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Historical Society & Ray Bradbury Team Up For Ambitious Project
Monday, July 20, 2009, Venice--Few Venetians span the course of history that 95-year-old Navalette Bailey does. A direct descendant of the area's founding Tabor Family, she's seen Venice grow around her. The fact that she's never gotten directly involved in Venice politics and has instead sought to improve the area by simply doing, rather than talking, earns our
props for her evermore.
Currently Bailey's touting the Venice Historical Society's "Ray Bradbury Adopt-A-Colonnade Celebration | An Ambitious Restoration Project."
Bradbury, himself, will be on hand for a program fundraiser Friday, July 31, 2009 at the Electric Lodge in Venice.
If you've never met the man, and think he's old school--someone has misguided you. At 89-years-old the author of such game changers as
Fahrenheit 451 is as relevant and witty as ever.
He'll wrap Venice stories around you that will make you leave the evening laughing and in further awe of the great place we are truly fortunate enough to habitate. Like, the years when he was a struggling screen writer here, couldn't afford a phone line, and gave the number of a phone booth across the street to his bosses.
The Colonnade program is no less important. With huge swaths of Venice's economic engine being tossed aside--ie a few parking spots taking priority over old-school-Venice shacks where artists Ed Ruscha and Laddie John Dill have space--items such as the colonnades that set Venice apart from say, Old Town Pasadena, or the Promenade, will be key to the area's economic prosperity in the long term.
Tickets to the event are $55 if purchased in advance and $60 at the door. If you can't make the event but are interested in sponsoring a colonnade, the inventive, Bradbury-esque sponsorship packages alone make it worth it.
Sure there's the "Farenheit 451 Sponsor" at $250, but our personal fave--"A Graveyard for Lunatics Sponsor." If that's not Venice, what is?!
The event invitation states that not only will "Delightful delicacies & desserts will be served," but the evening offers "Flowing Champagne", so you know we'll be there.
For more info on how to attend/contribute or to download the full invitation visit :
http://www.venicehistorical.org/
c: 310.967.5170
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