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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=BasicParagraph><b><u><span style='font-size:24.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>PRESS RELEASE </span></u></b><b><u><span style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <img width=116 height=106 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D03971.C55C1BA0"></span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'> <img width=108 height=63 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D03971.C55C1BA0"></span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Ashtabula Arts Center</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=BasicParagraph><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>2928 W. 13<sup>th</sup> Street, Ashtabula, OH 44004 (440) 964-3396<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=BasicParagraph><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Contact: Pamela Hammond, Marketing and Public Relations Director<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=BasicParagraph><a href="mailto:phammond@ashtabulaartscenter.org"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>phammond@ashtabulaartscenter.org</span></a><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><a href="http://www.ashtabulaartscenter.org"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>www.ashtabulaartscenter.org</span></a><span class=MsoHyperlink><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=BasicParagraph><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>For immediate release:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=BasicParagraph align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=BasicParagraph align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext'> “A Sip and a Show”: Wine Education Plus a Play Set in Italy</span></u></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>The Ashtabula Arts Center has partnered with Geneva’s Windows on Pairings, Ohio's Wine & Culinary Experience, to bring a wine education class in sensory palate training to the arts center on Saturday, February 7, the opening weekend of <i>Enchanted April</i>, a stage production set in Italy’s wine country.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>“Our February production of <i>Enchanted April</i> is the perfect venue for beginning our joint venture with Windows on Pairings, which I hope will be just the start of many partnered events to come, both here at the arts center and at their beautiful new establishment in Geneva,” says Lori Robishaw, Ashtabula Arts Center’s Executive Director. “Wine, theater, and art have always been considered some of life’s greatest pleasures and Northeast Ohio is a gold mine of great cultural events and activities.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>“A Sip and a Show” will feature a 6 p.m. pre-show class that will answer the questions, “what is swirling, smelling, and sipping all about?” as this class takes participants on a sensory tasting to teach the fine art of distinguishing flavors and characteristics found in favorite wines. Participants will leave with the confidence to order, taste, and talk about wine at any social </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>event.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white'> </span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Following the class, students will be given a ticket to watch the 7:30 p.m. performance of <i>Enchanted April</i>, a story of two women who rent an Italian Villa in the wine making countryside for an impulsive holiday away from their husbands. They recruit a pair of wealthy women to share the cost, and there, among the wisteria blossoms, grape vines, and Mediterranean sunshine, the women clash, and then bond and bloom, until men once again upset the balance. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>"Pairings is thrilled to be developing a partnership with the Ashtabula Arts Center, a true gem of the county. What a better way to get started than with <em><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Enchanted April</span></em>. While the show’s characters venture to Italy's wine country, theater-goers can explore the delicacies of wine tasting here in the heart of Ohio's wine country."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Tickets to “A Sip and a Show” are $40 each and include both the 6 p.m. sensory palate training class plus a theater ticket to see the 7:30 p.m. performance of <i>Enchanted April</i>. Tickets can be purchased by calling the Ashtabula Arts Center at (440) 964-3396 or by visiting the box office at 2928 W. 13<sup>th</sup> Street, Ashtabula. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;position:relative;top:2.0pt;mso-text-raise:-2.0pt'>The Ashtabula Arts Center is funded in part by the Ohio Arts Council.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;position:relative;top:2.0pt;mso-text-raise:-2.0pt'>###<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>