WBLA Movie Night presents:
the documentary film
Under the SunSaturday, February 21
6-10pm
Tickets: $10
Buy NowJengo’s Playhouse
815 Princess Street / 910-343-5995
www.cucalorus.org/blog
Benefits the WBLA Scholarship Fund, Community Outreach Committee and Paco Strickland We are raffling off a custom SOD Longboard. The board is hanging at Tower 7 at Wrightsville Beach. Raffle tickets are $10 and you don't have to be present at the drawing to win.
Under the Sununderthesunsurf.blogspot.comLength: 64:00 • Director: Cyrus Sutton
Click Here to Purchase TicketsAs the surf industry covers the world with imagery of pristine, empty waves, the world’s coastlines are quickly becoming more polluted and overcrowded. The film explores this dynamic of commercialization through the microcosm of two seemingly opposite coastal towns on Australia’s east coast. Once unique and authentic, Byron Bay and the Gold Coast are quickly becoming a single marketplace with two flavors. With populations swelling, resources draining, and housing prices going through the roof, where do these two towns go from here? And on a larger scale, where does surfing go from here?
For sale:
We will also have WBLA t-shirts and sweatshirts for sale.
Paco Strickland will also be taking donations and selling his latest CD
Door prizes including stylish surf apparel.
About Paco Strickland:
Paco Strickland, local musician and surfer was diagnosed last year with Multiple Myeloma, which is a type of cancer of plasma cells which are immune system cells in bone marrow that produce antibodies. While there is no cure, remission can be induced through chemotherapy, stem-cell transplants, steroids, and other therapies. Paco is currently undergoing chemotherapy and will eventually need a bone-marrow transplant. We are helping defray the cost of medical expenses during this difficult time. Paco has recently released a new album, Cape Fear Flamenco: The best of WIlliam Paco Strickland. Paco can be reached through his site:
http://www.pacostrickland.com/About Cucalorus:
Cucalorus is graciously donating the space for the screening.
The Cucalorus Film Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, creates opportunities for filmmakers to share their stories and visions. Our keystone event is the Annual Cucalorus Film Festival, a multi-day celebration with film screenings, workshops and social events. The festival screens narrative features, experimental shorts, documentaries and more. Cucalorus programmers place a special emphasis on North Carolina filmmakers and Southern stories, and also work to bring in international films and a selection of the brightest experimental work of our time. Cucalorus is non-competitive, so the focus is on collaboration and innovation. The Annual Cucalorus Film Festival takes place each year in early November in historic downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.
Cucalorus also maintains an active presence throughout the year with weekly screenings at foundation headquarters, Jengo's Playhouse, and through several short documentary projects in the works. Each March, look for the annual Cucalorus Kids! Festival, a family-friendly event with hands-on filmmaking workshops and screenings.
The foundation's goal is to help build a creative community of sharing and learning. To get involved, drop by Jengo's Playhouse, 815 Princess Street in downtown Wilmington.
WBLA Info:
The Wrightsville Beach Longboard Association is a non-profit organization of young and old surfers who see the need to capture the true spirit of surfing, to use this spirit for the betterment of our communities and to live the surfing lifestyle in a positive manner. The WBLA promotes surfing as a way of life. This is not a club of exclusivity, as each person makes his or her contributions to the goals of the association, we will be judged by the contributions to the community and the character of our members. We have a number of activities throughout the year, including the annual Longboard Classic and a Christmas oyster roast and pot luck dinner. We also strive to give back to our community by providing scholarships to local students, donatations to local families in need, and also environmental pursuits such as beach sweeps and sea grass planting.
For more information, please contact
John Barnum Beausang
President, Wrightsville Beach Longboard Association (WBLA)
www.wblasurf.org
910-616-WORK (910-616-9675)
barnum@wblasurf.org
Scholarship Info:
Two college scholarships are offered each year by the Wrightsville Beach Longboard Association for two active, local student-surfers (one female, one male) seeking to further their education. Each one thousand dollar ($1,000.00) scholarship awarded to the selected applicants will be for the coming academic year (2009-2010) and will be announced after May 1, 2009. Applications are available from school guidance centers, financial aid offices and area surf shops. Instructions and guidelines for properly completing the application are included with all materials.
