Storyland Theatre presents: Princess and the Pea

April 1-5

SCHOOL SHOWS: Tuesday through Friday, April 1, 2, 3, 4, 2008
9:30 AM, 10:45 AM & 12:15 PM

SATURDAY FAMILY MATINEE: April 5, 2008 3:00 PM

To purchase tickets call 706-736-3455 email storyland@knology.net or visit www.knology.net/storyland

First Take Film Festival

April 8th-13th, 2008

Films will be shown throughout the day during morning, afternoon and evening sessions. Start times are 9:30 AM, 11 AM, 2 PM, 4 PM, 6 PM with the last show starting at 8:30 PM each day. Tickets will be $5 per day, which will include a wristband for entry into every showing that day.

In its inaugural year, tournament fans and Augustans alike will enjoy First Take Film Festival, coming to downtown Augusta Tuesday, April 8 – Sunday, April 13. First Take Film Festival was created to bring back the true independent spirit to filmmaking, and is aimed at showcasing talent from the independent film and music industry.

First Take’s focus is to showcase and discover great film and the next generation’s great filmmakers. The Festival will be held at the Imperial Theatre in downtown Augusta, with the first showing at 9:30 each morning. The festival will feature short films and features, including premieres, narratives and documentaries.

In its first year, the festival is already catching the attention of award winning directors and producers. Surviving, a short film by Tomas Fernandez-Calvo will be featured at this year’s festivals. Surviving recently won the Silver Medal for Excellence at the Park City Film Music Festival, held alongside Sundance Film Festival. Tomas’s films have won several awards, including a spec Zorro that won a finalist award at the prestigious Tibeca Film Festival. The long list of films debuting at First Take Film Festival this year includes films featured at festivals around the world as well as world premieres. Film listings and the full schedule of showings can be found at www.firsttakefilmfestival.com.

The Southern Fried Chicks Comedy Tour as seen on CMT

Friday, April 18th at 7:30 pm

Tickets for this show are $30.00.

The Southern Fried Chicks Comedy Tour, as seen on CMT, is a female version of the highly successful Blue Collar Comedy Tour…only with bigger attitude and better hair! Life and love in the USA, as told by four funny women with four very different points of view. They are the original “desperate housewives”…bringing smart, clean humor to overworked Americans everywhere.

Edwin McCain
with Sam Thacker opening

Saturday, April 19th at 8 pm

Tickets for this show are $20.00.

Blending equal parts folk, soul and rock, platinum-selling singer/songwriter Edwin McCain has signed with Vanguard Records and will release a new studio album next spring. Since his 1993 debut, McCain has garnered the attention of millions with the top 10 smash "I'll Be," and the Diane Warren-penned top 40 hit "I Could Not Ask For More," and as a tireless troubadour whose rapturous live performances regularly sell-out. In May 2005, McCain performed "I'll Be" on The Dr. Phil Show, which was voted the "Best Wedding Song" by over one million viewers.

The seeds for McCain's blend of southern soul and acoustic storytelling were planted in Greenville, South Carolina, where he was born and raised, and still resides. In 1993, he formed the Edwin McCain Band and released Solitude. A quartet of albums on Lava/Atlantic Records followed, starting with Honor Among Thieves (1995), the breakthrough album Misguided Roses (1997), which featured "I'll Be," and Messenger (1999), which included "I Could Not Ask for More," also featured in the film Message in a Bottle, that drove Messenger to RIAA Gold Certification. In 2001, Edwin's last recording for Lava/Atlantic, Far From Over, was released. In 2003, McCain teamed with ATC Records to release Austin Sessions, and in the summer of 2004, DRT Entertainment released Scream and Whisper.

Dance Augusta Presents
April’s Bagatelles

April 24, 2008 at 7 pm

Dance Augusta is the vision of Ron and Zanne Colton, Bon Ellis and a host of devoted volunteers and parents, grown from years of meticulous direction and instruction in the art of dance.

As Dance Augusta begins its life as Augusta’s dance company, there is a heightened energy – fresh and inspired to be the best it can be for our community. Dance Augusta will open the stage door for its newest, finely trained troupe of young dancers from the Augusta Ballet School. Former dancers pursuing professional careers in dance will return to share the stage bringing the best in dance to Augusta.

Dance Augusta brings the beauty and wonder of dance alive and into the community in the Central Savannah River area.