From: Paul Saunders <paulsaunders@estesvalley

From: Paul Saunders <paulsaunders@estesvalley.net>

Date: August 31, 2004 10:44:02 AM MDT

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Subject: CAC ARTS NEWS No. 153 - 08/31/04

COLORADO ARTS CONSORTIUM

http://www.coloradoartsconsortium.org

CAC ARTS NEWS No. 153

08/31/04

Editor's Note:

Please Note: As mentioned in last weeks Arts News, I and spouse will be off on an Alaska Cruise next week. This means there will be no issue of CAC Arts News next week! Next week is shot for most of you anyway what with recovering from Labor Day parties and straggling back from this week's Republican Party. Rest up folks! There is one more party to attend - The art pARTy on September 11 in Pagosa Springs. Unfortunately I will not be there as the ship doesn't dock until September 12 in Seattle. Jumping ship is highly discouraged by Holland America. I'm sorry, poor planning on my part (or the wife's) when we decided to get married 51 years ago on Labor Day weekend. My only defense is that I was only nineteen and truly smitten.

Enough personal stuff! Go to the art pARTy and then e-mail me what you thought of the great gathering.

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CAC's 19 th Annual

Colorado Arts Convention

Healing the Arts in Colorado

an art pARTy

Date: September 11, 2004; 10 am - 5:30 pm

Pagosa Springs Community Center

Hot Springs Boulevard, Pagosa Springs

Colorado Arts Consortium

Campus Box 162, PO Box 173364

Denver, CO 80217-3364 * Phone: 303-722-8689

Fax 303-456-1410 * E-Mail: balletartstheatre@yahoo.com

Speakers

Elaine Mariner, Executive Director, Colorado Council on the Arts

Goals and Challenges for the Arts in Colorado

Russell Taylor, President, National Art Strategies, Inc.

The Challenge of Sustainability: How to frame the big picture in order to develop organizational stability for the future

Cheryl Bezio-Gorham from the Colorado Association of Nonprofit Organizations

Workshops on Board Development and Grantwriting.

Other Presentations

Panel discussion on Capital Campaigns--raising money for building projects.

Discussion and presentation on Tabor and Amendment 23 reform

Activities

Arts are the Heart Award

Reception at Pagosa Springs Arts Council gallery with local entertainment.

Our Vision . . . . Our Mission

The Arts help us understand the human experience and in so doing build and nurture strong communities. The Colorado Arts Consortium's vision is to integrate the arts into the core of community life because the arts are essential to the development of the human spirit and potential.

The Colorado Arts Consortium brokers ideas, resources, and services among communities, organizations, and individuals.

Membership

Become a Member of the Colorado Arts Consortium

The Consortium is one of 35 statewide assemblies of local arts councils in the nation. It is composed of 55 member councils representing 1.8 million people, 55% of the state's population. Membership reflects the scope of programming:

Category I (11 Members) Full-time staff and budgets over $l00,000; generally over 10 years old; look to the Consortium for advanced management training, information on national trends, direction in pursuing new challenges

Category II (21 members) Part-time (if any) staff and budgets between $25,000-$50,000; generally between 5-10 years old; look to the Consortium for help in solidifying their programs, funding and role in the community

Category III (23 members) Volunteer staff and budgets between $3,000-$5,000; generally under 5 years old; look to the Consortium for assistance in expanding from presenters into diverse arts activities

In addition to the arts councils, the Consortium s membership includes some of the most influential arts organizations in the state - such as the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, the Creede Repertory Theatre and Grand Junction's Western Colorado Center for the Arts.

Programs/ Services

Communications Network :

Colorado Arts Convention , the only statewide meeting for the arts community, is attended by more than 150 people, representing 97 arts councils and organizations, as well as educators and artists. The annual three-day September event is hosted in a different area of the state each year and features nationally recognized panelists and speakers. In 1999 the Convention was hosted by the CU Denver College of Arts and Media.

Regional Workshops , held annually in locations throughout Colorado, focus on management techniques, arts issues, use of community resources and other pertinent subjects suggested by local arts councils.

