CAC ARTS NEWS No. 193

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Editor's Note:

Greetings,

There is honestly nothing to editorialize about this week. It was a great 4th of July and the art scene is the same as ever, the sun is in the sky and good things are in the works. So have a nice day!

Our daughter who lives in England sent us a magazine clipping by a British couple that went on about Americans after visiting the Boulder Pearl Street mall. They were so taken by all of us who smile so much and great each other with "have a good one" or "have a nice day"! (even on a rainy day) They thought it was great. If we can find how to export our positive attitude rather than our politics, maybe the world will be a better place someday. (Ok, so I editorialized - sue me!)

Take care!

Paul Saunders

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AND NOW FOR SOME GREAT COLORADO ARTS NEWS

All Aboard! Traveling Art Museum is Heading West in 2006

Invite Artrain USA to Your Town

Ann Arbor, MI  Artrain USA, the art exhibition housed on train cars, is heading West in 2006 to visit communities in the Pacific Northwest, West Coast and the Western States and is available for bookings from February to November 2006. Artrain USA is an art and community building program that has been hosted by arts organizations, cities, museums, chambers of commerce, and service organizations that want to build community capacities while bringing exceptional art programs to their communities. 

 In order to have Artrain USA visit, local communities should have the following:

 A desire to host the Artrain:

*   450' of track to park a train on

*   An organization to serve as the "host"

The anticipated tour states include:

·   Arizona

·   California

·   Colorado

·   Idaho

·   Montana

·   Nevada

·   New Mexico

·   Oregon

·   Texas

·   Utah

·   Washington

·   Wyoming

Artrain USA is "America's Hometown Art Museum." A nonprofit organization, Artrain is an art museum housed in vintage rail cars that travels via the nation's railroads. More than 3 million people have visited Artrain USA during 800 community visits across 45 states. Founded in Michigan in 1971 by the Michigan Council for the Arts Artrain USA's national headquarters are in Ann Arbor, MI.  

Native Views is a contemporary Native American art exhibition comprised of 71 artworks by 54 Native American artists.  It explores the influence of popular culture and the many commonalties shared by all Americans.  Visitors discover the richness, complexity and breadth of contemporary Native American art while examining varying perspectives on society.  Native Views is touring America - coast to coast - from April 2004 through December 2007.

For more information please call 800-ART-1971, e-mail ArtrainUSA.org or visit our website at www.ArtrainUSA.org

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BOULDER MAGAZINE EVENT LISTING DEADLINE: July 11, 2005

Hello! Boulder Magazine is currently collecting event information for its fall issue. The fall issue will be on the streets Labor Day weekend and will reach more than 225,000 readers, both locals and tourists.

Boulder Magazine is delighted to publish local event listings FOR FREE! Please e-mail your fall (Labor Day weekend through Thanksgiving) event information to events@brockpub.com NO LATER THAN July 11, 2005. The sooner you can send in your listing, the better.

Please do NOT send press releases. Instead, take a few moments to put the event information into the following format:

• Event title

• 100-word description (required)

• Date(s), time(s) and location(s), including street address and city

• Contact phone number (for tickets or general information for the public)

• Website address

PHOTOS: You're welcome to send photos. They must be color photos suitable for publication at 300 dpi or better at 4 by 6 inches. We're always looking for dynamic images that readers will have not seen elsewhere.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JULY 11, 2005. We cannot guarantee publication of events sent after this date. (Tip: PUT THIS DATE ON YOUR CALENDAR NOW!) Please send us your basic event information even if all the details are not set by the deadline; readers can phone you or check your website for updates. If you expect your info to change before July 11, please DON'T send us multiple e-mails with bits and pieces of information, but hold off and send a single e-mail closer to the deadline.

Send your information to events@brockpub.com. Although we prefer e-mail, you may send something via snail mail to:

Boulder Magazine Events

1919 14th Street, Suite 709

Boulder, CO 80302

Thanks, and we look forward to working with you!

Julie Kailus

Associate Editor, Boulder Magazine

Angela Bowman

Events Coordinator, Boulder Magazine

P.S. If you know of other organizations that would like to publicize their events, we hope you'll forward this letter to them.

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Providing leadership, resources, and advocacy for the arts

Community Opportunities Bulletin - Updated 6/30//2005

SUBMITTING BULLETIN ITEMS:

We have implemented a new web-based submission form for receiving bulletins for this list. Please visit www.bouldercountyarts.org/eventsform.htm to submit your bulletin items starting now. Please email events@bouldercountyarts.org if you have any questions about using the form.

