Fwd: The Yes Men: In Person Tonight!

HOW did we MISS this???? many thx to Jan for sending! This event/
movie is TONIGHT!
later,

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> From: Jan Wheeler
> Subject: Fwd: The Yes Men: In Person Tonight!
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> ABOUT AURORA :: CONTACT AURORA
> THE YES MEN: IN PERSON TONIGHT AT AURORA!
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> Wednesday, November 9, 8 pm
> The Yes Men: A Documentary
> Directed by Dan Olman, Sarah Price, and Chris Smith
> The Yes Men will be in attendance
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> The Yes Men follows Andy and Mike, two anti-corporate activist-
> pranksters as they impersonate World Trade Organization spokesmen
> on TV and at business conferences around the world.
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> Delighted to speak for the organization they oppose, Andy and Mike
> don thrift-store suits and set out to shock their unwitting
> audiences with darkly comic satires on global free trade. Weirdly,
> the experts don't notice the joke and seem to agree with every
> terrible idea the two can come up with.
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> Exhausted by their failed attempts to shock, Mike and Andy take a
> whole new approach for one final lecture.
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> ALSO, DON'T FORGET:
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> Sunday, November 13, 8pm
> Found Magazine's Lone Surfer Tour 2005
> with Davy & Peter Rothbart
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> In their continued quest to collect and display your stellar finds,
> Found Road Warriors Davy and Peter Rothbart make a Houston stop on
> their Lone Surfer Tour. Davy will read from his new book The Lone
> Surfer of Montana, Kansas, and Peter will dazzle you with his good
> looks and lovely, lewd songs based on FOUND stuff.
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> Davy Rothbart is the creator of Found Magazine, and contributor to
> public radio's This American Life. Peter Rothbart is the front man
> for the Poem Adept; their debut album is called Songs for the Long,
> Lonely Drive.
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> Read the Houston Press pic here.
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> Admission is $5, unless otherwise indicated
> Aurora Picture Show
> 800 Aurora Street
> Houston, Texas 77009
> Tel. (713) 868-2101
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> Aurora Picture Show is funded by its congregation membership, a
> project support grant from Houston Endowment, Inc, a project
> support grant from the National Endowment for the Arts; a grant
> from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, a grant from
> the Texas Commission on the Arts , and a grant from the City of
> Houston through the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County.
> Aurora Picture Show is a proud member of Fresh Arts Coalition.
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> Aurora Musarum Amica
> Aurora is a friend of the muses.
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> Aurora Picture Show / www.aurorapictureshow.org
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