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Join us for the 3rd annual Inside Out Screen-A-Thon

Sunday November 27, 2011 - 1 to 7pm
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 4
Reitman Square, 350 King St. West (at John St.)

Support Inside Out by participating in a MARATHON LAUGH-ATHON! We want you to collect pledges from friends and family to giggle, gaffaw, snicker and snort through six hours of classic comedy from female comediennes (with a queer bent). You'll laugh until it hurts but feel good knowing you are helping to raise funds for Inside Out and its year-round programs. Get your friends, family and co-workers to pledge you to suffer through an afternoon of over-the-top comedy classics in support of Inside Out and the Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival.

HOSTS:

Elvira Kurt is a Canadian Comedy Award winning, three-time Gemini Award nominated stand-up comic and Second City veteran whose credits as star, host, guest and or writer are too many to mention. Except for these: Popcultured with Elvira Kurt, The Gayest Show Ever, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Ellen DeGeneres' HBO special, Four Weddings Canada and Q with Jian Ghomeshi.

Diane Flacks is an Emmy and Gemini nominated writer/performer, known for her theatre work, her 4 hit solo shows, her tv gigs, her book: Bear WIth Me, and her featured columns in the Star and Globe, as well as her regular CBC radio column on parenting. She is a busy mom, and happy to be Out, and out of the house. Please visit dianeflacks.com

PROGRAM FEATURES:

  • Big Business (1988, director Jim Abrahams, starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin)
  • The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982, director Colin Higgins, starring Dolly Parton and Burt Reynold)
  • Best-Of Lesbian Comedy Shorts from the Inside Out archives
  • Scenes and skits from stand-up performances, tv sitcoms and sketch shows featuring our favourite lesbian (and honourary lesbian) comediennes.

   

WHAT TO DO:

  • Participate as an individual or BETTER YET put together a team of your friends, family or co-workers!
  • Visit www.insideout.ca and register online or contact Winnie at winnie@insideout.ca or 416.977.6847 (REGISTRATION OPENS OCT. 24)
  • Registration fee $25 (charged at the door of the event or WAIVED with a minimum $75 raised in pledges)
  • Start collecting pledges!

INDIVIDUAL FUNDRAISING GOAL:

It's not required, but if every Screen-a-thon participant raised just $200, this would be Inside Out's most successful fundraising event EVER!



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