50 Years of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving!
Saturday, November 18
1:00–4:00 pm
Cost: Included with Museum admission. Free for Members. Free for children when you bring food to donate to Redwood Empire Food Bank.
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Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the animated classic A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving! Create your own meal to-go with popcorn, pretzels, jellybeans, and toast. Make a Snoopy chef’s hat, collage thank you cards, and watch the movie on the big screen. Also, meet the voice actors behind Charlie Brown and Lucy: Todd Barbee (Charlie Brown) and Robin Kohn (Lucy Van Pelt). At 2:00 pm, Jason Mendelson of Lee Mendelson Film Productions will speak about the history of the animated special and its music.
ABOUT TODD BARBEE
Todd Barbee has been a freelance creative his entire career and has served many clients in many roles, including themed entertainment design, architectural planning, and design, project management, directing, shooting, and producing video, and lending his creative eye to everything he does. When he’s not creating and storytelling, he’s probably traveling overseas with his family or at the local playhouse watching his daughter’s latest theatrical performance. www.toddbarbee.com
ABOUT ROBIN KOHN
Robin Kohn played the voice of Lucy in the Peanuts cartoons from 1970-1973, in: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, Snoopy Come Home, You’re Not Elected Charlie Brown, and There’s No Time For Love Charlie Brown. In addition to her work in conservation land acquisition, residential real estate brokerage and environmental law, acting and singing have been an important part of her life, including commercial voiceovers and acting, audiobooks, musical performance and theater.
ABOUT JASON MENDELSON
Jason Mendelson is the CEO and Counsel for Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc., the company his father, the late Lee Mendelson (11-time Emmy® winner and famed producer of Peanuts, Garfield, and scores of other entertainment and documentary film and television projects), founded in 1963. Jason is a multi-Emmy® nominated and Emmy® winning producer of It’s Your 50th Christmas, Charlie Brown (2015). At age 4, Jason first worked in the business voicing Rerun (Linus and Lucy’s little brother) for The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show (1983) and continued voicing characters for his father (and others), including Little Critter (Disney records); Marcie in Happy New Year, Charlie Brown (1986); and Peppermint Patty in This is America Charlie Brown, (1988-1989). Jason then went behind the scenes to develop and produce numerous Peanuts specials and other entertainment and documentary projects in the 90s and through today. Jason has written, produced, and/or directed television, film, live stage productions, and musical events, and he co-produced the Vince Guaraldi Soundtrack albums for It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (2022), and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (2023). Jason loves being one of the stewards of the Peanuts’ television and film legacy left by his father, Charles Schulz, Bill Melendez, and Vince Guaraldi.
