15th Annual Holiday Group Exhibit
in Art Access Gallery
Salt Lake City, Utah - October 28, 2010 Art Access Gallery is pleased to feature 30 Utah artists in its annual Holiday Exhibition. The exhibition will open with an Artists' Reception on Friday November 19, from 6 to 9 PM, during Salt Lake City Gallery Stroll and remain open through December 18.
A second reception for this same exhibit will be held on Friday, December 3, from 6 to 9 pm during the Salt Lake City Gallery Stroll's holiday stroll.
Participating artists include: Barton Moody, Susan Kirby, Bill James, Marcee Blackerby, Jared Nielsen, Vicki Acoba, Paul Alusa, Kevin Frazier, Angela Fife, Julie Eide, Sheri Walker Gibb, Laurel Casjens, Susan Gallacher, Marta Albee, Jeff Archibald, Sue Valentine, Cassandria Parsons, Sharon Brown Mikkelson, Darryl Erdmann, Aaron Bushnell, Anne Maak, Jodie McDougal, Erin W. Berrett, Izrael Szuchay, Cassandra Barney, David Meikle, Emily McPhie, Sheryl Gillilan & Joe Carter.
Lance Peacock's "Obvious Gestures" in Access II Gallery
Access II Gallery is pleased to show the work of Pleasant Grove artist Lance Peacock. "Obvious Gestures" will open with on Friday November 19, from 6 to 9 PM, during the Salt Lake City Gallery Stroll and remain open through December 18.
Peacock feels that portraits need not be formal. As a matter of fact, he believes that they need not always be head-shots. Hands or body, surroundings or even placement, can depict what a person does for a living, the stage of their life, what they have accomplished or failed to accomplish. He says, "the older we become, the opportunities are fewer, decisions are often made for us and adventures can become hazards. We look back on our lives and quite often live off of the memories we have made for ourselves.
Lance Peacock found this to be true in his own life, as he experienced a massive stroke at age 39. "Even though I have been dealt cards that I didn't want, I found that I could exchange a few of them and ask the dealer for more."
His newest adventure has taken him into the life of art, both as an artist and an art admirer.
Learn more about Art Access Gallery...
About Art Access Gallery
The Art Access Gallery provides opportunities for artists with disabilities to access the mainstream of the arts community by exhibiting their work with that of artists without disabilities.
Art Access Gallery is located at 230 South 500 West, #125 in Salt Lake City. Gallery hours are Monday - Friday from 10AM to 6PM. Saturday Holiday Hours will be held from 11AM to 3PM from November 20 through December 18th (CLOSED November 27).
Website: http://www.accessart.org/gallery.html
About Art Access/VSA Utah
Art Access/VSA Utah provides equal opportunities to inclusive arts programs for Utahns with disabilities and those with limited access to the arts.
Our vision is to create community understanding that the arts is a universal vehicle to celebrate our differences and ultimately connect people.
Website: http://www.accessart.org/aabout.html
Friday, October 29, 2010
Alessio Bax in Concert @ Gardner Concert Hall (Salt Lake City: November 16th)
WORLD-RENOWNED PIANIST ALESSIO BAX IN CONCERT
Winner of the 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Italian pianist Alessio Bax is making a stop on his world tour to perform in concert on Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in Libby Gardner Concert Hall at the University of Utah. Co-sponsored by the University of Utah Department of Music and the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation, the program will include works of Bach, Brahms, Granados, and Bartók. Mr. Bax will also offer a master class, free and open to the public, on Thursday, Nov. 18, at 10:45 a.m. in Dumke Recital Hall, the University of Utah Campus.
A true virtuoso and sensation in the music world, Alessio Bax is consistently praised for his lyrical playing and insightful interpretations. Since taking first prizes at the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, he has won audiences across the globe. For his recent CD, "Bach Transcribed," Gramophone magazine lauded his "stylistic perception and palette of tone-colours ... together with a level of technical control that gives new meaning to the word 'awesome'," and noted that “his playing quivers with an almost hypnotic intensity.”
Bax's extensive concerto repertoire has led to appearances with more than 80 orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National, Dallas Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Houston Symphony, Rome Symphony, Hungarian Symphony, NHK Symphony, Tokyo Symphony and New Japan Philharmonic.
For more information on Alessio Bax and his program, please visit www.bachauer.com. Tickets are $15 general admission or $5 students with ID. Tickets are available at www.kingtix.org or by calling 801-581-7100.
Winner of the 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Italian pianist Alessio Bax is making a stop on his world tour to perform in concert on Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in Libby Gardner Concert Hall at the University of Utah. Co-sponsored by the University of Utah Department of Music and the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation, the program will include works of Bach, Brahms, Granados, and Bartók. Mr. Bax will also offer a master class, free and open to the public, on Thursday, Nov. 18, at 10:45 a.m. in Dumke Recital Hall, the University of Utah Campus.
A true virtuoso and sensation in the music world, Alessio Bax is consistently praised for his lyrical playing and insightful interpretations. Since taking first prizes at the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, he has won audiences across the globe. For his recent CD, "Bach Transcribed," Gramophone magazine lauded his "stylistic perception and palette of tone-colours ... together with a level of technical control that gives new meaning to the word 'awesome'," and noted that “his playing quivers with an almost hypnotic intensity.”
Bax's extensive concerto repertoire has led to appearances with more than 80 orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National, Dallas Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Houston Symphony, Rome Symphony, Hungarian Symphony, NHK Symphony, Tokyo Symphony and New Japan Philharmonic.
For more information on Alessio Bax and his program, please visit www.bachauer.com. Tickets are $15 general admission or $5 students with ID. Tickets are available at www.kingtix.org or by calling 801-581-7100.
SongFest @ UCCC (West Valley City: November 19th- December 30th)
Trees of Diversity Exhibit Kicks Off with SongFest! Showcasing Utah’s Diversity in Arts, Culture and Music
Trees of Diversity and SongFest!
Trees of Diversity
November 19, 2010 – December 30, 2010
Monday – Thursday: 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Friday & Saturday: by special arrangement; closed Sundays and Holidays
SongFest!
November 18, 2010
6 – 8 p.m.
Utah Cultural Celebration Center
1355 West 3100 South
West Valley City, UT 84119
EVERYONE is invited to come and experience the visual splendor of the Trees of Diversity exhibit and the seasonal sounds of SongFest!, free of charge.
For seven years the Utah Cultural Celebration Center has featured a holiday tree exhibit that overflows from the Celebration Gallery, and throughout the entire facility. Each year the number of groups involved, including arts, cultural, non-profit and commercial, has grown and grown. The purpose of this exhibit is to bring the community together in the celebration of various holiday traditions not only from different countries but from different religious backgrounds and various family or community traditions. The tree is used as a sign of friendship and is used to display the art and artifacts representing the richness of our community traditions.
This year the Trees of Diversity exhibition will have over 25 trees and holiday scenes created by various community and ethnic groups. Included are Amish, Honduran, American Indian, Chilean, Peruvian and other South American countries, Mexico, Japan, Canada, Africa, Hawaii, Scotland and others. The Cultural Center will also be displaying artifacts and other historical items from around the world, along with art pieces, nativities, nutcrackers, gingerbread houses, special holiday “store window” scenes, sculptures and wreaths. Two special displays will highlight holiday traditions in both the Jewish and Muslim communities, and the 100+ Dolls from Around the World collection will once again be on display.
Helping kick off the exhibit is SongFest! a night of musical entertainment for everyone. Scheduled to perform are Christmas Bell Ringers, The Beehive Statesmen, The Salt Lake Men’s Choir and the West Valley Symphony. The magical sights and sounds of the holidays are sure to get the whole family ready to celebrate this special time of year, and to learn about other holiday traditions from around the world.
For more information about this and other events or exhibits at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, call 801-965-5100, or visit culturalcelebration.org
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Trees of Diversity and SongFest!
Trees of Diversity
November 19, 2010 – December 30, 2010
Monday – Thursday: 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Friday & Saturday: by special arrangement; closed Sundays and Holidays
SongFest!
November 18, 2010
6 – 8 p.m.
Utah Cultural Celebration Center
1355 West 3100 South
West Valley City, UT 84119
EVERYONE is invited to come and experience the visual splendor of the Trees of Diversity exhibit and the seasonal sounds of SongFest!, free of charge.
For seven years the Utah Cultural Celebration Center has featured a holiday tree exhibit that overflows from the Celebration Gallery, and throughout the entire facility. Each year the number of groups involved, including arts, cultural, non-profit and commercial, has grown and grown. The purpose of this exhibit is to bring the community together in the celebration of various holiday traditions not only from different countries but from different religious backgrounds and various family or community traditions. The tree is used as a sign of friendship and is used to display the art and artifacts representing the richness of our community traditions.
This year the Trees of Diversity exhibition will have over 25 trees and holiday scenes created by various community and ethnic groups. Included are Amish, Honduran, American Indian, Chilean, Peruvian and other South American countries, Mexico, Japan, Canada, Africa, Hawaii, Scotland and others. The Cultural Center will also be displaying artifacts and other historical items from around the world, along with art pieces, nativities, nutcrackers, gingerbread houses, special holiday “store window” scenes, sculptures and wreaths. Two special displays will highlight holiday traditions in both the Jewish and Muslim communities, and the 100+ Dolls from Around the World collection will once again be on display.
Helping kick off the exhibit is SongFest! a night of musical entertainment for everyone. Scheduled to perform are Christmas Bell Ringers, The Beehive Statesmen, The Salt Lake Men’s Choir and the West Valley Symphony. The magical sights and sounds of the holidays are sure to get the whole family ready to celebrate this special time of year, and to learn about other holiday traditions from around the world.
For more information about this and other events or exhibits at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, call 801-965-5100, or visit culturalcelebration.org
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True North presented by UofU Children's Dance Theatre @ WSU (Ogden: November 5th)
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The University of Utah Children’s Dance Theatre will present True North at the Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts at Weber State University
on Friday, November 5, 2010 at 7:30 pm.
Bring your family and friends along on the epic journey of a young child as she makes her way northward across land and sea, through the realms of ancient spirits and wild animals, to True North – the home of the elusive Northern Lights.
Tickets & Information are available at 801.626.8500 or www.weberstatetickets.com .
Ticket Prices: $30 for family of 6 | $8 children 2-12 | $12 adults | $10 for senior citizens & students 13-18
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The University of Utah Children’s Dance Theatre will present True North at the Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts at Weber State University
on Friday, November 5, 2010 at 7:30 pm.
Bring your family and friends along on the epic journey of a young child as she makes her way northward across land and sea, through the realms of ancient spirits and wild animals, to True North – the home of the elusive Northern Lights.
Tickets & Information are available at 801.626.8500 or www.weberstatetickets.com
Ticket Prices: $30 for family of 6 | $8 children 2-12 | $12 adults | $10 for senior citizens & students 13-18
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Reading of "Angels in America" @ SLAC (Salt Lake City:November 3rd-December 5th)
SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY PRESENTS READING OF ‘ANGELS IN AMERICA PART TWO: PERESTROIKA’ BY TONY KUSHNER, DIRECTED BY KEVEN MYHRE.
"This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all, and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one." – Prior Walter, Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika
Following its successful run of Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches, Salt Lake Acting Company will present the conclusion of Tony Kushner’s epic as a reading. Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika directed by Keven Myhre and read by the same cast as Millennium Approaches will run November 4 – 7, 2010.
The second half of Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama follows the characters introduced in Millennium Approaches into the 1990s as they continue to struggle with the ravages of AIDS. While still exploring the themes of sexuality, love, and death from the first part, Perestroika also examines redemption and self-empowerment.
The cast includes Alexis Baigue, Alexander Bala, Colleen Baum, Lucas Bybee, Sean J.
Carter, Charles Lynn Frost, Nell Gwynn, and Christy Summerhays.
Angels in America debuted on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in 1993, with
Millennium Approaches being performed in May and Perestroika joining it in repertory
in November. Both Millennium Approaches and Perestroika were awarded the Tony
Awards for Best Play back to back in 1993 and 1994 respectively. Both parts also won
back to back Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Play.
Recommended for mature audiences.
SLAC NOTES
Tickets for the reading of ANGELS IN AMERICA PART TWO: PERESTROIKA are $16 regular, $12 for subscribers.
Season subscribers are the heart of Salt Lake Acting Company. They always pay the lowest price and can exchange their tickets as many times as they want for free.
Mini-Season ticket packages that include 4 plays are now available and range from $46-$146. Call 801.363.7522 for more info and details on subscriptions.
Tickets available at 801-363-SLAC (7522), at www.saltlakeactingcompany.org, or in person at 168 West 500 North, Salt Lake City, Utah 84103
FACT SHEET
SLAC READING ANGELS IN AMERICA: PERESTROIKA
PLAYWRIGHT Tony Kushner
DIRECTOR Keven Myhre
CAST Alexis Baigue, Alexander Bala, Colleen Baum, Lucas Bybee, Sean J. Carter, Charles Lynn Frost, Nell Gwynn, Christy Summerhays
DATES November 4 – 7, 2010
TIME Thursday – Saturday – 7:30 p.m.
Sunday – 2:00 p.m.
ALSO PLAYING
boom by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. Directed by Robin Wilks-Dunn
With Emily Burnworth, David Fetzer, and Holly Fowers.
DATES Previews: November 3-4, 2010
Opening: November 5, 2010
Closing: December 5, 2010
TIMES Previews: Wed & Thurs- 7:30 p.m.
Regular: Wed –Sat- 7:30 p.m.
Sun- 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
Nov. 2nd @ 7 pm- ZAPped Tuesday- Free performance.
Nov. 5th @ 7:30 pm – Opening night
Nov. 7th - Post Play discussion following the matinee performance
SLAC was founded in 1970 and is dedicated to producing, commissioning and developing new works and to supporting a community of professional artists. SLAC has been nationally recognized by the Shubert Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Edgerton Foundation, among others. SLAC is a Constituent Member of Theatre Communications Group, a national organization for non-profit professional regional theatres, and the National New Play Network.
"This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all, and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one." – Prior Walter, Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika
Following its successful run of Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches, Salt Lake Acting Company will present the conclusion of Tony Kushner’s epic as a reading. Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika directed by Keven Myhre and read by the same cast as Millennium Approaches will run November 4 – 7, 2010.
