[node-l] FW: the yes men

[rachel.baker at artscouncil.org.uk]

Some real live art super-heroes come to our screens.
 
I saw an almost final cut and its brilliant
This film deserves as much audience attention as Michael Moore's.
Check it out!
 
Salette
 
 
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Dear Friend,

According to our database you live in the UK. Bloody great! We are going
to be in the UK this week, and we want to meet you. Can you come see our
movie? You could get a free "Special Edition" New York Times too.

* August 7-13 at the Odeon Panton Street in London
* August 11 in 20 cinemas across the UK

Full screening times and dates are at
http://www.theyesmenfixtheworld.com/screenings
<http://www.theyesmenfixtheworld.com/screenings> 
You can also see our trailer and crazy new movie website at
http://www.theyesmenfixtheworld.com/ <http://www.theyesmenfixtheworld.com/> 

Here are a few things you can do:

* Buy advance tickets: go to
http://www.theyesmenfixtheworld.com/screenings
<http://www.theyesmenfixtheworld.com/screenings> .
* Invite ten friends via email. You will receive extremely good luck.
* Let all your Facebook or Bebo friends know, and also your MySpace
enemies.
* Volunteer to circulate sign-up sheets at screenings (see below)

If we manage to get a full house during all of the opening-week
screenings, we'll get a "real" theatrical release, and the film will be
booked all over the UK. Can you help us get "bums in seats", as they say in
the biz? If you come to a daytime screening, or Monday-Wednesday evening
screening at the Odeon Panton Street London, August 7-13, you'll get a free
"Special Edition" New York Times.

You might also get something else, as this is a great date movie. So far,
audiences LOVE it! Almost every screening at festivals has gotten a
standing ovation. With our past projects, when the audience gets on their
feet we have to worry what is going to come next - strangulation? But this
time around it's been all love - except from ExxonMobil, Dow Chemical, and
Halliburton, who had to be the butt of our cruel jokes:
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsnews/idAFN2448454320090726?rpc=33
<http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsnews/idAFN2448454320090726?rpc=33> 

On August 11, we have the official premiere of the film, presented as a
simulcast at 20 cinemas across the UK. For this event we will be doing a
live Q&A afterwards. The cinemas are all over the place, from Aberdeen to
Brighton. And we need to fill them. If we don't sell them out we are
sunk!

So why do we want people to go see this movie? In a word, we think it can
motivate people, and add even more juice into a movement that is trying to
save civilization itself, among other modest goals. As our part in this
enterprise, we are hoping to circulate a sign-up sheet at every screening,
and enroll as many people as possible in a database of folks willing to put
their asses on the line for political change.

The movie is so stupidly entertaining and motivating that we think we can
reach lots of people, and then in collaboration with other groups of
like-minded souls we can mobilize ourselves to make big waves before
Copenhagen.

We also need volunteers around the country who are willing to go to the
cinemas and sign people up. Yikes! That is lots of work, but we want to
know if you can volunteer to do such a thing at theaters in your area.
Okay? Okay!

Please write mailto:mike at theyesmen.org <mailto:mike at theyesmen.org>
,sarah.mosses at hotmail.com <mailto:sarah.mosses at hotmail.com>  if you can
help pass out sign-up sheets. And please follow the links on the website to
buy tix and see our film!

Thanks!
Mike, Andy, Sarah, and numerous new friends
 


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