Flicks in the Sticks - July 14 8:45pm

Just a reminder that Flicks in the Sticks will be showing another great family movie on Saturday night, July 14, starting around 8:45. Join us on the Nature Center lawn!

Note: The Ashburn Today newspaper included a short article on this event in the July 6 issue (not sure why)...so we may have a larger than expected crowd.

 

where is a listing of the movies. i find it extremely strange that they never tell the names of the movies anywhere.

 

They can only give a discription. Legal stuff prevents listing the actual title.

This months movie is Happy Feet.

 

Its interesting, however, that the Ashburn newspaper listed the title twice!

 

I contacted Ashburn Today about this issue. Here was their response:

Cliff and Dawn -
Thank you both for your e-mails regarding Flicks in the Sticks.
I apologize for our printing information that is intended to be for
Broadlands residents only.
In our attempt to better cover Ashburn, we were overzealous in
publicizing what I now understand to be a community-only event.
Please do let me know of events that you would like us to publicize in
our Ashburn paper.

 

I was less than pleased when I saw the Broadlands Live blurb as well. Someone called me and asked how it got started, I told them some residents got together to start the neighborhood concerts, answered a few questions and said that we would prefer not to be listed in the paper for all to see (although all of our community is invited). I am kicking myself now for even chatting with her at all...
BUT- It IS going to be a fantastic show on Friday night so make sure your Broadlands Bottoms are there!!!

 

Unlike Flicks, Broadlands Live! is intended to reach outside the community, so I wasn't bothered to see that in the paper. My understanding is that was what helped sell advertising.

 

you're right, but we have been doing a very selective marketing effort. We chose not to list the events in the paper b/c it might draw TOO big a crowd. We do send out an incredible amount of postcards, but it is to our neighboring 'hoods. This way we do keep it a community event, bigger than the Broadlands alone- and smaller than all of Loudoun.
It's not a big deal- I just hope that it remains a manageable crowd over the years.

 

When Van Metre gets around to building the amphitheatre near the barns by Clyde's, we'll have a bigger location to have the concerts.

 

I didn't even know we were getting an amphitheatre? That's great.

 

I guess it will probably be more of a sloped grassy area than a true amphitheatre. Don't want to raise expectations too high!