CAC ARTS NEWS No. 227
- 03/08/06 Part 1
COLORADO ARTS CONNECTION
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Editor's
Note:
You have to have a
sense of humor
I got the giggles this
morning at the breakfast table and happened to look closely at the prescription
bottles arrayed around the plate. "take one tablet by mouth....."
giggle.........as
apposed to what? By up the nose? In the ear? or God forbid by elsewhere? Spouse
said that this is common language. I'm sorry, but writing is an art (how about
that for getting back to the newsletter's mission of all things art!) I
think we owe it to ourselves and others to mind what we say - and write. (And
look at who is saying all this.) You can call me on any nonsense I may slip in
to the newsletter, but please remember -- a sense of humor is a good thing. Now
back to the instructions on the microwave popcorn - "place in microwave,
turn on to correct setting, open carefully into bowl, eat by mouth - caution -
may be hot" Very good! not too much went by nose!
Cheers,
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PSA's from
Durango Arts Center
DURANGO ARTS
FORCE'S APPLAUSE!
PRESENTS the
BROADWAY JUNIOR PRODUCTION OF "MUSIC MAN"
Durango Arts Force's Applause! presents a junior
version of "The Music Man." The performance will take place in
the theater at the Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Avenue at 7 p.m. on
Friday, March 17 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, March 18.
The production of
"Music Man" is made possible by sponsorship from Coca-Cola Bottling
Company of Durango
Tickets are $6 for
adults, $4 for students and seniors, $15 for families and are are available at
the reception desk at the Durango Arts Center. For more information, please
call 259-2606.
DAC
"SIP and SEE"
A
FREE GALLERY EVENT FOR ART LOVING KIDS!
Join the Durango Arts
Center for a fun-filled FREE art experience, "Sip N See," during
the gallery exhibit of
Critters featuring artwork by
DAC members.
SIP some punch, SEE
art, play gallery games and listen to an entertaining story. Make balloon
critters and feast from our critter buffet. There will be a reading by
Scott Evans of Wombat
Stew, a book by Marcia K.
Vaughan.
This is a FREE
fun-filled art event for kids and their families on Friday, March 17 from
5:30p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Durango Arts Center's Barbara Conrad Gallery.
After the "Sip
and See," stay for the production of the junior version of Broadway's
"The Music Man" by Applause! at 7 p.m. in the Durango Arts Center
Theater. Tickets for the production are on sale at the DAC reception
desk, $6 for adults, $4 for students and seniors, and $15 for families.
Call Caitlin at
259-2606 for more information on the "Sip and See".
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Attention Boulder County artists
and arts organizations:
$1000 General Operating Support and
Equipment Grants, and Unrestricted Fellowships Available
Boulder County Arts
Alliance, a non-profit arts service organization, will be awarding $1,000
Neodata Endowment grants to arts organizations within Boulder County. Grants
can be used to support general operating expenses or equipment purchases.
Unrestricted fellowships will also be awarded in the disciplines of music,
literature and poetry. Applications are due by 5 p.m., Thursday, March 16,
2006, and are available at www.bouldercountyarts.org.
A grant coaching
session will be offered on March 9, at 5 p.m. in the BCAA office. Attendance is
highly encouraged. Please call 303.447.2422 or email news@bouldercountyarts.org
to RSVP.
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Charlotte LaSasso
Communications
Coordinator
Boulder County Arts
Alliance
2590 Walnut St., Suite
9
Boulder, Colorado
80302
303-447-2422
www.bouldercountyarts.org
Celebrating
40 years of providing leadership, resources, and advocacy for Boulder County
artists and cultural organizations.
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Colorado
Chamber Players perform Takemitsu with Masakazu Ito, guitar
Toru Takemitsu
March
11th, 2:30 p.m. at Foothills Art Center, Golden
March
12th, 7:30 p.m. at Hamilton Hall, Newman Center, Denver
ALL-TAKEMITSU
PROGRAM:
- Rocking Mirror Daybreak (1983), Violin Duo
- Orion (1984), Cello and Piano
- A Way A Lone (1980), String Quartet
- A Bird Came Down The Walk (1994), Viola and Piano
- All In Twilight (1987), Solo Guitar
- And Then I Knew 'Twas Wind (1992), Flute, Viola and Harp
"The music of Takemitsu is incredibly wistful and
imaginative, and really transports the listener to another world," says
CCP Artistic Director Hamilton-Primus. "Compared with our frenetic pace of
life, this concert will provide a gentle soundscape where dreams, the value of
silence, expansive time, and ravishing tone colors are the main elements."
