[Cynnabar] "Brave" Movie Group Viewing/Demo Possibility?

Elizabeth Calhoun lizcal at umich.edu
Tue Jun 5 17:31:16 UTC 2012


Hail, Lady Genoveva!

Godaeth says AYE!


On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Jennifer Genoveva
<jenniferlynangel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings, Fair Cynnabar!
>
> As your new Chatelaine, I'm looking for ways to promote our amazing group in
> our community. Yesterday I came across an idea and thought I'd bring it up
> to see if anyone has any interest.
>
> The new "Brave" movie by Disney/Pixar is coming out on Friday, June 22. The
> movie takes place in 10th century Scotland and features a skilled archer
> named "Merida." By all preliminary accounts, this is going to be a great
> movie -- it already has a 79% fresh rating from rottentomatoes.com and it's
> generating a lot of buzz for it's excellent attention to detail in accurate
> archery, beautiful music, great storytelling, and so on. And while it is a
> computer-animated movie, I know from experience that this sort of movie
> appeals to adults as well as kids, and geeky adults at that ... I think the
> demographic is particularly good here.
>
> My thought is to have a bunch of us meet up, in GARB, and watch the movie
> together. It would be a fun group activity AND we'd get people asking about
> who we are and what we do, generating interest and excitement for SCA. If
> anyone were interested in coming along but not watching the movie, I would
> talk to the movie theater management to see if we could have a small demo
> table. I've seen it done there myself over the years, and I know for a fact
> that the area SCA (Cynnabar?) did it many moons ago because I know of at
> least one very experienced and high-ranked member who discovered the SCA via
> a movie theater demo!
>
> Right now I'd just like to gauge interest in something like this. My
> suggestion would be to do this at Quality 16 in Ann Arbor because I've seen
> the most demos there and I think the demographic is better there than at
> Showcase Cinemas. I'm also willing to collect monies in advance and
> pre-purchase tickets if that's something we want to do. I know there's a big
> event that weekend that our musicians/dancers are going to, but if there was
> enough interest I don't see why we could have two movie-going dates.
>
> So ... anyone interested in going to see Brave with me and mine the weekend
> of June 22?
>
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