COLORADO ARTS CONNECTION

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Colorado Arts news - Part 1 of 2

Send your information and copy for the next CAC Arts News to Editor and Publisher Paul Saunders at artsnews@lpbroadband.net

THANKS!

Editor's Note:

Well, it is a better week. As promised, I feel better this week. World wide, state wide and local wide nothing has changed so it is just a matter of changing focus. For me that means gearing up for getting a parade float ready, putting on the red suit and getting smiles from as many adults and of course, children as possible. Then there are the concerts and art exhibit openings. A mad whirl!

I met two singer song writers, Stephen Hill and Woody Wright, on an Alaska cruise and when I found out they were doing a Christmas concert tour, I put up the money to get them to come from Nashville to Estes Park this Tuesday the 28th. I have real appreciation now for those who arrange and promote concerts! What if you had a concert and no one came! It isn't the money, it's the worry that the performers will enjoy a great and packed audience and the audience will enjoy a great performance. The latter part I can guarantee! Next weeks CAC Arts News will be Wednesday afternoon and I'll report on how good I am as an amateur concert promoter.

Cheers and give thanks for those blessings we have,

Paul Saunders

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AND NOW FOR SOME GREAT COLORADO ARTS NEWS

November 29, 2005

THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS

Stephen Hill and Woody Wright

The United Methodist Church

1509 Fish Hatchery Road

Estes Park, CO 80517

7:00 PM

Tickets $15 Adults, Children Free

970-577-1312 or 970-586-9203

Tickets at MacDonald Book Shop

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR.

A benefit concert "The Spirit of Christmas" for Low Power community radio station KREV-LP 104.7 in Estes Park will take place Tuesday evening at 7:00 PM November 29 at the United Methodist church of Estes Park. The concert is an evening of Christmas songs, nostalgia and laughter by two Internationally known Gaither gospel singers, Stephen Hill and Woody Wright from Nashville Tennessee. Stephen and Woody toured the Spirit of Christmas last year and was so well received that they agreed to tour together again this coming season. Paul Saunders has personally met Stephen and Woody and they have both contributed their music to the station. He was able to secure one of the few dates open for their appearance in Estes Park.

Tickets are $15 and available at MacDonald Book store, 152 E. Elkhorn Avenue in Estes Park, or KREV - call 970-577-1312. Children are free and encourage to come as Stephen and Woody has asked Santa Claus to join them for a special visit.

For additional information contact the Cultural Arts Council of Estes Park at 970-586-9203.

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Subject: Join us at the Phinal Phantom VIP Evening

From: "The Denver Center for the Performing Arts"

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Terrific Orchestra Seats are Still Available! Join us for a VIP Evening on December 1

This all-inclusive evening includes cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, dinner and terrific orchestra seats to see the show.

Tickets are $225 per person and proceeds support the DCPA's Student Matinee programs. (Half of your ticket is tax deductible) For more information call 303.446.4813 or Email

Buy online Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Your seats will be in the orchestra area of the Buell Theatre

For information on events at the DCPA visit www.denvercenter.org

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts

1101 13th St. Denver, CO 80204

Administration: 303.893.4000

Tickets: 303.893-4100 or 1.800.641.1222 tickets@dcpa.org

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Subject: Fwd: News from Colorado Theatre Guild

The 2006 Theatre Night Out Series is on the web-site now! The New Children's Theatre Series is a great stocking stuffer for the Holidays. Only $18 for Three Shows beginning March 2006.

Saturday or Sunday in March

E-Project’s

"Amelia Earhart"

Sundays in April

The Denver Children's Theatre at Mizel Center presents "Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse" directed by Billie McBride.

Saturdays in May

Playwright Theatre adds children’s theatre with a production of "Little Red Riding Wolf" directed by Pam Clifton.

Go to the web site to order or call 303-778-7724!

Gloria Shanstrom, Editor

MAC Presents Findings on December 6

METRO ARTS COALITION TO PRESENT FINDINGS OF THIS SUMMER’S ARTS SUMMITS December 6, 2005

Denver, CO - On December 6th, 2005* from 4-6:00 p.m. at the Acoma Center, 1080 Acoma Street, Denver, the Metro Arts Coalition (MAC) will present the results of its 6-month MAC community arts plan dialogue. MAC, with the assistance of the Bonfils Stanton Foundation, engaged in this exploration of cultural policy in Denver with the goal of creating a community-based, self-activated arts plan for Denver County’s small and mid-sized cultural communities. More than 80 citizens – representing the cultural community, foundations, public and private sectors - have participated in these dialogues held monthly since May 2005. In June participants identified major areas of concern and opportunity and formed work groups to address those areas. Reports from those work groups, as well as possibilities for implementation of the suggestions and recommendations raised in those reports, will be presented at the December 6th meeting.