Performing
will be virtuoso guitarist Masakazu Ito, along with Colorado Chamber Players
members Paul Primus and David Waldman, violins; Barbara Hamilton-Primus, viola;
Julie Thornton, flute; Lynne Abbey-Lee, harp; Andrew Cooperstock, piano; and
guest Judith McIntyre, cello.
TicketsWest tickets for Saturday March 11th only
Tickets by phone: 1-866-464-2626
Tickets by phone: 303-357-ARTS
(2787)
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The
LIDA Project Experimental Theatre Company
P.O.
Box 13553, Denver CO 80201
AUDITIONS
FOR THE LIDA PROJECT'S LONDON TOUR OF MANSON l FAMILY VALUES
The
LIDA Project Experimental Theatre Company will be conducting auditions
for
its London tour of MANSON l family valUeS March 24-26. Needed are 3
women,
ages 18 - 25 of all types and ethnicities. Travel expenses, lodging
and
stipend are included. Please be prepared to cold read and dress for
movement.
Must have a valid passport. Must provide resume and headshot.
Call
303.282.0466 or e-mail lida@lida.org for an audition appointment.
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email: <mailto:lida@lida.org>LIDA@lida.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 06 March 2006
CONTACT: Brian Freeland, Artistic Director
Phone: 303.282.0466
email: <mailto:brian.freeland@lida.org>brian.freeland@lida.org
LIDA Project to Open 'Manson | family valUeS' at Camden PeopleÕs
Theatre
Denver, CO - The LIDA Project
Experimental Theatre Company presents its collaborative work, MANSON | family valUeS, opening Tuesday, 18 April 2006 at the Camden
People's Theatre. Performances are Tuesdays - Saturdays at 8pm and two
performances on Sundays (1:00pm and 7:00pm), 18 April - 8 May. Ticket prices
are £10. All performances will be held at the Camden PeopleÕs Theatre, 58-60
Hampstead Road, London. For reservations and information call 08700 600 100, or
reserve online at
<http://www.cptheatre.co.uk/event_details.php?sectionid=theatre&eventid=124&searchid=current>www.cptheatre.co.uk
MANSON | family valUeS is based on the lives of the young family of followers whose paths
were forever altered under the watchful gaze of their messiah, Charles Manson.
This is a small, twisted peek into the events leading up to and following the
ritual murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others during the summer of 1969.
Created in the unique style of The LIDA Project, MANSON | family valUeS offers a bizarre and wickedly eerie journey into the cult that
changed our definition of evil forever and spawned AmericaÕs first pop-culture
media villain. Originally created and produced by LIDA and built from actual
events, interviews and transcripts, this compelling, fresh work was one of the
most talked about theatre events of the 2003 season.
This production run,
under the direction of Robin Davies and Brian Freeland marks the debut of
LIDA's unique theatrical brand of media-infused, devised storytelling to the
UK.
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Now here is a great
news item - pbs:
From:
<mailto:Allegro164@aol.com>Allegro164@aol.com
Date: February 28, 2006 7:53:35 AM MST
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject:
Female Tuba Player in Philadelphia Orch.
