A18 The Delta Optimist February 19, 2011
leisure&lifestyles
features co-ordinator: Dave Willis
604-946-4451
email: dwillis@delta-optimist.com
....in South Delta
Oscars coming to Ladner
Local hoping to make party at Cedar Park an annual event BY
DAVE WILLIS
dwillis@delta-optimist.com
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andy Vannatter is putting together a big Oscar bash in Ladner next Sunday. “It’s a lot more fun than being at home by yourself ” to watch the movie industry’s annual awards show, he says. The event, to be held at Cedar Park Church, will include a three-course dinner catered by the Bread Garden, non-alcoholic wines, a silent auction and an Oscar ballot contest. The awards telecast will be shown on a 10-by-12-foot screen. “We’ll have a giant, jumbo screen,” Vannatter says. The contest is a big part of the event, he notes. “Basically, you’re up against everyone else in the room to guess who wins the Oscars.” Every single award given out on the telecast is part of the contest and some of more obscure awards are worth fewer points than more well known categories. “We give updates
PHOTO BY JIM JORGENSEN
A scene from Randy Vannatter’s last Oscar party at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre. He says the Academy Awards is a chance to “see the biggest stars in the world all in one place.”
throughout the night to see who’s winning the contest,” Vannatter says. “You can have bragging rights against your friends who think they know some-
thing about movies.” The top 10 winners in the ballot contest get a replica Oscar trophy. Vannatter, a Ladner resident who has his own tour-
ism guidebook business, is a big fan of movies. He says he got the idea for an Oscar party after attending his friend’s private event to watch the awards.
Vannatter held his own private party in 2007 at the Coast Tsawwassen Inn. “It’s where we cut our teeth,” he says. He’s since done a large public Oscar party at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver.
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He says he’s hoping to put on a public Oscar party annually in Delta. The silent auction is a fundraiser for scholarships to Cedar Park’s annual arts festival. The Academy Awards party is set for Sunday, Feb. 27 at Cedar Park Church, 5300-44th Ave., Ladner. The red carpet entrance is at 4 p.m. “We’re going to create a welcome with a red carpet treatment,” says Vannatter, noting there will be appetizers available. Before the show starts author and animator Ken Priebe will talk about film. Priebe is an instructor at the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts. He’s an independent filmmaker, writer, puppeteer, animation historian and author of the books The Art of Stop-Motion Animation and The ADVANCED Art of StopMotion Animation. Tickets are $40 each or a table of eight for $300. Buy tickets online at oscarparty2011.eventbrite. com. For more information on the event follow @oscarparty2011 on Twitter or visit www.academyawards. tel.