CAC ARTS NEWS No. 166
12/14/04
COLORADO ARTS CONSORTIUM
http://www.coloradoartsconsortium.org
Editor's Note:
I'm
on a tight schedule so this will be just a short observation for whatever it is
worth. Free as it happens.
As
Santa I'm 1,784 years old and seen a lot of changes. However, as your
editor of arts news, I have seen many things in the art world stay the same
over the last ten or so years. Same programing with the same little enough
funds. As an FM radio station founder and director immersed in the world of
media, I have seen more changes and know of more to come than I care to think
about. As I get older, I'm like many who would like to see the changes slow
down but then use the latest and fastest computers and other tech gadgets
without complaining.
The Low Power FM station was a new idea
five years ago and although many of the 400 LPFM stations on the air are
broadcasting live as KOA has been doing for 80 years now (Happy Birthday), many
including me use computer automation with recorded songs on 200 GB hard drives.
Barely possible five years ago. And with satellite radio, iPods,High Def
surround sound radio and wireless whatever, I often wonder if our little 100
watt station is but a click in the sound stream. But then I think of those who
we serve who like to hear Gene Autry one more time, or the same Mozart pieces
and their young children in concerts that we broadcast. So the delivery
technology may change but I like to think we all enjoy many of the same things
year after year.
Enjoy
your new toys and gadgets boys and girls, and enjoy the good old riches of the
arts and culture we have always enjoyed.
Paul
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Audition
Notice
The
Colorado Women's Chorale auditioning all parts, esp. Sopranos on
Tues, Jan 4 at 7:00PM at Augustana
Lutheran, 5000 E. Alameda Ave, Denver. call Heather @ 303.779.4772
or email heather.kawamoto@sybase.com for
appointment
Thanks,
Donald
Tallman
Executive
Director
Augustana
Arts
Augustana
Arts Alert
Easy
Access to the Arts
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The
gift of music.
Through
the generosity of
our
donors, Augustana Arts continues to make a significant contribution to the
cultural fabric of theDenverMetro Area.
We
have offered high-quality programs from nationally and internationally
acclaimed musicianssupported the efforts of many Front Rangeperforming artists
while nurturing and growing our own performing groups: The Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra, AVE,
and the Colorado Women's Chorale.
Augustana
Arts provides important outreach to the community. We make available thousands
of tickets every year to the disadvantaged and underserved.
We
also reach hundreds of children through our many musical educational and
enrichment programs.
Your
support in the audience and financially helps fuel our continued growth and
success. And, your year-end gift is the catalyst for the continued success of
the Augustana Arts holiday and concert season ahead. Through you, we
continue to offer programs of the highest caliber that everyone can experience
and to fulfill our mission "to gather community, support the Arts, and
delight the spirit."
In
this season of sharing, we would welcome your gift to ensure that Augustana
Arts will continue to enrich your life throughout the New Year.
Please
send your tax deductible donation to:
Augustana
Arts
5000
E. Alameda Ave.
Denver,
CO 80246
or
you can donate online
Sincerely,
The
Board, Staff, Musicians, and Volunteers of
Augustana
Arts
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Give
the
Gift of Music!
Augustana
Institute of Music offers
Kindermusik® classes for new-borns through 7 years old; Suzuki based string
instruction for children and adults; piano, voice, and instrument instruction
with performance opportunities for everyone; Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra
concerts throughout the year.
Contact
Alfred Born Alfredborn@AugustanaArts.org
Music
of the Christmas Season
Fills
Augustana in December
DECEMBER
18 & 19 (SAT/SUN)
7:30
PM SAT/3:00 PM SUN
Augustana
Arts presents
A Christmas Festival
featuring the Augustana Chamber Choir, Colorado Women's Chorale, guest
soloists, and the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra performing the Bach and
Vaughan Williams settings of the
Magnificat , and Corelli 's Christmas Concerto
$15
Adult/$10 Senior/$5 Student
Augustana
Lutheran is located at 5000 E. Alameda Ave, just east of Colorado Blvd in
Denver
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No
Boundaries: Fiber + Art
Denver Art Museum
http://denverartmuseum.pmail.biz/pmailweb/ct?id=55+47456961+115+3+17922The thirteen works in No Boundaries: Fiber + Art may challenge your ideas about what textile art
looks like. The show brings together objects from our textile art, Asian art,
native arts, and modern and contemporary art collections that stand at the
intersection of fine art and fiber art. From three-dimensional sculpture to
painterly portraits, these unique works are sure to surprise and delight. See
them on the sixth floor through May 15.