The second half of Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama follows the characters introduced in Millennium Approaches into the 1990s as they continue to struggle with the ravages of AIDS. While still exploring the themes of sexuality, love, and death from the first part, Perestroika also examines redemption and self-empowerment.
The cast includes Alexis Baigue, Alexander Bala, Colleen Baum, Lucas Bybee, Sean J.
Carter, Charles Lynn Frost, Nell Gwynn, and Christy Summerhays.
Angels in America debuted on Broadway
Millennium Approaches being performed in May and Perestroika joining it in repertory
in November. Both Millennium Approaches and Perestroika were awarded the Tony
Awards
back to back Drama Desk Awards
Recommended for mature audiences.
SLAC NOTES
Tickets for the reading of ANGELS IN AMERICA PART TWO: PERESTROIKA are $16 regular, $12 for subscribers.
Season subscribers are the heart of Salt Lake Acting Company. They always pay the lowest price and can exchange their tickets as many times as they want for free.
Mini-Season ticket packages that include 4 plays are now available and range from $46-$146. Call 801.363.7522 for more info and details on subscriptions.
Tickets available at 801-363-SLAC (7522), at www.saltlakeactingcompany.org, or in person at 168 West 500 North, Salt Lake City, Utah 84103
FACT SHEET
SLAC READING ANGELS IN AMERICA: PERESTROIKA
PLAYWRIGHT Tony Kushner
DIRECTOR Keven Myhre
CAST Alexis Baigue, Alexander Bala, Colleen Baum, Lucas Bybee, Sean J. Carter, Charles Lynn Frost, Nell Gwynn, Christy Summerhays
DATES November 4 – 7, 2010
TIME Thursday – Saturday – 7:30 p.m.
Sunday – 2:00 p.m.
ALSO PLAYING
boom by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. Directed by Robin Wilks-Dunn
With Emily Burnworth, David Fetzer, and Holly Fowers.
DATES Previews: November 3-4, 2010
Opening: November 5, 2010
Closing: December 5, 2010
TIMES Previews: Wed & Thurs- 7:30 p.m.
Regular: Wed –Sat- 7:30 p.m.
Sun- 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
Nov. 2nd @ 7 pm- ZAPped Tuesday- Free performance.
Nov. 5th @ 7:30 pm – Opening night
Nov. 7th - Post Play discussion following the matinee performance
SLAC was founded in 1970 and is dedicated to producing, commissioning and developing new works and to supporting a community of professional artists. SLAC has been nationally recognized by the Shubert Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Edgerton Foundation, among others. SLAC is a Constituent Member of Theatre Communications Group, a national organization for non-profit professional regional theatres, and the National New Play Network.
Exhibit of Original Fine Art @ Utah Arts Alliance Gallery (Salt Lake City: November 2-27)
Utah Arts Alliance Announces an Exhibit of Original Fine Art:
Third Annual Salt Lake City School District Secondary Education Art
Teachers Exhibit
November 2 ? November 27, 2010.
Opening Reception: Friday November 5th, 6 ? 9 p.m.
Public Reception: Friday November 19th, 6 ? 9 p.m.
Location: 127 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through 12 noon to 8 p.m.
The Utah Arts Alliance is pleased to announce the Third Annual Salt
Lake City School District Secondary Education Art Teachers Exhibit.
Participating will be teachers from Salt Lake School District schools:
East High; Highland High; West High; Clayton Middle School; Glendale
Middle School; Northwest Middle School; and Hillside Middle School.
All of the teachers have art degrees and hold certified teaching
certificates. A few are teachers who have taught only a few years,
most have taught 20-30 years. They are all versed in many media, and
many are somewhat specialized due to the media they teach, such as:
ceramics, photography, painting, drawing and crafts (weaving, beading,
basket making, bookmaking).
Please join us in honoring these creative education professionals.
Third Annual Salt Lake City School District Secondary Education Art
Teachers Exhibit
November 2 ? November 27, 2010.
Opening Reception: Friday November 5th, 6 ? 9 p.m.
Public Reception: Friday November 19th, 6 ? 9 p.m.
Location: 127 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through 12 noon to 8 p.m.
The Utah Arts Alliance is pleased to announce the Third Annual Salt
Lake City School District Secondary Education Art Teachers Exhibit.
Participating will be teachers from Salt Lake School District schools:
East High; Highland High; West High; Clayton Middle School; Glendale
Middle School; Northwest Middle School; and Hillside Middle School.
All of the teachers have art degrees and hold certified teaching
certificates. A few are teachers who have taught only a few years,
most have taught 20-30 years. They are all versed in many media, and
many are somewhat specialized due to the media they teach, such as:
ceramics, photography, painting, drawing and crafts (weaving, beading,
basket making, bookmaking).
Please join us in honoring these creative education professionals.
Day of the Dead Celebration & Exhibit @ UCCC (WVC: Nov 1 - 4)
Una Mano Amiga and The Utah Cultural Celebration Center present the seventh annual Day of the Dead altar display and community gathering, an exhibit and event recognizing this significant and expressive Mexican holiday. The free celebration features a variety of exciting,
educational, and hands-on activities for the whole family.
Day of the Dead altar display:
November 1 – November 4, 2010
Monday 6 p.m.
Tuesday – Thursday 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Day of the Dead community celebration:
Monday, November 1, 2010
6 – 9 p.m.
Everyone is invited to see the altar and attend the opening reception and celebration free of charge
The Day of the Dead is actually a two-day Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1 and 2. For two days and nights families and friends gather together with other community members to pay respects to and remember the dead. Altars are constructed at gravesites or in homes with food, beverages and other items once owned or appreciated by the deceased. It is believed that for these two nights – one for children; the other for adults – the spirits of the dead return to be with family and friends. The more elaborate the altar, the more likely the dead will return to be with loved ones once again. Objects representing the person in real life are used to entice the spirit to travel great lengths to return to earth, if only for one night. Day of the Dead bread, flowers, water, mirrors, sugar skulls, candles, skeletons and Catholic iconography are traditional items used as part of Day of the Dead altars. The rituals and altar construction date back to the ancient Aztecs, ancestors to Mexicans.
On November 1, the community altar will be on display at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, along with many activities and events, including traditional Mexican food, music, dance ceremonies, games and paper flower making/sugar skull decorating for kids. Bring the whole family to experience this one-of-a-kind celebration of Mexican heritage and culture here in Utah.
For more information about this exhibit or event, or other happenings at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, please call Michael Christensen at 801-965-5108.
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Michael Christensen, Folklorist/Cultural Specialist
West Valley City | Utah Cultural Celebration Center
1355 West 3100 South
West Valley City, Utah 84119
(801) 965-5108
michael.christensen@wvc-ut.gov
www.culturalcelebration.org
educational, and hands-on activities for the whole family.
Day of the Dead altar display:
November 1 – November 4, 2010
Monday 6 p.m.
Tuesday – Thursday 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Day of the Dead community celebration:
Monday, November 1, 2010
6 – 9 p.m.
Everyone is invited to see the altar and attend the opening reception and celebration free of charge
The Day of the Dead is actually a two-day Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1 and 2. For two days and nights families and friends gather together with other community members to pay respects to and remember the dead. Altars are constructed at gravesites or in homes with food, beverages and other items once owned or appreciated by the deceased. It is believed that for these two nights – one for children; the other for adults – the spirits of the dead return to be with family and friends. The more elaborate the altar, the more likely the dead will return to be with loved ones once again. Objects representing the person in real life are used to entice the spirit to travel great lengths to return to earth, if only for one night. Day of the Dead bread, flowers, water, mirrors, sugar skulls, candles, skeletons and Catholic iconography are traditional items used as part of Day of the Dead altars. The rituals and altar construction date back to the ancient Aztecs, ancestors to Mexicans.
On November 1, the community altar will be on display at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, along with many activities and events, including traditional Mexican food, music, dance ceremonies, games and paper flower making/sugar skull decorating for kids. Bring the whole family to experience this one-of-a-kind celebration of Mexican heritage and culture here in Utah.
For more information about this exhibit or event, or other happenings at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, please call Michael Christensen at 801-965-5108.
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Michael Christensen, Folklorist/Cultural Specialist
West Valley City | Utah Cultural Celebration Center
1355 West 3100 South
West Valley City, Utah 84119
(801) 965-5108
michael.christensen@wvc-ut.gov
www.culturalcelebration.org
Jazz Band Concert @ SUU (Cedar City: November 9)
FOR CALENDAR EDITORS: JAZZ BAND CONCERT
WHAT: From a swinging update of a big band classic to a unique spin on an Oscar-winning favorite, SUU’s Jazz Band Concert is the place to be for a sizzling evening of musical entertainment. Led by Dr. Thomas Herb, the Jazz Band program includes “Sing, Sang, Sung,” an update of Benny Goodman’s “Sing, Sing, Sing,” “Goomba, Boomba,” a classic Mambo by Billy May, and a sophisticated reworking of “Beauty and the Beast” from the beloved Disney film.
WHO: Southern Utah University, College of Performing and Visual Arts, Music Department
WHEN: Tuesday, November 9, 2010
TIME: 7:30pm
WHERE: The Living Room, Sharwan Smith Center, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
TICKETS: Phone: Arts Hotline: (435) 865-8800 or visit: www.suu.edu/arts
PRICES: Free and the General Public is encouraged to attend.
KICK BACK, RELAX AND GROOVE
TO SUU’S JAZZ BAND CONCERT
“WHERE MUSIC SIZZLES!”
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2010
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah: From a modern swinging update of a big band classic to a unique spin on an Academy Award-winning favorite, SUU’s Jazz Band Concert is the place to be for a sizzling evening of musical entertainment. The Music Department of Southern Utah University’s College of Performing and Visual Arts invites all to kick back and enjoy the sounds on Tuesday, November 9, 2010, in the Living Room at SUU’s Sharwan Smith Center. The music commences at 7:30pm and the concert is free and open to the public.
Under the direction of Dr. Thomas Herb, the SUU Jazz Band performs a scintillating program that includes “Sing, Sang, Sung,” Gordon Goodwin’s incredible update of Benny Goodman’s “Sing, Sing, Sing.” The evening also features “Goomba, Boomba,” a classic Mambo by Billy May, the Afro-Cuban styled “The Dance of Denial” by Michael Philip Mossman, and Gordon Goodwin’s sophisticated reworking of “Beauty and the Beast” from the beloved Disney classic film. Additional highlights are evocative versions of “Brass Roots,” “I’ve Never Been in Love Before,” and “Roll ‘Em.” The program is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser and not to be missed.
To enhance the enjoyment of the Jazz Band Concert, the campus Starbucks, immediately adjacent to the Living Room, will be open for the performance beginning at 7pm. To accompany the sizzling sounds of jazz, hot beverages and select sweets will be available for purchase. Tasty non-coffee products including Caramel Apple Cider, Streamers (steamed milk and flavoring of choice), and Vanilla or Strawberry Happuccinos are on the menu for the concert.
For an evening of great music, plan on attending the Jazz Band Concert. For more information on the SUU College of Performing and Visual Arts events, please call the Arts Hotline at (435) 865-8800, or visit www.suu.edu/arts.
ABOUT THE COLLEGE
The Southern Utah University College of Performing and Visual Arts is comprised of nationally accredited departments of Art and Design, Music, Theatre Arts and Dance, as well as a graduate program in Arts Administration. The College offers 16 different degree areas, including liberal arts Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees; professional Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Fine Arts in art and theatre degrees; and a Master of Fine Arts in Arts Administration degree. More than 60 full- and part-time faculty and staff are engaged in teaching and mentoring over 550 majors in the College. Over 1100 students enroll each year in over 195 arts classes on the SUU campus. The College presents 100 performances, lectures, presentations, and exhibitions each year. The College’s affiliate organizations include the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, American Folk Ballet, Utah Shakespearean Festival, the performance group Acclamation, and the SUU Ballroom Dance Company. For more information about the College of Performing and Visual Arts, contact the Office of the Dean (435) 865-8561, or by e-mail at cpvamktg@suu.edu.
WHAT: From a swinging update of a big band classic to a unique spin on an Oscar-winning favorite, SUU’s Jazz Band Concert is the place to be for a sizzling evening of musical entertainment. Led by Dr. Thomas Herb, the Jazz Band program includes “Sing, Sang, Sung,” an update of Benny Goodman’s “Sing, Sing, Sing,” “Goomba, Boomba,” a classic Mambo by Billy May, and a sophisticated reworking of “Beauty and the Beast” from the beloved Disney film.
WHO: Southern Utah University, College of Performing and Visual Arts, Music Department
WHEN: Tuesday, November 9, 2010
TIME: 7:30pm
WHERE: The Living Room, Sharwan Smith Center, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
TICKETS: Phone: Arts Hotline: (435) 865-8800 or visit: www.suu.edu/arts
PRICES: Free and the General Public is encouraged to attend.
KICK BACK, RELAX AND GROOVE
TO SUU’S JAZZ BAND CONCERT
“WHERE MUSIC SIZZLES!”
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2010
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah: From a modern swinging update of a big band classic to a unique spin on an Academy Award-winning favorite, SUU’s Jazz Band Concert is the place to be for a sizzling evening of musical entertainment. The Music Department of Southern Utah University’s College of Performing and Visual Arts invites all to kick back and enjoy the sounds on Tuesday, November 9, 2010, in the Living Room at SUU’s Sharwan Smith Center. The music commences at 7:30pm and the concert is free and open to the public.
Under the direction of Dr. Thomas Herb, the SUU Jazz Band performs a scintillating program that includes “Sing, Sang, Sung,” Gordon Goodwin’s incredible update of Benny Goodman’s “Sing, Sing, Sing.” The evening also features “Goomba, Boomba,” a classic Mambo by Billy May, the Afro-Cuban styled “The Dance of Denial” by Michael Philip Mossman, and Gordon Goodwin’s sophisticated reworking of “Beauty and the Beast” from the beloved Disney classic film. Additional highlights are evocative versions of “Brass Roots,” “I’ve Never Been in Love Before,” and “Roll ‘Em.” The program is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser and not to be missed.
To enhance the enjoyment of the Jazz Band Concert, the campus Starbucks, immediately adjacent to the Living Room, will be open for the performance beginning at 7pm. To accompany the sizzling sounds of jazz, hot beverages and select sweets will be available for purchase. Tasty non-coffee products including Caramel Apple Cider, Streamers (steamed milk and flavoring of choice), and Vanilla or Strawberry Happuccinos are on the menu for the concert.
