rain, snow, or shine.

Visit JBOChocolateFest.com for more information and to purchase tickets, or call 423.753.1010. 

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About Town of Jonesborough: A unique 18th-century town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of Northeast Tennessee, Jonesborough’s natural beauty, charming architecture, and storytelling heritage have attracted visitors worldwide. Stay a day, a week, or forever, and create your own stories in beautiful Historic Jonesborough. Visit www.jonesboroughtn.org for more information.

Wonka (2023)

Jonesborough – Chocolate Fest!

This fantasy musical film follows the story of Willy Wonka, the famous but eccentric chocolatier based on the character from Roald Dahl’s novel. In particular, it emphasizes his rise to the top. The narrative traces his beginnings as a young adult who started as an employee selling chocolate in a store until he became driven to enter the chocolate industry eventually. This film acts as a prequel to the 1971 film adaptation of Dahl’s novel.



Rated PG

Running Time 112 minutes

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Jonesborough – Chocolate Fest! FREE MOVIE SPONSORED BY JAMSA

Acclaimed director Tim Burton brings his vividly imaginative style to the beloved Roald Dahl classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, about eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) and Charlie (Freddie Highmore), a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka’s extraordinary factory. Long isolated from his own family, Wonka launches a worldwide contest to select an heir to his candy empire. Five lucky children, including Charlie, draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy-making facility that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another, Charlie is drawn into Wonka’s fantastic world in this astonishing and enduring story.

Rated PG

Running Time 118 minutes

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Best Picture winner is about a fictional romance between a struggling young playwright named Shakespeare and a noblewoman who longs to act, and who inspires him to write “Romeo and Juliet.” Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar for her role as the muse.

Rated R

Running Time 123 minutes

Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Family Series

Superlative Oscar-nominated animated musical about the romance between a French belle who sacrifices her happiness to save her father and a prince who’s been hideously transformed by a magic spell, which can only be broken by finding his true love.

Rated G

Running Time 85 minutes

Night Nurse (1931)

Pay What You Can

Speakeasy Cinema Series – Doors open at 6 pm, movie at 7pm

Jazz Music, Specialty Craft Cocktails (and Mocktails) for purchase

along with our full selection of beverages at the concession stand.

Complimentary light bites will we available.  

Night Nurse is a 1931 American pre-code crime drama mystery film directed by William A. Wellman. The film stars Barbara Stanwyck as Lora Hart, a nurse who discovers a plot to murder two children, Desney and Nanny Ritchey, under her supervision. The story unfolds as Lora, who is initially rejected from a nursing position due to her lack of a high school diploma, charms the hospital’s chief of staff, Dr. Arthur Bell, who then hires her. As she works the night shift in the emergency room, Lora uncovers a sinister conspiracy involving the children’s neglect and the corrupt physician Dr. Milton Ranger. The film explores themes of medical ethics, Prohibition era bootlegging, and class corruption, and is notable for its risqué content, including scenes of nurses undressing. Night Nurse features fun characters and packs a lot of storytelling into a brisk seventy minutes. It’s one of Clark Gable’s beginning roles in Hollywood.

Rated TV-G

Running Time 71 minutes

The Notebook (2004)

Audience Picks Series

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to an older, invalid woman whom he regularly visits. From a faded notebook, the old man’s words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths. Though her memory has faded, his words give her the chance to relive her turbulent youth and the unforgettable love they shared.

Rated PG-13

Running Time 123 minutes

Join Paws in Blue for the third annual Bar-B-Q Fundraiser on Friday, February 20 from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Jonesborough Senior Center, located at 307 East Main Street. Attendees can expect a bar-b-q dinner, a meet-and-greet with Jonesborough K-9s and a silent auction.

To-go orders can be picked up from 5 to 6 p.m. The sit-down service will be from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

If purchasing tickets in advance, adult tickets for the sit-down and to-go meals are $20, and children’s meals are $15. Day-of tickets will be $25 for adults. Patrons will have a choice of pork or chicken BBQ, with sides of baked beans and coleslaw, as well as desserts and beverages.

To purchase tickets, visit jonesborough.com/tickets or call the Jonesborough Visitors Center at 423.753.1010.

This fundraiser is an effort to raise support for the Jonesborough Police Department to obtain and support their police K-9s.

For more information, visit Paws in Blue on Facebook or call Ruth Verhegge at 423.794.0237.

Glory (1989)

Celebrating America 250: 1776- 2026

Tribute to the Army’s first black regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, that was mustered up during the Civil War under the command of an inexperienced white New Englander.

Rated R

Running Time 122 minutes

Guest Speaker: Steve T. Phan: Chief of Interpretation, Education, and Visitor Services at Camp Nelson National Monument

THIS PROGRAM MADE POSSIBLE WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNER:  THE HERITAGE ALLIANCE

Join us on Friday, February 21st at 7pm for Kelsey Waldon and Gabe Lee at the Jackson Theatre.

Kelsey Walson- In the six years since she signed to John Prine’s Oh Boy Records, Kelsey Waldon has earned wide praise for her “self-penned compositions [with] the patina of authenticity” (Rolling Stone). On her new album, Every Ghost, she confronts addiction, grief, generational trauma, and even

herself — and comes through it stronger and at peace. “There’s a lot of hard-earned healing on this record,” Waldon says of the nine-song project,

recorded at Southern Grooves studio in Memphis with her band, The Muleskinners. As she sings in the record’s title track and first song, “Ghost of Myself,” she’s put in the work not only to better herself and leave behind bad habits, but also to learn to love her past selves. Doing so wasn’t easy, Waldon admits. “It took time and experience,” she says, adding that she can now find compassion for her younger self. “I think you’ve gotta respect her,” Waldon says, “because she was trying as hard as she could for

where she was at, and she was doing a damn good job.” Compassion is a throughline on Every Ghost, whether it’s for Waldon herself, for the person in

the throes of addiction in “Falling Down,” or for a suffering world in “Nursery Rhyme.” The people in Waldon’s songs aren’t irredeemable — they’re struggling.