CAC Arts News , An e-mail weekly arts newsletter sent to over 250 e-mail address to Colorado arts councils, art agencies and individuals passionate about the arts. The newsletter is an edited compilation of Colorado arts newsletters, Calender of events and press releases in conjunction with ArtsJournal national and world arts news. Paul Saunders is editor and adds his editorial comments and "asides" to ArtsJournal articles to hopefully hold your interest to the CAC arts news. E-mail him at paulsaunders@estesvalley.net

Technical Assistance :

Professional Development Series provides technical assistance for larger local arts councils: Stuff for Staff sessions at the Convention and Regional Workshops; and counseling of staff, boards and volunteers by phone, site visits, and custom workshops.

Technical Assistance/Referral Services provide peer counseling by Consortium board members, or custom services by specialized consultants, hired to address a specific need.

Self-Assessment Springboard is a program designed to evaluate and prompt consideration of how an arts council of any size can magnify its importance in the community, improve management techniques and articulate an artistic viewpoint.

Reference Library houses computer and technical assistance materials which are available to members on loan.

Internships expose students to the challenges of community service as part of their higher education.

History

For 11 years after the legislature created the Colorado Council on the Arts in 1967, local arts councils were served by the Colorado Council's Community Services Advisory Panel which organized workshops and prepared an agenda for an annual meeting of the councils. In 1978 the Colorado Council on the Arts organized the Colorado Arts Consortium to offer programs to provide technical assistance and to re-grant General Assembly funds to local arts agencies.

When the Consortium incorporated as an independent nonprofit agency in May 1983, there were 36 local arts councils in the state; today there are more than 90. The Consortium hired a paid coordinator in 1985, moved to offices in 1991, hired a professional arts administrator in 1992, and added an assistant director and interns in 1993.

In August 1993 the Consortium moved into Denver's Sherman School recently purchased and renovated by the Art Students League of Denver, to share space with three other grass-roots arts organizations: Colorado Federation of the Arts, Colorado Lawyers for the Arts and Very Special Arts Colorado. Grants from the Denver Foundation ($33,500) and Gates Foundation ($10,000) permit the groups to share facilities, computers, equipment and programming.

At the 1994 convention in Montrose, the membership voted to change the name of the Colorado Consortium of Community Arts Councils to the Colorado Arts Consortium.

Board

The Consortium is governed by a 9-member board which meets four times a year. The board is responsible for establishing working relationships with local arts councils, organizing the Regional Workshops and Annual Convention, and coordinating technical assistance delivery and information programs for the Consortium.

The current board includes 9 arts council veterans, five current or former executive directors, and three founders of local arts councils. Five board members are professional arts administrators; six are professional artists; three have backgrounds in government or business, and one in financial management. Training is a component of every board meeting and board members serve as peer consultants to local arts councils.

Funding

The Consortium operates on a $20,000 budget generated in 2002 by membership (20%), donations (10%), foundation and corporate support (20%), program income (35%), earned income (15%).

Colorado Arts Consortium

Campus Box 162, PO Box 173364

Denver, CO 80217-3364 * Phone: 303-722-8689

Fax 303-456-1410 * E-Mail: balletartstheatre@yahoo.com

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Da Vinci Quartet Launches 2004-2005 Season

Updated 2004-2005 schedule in PDF format (soon to be posted and continually updated on the Da Vinci Quartet Web site: www.dvq.org)

MEDIA CONTACT:

Sabine Kortals

Publicist, Da Vinci Quartet

tel: 720-566-0685

email: SabineEKortals@aol.com

general information: 303.871.6964, www.dvq.org

Denver, Colorado - Next month, the Da Vinci Quartet will launch its 24th season! Detailed information about the quartet's September concerts are attached.

"To kick off our subscription concert series in Denver and Colorado Springs, we'll perform three energetic and harmonically inventive works," said second violinist Susan Jensen of the Sept. 14 and 16 programs. "From Haydn and Bartok to Dohnanyi, we've chosen a mix of chamber works that not only showcase our strengths as a quartet, but also offer an engaging and dramatic listening experiences for our audiences."

On Sept. 29, the quartet will also continue its popular Denver House Concert series in a special event at the Schomp Mansion at 680 Clarkson. For this elegant occasion at the residence of developer-owner Dennis Beckel, the quartet will perform a delightful and refreshing program, including Haydn's String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, No. 2 ("Quinten"); and "Three Noveletten" and "Londonderry Air," composed by Frank Bridge.

Other highlights of the quartet's ambitious 2004-2005 programming are numerous contemporary works, including two world premieres: Andrew List's String Quartet No. 4 and David Colson's Piano Quintet No. 1, commissioned by the Da Vinci Quartet.

