Canned Food Drives for Prescreenings?

POSTED BY: Shiny
UPDATED: Thursday, May 5, 2005 23:41
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MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Monday, May 2, 2005 1:24 PM

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Originally posted by Shiny:

3. Review the release I've drafted below and give me some feedback and any suggestions for improving it (by the way, I just made up a quote and attributed it to Renee; if she doesn't like it I may have to re-write it or attribute it to someone else)

Just from a boring legalistic p.o.v. - do you need clearance for the quote from Chris? To be honest, I'm not sure the piece needs either quote - one isn't to do with the drive, the other isn't (as yet) real - plus the shorter the story, the more likely they are to take it.

"I threw up on your bed"

SHINY

Monday, May 2, 2005 2:07 PM

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Originally posted by SoupCatcher:
Shiny,

Has anything been lined up with homeless shelters? We may be able to accomplish the same goal by working with foodbanks instead. The SF Food Bank will drop off barrels and pick them up. I'm not sure how far in advance they need for scheduling. The theater owner would probably have to be in the loop.

You're probably right; food bank makes a lot more sense.

ELLYDRAGON

Monday, May 2, 2005 2:33 PM

I think it's a great gorram idea! But, unfortunately, I'm not near any locations myself. What about also organizing something similar for the opening night in September? We could even set up the same slogans etc if it goes that organized.

DIETCOKE

Monday, May 2, 2005 3:43 PM

I'm going to Boston. I'm in, and will bring dry goods. Where do we take them?

FILMGODDESS

Monday, May 2, 2005 4:24 PM

For those of you going to the Austin screening, I am organizing it and will contact Harry Knowles to see if he will post it on aicn. I'm planning on posting at the official site as well to make sure that we get plenty of people joining in.

"You can't take the sky from me."

SHINY

Monday, May 2, 2005 5:52 PM

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Originally posted by filmgoddess:
For those of you going to the Austin screening, I am organizing it and will contact Harry Knowles to see if he will post it on aicn. I'm planning on posting at the official site as well to make sure that we get plenty of people joining in.

"You can't take the sky from me."

That's great, filmgoddess! You can probably pick up a collection barrel from a local food bank -- I'm taking Soup's suggestion and contacting these folks: http://www.sffoodbank.org/

Also, as someone suggested on the O.B. it would probably be a REALLY good idea to contact the local theatre and make sure they don't mind if you set up the food collection outside/near to the theatre.

Jayne, your mouth is talkin. Might want to look into that.

FILMGODDESS

Monday, May 2, 2005 6:05 PM

Yeah I was going to call the theater today to make sure it's okay.
Wouldn't want to piss them off even more.

"You can't take the sky from me."

MAXTEMKIN

Monday, May 2, 2005 10:25 PM

What a great idea. I'll be there to donate to the Chicago food drive!

NAKEDANDARTICULATE

Tuesday, May 3, 2005 4:21 PM

Wash:
This is going to get pretty interesting.

Mal:
Define 'interesting'.

Wash:
'Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna donate can goods"

boston im comin and im bringin cans with me,thats right you heard me--cans.

"Hamsters is nice."

SKYDANCE

Tuesday, May 3, 2005 7:39 PM

Time's very short on this, and I'm not going to any of the showings (I live in New Orleans). Here's some bullet points, though:

* You need an announcement on the main page of the website, YESTERDAY. Providing Haken with a 200 x 105 graphic would be a good idea, even if he doesn't have time to use it.

* You need a list of all sites, updated as people volunteer to handle each site.

If you think this would balance the karma of someone delivering threats ... I think you're right. And being a Browncoat is about seeing a wrongness and doing something about it. You've had less than a week to organize something major, though, and only 2 days left to get the word out. You need front page website coverage ... not a post in some forum.

I'm going to send a private message to Haken pointing out this thread, just by way of a heads-up. There's no way you can pull this off with the tiny amount of time you've got, but ... if it did happen, then it would say something pretty amazing about Browncoats.

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"They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see the sky and they remember what they are."

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