For an evening of great music, plan on attending the Jazz Band Concert. For more information on the SUU College of Performing and Visual Arts events, please call the Arts Hotline at (435) 865-8800, or visit www.suu.edu/arts.
ABOUT THE COLLEGE
The Southern Utah University College of Performing and Visual Arts is comprised of nationally accredited departments of Art and Design, Music, Theatre Arts and Dance, as well as a graduate program in Arts Administration. The College offers 16 different degree areas, including liberal arts Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees; professional Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Fine Arts in art and theatre degrees; and a Master of Fine Arts in Arts Administration degree. More than 60 full- and part-time faculty and staff are engaged in teaching and mentoring over 550 majors in the College. Over 1100 students enroll each year in over 195 arts classes on the SUU campus. The College presents 100 performances, lectures, presentations, and exhibitions each year. The College’s affiliate organizations include the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, American Folk Ballet, Utah Shakespearean Festival, the performance group Acclamation, and the SUU Ballroom Dance Company. For more information about the College of Performing and Visual Arts, contact the Office of the Dean (435) 865-8561, or by e-mail at cpvamktg@suu.edu.
Art Insights w/ DR. Wenjuan Wang and Dr. Linfei @ SUU (Cedar City:November 4)
FOR CALENDAR EDITORS: ART INSIGHTS, DR. WENJUAN WANG and DR. LINFEI MA
WHAT: A unique exploration of brushstrokes used in Chinese and Western painting is the subject of SUU’s Department of Art and Design’s weekly lecture series, Art Insights. The lecture compares the theory and practice of the space representation between China and Western brushwork and analyses the difference between Chinese traditional brushwork and Western modern brushwork.
WHO: Art Insights
Southern Utah University, Department of Art and Design
WHEN: Thursday, November 4, 2010
TIME: 7:00pm
WHERE: Centrum Arena, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
TICKETS: Phone: Arts Hotline: (435) 865-8800 or visit: www.suu.edu/arts
PRICES: Free and the General Public is encouraged to attend.
SUU’S ART INSIGHTS
EXPLORES THE BRUSHWORK
OF CHINESE AND WESTERN PAINTING
WITH DR. WEJUAN WANG AND DR. LINFEI MA
NOVEMBER 4, 2010
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah: A unique exploration of brushstrokes used in Chinese and Western painting is the subject of SUU’s Department of Art and Design’s weekly lecture series, Art Insights, on Thursday, November 4, 2010. Dr. Wenjuan Wang and Dr. Linfei Ma are the guest lecturers. Their presentation begins at 7pm at SUU’s Centrum Arena. Admission is free and the general public is encouraged to attend.
The focus of the presentation is brushwork and its unique trademarks that the artist understands as it holds the existing of the “space matter.” The lecture compares the theory and practice of the space representation between China and Western brushwork and analyses the difference between Chinese traditional brushwork and Western modern brushwork.
Shauna Mendini, Interim Dean, College of Performing and Visual Arts, announced “this Art Insights lecture marks the third cultural collaboration between Renmin University in China and Southern Utah University’s College of Performing and Visual Arts. We value this unique partnership with Renmin which is the second largest university in Beijing, China. It is an honor to have the members of its talented and learned staff share their insights and knowledge with our students here at SUU.”
Author and teacher Dr. Wenjuan Wang currently is an Associate Professor and Instructor of Graduate Studies at the Xu Beihong Institute of Arts, Renmin University of China, and teaches Philosophy of Arts; Research of Arts; Chinese and Foreign Art (the Fine Arts) Appreciation. Dr. Linfei Ma is a Professor of Art at Renmin University in China.
Experience a unique comparative overview of Chinese and Western brush strokes by attending a very special Art Insights with Dr. Wenjuan Wang and Dr. Linfei Ma. For more information on the SUU College of Performing and Visual Arts events, please call the Arts Hotline at (435) 865-8800, or visit www.suu.edu/arts.
ABOUT THE COLLEGE
The Southern Utah University College of Performing and Visual Arts is comprised of nationally accredited departments of Art and Design, Music, Theatre Arts and Dance, as well as a graduate program in Arts Administration. The College offers 16 different degree areas, including liberal arts Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees; professional Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Fine Arts in art and theatre degrees; and a Master of Fine Arts in Arts Administration degree. More than 60 full- and part-time faculty and staff are engaged in teaching and mentoring over 550 majors in the College. Over 1100 students enroll each year in over 195 arts classes on the SUU campus. The College presents 100 performances, lectures, presentations, and exhibitions each year. The College’s affiliate organizations include the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, American Folk Ballet, Utah Shakespearean Festival, the performance group Acclamation, and the SUU Ballroom Dance Company. For more information about the College of Performing and Visual Arts, contact the Office of the Dean at (435) 865-8561, or by e-mail at cpvamktg@suu.edu .
WHAT: A unique exploration of brushstrokes used in Chinese and Western painting is the subject of SUU’s Department of Art and Design’s weekly lecture series, Art Insights. The lecture compares the theory and practice of the space representation between China and Western brushwork and analyses the difference between Chinese traditional brushwork and Western modern brushwork.
WHO: Art Insights
Southern Utah University, Department of Art and Design
WHEN: Thursday, November 4, 2010
TIME: 7:00pm
WHERE: Centrum Arena, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
TICKETS: Phone: Arts Hotline: (435) 865-8800 or visit: www.suu.edu/arts
PRICES: Free and the General Public is encouraged to attend.
SUU’S ART INSIGHTS
EXPLORES THE BRUSHWORK
OF CHINESE AND WESTERN PAINTING
WITH DR. WEJUAN WANG AND DR. LINFEI MA
NOVEMBER 4, 2010
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah: A unique exploration of brushstrokes used in Chinese and Western painting is the subject of SUU’s Department of Art and Design’s weekly lecture series, Art Insights, on Thursday, November 4, 2010. Dr. Wenjuan Wang and Dr. Linfei Ma are the guest lecturers. Their presentation begins at 7pm at SUU’s Centrum Arena. Admission is free and the general public is encouraged to attend.
The focus of the presentation is brushwork and its unique trademarks that the artist understands as it holds the existing of the “space matter.” The lecture compares the theory and practice of the space representation between China and Western brushwork and analyses the difference between Chinese traditional brushwork and Western modern brushwork.
Shauna Mendini, Interim Dean, College of Performing and Visual Arts, announced “this Art Insights lecture marks the third cultural collaboration between Renmin University in China and Southern Utah University’s College of Performing and Visual Arts. We value this unique partnership with Renmin which is the second largest university in Beijing, China. It is an honor to have the members of its talented and learned staff share their insights and knowledge with our students here at SUU.”
Author and teacher Dr. Wenjuan Wang currently is an Associate Professor and Instructor of Graduate Studies at the Xu Beihong Institute of Arts, Renmin University of China, and teaches Philosophy of Arts; Research of Arts; Chinese and Foreign Art (the Fine Arts) Appreciation. Dr. Linfei Ma is a Professor of Art at Renmin University in China.
Experience a unique comparative overview of Chinese and Western brush strokes by attending a very special Art Insights with Dr. Wenjuan Wang and Dr. Linfei Ma. For more information on the SUU College of Performing and Visual Arts events, please call the Arts Hotline at (435) 865-8800, or visit www.suu.edu/arts.
ABOUT THE COLLEGE
The Southern Utah University College of Performing and Visual Arts is comprised of nationally accredited departments of Art and Design, Music, Theatre Arts and Dance, as well as a graduate program in Arts Administration. The College offers 16 different degree areas, including liberal arts Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees; professional Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Fine Arts in art and theatre degrees; and a Master of Fine Arts in Arts Administration degree. More than 60 full- and part-time faculty and staff are engaged in teaching and mentoring over 550 majors in the College. Over 1100 students enroll each year in over 195 arts classes on the SUU campus. The College presents 100 performances, lectures, presentations, and exhibitions each year. The College’s affiliate organizations include the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, American Folk Ballet, Utah Shakespearean Festival, the performance group Acclamation, and the SUU Ballroom Dance Company. For more information about the College of Performing and Visual Arts, contact the Office of the Dean at (435) 865-8561, or by e-mail at cpvamktg@suu.edu
Babcock Performing Readers Celebrates 30th Anniversary @ Olpin Union building Little Theatre (Salt Lake City: November 11)
Babcock Readers Celebrate
Directed By Joyce Skidmore
Babcock Performing Readers celebrates its 30th Anniversary, November
11, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. in the Olpin Union Building Little Theatre 200
S Central Campus Drive.
Wear something purple!
Named for Maud May Babcock who founded the University of Utah Theatre
and Speech Departments as well as the Physical Education Department,
the organization has kept her techniques alive for 30 years. This
performance will reprise many highlights from BPR history. It's free
to the public with free parking and refreshments.
Richard C. Russell
lderlore@xmission.com
Directed By Joyce Skidmore
Babcock Performing Readers celebrates its 30th Anniversary, November
11, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. in the Olpin Union Building Little Theatre 200
S Central Campus Drive.
Wear something purple!
Named for Maud May Babcock who founded the University of Utah Theatre
and Speech Departments as well as the Physical Education Department,
the organization has kept her techniques alive for 30 years. This
performance will reprise many highlights from BPR history. It's free
to the public with free parking and refreshments.
Richard C. Russell
lderlore@xmission.com
Special Screening of HBO's documentary @ The City Library (Salt Lake City: November 3)
HBO and SLC FILM CENTER PRESENT A SPECIAL SCREENING OF HBO’S DOCUMENTARY
WARTORN: 1861-2010
EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY JAMES GANDOLFINI, FILM EXPLORES COMBAT AND POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS
Where: The City Library, 210 S. 400 E., Salt Lake City
When: November 3
Film at 7:00 pm
Discussion at 8:00 pm featuring local experts in the field of PTSD
Tickets: The screening is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to
https://www.homeboxoffice.com/rsvp/wartornSLC
Visit www.slcfilmcenter.org or call 801-746-7000 for more info.
WARTORN: 1861-2010
Civil War doctors called it hysteria, melancholia and insanity. During the First World War it was known as shell-shock. By World War II, it became combat fatigue. Today, it is clinically known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a crippling anxiety that results from exposure to life-threatening situations such as combat.
With suicide rates among active military servicemen and veterans currently on the rise, the HBO special WARTORN 1861-2010 brings urgent attention to the invisible wounds of war. Drawing on personal stories of American soldiers whose lives and psyches were torn asunder by the horrors of battle and PTSD, the documentary chronicles the lingering effects of combat stress and post-traumatic stress on military personnel and their families throughout American history, from the Civil War through today’s conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Executive produced by James Gandolfini (HBO’s “Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq”), WARTORN 1861-2010 is directed by Jon Alpert and Ellen Goosenberg Kent and produced by Alpert, Goosenberg Kent and Matthew O’Neill, the award-winning producers behind the HBO documentary “Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq.” Alpert and O’Neill also produced and directed the HBO documentaries “Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery” and the Emmy®-winning “Baghdad ER.” The documentary is co-produced by Lori Shinseki.
The HBO Documentary Films presentation debuts on Veterans Day, THURSDAY, NOV. 11 (9:00-10:15 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.
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For more information contact Levi Elder at lelder@slcfilimcenter.org or 801.746.7000.
WARTORN: 1861-2010
EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY JAMES GANDOLFINI, FILM EXPLORES COMBAT AND POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS
Where: The City Library, 210 S. 400 E., Salt Lake City
When: November 3
Film at 7:00 pm
Discussion at 8:00 pm featuring local experts in the field of PTSD
Tickets: The screening is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to
https://www.homeboxoffice.com/rsvp/wartornSLC
Visit www.slcfilmcenter.org or call 801-746-7000 for more info.
WARTORN: 1861-2010
Civil War doctors called it hysteria, melancholia and insanity. During the First World War it was known as shell-shock. By World War II, it became combat fatigue. Today, it is clinically known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a crippling anxiety that results from exposure to life-threatening situations such as combat.
With suicide rates among active military servicemen and veterans currently on the rise, the HBO special WARTORN 1861-2010 brings urgent attention to the invisible wounds of war. Drawing on personal stories of American soldiers whose lives and psyches were torn asunder by the horrors of battle and PTSD, the documentary chronicles the lingering effects of combat stress and post-traumatic stress on military personnel and their families throughout American history, from the Civil War through today’s conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Executive produced by James Gandolfini (HBO’s “Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq”), WARTORN 1861-2010 is directed by Jon Alpert and Ellen Goosenberg Kent and produced by Alpert, Goosenberg Kent and Matthew O’Neill, the award-winning producers behind the HBO documentary “Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq.” Alpert and O’Neill also produced and directed the HBO documentaries “Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery” and the Emmy®-winning “Baghdad ER.” The documentary is co-produced by Lori Shinseki.
The HBO Documentary Films presentation debuts on Veterans Day, THURSDAY, NOV. 11 (9:00-10:15 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.
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For more information contact Levi Elder at lelder@slcfilimcenter.org or 801.746.7000.
Imagine That @ Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (Salt Lake City: November 19-20)
DT Announces Imagine That
November 19 & 20 2010 - 7:30pm
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
Jeanné Wagner Theatre - 138 W Broadway
Imagine That | November 19 & 20, 2010 | 7:30 pm
November 19 & 20 2010 - 7:30pm
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
Jeanné Wagner Theatre - 138 W Broadway
Imagine That | November 19 & 20, 2010 | 7:30 pm
The 5 Browns @ Kingsbury Hall (Salt Lake City: November 13)
The 5 Browns, America’s ‘Fab Five’ Piano Virtuosos, to Perform at Kingsbury Hall
October 25, 2010: The 5 Browns – Ryan, Melody, Gregory, Deondra and Desirae – will make a stop on their 2010 concert tour in their home state, performing at Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus on Saturday, November 13 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $19.50, $24.50, $29.50 and $39.50 and are available at www.kingtix.com or by calling 801-581-7100.