The METRO ARTS COALITION (MAC) is a grassroots arts advocacy group that was formed in response to the Governor’s line-item veto of funding for the Colorado Council on the Arts in the Denver Metro area. MAC is committed to arts advocacy and awareness, by forging a political presence and voice for the Denver arts community.

Items of Interest

Papi, Me and Cesar Chavez Available to Arapahoe County Schools

We need your help. Su Teatro has a subsidy to perform Papi, Me and Cesar Chavez, in Arapahoe County this year (2005).

If you have kids, friends with kids, know teachers, etc in Arapahoe County (Cherry Creek Schools, Some Aurora Public Schools, Bennett, Byers School District, Dear Trail School District, Englewood School District, Littleton Public Schools, Sheridan Public Schools, Strasburg School District) please let them know we have this performance available at a greatly subsidized price and to contact me at mica@suteatro.org.

Its a 45 minute show about the United Farmworkers historic march from Delano to Sacramento told through the eyes of a 10 year old girl. Its great for all ages.

-Mica Garcia de Benavidez Organizational Manager El Centro Su Teatro (303) 296-0219

FABULOUS FREE OFFER!! Coal Creek Community Theater inherited an awesome bed designed solely for Once Upon a Mattress. It seriously is a super prop, weighing A LOT but very cleverly conceived and created. We are unable to store it any longer and are happy to GIVE it to anyone who'd like to retrieve it. I'd hate to see it become dumpster material, but it probably will unless someone out there can use it and/or store it.

Contact Lynn at plfleming@aol.com.

(I promise that, if you're going to do Mattress, you'll be delighted with it.)

Need a Rowboat, Castle Tower or Large Rock?

Denver School of the Arts has a rowboat a castle tower and a large rock that we built and don't have storage for.

If you're interested in these items, please email me at Brian_Billings@dpsk12.org

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Subject: E-NOTE: Celebrate Turkey Day Weekend with great Bluegrass and

Tejano New Folk

From: "Swallow Hill Music Association" <announcements@swallowhill.com>

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Swallow Hill E-Note Swallow Hill E-Note

Music School <http://www.swallowhill.com/music_school.htm> | Concerts

<http://www.swallowhill.com/concerts.htm> | The Café

<http://www.swallowhill.com/the_cafe.htm> | School Outreach

<http://www.swallowhill.com/school_outreach.htm> | Recording Studio

<http://www.swallowhill.com/recording_studio.htm>

www.swallowhill.com <http://www.swallowhill.com/> | 71 East Yale Ave.

Denver, CO 80210 | 303.777.1003 | Monday, November 21, 2005

Welcome to this week's Swallow Hill E-Note.

Is this message hard to read? Click here

<http://www.swallowhill.com/E-Note/2005/November/21.htm> to check the

online version

FEATURED EVENTS

<http://events.swallowhill.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=690&c=40&pg=>

Colorado Bluegrass Music Society welcomes

Palmer Divide & Bluegrass Patriots

Friday, November 25 | 8 p.m.

Palmer Divide’s members were pulled from neighboring states of Kentucky,

Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Virginia but Colorado is the state that brought them all together. Some of the members have performed with the likes of Mac Wiseman, Buzz Busby, and Lester Flatt. Palmer Divide has shared a stage with the likes of Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill and Michael Martin Murphey. Rounding out this group of talented musicians is Jody Adams in mandolin and fiddle. He has performed at the White House for Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton. He has also chalked up performances on The Nashville Network and at the Grand Ole Opry. The Bluegrass Patriots, one of the longest-running acts in the bluegrass scene comes to Swallow Hill. Peter Wernick has hailed them: "The Patriots symbolize the type of commitment that makes bluegrass what it is." For years known as one of the top traditional bands in bluegrass, The Bluegrass Patriots have been together for nearly 25 years and

counting. Their original song "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" received national attention in 1991 when it appeared in Bluegrass Unlimited'sNational Bluegrass Survey. "This is hard-core bluegrass, power packed, punchy and passionate " played and sung by some fellows who are totally familiar with how the real stuff ought to be done. "

Ray Hicks, Bluegrass Now.

