Friday night was our first Screen On The Green outreach, and it was awesome. We held it in the Manhattan Beach neighborhood and had 7 families over 20 people come by. The kids had a blast and the mothers were very happy with the event. One even asked me if we would be coming back again soon.
We had great volunteers from SRC. One of my favorite things about our volunteers were the men who volunteered to help set up and once they got everything up and rolling they rolled out to take care of other obligations. It was just so helpful to have them for that set up part of the night. It would have been easy for them to not come at all, but they took time to make sure we had the help we needed when we needed it.
The Outreach Team did an excellent job of planning the event and had kids games and concessions ready to go (popcorn, bottled water, glow sticks). And as soon as the sun went down we started the movie. The event went so well that even when the electricity went out for about 60 seconds (the screen deflated and it was a little scary) the people didn't even seem to mind. The power came back on the screen re-inflated back to its original position and we kept rolling.
We learned some things for next time: improved concessions, projector issues (movie start time), lighting issues (for clean-up), etc.
Probably my fumiest memory was when I went back Saturday morning to do a check over. I took my girls with me. They had arrived Friday night after the screen was up, and left before the screen was taken down. So when we arrived on Saturday Ellie says, "Hey where's the movie?"
Thanks to everyone that made this event possible. You did a great job cultivating community connections.
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--Ben
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