As a member of the Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council I'm excited to share with you about an event our Outreach Committee has been planning for several months now. We are thrilled that it is finally coming to fruition this weekend!

The Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council is excited to invite the community to a movie night under the stars! Bring your friends, family, blankets, chairs and snacks on Saturday, May 18th, 2013 at 7:30pm at the Highland Park Recreation Center . The event is free and open to the public. The screening will be Disney's Finding Nemo , so bring the family!

The neighborhood council Outreach Committee has collectively endeavored to find new and exciting ways to host more "home-grown" events for our community. Last month we hosted a mixer event for the local small businessess. And we hope that the movie night under the stars this month will springboard into a whole series of movie nights this coming summer. Events like these, which are free and open to the public, help bring people together and foster a real sense of community. We want people to see that Highland Park is a vibrant neighborhood not just because of the events we host, but because of the people who attend them. Which means we'd love for you to attend!

Our goal is to eventually move these movie night events to the beautiful Hollywood Bowl-eque bandshell that we have in Sycamore Grove Park, a community asset that is woefully underutilized. But the cost to rent the bandshell is $3,000 per event, which we can't afford as a neighborhood council. We'll need to partner with sponsors in the future if we want to put more of these on. In order to do that, we need your attendance at the movie night this weekend to show your interest and support in Highland Park! It all starts this weekend. We look forward to seeing you this Saturday night for Finding Nemo!