Whether performing individually or together in various combinations from duo to complex five-piano arrangements, The 5 Browns reveal the sublime virtuosity that propelled these brothers and sisters to the top of the nation's classical music charts. In the spring of 2010, their new CD The 5 Browns… In Hollywood, was released on the E1 Music label. They are also featured in a new PBS TV special, The 5 Browns In Concert that is airing on PBS stations throughout the country. Upcoming career highlights include the premiere of a new work for five pianos and orchestra composed by Nico Muhly. The 5 Browns will premiere the work in summer 2011 at the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Conlon.
In addition to touring, The 5 Browns are published writers. Their book, Life Between the Keys, was published by Phoenix Books in March 2009.
The children of Utah natives Keith and Lisa Brown, each sibling at around age 3 showed a clear talent and interest in piano lessons, and while the children were introduced to other instruments, their passion was the piano. Playing came as naturally to them as eating or sleeping and as early as age 9 they had each made their debut with a major symphony orchestra – a major pay-off for the hours of practice and dedication the entire family had devoted. They became the first family of five siblings ever to simultaneously attend New York’s Julliard School.
Watch a clip of The 5 Browns performing on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sat1M8YQZz0
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Contact/Interview Requests:
Sheri Jardine
Kingsbury Hall Public Relations
801-585-1556
sheri.jardine@kingsbury.utah.edu
October 25, 2010: The 5 Browns – Ryan, Melody, Gregory, Deondra and Desirae – will make a stop on their 2010 concert tour in their home state, performing at Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus on Saturday, November 13 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $19.50, $24.50, $29.50 and $39.50 and are available at www.kingtix.com or by calling 801-581-7100.
Whether performing individually or together in various combinations from duo to complex five-piano arrangements, The 5 Browns reveal the sublime virtuosity that propelled these brothers and sisters to the top of the nation's classical music charts. In the spring of 2010, their new CD The 5 Browns… In Hollywood, was released on the E1 Music label. They are also featured in a new PBS TV special, The 5 Browns In Concert that is airing on PBS stations throughout the country. Upcoming career highlights include the premiere of a new work for five pianos and orchestra composed by Nico Muhly. The 5 Browns will premiere the work in summer 2011 at the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Conlon.
In addition to touring, The 5 Browns are published writers. Their book, Life Between the Keys, was published by Phoenix Books in March 2009.
The children of Utah natives Keith and Lisa Brown, each sibling at around age 3 showed a clear talent and interest in piano lessons, and while the children were introduced to other instruments, their passion was the piano. Playing came as naturally to them as eating or sleeping and as early as age 9 they had each made their debut with a major symphony orchestra – a major pay-off for the hours of practice and dedication the entire family had devoted. They became the first family of five siblings ever to simultaneously attend New York’s Julliard School.
Watch a clip of The 5 Browns performing on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sat1M8YQZz0
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Contact/Interview Requests:
Sheri Jardine
Kingsbury Hall Public Relations
801-585-1556
sheri.jardine@kingsbury.utah.edu
Abba Mania @ Kingsbury Hall (Salt Lake City: November 11)
ABBA MANIA Brings Original Abba Tribute Show to Kingsbury Hall
October 25, 2010: If you’re looking for an excuse to party, reminisce, dress in your best 70s discowear or simply be entertained by the best music there has ever been, don’t miss the world’s number one touring Abba tribute concert in its one-night-only stop in Salt Lake City. ABBA MANIA will perform at Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus on Thursday, November 11 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $29.50 and are available by calling 801-581-7100 or visiting www.kingtix.com.
Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anna Frida, collectively known as Abba, dominated the charts for nearly ten years and enjoyed nine UK number one singles. At their height they became Sweden’s highest export earners, amazingly, outselling Volvo cars. Sadly, in the early eighties, they decided to go their separate ways, but their music lives on. ‘Abba Gold’ was continuously in the Album Charts throughout the nineties and is one of the top-selling albums ever.
Abba Mania formed in 1999 and the show has been selling out theatres and concert halls internationally ever since. This show has toured the world in its quest to bring the music of the Swedish supergroup to their millions of fans, old and new! Abba’s timeless songs were written to be enjoyed live and Abba Mania gives audiences exactly that – two hours of uplifting, dance inducing and sometimes heart-breaking songs, fully live with fantastic staging, lighting and effects.
Abba Mania is not only for lifelong, die-hard Abba fans but the new generation of fans, who never had the opportunity to see Abba live. Hit after hit include ‘Dancing Queen’, ‘Waterloo’, ‘Mamma Mia’, ‘The Winner Takes it All’, ‘Super Trouper’, ‘Fernando’, ‘Take A Chance On Me’ and many more that continue to fill dancefloors worldwide.
Watch a clip of the performance on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76M9Znc3rSc
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Contact/Interview Requests:
Sheri Jardine
Kingsbury Hall Public Relations
801-585-1556
sheri.jardine@kingsbury.utah.edu
October 25, 2010: If you’re looking for an excuse to party, reminisce, dress in your best 70s discowear or simply be entertained by the best music there has ever been, don’t miss the world’s number one touring Abba tribute concert in its one-night-only stop in Salt Lake City. ABBA MANIA will perform at Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus on Thursday, November 11 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $29.50 and are available by calling 801-581-7100 or visiting www.kingtix.com.
Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anna Frida, collectively known as Abba, dominated the charts for nearly ten years and enjoyed nine UK number one singles. At their height they became Sweden’s highest export earners, amazingly, outselling Volvo cars. Sadly, in the early eighties, they decided to go their separate ways, but their music lives on. ‘Abba Gold’ was continuously in the Album Charts throughout the nineties and is one of the top-selling albums ever.
Abba Mania formed in 1999 and the show has been selling out theatres and concert halls internationally ever since. This show has toured the world in its quest to bring the music of the Swedish supergroup to their millions of fans, old and new! Abba’s timeless songs were written to be enjoyed live and Abba Mania gives audiences exactly that – two hours of uplifting, dance inducing and sometimes heart-breaking songs, fully live with fantastic staging, lighting and effects.
Abba Mania is not only for lifelong, die-hard Abba fans but the new generation of fans, who never had the opportunity to see Abba live. Hit after hit include ‘Dancing Queen’, ‘Waterloo’, ‘Mamma Mia’, ‘The Winner Takes it All’, ‘Super Trouper’, ‘Fernando’, ‘Take A Chance On Me’ and many more that continue to fill dancefloors worldwide.
Watch a clip of the performance on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76M9Znc3rSc
# # #
Contact/Interview Requests:
Sheri Jardine
Kingsbury Hall Public Relations
801-585-1556
sheri.jardine@kingsbury.utah.edu
Beyond the Literal Exhibit @ St. George Art Museum (St. George: Oct 30 - Jan 8, 2011)

www.sgartmuseum.org
47 East 200 North, St. George, Utah 84770
Phone: 435.627.4525
Hours: Monday-Saturday 10-5
3rd Thursdays 10-9pm with Art Conversations at 7pm
November 18th & December 16th
Nominal Admission Fees
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE USE
For Information Contact: Deborah Reeder
New Exhibits:
October 30, 2010 – January 8, 2011
Main Gallery & Mezzanine Galleries
Beyond the Literal: Lynn Berryhill, Noel Logan, Pearl Meadows, Anne Weiler-Brown
Legacy Gallery
Land Beyond Literal: Royden Card
Beyond the Literal…..Land Beyond Literal
Beginning with Ancient Greece, the history of Western painting has been centered primarily on the naturalistic “window onto another world” concept, though in reality it is but a flat surface. Abstract and then non-representational art with no recognizable subject matter has been part of the art lexicon and topography for over a century. Abstract art has its beginnings in the now beloved Impressionist movement with its unfocused views of non political, non religious subject matter centered on just life. Indeed Claude Monet’s late paintings, in the Tuileries in Paris and MOMA in New York, are large, magnificently abstract masterpieces of his adored water lilies.
This type of art came about in order to probe beyond and behind the superficial, rather than appearances. A common saying, “beauty is only skin deep,” referents a belief that it is what lies within, that matters, not what you see or what is on the surface. Artists sought and still seek to render this complex inner life of nature and humanity. Likewise, artists celebrated the two dimensional flat surface of the canvas or other flat material, which indeed it is. The movement titled the German Bauhaus, responsible for the elegant glass cubed sky scraper architecture of Mies Van Der Rohe along with other artists’, motto of “Form Follows Function” means that the function of an object should dictate the design, so that what is depicted on a flat canvas should reflect that.
There are as many approaches, styles, and media as there are artists, just as there is with representational or naturalistic painting. The St. George Art Museum is focusing on abstract art not only to showcase several fine local artists working in this genre, but also to help viewers understand this art better.
Deborah Reeder will present an Art Conversation on this early history. Additionally Royden Card will discuss his exhibit, Land Beyond Literal, all on December 16th at 7pm at the St. George Art Museum.
This exhibit is additionally a historic collaboration with the Dixie State College Sears Art Museum Gallery exhibit on the same theme, A Panel of Women Present: Music for Your Eyes. The artists are Sunny Belliston Taylor, Aimee Bonham, Alisha Celeste Tolman, Cathie McCormick, and LuAnn Williams. A panel discussion with them at the Sears Gallery will take place on January 7, 2011 at 7pm.
The St. George Art Museum’s Beyond the Literal features Lynn Berryhill, W. Noel Logan, Pearl Meadows, and Anne Weiler-Brown in the Main and Mezzanine Galleries.
Lynn Berryhill is a well known non-representational painter, who was a long time resident of Springdale, now residing in Tooele, UT. Her resume features a long list of exhibits, and gallery representation all over the West, work in collections, including the collection of the St. George Art Museum. As well, she is an experienced and sought after teacher around the globe in the area of personal creativity and growth. Her work probes the arena of dreams and interior states with rich saturated colors in varying paint thicknesses. They are moving, trancelike, vibrant, focused, visual poems.
W. Noel Logan of Toquerville, UT is the sole sculptor of the four artists. With an exceptional education that includes degrees not only in art, but archaeology and art history, he brings much experience to his unique metal sculptures that are forged in the shaving, smoke and process of creation. His aim is to explore the elements of pure design and space itself. Line, design, and metal materials join to encounter and engage the empty space.
Pearl Meadows, a resident of Springdale, UT, has a favorite quote by Marc Chagall, “Great art picks up where nature ends.” Pearl’s art often explores a single hue on a canvas through geometric brushstrokes, sometimes small, sometimes larger, less often with circular forms. After a decade of working in photography, she began to paint in 2004. In 2008 she also began to work in metals. Her paintings conjure up or allude to natural forms but reduce them to a refined essence of the inspiration. Her coloristic mastery creates depth.
Anne Weiler-Brown describes herself as an abstract expressionist artist. Her paintings are richly textured with palpable shapes that evoke the landscape next to where she lives on the Virgin River in Rockville. In addition to her painting, Anne has an impressive history of fundraising, organizing, and coordinating for organizations. An avid animal lover, her raw deep sculptural canvases take us into a primordial natural space.
An Art Conversation with these artists will take place on November 18th at 7pm at the St. George Art Museum.
The Legacy Gallery features, Land Beyond Literal, with paintings by Royden Card of Virgin, UT. His best known work consists of recognizable landscape forms remade and recreated into a new abstracted land of vibrant color. Though Card is less well known for his fine series of woodcuts of Zion National Park, in addition to a sequence of paintings that explore architectural doorways with raking angles in rich colors, they are both impressive series of paintings.
All of these artists are multi-talented individuals. While their work is abstract and/or non-representational, their art is a kaleidoscope of color and design evocative of the unseen, an extremely important part of our world.
www.sgartmuseum.org
47 East 200 North, St. George, Utah 84770
Phone: 435.627.4525
Hours: Monday-Saturday 10-5
3rd Thursdays 10-9pm with Art Conversations at 7pm
November 18th & December 16th
Nominal Admission Fees
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE USE
For Information Contact: Deborah Reeder
New Exhibits:
October 30, 2010 – January 8, 2011
Main Gallery & Mezzanine Galleries
Beyond the Literal: Lynn Berryhill, Noel Logan, Pearl Meadows, Anne Weiler-Brown
Legacy Gallery
Land Beyond Literal: Royden Card
Beyond the Literal…..Land Beyond Literal
Beginning with Ancient Greece, the history of Western painting has been centered primarily on the naturalistic “window onto another world” concept, though in reality it is but a flat surface. Abstract and then non-representational art with no recognizable subject matter has been part of the art lexicon and topography for over a century. Abstract art has its beginnings in the now beloved Impressionist movement with its unfocused views of non political, non religious subject matter centered on just life. Indeed Claude Monet’s late paintings, in the Tuileries in Paris and MOMA in New York, are large, magnificently abstract masterpieces of his adored water lilies.
This type of art came about in order to probe beyond and behind the superficial, rather than appearances. A common saying, “beauty is only skin deep,” referents a belief that it is what lies within, that matters, not what you see or what is on the surface. Artists sought and still seek to render this complex inner life of nature and humanity. Likewise, artists celebrated the two dimensional flat surface of the canvas or other flat material, which indeed it is. The movement titled the German Bauhaus, responsible for the elegant glass cubed sky scraper architecture of Mies Van Der Rohe along with other artists’, motto of “Form Follows Function” means that the function of an object should dictate the design, so that what is depicted on a flat canvas should reflect that.
There are as many approaches, styles, and media as there are artists, just as there is with representational or naturalistic painting. The St. George Art Museum is focusing on abstract art not only to showcase several fine local artists working in this genre, but also to help viewers understand this art better.
Deborah Reeder will present an Art Conversation on this early history. Additionally Royden Card will discuss his exhibit, Land Beyond Literal, all on December 16th at 7pm at the St. George Art Museum.
This exhibit is additionally a historic collaboration with the Dixie State College Sears Art Museum Gallery exhibit on the same theme, A Panel of Women Present: Music for Your Eyes. The artists are Sunny Belliston Taylor, Aimee Bonham, Alisha Celeste Tolman, Cathie McCormick, and LuAnn Williams. A panel discussion with them at the Sears Gallery will take place on January 7, 2011 at 7pm.
The St. George Art Museum’s Beyond the Literal features Lynn Berryhill, W. Noel Logan, Pearl Meadows, and Anne Weiler-Brown in the Main and Mezzanine Galleries.
