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Happy Thanksgiving!

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There’s always something going on at the First Street Community Center in Mount Vernon, Iowa!

We hope that your family and friends enjoy a relaxing time together this Thanksgiving.  After Thanksgiving, if you want to stretch your legs and work off some of that turkey dinner, we invite you to come to the First Street Community Center for “Small Business Saturday“.

We will have FREE live music inside the building performed by James Kennedy and Friends.  They will be playing an eclectic blend of jazz, blues, rock in the hallway in front of the Uptown Theatre with two sessions: 10:30-noon and 1:30 – 3pm.

In addition, we will be hosting the Home Business Expo.  This group of innovative home businesses will be on display in the First Street Community Center’s gymnasium from 9am – 4pm.

Of course, throughout the day all of your favorite “Old School Shops” will be open, some may even have special treats or deals!

So, if you like live music, a warm building to walk in during a cold Fall day, and lots of interesting shopping opportunities, or maybe you want to learn something about starting a home based business, come on out to the First Street Community Center this Saturday.

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Mount Vernon Farmer’s Market – Winter Season Begins Saturday

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photo of fall vegetables on display

After a well deserved “vacation” the Mount Vernon Farmer’s Market is re-opening this Saturday inside the Gymnasium of the First Street Community Center.

WHEN:
Most every Saturday 10am – 12pm in the First Street Community Center Gymnasium.  They will take time off for holidays and we will try to have this information in our events calendar.

From their Facebook page:

Bring your kids, your friends, and a stray neighbor or two! We have a variety of vendors and a plethora of delicious items from which to choose. Stock the cupboards and fill the pantry, it is time for the Mt. Vernon Winter Farmers Market!

Farm eggs, fresh roasted coffee and coffee beans, apples, wines, pork and lamb, and an abundance of delicious, seasonal produce! Everything at our market is produced and raised here in Iowa, by the vendor selling directly to you! We are proud to be local!

If you have any questions, please contact Mount Vernon Farmers’ Market Managers: Danielle Martin or Laura Strabala at (319) 310-4145 or [email protected].

Be sure to stop inside the First Street Community Center to check out all the fantastic shops as well!

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Live Theatre – Resistance Radio – Radio Tales of Dystopia

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logo for the play Resistance Radio

The First Street Community Center in Mount Vernon, Iowa will be hosting the Mount Vernon-Lisbon Community Theatre’s production of “Resistance Radio – Radio Tales of Dystopia”.

The MVLCT will recreate the Golden Age of Radio and present several classic broadcasts, including H. G. Wells ‘War of the Worlds’– first aired for Halloween in 1938– a dramatization of Shirley Jackson 1948 short story, ‘The Lottery’ and ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ by Ray Bradbury.

VINTAGE ATTIRE is encouraged but not required!

When:
October 19, 20, and 21 at 7:30 PM

Tickets:
$8.00 for students/seniors, $10.00 for adults.  Call 319.535.2030 to purchase tickets in advance.

Come on out and support your local actors!  Below is the cast list for the three productions:

The War of the Worlds by Orson Welles

Todd Brewington
Bill Croghan
Richard Douglas
Grant Freeman
John Gruber-Miller
Stephen Gruber-Miller
Craig Jarvie
Kristi Keast
Jasper Rood
Kathleen Weiss
Steve Weiss
Kai Yamanishi
Silas Young

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Amanda Bishop
Todd Brewington
Bill Croghan
Richard Douglasur
Eva Giacomo
Stephen Gruber-Miller
Michele Payne Hinz
Craig Jarvie
Kristi Keast
Betty McCleary
Bridget O’Connor
Jasper Rood
Steve Weiss
Emrys Yamanishi
Kai Yamanishi
Silas Young

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

Amanda Bishop
Lisa Smith
Tawnua Tenley
Meghan Yamanishi

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Live Theatre – The Frogs by Stephen Sondheim – Directed by Grant Freeman

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The First Street Community Center is thrilled to announce that the The Mount Vernon Lisbon Community Theatre is performing “The Frogs” by Stephen Sondheim, Directed by Grant Freeman in the Uptown Theatre.  Performances are July 20-22 @7:30pm and July 23rd @ 2pm.

From the writers behind A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes the hilarious send up of Greek comedy and satire, The Frogs. Loosely based on a comedy written in 405 B.C. by Aristophanes, The Frogs playfully explores the great challenges of human existence: confronting our fears, understanding life and death and challenging the distractions that can prevent us from achieving our goals.

This boisterously hilarious, yet poignant, musical follows Dionysos, Greek god of wine and drama, and his slave, Xanthias, on a journey to Hades to collect renowned critic and playwright, George Bernard Shaw, so that he may enlighten the easily misled and coerced masses of Earth. Along this journey, Dionysus and Xanthias meet Chekhov, Congreve, Ibsen, Brecht and, of course, the chorus of frogs. Then, Shakespeare shows up and starts declaiming his greatest hits; before long, he engages in a battle of words with Mr. Shaw. Who will win the honor of becoming reincarnated: The Bard or Bernard?

The Frogs stays true to its heritage, mixing Aristophanic pratfall satire with a Sondheim score that swings from witty to pretty to rambunctious, but it also mirrors the Greek original for the serious issue of the role of the arts in a world beset by war and folly.

COST:  Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for students and seniors 65+.

Come to the show and support your favorite home town actors and crew!

Cast for The Frogs

Dionysus : Braden Rood
Xanthias : Stacey Jaegar
Charon/Aeakos/Ensemble : Valerie Davine Bills
Herakles/Ensemble : John Gruber-Miller
Pluto/Ensemble : Jacob Glass
Shakespeare/Ensemble : Nicole Margheim
Ariadne/Ensemble : Margaret Gustason
Shaw/Ensemble : Joseph Williams
The Frogs/Ensemble : Eric Teeter, Jordan Juett, Silas Young, Eva Giacomo, Mandy Moellering, Kim Benesh, Rachel Connell, Nicole Klosterman, Nikki Scheel, Sam White

Crew for The Frogs

Director/Dramaturg : Grant Freeman
Assistant Director : Kasey Springsteen
Musical Director : Brandon Douglas
Choreographer(s) : Alanah Malone & Gina Montgomery
Pianist : Emory Gillespie

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