VTA's Mid-Day Arts Cafe Presents FilmDayton, 4/17

Victoria Theatre Association presents Mid-Day Arts Café, Tuesday, April 17, 2012 in the Mathile Theatre at the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center.  April's Mid-Day Arts Café highlights FilmDayton, a regional non-profit organization that promotes the art, craft and business of filmmaking in the region. 

April's Mid-Day Arts Café features a look at the creative work and development of FilmDayton, and how they are helping with the growth of the next generation of filmmakers and film lovers.  Filmmaker and journalist Aileen LeBlanc and composers Michael & Sandy Bashaw will talk about their collaborative process within FilmDayton, including how Aileen uses music to propel the arc of her stories, how the Bashaws create the appropriate sound and music and how they blend their elements into the final product. The Bashaws will share clips of Take Us Home along with unreleased versions of some of the music written for the film, and describe how the artistic elements change as the work takes shape.

Mid-Day Arts Cafe is a series presented by Victoria Theatre Association and offers a variety of performances from locAl Dayton arts groups. In cooperation with the Dayton Opera, Dayton Philharmonic, Muse Machine, Dayton Ballet, Zoot Theatre Company, FilmDayton, and The Human Race Theatre Company, VTA offers the chance for the local community to network with area arts lovers, view sneak peeks of upcoming performances and enjoy the opportunity to get out of the office for an enjoyable lunch time!

Tickets for the Mid-Day Arts Café are $12 each and include a delicious box lunch from Citilites Restaurant & Bar. Tickets must be purchased in advance. Order online at www.TicketCenterStage.com or call Ticket Center Stage at (937) 228-3630. 

Doors open at 11:30 a.m. with the event starting promptly at noon in order to conclude by 1 p.m. For more information on other upcoming performances by Victoria Theatre Association, contact them at (937) 228-7591or visit www.victoriatheatre.com. 

The Mid-Day Arts Café is made possible through The Monarch/Genesis Fund B of The Dayton Foundation. Since 1921 The Dayton Foundation has been helping people help others in the Dayton community and beyond. The Dayton Foundation helps donors find the best and most tax-wise ways to achieve their charitable objectives, invests and manages donors' charitable funds, and provides grants and leadership to grow philanthropy and help meet present and future community needs. More information about The Dayton Foundation and its services is available at www.daytonfoundation.org.