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D.I.C.E. Sidewalk Cinema Event with Live Music & Little Caesar's Pizza on the Home Savings Plaza

Greetings,

WHO: Standing Rock Cultural Arts & Downtown Businesses

WHAT: Sidewalk Cinema
-A Downtown Innovative Community Event (D.I.C.E.)
-A FREE Outdoor Screening of “A Hard Day’s Night” featuring The Beatles
-Live Music by The Bluestones starting at 7pm
-FREE Pizza donated by Little Caesar’s

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WHEN: Friday, July 29, 7pm-11:30pm

WHERE: Outdoors at The Home Savings Plaza
-corner of Main and Water Streets in Downtown Kent
-bring a blanket or a lawn chair

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CONTACT: 330-673-4970

Cost: FREE

www.standingrock.net for updates

ABOUT THE FILM

Director: Richard Lester
Actors: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, The Beatles
Writers: Alun Owen
Producers: David V. Picker, Denis O'Dell, Walter Shenson
Rated: G (General Audience)
Release Date: 1964
Run Time: 87 minutes

SYNOPSIS:

The Fab Four from Liverpool--John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr--in their first movie. Nobody expected A Hard Day's Night to be much more than a quick exploitation of a passing musical fad, but when the film opened it immediately seduced the world--even the stuffiest critics fell over themselves in praise (highbrow Dwight Macdonald called it "not only a gay, spontaneous, inventive comedy but it is also as good cinema as I have seen for a long time").

Wisely, screenwriter Alun Owen based his script on the Beatles' actual celebrity at the time, catching them in the delirious early rush of Beatlemania: eluding rampaging fans, killing time on trains and in hotels, appearing on a TV broadcast. American director Richard Lester, influenced by the freestyle French New Wave and British Goon Show humor, whips up a delightfully upbeat circus of perpetual motion.

From the opening scene of the mop tops rushing through a train station mobbed by fans, the movie rarely stops for air. Some of the songs are straightforwardly presented, but others ("Can't Buy Me Love," set to the foursome gamboling around an empty field) soar with ingenuity. Above all, the Beatles express their irresistible personalities: droll, deadpan, infectiously cheeky. Better examples of pure cinematic joy are few and far between. --Robert Horton
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D.I.C.E. is a grassroots partnership between Standing Rock Cultural Arts and downtown businesses whose purpose is to revitalize downtown Kent through cultural events. All events take place in the Open Air at The Home Savings Plaza and are free to the public.

A special Thank You to Dan Smith and the Economic Development Department of The City of Kent for awarding us a Celebrate Kent! Grant for our D.I.C.E. program in 2011.

Sponsored by The Ohio Arts Council, The Henry V. and Frances W. Christenson Foundation, The City of Kent, The Kent Parks and Recreation Department, The Home Savings Bank, Woodsy’s Music, Little Caesars Pizza, City Bank Antiques, The Hall-Green Insurance Agency, Taco Tantos, Ray’s Place, The Wild Goat Cafe, and Star of the West Milling Company.


D.I.C.E. Schedule for 2011

Sidewalk Cinema
-Friday, August 26, Dusk, TBA.

Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social
-Saturday, August 13, 1-4pm

Cider Festival
-Saturday, October 15, 12-3pm

Ice Carving Exhibition
-Saturday, February 11, 2012. 1-4pm

ALL DICE EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND TAKE PLACE AT THE HOME SAVINGS PLAZA, AT THE CORNER OF WATER AND MAIN STREETS IN DOWNTOWN KENT.


Standing Rock Cultural Arts is a non profit art and educational organization based in downtown Kent. We strive for community through the arts! We welcome and appreciate sponsors and members for support of our ongoing art and educational activities. Contributions and membership fees are tax deductible. Please visit www.standingrock.net for more information.

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