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Overview > Local Scoop > Archive > 2007/10/14/index

Friday, October 19, 2007

Actress Andie MacDowell to Speak at Asheville Film Festival

Asheville local and prominent actress Andie MacDowell will speak on becoming successful in the film industry at a workshop sponsored by the Asheville Film Festival, from noon to 1pm on November 10th. The workshop is free and attendance is only limited by seating.

MacDowell has been a professional model and actress for over 20 years. Her films include Michael, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Sex, Lies and Videotape and Groundhog Day with Bill Murray (one of our favorites!).

Also to do a workshop for the Asheville Film Festival is Don Mancini, the creator of the "Chucky" horror film franchise. Mancini will discuss becoming successful in writing and directing, with the workshop being be held from 1-2 pm on Nov. 9 in the Ritz Building, downtown Asheville.

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Asheville Center for Performing Arts gets $500,000 Grant

Recently, The Glass Foundation of Asheville donated $500,000 to The Asheville Area Center for the Performing Arts. Being used for new construction, the generous donation will go toward the contribution challenge made by the Susanne Marcus Collins Foundation. The challenge presented by the foundation is to contribute $1 million toward the construction of a new performance center if The Center for the Performing Arts can raise $3 million by the end of the year. This particular donation [from The Glass Foundation] puts the Center for the Performing arts over the $1.5 million mark, working well toward the goal of $3 million.

Kenneth and Nancy Glass founded The Glass Foundation in the year 2000, and its goal is to help Western North Carolina's community thrive educationally, environmentally, economically, culturally, as well as to enhance quality of life in the region.

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