Stevie Van Zandt’s foundation will host the New York Beatles documentary Premiere
This Thursday, September 15th, at the Village East Theater, Stevie Van Zandt’s non-profit Rock and Roll Forever Foundation (RRFF) will host the New York City premiere of Ron Howard’s The Beatles: Eight Days A Week-The Touring Years. Van Zandt’s foundation, which for several years running has been offering extensive educational materials free-of-charge to middle and high school teachers interested in taking their students on a historical exploration of popular music, will be launching a nationwide educational effort centered around the Beatles film. Just two days after the event, with Scholastic, Inc. as their partner and with the support of Apple Corps, the RRFF will make available their Eight Days a Week in the Classroom
materials at teachrock.org. Those new Beatles-themed materials will join over seventy preexisting multi-media lesson plans on the website; this will be the largest, most in-depth Beatles-related project to be integrated into American middle and high school education to date. The September 15th New York City premiere, held the day before the film opens in New York at IFC Center and in theaters across the country, will take place on the same day as the world premiere of the film in London. The New York City event will act as a fundraiser to help support the educational efforts of the RRFF and will include a red carpet featuring celebrities and the RRFF’s special guest teachers. Donations will support the ongoing educational work of the RRFF, and contributions to the campaign will also sponsor individual educators, granting them tickets to the premiere, as well as a place in the training seminars associated with this Beatles-related educational initiative. This will be the night when the teacher is the star.
By: Fredrick Mintchell
Source: Morning Ticker
