[NFBMI-Talk] Invited!

[Steve Cook]

Everyone is invited, please share! 

The Computer Science & Technology Division would like to invite everyone to the below events. You can read more information about the Purple Rain movie and the Raise Right Funding below the Zoom information. 

Friday, July 14, 2023
Audio described movie Purple Rain at 8:00 PM Eastern

Saturday, July 22, 2023
Presentation about Raise Right fund raising at 11:00 AM Eastern



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Purple Rain

Released in 1984
Run Time: 1:51
Rating: TV 14
The Kid is the talented but troubled frontman of his Minneapolis-based band, The Revolution. To escape his difficult home life—his father verbally and physically abuses him and his mother—he spends his days rehearsing and his nights performing at the First Avenue nightclub. The Revolution, the flashy Morris Day and his group the Time, and Dez Dickerson and his group the Modernaires hold the nightclub's three house band slots. Morris, aware that the Revolution's guitarist Wendy and keyboardist Lisa are frustrated that the Kid is unwilling to play their compositions, lobbies Billy Sparks, the club's owner, to replace The Revolution with a girl group which Morris is already forming.

He targets the Kid's girlfriend Apollonia—an aspiring singer and new arrival in Minneapolis—to lead his group, and tries to persuade her that The Kid is too self-centered to help her. She eventually joins Morris's group, which Morris names Apollonia 6. When she reveals her newfound partnership to the Kid, he becomes furious and slaps her, as his father had struck him earlier.

At the club, the Kid responds to the internal band strife, the pressure to draw more crowds, and his strained private life with the uncomfortably personal "Darling Nikki". His performance publicly humiliates Apollonia, who runs off in tears, and angers both Morris and Billy, worsening his situation. Billy confronts the Kid, castigating him for bringing his personal life onto the stage and warning him that he is wasting his musical talent as his father did. Apollonia 6 successfully debuts, and Billy warns the Kid that his First Avenue slot is at risk.

The Kid seizes Apollonia from a drunken Morris and the two argue and fight; Apollonia then abandons him. Returning home, he finds the house in tatters, with his mother nowhere to be found. When he turns on the basement light, his father—who had been lurking in the basement with a loaded handgun—shoots himself in the head. Frenzied after a night of torment, the Kid tears apart the basement to release his frustration, only to find a large box of his father's musical compositions. The next morning, the Kid picks up a cassette tape of one of Wendy and Lisa's compositions, a rhythm track named "Slow Groove", and begins to compose.

That night at First Avenue, all is quiet in the Revolution's dressing room until the Time stops by to taunt the Kid about his family life. Once on stage, the Kid announces that he will be playing "a song the girls in the band wrote", dedicated to his father—revealed to be "Purple Rain". As the emotional song ends, the Kid rushes from the stage and out the back door of the club, intending to ride away on his motorcycle. However, before he can mount it, he realizes that his new song has thrilled the crowd.

The Kid returns to the club, with his fellow musicians greeting him with approval and a teary-eyed Apollonia embracing him. The Kid returns to the stage for two encores with the Revolution ("I Would Die 4 U" and "Baby I'm a Star") to the wild approval of the crowd and Morris. Overlaid scenes show the Kid visiting his father and mother in the hospital and sorting his father's compositions in the basement, accompanied by Apollonia. A montage of all the songs plays as the credits roll.

Cast
Prince as The Kid
Apollonia Kotero as Apollonia
Morris E. Day as himself
Olga Karlatos as Mother
Clarence Williams III as Father, a.k.a. "Francis L."
Jerome Benton as Jerome
Billy Sparks as Billy
Jill Jones as Jill
Dez Dickerson as Dez
Wendy Melvoin as Wendy
Lisa Coleman as Lisa
The Revolution as themselves
The Time as themselves
Apollonia 6 as themselves

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Echo & Ring 

The Computer Science & Technology Division of the NFB of SC has a great opportunity for you to win an Echo Show 5 and a wireless Ring Doorbell! 

This awesome  fundraiser is valued at $160! Yes, you read that correctly $160 value! For a small donation of only $5,  your name will be entered in to the drawing once, but wait there is more! If you would like your name entered in to the drawing 3 times, please make a donation of $10! Go to the below link to donate! Be sure to put in the field labelled “Send a note with your contribution” Echo/Ring. If Echo/Ring is not in the above field, your donation to the general CSTD account will be greatly appreciated!  If you do not have a PayPal account, you can still complete the form on the first page and submit it to let us know that a separate payment will be on its way.  This alternate method does not collect any credit card information.   You can then send a check made payable to NFB of SC CSTD, with “Echo/Ring” in the memo field.  Here is the address .

NFB of SC CSTD
Federation Center of the Blind
119 S Kilbourne Road
Columbia, SC 29205

Here is the link.
Donate | National Federation of the Blind of South Carolina (nfbofsc.org)

Our drawing will take place at our NFB of SC State Convention Banquet on Saturday, August 19, 2023 in Columbia, SC. You do not have to be present to win!!! If you are not in attendance at the state convention, your prize will be mailed shortly after the convention concludes.

As always, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, or need help  with this process.  Two of the easiest contact methods are (803) 260-1292 or cookcafe at sc.rr.com

Thank you for your support of the Computer Science & Technology Division! 

Steve Cook
SteveCook at tweesecake.social
@CSTDofNFBSC at tweesecake.social
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