While working on a booking for Doyle Dykes, the finger picking guitarist, Al Curtis discovered that both Doyle and his manager were pastors. Curtis said, “You’ve come to the right place. We don’t serve booze, we don’t serve food. We’re the ‘church of what’s happening now.’”
Al Curtis, the manager of the Skokie Theatre is a man on a mission.
His mission to provide a world-class theatrical experience for performers and audience alike; to continue the revitalization of Downtown Skokie.
Peta Kaplan-Sandzer came to the North Shore via Israel and South Africa; we met her in Highland Park, and last saw her at the 2008 Artist Project, part of the “Art Chicago” exhibition. Peta was exhibiting larger-than-life paintings of stray dogs in Nicaragua; before that we had seen her smaller-scale landscape paintings – and then we heard that Peta and her husband, Ben Sandzer-Bell, are now living in Nicaragua.
It turns out that Ben, a VP of strategy for an aerospace company, saw the writing on the wall as oil prices rose to $147 a barrel, and began planning his exit strategy. He founded “CO2 Bambú” (bambú is Spanish for bamboo), a company designed to capitalize on cap and trade, the selling of carbon credits to offset the production of greenhouse gasses. Ben wanted “green” issues to be central to his work.
On Sunday October 25, North Shore resident, best selling author and peak performance expert, Seymour Rifkind, provides a celebration of passion and possibilities in the premiere showing of 135 Days to Badwater. A documentary of the ultra marathon in Death Valley called “the most difficult foot race in the world”. In addition to the movie, Seymour will speak and be available for questions.
