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Editor's Note:

FOUR YEARS! Yes, a minor milestone, but here it is. The 208th edition of CAC Artsnews. A brief history and some reflection may be in order for those who have been on the subscription list for only a short time.

Four years ago the Colorado Arts Consortium met in Montrose for the annual conference. At the business meeting we discussed what role the Consortium should take and I said it was networking! ( I still think it is all about networking. ) I volunteered to put together a weekly arts e-mail newsletter. Someone said from the audience that I would be sorry - I think because of the work they perceived I was going to undertake. Here we are four years later and frankly I have mixed feelings.

If I scanned the issues I have saved, I would probably have the same mixed feelings about many things besides doing the newsletter. If memory serves (which is getting harder to do now) I have seen the arts not gain one inch in becoming a force in the funding for the arts. Arts organizations rise and then become dormant. The networking hasn't evolved into arts organizations coming together unless severely impacted financially, and only then to hear the bad news. I have not even heard any wailing now over the prospects that The Colorado Council of the Arts may not exist or at least not give grants if cut to zero funds by the State if Ref C and D fail. On the other hand, "Art" has not gone away and never will. It is something humans do. Arts For Colorado did a great job in saving CCA through advocacy. People come and go and arts groups come and go and in this day and age of high speed changes in all life in Colorado, we maintain a level of "quality of life" that is good. This arts newsletter is not a force in networking except on some level that I'm not aware of except for a few positive responses and very few cancelations of subscriptions for which I'm very grateful. I see the newsletter as just another calender of your events with the opportunity for me to vent a little in editorials which is fun.

So life goes on and so does this newsletter. Make of it what you will!

Cheers,

Paul Saunders

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AND NOW FOR SOME GREAT COLORADO ARTS NEWS

FROM THE FLESHER-HINTON WEB SITE:

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

[http://www.artsusa.org/public_awareness/campaign_info/press_release_06_13_2005.asp]

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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EVENTS:

October 22-CBA Quarter finals, 4A/5A Douglas County HS

October 23-CBA 4A/5A State Marching Championships, Invesco Field

October 24-CBA Small School (1A/2A/3A) State Championships at Cherokee Trail HS-Legacy Stadium

October 26 & 27-West Jeff Music Festival, Lakewood Cultural Center

November 3-5-UNC Western States Honor Orchestra, Greeley

November 6-Big Band Boogie Ball, Dazzle's Restaurant

November 11-Fall Concert Classic-Lewis Palmer HS

December 1 & 2-Chaparral High School, High Plains Jazz Festival

December 11-Tuba Christmas, Laramie Square

2006

January 19, 20, 21-CMEA

February 9-11-Adams State "Top of the Nation" Honor Band

March 8,9.10, Mile High Jazz Festival

March 30, 31, April 1-All State Band at UNC in Greeley

April 6-8, Jazz Celebration at Metro State

April 20-22-UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival

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