Lynn Berryhill is a well known non-representational painter, who was a long time resident of Springdale, now residing in Tooele, UT. Her resume features a long list of exhibits, and gallery representation all over the West, work in collections, including the collection of the St. George Art Museum. As well, she is an experienced and sought after teacher around the globe in the area of personal creativity and growth. Her work probes the arena of dreams and interior states with rich saturated colors in varying paint thicknesses. They are moving, trancelike, vibrant, focused, visual poems.
W. Noel Logan of Toquerville, UT is the sole sculptor of the four artists. With an exceptional education that includes degrees not only in art, but archaeology and art history, he brings much experience to his unique metal sculptures that are forged in the shaving, smoke and process of creation. His aim is to explore the elements of pure design and space itself. Line, design, and metal materials join to encounter and engage the empty space.
Pearl Meadows, a resident of Springdale, UT, has a favorite quote by Marc Chagall, “Great art picks up where nature ends.” Pearl’s art often explores a single hue on a canvas through geometric brushstrokes, sometimes small, sometimes larger, less often with circular forms. After a decade of working in photography, she began to paint in 2004. In 2008 she also began to work in metals. Her paintings conjure up or allude to natural forms but reduce them to a refined essence of the inspiration. Her coloristic mastery creates depth.
Anne Weiler-Brown describes herself as an abstract expressionist artist. Her paintings are richly textured with palpable shapes that evoke the landscape next to where she lives on the Virgin River in Rockville. In addition to her painting, Anne has an impressive history of fundraising, organizing, and coordinating for organizations. An avid animal lover, her raw deep sculptural canvases take us into a primordial natural space.
An Art Conversation with these artists will take place on November 18th at 7pm at the St. George Art Museum.
The Legacy Gallery features, Land Beyond Literal, with paintings by Royden Card of Virgin, UT. His best known work consists of recognizable landscape forms remade and recreated into a new abstracted land of vibrant color. Though Card is less well known for his fine series of woodcuts of Zion National Park, in addition to a sequence of paintings that explore architectural doorways with raking angles in rich colors, they are both impressive series of paintings.
All of these artists are multi-talented individuals. While their work is abstract and/or non-representational, their art is a kaleidoscope of color and design evocative of the unseen, an extremely important part of our world.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Affordable Nonprofit and Artist Space in New Green Building (SLC)
Affordable Nonprofit and Artist Space in New Green Building
For a limited time, Artspace is able to offer one month free rent to nonprofits and artists signing a year commercial lease in Artspace Commons, a new sustainable creative community at 824 South 400 West in Salt Lake City.
Artspace Commons has a range of office/studio spaces starting at $350/month for 300 square feet. Rent includes utilities. All spaces come with a utility sink and many have direct street access.
Artspace Commons is one of the greenest mixed-use projects in Utah with solar pv window awnings, solar hot water system, and many water and energy saving features. It is located along the 800 South bike path and two blocks from a TRAX stop. Secure bike storage and showers in hall restrooms encourage active lifestyles.
Artspace Commons also has 102 apartments starting at $770/month. The apartments have hardwood floors, granite countertops, washer/dryer in each unit, and balconies. The project is offering apartment leasing incentives of up to one month for a twelve month lease.
Along with obtaining beautiful space, organizations and individuals leasing in Artspace Commons will enjoy being part of an eclectic creative community. If your nonprofit is interested in viewing Artspace Commons, please call Jackie Skibine at 801.534.0231. All others should call the management office at 801.355.1344.
For a limited time, Artspace is able to offer one month free rent to nonprofits and artists signing a year commercial lease in Artspace Commons, a new sustainable creative community at 824 South 400 West in Salt Lake City.
Artspace Commons has a range of office/studio spaces starting at $350/month for 300 square feet. Rent includes utilities. All spaces come with a utility sink and many have direct street access.
Artspace Commons is one of the greenest mixed-use projects in Utah with solar pv window awnings, solar hot water system, and many water and energy saving features. It is located along the 800 South bike path and two blocks from a TRAX stop. Secure bike storage and showers in hall restrooms encourage active lifestyles.
Artspace Commons also has 102 apartments starting at $770/month. The apartments have hardwood floors, granite countertops, washer/dryer in each unit, and balconies. The project is offering apartment leasing incentives of up to one month for a twelve month lease.
Along with obtaining beautiful space, organizations and individuals leasing in Artspace Commons will enjoy being part of an eclectic creative community. If your nonprofit is interested in viewing Artspace Commons, please call Jackie Skibine at 801.534.0231. All others should call the management office at 801.355.1344.
Click it to Keep it: USF 2
Festival News
Scene clips Oct. 16-19
Park Record
A group of local middle school and high school students competed with Theatre Arts Conservatory in the Utah Shakespearean Festival Shakespeare Competition ...
Students earn Shakespearean honors
Davis County Clipper
... in their school's division at the 34th Annual High School Shakespearean Competition, held earlier this month down at theUtah Shakespearean Festival. ...
Enoch Events | Utah.com
Utah Shakespearean Festival Fall Season enjoy a great new season for this Tony award winning festival, Tuesday thru Saturday with . ...
www.utah.com/database/events/?id=268&fromDate...
Hillcrest dominates Shakespeare competition
Salt Lake Tribune
Hillcrest is relatively new to the High School Shakespeare Competition, which is hosted by the Utah Shakespearean Festivaland Southern Utah University. ...
10 Questions with Amanda Caraway, PR Director
Utah Theater Bloggers Association
For our latest edition of the 10-question interview we turn our sites down to Cedar City and the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I first met Amanda Caraway ...
Reviews
Pericles is an entrancing adventure
Utah Theater Bloggers Association
The Utah Shakespearean Festival production of The Adventures of Pericles plays in the Randall L. Jones Theatre on the campus of Southern Utah University at ...
Festival Artists
Recent Successes – Autumn 2010 « Anne Hamilton's Blog
By hamiltondramaturgy
Tom Cavanaugh, a long-time client, was given a staged reading of his play BEHOLD at the Utah Shakespearean Festival this summer. The drama, about a family's disintegration after its son/brother was killed in a Columbine-type school ...
Anne Hamilton's Blog - http://hamiltondramaturgy.wordpress.com/
Strong cast and well-known songs shine in Grand Theatre's 'Oliver'
Deseret News
... from "A Christmas Carol" to the most recent musical adaptation of "Great Expectations," last summer at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. ...
Scene clips Oct. 16-19
Park Record
A group of local middle school and high school students competed with Theatre Arts Conservatory in the Utah Shakespearean Festival Shakespeare Competition ...
Students earn Shakespearean honors
Davis County Clipper
... in their school's division at the 34th Annual High School Shakespearean Competition, held earlier this month down at theUtah Shakespearean Festival. ...
Enoch Events | Utah.com
Utah Shakespearean Festival Fall Season enjoy a great new season for this Tony award winning festival, Tuesday thru Saturday with . ...
www.utah.com/database/events/?id=268&fromDate...
Hillcrest dominates Shakespeare competition
Salt Lake Tribune
Hillcrest is relatively new to the High School Shakespeare Competition, which is hosted by the Utah Shakespearean Festivaland Southern Utah University. ...
10 Questions with Amanda Caraway, PR Director
Utah Theater Bloggers Association
For our latest edition of the 10-question interview we turn our sites down to Cedar City and the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I first met Amanda Caraway ...
Reviews
Pericles is an entrancing adventure
Utah Theater Bloggers Association
The Utah Shakespearean Festival production of The Adventures of Pericles plays in the Randall L. Jones Theatre on the campus of Southern Utah University at ...
Festival Artists
Recent Successes – Autumn 2010 « Anne Hamilton's Blog
By hamiltondramaturgy
Tom Cavanaugh, a long-time client, was given a staged reading of his play BEHOLD at the Utah Shakespearean Festival this summer. The drama, about a family's disintegration after its son/brother was killed in a Columbine-type school ...
Anne Hamilton's Blog - http://hamiltondramaturgy.wordpress.com/
Strong cast and well-known songs shine in Grand Theatre's 'Oliver'
Deseret News
... from "A Christmas Carol" to the most recent musical adaptation of "Great Expectations," last summer at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. ...
Visiting Art Historian Lecture by Alex Potts @ UMFA (SLC: Oct 27)
Visiting Art Historian lecture next Wednesday
Alex Potts, Prof. of Art History, University of Michigan
“Hybrid Practices and Political Art in the 1950s and 1960s”
Wednesday October 27th, 2010, 4:30pm Art 158
Alex Potts is Max Loehr Collegiate Professor in the Department of
History of Art at the University of Michigan. He has given the Slade
Lectures in Fine Art at the University of Oxford and was recently
appointed Varnedoe Visiting Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts,
New York University. His books include Flesh and the Ideal:
Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History (1994 and 2000) and The
Sculptural Imagination. Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist (2000). His
publications range over a number of different areas, from modern
sculptural aesthetics and art and artistic theory in the Enlightenment
and Romantic periods to artistic culture in the twentieth century. He
was project scholar and wrote the introduction for the new English
translation of Winckelmann’s History of the Art of Antiquity (2005)
and is co-editor of an anthology of texts on modern sculpture, The
Modern Sculpture Reader (2007). He is currently writing a book on the
significance of experimental forms of realism in post-war Europe and
America, titled Art and Non-Art 1945-1965.
Alex Potts, Prof. of Art History, University of Michigan
“Hybrid Practices and Political Art in the 1950s and 1960s”
Wednesday October 27th, 2010, 4:30pm Art 158
Alex Potts is Max Loehr Collegiate Professor in the Department of
History of Art at the University of Michigan. He has given the Slade
Lectures in Fine Art at the University of Oxford and was recently
appointed Varnedoe Visiting Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts,
New York University. His books include Flesh and the Ideal:
Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History (1994 and 2000) and The
Sculptural Imagination. Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist (2000). His
publications range over a number of different areas, from modern
sculptural aesthetics and art and artistic theory in the Enlightenment
and Romantic periods to artistic culture in the twentieth century. He
was project scholar and wrote the introduction for the new English
translation of Winckelmann’s History of the Art of Antiquity (2005)
and is co-editor of an anthology of texts on modern sculpture, The
Modern Sculpture Reader (2007). He is currently writing a book on the
significance of experimental forms of realism in post-war Europe and
America, titled Art and Non-Art 1945-1965.
"Hay Fever" @ U's Babcock Theatre (SLC: Nov 5 - 14)
The U Department of Theatre
Uncorks Noel Coward’s Sparkling Wit in
Hay Fever at the Babcock Theatre, November 5-14, 2010

Champagne is synonymous with elegance and savoir-vivre, style and refinement, imbued with romantic overtones, coupled with the giddiness of celebration and the bubbly anticipation of things to come. The same could be said of the work of playwright Noel Coward. This fall, the U Department of Theatre presents one of the most popular comedies of all time, Hay Fever, by Noel Coward, master of style and champagne wit. Directed by Sarah Shippobotham, Hay Fever will be presented in the Babcock Theatre, November 5-14.
In Hay Fever, each member of the eccentrically dysfunctional Bliss family—a retired actress, her novelist husband, and their two children—invites a guest to their country home for a weekend of indulgent glamour, unbeknownst to each other. As the unwitting visitors arrive in hopes of a romantic weekend, the stage is set for comic chaos. The misunderstandings and mishaps mount, and by Sunday morning the beleaguered guests are desperate to flee en masse, leaving the egotistical family so engaged in a blistering row that they fail to notice their clandestine departure. Hay Fever is a dizzying and dazzling portrait of self-absorption and volatility.
Coward—a playwright, composer, director, actor, spy (purportedly), nationalist, and propagandist—wrote Hay Fever in just three days at the ripe young age of 24. Considered one of his best and most enduring works, Hay Fever is a comedic masterpiece, filled with Coward’s brilliant wit and biting commentary on the theatrical profession. Director Sarah Shippobotham particularly loves this play “because it is a beautiful portrait of families—how we can all be dysfunctional and still love each other despite, and perhaps because of, our idiosyncrasies.”
Sparkling, brilliant, subtle, alluring, intense, exciting, deep—this could be a catalog of romance, or tasting notes for a great champagne. It also describes Judith Bliss, the reluctantly retired actress in Coward’s play. Actor Training Program student Elizabeth Summerhays plays this eccentric and dramatic character in the U Department of Theatre’s production. At the age of 34, Elizabeth’s not your “traditional” acting student. However, director Sarah Shippobotham finds that Elizabeth’s age and experience add a special nuance to her performance. Elizabeth says of her character Judith that “she doesn’t really want to be retired, and she’s having a hard time dealing with getting older. She wants to hold on to her youth, and I think this is something we all come to feel at one time or another.” Not unlike the famed character of Helen Sinclair in Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway,” Judith seduces young men to feed her need for the attention she once garnered as a Broadway star. “Playing Judith is a challenge because, emotionally, it takes a lot of stamina. She is always ‘on.’ She’s over the top, but in a very endearing way.”
Featuring some of Noel Coward’s wittiest dialogue, this champagne cocktail of a show will leave you giddy, laughing, and wanting more. Tickets for Hay Fever and Season Flexpasses for the U Deparment of Theatre’s 2010-2011 season can be purchased now by calling 801-581-7100, or online at www.kingtix.org
Publicity photos are available online at www.theatre.utah.edu/press
Uncorks Noel Coward’s Sparkling Wit in
Hay Fever at the Babcock Theatre, November 5-14, 2010

Champagne is synonymous with elegance and savoir-vivre, style and refinement, imbued with romantic overtones, coupled with the giddiness of celebration and the bubbly anticipation of things to come. The same could be said of the work of playwright Noel Coward. This fall, the U Department of Theatre presents one of the most popular comedies of all time, Hay Fever, by Noel Coward, master of style and champagne wit. Directed by Sarah Shippobotham, Hay Fever will be presented in the Babcock Theatre, November 5-14.
In Hay Fever, each member of the eccentrically dysfunctional Bliss family—a retired actress, her novelist husband, and their two children—invites a guest to their country home for a weekend of indulgent glamour, unbeknownst to each other. As the unwitting visitors arrive in hopes of a romantic weekend, the stage is set for comic chaos. The misunderstandings and mishaps mount, and by Sunday morning the beleaguered guests are desperate to flee en masse, leaving the egotistical family so engaged in a blistering row that they fail to notice their clandestine departure. Hay Fever is a dizzying and dazzling portrait of self-absorption and volatility.
