IT’S BACK!
New time! New venue! In partnership with VIVO

Remember being a kid, getting up early on Saturday with a bowl of Cookie Crisp and watching Smurfs, Transformers and Battle of the Planets?

Second Level Wizards is proud to announce the return of the Saturday Morning Cartoon Party, in which you can relive those memories. Starting at 11:10 on Saturday March 10 at VIVO Media Arts Centre on Main St (@ 4th Ave) we’ll be showing classic TV fare from the 70’s, 80’s and elsewhen along with bowls of Frankenberry, Cap’n Crunch, Trix and all your other cartoon-mascotted cereals. After a healthy dose of nostalgic toons, we’ll be screening the classic feature-length animated fantasy “A Flight of Dragons.” A young scientist (voiced by Three’s Company’s John Ritter) from the present is brought back in time by the Green Wizard (Harry Morgan) to help stop the evil Red Wizard (voiced by Darth Vader himself, James Earl Jones) and his dragon allies from taking over the world.

What cartoons will we be showing? You’ll have to show up to find out, but previous guests know that we’ve shown Scooby Doo, Popeye, Bugs Bunny, 1940’s Superman, NFB’s Log Driver’s Waltz and many many others. Plus we’ll have contemporary commercials and PSAs. Don’t drown your food!

http://secondlevelwizards.com/
Here’s a handy link to the Facebook Event: http://tinyurl.com/dragoncartoon – please join us!
VIVO: http://vivomediaarts.com

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* Admission price to be announced very shortly. Cereal is not included with admission. Bring your own bowl to get $1 off cereal. We’ll supply organic vegan lactose-free options.

Merry Yule-logs to one and all.

The Second Level Wizards will return in January. Look to this space for updates!

CTHULHUPALOOZA UPDATE
We’re postponing Cthulhupalooza II: Son of Cthulhupalooza until after the 2010 Olympics. The good news is that this should allow us to make the event a much larger and more awesome event. We’re still looking for horror films, and they don’t just have to be Lovecraftian, so if you’ve made a student film or won a Bloodshots 48 hour horror film competition, we want to hear about it.

SATURDAY MORNING CARTOON PARTY. We’re hoping to do another cartoon party in November, but are sussing out alternate venues. If you are affiliated with any theatres or video-friendly galleries/spaces please contact us.

BLOODSHOTS 48 Hour Film Competition happened this past weekend, and the films are being screened this Wednesday night at the ANZA Club as part of the Celluloid Social Club. http://www.celluloidsocialclub.com/
$5 admission.

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY @ Elfsar in Yaletown happens this Saturday from 11am-7pm. Elfsar brings in special guests for FCBD, supports the Food Bank, and is widely known as one of the best comic shops on the West Coast. www.elfsar.com

THE DARKEST OF THE HILLSIDE THICKETS LIVE PERFORMANCE. If you came to Cthulhupalooza last year you know that local Lovecraft rock gods The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets put on a good show. Since the announcement that Cthulhupalooza II is being postponed circa April 2010, their live show on Hallowe’en night is the only chance for the rest of this year that you can see their stage antics. Bring a video camera! http://imuproductions.com/mainframe.html#oct31-340 and www.thickets.net for general info

NFB GET ANIMATED! - a Canada-wide series of free screenings, master classes and activities marking International Animation Day – is on NOW until Nov 1. See http://films.nfb.ca/get-animated for more details!

I had said in a previous post that we were looking at August 8 for the next Saturday Morning Cartoon Party. That’s been postponed to September. Keep your peepers peeled to this station for more exciting developments as they…develop!

We currently have a new batch of black t-shirts size S, M, L and XL for your enjoyment. Please visit our Merch page (link to the right) to pick one up for your most loved and hated ones.