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Golfing and Lunch with Gale Sayers - Vacation in Austria
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WALK THE RED CARPET
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THE RENAISSANCE COLLABORATIVE
9TH ANNUAL GALA! |
Greetings, Sophisticate!
 How would you like to have a golf and lunch afternoon with the Legendary Gale Sayers? How about a getaway to Austria? How about a private wine-tasting for ten of your friends and/or colleagues at a swanky, embeccably-designed, fully-furnished, Bronzeville model home? Well, these are just a few of items that will be available during the live auction at The Renaissance Collaborative Annual Gala. We'll also have Caroline, or Change tickets for four from Court Theatre, Jazz at Symphony Center tickets, a personal fashion consultation, interior design consultation, Ernie Banks memorabilia and so much more!
Enjoy a fabulous evening of live music (featuring Corey Wilkes & Black Slang), food and networking with Bronzeville residents and entrepreneurs, and community development, financing and construction professionals. The Gala takes place tonight, from 6-10pm at Room 43, 1043 East 43rd Street. Tickets are $100 and I've got one with your name on it!
I've been involved with TRC since 1997 and have served as its chair since 2003 - the experience has been an enriching one! If you are not actively engaged in your community (and particularly if your community is Bronzeville), involvement with TRC will provide you with an opportunity to make a difference. Varying commitment levels from Board membership to committee membership to mentoring or even just making a donation allow you to participate in a way that suits your schedule. Find out more about TRC and how you can make a difference in our community at www.TRCWabash.org! I thank you in advance for your support!
Make it a fabulous weekend and I hope to see you tonight!
Stephanie!
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| LAUREN'S LAUDARE THEATER REVIEW |
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Through 39 year old Caroline Thibodeaux, a maid and divorced mother of four in 1960s Louisiana, "Caroline, or Change" explores the dynamics of change. Even when we're miserable and unsatisfied, change can feel like an impossible undertaking. The rough comfort of the "devil we know" present opposed against the definite uncertainty of a changed future. For an uneducated, poor Black woman in the deep South of the 60's, change - along with self-determination, autonomy and agency - are concepts Caroline neither dared to consider nor fully believe in.
 It is 1963 in Lake Charles, Louisiana and Caroline spends her days barely eking out a living as a maid. Much of that time is spent with wet laundry in the oppressive, unrelenting heat of a basement located in a house on a swamp. In 1963, the social transformations - and tragedies - of the 60s were well on their way - Freedom Riders, Civil Rights Movement marchers, JFK's assassination, Viet Nam and the murder of four little girls in Birmingham's 16th Street Church. Those tumultuous times, fully symbolic of revolution, provide the backdrop as Caroline wrestles with notions of change and progress. Caroline is joined in this awkward struggle by the Jewish family for whom she works, who are also confronting fundamental adjustments in their lives. [more]
Lauren
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Coca-Cola and Fete Select TV celebrates Hispanic Heritage month with an inside look inside Catalan inspired Mercat a la Planxa.
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