MEDIA ADVISORY

Mayor William J. Holtzinger

CONTACT: Susan Harding, Acting Public Information Officer, 301-600-1385

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, January 2, 2007

CARTOON FEST AT THE

WEINBERG CENTER

Frederick, MD --- One of the Weinberg’s most popular events returns again this year. The Family Cartoon Festival continues its established tradition of bringing you the finest of the famous and not-so-famous animated shorts. Your favorite Looney Tunes characters are back, proving why they were such hits at the box office in the early days of animation. This show will take place on Saturday, January 6, 2007 at 2:00 PM.

The Warner Brothers Studios collection of cartoon characters make their New Year appearance! Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and all their friends return to show you how they took animation to new heights during the 1930’s through the 1960’s with some of the finest and best-loved cartoons ever produced. So many of the Warner Brothers’ cartoons have been clipped and edited over the years when shown on TV that few people can remember ever having seen them complete. Here is the opportunity to see these ‘toons unedited and on the big screen as they were created to be seen.

To purchase tickets, call the Weinberg Center for the Arts at 301-228-2828, 301-

228-2838 TTY or stop by the Box Office Tuesday thru Friday 10:00am to 4:00pm and

Saturday 10:00am to 2:00pm. Tickets are available online at www.weinbergcenter.org.

The Weinberg Center for the Arts, a municipal facility of the City of Frederick, is

located at 20 West Patrick Street in downtown Frederick, Maryland. The historic theatre

opened in 1926 as the Tivoli, and it and was donated to the City of Frederick in 1978.

Today as one of the region’s premier presenting facilities, the 1,100 seat Weinberg

Center offers professional LIVE! Series, including dance, music, theatre, family

performances and films, weekday performances for students, and classic movies.

Performance space and professional services are available to a variety of community arts

groups, civic and business organizations, and other arts promoters. Programming at the

Weinberg Center for the Arts is made possible with support from the City of Frederick,

Frederick County Government, Maryland State Arts Council, Frederick Arts Council,

Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, The Frederick News-Post, State Farm Insurance, The

Tivoli Society, other corporate and individual donors.. For more information about

upcoming events at the Weinberg Center, please call the Box Office at 301-228-2828 or

visit www.weinbergcenter.org.

--30--

www.cityoffrederick.com