In addition to offering another exhilarating subscription series of standard and non-standard repertoire, the quartet - artists-in-residence at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music and Colorado College in Colorado Springs - has carefully planned a range of special events: from various community outreach and educational programs, to several intimate house concerts, guest artist engagements, and private events.

And, since last season, the quartet is mentoring many talented young musicians of the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony (CSYS), and will perform with the CSYS winners of the DVQ-sponsored chamber music competition in a free concert at Colorado College.

New publicity photos of the quartet will be available soon, as well as a finalized schedule of events - do check our Web site often! Contact Sabine Kortals if you have any questions, to request additional information about the quartet, or to receive complimentary DVQ recordings.

We look forward to seeing you this season!

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Contact: Laima Gaigalas, (303) 492-4247 (Media Information)

CU Concerts Box Office, (303) 492-8008 (Public Information)

Event: Takács Quartet Concert (plus Encore performance)

Date: Sunday, September 26 at 4 p.m. (SOLD OUT)

Monday, Monday September 27 at 7:30p.m.

Program: HAYDN - Quartet in C Major, Op. 76, No. 3 "Emperor"

BARTÓK - Quartet No. 3

BORODIN - Quartet No. 2 in D Major

Location: Grusin Music Hall, Imig Music Building, 18th St. & Euclid

Ave., Boulder

Admission: Sunday's performance is sold out; limited tickets for Monday

are available for $26

Call (303) 492-8008 for information or visit

http://www.cuconcerts.org

TAKÁCS QUARTET SERIES BEGINS EXCITING 2004-2005 SEASON

The Takács Quartet opens its 2004-2005 season of concerts at the University

of Colorado at Boulder College of Music September 26 and 27. The concerts

will be held in Grusin Music Hall on the CU-Boulder campus. This season will

be the last to feature violist Roger Tapping who will be leaving the quartet

in the summer of 2005.

The program for both evenings will include Haydn's "Quartet in C Major, Op.

76, No. 3 "Emperor, " Bartók's "Quartet No. 3," and Borodin's "Quartet No. 2

in D Major."

Takács Quartet members are Edward Dusinberre, violin; Karoly Schranz,

violin; Roger Tapping, viola; and Andras Fejer, cello. The quartet has been

in residence at the University of Colorado College of Music since 1983; its

members were given permanent faculty appointments in 1986. They have

recently performed at the Aspen, Ravinia and Tanglewood festivals and toured

throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan. The Quartet was

awarded the prestigious Gramophone Award in the "Best Chamber Music

Recording" category in 1997 and in 2002. In 2000, they received a GRAMMY

nomination for their recording of Schubert's "Trout Quintet." In 2003 the

quartet received a Grammy Award in the Best Chamber Music Performance

category for their recording of Beethoven's string quartets.

Tickets for Sunday's performance are sold out. Limited tickets for Monday

are available for $26. 2004-2005 season tickets are also now available. For

more information, call the CU Concerts Box Office at (303) 492-8008 or visit

http://www.cuconcerts.org.

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Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys

Alice Walker, 720-941-9851 or acw1106@juno.com

Marketing and Publicity

Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys

Saturday and Sunday, September 11-12

Denver Miniature 24th Annual Show and Sale, "Home is Where the ? is," at

the Denver Marriott Tech Center, 4900 S. Syracuse Street, Denver.

Saturday, September 11 (10 am to 5 pm) and Sunday, September 12 (11 am to

4 pm). Two day admission is $6 for seniors (62+); $7 for adults; $4 for

children (no strollers). Proceeds benefit the Denver Museum of

Miniatures, Dolls and Toys. Special Features include dealers from 23

states and the UK, exhibits, Miniature Needlework Society, Teddy Bear

Picnic Workshop for Brownies and Girl Scouts who pre-register, Kid's Only

Table, and much, much more! Details and photos at

www.DMMDT.com/fallshow.htm

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COLORADO THEATRE GUILD

P.O. Box 8625

Denver, CO 80201-8625

please check out our Web Site.

www.coloradotheatreguild.org

COLORADO PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL

Presented by the City of Denver and the Gay and Lesbian Fund For Colorado

September 18 and 19, 2004 11 am - 6 pm

Denver Performing Arts Complex

Speer at Arapahoe, Downtown

Over 75 performing arts groups are waiting to inspire you with

dance, theatre, music and more! Remember it's all FREE.

Please see www.denvergov.org/performingartsfest for the entire schedule.

