CAC ARTS NEWS No. 160
10/26/04
COLORADO ARTS CONSORTIUM
http://www.coloradoartsconsortium.org
Imagination
is more important than Knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles
the world.
Albert Einstein
Editors Note:
Last
week I went on a bit about the Estes Park Cultural Arts Council's plan for a
multi-purpose arts facility to be built and managed by the arts community
rather than the town government. But our proposal wasn't so much about who
manages what , but about an art facility verses a commercial development of
four more stores and some condos on the second level.
I
said last week: "I know this is not a big deal for the Colorado arts
except victories are few in the arts world of Colorado and I hope to have good
news. We could all use some."
Well
the vote was taken by the Estes Park Urban Renewal Authority last Wednesday.
You
guessed it. We were blown out by the developer who had the million dollars on
the table and all the spaces sold out. We couldn't compete with that. Where I
went crazy is the embarrassment I felt by EPURA in letting me go on with the
dream when the developer had the deal months ago. Money trumps culture! The
Wednesday public meeting was for show and I had to listen to the commissioners
saying that their (EPURA) duty is to the greater good of the community and they
have always supported the arts. The town has been improved as a place to live
by EPURA with a River and Lake walks and the town built a great amphitheater,
however,they said they wanted an "anchor" to attract people for an
economic impact to the west end of the business section. I don't think four
more stores will do it and a few store owners concur.
The
real problem in Estes Park is that the arts groups are renters as it were and
not owners of their own facilities and I think this may be the case in many
other Colorado communities. Blessed are those that have their own home!
The
good news is that I have now received more support for the concept of creating
our own arts facility after what transpired last Wedneday. We are looking at
more options. Paul S.
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I
went to Denver on Thursday and had a nice lunch with Ken Anderson of Flesher -
Hinton , supporters of this newsletter by adding each addition to their web
site. If you browse their site completely, I think you will agree that Flesher
- Hinton and staff are great supporters of the arts. I would ask that when you
call or visit them, please thank them for their support. Paul S.
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NOW FOR COLORADO ARTS NEWS:
Swallow Hill Music Association:
FOUR
WEEKS OF WORKSHOPS All Swallow Hill workshops have
a $2 discount for members, unless otherwise noted. Click here for
more information.
THE SACRED ORDINARY: WRITING FROM THE CENTER
with
CARRIE NEWCOMER
Sun, October 31 | 1 - 3 p.m.
Early
Bird: $28 | Week of Workshop: $30
WESTERN YODELING with LIZ MASTERSON
Sun, October 31 | 1 - 3 p.m.
Early
Bird: $22 | Week of Workshop: $24
Sun, October 31 | 3 - 5 p.m.
Early
Bird: $22 | Week of Workshop: $24
Sat, November 6 | 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Early
Bird: $22 | Week of Workshop: $24
Sat, November 6 | 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Early
Bird: $22 | Week of Workshop: $24
AUTHENTIC SELF SONGWRITING with CHRISTINE KANE
Sat, November 6 | 10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Early
Bird: $48 | Week of Workshop: $50
with
LOWEN & NAVARRO
Sun, November 7 | 1 - 3 p.m.
Early
Bird: $28 | Week of Workshop: $30
Tue, November 9 | 7 - 9 p.m.
Early
Bird: $22 | Week of Workshop: $24
Materials
Fee: $2
Sun, November 14 | 1 - 3 p.m.
Early
Bird: $22 | Week of Workshop: $24
Sun, November 14 | 3 - 5 p.m.
Early
Bird: $22 | Week of Workshop: $24
Tue, November 16 | 6 - 9 p.m.
Early
Bird: $33 | Week of Workshop: $36
($3
off for Swallow Hill Members)
Materials
Fee: $2
WRITING OUTSIDE YOURSELF with JOHN DAVIS
Sat, November 20 | 1 - 3 p.m.
Early
Bird: $28 | Week of Workshop: $30
Sponsored
by The Colorado Bluegrass Music Society
BANJO:
FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN
Sun, November 21 | 1 - 3 p.m.
Early
Bird: $22 | Week of Workshop: $24
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A
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Sun, November 21 | 3 - 5 p.m.
Early
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1941 Ole' Time Radio Dinner Theatre
This
is the first notice to all of you for the upcoming dinner show.
The
Morgan County Chorale will be performing an Ole' Time Radio show, featured
around the Pearl Harbor Time.