SUBSCRIBING AND UN-SUBSCRIBING: 

Please feel free to forward this calendar to your friends. To subscribe to our various email lists and/our snail mail newsletter, please visit www.bouldercountyarts.org/artsbeat.htm. To unsubscribe, send an email to events@bouldercountyarts.org with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line.

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TICKETS & INFORMATION

Daniels Hall | Tuft Theater | The Café

303.777.1003 | www.swallowhill.com

71 East Yale Ave. Denver, CO 80210

CONTACT:

R.J. Betancourt

rudy@swallowhill.com

303.765.2488

Swallow Hill Music Association Presents

July 11 to August 7

Highlights: Shady Grove Picnic Concert Series (6/1 - 8/3) | Summer Music Competitions [Singer/Songwriters' Preliminaries](7/28) | Austin Lounge Lizards (7/15) | O'Carolan Day (7/16) | Jimmy Hopps (7/23)

Week of July 11 to 17

Bluegrass Jam | Tuesday, July 12, 7 p.m.

Swallow Hill Café

TXS: $1 at the door

Patrick Cherry hosts a high-energy Bluegrass jam session for experienced and intermediate players alike. Beginners also welcome. Co-sponsored by Colorado Bluegrass Music Society. Open to all.

Shawn Waggoner & The Tumblyweeds @ The Shady Grove Picnic Series | Wednesday, July 13, 6:30 p.m.

Four Mile Historic Park

TXS: $7 at the door; $2 for children under 12

Through poetic storytelling and songwriting, unique arrangements and powerful vocal interpretations, Shawn Waggoner and the Tumblyweeds make their mark on the alternative folk genre. In partnership with David Farrell on bowed acoustic bass, and Woody Myers on guitar and mandolin, Waggoner presents a collection of songs that is unforgettable and undeniably unique.

More info: http://events.swallowhill.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=652&c=40&pg=

Open Stage | Thursday, July 14, 7 p.m.

Swallow Hill Café

TXS: $1 at the door

Got a song you've just got to share? Come play at our open stage. Sign-ups are at 6:30. Sets are 2-3 songs, depending on the number of players performing. Hosted by Ed McIlvain.

Austin Lounge Lizards | Friday, July 15, 8 p.m.

Daniels Hall @ Swallow Hill

TXS: $15 in advance; $18 day of show

The Austin Lounge Lizards have delighted audiences from Texas to California, from Canada to the U.K., with their inventive style of satirical folk, country and bluegrass. Based in Austin, Texas, since they formed in 1980, the Lizards have honed their music into a knife-sharp art form. Trademarks of a Lizards song are highly literate, sharply

pointed lyrics that poke fun at politics, love, religion and the culture in general.

More info: http://events.swallowhill.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=655&c=39&pg=

O'Carolan Day | Saturday, July 16, 8 p.m.

Daniels Hall @ Swallow Hill

TXS: $15 in advance; $18 day of show

Join us for a celebration of the life and music of Turlough O’Carolan. Turlough O’Carolan, or Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin (in the original Irish) remains one if Ireland’s most beloved musical figures. Born in 1670, he became a harpist after smallpox left him blind. Touring the country as an itinerant bard, he was exposed to Baroque music in the great manor houses in which he performed, giving his music a unique blend of both traditional and classical elements. He is one of the few musicians of his era whose music survives to the modern day.

More info: http://www.swallowhill.com/music_school/classes/class773.html

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BENEFIT FOR ROCKY RIDGE MUSIC CENTER JULY 13 IN BOULDER

Dear Friends,

Attached is an announcement of a fine string quartet concert to take place

next week, Wed. July 13th at Old Main on the CU campus. It is being presented by

and for the benefit of Rocky Ridge Music Center in Estes Park. The quartet,

which comes from Juilliard, is in residence at Rocky Ridge for three weeks

this month and will be giving other concerts on campus during their stay

there. We hope that you will want to make the musical acquaintance of this

young group and join us for this great program!

Thank you.

Margot Brauchli,

Trustee, Rocky Ridge Music Center

www.rockyridge.org

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Contact: Amanda Mountain

       719-262-3114

 SOMETHING WICKED

THIS WAY COMES!

