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:

The concert on Tuesday that I arranged with two singers from Nashville was fantastic for everyone. Now I put aside being a promoter!

As I said last week, " I have real appreciation now for those who arrange and promote concerts!". We had a great time! I just wanted to share it with the world. We had a good house as it turned out but I'm not used to the stress of working out all the details. After building a float for the radio station and being in the Christmas parade the day after Thanksgiving, playing early in the day in the Dixieland Band in a park and then doing Santa for two hours after the band, put that whole day as great fun but somewhere fatigue set in. I hope all of your activities are as wonderful and that sometime we can all settle down with a glass of wine and a Valium to enjoy a winter's quiet time.

Cheers and give thanks for those blessings we have,

Paul Saunders

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AND NOW FOR SOME GREAT COLORADO ARTS NEWS

Denver Cultural Chief Relocating (As reported in Dec. 1 Rocky Mountain News)

Denise Montgomery, director of the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs since 2003, announced her resignation Wednesday, saying she was relocating to San Diego to be with her fiance. She was the first appointment made by Mayor John Hickenlooper.

Montgomery, who came to the cultural agency after serving as the director of the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts, said her last day in the city post will be Jan 3. She is joining the staff of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego to head its communications effort.

In her DOCA post, Montgomery help launch Doors Open Denver and One Book, One Denver.

(We wish her all the best! pbs)

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ASCOT BALLET YOUTH COMPANY presents THE NUTCRACKER

Directed and Choreographed by Nikoloz Makhateli, Artistic Director

Magic, music and merriment will fascinate and delight audiences of all ages at the Ascot Ballet Youth Company's THE NUTCRACKER, performed at the beautiful Newman Center for the Performing Arts (University of Denver campus) on December 2nd and 3rd.

In all the splendor, spectacle and finest traditions of this beloved holiday classic, Herr Drosselmeyer gives the gift of magic and wonder to Masha, his favorite godchild. He transforms the nutcracker doll he gives her into the noble Cavalier who saves her from the mischievous, scurrying mice. He then sends Masha and her Cavalier to beautiful, enchanted lands of snow and sweets, complete with the Snow Queen, Sugarplum Fairy, dancing snowflakes, angels, flowers and exotic dancers from Spain, China, Arabia and Russia.

The Ascot's own Drosselmeyer, Nikoloz Makhateli, has worked his own kind of Nutcracker magic and wonder for dancers and audiences in many parts of the world. Mr. Makhateli himself danced the role of the Cavalier in several productions in Russia. His own children are highly esteemed Nutcracker dancers in their own rights: This holiday season, David Makhateli performs the Cavalier for the Royal London Ballet, and Maia Makhateli is performing the Sugarplum Fairy for the Colorado Ballet. Maia Makhateli recently received both local and world-wide accolades for her technique and artistry as Aurora in the Colorado Ballet's THE SLEEPING BEAUTY.

THE NUTCRACKER will feature dancers from the Ascot Ballet Academy, recently named "The Most Outstanding Ballet School in Colorado - 2005" by Youth America Grand Prix. At the 2005 YAGP regional competition, all senior level 1st places, the overall grand prix award and other awards were given to Ascot dancers. One of the Ascot's dancers, only 14 years old, was chosen as a finalist to dance in the YAGP Finale in NYC; she was the only dancer from Colorado and one of just a handful of dancers from the U.S. to be invited to the finals for this highly prestigious, international competition.

THE NUTCRACKER will be performed on December 2nd at 7pm, and on December 3rd at 2pm and 7pm. Tickets are very affordably priced at $19 for adults, $15 for students/seniors, and $12 for children 5 year or younger. For more information or to purchase tickets, please call the Ascot Ballet at 303-904-3334 or visit our website at asctoacademies.org. Tickets may also be purchased at the Newman Center Box Office at 303-871-7720 or call Ticketmaster at 303-357-ARTS.

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The NUTCRACKER has a few versions, but if you need to know how the Nutcracker came to be, then the collaboration of Ballet Arts Theatre and Ballet Ariel

at the Cleo Parker Robinson Theatre 119 Park Ave. West ( 20th & Washington St.)

in Denver. Featuring Paul Noel Fiorino as the Cavalier, partnering the Sugar Plum Fairy, Kate Brogen; This production is affordable for the entire family.

$14 Adults $11 Students & Seniors $7 Children 12 & under.

Group rates are available. 303-282-9828

Directed by Ilena Norton, Paul Noel Fiorino and Patricia Renzetti

December 16 & 17 at 8pm Sunday Matinee December 18 @ 2pm

Sponsored in part by SCFD and Denver Office of Cultural Affairs

A special fund raiser is offered in association with Colorado Arts Consortium

Peter MAX painting your portrait is being offered, along with 2006 Winter Olympic Posters and other drawings, paintings and lithographs. Call 303-825-7570

The Denver Musicians Association www.dmamusic.org has launched a CD Album of

Singer/Songwriter Paul Noel Fiorino, to benefit Ballet Arts and the many programs

the 31 year nonprofit organization in the Golden Triangle Arts District presents. This

first release is premiering on the website of the DMA Music Store dedicated to local

talent and members of the Union. Please mention BAT as a reference. Thank you.

Thanks for Giving.

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Hi friends and music pals,

The Lynn Skinner Quartet Presents:

Between Darkness And Light: A Winter Solstice Concert

Wednesday, December 21st at 7:00 PM

Dazzle Restaurant

930 Lincoln Street, Denver

$10 Admission All Ages Welcome

303.839.5100 For Reservations

Songs and Poetry from Cultures Around The World:

Folk, Jazz, Classical, Indigenous, Original Music

Please call 303.839.5100 to make reservations for this special evening of poetry and song.

Let's celebrate the longest night of the year together, shall we?

Cheers,

lynn skinner

vocalynn@earthlink.net

www.lynnskinner.com

www.musicfromthehearth.com

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Subject: Kent Thompson’s first head-turning season continues!

From: "Denver Center Theatre Company"

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Don't miss a minute of the Denver Center Theatre Company's 2005/06 season

buy tickets NOW for the next three shows before they go on sale to the general public on Sunday, December 4! by Wayne Lemon - Directed by David McClendon

January 12-March 11

The Ricketson Theatre

A Denver Center World Premiere. An irreverent, thought-provoking dark

comedy. January 19 - February 25

Directed by Israel Hicks

The Space Theatre

Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson's ninth play in this cycle of African American life in the 20th century.

by William Shakespeare

Directed by Kent Thompson

January 26 - February 25

The Stage Theatre

Wickedly comic, unbearably raw and strangely tender...one of Shakespeare's most unpredictable and least classifiable dramas.

For assistance or comments, e-mail feedback@dcpa.org

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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Swallow Hill and KGNU present benefit concert with

The Persuasions w/Ben Senterfit

Friday, December 2 | 8 p.m. | Cameron Church

Vocal legends The Persuasions, praised as the "kings of a cappella" by NPR, began singing together in 1962. On Friday, December 2nd at 8 p.m. Swallow Hill and community radio station KGNU bring this legendary group to the stage for a holiday performance at the historic Cameron Church in Old South Pearl Street, with guest artist Ben Senterfit. Hailed by L.A. Weekly, The Persuasions "are to singing what Muhammad Ali was to boxing—invincible, innovative, original, beautiful." The

Persuasions originally began as an informal singing group; they were discovered when one of their informal taped sessions played in a New Jersey record store and was overheard by Frank Zappa: "I could tell, even over the phone, that these guys were something special."