New Beginnings will hold its annual fundraiser at the West Wind Drive-In, 6-9 p.m. Oct. 22. The agency is showing the 1991 comedy-drama film “The Fisher King” starring Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams and Mercedes Ruehl. The price of admission is $50 per vehicle.
A second late-night screening, starting about 9:30 p.m., is available at $5 per vehicle.
New Beginnings provides quality, affordable counseling, shelter, case management and education that strengthens our community and provides our clients with the ability to lead healthy and productive lives. For more information about the event and to purchase tickets, click here.
Those attending will hear a series of short interviews with New Beginnings’ staff and volunteers highlighting the agency’s work this year as well as an interview with Oscar-winner Mercedes Ruehl and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Richard LaGravenese.
The evening will also include a screening of the 2019 Oscar-Winning short film “Hair Love,” which follows the story of a man who must do his daughter’s hair for the first time; and a short film about a businessman meeting a homeless man in a café called “French Roast.”
These short films were chosen because they reinforce the message New Beginnings hopes to convey throughout the evening.
“New Beginnings is showing ‘The Fisher King’ in particular to help inform community members about trauma and how it impacts those around us,” said executive director Kristine Schwarz. “We are using storytelling as a more engaging way of educating people about the issues New Beginnings works to address.”
The fundraiser will include prizes. For each ticket purchased, New Beginnings will provide a ticket that will enter its attendees into a drawing to win such prizes as a two-night stay in a cabin at Pine Mountain Club in the Los Padres Forest; a 2016 bottle of Shafer wine; and a BMW Baby Racer with more than 100 celebrity signatures on it.
New Beginnings Counseling Center, at 324 E. Carrillo Street, Ste. C, Santa Barbara, is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. For more, contact the development department, 80-963-7777 ext. 112 or email development@sbnbcc.org.