Philadelphia
Orch appoints Carol Jantsch as tubist
In Sunday's
Philadelphia Inquirer, Peter Dobrin reports: "The Philadelphia Orchestra
has hired Carol Jantsch for its vacant tuba spot, making her the only -- and
possibly the first -- female tuba player in a major full-time American
orchestra. Jantsch won the orchestra's audition late Wednesday night, beating
out 194 other hopefuls." Dobrin notes that Jantsch "is still in
school. After winning the job here, she will return to the University of
Michigan, where she is expected to graduate in April. She's only 20 years old,
making her the youngest member of the Philadelphia Orchestra -- less than a
quarter of the age of the orchestra's oldest musician." Dobrin interviews
Fritz A. Kaenzig, her University of Michigan tuba teacher, on the relative lack
of female tubists in American orchestras: "Women don't generally have as
large a lung capacity as men, he said." Kaenzig tells Dobrin: "Carol
is an exception. She has 4.7 liters [she has measured it on medical equipment],
the same as I do." Philadelphia Orchestra Music Director Christoph
Eschenbach comments: "It seems to me she was just born with the
instrument, she's so at ease with it ... She plays it like a flute."
Jantsch tells Dobrin: "This is probably the best job I could ever hope
for."=
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From:
"ArtistsRegister.Com" <artistsregister@westaf.org>
COLORADO
Valley Visual
Arts Show
ArtistsRegister.com
member Michael Raaum will be participating in the 26th Annual Valley
Visual Arts Show presented by the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities at
the Kahhak Fine Arts Gallery in Carbondale, Colorado. Michael will be
exhibiting two mixed media/acrylic paintings, "Alchemy" and "Excavation."
They are powerful abstract works emphasizing color, shape and line. The show
will run from February 23 through March 18, 2006. The show will feature new
work by member artists of CCAH. The gallery is located at 411 Main Street in
Carbondale, CO and is open Monday through Friday from 1:00-6:00pm. For more
information contact CCAH at 970.963.1680.
Structures:
Fences, Walls & Boundaries
Exhibition continues
through March 22, 2006. ArtistsRegister.com member Lisa Call will be
featured in a solo exhibit entitled Structures: Fences, Walls & Boundaries.
Macky Auditorium Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. For more
information go to: http://www.colorado.edu/Macky/Galleryartistinfo.html
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From: "Sangre de
Cristo Arts & Conference Center" <mail@sdc-arts.org>
Subject: Sangre de
Cristo Arts and Conference Center
Incredible Mr. E
Performances During Spring Break
Presto! The Incredible
Mr. E is back with an all new show to dazzle you with magic and more! Make sure
you get here early because seats at this show will disappear fast. You won't
want to miss Pueblo's funniest Magician free with your paid admission March 21
through 25. Performances are at 12:30pm, 1:30pm, and 2:30pm daily in the Magic
Carpet Theater. For more information about these performances call 719-295-7200
or stop by 210 N. Santa Fe Ave, Pueblo.
After you have been
entertained by the Incredible Mr. E, enjoy lunch at Fazoli's in the Kid Rock
Cafe! Visitors to the Buell Children's Museum can enjoy Fazoli's cuisine
beginning March 7th. Lunch will be served daily from 11 until 3 and most
children's menu selections are around $3. Make a day of it with Fazoli's and
the Buell Children's Museum!
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Sangre de Cristo
Ballet Theatre Presents...
Dancing with the
Veronika String Quartet
The Sangre de Cristo
Ballet Theatre will present Dancing with the Veronika String Quartet on Friday, March 31 at 7:30 pm in the Arts Center Theater. Dancers will perform
material from the company's existing repertoire along with an original new
work.
Pueblo's own Veronika
String Quartet will make a guest appearance. In addition to a solo performance
quartet members Veronika Afanassieva, Ekaterina Dobrotvorskaia, Karina Garibova
and Danielle Guideri will collaborate with the SBT to present Five Novelettes
op 15 by Alexander Glazunov. Original choreography for this work is by Artistic
Director Karen P. Schaffenburg. Tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for children.
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Evergreen Invitational
at the Evergreen Arts
Center
View of Two Elks by
Don Sahli
Contact: Lorene Joos,
Director
Tel: 303-674-0056
Email:
_pirates1@msn.com_ (mailto:pirates1@msn.com)
_www.evergreenarts.org_
(http://www.evergreenarts.org/)
EVERGREEN INVITATIONAL
AT THE EVERGREEN ARTS CENTER: The Evergreen Arts
Center will host the
Evergreen Invitational, March 2 ‰*Ò April 14, 2006. The
Invitational will
feature the works of twenty-five Evergreen Area Artists.