The
dates of the show are Thursday evening -Dec 2, 2004.
Friday
evening - Dec. 3, 2004
Doors
at the Elks Lodge will open at 5:45 with the dinner to be served at 6:30.
The
local Sugar Beets band will be playing while people are coming in, during the
show and upon the completion of the show.
The
price of your ticket will be $25.pp - which includes your choice of either:
Prime Rib - Shrimp - or -
Egg Plant Parmesean
You
are encouraged to come in your 1940's attire as the performers will be as well.
Tickets
are going fast, so please check your calendar and either email with a response,
or leave a message on my cell phone.
REMEMBER
this makes for a fun office party as well. If you have a group who would
like to sit together, there are tables for 32 - 24 or 12. Keep in mind
that first come, first seating is reserved.
Bonnie
Rohn
970-768-4985
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If
you are interested in obtaining no-cost grant writing assistance for
your nonprofit organization in early
2005, read on.
The attached Call for Projects describes
the process by which your
nonprofit organization can receive
assistance from Colorado School of
Mines (CSM) advanced undergraduate
students enrolled in a course on
technical writing and service
learning. Students in this course learn
by
writing grants for Colorado-based nonprofit organizations, making a
difference for your organization and for
the people you serve, and
gaining
a richer understanding of how the mission and vision of your
organization are situated in a larger
cultural context. Your
organization can benefit through the
grants (or portions of large
grants)
that CSM students will write and research in spring 2005.
Please
forward this message to potentially interested
Colorado-based
nonprofit organizations, especially those in the Denver
Metro Area.
As indicated on the attached, project
proposals need to be received by
December
15, 2004. Best regards,
--
Jon A. Leydens, Ph.D.
Writing Program Administrator
Campus Writing Program
Division of Liberal Arts and
International Studies
Colorado School of Mines
420 Stratton Hall
Golden, CO 80401
t. 303.273.3180
f. 303.273.3751
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CSU
CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM: 2004 WRITERS HARVEST
I am writing to you on behalf of the CSU
Creative Writing Program to tell
you
about the 2004 Writers Harvest coming up on November 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the
Lory
Student Center West Ballroom on the CSU Campus. Fiction writer Kent Haruf
and
Colorado State University Faculty members Leslee Becker, John Calderazzo,
and Matthew Cooperman will give a
reading of their work with reception and
book signing to follow.
This event will benefit the Food Bank of
Larimer County, Turning Point
Center
for Youth and Family Development, and Crossroads Safe House. The reading is
open to the public and admission is by donation of cash or canned food
items.
This
event is very important as it supports the Fort Collins community and we are
trying very hard to get the word out. Please announce to all who might want to
attend and please join us!
Sponsors for the reading include the
Department of English at CSU, the
Organization of Graduate Student Writers
through ASCSU, University Park
Holiday Inn, and KRFC 88.9 FM Homegrown
Radio. The reading is open to the
public. Admission by donation of cash or
canned food items. For additional
information about this or any other
Reading Series event, please call Judea
Franck at (970) 491-6839.
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Durango Arts Center Announces 2005 Exhibit
Premiere Presentation and Auction
The Durango Arts Center invites the
public to "Soak up the Arts" at a
premiere presentation and auction of the
2005 Exhibits on Saturday, October
30 at 6 p.m.
The evening will begin in the Barbara
Conrad Gallery with hors d'oeuvres,
champagne punch, musical entertainment
and artist demonstrations by selected
artists who will be featured in the 2005
Group Exhibits Program. Dinner
catered by Kennebec Cafˇ will be served
at 7 p.m., followed by the
performance presentation and auction of
the 2005 Exhibits Program. Tickets
are $50 per person for current DAC
members, $60 for non-members.
Twenty-two artists from the community
have been invited to decorate a
ceramic plate with under-glaze
pigments. The plates are available for
public viewing at the Durango Arts
Center Gallery Shop beginning October 19.
These plates will be used as
centerpieces for each table and be given away
as a party favor on the night of the
event. Plates were created by local
artists Lisa Pedolsky, Susan Tait, Mary
Lou Murray, Sharon Abshagen, Marie
McCallum, Mary Ellen Long, Joan
Levine-Russell, Jane Leonard, Carly Delong,
Joyce Kramer, Marge Barge, Ed Kruse, Shan
Wells, Lisa and Loren Skyhorse, Ed
Bolster, Scott Roberts, Louise Grayson,
Tom Darnell, Susan Anderson, Chyako
Hashimoto, Karen Pittman, and Sue
Buchanan.
