Jacklin Arts and Cultural Center to host concert, costume party
Brian Walker | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 12 years, 3 months AGO
POST FALLS - The Jacklin Arts and Cultural Center and North Idaho Reads will team up to host a concert and costume party on Saturday.
The event - called "Be the Revolution" will be at 7:30 p.m. at the nonprofit JACC, 405 N. William St., Post Falls. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students. For tickets, call 457-8950 or email art@thejacklincenter.org.
The Coeur d'Alene rock band The Hitmen, established last year, will perform classic and contemporary music of yesterday and today such as "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "Ticket to Ride," "Louie, Louie," and "Brown-Eyed Girl."
Attendees should come dressed as their favorite revolutionary character - from Benjamin Franklin to Katniss Everdeen of "The Hunger Games" and to Guy Fawkes, an English Catholic who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot assassination attempt against King James 1 of England in 1605.
There will be a prize for the best costume.
The concert/costume party will be held in collaboration with North Idaho Reads, a regional book-sharing and discussion program.
Tied in with the program's 2012 book "Fahrenheit 451," the dress code theme at the event will be revolutions.
"The 'Be the Revolution' campaign is designed to focus on intellectual freedom and our right to think and read as we choose," said Twylla Rehder, North Idaho Reads chairwoman who works at the Community Library Network.
"Independent thinking and refusing to accept the status quo is the first act of every revolutionary and American history is full of revolutionaries."
"Fahrenheit 451" is a novel written by the late Ray Bradbury, who died in June at 91. In the book, he describes a world where information technology has evolved to the point where books and the written world are no longer valued.
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