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EVANSVILLE ANNUAL JULY 4TH CELEBRATION

July 2 - 5, 2009
Lake Leota Park

JOIN US IN CELEBRATING A "LAKE LEOTA 4TH"
Enter your float in the parade!

You are invited to be a part of the 2009 Evansville 4th of July Celebration. This year the theme, Celebrate a Lake Leota 4th, was chosen to celebrate the re-opening of our very own Lake Leota.

Your parade unit would be a welcome addition to this annual event that attracts hundreds of people.

The parade begins at 10am on July 4th. We run the parade RAIN OR SHINE!!

To register your float for the parade, please click here.

If interested in participating in this year's events, please contact:

Robin Lopez-Grignon, Evansville Community Partnership, 608/882-0598
email

HARVEST WINDMILL FESTIVAL

October 2 - 4, 2009

A fun-filled, fall weekend in Evansville that focuses on local products, local artists, and the community's history of windmill innovations.

Additional information forthcoming.

See "Call for Artists" for registration information.

LETTERS HOME

A Griffin Theatre Production

Evansville Performing Arts Center
November 6, 2009

Letters Home puts the current war in Iraq front and center by bringing to life actual letters written by soldiers serving in the Middle East. The production is inspired by the New York Times Op-Ed Article, The Things They Wrote and the subsequent HBO documentary, Last Letters Home and additionally uses letters and correspondences from Frank Schaeffer's books, Voices From the Front, Letters Home From America's Military Family, Faith of Our Sons, and Keeping Faith. The play without politicizing gives audiences a powerful portrait of the soldier experience in the ongoing war. The initial production last winter was critically acclaimed and was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for "Outstanding New Play."

Although the title of the play implies that all the letters are from soldiers, we have also chosen to include a small number of correspondences from parents - their words, being no less important. These letters were written under the most difficult of circumstances; the disorientation of training, deployment, separation from family and loved ones and combat, and occupation duties in Afghanistan and Iraq. One theme seems to unite their diverse voices; the belief that the person standing beside you is more important than you are. They also help define for the audience - patriotism and what it means to serve our country today, through acts of bravery, compassion, social responsibility, sense of community and brotherhood. Collectively the production gives a voice to a generation that went to war against terror in Afghanistan and to war in Iraq, for reasons that are still being debated and who are still fighting and dying in those wars today and reveals the humanity that lies within the war as seen through the eyes of the men and women fighting it.

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