Coward—a playwright, composer, director, actor, spy (purportedly), nationalist, and propagandist—wrote Hay Fever in just three days at the ripe young age of 24. Considered one of his best and most enduring works, Hay Fever is a comedic masterpiece, filled with Coward’s brilliant wit and biting commentary on the theatrical profession. Director Sarah Shippobotham particularly loves this play “because it is a beautiful portrait of families—how we can all be dysfunctional and still love each other despite, and perhaps because of, our idiosyncrasies.”
Sparkling, brilliant, subtle, alluring, intense, exciting, deep—this could be a catalog of romance, or tasting notes for a great champagne. It also describes Judith Bliss, the reluctantly retired actress in Coward’s play. Actor Training Program student Elizabeth Summerhays plays this eccentric and dramatic character in the U Department of Theatre’s production. At the age of 34, Elizabeth’s not your “traditional” acting student. However, director Sarah Shippobotham finds that Elizabeth’s age and experience add a special nuance to her performance. Elizabeth says of her character Judith that “she doesn’t really want to be retired, and she’s having a hard time dealing with getting older. She wants to hold on to her youth, and I think this is something we all come to feel at one time or another.” Not unlike the famed character of Helen Sinclair in Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway,” Judith seduces young men to feed her need for the attention she once garnered as a Broadway star. “Playing Judith is a challenge because, emotionally, it takes a lot of stamina. She is always ‘on.’ She’s over the top, but in a very endearing way.”
Featuring some of Noel Coward’s wittiest dialogue, this champagne cocktail of a show will leave you giddy, laughing, and wanting more. Tickets for Hay Fever and Season Flexpasses for the U Deparment of Theatre’s 2010-2011 season can be purchased now by calling 801-581-7100, or online at www.kingtix.org
Publicity photos are available online at www.theatre.utah.edu/press
RDT & Salt Lake Arts Academy to Perform 9 Site-specific Dances as Part of Green Map Project (SLC: Oct 25)
SALT LAKE ARTS ACADEMY AND RDT
PRESENT ORIGINAL DANCE
AT LIBRARY SQUARE
Monday October 25, 2010: 11:15 am
Library Square - Free to the Public
WHAT: Salt Lake City’s only arts-based public charter middle school, the Salt Lake Arts Academy, has collaborated with Repertory Dance Theatre as part of their Green Map Project, to create nine original site-specific dances, to be performed outdoors at Library Square. Three RDT dancers, Nick Cendese, Nathan Shaw, and Sarah Donahue have directed the students in collaborative choreography that explores the Library’s unique architecture, gardens and fountain areas.
WHY: Salt Lake Arts Academy Dance Teacher Karin Fenn wanted to provide the students a unique opportunity to creatively experience the special urban landscape at the Library. This learning experience will give students greater insight into the Green Mapping process and the extraordinary sites that exist within the schools extended neighborhood. This project compliments one of the teaching philosophies of the school, which is to utilize the sites in their neighborhood as part of their extended learning environment.
WHO: 60 5th – 8th grade advanced dance students
WHEN: Monday, October 25, 2010, 11:15 AM
WHERE: Main Library, Library Square
CONTACT: Karin Fenn, Dance Specialist, 801 – 214 – 4341 karin@slarts.org
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About Repertory Dance Theatre's Green Map Project
RDT’s GREEN MAP® PROJECT
Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) has created a transformative, community building project designed to create paths of inquiry, exploration and expression while inspiring young people to be thoughtful and productive citizens.
There is a growing need to help young people understand the concept of environmental sustainability through increased environmental literacy and recognition of where they live. RDT has created a unique Art/Environmental Education Residency Program for schools based on the Green Map® System, a global movement encouraging communities to take inventory of sustainability practices. Through “Place-Based Education”, inter-disciplinary activities and the arts, RDT will utilize the Green Map system tools to actively engage young people in the life of their community and inspire a dynamic understanding of “place.”
“Green Map® System” is a global movement mapping green living, nature, social and cultural resources in over 600 cities world wide. It focuses on sustainable living practices that are designed to help individuals investigate their community through the literal use of a map on which icons are used to identify places that feature nature preserves, centers for cultural and social growth, issues about climate change, environmental justice and activism, and efforts working to improve green enterprise. (www: Greenmap.org)
A Green Map® will anchor a community’s strengths, assets and challenges on an enduring, dynamic map and celebrate this map in art, neighborhood by neighborhood, school by school.
RDT is helping students to learn what make a “healthy” community as they develop “mapping” skills and participate in Creative Movement Classes relating to the natural environment, “green” buildings, alternative energy development and conservation, land-use, geography and history. In the process, students create choreography, poetry, essays, drawings, photographs and videos… a portrait of a community.
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Through a collaborative process, RDT will:
Ø Expand a community’s sense of “place”
Ø Encourage environmental responsibility and waken an awareness of what it means to care for our earth.
Ø Celebrate environmental progress.
Ø Inspire community action through the creative process.
Ø Reach new audiences and develop greater appreciation and understanding of the art of dance
RDT’s Green Map Project will require interaction, reflection, creation and awakening among students, teachers, the general public, visual artists, literary artists, and leaders in schools, neighborhoods, cities and states interested in promoting environmental awareness.
For more info visti rdtutah.org
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PRESENT ORIGINAL DANCE
AT LIBRARY SQUARE
Monday October 25, 2010: 11:15 am
Library Square - Free to the Public
WHAT: Salt Lake City’s only arts-based public charter middle school, the Salt Lake Arts Academy, has collaborated with Repertory Dance Theatre as part of their Green Map Project, to create nine original site-specific dances, to be performed outdoors at Library Square. Three RDT dancers, Nick Cendese, Nathan Shaw, and Sarah Donahue have directed the students in collaborative choreography that explores the Library’s unique architecture, gardens and fountain areas.
WHY: Salt Lake Arts Academy Dance Teacher Karin Fenn wanted to provide the students a unique opportunity to creatively experience the special urban landscape at the Library. This learning experience will give students greater insight into the Green Mapping process and the extraordinary sites that exist within the schools extended neighborhood. This project compliments one of the teaching philosophies of the school, which is to utilize the sites in their neighborhood as part of their extended learning environment.
WHO: 60 5th – 8th grade advanced dance students
WHEN: Monday, October 25, 2010, 11:15 AM
WHERE: Main Library, Library Square
CONTACT: Karin Fenn, Dance Specialist, 801 – 214 – 4341 karin@slarts.org
***
About Repertory Dance Theatre's Green Map Project
RDT’s GREEN MAP® PROJECT
Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) has created a transformative, community building project designed to create paths of inquiry, exploration and expression while inspiring young people to be thoughtful and productive citizens.
There is a growing need to help young people understand the concept of environmental sustainability through increased environmental literacy and recognition of where they live. RDT has created a unique Art/Environmental Education Residency Program for schools based on the Green Map® System, a global movement encouraging communities to take inventory of sustainability practices. Through “Place-Based Education”, inter-disciplinary activities and the arts, RDT will utilize the Green Map system tools to actively engage young people in the life of their community and inspire a dynamic understanding of “place.”
“Green Map® System” is a global movement mapping green living, nature, social and cultural resources in over 600 cities world wide. It focuses on sustainable living practices that are designed to help individuals investigate their community through the literal use of a map on which icons are used to identify places that feature nature preserves, centers for cultural and social growth, issues about climate change, environmental justice and activism, and efforts working to improve green enterprise. (www: Greenmap.org)
A Green Map® will anchor a community’s strengths, assets and challenges on an enduring, dynamic map and celebrate this map in art, neighborhood by neighborhood, school by school.
RDT is helping students to learn what make a “healthy” community as they develop “mapping” skills and participate in Creative Movement Classes relating to the natural environment, “green” buildings, alternative energy development and conservation, land-use, geography and history. In the process, students create choreography, poetry, essays, drawings, photographs and videos… a portrait of a community.
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Through a collaborative process, RDT will:
Ø Expand a community’s sense of “place”
Ø Encourage environmental responsibility and waken an awareness of what it means to care for our earth.
Ø Celebrate environmental progress.
Ø Inspire community action through the creative process.
Ø Reach new audiences and develop greater appreciation and understanding of the art of dance
RDT’s Green Map Project will require interaction, reflection, creation and awakening among students, teachers, the general public, visual artists, literary artists, and leaders in schools, neighborhoods, cities and states interested in promoting environmental awareness.
For more info visti rdtutah.org
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5th Annual Evening for Educators @ SUU's Braithwaite Gallery (CC: Nov 3)
Leslie Forrester
Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery
College of Performing and Visual Arts
Southern Utah University
Office: (435) 586-5432
Cell: (417) 988-1367
Leslie.Forrester84@gmail.com
FOR CALENDAR EDITORS: FIFTH ANNUAL EVENING FOR EDUCATORS
WHAT: The artwork of an American master forms the focus of a seminar for educators when Southern Utah University’s Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery hosts the fifth annual Evening for Educators. Using the current exhibit, Winslow Homer in America: 1857-1887, as a theme, teachers and administrators receive arts education in-service training by connecting the Gallery to the classroom.
WHO: Southern Utah University, Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery
WHEN: Wednesday, November 3, 2010
TIME: 6:00-9:00pm
WHERE: Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
RSVP: Phone: (435) 586-5432
PRICES: Free and open to all area teachers, educators and administrators.
SUU’s Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery
Hosts a Special Evening for Educators
November 3, 2010
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah: The artwork of an American master forms the focus of a unique seminar for teachers when Southern Utah University’s Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery hosts the fifth annual Evening for Educators. The event takes place on Wednesday, November 3, 2010, and is free and open to all area educators. Held at the Gallery, the evening is scheduled to begin at 6pm and runs to 9pm. RSVP is requested, but not required. Call (435) 586-5432 to RSVP.
Using the Gallery’s current exhibit, Winslow Homer in America: 1857-1887, as a theme, teachers and administrators will receive arts education in-service training by connecting the Gallery to the classroom. Participants will have the opportunity to view one of the most extensive collections of Winslow Homer’s engravings ever to travel. This year’s keynote speaker will be Deborah Snider, Assistant Professor of Art Education at Southern Utah University. Educators will also participate in breakout sessions to learn how art can help improve students’ creativity.
This program is made possible by the Utah State Office of Education, Friends of the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, the Springville Museum of Art, Arts Fusion, Statewide Art Partnership and the Utah Arts Council.
For more information about this event, visit www.suu.edu/pva/artgallery or call (435) 586-5432. The Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery’s mission is to exhibit, collect and preserve historic and contemporary works of art significant to the interior American West. In addition, the Museum hosts art exhibitions that represent the principal artistic styles and periods of world cultures.
ABOUT THE COLLEGE
The Southern Utah University College of Performing and Visual Arts is comprised of nationally accredited departments of Art and Design, Music, Theatre Arts and Dance, as well as a graduate program in Arts Administration. The College offers 16 different degree areas, including liberal arts Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees; professional Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Fine Arts in art and theatre degrees; and a Master of Fine Arts in Arts Administration degree. More than 60 full- and part-time faculty and staff are engaged in teaching and mentoring over 550 majors in the College. Over 1100 students enroll each year in over 195 arts classes on the SUU campus. The College presents 100 performances, lectures, presentations, and exhibitions each year. The College’s affiliate organizations include the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, American Folk Ballet, Utah Shakespearean Festival, the performance group Acclamation, and the SUU Ballroom Dance Company. For more information about the College of Performing and Visual Arts, contact the Office of the Dean at (435) 865-8561, or by email at cpvamktg@suu.edu.
Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery
College of Performing and Visual Arts
Southern Utah University
Office: (435) 586-5432
Cell: (417) 988-1367
Leslie.Forrester84@gmail.com
FOR CALENDAR EDITORS: FIFTH ANNUAL EVENING FOR EDUCATORS
WHAT: The artwork of an American master forms the focus of a seminar for educators when Southern Utah University’s Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery hosts the fifth annual Evening for Educators. Using the current exhibit, Winslow Homer in America: 1857-1887, as a theme, teachers and administrators receive arts education in-service training by connecting the Gallery to the classroom.
WHO: Southern Utah University, Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery
WHEN: Wednesday, November 3, 2010
TIME: 6:00-9:00pm
WHERE: Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
RSVP: Phone: (435) 586-5432
PRICES: Free and open to all area teachers, educators and administrators.
SUU’s Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery
Hosts a Special Evening for Educators
November 3, 2010
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah: The artwork of an American master forms the focus of a unique seminar for teachers when Southern Utah University’s Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery hosts the fifth annual Evening for Educators. The event takes place on Wednesday, November 3, 2010, and is free and open to all area educators. Held at the Gallery, the evening is scheduled to begin at 6pm and runs to 9pm. RSVP is requested, but not required. Call (435) 586-5432 to RSVP.
Using the Gallery’s current exhibit, Winslow Homer in America: 1857-1887, as a theme, teachers and administrators will receive arts education in-service training by connecting the Gallery to the classroom. Participants will have the opportunity to view one of the most extensive collections of Winslow Homer’s engravings ever to travel. This year’s keynote speaker will be Deborah Snider, Assistant Professor of Art Education at Southern Utah University. Educators will also participate in breakout sessions to learn how art can help improve students’ creativity.
This program is made possible by the Utah State Office of Education, Friends of the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, the Springville Museum of Art, Arts Fusion, Statewide Art Partnership and the Utah Arts Council.
For more information about this event, visit www.suu.edu/pva/artgallery or call (435) 586-5432. The Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery’s mission is to exhibit, collect and preserve historic and contemporary works of art significant to the interior American West. In addition, the Museum hosts art exhibitions that represent the principal artistic styles and periods of world cultures.
ABOUT THE COLLEGE
The Southern Utah University College of Performing and Visual Arts is comprised of nationally accredited departments of Art and Design, Music, Theatre Arts and Dance, as well as a graduate program in Arts Administration. The College offers 16 different degree areas, including liberal arts Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees; professional Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Fine Arts in art and theatre degrees; and a Master of Fine Arts in Arts Administration degree. More than 60 full- and part-time faculty and staff are engaged in teaching and mentoring over 550 majors in the College. Over 1100 students enroll each year in over 195 arts classes on the SUU campus. The College presents 100 performances, lectures, presentations, and exhibitions each year. The College’s affiliate organizations include the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, American Folk Ballet, Utah Shakespearean Festival, the performance group Acclamation, and the SUU Ballroom Dance Company. For more information about the College of Performing and Visual Arts, contact the Office of the Dean at (435) 865-8561, or by email at cpvamktg@suu.edu.