Composition
with Three Elements, designed by
Albert Gleizes about 1924-26, woven in the workshop of Jacqueline de la
Baume-Durrback before 1951. Neusteter Textile Collection: Funds from Marion G.
Hendrie Endowment Trust.
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This
is relevant for all the arts and culture and all faiths of Colorado:
"Colorado's
Budget: A Fiscal, Social, and Moral Crisis"
The
Interfaith Alliance of Colorado will hold its first public issues forum of the
year-- "Colorado's Budget: A Fiscal, Social, and Moral
Crisis"-- on Sunday, Jan. 23, from 3 - 5 PM at
Cameron United Methodist Church, 1600 S. Pearl St. in Denver. This
is the first forum in a series themed "Investing in Colorado: Rediscovering
the Common Good", which will serve as the theme of TIA-CO's public
policy efforts this year.
The panel of speakers addressing the
three dimensions of the budget crisis includes James Zelenski, public
policy analyst for the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute; Roxane
White, Director of Denver Human Services; and Dr. J. Philip
Wogaman, interim President of Iliff School of Theology.
Following the speakers and a question
period, refreshments will be served. The event is free and
open to the public.
For
more information, contact Nelson Bock, nbock6552@aol.com.
Bill
Kirton, Cameron UMC
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Season's
Greetings from the Community Resource Center! Check out our workshops & news in this edition of E-Line. Have
a Great New Year!
December
workshop offerings
All
courses held at CRC offices: 655 Broadway Suite 300, Denver unless otherwise
noted
To
register for a class or to get more info, e-mail info@crcamerica.org
Skill-Building
Workshops Date Time
Measuring
Success through Program Evaluation Dec 15 1-4 PM January Highlights:
Intro to Resource Development: The
Sky's the Limit Jan 12 1-4 PM
Building
Dynamic Boards
Jan 19 1-4 PM
NPower CO Technology
Workshops
The
following tech classes are available for private or group training. Call
303.623.1540 or email info@npowerco.org for details.
Technology
Strategies Accounting Nuts & Bolts Tech Planning Using Email to Connect
with Constituencies Database Set-up/Planning Organizing your Network Finding
Discount Software Mail Merge Web Planning
Microsoft
Office Training Word Publisher
PowerPoint
Outlook
Excel Access FrontPage
Earn
a Free Computer! True Beginners Learn
& Earn- Email for more info Ongoing
We
can bring our computer lab to you! email: info@crcamerica.org
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The
National Endowment for the Arts
announces that it will award more than $21 million to 839 grants for the first
round of fiscal year 2005 funding. Visit the NEA website at
http://www.arts.gov/news/news04/Announce12-2-04.html to learn more about funded
projects in the categories of Access to Artistic Excellence and Literature
Fellowships for individuals; grant listings are also available by state.
Sally Gifford
Public Affairs Specialist
Office of Communications
National Endowment for the Arts
202-682-5606
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openstage
etc - AUDITIONS for Rasputin & Extremities
December 13, 2004
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information
call
Jessica Freestone, (970) 484-5237
jessicav@openstagetheatre.org
Auditions
for the remainder of
openstage etc's
season.
Auditions:
Rasputin
Saturday, January 8, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Sunday,
January 9, 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Extremities Saturday,
January 8, 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Sunday,
January 9, 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Location:
Community Room of the Harmony Library, 4616 S. Shields, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Information:
970-484-5237 or www.openstagetheatre.org/artists/audition.php
Fort
Collins- openstage
etc will hold
auditions for 2 plays,
Rasputin by
prize-winning local playwright David Hall and Extremities by William Mastrosimone on Saturday and
Sunday, January 8 and 9, in the Community Room at the Harmony Branch of the
Fort Collins Library, 4616 S. Shields, Fort Collins, Colorado 80526.
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Da
Vinci Quartet Performs at Byers-Evans House Museum
MEDIA
CONTACT:
Sabine
Kortals
Publicist, Da Vinci Quartet
tel:
720-566-0685
email:
SabineEKortals@aol.com
general
information: 303.871.6964, www.dvq.org
WHAT:
Da
Vinci Quartet Performs Benefit Concert at the Byers-Evans House Museum
PROGRAM:
-
Mozart: String Quartet in C, K. 465 "Dissonant"
-
Other works: TBA
DATE: Wednesday, January 12, 2005
LOCATION: 1310 Bannock, Denver
TIME: 5:00 p.m.
