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Co-Chairs: Janet Finegar, janetfinegar@msn.com
Liz Reed, earead@yahoo.com
Jessica Hall, Jessica.Hall@reuters.com
View our calendar of events
The Liberty Lands Committee oversees the maintenance, preservation, and improvements to the community park. A small steering committee meets monthly to review all park activities, which typical include: organization of volunteers, planning workdays and cleanups, playground maintenance, community garden maintenance, organization of park events, management of park use, fundraising planning, grant management, legal issues affecting the property, materials and equipment procurement, capital improvements, long-term planning, and management of the roughly $10,000 annual operating budget. Steering committee members also represent the park at the local and national level as advocates for open space issues. De facto subcommittees manage issues specific to the community garden, the playground, and yearly events such as the music festivals and fall festival. Volunteers are welcomed at all levels of participation from steering committee membership to attendance at workdays.
Movie start times are approximate (based on sunset). The movies begin at DUSK. Movies are cancelled on rainy nights.
Tuesday, June 17 9:00 p.m. PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974)
Brian De Palma's amazingly over the top cult classic, Todd and Dave are thrilled to offer this as our opening salvo to a summer of groove! Quintessential midnight movie masterpiece… shown at dusk!
Tuesday, June 24 9:00 p.m. THE JAYHAWKERS! (1959)
A great 50s Western in luscious Technicolor, JAYHAWKERS sets good guy Fess Parker against megalomaniac bad guy Jeff Chandler in pre Civil War Kansas. Fine performances from at times sexually confused characters and an outstanding score make for a Hollywood 'A' feature at the Drive-In!
Tuesday, July 1 9:00 p.m. CAVEMAN
(1981) Yes, we're finally showing CAVEMAN! Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach ugh and grunt their way through this beloved yet admittedly bizarre spoof, with a cast of character actors including Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long and Jack Gilford, and stop action dinosaurs aplenty.
Tuesday, July 8 9:00 p.m. ORPHEUS (1950)
Jean Cocteau's remarkably cool and still awe inspiring rethinking of the Greek tragedy, set in post war France. Chiseled Jean Marais as Orpheus the poet, beautiful Marie Dea as Eurydice, and the breathtakingly elegant Maria Cesares as Death (eat your heart out, Sade'). Death's heralds on vintage motorcycles and majestic special effects make for an incomparable masterpiece!
Tuesday, July 15 8:45 p.m. GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (1933)
Considered the best of the all singing, all dancing genre, GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 was the perfect escapist comedy for Depression era audiences. To heck with Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and a very young Ginger Rogers, as a kid watching late night TV, I fell hook, line and sinker for saucy comedienne Joan Blondell. Pre Code, this was considered almost irresponsibly spicy in its day. Hot diggety!
Tuesday, July 22 8:45 p.m. THE TRIP (1967)
Roger Corman produced it. Jack Nicholson wrote it. Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, Susan Strasberg and Dennis Hopper star in it, with cameos by all sorts of folks. Psychedelic special effects galore accompany Fonda's attempt at a carefully controlled foray into an inner universe where "carefully controlled" just doesn't work. You'll never again hear the words "the living room" in the same way!
Tuesday, July 29 8:30 p.m. THE BOY FRIEND (1971)
Hard to imagine a Ken Russell tribute to early, big budget Hollywood musical spectaculars… starring Twiggy, just post Carnaby Street, no less, but here it is, and a much loved and undeservedly obscure classic it is.
Tuesday, August 5 8:30 p.m. THE LONG, LONG TRAILER (1953)
Come out and bring your vintage trailer, your post war bar-b-que gear, your New Look party dress and your rayon shirt-jac. The film will be preceded with a slide presentation by Todd Kimmell (yeah, me!), covering 10 years' mad devotion to the American history of living on wheels.
Tuesday, August 12 8:30 p.m. CAT BALLOU (1965)
Jane Fonda is the vivacious cowgirl and Lee Marvin the drunken ex gunslinger in this wonderful comedy that hasn't lost an ounce of luster in 43 years. Marvin won the Oscar for his somewhat less than subtle performance, and Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye are strolling troubadours throughout. A great film for the whole family.
Tuesday, August 19 8:15 p.m. SEVEN CHANCES (1925)
Silent era super star and all around auteur, Buster Keaton, flying confidently at the top of his form in this, one of his best films of all time. A must see for Keaton fans, and a great film for everyone, we're honored to be able to offer this monumental comedy classic as the grand finale to our 2008 season.
Liberty Lands is available for neighborhood parties and for rental by other groups. Costs for use vary depending upon the length and type of use, but range from a $25 donation for use by small neighborhood parties to $100 for larger parties and events and several hundred dollars for rental by groups. Fees are used to offset the cost of increased trash and to support the ongoing maintenance of the park.
No use of the park can ever restrict access to the playground and community gardens. Music is allowed during daylight hours, but users are asked to be considerate of neighbors in terms of volume of music and other activities.
Park users are responsible for any damage to the park (trees, gardens, playground equipment, and other park equipment) caused during their event. Normal wear-and-tear on the lawn is expected for park use, but no motorized vehicles can be brought into the park. Users are expected to clean up after their events and to supply trash bags for their event so that the park trash cans are not overwhelmed.
Alcohol may be consumed in the park within the legal restrictions of the State of Pennsylvania.
Park use is determined on a first-come, first-served basis for all users. Reservations can be made by contacting Janet Finegar (janetfinegar@gmail.com); reservations are recorded on the Liberty Lands calendar (accessible at www.nlna.org/liberty-lands-calendar.html). Users are responsible for "reserving" picnic tables, grills, etc. themselves with a note on the table stating the date and time for which it will be used.
Fees for use should be payable to "Liberty Lands" and sent to the NLNA office at 700 N. 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
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