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EVENTS

           Purchase your tickets for CA-Sponsored Events at www.sctexas.org or at the Member Services Office.
                     Tickets for events listed for the first time will be available Wednesday, March 1 at 8 a.m.

Activities with Jenny                                                  Many people like to first locate their seats and then exit to
                                                                       the restroom or library. Especially during the initial rush, it
All about tickets at CA events                                         is difficult for ticket takers to keep up with those who have
                                                                       left the ballroom and will be returning. So please take your
Bus outings - Volunteer trip leaders for                               ticket with you and show it when you re-enter through the
our CA sponsored bus outings will always                               ticket-taking doors.
ask for tickets to be presented when you
check in to board the bus. Once your leader                            What if I forget to bring my tickets? We certainly under-
checks your ticket, please hang on to that                             stand an occasional “uh-oh.” In that case, please inform the
ticket. Consider it your “boarding pass.”                              bus outing leader or the onsite ticket takers. They will be able
Sometimes questions arise, and a leader                                to help you. That said, we do ask you to please make a habit
may need to ask you to present your ticket again after you             of bringing your tickets with you for all CA sponsored events.
are already on the bus.
                                                                       Do I have to print my tickets? If you prefer, you may bring
Onsite events - Similarly, at onsite CA events (movies,                your mobile device and show your ticket purchase email.
performances, dances), please present your tickets to the vol-
unteer ticket takers. Once checked by the ticket takers, keep               email Jenny Phillips at [email protected]
your ticket as your “boarding pass” in case questions arise.

In addition, at onsite CA events, we ask you to use your
ticket for reentry during the first hour or so of the event.

   Matinee Movie - Sully                                               to Will Traynor (Sam Claflin), a wealthy young banker who
                                                                       became wheelchair bound in an accident two years prior, and
Rated PG-13 (2016) Drama, 96 Minutes                                   whose whole world changed dramatically in the blink of an eye.
Wednesday, March 1, 1 p.m., SCB, $3 pp                                 No longer the adventurous soul he once was, the now cynical
Open seating theater style                                             Will has all but given up. That is until Lou determines to show
                                                                       him that life is worth living.
                     Back by popular demand!
                                                                          Matinee Movie - Loving
                     On Jan. 15, 2009, Capt. Chesley “Sully”
                     Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) tries to make an         Rated PG-13 (2016) Drama, 123 Minutes
                     emergency landing in New York’s Hudson            Friday, March 3, 1 p.m., SCB, $3 pp
                     River after US Airways Flight 1549 strikes        Open seating theater style
a flock of geese. Miraculously, all of the 155 passengers and
crew survive the harrowing ordeal, and Sullenberger becomes                                 Interracial couple Richard and Mildred Loving
a national hero in the eyes of the public and the media. Despite                            fell in love and were married in 1958. They
the accolades, the famed pilot now faces an investigation that                              grew up in Central Point, a small town in
threatens to destroy his career and reputation.                                             Virginia that was more integrated than
                                                                                            surrounding areas in the American South. Yet
   Matinee Movie – Me Before You                                       it was the state of Virginia, where they were making their home
                                                                       and starting a family, that first jailed and then banished them.
Rated PG-13, (2016) Drama, 93 Minutes                                  Richard and Mildred relocated with their children to the inner
Thursday, March 2, 1 p.m., SCB. $3 pp                                  city of Washington, D.C., but the family ultimately tries to find
Open seating theater style                                             a way back to Virginia.

                     Louisa “Lou” Clark (Emilia Clarke) lives in a             *Reserved seating by table – What does this mean?
                     quaint town in the English countryside. With         When you purchase tickets, you are selecting a TABLE
                     no clear direction in her life, the quirky and       ONLY. Seat selection is not specific.
                     creative 26-year-old goes from one job to the        When you show up for the event, the seats are first come,
                     next in order to help her tight-knit family make     first served to the table you reserved.
ends meet. Her normally cheery outlook is put to the test,
however, when she faces her newest career challenge. Taking a                                                                                                   ONLINE: SCTEXAS.ORG
job at the local “castle,” she becomes caregiver and companion

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