Weekend Activity: Save the Date and Ticket Giveaway For a My Little Pony Coronation

February 1, 2013 by 12 Comments

There’s a new princess in town, and she’s being crowned with the best of them:  Miss America, an Olympic gymnast, and a partnership with Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.

The Hub’s My Little Pony, Friendship Is Magic, the TV show is celebrating a special occasion.  In advance of upcoming episode “Magical Mystery Cure,” in which famous pony Twilight Sparkle becomes a true princess, the Hub Network is holding an invitation only coronation concert on February 9 in Los Angeles.

Located at a theater on the VA Campus in Westwood and starting at 1:00 PM, the concert will feature a sing-along screening hosted by Miss America 2013, Mallory Hagan, crowned Jan. 12, 2013, in Las Vegas and hailing from Brooklyn, NY. The event will also feature a special guest appearance by Olympic Gold Medalist Carmelita Jeter, “The World’s Fastest Woman” who won Gold in the 4x100m relay, Silver in the 100m and Bronze in the 200m races at the 2012 London Olympics.

I’m willing to bet there will some magical treats involved, too.

I have a package of 5 tickets to give away to one lucky family FIVE LUCKY FAMILIES!

Updated:  I have to close the contest Tuesday night instead of Thursday night because the seating arrangements are being finalized for this amazing event!  On the brighter side, I now have four more ticket packs to give away! Be sure to tell your friends to enter!

Just leave a comment here by 11:59 PM Pacific Time on February 5 and I will announce the randomly chosen winner on February 6.  Tickets will be emailed to the winner, along with directions to the theater.  One comment per family, please.

Look, I get it, it’s My Little Pony.  I have two little boys.  They like playing with all kinds of toys but this is not for them.  This is for your little girls who love My Little Pony and play with the dolls and watch the show.

So for you? For you and your little girls this will be amazing.  Even if you don’t go to the coronation in person, you can watch the episode at home and check out all the digital content including coronation-themed downloadables like crowns, coloring pages, activity sheets and recipes at hubworld.com.

 

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“Lost In Living,” Documentary About Motherhood Screening This Friday

January 28, 2013 by 2 Comments

There is a lovely, quiet, and amazing film in the works.

It tells the story of a handful of women and their lives as creative people who are also mothers.

The filmmaker, Mary Trunk, followed their stories for seven years before assembling her footage into a feature-length film.

“Lost In Living” is visually beautiful and its theme is one that almost every mother that I know can understand:  the internal struggle between the woman you were before you had children and the mother you have become.  Where is the time in your life, now that you have kids, for your art or your hobby or your passion?  Does it lurk beneath the surface, waiting for your children to grow older and become more self-sufficient so that you have time to focus on your work again?  Or does it die from neglect, and with it, a part of your soul?  Or is that okay, because your mothering has wholly replaced your art, opening up a new world, a new person for you to be?

Local filmmaker Mary Trunk, herself a mother, has fashioned this wonderful piece of art from the trappings of motherhood itself.  As many documentaries have done, “Lost In Living” is now showing in the first of a series of local screenings, partnering with a local charity as the beneficiary of the donations collected that night.

Lost In Living Screening
Friday, February 1, at 7:00 PM
The Forum at All Saints Church
132 N. Euclid Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91101

Doors open at 6:30. Screening begins at 7. The film is one hour 50 minutes. Reception and Q & A with Director, Mary Trunk, and the women in the film after the screening.

There is available street parking and the Westin Hotel (behind the church on Los Robles) offers parking for $5. Please just mention you are attending a screening at All Saints Church.

For more information about Lost in Living, please visit Ma and Pa Films.
There is a suggested donation of $5 and all proceeds will benefit The Foster Care Project.
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Weekend Activity: Free Museum Visits!

January 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment

My son, then 3, helps animals enter Noah’s Ark, two by two.  Photo by Lisa Kelly.

Several museums are opening their doors to SoCal dwellers for FREE this weekend as part of an event called Museums Free For All in Los Angeles that aims to encourage people to visit these fortresses of culture.

I mean, how many times can you stand taking the kids to Chuck E. Cheese when it’s raining?  I’m not gonna lie – I resort to a few hours at the mouse house on occasion, but I usually need a nap and a Vicodin afterwards.

Why not take this opportunity to branch out and learn something?  The Skirball Cultural Center is one of the participating locations.  Free admission and first-come, first-served access to the Noah’s Ark interactive exhibit for children both Saturday and Sunday.  See a full list of participating museums on Skirball’s site.

 

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