Sponsored by:

Producing Partners:

Dick and Peggy Notebaert

Mr. and Mrs. William Dean Singleton

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"See it! Or live to regret it."

says The London IndependentDenver Center Attractions invites YOU

to purchase tickets BEFORE they go

on sale to the general public Friday, Nov 25!

Matthew Bourne ignited the theatre world with his stunning reinvention of Tchaikovsky's SWAN LAKE. Boldly shattering the traditional concept of swans in tutus, director/choreographer Bourne has created a passionate and contemporary SWAN LAKE for our times. Acclaimed since its 1995 premiere in London as a landmark achievement on the international stage - dazzling audiences on Broadway and in London's West End, throughout Britain, across Europe and in Tokyo - Matthew Bourne's SWAN LAKE has won more than 30 international theatre awards, including three Broadway Tony Awards. Powerful, provocative and totally original,

Matthew Bourne's SWAN LAKE makes its Denver premiere Feb 15-19, 2006.

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts

1101 13th St., Denver, CO 80204

Administration: 303.893.4000

Tickets: 303.893-4100 tickets@dcpa.org

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From: "BCAA Arts Calendar" <events@bouldercountyarts.org>

To: <events@bouldercountyarts.org>

Subject: BCAA Arts Calendar 11/16/05-12/7/05

(The BCAA Calendar is too long for inclusion in this newsletter - Please see the subscribing information or go on-line to their website. Thanks Paul S.)

Boulder County Arts Alliance

Providing leadership, resources, and advocacy for the arts

Welcome to the Boulder County Arts Alliance Arts and Cultural Events Calendar. BCAA is a non-profit, membership based organization, providing leadership, resources, and advocacy to the arts community since 1966.

Your $25 Individual membership with BCAA helps us continue to provide valuable services to the community, including this free arts calendar, free email bulletins of community opportunities, Business of Arts workshops, grants and awards, exhibit opportunities, and much more! Please consider joining or renewing your membership now by visiting: www.bouldercountyarts.org/join.htm.

If you prefer to receive only a LINK to the website calendar every couple weeks rather than the text of all the calendar entries, please reply and let me know. If you want to continue receiving the full, detailed calendar in your email as you have been, do nothing. We will continue to send it as we have been.

Please see below for subscribing/unsubscribing info. Please submit events to http://www.bouldercountyarts.org/eventsform.htm

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.

BCAA Membership Information:

Boulder County Arts Alliance

2590 Walnut St., Ste 9

Boulder, CO 80302

www.bouldercountyarts.org

303-447-2422

events@bouldercountyarts.org

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Join Hands for the Denver Art Museum (DAM)

Another gift idea is a piece of real estate on the museum's new donor wall. For a $250 gift to the museum, a brushed aluminum cut-out of the recipient's hand and their signature will be permanently displayed on the Join Hands for the DAM donor wall.

Purchase a hand by December 6, and we'll send the recipient a holiday gift package with instructions on how to create their hand. For more information and a brochure with instructions call 720-913-0030 or e-mail hands@denverartmuseum.org.

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DURANGO ARTS CENTER ANNOUNCES

"SIP N SEE" KIDS GALLERY EVENT

Join the Durango Arts Center for a fun free art experience, Sip N See,

during the gallery exhibit of "Polar Popsicle Seeds" featuring artwork by

Sandra Butler, Jazz Morgan and Lauren Carroll.

SIP Polar Bear Popsicle Punch, SEE Cool Artwork, PLAY Gallery Games and

LISTEN to Story Art with Clayton Talley.

Friday, November 25, 2005, 3:30 p.m. at the Durango Arts Center.

Call Caitlin at 259-2606 for more information.

Lanette Hartman

Operations Manager

Durango Arts Center

970-259-2606

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Once Upon A Palette Oils by Carolyn Evans Campbell

Showing at the Rotary Gallery at Center Stage in Evergreen

Contact: Lorene Joos, Director

Tel: 303-674-0056

Email: pirates1@msn.com

ONCE UPON A PALETTE, OILS BY CAROLYN EVANS CAMPBELL AT THE ROTARY GALLERY AT

CENTER STAGE IN EVERGREEN: Showing at the Rotary Gallery at Center Stage in

Evergreen. The show will run, November 16 to December 19, 2005. An artist

reception will be on Friday, November 18 from 6 to 8pm. This event is free and

open to the public.

