Date & Time – Saturday, February 11, 2012  8 p.m.

Type Event – Valentines Comedy Show - Standup Comedy

Presented By – West Coast Funnies

Starring – Lamont Ferguson and Featuring comedian Lauren O'Brien.  Special Valentine’s Day Show

Tickets – $20 at the Door and On Line at www.westcoastfunnies.com
                 Special Discount to West Coast Funnies Newsletter subscribers.

Box Office - (951) 929-3586, or (760) 720-2460

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Date & Time -  Wednesday & Thursday, February 15  & 16, 2012, Time  TBA

Type Event – Jewish Community Center - Film Festival

Presented By – The Jewish Community Center

22 ANNUAL SAN DIEGO

JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

(Schedule of Screenings at The Carlsbad Village Theatre only)

For a complete list of the 22nd Annual Jewish Film Festival (31 Films), from February 9th to 19th, 2012, in San Diego County (at Five convenient screening venues), please visit our web site at  www.sdjff.org , Or call the JFF  Box Office at (858) 362-1348

Date & Time:   February 14th, (Tuesday) 7:00 PM

Film:  “The Names of Love”   -   100 minutes

Comedy – A young, extroverted left-wing activist, who sleeps with her political opponents to convert them to her cause, is successful until  she meets her match.  (VIEWER DESCRETION – ADULT CONTENT)

Language:  French (English subtitles)

Director:  Michel Leclerc, France 2010

Awards:  Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Cesar Awards, 2011; Sky Film Award, 15th UK Jewish Film Festival

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Date & Time:  February 15th, (Wednesday)  5:00 PM

Film:  “Torn”    -    77 minutes

Documentary - As Romuald-Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel approaches the Western Wall, he adjusts his priestly Roman collar  -  and his embroidered kippah.  Can a Catholic priest be Jewish?   Born is  1943, Romuald is left with Polish neighbors by Jewish parents who will not survive WW II.  Raised a devout Catholic, he becomes a priest.  At 35, when his dying mother reveals his Jewish origins, he contemplates to reclaim his Jewish birthright.  Appalled by anti-Semitism in the Church, in his mid-60s he decides to make aliyah.  In Israel, he learns the Law of Return only applies if he renounces Jesus and Catholicism.  His poignant search for a comfortable dual identity raises questions about who is a Jew and what being Jewish means.

Language:  Hebrew (English subtitles)

Director: Ronit Kertsner, Israel, 2011

Awards:  Nominated Best Documentary, Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2011

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Date & Time:  February 15th, (Wednesday)  7:30  PM  

Film:  “Dusk”    -    90 minutes

Drama  -  Against a milieu of deceit, four families improbably come together at dusk in an Israeli hospital.  First to arrive is the victim of a hit-and-run collision with a man traveling home with his daughter.  Next, a mother applying for a marriage license learns she is adopted and seeks her birth mother at the hospital.  Meanwhile, a beautiful Argentinian immigrant becomes intimate with the doctor who performs her son Raffi’s  circumcision.  Finally,  a policeman attemps to renew his relationship with the son he abandoned, a doctor at the hospital.  “Dusk” is a journey through Israel’s complicated reality via the all-too-human stories of ordinary peopled facing thought provoking questions of moral responsibility.

Language:  Hebrew (English subtitles)

Director:  Alon Zingman, Israel, 2010

Awards:  Best Feature Debut, Haifa International Film Festival, 2010

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Date & Time:  February 16th, (Thursday)  5:00  PM

Film:  “In Heaven Underground: The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery”    -    90 minutes

Documentary – An amazingly uplifting film about a cemetery, “In Heaven Underground” is a journey into history that celebrates the immortality of memories and the importance of tradition.  Just outside Berlin’s hectic city center lies the serene, 130-year old Weissensee Jewish Cemetery.  Still in use today, it houses 115,000 graves as well as meticulous archival records.    Established in the 1850s, the cemetery has endured years of war and chaos but has remained in Jewish hands even throughout the Nazi regime.  Interweaving historical facts, the film portrays the cemetery as a living thing unto itself – a survivor.

Language:  German (English subtitles)

Director:    Britta Wauer, Germany,  2011

Awards:  Panorama Audience Award; Best Documentary, Berlin International Film  Festival, 2011

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Date & Time:  February 16th, (Thursday), 2012  7:30 PM

Film:  “Prima Primavera”    -    90  minutes

Drama – “Prima Primavera” is a buddy film like no other!  Gabor, a charming, mentally-challenged man is the only witness to a bank robbery.  He hatches a plan to hide from the robber  who is searching for him.  Believing he can find safe haven in the rural village of his grandmother, Gabor teams  up with Jolie, a hardened prostitute,  who has  her own reasons for going on the run with Gabor.  Though doubtful that Gabor can distinguish truth from fiction, Jolie accompanies him.  Armed with only a chandelier and an evening bag  -  like Don Quixote  tilting at windmills  -  they camp in idyllic country spots from Bulgaria to  Serbia and forge a most improbable  bond.  Reality?  Pehaps.  Imagination? Likely. Freindship?  Definitely!

