Erie Asian Pacific American Association offers drive-in showing of Oscar-nominated Minari
Staff report
Tickets are $10 per person or $25 per car. Get them at http://bit.ly/minarisunset.
The film follows a Korean-American family that moves from California to an Arkansas farm to grow Korean fruits and vegetables. A foul-mouthed, loving grandmother arrives, changing everything, and the film depicts the resilience of one family determined to make a home in America.
Released in 2020, Minari was written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung. It racked up six Academy Awards nominations and one win – Best Supporting Actress for Yuh-jung Youn – as well as a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, and other accolades.
Meg Loncharic: Erie dance student chosen as model for national costume catalog
Erie Times-News
An Erie Dance Conservatory student, 5-year-old
Viviana Pribonic, was chosen to be a costume model for the national dance costume catalog Curtain Call Costumes 2021.
Her mother,
Deena Pribonic, who is also an instructor at Erie Dance Conservatory, had a friend who works for Curtain Call Costumes and thought Viviana would make a great candidate, according to information provided by Erie Dance Conservatory. So, mother and daughter traveled five hours to York on three different occasions in January, February and June 2020 for photo shoots.
Sarah Purvis, the dance school’s artistic director, said that Viviana was a natural. She was not only featured throughout the catalog, but also as one of the dancers on the cover.