Carolyn's works are bold, abstract oil paintings with a Latino influence, capture a moment that suggests a story, either fanciful, playful or a gentle poking fun at our small vanities. She draws inspiration from poems lines of poetry, or strong images from many years living in South America. All of my work is drawn from that strange place where images lie in wait for a new form and energy and hopefully will awaken a wry smile.

The Rotary Gallery at Center Stage is open Monday through Friday, 9am to 12

noon, and during performances, on Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm and Sunday at

2pm. Directions, take Highway 74 to Meadow Drive to Iris Drive and Right to

Firewood Drive.

For further information, please call the Evergreen Arts Center at

303-674-0056 or Center/Stage at 303-670-9182.

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CREATIVITY: Revolutionary Ideas Come from Ridiculous Questions

By Scott Ginsberg

author of The Power of Approachability

Every creative business idea begins with a question.

A question that grabs attention. A question that might sound ridiculous at the time. A question that propels a wrecking ball of through the walls of ordinary thinking. But still, a question that makes every person in the room stop what he’s doing, sit back in his chair, stare off into space and say, “Huh. Now that’s an interesting idea...”

What is CREATIVITY?

CREATIVITY is creating something out of nothing by asking BIG questions.

This idea of question-based creativity has evolved through centuries of study from around the world. “One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever,” says the ancient Chinese proverb. In the same light, E.E. Cummings once said, “Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.” And Voltaire is famous for his words, “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”

However, in the last few hundred years, other creative powerhouses like Einstein, Edison and De Bono went on to perfect question-based creativity with various techniques and experiments still used by businesspeople around the world.

But sometimes, businesspeople need to ask bigger questions. Questions that push an ideas to their very limits. Questions reminiscent to Kant’s Universalized Maxim which states “Act as if the maxim of your action were to become by your will a universal law of nature."

In other words: what if everybody did it?

Here are some excellent examples of businesspeople - some of whom became businesspeople unexpectedly - because they asked universalized questions to spark their CREATIVITY.

What if I met everyone who shared my same name?

Dave Gorman was a stand up comic from London who decided to search the world for other people named Dave Gorman. While it began as a whim discussed over a pint in a pub, Dave’s adventures of searching for his “namesakes” led to books, television shows, DVD’s and a traveling concert tour across the world. Talk about an interesting career! Check out www.davegorman.com.

What if I always said yes to everybody and everything?

Danny Wallace was a television producer who met an estranged old man on a bus who told him three words that changed his life: say yes more. So he did. In fact, he didn’t just say it more, he said it ALWAYS. To EVERYTHING. For 6 months! And it changed his entire perspective on life, helped him meet his future wife, and of course, inspired him to write a hilarious book called The Yes Man. Danny is now somewhat of a superhero around London. Check out www.dannywallace.com. (Interestingly enough, Danny Wallace was Dave Gorman’s old roommate. Guess the CREATIVITY acorn doesn’t fall far from tree!)

What if everybody wore their Lee jeans on the same day?

In 1995 somebody at Lee Jeans asked this question. 10 years later, Lee National Denim Day is the world's largest single-day fundraiser for breast cancer. On one Friday in October, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Lee Jeans encourages millions of people nationwide to slip into their favorite jeans and make a $5 donation to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Since 1996, Lee National Denim Day has raised more than $52 million for breast cancer research, education, screening and treatment programs. To learn more, check out www.lee.com.

What if everybody in Seattle read the same book?

It’s doubtful that either Nancy Pearl, executive director of the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library (WCB), or Chris Higashi, associate director for WCB, realized just how influential an idea they had conceived when they launched "If All of Seattle Reads the Same Book" in 1996. Today, over 50 cities, counties, or states have begun programs that encourage communities to read the same book at the same time and then to discuss it in numerous venues. For more information, check out www.bookweb.org.

What if everybody donated just one dollar to cancer?

You’ve seen those ubiquitous yellow bracelets on the wrist of your friends, family members, politicians, athletes, even rock stars and actors! And all those people did was donate one dollar to cancer through The Lance Armstrong Foundation. Founded in 1997 by cancer survivor and champion cyclist, Lance Armstrong, the LAF provides the practical information and tools people living with cancer need to live strong. Not to mention, their initial campaign was recorded as one of the most successful in history, raised millions of dollars for cancer awareness, and even started a wrist band fad that will probably go down as one of the most memorable trends of the new millennium. Go to www.livestrong.org.

What if every customer was always greeted at th