Artists include Don
Sahli, Tom Ware, Debbie Carlson, Anita Mosher, Kim
English, and others.
"It is amazing
the number of professional artist that live in the Evergreen
area, we are
privileged to bring this select group together for this exhibit.
The difference in
styles and mediums make this a truly unique show, I hope
everyone will stop in
to view the extraordinary work," Lorene Joos,
Evergreen Arts Center
Director.
An Artist reception
and opening celebration will be held on Saturday, March
11, from 6 to 9
pm.
The Arts Center is
located next to the Buchanan Park Recreation Center in
Evergreen, 32003B
Ellingwood Trail, and is open Noon to 5pm Tuesday through
Sunday.
The Evergreen Arts
Council is a non profit 501 C3 Tax Id No. 84 0718563.
For further
information please call the Evergreen Arts Center at
303-674-0056.
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Michelle Pickens
Dolores Festival
Committee
Dolores Chamber of
Commerce
970-882-2211
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Spring Break
at the Denver Art Museum (DAM)
There's
plenty for families to do at the museum during spring break! Starting Saturday,
March 18, the Just for Fun Family Center will be open whenever the museum is.
It's a place where kids are encouraged to touch, scribble, dress up, knock
down, and squeal!
And
from March 25 to April 2, your kids can celebrate Great Games Week. Free family
activities include different games on every floor, the Just for Fun Family
Center, and Family Backpacks to take with you through the galleries. This will
also be your last chance to see the upper floors of the museum until this fall.
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New Exhibit
Opened 2/24/06
Variations
From Life:
Plein Air
Painters of Estes Park 2006 Exhibition and Sale
Cultural Arts
Council Fine Arts Gallery
304 E. Elkhorn
Ave.
The juried invitational
includes over 60 works of art by 22 artist members of this
organization dedicated to the promotion and art of plein air painting.
Artwork depicts
Colorado landscapes and architecture in the painting mediums of oil,
pastel and watercolor.
Over 100 people
attended the exhibition opening on Friday February 24. At 7 PM the
Awards Ceremony commenced.
The following awards
were selected by noted artist James Biggers, and presented by the Cultural Arts
Council to:
Best of ShowÑSouthwest
Art Magazine, 1/4 page Ad & Prod.
$800 Value
Hidden Valley
Elena Willets
Oil
First Place - The
Other Side Restaurant - $50 Dinner for Two
Summer Greens
Brenda Longworth
Oil
Second Place - Western
1 Hour Photo & Imaging - $25 Gift Cert.
Little Pond
Mary Jo McGillivray
Oil
Third Place
True Value
HardwareÑ$25 Gift Certificate
Ponderosa Pines
Cynthia Price Reedy
Watercolor & Ink
Award of Merit
Water Power
Carole Kleeman Tuttle
Watercolor
Award of Merit
CynthiaÕs Porch
Margaret E Jensen
Oil
The exhibition runs
through April 21, 2006 and is free and open to the public.
Stop by and see the
newly renovated gallery!
Donations are now
being accepted to replace the old spotlighting system with new halogen lights.
Tax deductible light
donations are $15 each, and can be made in person or by mail to:
Cultural Arts Council
of Estes Park
P.O. Box 4135
Estes Park, CO
80517
Exhibition
Hours are 11 AM to 4 PM Monday - Saturday, Sunday by
Appointment.
For more
information call 970-586-9203 or visit
<http://www.EstesArts.com>www.EstesArts.com.
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Writing By Hand In An Age Of Email Who writes letters anymore in the age of email?