Please
call Lanette at 970-259-2606 for reservations by October 20.
Lanette Hartman
Administrative Assistant/Gallery Shop
Manager
Durango Arts Center
970-259-2606
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In concert, Monday November 1st, 2004 7:15
P.M.
Andy
Statman Trio, with Jim Whitney on bass and Larry Eagle on drums and
percussion present a concert in Evergreen, Colorado at the lovely Congregation
Beth Evergreen Synagogue, 2981 Bergen Peak Drive, Evergreen,
"A
formidable and consummate musician, Andy Statman is known for his musical
wizardry on the mandolin, as well as his innovative interpretations of Jewish
music on the clarinet. This program covers the genius of Statman from his
distinctive improvisational renditions of Klezmer, music of the Chassidic
masters, and American roots (bluegrass and blues) to original works drawing
upon jazz and other traditions." (World Music Institute)
All ages, $10 in advance, $15 at the
door.
Reserved
Child Care available!
Tickets:
contact Meg York, or pick them up at HearthFire Books of Evergreen,
2982 Evergreen Parkway, 80439
More
information and reserved tickets: Meg York
Clarinoodle@juno.com,
303-670-8293.
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TELLABRATION!
2004
7th
Annual Storytelling Event
Members
of the Northern Colorado Storytellers will present "A CORNUCOPIA OF
STORIES!"
Loveland
Museum/Gallery (corner of Fifth and Lincoln in Loveland)
Saturday, November 20, 2004
1:30
to 3:00 p.m.
TELLABRATION!
is an international storytelling event held in villages, towns and cities
around the world on the 3rd Saturday of November. People of all ages from
many cultures come together to listen to storytellers as they share the
art of oral tradition. Join these Northern Colorado storytellers as they
take you to the world of "story" with their tales from around
the world.
This
is a fund raising event for the Loveland Museum/Gallery.
Donation:
Adults - $3.00 Youth ages 16 and
under - $1.00.
Enjoy
refreshments and conversation with the storytellers at the end of this grand
storytelling event!
Carol
McAdoo Rehme
Author
- Editor - Speaker
Executive
Director, Vintage Voices Inc.
Colorado
State Liaison, National Storytelling Network
carol@rehme.com; www.rehme.com
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The
newly formed Boulder Chamber Orchestra
will open its inaugural season on October 29, 2004 at 7:30 PM, at the First
Baptist Church located at 1237 Pine Street in downtown Boulder.
The orchestra's mission is to fill a
large gap in the cultural life of Boulder county which has been left by the
lack of a chamber orchestra. The group, comprised of quality musicians from
Boulder and surrounding areas is dedicated to bringing the best of chamber
music to the community in the kind of intimate setting conducive to
chamber music.
Music director and conductor, Bahman
Saless -- the founder of the ensemble, is dedicated to providing the best
community talent performing music for the sake of music and nothing
else. He will be joined by some of our community's best string
musicians in a concert titled , "From Time to Time". The
program will consist of music by Bach, Britten, Marcello and Jenkins.
Please join us for this free concert (a
$10.00 donation will be appreciated) on October 29, 2004 to celebrate the
beginning of a great year of chambermusic, performed by the community, for the
community. Tickets can be obtained on line at www.boulderchamberorchestra.org
or at the door at 1237 Pine street. Telephone inquiries can be made by calling
303-619-6915.
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THEATREWORKS
ANNOUNCES AUDITIONS
for
Caryl
Churchill's
Vinegar Tom
THEATREWORKS
announces auditions November 11 and 12 for Caryl ChurchillÕs Vinegar Tom, a drama with Burlesque music and dance
interludes. Seeking actors and actresses of all ages and
ethnicities. Come prepared to perform a monologue and if you sing, a
short a capella song. Be ready to move. Cold
readings from the script will be provided. Preference will be given to
UCCS students.
Auditions:
Thursday Nov. 11, 6-9p.m. and Friday Nov. 12, 4:30-7:30p.m. in the Osborne
Studio Theatre, University Hall located at 3955 Cragwood Drive. Call
backs will be held Saturday Nov. 13, 12-2p.m.
To
make an appointment, call THEATREWORKS at 719-262-3232. For more
information, visit our website at www.uccstheatreworks.com.
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Press
Contact: Yvonne Weeres
(719) 228-3043
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