"By the pricking of my thumbs

         Something wicked this way comes"

Shakespeare’s MACBETH—his thrilling tragedy of ambition and the supernatural—will inaugurate the 30th anniversary season of THEATREWORKS this summer.  The production will open in Lone Tree July 28-July 31 before continuing to Salida (August 4-6) and Holyoke (August 12-13), and then coming home to Colorado Springs.  The show will run in the Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater located at 3955 Cragwood Drive (near the corner of Union and Austin Bluffs) August 19 thru September 4 with shows Wednesday-Saturday at 7:30pm, Saturday Matinees at 2pm, and Sundays at 4pm.  General admission tickets are FREE on a first come first serve basis.  Reserved seats are $22-$25.  Parking is free beginning at 5pm.  Call 719-262-3232 for more information, or log on to www.uccstheatreworks.com.

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2005 AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS CALENDAR 202.371.2830.

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Let everyone know that you are a member of Americans for the Arts by downloading our new membership logo and link for your website.

AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS ADVOCATES FOR NONPROFIT TAX REFORM

http://ww3.artsusa.org/pdf/get_involved/advocacy/santorum_letter_finance.pdf

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Americans for the Arts President & CEO Bob Lynch sent a letter to the leadership of the Senate Finance Committee staking out positions on a number of issues relating to possible changes in the law affecting nonprofit arts organizations. The letter advocates for preserving the fair market value tax deduction for charitable gifts and advocates against proposals to restrict the size of charitable boards, among other things. The letter went to Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Ranking Member Max Baucus (D-MT). Also on the tax front, a group of Senators sent a letter to Sens. Grassley and Baucus urging caution in dealing with nonprofit reform. That letter was authored by Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), who was joined by Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and 20 Republican Senators. Finally, on June 22, 2005, Independent Sector issued detailed recommendations to Congress (www.nonprofitpanel.org

[http://www.nonprofitpanel.org] ).

NEW POLL REVEALS 93 PERCENT OF AMERICANS BELIEVE THAT THE ARTS ARE VITAL TO PROVIDING A WELL-ROUNDED EDUCATION

www.artsusa.org/public_awareness/campaign_info/press_release_06_13_2005.asp

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A new Harris Poll released on June 13, 2005, on the attitudes of Americans toward arts education revealed that 93 percent of Americans agree that the arts are vital to providing a well-rounded education for children. Additionally, 54 percent rated the importance of arts education a "10" on a scale of one to 10. The telephone survey was conducted as part of an ongoing public service campaign-Art. Ask for More.-developed by Americans for the Arts, the Ad Council, and the Austin-based advertising agency GSD&M. The results of the survey were announced by Peggy Conlon, President & CEO of the Ad Council, during her keynote address at the annual convention of Americans for the Arts in Austin, TX.

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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

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IDEAS

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The Language of Empire Over the last half-century or so, English has risen to become the dominant global language of the era, spoken as the default in everything from international business transactions to air travel. But achieving a global reach doesn't necessarily give a language long-term staying power, as the Assyrians and the Silk Road traders found out centuries ago. Then again, some languages are kept alive past their political and economic prime by a powerful religious influence. Linguist Nicholas Ostler's new book delves into all of these factors, and aims to sort out what gives a language its power, and what can take that power away in a heartbeat. Chicago Tribune 07/06/05

Men And Women - Our Brains Are Physically Different "In the prime of life, the cerebral cortex contains 25 billion neurons linked through 164 trillion synapses. Thoughts thread through 7.4 million miles of dendrite fibers and 62,000 miles of axons so compacted that the entire neural network is no larger than a coconut. No two brains are identical, nor are two minds ever the same. Wherever researcher Sandra Witelson looked, she discerned subtle patterns that only gender seemed to explain. Her findings buttress the proposition that basic mental differences between men and women stem in part from physical differences in the brain." Seattle Times (LAT) 07/03/05

(Well there you are! My coconut is all I have and I cherish every inch of dendrite fiber and whether it is male or female is beside the point. pbs)

Is LACMA Losing Its Artistic Soul? The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is certainly not the only American museum to recognize the economic potential of blockbuster exhibitions that come with massive corporate sponsorship, but Holly Myers worries about the museum's soul, and wonders where all its curators have gone. "LACMA's flirtation with corporate production is lamentable in relation to Tut. More distressing, however, is the fact that many of the same problems also plague... a comparatively low-profile exhibition that doesn't involve extraordinarily precious artifacts and isn't likely to draw record-breaking crowds - suggesting that LACMA's problem goes deeper than the necessary indulgence of an occasional blockbuster." Los Angeles Times 07/06/05

