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For up-and-coming playwright Colette Freedman, seeing her play “Sister Cities” on stage this month in Burbank has been a thrill. But the icing on the cake is having it entered in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland this summer. The play opens Friday at the Sidewalk Studio Theatre in Burbank. Then the company leaves for Scotland for the festival on July 30 and will return Aug. 30. “It’s the most wonderful feeling in the world,” Freedman said.

From Caribbean limbo to British rock ’n’ roll, the songs and dances performed Friday night by students at Cerritos Elementary School had an unmistakably global flair. Preschoolers sang in French while wearing homemade berets, and third-graders danced to Beatles classics such as “She Loves You.” It was the school’s International Festival, an annual celebration of cultures that has been going on for decades. Cerritos alumni and parents congregated at the school to enjoy food that was as international as the entertainment and watch the students perform.

More than 150 Mountain Avenue Elementary supporters took flight on May 10 to attend the first MACK (Mountain Avenue is Committed to Kids) Night International. The event was a primary fundraiser for the school and organizers were anxious to see how the bottom line would end up. The results are in and MACK International raised nearly $17,000 to benefit the school. This was the 16th annual parent’s night out fundraiser, but the first time it was held on the school’s campus.

GLENDALE ? For Renaissance Academy junior Anthony Stover, the opportunity to be part of an elite team of 18-and-under U.S. basketball players competing against the some of the world?s best in an international tournament in Manheim, Germany couldn?t have come at a better time. Stover and his Wildcats teammates were just a week removed from dropping a heartbreaker to Ross Branson in the CIF Division V State Championship and still recovering from that loss. So when the opportunity to play overseas popped up, Stover didn?

More than 100 people turned out for the La Crescenta Women?s Club?s annual fundraiser Saturday during a night celebrating international culture. The event featured a dinner with Greek and Armenian food, as well as traditional dances and music, said Jonelle Bisseti, a women?s club member. A fabric-draped tent served as an Easter bazaar, where attendees could bid on various items ? bottles of wine, cosmetic mirrors, chocolates, candles, a tea set ? with the proceeds going to charity.