TICKETS: Adults $12 / Students $8 (proceeds benefit the
Colorado Historical Society)
CALL: For tickets and other information, call
303.620.4933
Note: Refreshments will be served.
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Hi friends,
Some
of you recently received a notice about some upcoming gigs I have this month.
For those of you who did, please note that my solstice concert will start
at 7 PM instead of 6:30 on December 21. Doors will open at 6 PM instead of
5:30. The performance should be over before 9 PM - plenty of time to get a good
night's sleep!
The
attached message scribbles (literally) out a few more details.
David,
Eric and I hope you can join us.
Happy
holidays,
lynn
skinner
"Life
is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all".
Helen
Keller
LYNN
SKINNER SINGS ON THE SOLTICE
Jazz
at Jack's
1553
Platte
Denver
Doors
open at 6:00 PM
Concert
at 7:00 PM
$7
cover / 21 and over
Dave
Roberts - piano
Eric
Levine - violin
Classical,
jazz, pop and folk
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Christmas Tree House
Here
at Christmas Tree House we look forward to Christmas and the giving that goes
along with this time of year. We have chosen to donate part of our proceeds to
the Tennyson House in Denver, CO. On December 23 at noon we will be going to
the Tennyson House and celebrating Christmas with the children in the house. We
will be bringing a Christmas tree, Santa, lunch, and gifts for the 48 children
who are in the house. We want to share with others what a special time of year
this is.
Tennyson
House for children is a home for abused children. Currently there are
approximately 48 children living at Tennyson House between the ages of 4-14.
Special
Participants:
„
Toys for Tot Collections
„
Senior Center selling homemade Christmas decorations &
Cards
„
More TBA
Freya Works
Cell: 720-301-7239
E-Mail: freya@freyaworks.com
Website: http://www.freyaworks.com
Details
Location: Yosemite and Park Meadows Drive on the southeast
corner next to Bennigan's and John Holly's Asian Bistro across from Mimi's Cafe
just South of C-470 and Park Meadows Mall.
Dates: November 26-December 22, 2004
Hours: 8am-8pm (or 9pm if busy) every day
Tree
Prices: $22.95-$140
Tree
Types: Douglas, Noble, Nordman,
Grand & Fraser
Santa
Claus pictures: 10-6pm Saturday
& Sunday
Contests: A National Contest will be run with prizes of a
$10,000 scholarship or a trip for four to Florida by displaying a real
Christmas tree in your home
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News
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AND NOW THE ARTS NEWS AROUND THE COUNTRY AND WORLD:
THE FOLLOWING IS A HIGHLY EDITED LIST FROM ARTSJOURNAL:
Please
click on the URL under each heading for more of the articles that may interest
you.
"used
with permission of ArtsJournal."
Douglas
McLennan
Editor, ArtsJournal
www.artsjournal.com
For information about ArtsJournal, go to http://www.artsjournal.com/about/
Douglas
McLennan
Editor,
ArtsJournal
<mailto:mclennan@artsjournal.com>mclennan@artsjournal.com
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IDEAS
http://www.artsjournal.com/ideas
What Constitutes A Successful Museum? From the outside, today's American museums
look prosperous and happy. "Yet all is not well in the art museum
profession," writes Maxwell Anderson. "Within the confines of their
boardrooms, American art museums today are beset as never before by
disagreement about their priorities. The difficulty in measuring success in art
museums today stems in part from the fact that, over the last generation, art
museums have shifted their focus away from collection-building and toward
various kinds of attention to the public-without balancing these two
imperatives and without a consensus on what constitutes best practices in the
latter." So how do you measure success at the modern American museum? Getty Leadership
Institute 12/04
ARTS ISSUES
http://www.artsjournal.com/artsissues
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Canada Renews Crucial Arts Funding Program "The sense of dread engulfing Canada's
arts community is about to be lifted - for now. Canadian Heritage Minister Liza
Frulla will announce today that Ottawa is renewing its Tomorrow Starts Today
arts-funding program, the Toronto Star has learned. That translates into about
$200 million for 12 months starting April 1, 2005. The decision comes after
months of fierce lobbying and parliamentary hearings, as well as fear, anger
and frustration. And it removes a big black cloud hanging over the cultural
world. The program, which has pumped more than $750 million into the arts over
the past four years, was heading for a sunset on March 31, which would have
been devastating." Toronto Star 12/15/04
You Pay The Piper, You Call The Tune The regional government of Wales has
announced that it will be bypassing the UK's Arts Council and taking over the
fiscal management of all the major Welsh arts groups immediately. The change
marks a dramatic shift in the way the arts are funded and managed in the UK, as
politicians and bureaucrats will now have absolute authority over the affected
groups, without the usual democratic council of experts acting as middleman.