ARTS ISSUES

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Scrapping For Every Dime In The Original Blue State Three year after absorbing a brutal 62% cut in its state funding, the Massachusetts Cultural Council has made slight gains at the legislature, receiving an additional $1.3 million in public funds for fiscal 2006. The increase, signed into law by the state's Republican governor last week, puts the council's overall budget at $9.6 million. Most of the additional money is meant to restore grants that were eliminated in the wake of the budget cuts in 2002. The governor had originally threatened to veto the increase, but changed his mind under pressue from legislative leaders and the public. Boston Globe 07/06/05

Edinburgh Summer Fests Going Through The Roof Edinburgh's multiple summer festivals are doing particularly well at the box office this year, with many upcoming events already sold out. "Ticket sales for this year's International Festival are 14 per cent up on last year as theatre and dance fans snap up briefs for the most sought-after productions." The book fest is selling at a record pace as well, and the always-popular Fringe Festival is on a steady track as well. Overall, it's a positive sign for the arts in Scotland, given the recent history of government funding controversies and struggling companies. The Scotsman 07/06/05

Fortress America: Foreign Travel To The US Is Way Down "Planned federal passport and visa rules and other measures intended to safeguard the nation are creating the perception of a Fortress America overseas, tarnishing this country's reputation for hospitality and personal freedom. As a consequence, visa applications from foreign travelers have dropped by one-third from pre-Sept. 11 levels, and fewer foreign students are applying to U.S. schools. Moreover, travel agents report booking foreign travelers away from the United States, and airlines that serve overseas hot spots say business is down on their routes to the United States." San Francisco Chronicle 07/03/05

(Gee, do you think? Our daughter is US citizen and her husband British. Guess who needs a visa to visit us? pbs)

Trying To Stay A Step Ahead of the Feds A new report from Independent Sector, "a Washington, D.C.-based coalition of non-profits," takes a hard line on executive compensation and other methods of pushing the financial envelope, calling for government intervention in cases where non-profit and charitable organizations are found to be abusing the rules that govern their tax-free existence. Why would a group representing non-profits be so tough on its own members? Maybe because the U.S. Senate is gearing up to pass new rules which would be even tougher than those being proposed by Independent Sector. Chicago Tribune 06/30/05

Can Downloading Save Classical Music? Norman Lebrecht on the Supreme Court ruling holding software companies liable for the illegal file-swapping: "The music industry... can now stop penalising innocent teens in their bedrooms and go for the geeks who make the stealing systems." On the huge demand for free Beethoven downloads from BBC: "There is clearly a demand for more - so much so that such commercial download sites as I-tunes and Napster have linked up to the BBC's output and some have launched Beethoven promotions of their own. There is a web buzz about Beethoven that could never have been achieved by plastic and terrestrial means of communication." La Scena Musicale 06/29/05

MEDIA

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Uh-Oh - DVD Sales Are Slumping Too There are "small but troubling signs are emerging that the DVD market's growth could be trailing off faster than Hollywood expected. On June 30, Pixar Animation Studios (PIXR ) cut its earnings-per-share estimate for the second quarter to 10 cents from 15 cents, due to slower-than-expected DVD sales of its blockbuster The Incredibles. The stock of Dreamworks Animation (DWA ) dropped sharply in mid-May, after the studio reported that returns of its own blockbuster Shrek 2 left sales 5 million short of its forecasts. Major retailers have noticed that DVD sales have been softer than anticipated recently, too." BusinessWeek 07/01/05

Study: TV For Kids Under Three Is Bad "For each hour of television watched per day before age 3, a child's reading comprehension and short-term memory scores fell at age 6 and 7. But for older children, every hour of television led to slightly better performance sounding out and pronouncing words. Since 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended no television for children 2 and younger, including educational shows. For older children, the academy suggests no more than one to two hours a day of "quality" television." Seattle Post-Intelligencer 07/05/05

Rewrite! Mr. DeNiro Doesn't Like His Line! You're a big star and you don't like the line you've been asked to say in a movie. What do you do? Call in your own "personal writer". More and more stars are working with their own writers on the set. "While these kind of personal writers may be well-known inside Hollywood, they often toil in public obscurity. Don't shed any tears, though. Even without screen credit, top rewrite artists can bank more than $250,000 a week for script revisions and frequently can stay on a movie for months at a time." Los Angeles Times 07/03/05

How The Internet Is Democratizing Art "Entertainment conglomerates and arts-grant bureaucrats still hold the strings to attractively fat purses. But their power is being tempered by the reach of the Internet and the resourcefulness of creative minds paired with cheap, versatile tools." San Diego Union-Tribune 07/03/05