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PLEASE SIGN UP TO HAVE YOUR THEATRE BE A DISTRIBUTION POINT

YES ON SCFD - AN EASY WAY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CAMPAIGN

THE YES ON SCFD YARD SIGNS WILL BE AVAILABLE AFTER LABOR DAY

YOU WILL BE DOING AN SCFD SERVICE AND INTRODUCING PEOPLE TO YOUR ORGANIZATION!

CONTACT PAT STEADMAN AT PAT@YESONSCFD.ORG

www.yesonscfd.org

IS UP AND RUNNING AND THE CAMPAIGN IS KICKING INTO HIGH GEAR

Go to www.yesonscfd.org to get the latest info and volunteer ops.

Our campaign field coordinators are Pat Steadman (pat@yesonscfd.org)

and Fofi Mendez (fofi@yesonscfd.org) they can also be reached at the CATZ office.

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The Bills, Canada's finest folk band, closes the Americana Sunsets Concert Series

Contact: Rodolfo Betancourt

(rudy@swallowhill.com; 303.765.2488)

Internationally Renowned, The Bills close the Americana Sunsets Summer Concert Series presented by Swallow Hill Denver — The Bills, formerly known as the Bill Hilly Band, performs live at Four Mile Historic Park, closing the first Americana Sunsets Concert Series, Wednesday, September 1, at 7 p.m., right before they head to the prestigious Four Corners Folk Festival. Known as "Canada's finest," The Bills exploded onto the North American folk scene in 2002 with their second album All Day Every Day and are now quickly gaining international recognition as one of

roots music’s most inventive and talented acts. Their genius lies in drawing inspiration from a mélange of European styling, the rhythms of Latin America, the melodies of the wandering Romany peoples, and traditional styles from musical coast to musical coast of the American continent. The Bills have forged a sophisticated down home style all their own that's being celebrated enthusiastically by fans and media everywhere.

For tickets visit www.swallowhill.com or call (303) 777-1003. Tickets for this event are now under promotion: Purchase two tickets for the price of one. Regular prices are $21 in advance and $24 the day of the show. Further discounts are available for Swallow Hill members.

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From: Rick Bernstein <mtckid@earthlink.net>

ANNOUNCES AUDITIONS FOR.

The longest Running Musical in the history of Earth!!!!!

THE FANTASTICKS

The deceptively simple story of a boy, a girl, and their fathers --

who plot to get them together by keeping them apart

By Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones

Directed by Nita-Morris Froelich

Try to Remember...

For those interested in setting up an appointment for an audition call,

303-935-3044

Auditions will be held on

Sat Sept 11 10am-3pm. Sun Sept 12 1pm-4pm. Mon Sept 13 (Callbacks) 7pm-10pm

AT MINERS ALLEY PLAYHOUSE

1224 Washington Avenue (downtown Golden above Foss Drug)

CHARACTERS NEEDED

The Mute...........Age/Gender non-specific (must be quiet)

El Gallo.............Male; Age 25-40 (the Narrator of the story)

Luisa the Girl.....................Must play 16ish

Matt the Boy.........................Must play 20ish

Hucklebee.................The Boy's Father, Older than the boy

Bellomy.............The Girl's Father, Older than the girl

Henry "The Old Actor".............Age non-specific (but old is nice)

Mortimer "The Man Who Dies"................Age non-specific (but breathing is nice)

For auditions we ask that you prepare a 1-3 minute contemporary monologue.

16-24 bars of an up tempo song (show tune preferred)

Accompanist will be provided. Bring sheet music in appropriate key.

Be prepared to read from the script.

Please provide headshot and resume.

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Moondance 2005 Call For Entries

We cordially invite screenwriters and filmmakers, playwrights, short story writers, TV writers, librettists, film score composers, children's filmmakers & writers, and young (18 & under) filmmakers & screenwriters, radioplay writers, music video filmmakers, and multi-media filmmakers to participate in the film festival competition 2005. Moondance offers everyone a unique opportunity to come together with other writers, directors and producers to create new opportunities, develop tools for success and forge new alliances within the international film and entertainment industry. Read more at http://www.NetNewsdesk.com/Moondance or go to: http://www.moondancefilmfestival.com and click on "SUBMISSIONS", for info, guidelines and entry forms.

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Organization: Cortez Cultural Center

Subject: September Art Class Schedule Cortez Cultural Center

To: undisclosed-recipients: ;

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