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PDNA MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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 PDNA OPEN COMMUNITY MEETING THURSDAY, FEB 23rd |
 The first 100 South Loop households to RSVP will receive a FREE ROOM NIGHT STAY at Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
The PDNA is excited to announce our enhanced partnership with Hyatt Regency McCormick Place. To celebrate, we are teaming up with Hyatt to offer incredible perks to our South Loop community.
Date: Thursday, February 23, 2012
Time: 6:30pm to 7pm complimentary hors d'oeuvres - cash bar available
7:00-8:30 meeting presentation
Agenda: To be announced
Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick Place 2233 S. Martin L. King Drive
RSVP: Click Here to RSVP - Don't delay space will fill fast!
The first 100 South Loop households to RSVP to our PDNA meeting will receive a complimentary Hyatt Regency McCormick Place room night stay (must be present at meeting to receive free room voucher)
The PDNA has secured a special Hyatt Regency McCormick Place year round, discounted room rate of $85/night for our South Loop community members. All meeting attendees will be able to register to receive the PDNA rate. Proof of South Loop / Near South residency requested.
Ownership will speak about the Hyatt McCormick Place expansion project.
More meeting details coming very soon.
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| February 2012 Book |
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
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| February Book Discussion |
Next Meeting Date:
Wed, Febrary 22nd
10:00am
Meeting Location:
Historic Keith House, 1900 S. Prairie Avenue
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| March 2012 Book |
The Magic Room
by Jeffrey Zaslow
Book Discussion on Wed, March, 28th
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| Upcoming 2012 Books |
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To be announced
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| Join BookSpeak |
Email Jackie Walker
to join BookSpeak or
for more information on our monthly book
discussion group
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PDNA February BookSpeak Selection
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own family. Among them is Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson's wondrous debut. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing, Major Pettigrew is one of the most indelible characters in contemporary fiction, and from the very first page of this remarkable novel he will steal your heart.
The Major leads a quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have lived by for generations: honor, duty, decorum, and a properly brewed cup of tea. But then his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as the permanent foreigner. Can their relationship survive the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of culture and tradition?
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About BookSpeak
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BookSpeak is the PDNA's Free monthly book discussion forum and reading group dedicated to quality books, good people and great conversations. Our members read and discuss fiction books, non fiction books, short stories and poetry.
We feature discussion forums for talking about religion, politics, science, philosophy, current events and more and whenever possible we host live author chats.
Email Jackie Walker to join BookSpeak
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DO YOU LOVE GREAT MOVIES?
The Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance is proud to announce our 2012 Meet Me at the Movies Season.
Check out our fabulous MMATM WEBSITE designed exclusively for our PDNA movie fans. By visiting this site you can preview movie details, RSVP for movie events and much more!
 THE AFRICAN QUEEN
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012 @ 7:00 P.M.
This rip-roaring adventure / romance, directed on location in Africa by the legendary John Huston, kicks off our 2012 season, and stars the most unlikely romantic team in movie history: Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Set in German East Africa during WWI, Bogart plays a boozy, disreputable riverboat captain, commandeered by spinster missionary Hepburn for an improbable quest: to travel down a dangerous river and sink a German gunboat. What happens to them tests their endurance and their humanity.
Movie Time: Screening: 7:00pm - Doors open: 6:30pm
Movie Location: Sherwood Community Music School, 1312 S. Michigan Ave.
Suggested donation: $5 (proceeds benefit PDNA scholarship)
RSVP: Reserve you space at our PDNA MMATM WEBSITE If you prefer, you can also rsvp by snding your reservation request to: pdna.chicago@gmail.com
 THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2012 @7:00 P.M.
 CHARADE
THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2012 @ 7:00 P.M.
 ROMAN HOLIDAY
THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 2012 @ 7:00 P.M.
 CHINATOWN
THURSDAY, JULY 26, 2012 @ 7:00 P.M.
 GREASE
AUGUST, 2012
 THE 2ND ANNUAL NEW VISIONS FILM FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER, 2012
Please join us at our next PDNA MMATM event and see why movie fans are RAVING about our host!
Jeffrey Jon Smith is an award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter, a member of the adjunct faculty at Columbia College Chicago, and a graduate of Columbia's M. F. A. program in Film and Video. He is a forty-year veteran of Chicago regional theater, as an actor, director and playwright, and in 2000, he left his day job at Amtrak (after 25 years) to enter the Graduate Film Program at Columbia College. His thesis film The Miracle has been an official selection at 95 international film festivals, and won 32 awards, including a CINE Golden Eagle. The DVD of the film will be released in Spring 2011. He recently directed the film's star, Chicago actress Tekki Lomnicki, in her newest performance piece, Mr. Sandman, which was staged last year at Prop Thtr and Live Bait, and was re-staged at Victory Gardens Theater in January 2011. At Columbia, where he teaches directing, screenwriting and cinema studies, he recently taught a class devoted to Blake Edwards' Breakfast at Tiffany's and another focused on the life and career of Bette Davis. Jeffrey also teaches film classes at Facets Multimedia and is a facilitator for a private film club in Chicago.
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