“You’ve got to have compassion; you gotta stay humble and have gratitude,” Waldon says. However, she’s learned that you also can’t let people take advantage of an empathetic heart.

“Comanche” — which Waldon jokes is her very own truck song — finds Waldon grappling with the loss of a loved one, not to death but to boundaries she’s set for her own good. Waldon owns a 1988 Jeep Comanche, and driving it serves as a kind of therapy for her. “I love the whole aspect of when design mattered,” she says, “and owning your car was an

expression of yourself.” “Comanche” is deeply personal, but Waldon’s most introspective reflections bookend My Ghost. Its penultimate song, “My Kin,” extends the idea of loving yourself in spite of yourself beyond the choices she’s made and the circumstances she’s put herself in, to reckon with both the good

and the bad that come from her family tree. Those traits, Waldon concludes, make her who she is. “As the song says, ‘I’m the best and worst of my kin,’ and I love that for myself,” says Waldon, who was born and raised in a hunting lodge at the end of a dead-end road in the rural, unincorporated community of Monkey’s Eyebrow, Ky. “And I’m also at a point where I’m willing to break these cycles, I’m willing to grow, I’m willing to evolve.” Among those best parts of her lineage is Waldon’s grandmother, who died in June 2024. “She

was a remarkable woman. The women in my family have been rocks, and they’ve all been colorful and full of character,” Waldon says. “Her garden and her yard, that might have been one of the things she took the most pride in,” Waldon adds, recalling how her granny would often stop to dig up roadside flowers, then transplant them into her yard. A display of tiger lilies, some of which now grow in Waldon’s yard in Tennessee, was a particular point of pride.Transplanting is such a tradition — it can teach you a lot,” Waldon says. “Life goes on, beauty can grow from anywhere, and as long as a person is remembered, they’re never gone.” Waldon honors her granny with the song “Tiger Lilies.” She didn’t want an over-the-top

sentimental song, so she instead leaned into the idea of traditions as a way to remember loved ones. “I’m sure Granny would love it,” Waldon says. Every Ghost concludes with a Hazel Dickens cover, “Ramblin’ Woman.” Waldon covered two Dickens songs on 2024’s There’s Always a Song and had added “Ramblin’ Woman” to their live

sets as well. While Waldon didn’t originally intend to include their cover on this album, it served as “a sonic star” during the recording process and has a message Waldon feels is still relevant decades after Dickens wrote it. “Hazel was ahead of her time,” Waldon says. “Our existence is more than just what society expects of us. We’re more than just somebody’s girlfriend or wife or mother, and those are all beautiful things, but we can have our own independence, and we don’t have to do it for anybody else. We’re beautiful, magical, and powerful creatures.” That’s certainly how Waldon sees herself after completing Every Ghost. “It feels like there’s a spirit of fearlessness throughout this album,” Waldon says, “and I’m really proud of that.” Waldon’s fearlessness is among the reasons she landed at Oh Boy Records in 2019, as the independent label’s first new signee in 15 years. It’s attracted fans to her headline tours and her festival sets, and prompted artists including Tyler Childers, Charley Crockett, Robert Earl Keen, Margo Price, and Lucinda Williams to invite her on tour. It helped earn her both the title of “Kentucky Colonel” — an honor recognizing goodwill ambassadors of Kentucky’s culture and traditions — and a spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s annual American Currents exhibit in 2024.

Gabe Lee- Storytelling has been an anchor of Lee’s music since the very beginning. He launched his careeras a genre-bending musician after returning to Tennessee, quickly progressing from dive bar gigsto high-profileopening slots (including shows with Jason Isbell, Los Lobos, and other artistswho, like him, blurred the lines between roots-rock, country, and other forms of American folkmusic) to his own headlining shows. Throughout it all, he drew upon the narrativeskills he’dsharpened as a student. If albums like Honky-Tonk Hell and The Hometown Kid often unfoldedlike autobiographical entries from his road journal, then Drink the River shows an even broaderrange of his storytelling abilities. Lee isn’t just writing songs about himself; he’s writing songsabout all of us. And maybe, in doing so, he can bring us a little closer together.

Soul (2020)

Family Series

Pay What You Can

What is it that makes you…YOU? Pixar Animation Studios’ all-new feature film SOUL introduces Joe Gardner (voice of Jamie Foxx) – a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. But one small misstep takes him from the streets of New York City to The Great Before – a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities, quirks and interests before they go to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22 (voice of Tina Fey), who has never understood the appeal of the human experience. As Joe desperately tries to show 22 what’s great about living, he may just discover the answers to some of life’s most important questions.

Rated PG

Running Time 90 minutes

February 23, 7PM

Black and White and Shades of Gray

Junction 4961

Performed at Visitors Center

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

Audience Picks Series

In the final chapter of “The Hobbit” series, Bilbo Baggins and his traveling companions get caught up in a war that threatens to destroy all of Middle Earth.



Rated PG-13

Running Time 144 minutes 

Candyman (1992)

Horror Series 

A grad student encounters a hook-handed urban legend in Chicago’s Cabrini Green housing projects. 

Rated R 

Running Time 101 minutes