Strangely, no one in the Welsh arts community seems to be protesting too
loudly.
The Times (UK) 12/15/04
Major Moves At SPAC
The chairman of New York State's embattled Saratoga Performing Arts Center has
resigned in the wake of a scathing audit which accused the center of absentee
management and severe negligence in its oversight of one of the Northeast's
prominent summer arts venues. The SPAC board also canceled its planned $400,000
buyout of its president, Herb Chesbrough, which was specifically targeted for
withering criticism by the auditors. The Saratogian (NY) 12/15/04
DANCE
http://www.artsjournal.com/dance
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The Risk of Tweaking A Classic Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker is one of those works of art about which the
public tends to have very strong feelings, and the ballet companies that rely
on their annual productions to line their coffers for the year mess with the
show at their own risk. This year, the San Francisco Ballet is updating and
overhauling its
Nutcracker for the first
time in nearly two decades, and the hope is that traditionalists won't be too
put off by the changes, innocent and unthreatening as they may be. San Francisco
Chronicle 12/15/04
Remembering British Ballet Roots "The audience for ballet - between the
wars, and during them too, in blacked-out studios - understood the virtue of
escaping from everyday things, of vaulting over the grimy clichs of life.
British ballet's first audience knew that an hour or two in front of a blaze of
talent might begin to fortify one for the blaze outside, or kindle a fire in
one's heart. It is a basic demand, but one that ballet may no longer be
required to meet or even address." The Telegraph (UK) 12/13/04
The Paris Opera Ballet's Extraordinary School Tobi Tobias spend a day at the School of the
Paris Opera Ballet and comes away dazzled. "On their own, these 16- to
18-year-old ingnues display sparkling footwork that makes you think of
water drops set in play by an exuberant fountain. Their extensions fly
high, as do their huge cross-stage leaps, yet everything appears
unforced. The beautiful alignment in which they've been schooled from the
start-and can now maintain even when they're sweeping through space-has become
second nature, and they've learned to make the correctness that governs their
most complicated and difficult feats look like child's play." Seeing Things (
MEDIA
http://www.artsjournal.com/media
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Oxymoron Of The Day: Public Radio Hipsters Public radio audiences aren't exactly known
for their embrace of cutting-edge pop music, but that didn't stop Minnesota
Public Radio from launching a cutting-edge pop show recently, with the aim of
demystifying the genre for listeners who like the music, but are intimidated by
the insider lingo and youth-dominated club scene. As it turns out, public radio
stations around the country could not have been less interested in Pop Vultures , and the show, which was critically praised
in the few markets in which it aired, has been killed off after only 22
episodes.
City Pages (Minneapolis/St. Paul) 12/15/04
Yes, But We Could Tell They Wanted To Air It The FCC's decision to investigate NBC's
Olympics telecast was apparently the result of no more than nine consumer
complaints nationwide. The commission is still refusing to disclose exactly
what was potentially indecent about the Games. Most of the speculation has
centered on the opening ceremonies, which featured some nude dancers posing as
classic Greek statuary, but that theory has one big problem: NBC never aired
any of the nudity. New York Post 12/15/04
Hollywood Sues Computer Server Owners Hollywood movie studios are suing owners of
computer servers that facilitate movie downloading. "The defendants this
time run servers that use BitTorrent, now the program of choice for online
sharers of large files owing to its immunity to industry attempts to confound
file-swappers with bogus decoy files. 'Today's actions are aimed at individuals
who deliberately set up and operate computer servers and Web sites that, by
design, allow people to infringe copyrighted motion pictures'." Yahoo! (AP) 12/15/04
FCC's Powell Has First Amendment Duties Backward FCC chairman Michael Powell's recent
illogical and contradictory pronouncements on the "indecency" battles
he's overseeing are indefensible. "Powell has got his responsibilities
under the First Amendment backwards. Over tremendous public protest, he foisted
upon the American public an excessively-concentrated media that restricts free
expression. Then, when that excessively-concentrated media inevitably produces
indecent material, he censors it. The public loses both ways." MediaChannel
12/13/04
MUSIC
http://www.artsjournal.com/music
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