For the past two years, this is the space I'd use to tell you about the extreme endurance test of blood, sweat, tears, and popcorn known as the Brattle Watch-A-Thon . Alas, this season, the 'thon is not to be run. Instead, the Brattle Film Foundation has other fundraising initiatives in place, and I'd like to highlight one in particular, and hope that you'll be inspired to participate.
For a limited time, your donations are matched!
Thanks to a generous $10,000 Challenge Grant, this month the Brattle Film Foundation is running its first-ever
Fall Fundraising Challenge! This means that every contribution made to the foundation in the month of September is matched dollar for dollar.
Only donations and *memberships!* made by September 30, 2007 will apply. You can donate via credit card thru this FirstGiving page, or at the Brattle
website, and of course, at the theater itself. (Go go go! =)
Goodness at the Brattle...
If you'd like to "try before you buy," I urge you to check out the films in their current
Recent Raves or What We Did On Your Summer Vacation 2 series, including SUNSHINE, GRINDHOUSE, and MY BEST FRIEND. Schedule willing, I'd be up for seeing almost all of the series (again, half of them =). Also, look ahead a week or so to
Cult Double Vision, three days of no-brainer dream double features. In between, you can have your perspective altered and your consciousness raised by the
GLOBAL VOICES United Nations Association Film Festival. And in mid-October, the
fantastic and happy-making BOSTON FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL returns!
Really good crack.
Hrmm... Boat not quite floating? how about an evening of live music with Throwing Muses and Belly rockers
Kristin Hersh & Tanya Donelly? Uh huh. Take *that!*
=)
Thank you for any little something you can give to help the Brattle...
...Keep on keepin on~ =)
p.s. Remember, funds matching applies only to contributions made in September, so please, donate now.
p.p.s. I'm told the Brattle Movie Watch-A-Thon will return in fall 2008. I shall come for you then, at the appointed time...