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FILM FESTIVAL CELEBRATES WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
KEY WEST’S NOW CHAPTER OFFERS WEDNESDAY SCREENINGS
The Lilly Pulitzer shop at 600 Front St. in Key West will donate 10% of all sales to A Positive Step of Monroe County to help fund the organization’s 2023 Idle Hands Summer Youth Employment program. The fundraiser takes place Saturday, March 25 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Southernmost City and Lilly Pulitzer share a colorful historic relationship, as the late celebrated Key West artist and sculptor Suzie dePoo (Agnes Helen Zuzek dePoo) created many of the brand’s imaginative and colorful fabric art designs.
On March 25, shoppers can support a great program while lifting their spirits among a vibrant array of classic “Lilly” dresses, tops, shorts, jumpsuits, swimwear and accessories available at the Key West shop.
The Idle Hands Summer Youth Employment program was founded by A Positive Step of Monroe County and is operated by APSMC in partnership with the City of Key West. APSMC is a nonprofit organization that has been serving Monroe County’s highest risk kids and their families since
1999. Since 2010, the organization has partnered with the city to provide summer jobs for Key West High School students. Each year, the city has provided the jobs as well as $35,000 toward the approximately $70,000 payroll required to pay the students and one APSMC staff person. APSMC raises the remainder of the budget with the support of individuals, community organizations and local businesses such as Lilly Pulitzer.
“We are very grateful to Key West’s Lilly Pulitzer for their annual fundraising in support of our Idle Hands program, which not only teaches our teen participants important work and social skills, but helps to devitalize old patterns of low expectations, helping to launch these fantastic kids into a better life,” said APSMC founder and executive director Billy Davis.
More information about the Lilly Pulitzer fundraiser for APSMC is available from Mark Rotella at mrotella@lillypulitzer. com. More information about APSMC and its community support programs is available from Davis at apsmccrp@aol.com or apsmc.org.
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The Third Annual Women’s Film Festival will screen the third of its five great films on March 15 at the Tropic Cinema. “Trouble with Angels” is a light-hearted comedy starring Hayley Mills and Rosalind Russell at the peak of their careers. Directed by Ida Lupino, who became an influential director and producer in the Hollywood studio system after her decades of acting, this is a romp with mischievous girls in a convent school.
The festival will continue for the two remaining Wednesdays in March. On March 22, French New Wave icon Agnès Varda’s most famous film, “Cleo from 5 to 7,” tells the story of a young French pop star who awaits biopsy results in Paris in the 1950s.
The festival ends March 29 with “The Janes.” This HBO documentary about the Abortion Counseling Service in Chicago tracks a group of women who provided thousands of safe abortions in the late ’60s and early ’70s, before Roe v. Wade was decided. Two of the original Janes, now in their 80s, will join the Tropic audience by Zoom for an important discussion after the screening.
The Key West Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) promotes women’s rights to reproductive health care, fairness in education and employment, freedom from violence, justice for LGBTQIA citizens and life without racism.
The Tropic Cinema is an award-winning, independent, non-profit theater showing popular, classic, foreign, regional and experimental films.
All showings begin at 6 p.m. Tickets are available at tropiccinema.com or at the door.
All screenings are in the spacious Carper Theater. — Contributed
Bahama Village Exhibit Extended Through May 21