Director:  Janos Edelenyi, Bulgaria, Hungary, UK, Netherlands, 2008

Language:  Hungarian (English subtitles)

Awards:  Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Bulgarian  Film Festival 2010

For a complete list of the 22nd Annual Jewish Film Festival (31 Films), from February 9th to 19th, 2012, in San Diego County (at Five convenient screening venues), please visit our web site at  www.sdjff.org , Or call  The JFF  Box Office at (858) 362-1348

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Date - Saturday, February 18th, 8 p.m.

Type Event -  West Coast Funnies  -  "Standup and Sketch Comedy Show"

Presented By – Sprocket Entertainment

Starring -  Barry Diamond has been a professional stand-up comedian for almost 300 years and has appeared in many popular television shows, movies and traveling carnivals.  His credits are impressive.  He has appeared in “Friends”,“Seinfield”, “Politically Incorrect”, “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and every movie with the word “….Party….” in it.  Barry’s high-calibre repertoire includes numerous personality changes with great effect.  The San Francisco Examiner described Barry’s act as: “A Cast of Thousands in a One Man Show”.  One of our (WCF) all-time favorite comedians!! The Opening Comic will be “Zoltan”.  The West Coast Funnies will also feature the short sketch comedy of the Pearl Street Players including the KPSP monthly “News”.  Your MC for the evening will be the popular mid-west transplant and keen observer /critic of the California Life-Style: Kurt Swann.

Tickets – $20 at the Door and On Line at www.westcoastfunnies.com
                 Special Discount to West Coast Funnies Newsletter subscribers.

Box Office - (951) 929-3586, or (760) 720-2460

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Date & Time – Friday, Saturday & Sunday, February 24, 25, & 26, 2012,  Times TBD

Type Event -  “School House Rock Live! Jr.”  - Live Stage Musical Performance

Presented By – Carlsbad Community Theater

Starring –  TBD

Tickets – TBD

Box Office –  (760) 720-2460

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Date & Time -  Saturday March 3, 2012, 8 p.m.

Type Event -  Al Valletta’s Actors Show Case / Short Live Stage Performances

Presented By – The Valletta Workshop

Starring – Valletta Workshop Players

Tickets – TBD

Box Office – (760) 271-0501 Email  vallettaworkshop@gmail.com , or  (760) 720-2460

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Date - Saturday, March 10, 2012, 8 p.m.

Type Event -  West Coast Funnies  -  "Standup and Sketch Comedy Show"

Presented By – Sprocket Entertainment

Starring -  Jackie Kashian and featuring other standup comedians "TBD"  The West Coast Funnies will also feature the short sketch comedy of the Pearl Street Players including the KPSP monthly “News”.   Your MC for the evening will be the popular mid-west transplant and keen observer /critic of the California Life-Style: Kurt Swann.

Tickets – $20 at the Door and On Line at www.westcoastfunnies.com
                 Special Discount to West Coast Funnies Newsletter subscribers.

Box Office - (951) 929-3586, or (760) 720-2460

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Date & Time –  Thursday, April 5, 2012 at (TBD)

Type Event –  Jehovah’s Witnesses  “Memorial of Christ’s Death”

Presented By – 

Box Office - (760) 720-2460  for Service Information  call

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Date & Time –  Saturday, May 12, 2012, 8:00 p.m

Type Event – West Coast Funnies  -  "Standup and Sketch Comedy Show"

Presented By – Sprocket Entertainment

Starring -  Rondell Sheridan and Featuring other standup comedians "TBD"  The West Coast Funnies will also feature the short sketch comedy of the Pearl Street Players including the KPSP monthly “News”.   Your MC for the evening will be the popular mid-west transplant and keen observer /critic of the California Life-Style: Kurt Swann.

Tickets – $20 at the Door and On Line at www.westcoastfunnies.com
                 Special Discount to West Coast Funnies Newsletter subscribers.

Box Office - (951) 929-3586, or (760) 720-2460

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The Carlsbad Village Theatre is a privately owned historic multi-purpose entertainment venue.  Our goal is to provide the opportunity for local residents to enjoy a broad scope of entertainment choices.  We thank you for you support. Tom & Judy McMahon

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