MUSIC

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No Red Ink In Dallas The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has balanced its $23 million budget for the second year in a row, bringing in $8.48 million for its annual fund drive and boosting its endowment to $100 million. Dallas Morning News 07/06/05

Top Exec At BBC Scottish Calling It Quits It's an exciting time for the Glasgow-based BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, which has just extended the contract of its popular music director, Ilan Volkov, and will shortly move into its new permanent home in the heart of the city's entertainment district. "By any yardstick, then, there is everything to play for in the orchestra whose technical ability and reputation has utterly transformed in the past decade and a half." So why is the orchestra's longtime general director choosing this moment to walk away? The Herald (Glasgow) 07/06/05

A Little-O Opera Revival In Montana A long-forgotten American opera based on Blackfeet Indian legend has an unlikely revival in a struggling agricultural town in northern Montana. "We have to overcome this stereotype that people have developed over what we're calling this show. It's an opera, but I don't ever say the O-word. I refer to it as the legend of Scarface told through acting and singing and lighting." The New York Times 07/02/05

In Miami - Not Your Parents' Opera Florida Grand Opera has had its best couple of seasons ever at the box office. A great deal of the credit has to go to the company's new marketing campaign. "So much of the advertising over the years had become . . . focused on the people who are going to be in the audience anyway. So we really launched a campaign . . . of having real-life opera singers who are young and sexy and look like people you'd like to approach at a party." Miami Herald 07/03/05

The Man Who Bought An Orchestra When the founder of the Queensland Pops Orchestra in Australia died last year, the orchestra was put up for sale. Barrie Gott bought it. "What Mr Gott gets for his money includes a substantial library of scores, about 650 titles, access to the core of professional musicians who come together for each Pops concert, and the mailing list of avid listeners known as Friends of the Pops." The Courier-Mail (Australia) 07/04/05

The 90-Minute Magic Flute Mozart's "Magic Flute" cut down and performed in English at the Met? "Is the cut-down, 90-minute version a first step at commercializing the Met? Some opera purists may think so. But the plan has merit. That even the brightest children have limited attention spans is a given. A family version of "The Magic Flute" at the Met would have to be done right, though. Will the run be presented at family times (matinees and early evenings), and, more important, at family prices? In principle, this is a good idea." The New York Times 07/04/05

At The Opera - The English Debate A debate rages at the English National Opera about whether using supertitles is necessary for operas sung in English. Anthony Tommasini appreciates the arguments on both side: "In my passions and my ideals, I side with the purists about the threat titles represent to opera in English. Having this crutch is bound to undermine the heritage slowly but steadily: audiences will look to the screens rather than pay attention to the singers; singers, knowing that audiences are relying on the projected texts, will cut corners on diction so that they can linger on a luscious sustained tone. Yet the pragmatist in me understands the frustrations of sitting through an opera in English when you cannot make out the words. Nothing induces passivity, even hostility, to opera more than that." The New York Times 07/03/05

DANCE

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A Culture Of Social Change What happens when you take social dance and put it onstage as choreographed movement? Clearly the nature of the dance will change, but what about the culture? Danceview Times 07/05

Paris' New Dance Festival Paris has a "new three-week festival, Les Étés de la Danse de Paris (Paris Dance Summers), which will be inaugurated with three world premieres on Tuesday by the San Francisco Ballet. Despite an intense interest in the art form, the city has lacked a summer dance festival since 2001, when it withdrew its underwriting. The Paris Opera Ballet shuts before Bastille Day and nothing in dance happens after that for both tourists and the Paris public." The New York Times 07/03/05

The Busy Mr. Wheeldon "Christopher Wheeldon has split a lot of pants lately. And if his rehearsal antics aren't quite as outre as those of Mark Morris, no one in the dance world would be surprised to learn that Wheeldon's demeanor is tilting in that direction. Just as Morris emerged in the '80s as the savior of modern dance, Wheeldon has, since 2000, been tagged as the great hope of classical ballet. And he's busy." San Francisco Chronicle 07/01/05

Ballroom Dancing Gets New Fans Ballroom dance studios across the US are reporting a surge of interest as a new film about kids dancing and the TV series "Dancing with the Stars" attract audiences. "Two generations have missed ballroom dancing; they haven't partner-danced. There's a resurgence now because people see it and want to know how to look like that. When you do non-partner dancing, you're both doing your own thing. Now people want to do the same thing." Christian Science Monitor 07/01/05