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Tosco Music Party for Kids

Saturday, March 24
11:00am - 12:15pm (doors open at 10:30am)
McColl Family Theatre, ImaginOn

"Come join in the fun when Tosco Music Parties, Inc. will present the fourth annual Tosco Music Party for Kids at the 570-seat McColl Family Theatre at ImaginOn: The Joe and Joan Martin Center. This special show tailored to kids from preschool to 2nd grade will feature a variety of children’s entertainers as well as John Tosco and the TMP Singalong Choir leading the audience in interactive songs."

300 East Seventh Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
www.imaginon.org

Tickets: $5.00 for adults and children (general admission)
Box Office: (704) 973-2828
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For additional information: Tosco Music Party



French New Wave Film Festival

The NoDa Film Festival got off to an excellent start Sunday when the directors and organizers, Jeff Jackson, Ross Wilbanks, and Stephanie Dempsey opened with Francois Truffaut’s first film from 1959, The 400 Blows. The entire theater was filled to capacity. The appreciative audience consisted of all ages, including families viewing the film together.

An autobiographical film about Truffaut’s young teen years, The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups)--loosely translated meaning “Raising Hell”, even today is a poignant look at a misunderstood dreamer who finds more meaning in the cinema than in school or with two disinterested parents. As we watch Antoine Doinel’s life disintegrate because of a series of schoolboy lies and petty theft, we feel empathy for a child without an anchor. This is one of the favorite films of French New Wave film afficionados, showing the developing sense of personal story that gives the New Wave the richness that keeps it relevant to this day, but also lets the viewer draw his/her own conclusions. As Truffaut said himself, cinema “is an indirect art…it conceals as much as it reveals.”




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