Except, maybe email makes us appreciate the written note more. "E-mail may
have revolutionized our communication, making it faster, easier, more
practical. But that doesn't mean the handwritten note is dead. Instead, the act
of putting pen to paper seems to have gained in currency. Now it's what you do
to say something special, or heartfelt, or really important." Los Angeles Times
03/03/06
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Peruvian Prez May Press Bush On Yale's Machu
Picchu Collection The dispute
between Yale University and the nation of Peru over antiquities from Machu
Picchu is getting hot, and Peruvian authorities are quite serious about forcing
Yale to return objects they claim were illegally looted. "This showdown
over national patrimony, private property and academic inquiry comes as
Alejandro Toledo, the first indigenous president of Peru, is scheduled Friday
to meet with the Yale graduate who inhabits the White House." Washington Post
03/09/06
"Smoking Gun" Unveiled At True Trial Prosecutors at the trial of former Getty curator
Marion True and art dealer Robert Hecht have entered into evidence photos that
they say prove their claim that the Getty was knowingly trafficking in stolen
antiquities. "Prosecutors also called on Italy's art theft police to
explain the web that they say links the defendants to tomb robbers and
unscrupulous dealers." The New York Times 03/09/06
Why Is New York Cutting Arts Funding? "The Bloomberg administration is once again
proposing a decrease in funding for the Department of Cultural Affairs next
year -- a reduction of more than $37 million from the current year, to $102.2
million, according to the Independent Budget Office. This represents the
largest proposed cut in two decades." Gotham Gazette 03/06
When The Government Spies On Its Own People Thirty-five years ago, a midnight break-in at an
FBI office revealed "years of systematic wiretapping, infiltration and
media manipulation designed to suppress dissent. Underground newspapers were
targeted. Students (and their professors) were targeted. Celebrities were
targeted. The Communist Party of the U.S.A., the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, the Student Non-Violent Organizing Committee, the Black Panther
Party, the Women's Strike for Peace - all were targeted." That was
supposed to be the break-in to end all break-ins... Los Angeles Times
03/08/06
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-jalon8mar08,1,6215970.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
(I would be paranoid
if it wasn't the government. pbs)
The End Of The English Arts Council? There's about to be a big shakeup of the UK
culture-funding system. "Abolition of the Arts Council is no longer a
question of whether, but when - and how soon, this government or the next. The
60th anniversary of its foundation by royal charter will fall in August, by
which time every colour of the political spectrum will have accepted that the
system by which public money is fed into arts has outlived its usefulness to
such an extent that it constricts art and contradicts its founding
purpose."
La Scena Musicale 03/08/06
DANCE
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Joffrey Al Fresco
"The Joffrey Ballet and the City of Chicago are teaming up for 'Come Dance
With Us,' a week of free events in Millennium Park this summer as part of the
troupe's 50th anniversary celebration. The free events, to be held June 13-18,
include a Joffrey performance at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, two
outdoor concerts with the Grant Park Orchestra at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, a
bootdance spectacle in the outdoor Crown Fountain involving more than a dozen
high school students, a parade of characters from 'The Nutcracker' and a late-night
dance lesson to live music." Chicago Tribune 03/09/06
The Dancing Computer Microsoft is showing off a computer interface
that is controlled by dancing in front of it. "The dance pad has
designated arrows and buttons that are normally used to correspond to beats in
the game, but for Microsofts system it will be used to navigate and scroll through
a wide variety of applications." Gizmodo 03/07/06
Washington Ballet Contract To Clarify Dancers'
Security? "The flexibility
allowed to Artistic Director Septime Webre had been a key issue. Disagreements
over such issues as how and when he could dismiss dancers, how he could expand
his roster with the use of students from the Washington Ballet's school, and
how many dancers he would be required to employ -- which the ballet viewed as
stepping into areas of artistic control -- were the chief reasons the contract
process took so long." Washington Post 03/07/06
Washington Ballet Labor Accord Washington Ballet and its dancers have reached
an agreement on a new contract... Washington Times 03/07/06
Mark Morris In Miniature The Mark Morris Dance Group is celebrating its
25th anniversary. But Morris himself is dancing less and less. "I'm barely
dancing at all these days. And I don't think I'm going to perform on tour much
anymore. But I'm not retired from the stage. I'm sure of that. I'll still be
dancing in shows I plan to give in my own building. I like the scale
there."
The New York Times 03/05/06
The Paris "Rite" - Engineered Outrage? The uproar that greeted the first performance of
Rite of Spring in Paris almost 100 years ago kicked off the avant garde of a new
century. But was the extreme reaction of the crowds staged? The Guardian (UK)
03/02/06