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"Boston Celebrates Woodstock": Special Film Screening: Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie with Director Michelle Esrick Introducing

Presented by Regent Theatre at Regent Theatre

August 13, 2009

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Beginning with Woodstock ‘99, director Michelle Esrick has spent ten years documenting the life of Wavy Gravy. Multiple-award winning Saint Misbehavin’ journeys from the hills of California to the Himalayan Mountains to reveal the life of this one of a kind servant to humanity. The film blends Wavy’s own words with magical stories from an extraordinary array of fellow travelers both cultural and counter-cultural, revealing the man behind the clown’s grin and the fool’s clothing. In Saint Misbehavin’ Wavy is revealed more than the tie-dyed entertainer and ice-cream flavor namesake that often defines him in the popular imagination. Audiences will come to know the activist, the optimist, and the healer who reaches beyond political, economic, and cultural divisions in his commitment to social change and the alleviation of human suffering. Wavy’s life is his message, serving as deeply needed inspiration that we can change the world and have fun doing it.

Satirist Paul Krasner describes Wavy as “The illegitimate son of Harpo Marx and Mother Theresa, conceived one starry night on a spiritual whoopie cushion,” to which Wavy has replied, “Some people tell me I’m a saint, I tell them I’m Saint Misbehavin’.” Featuring: Wavy Gravy, Jahanara Romney, Jordon Romney, Dr. Larry Brilliant, The Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Odetta, Patch Adams, Steve Earle, Lisa Law, Buffy Sainte Marie, Denise Kaufman, Michael Franti, Tom Law, Steven Ben Israel, The Hog Farm and more! Director Michelle Esrick will introduce and host a post screening Q&A and celebration.

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    Regent Theatre

    7 Medford Street
    Arlington, MA 02474

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    Tickets: General Admission: $12.50 Advance; $15 Day of Show

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    August 13, 2009

    Times:
    9:00 PM

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    Orchestra Level Wheelchair accessible. Balcony is not.

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    • Event Name: "Boston Celebrates Woodstock": Special Film Screening: Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie with Director Michelle Esrick Introducing
      "Good medicine in dis-eased times"
      Review posted by: EB Briggs from Cambridge, MA, Aug 14, 2009
      

      Esrick has done a masterful job of collecting historical footage, interviewing, filming and compiling a collage of one of our generation's greatest. This movie will humble you. You will leave the... Expand

      Esrick has done a masterful job of collecting historical footage, interviewing, filming and compiling a collage of one of our generation's greatest. This movie will humble you. You will leave the theater inspired (reminded again) with evidence that life lived according to the basic principles of equality, peaceful co-existence, fairness, and respect creates the greatest wealth for the greatest number. Wavy Gravy practices mindful engagement. His life is dedicated to making people smile. He is undeterred by the naysayers, those who would obstruct or defeat him. His message of hope, empathy, and giving, backed by a life of example, is in direct contrast to policies that are motivated by hubris, greed, nationalism, comparison, me-ism, or extremism of any kind, all of which lead to conflicts (wars) and mass suffering. The movie is a delight, an easy collage to look at, one you will want to see again and again. You will smile. You might even laugh out loud - I did several times. Collapse

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    • Event Name: "Boston Celebrates Woodstock": Special Film Screening: Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie with Director Michelle Esrick Introducing
      "Good medicine in dis-eased times"
      Review posted by: EB Briggs from Cambridge, MA, Aug 14, 2009
      

      Esrick has done a masterful job of collecting historical footage, interviewing, filming and compiling a collage of one of our generation's greatest. This movie will humble you. You will leave the... Expand

      Esrick has done a masterful job of collecting historical footage, interviewing, filming and compiling a collage of one of our generation's greatest. This movie will humble you. You will leave the theater inspired (reminded again) with evidence that life lived according to the basic principles of equality, peaceful co-existence, fairness, and respect creates the greatest wealth for the greatest number. Wavy Gravy practices mindful engagement. His life is dedicated to making people smile. He is undeterred by the naysayers, those who would obstruct or defeat him. His message of hope, empathy, and giving, backed by a life of example, is in direct contrast to policies that are motivated by hubris, greed, nationalism, comparison, me-ism, or extremism of any kind, all of which lead to conflicts (wars) and mass suffering. The movie is a delight, an easy collage to look at, one you will want to see again and again. You will smile. You might even laugh out loud - I did several times. Collapse

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