San Francisco Remembers The Blunder Years
The Blunder Years is an evening of live performance and video where Bay Area filmmakers, writers, musicians, and actors show/perform pieces influenced by the television and movies of their teenage years. The event is scheduled for the evening of August 12 at Z-Space in San Francisco. All donations will go towards BAVC's The Factory — an advanced video production collective for motivated teenagers in the Oakland Bay Area.
Cinema Speakeasy and Friends with Benefits invites you to participate in The Blunder Years — an evening inspired by the pop-culture forces of our youth, to celebrate and benefit today's youth. This is a live variety showcase in which each participant pays homage to the iconic movie or TV show of their teen years in the form of a reading, a live sketch performance, a musical interpretation, a comedy routine, or a short-film screening, to name just a few examples. The night's performances will be punctuated by a cocktail hour, a house-band, and a DJ.
The event organizers are asking for all the best actors, writers, artists, comedians, and filmmakers from the Bay Area to lend their creative talents to this fun-filled charitable event. All proceeds will be donated to BAVC's The Factory — a non-profit year round production collective for motivated teenagers in the Oakland Bay Area. Led by award-winning filmmaker Jason Jakaitis, Factory produced videos have screened at more than 50 festivals internationally, garnered numerous awards, and aired on television shows in San Francisco and New York.
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