November Cultural Events in Murray
Murray Community Winter Season November Events
November 6 at 7:30 pm - Murray Concert Band, Hillcrest Jr High, Free
November 11-13, 15 at 7 pm - Murray High Musical, The Music Man, $5 students, $6 adult in advance at school office or $7 at door
November 19-20, 22 at 7 pm - Cottonwood High Musical, Annie, $7 in advance at school office or $8 at door
November 6 at 7:30 pm - Murray Concert Band, Hillcrest Jr High, Free
November 11-13, 15 at 7 pm - Murray High Musical, The Music Man, $5 students, $6 adult in advance at school office or $7 at door
November 19-20, 22 at 7 pm - Cottonwood High Musical, Annie, $7 in advance at school office or $8 at door
Haunted Tales Storytelling Festival @ Murray Park (Murray: Oct 25)
Haunted Tales Storytelling Festival and Haunted Trails in Murray Park
October 25 will feature a pumpkin carving contest for Murray residents (any age) as part of the new Haunted Tales Storytelling Festival. Bring your finished pumpkin to Murray Park Pavilion #5 between 5:45 and 6 pm. Winners of the Halloween literary competition for students grades 3-12 will follow by reading their winning entries along with several community storytellers from 7 to 8 pm. We will be under the pavilion to keep us out of the wet weather but it will be cold so dress warm! This year the Haunted Trails will be sponsored by the Murray Exchange Club on October 26 and 27 from 7 to 9 pm beginning at Murray Park Pavilion #6. Cost is $2 and will include hot chocolate and doughnuts.
October 25 will feature a pumpkin carving contest for Murray residents (any age) as part of the new Haunted Tales Storytelling Festival. Bring your finished pumpkin to Murray Park Pavilion #5 between 5:45 and 6 pm. Winners of the Halloween literary competition for students grades 3-12 will follow by reading their winning entries along with several community storytellers from 7 to 8 pm. We will be under the pavilion to keep us out of the wet weather but it will be cold so dress warm! This year the Haunted Trails will be sponsored by the Murray Exchange Club on October 26 and 27 from 7 to 9 pm beginning at Murray Park Pavilion #6. Cost is $2 and will include hot chocolate and doughnuts.
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November Events @ UMFA (SLC)

Media contact:
Shelbey Peterson, 801-585-1306
Shelbey.Peterson@umfa.utah.edu
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
November 2010
Add a dash of art and culture to your itinerary this November
with salt 2: Sophie Whettnall and other exciting events at the UMFA!
SPECIAL EXHIBITION:
salt 2: Sophie Whettnall
November 18, 2010 – February 27, 2011
salt 2: Sophie Whettnall is the second in the UMFA's new series of exhibitions that showcase the work of contemporary artists from around the world. Belgian artist Sophie Whettnall (b. 1973) works mostly with photography, video, and multimedia installations, yet she was trained as a painter and much of her work retains a rich, painterly quality. Whettnall engages the temporal nature of video as a medium, creating images that inhabit a space between stillness and activity as they develop over time. Frequently training her camera on the landscape, she explores the relationship between the self and its surroundings in a world of increasing transience and dislocation. salt reflects the international impact of contemporary art today, forging local connections to the global, and bringing new and diverse artwork to the city that shares the program's name.
SPECIAL FREE EVENTS:
Highlights of the Collection Tour
First Wednesday of the month at 6:30 pm and all Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30 pm
Explore the UMFA galleries through a thirty-minute tour with a trained docent. No pre-registration necessary.
Anthropology Film Series: O Caminho das Nuvens (The Middle of the World), Brazil, 2004
Wednesday, November 3 • 6 pm
The UMFA is teaming up with the University of Utah Department of Anthropology to present a series of films from around the world that highlight art and anthropology. In O Caminho das Nuvens, documentary filmmaker Vincente Amorim chronicles the plight of a Brazilian family as they search for new beginnings in a country under change. Romao and his wife, Rose, decide to head from the northwest provinces of Brazil to Rio de Janeiro, a 2,000 mile journey, with their family of five, and meet repeated hardships along the way.
Visiting Artist Talk: Chakaia Booker
Thursday, November 4 • 7 pm
Join the UMFA Young Benefactors for a free public lecture by Chakaia Booker, the selected 2010 YB acquisition artist. Booker will discuss Discarded Memories, the sculpture acquired for the UMFA by the Young Benefactors last fall. A New York City-based artist, Booker is known for her dynamic sculptures created from twisted rubber tires.
Anthropology Film Series: Moolaade (Magical Protection), Somalia, 2004
Wednesday, November 10 • 6 pm
The UMFA is teaming up with the University of Utah Department of Anthropology to present a series of films from around the world that highlight art and anthropology. Director Ousmane Sembene won the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival for Moolaade, a controversial drama that tackles the traditional practice of female genital mutilation. Four girls scheduled for this ritual of purification escape the village elders and seek shelter with a sympathetic woman named Colle, who casts a powerful ‘moolaade’ spell of protection over them. Defying sacred village tradition, she refuses to lift the spell even while dealing with a drama concerning her own daughter who has fallen in love with the future tribe leader.
Middle East Teacher Workshop: Morocco
Saturday, November 13 • 9 am–3:30 pm
The University of Utah’s Middle East Center Outreach Program and the UMFA are proud to sponsor a workshop that will look at the country of Morocco—its culture and customs, its history and legacy. Teachers at all levels and anyone interested in learning more about this fascinating topic are invited to attend. The event is free, but registration is required as space is limited. To register, call the Middle East Center at 801.581.5003.
Chamber Music Series
Wednesdays, November 17 • 7 pm
The UMFA will resonate with sounds of the season this fall as students from the University of Utah School of Music perform chamber music masterpieces in the European galleries. Visit umfa.utah.edu/calendar for more details.
Visiting Artist Talk: A Conversation with Sophie Whettnall
Thursday, November 18, 2010 • 6 pm
Join UMFA Acting Chief Curator Jill Dawsey for a public conversation with salt 2 artist, Sophie Whettnall. Learn about Whettnall's artistic practice and philosophy, and be among the first to experience salt 2.
Third Saturdays for Families: Self-Portrait Holiday Cards
Saturday, November 20 • 2-4 pm
On the Third Saturday of every month, UMFA Curators of Education develop exciting opportunities for children and families to learn about art and investigate how it is made. On this particular Third Saturday, we will print our own set of cards just in time for the holidays! We will study the clothes, poses, and surroundings of the UMFA’s most popular portraits and then create our own.
ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
Painting Utah’s Mount Olympus
On view through November 14, 2010
Mount Olympus is not the tallest mountain in the Wasatch Range, but anyone who has seen this awesome natural wonder will agree with the early pioneers who bestowed it with the Greek name for ‘the home of the gods.' For the past 150 years, some of Utah's most talented artists, including Lee Greene Richards, Gilbert Munger, Edwin Deaken, Anton Rasmussen, David Meikle, and others, have attempted to do justice to this silent sentinel. Through their work, the home of the gods is immortalized in Painting Utah’s Mount Olympus.
Community: Eat, Work, Play
On view through January 9, 2011
Big canvases, bold colors, and intriguing ideas are on offer in Community: Eat, Work, Play. With the help of UMFA educators, first- and sixth-graders from Lincoln Elementary School created large-scale murals that visually represent the various aspects of the title: eat, work, and play.
The Ideal Landscape
On view through February 13, 2011
Chinese landscape paintings do not recreate a natural setting, but instead conjure an ideal scene imagined by the artist. As a result, these intricate depictions of mountains and bodies of water offer expressions of the painter’s heart and mind. This fall, the UMFA will bring together thirteen Chinese landscape paintings dating from the Ming dynasty to the twentieth century in The Ideal Landscape, an exhibition that will be installed in the UMFA’s second-floor LDS Galleria.
Trevor Southey: Reconciliation
On view through February 13, 2011
This retrospective of the life and work of artist Trevor Southey gives prominence to four life passages that have defined Southey’s character and art: his youth in Rhodesia and education in England; his life as a practicing member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and his desire for a utopian lifestyle created around family, farming, and art; Southey’s decision to acknowledge his homosexuality in 1982, which coincided with the first major public awareness of the AIDS epidemic; and the reconciliation of his life decisions as expressed in his revised artistic approach to the human form. This exhibition is generously supported by the B.W. Bastian Foundation, Jim Dabakis and Stephen Justesen, and Tom and Mary McCarthey.
Yayoi Kusama: Decades
On view through February 13, 2011
Yayoi Kusama: Decades offers a focused presentation of exemplary works by renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. A key figure in the New York art world of the late 1950s and 1960s, Kusama’s pioneering work has galvanized subsequent generations of artists. From her early watercolor paintings of the 1950s to her “accumulation” sculptures of the 1960s, to recent, large-scale “infinity nets” paintings, the exhibition highlights works from each decade of the artist’s long career.
Faces: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art
On view through February 13, 2011
This exhibition brings together classic works of Pop Art and more recent Pop-inflected works, with a focus on the human face and figure. Many works in the exhibition take the form of portraits, such as Alex Katz’s series of screen prints depicting young people in the 1970s, or ironic self-portraits, as in Robert Arneson’s Untitled Trophy (Bust Of Bob), 1978. Faces also includes a selection of Andy Warhol’s famous Polaroid portraits, a recent gift from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, on view at the UMFA for the first time. Ranging from portraits of the rich and famous to unknown figures, Warhol’s Polaroids revel in the idiosyncrasies of his subjects.
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Utah Museum of Fine Arts
University of Utah Campus
Marcia & John Price Museum Building
410 Campus Center Dr
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
(801) 581-7332
Museum Hours
Tuesday–Friday: 10 am–5 pm
Wednesday: 10 am–8 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 11 am–5 pm
Closed Mondays and holidays
Visit our website: umfa.utah.edu
General Admission
UMFA Members FREE
Adults $7
Youth (ages 6-18) $5
Seniors & Students $5
Children under 6 FREE
U students, staff & faculty FREE
Higher education students in Utah FREE
Media contact:
Shelbey Peterson, 801-585-1306
Shelbey.Peterson@umfa.utah.edu
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
November 2010
Add a dash of art and culture to your itinerary this November
with salt 2: Sophie Whettnall and other exciting events at the UMFA!
SPECIAL EXHIBITION:
salt 2: Sophie Whettnall
November 18, 2010 – February 27, 2011
salt 2: Sophie Whettnall is the second in the UMFA's new series of exhibitions that showcase the work of contemporary artists from around the world. Belgian artist Sophie Whettnall (b. 1973) works mostly with photography, video, and multimedia installations, yet she was trained as a painter and much of her work retains a rich, painterly quality. Whettnall engages the temporal nature of video as a medium, creating images that inhabit a space between stillness and activity as they develop over time. Frequently training her camera on the landscape, she explores the relationship between the self and its surroundings in a world of increasing transience and dislocation. salt reflects the international impact of contemporary art today, forging local connections to the global, and bringing new and diverse artwork to the city that shares the program's name.
SPECIAL FREE EVENTS:
Highlights of the Collection Tour
First Wednesday of the month at 6:30 pm and all Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30 pm
Explore the UMFA galleries through a thirty-minute tour with a trained docent. No pre-registration necessary.
Anthropology Film Series: O Caminho das Nuvens (The Middle of the World), Brazil, 2004
Wednesday, November 3 • 6 pm
The UMFA is teaming up with the University of Utah Department of Anthropology to present a series of films from around the world that highlight art and anthropology. In O Caminho das Nuvens, documentary filmmaker Vincente Amorim chronicles the plight of a Brazilian family as they search for new beginnings in a country under change. Romao and his wife, Rose, decide to head from the northwest provinces of Brazil to Rio de Janeiro, a 2,000 mile journey, with their family of five, and meet repeated hardships along the way.
Visiting Artist Talk: Chakaia Booker
Thursday, November 4 • 7 pm
Join the UMFA Young Benefactors for a free public lecture by Chakaia Booker, the selected 2010 YB acquisition artist. Booker will discuss Discarded Memories, the sculpture acquired for the UMFA by the Young Benefactors last fall. A New York City-based artist, Booker is known for her dynamic sculptures created from twisted rubber tires.
Anthropology Film Series: Moolaade (Magical Protection), Somalia, 2004
Wednesday, November 10 • 6 pm
The UMFA is teaming up with the University of Utah Department of Anthropology to present a series of films from around the world that highlight art and anthropology. Director Ousmane Sembene won the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival for Moolaade, a controversial drama that tackles the traditional practice of female genital mutilation. Four girls scheduled for this ritual of purification escape the village elders and seek shelter with a sympathetic woman named Colle, who casts a powerful ‘moolaade’ spell of protection over them. Defying sacred village tradition, she refuses to lift the spell even while dealing with a drama concerning her own daughter who has fallen in love with the future tribe leader.
Middle East Teacher Workshop: Morocco
Saturday, November 13 • 9 am–3:30 pm
The University of Utah’s Middle East Center Outreach Program and the UMFA are proud to sponsor a workshop that will look at the country of Morocco—its culture and customs, its history and legacy. Teachers at all levels and anyone interested in learning more about this fascinating topic are invited to attend. The event is free, but registration is required as space is limited. To register, call the Middle East Center at 801.581.5003.
Chamber Music Series
Wednesdays, November 17 • 7 pm
The UMFA will resonate with sounds of the season this fall as students from the University of Utah School of Music perform chamber music masterpieces in the European galleries. Visit umfa.utah.edu/calendar for more details.
Visiting Artist Talk: A Conversation with Sophie Whettnall
Thursday, November 18, 2010 • 6 pm
Join UMFA Acting Chief Curator Jill Dawsey for a public conversation with salt 2 artist, Sophie Whettnall. Learn about Whettnall's artistic practice and philosophy, and be among the first to experience salt 2.
Third Saturdays for Families: Self-Portrait Holiday Cards
Saturday, November 20 • 2-4 pm
On the Third Saturday of every month, UMFA Curators of Education develop exciting opportunities for children and families to learn about art and investigate how it is made. On this particular Third Saturday, we will print our own set of cards just in time for the holidays! We will study the clothes, poses, and surroundings of the UMFA’s most popular portraits and then create our own.
ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
Painting Utah’s Mount Olympus
On view through November 14, 2010
Mount Olympus is not the tallest mountain in the Wasatch Range, but anyone who has seen this awesome natural wonder will agree with the early pioneers who bestowed it with the Greek name for ‘the home of the gods.' For the past 150 years, some of Utah's most talented artists, including Lee Greene Richards, Gilbert Munger, Edwin Deaken, Anton Rasmussen, David Meikle, and others, have attempted to do justice to this silent sentinel. Through their work, the home of the gods is immortalized in Painting Utah’s Mount Olympus.
Community: Eat, Work, Play
On view through January 9, 2011
Big canvases, bold colors, and intriguing ideas are on offer in Community: Eat, Work, Play. With the help of UMFA educators, first- and sixth-graders from Lincoln Elementary School created large-scale murals that visually represent the various aspects of the title: eat, work, and play.
The Ideal Landscape
On view through February 13, 2011
Chinese landscape paintings do not recreate a natural setting, but instead conjure an ideal scene imagined by the artist. As a result, these intricate depictions of mountains and bodies of water offer expressions of the painter’s heart and mind. This fall, the UMFA will bring together thirteen Chinese landscape paintings dating from the Ming dynasty to the twentieth century in The Ideal Landscape, an exhibition that will be installed in the UMFA’s second-floor LDS Galleria.
Trevor Southey: Reconciliation
On view through February 13, 2011
This retrospective of the life and work of artist Trevor Southey gives prominence to four life passages that have defined Southey’s character and art: his youth in Rhodesia and education in England; his life as a practicing member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and his desire for a utopian lifestyle created around family, farming, and art; Southey’s decision to acknowledge his homosexuality in 1982, which coincided with the first major public awareness of the AIDS epidemic; and the reconciliation of his life decisions as expressed in his revised artistic approach to the human form. This exhibition is generously supported by the B.W. Bastian Foundation, Jim Dabakis and Stephen Justesen, and Tom and Mary McCarthey.
Yayoi Kusama: Decades
On view through February 13, 2011
Yayoi Kusama: Decades offers a focused presentation of exemplary works by renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. A key figure in the New York art world of the late 1950s and 1960s, Kusama’s pioneering work has galvanized subsequent generations of artists. From her early watercolor paintings of the 1950s to her “accumulation” sculptures of the 1960s, to recent, large-scale “infinity nets” paintings, the exhibition highlights works from each decade of the artist’s long career.
Faces: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art
On view through February 13, 2011
This exhibition brings together classic works of Pop Art and more recent Pop-inflected works, with a focus on the human face and figure. Many works in the exhibition take the form of portraits, such as Alex Katz’s series of screen prints depicting young people in the 1970s, or ironic self-portraits, as in Robert Arneson’s Untitled Trophy (Bust Of Bob), 1978. Faces also includes a selection of Andy Warhol’s famous Polaroid portraits, a recent gift from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, on view at the UMFA for the first time. Ranging from portraits of the rich and famous to unknown figures, Warhol’s Polaroids revel in the idiosyncrasies of his subjects.
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Utah Museum of Fine Arts
University of Utah Campus
Marcia & John Price Museum Building
410 Campus Center Dr
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
(801) 581-7332
Museum Hours
Tuesday–Friday: 10 am–5 pm
Wednesday: 10 am–8 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 11 am–5 pm
Closed Mondays and holidays
Visit our website: umfa.utah.edu
General Admission
UMFA Members FREE
Adults $7
Youth (ages 6-18) $5
Seniors & Students $5
Children under 6 FREE
U students, staff & faculty FREE
Higher education students in Utah FREE
"Tree of Life" Watercolors Exhibit @ WSU (Ogden: Nov 5 - 20)
WSU Emeritus Faculty, Arthur Adelmann explores "Tree of Life"
Who: Universe City, 2556 Washington Boulevard in Ogden
What: Tree of Life: Recent work by Arthur Adelmann
When: November 5, 5:00-8:00 pm. opening night reception
November 20: 6:30 Art Talk
exhibit hours:
Fridays, Nov 5, 12, 19: 5:00-8:00 pm
Saturdays, Nov 6, 13, 20: 1:00-5:00 pm
Where: 2556 Washington Boulevard, Ogden
In conjunction with First Friday Art Stroll, Universe City opens "Tree of Life" recent watercolors by Arthur Adelmann, Friday, November 5 from 5:00-8:00 PM. The show continues until November 20th, Fridays: 5:00-8:00 pm and Saturdays: 1:00-6:00 pm or by appointment. For appointments, call Benjamin Jennings, 801 458-8959. The show will conclude with an art talk and reception on November 20th, 6:30-8:00 pm. Light refreshment are available opening and closing nights.
Adelmann will present his current series of watercolors, each a meditation on growth. His intricate and organic black line drawings are filled in with blending colors that reflect the sky, earth and plant life. The series explores the image of a tree or plant and also, in some instances, human bodies emerging from these growing forms.
After suffering a heart attack, Adelmann retired to Torrey, Utah almost a decade ago. For more than 30 years in the WSU Department of Visual Arts, he taught drawing, painting, two-dimensional design, color design and art history. In addition to these teaching duties, he also was an active inter-disciplinary collaborator, working with travel abroad, diversity, writing, theatre and dance projects. He also performed on stage in plays and in vocal recitals. He has exhibited his art work in Utah, the United States, Canada, France, and Europe.
His work fills the main lobby of the Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts and the Hetzel-Hoellein Room (Special Collections) in the Stewart Library. He is well known for his exploration of themes in series that have their own titles. "Tree of Life," is the latest of these series, as he has returned to an almost manic level of art production with renewed inspiration.
His statement about this show:
Following devastating loss, great depletion of energies plus a heart-attack, I moved to remote high desert red rock country – Capitol Reef. I came here to grieve alone, to explore the land and to re-invent myself.
Quiet, solitude, books, music, travel, friends and time conspired to affect a gradual recovery of body, mind and soul. And a new life, an unexpected chapter developed which would even finally include painting again. Not until this summer would I paint almost daily and with great joy, a heightened sense of urgency and conviction.
The motif which gradually came into focus proved to be global and archetypal – the tree of life, often identified as the tree of knowledge of good and evil. It is often a symbol of psychic and ethical development, of transcendence beyond ego, to higher fulfillment of self and of one’s unique destiny.
Since childhood, I have felt a strong attraction to and a close kinship with trees, believing they have soul, wisdom and voice. They have offered me solace, have inspired profound thoughts and feelings and have often been the subject of my paintings. In my most lucid of dreams I was a tree, and can still feel the nourishing warmth of the sun on my evergreen boughs and the depth of my long, cool roots. This dream once convinced me to remain in Utah, a decision I have never regretted.
My tree of life series is not intended as an illustrated compendium of global, social, scientific, mythological and religious concepts associated with it. The motif is rich and varied, and is included in almost all major religions. I prefer to slowly and modestly pursue my own visual and philosophical inclinations; my own subconscious promptings building a personal cosmology.
The tree of life theme seems appropriate to my surroundings: a vast and magnificent land, sky and great profusion of rather squat juniper and pinion pine sinking deep roots into rocky red soil, indeed often into the rock itself. As I work, I bring my own meanings and symbols to the paintings. I hope that some of them will find resonance in viewers.
The great and ever-changing colorful skies are for me symbol of the great unseen motivating powers of the universe. Colors and their combinations suggest states of mind and soul. The spiraling and interlacing floriated forms symbolize the interconnectedness of all things and of psychic growth within that awareness. Trees with their upper-part disengaging or with their roots in the heavens suggest transcendence beyond the petty, the material, the ego-bound. I must ask myself what my trees might be telling me? They are, after all, drawn from my experience and imagination. Are they my soulscape? Am I collectively, these trees? Struggling to make sense of existence, and to give it greater depth of meaning and purpose.
Writers: For more information about Arthur, please contact him at 435-425-3894
For more information about Universe City, please contact Benjamin Jennings, 801-458-8959 or benjaminjennings@mac.com
Who: Universe City, 2556 Washington Boulevard in Ogden
What: Tree of Life: Recent work by Arthur Adelmann
When: November 5, 5:00-8:00 pm. opening night reception
November 20: 6:30 Art Talk
exhibit hours:
Fridays, Nov 5, 12, 19: 5:00-8:00 pm
Saturdays, Nov 6, 13, 20: 1:00-5:00 pm
Where: 2556 Washington Boulevard, Ogden
In conjunction with First Friday Art Stroll, Universe City opens "Tree of Life" recent watercolors by Arthur Adelmann, Friday, November 5 from 5:00-8:00 PM. The show continues until November 20th, Fridays: 5:00-8:00 pm and Saturdays: 1:00-6:00 pm or by appointment. For appointments, call Benjamin Jennings, 801 458-8959. The show will conclude with an art talk and reception on November 20th, 6:30-8:00 pm. Light refreshment are available opening and closing nights.
Adelmann will present his current series of watercolors, each a meditation on growth. His intricate and organic black line drawings are filled in with blending colors that reflect the sky, earth and plant life. The series explores the image of a tree or plant and also, in some instances, human bodies emerging from these growing forms.
After suffering a heart attack, Adelmann retired to Torrey, Utah almost a decade ago. For more than 30 years in the WSU Department of Visual Arts, he taught drawing, painting, two-dimensional design, color design and art history. In addition to these teaching duties, he also was an active inter-disciplinary collaborator, working with travel abroad, diversity, writing, theatre and dance projects. He also performed on stage in plays and in vocal recitals. He has exhibited his art work in Utah, the United States, Canada, France, and Europe.
His work fills the main lobby of the Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts and the Hetzel-Hoellein Room (Special Collections) in the Stewart Library. He is well known for his exploration of themes in series that have their own titles. "Tree of Life," is the latest of these series, as he has returned to an almost manic level of art production with renewed inspiration.
His statement about this show:
Following devastating loss, great depletion of energies plus a heart-attack, I moved to remote high desert red rock country – Capitol Reef. I came here to grieve alone, to explore the land and to re-invent myself.
Quiet, solitude, books, music, travel, friends and time conspired to affect a gradual recovery of body, mind and soul. And a new life, an unexpected chapter developed which would even finally include painting again. Not until this summer would I paint almost daily and with great joy, a heightened sense of urgency and conviction.
The motif which gradually came into focus proved to be global and archetypal – the tree of life, often identified as the tree of knowledge of good and evil. It is often a symbol of psychic and ethical development, of transcendence beyond ego, to higher fulfillment of self and of one’s unique destiny.
Since childhood, I have felt a strong attraction to and a close kinship with trees, believing they have soul, wisdom and voice. They have offered me solace, have inspired profound thoughts and feelings and have often been the subject of my paintings. In my most lucid of dreams I was a tree, and can still feel the nourishing warmth of the sun on my evergreen boughs and the depth of my long, cool roots. This dream once convinced me to remain in Utah, a decision I have never regretted.
My tree of life series is not intended as an illustrated compendium of global, social, scientific, mythological and religious concepts associated with it. The motif is rich and varied, and is included in almost all major religions. I prefer to slowly and modestly pursue my own visual and philosophical inclinations; my own subconscious promptings building a personal cosmology.
The tree of life theme seems appropriate to my surroundings: a vast and magnificent land, sky and great profusion of rather squat juniper and pinion pine sinking deep roots into rocky red soil, indeed often into the rock itself. As I work, I bring my own meanings and symbols to the paintings. I hope that some of them will find resonance in viewers.
The great and ever-changing colorful skies are for me symbol of the great unseen motivating powers of the universe. Colors and their combinations suggest states of mind and soul. The spiraling and interlacing floriated forms symbolize the interconnectedness of all things and of psychic growth within that awareness. Trees with their upper-part disengaging or with their roots in the heavens suggest transcendence beyond the petty, the material, the ego-bound. I must ask myself what my trees might be telling me? They are, after all, drawn from my experience and imagination. Are they my soulscape? Am I collectively, these trees? Struggling to make sense of existence, and to give it greater depth of meaning and purpose.
Writers: For more information about Arthur, please contact him at 435-425-3894
For more information about Universe City, please contact Benjamin Jennings, 801-458-8959 or benjaminjennings@mac.com
Salt Lake County Launches New Cultural Facilities Support Program
Salt Lake County Launches New Cultural Facilities Support Program
Salt Lake County boasts a thriving arts community and strong public support for arts and culture activities, as documented in the recently completed Cultural Facilities Master Plan. Creating and supporting facilities to house such events are important factors in community planning across the County.
One key recommendation of the Plan was for the County to provide a framework for developing and sustaining facilities across the county to meet the current and future needs of its arts and cultural organizations, residents and visitors. The new Salt Lake County Cultural Facilities Support Program is the fulfillment of that recommendation.
The Cultural Facilities Support Program (CFSP) encourages any qualified Salt Lake County-based arts group, cultural organization or business to apply and be considered for possible County matching support, based on available funding, for the construction, renovation, or study of an arts or cultural facility.
Philip Jordan, CFSP administrator and Division Director for Salt Lake County’s Center for the arts says he is thrilled to launch the new program. During the research phase of the Cultural Facilities Master Plan, Jordan visited with a number of communities and arts organizations hearing ideas for new or renovated facilities
“This Support Program will help those communities and organizations develop comprehensive plans to help them move forward,” Jordan said. “The application is comprehensive and requires applicants to have documented public support and funds in-hand prior to making application.”
Without a dedicated funding stream for arts and culture facilities, applicants will need to make a compelling case for funding in their documentation. “To that end, we are creating an online database of information that anyone can use to help strengthen their application,” Jordan added.
Eligible applicants complete a comprehensive application. Project applications undergo two thorough reviews by an internal County team and a citizen’s Advisory Board. The review process will analyze feasibility – can the project be built and operated at the cost presented – and demonstrated need – do the community and county need the project. Those projects passing both reviews will be forwarded to Mayor Peter Corroon with a favorable recommendation for inclusion in the annual County budget, depending on available funding.
The Support Program will accept applications from Wednesday, October 20, 2010, through February 28, 2011, for consideration in the 2012 County budget cycle. For complete details on the Program and to download an application, go online to www.slccfa.org and click on the Cultural Support Facilities Program link.
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Salt Lake County boasts a thriving arts community and strong public support for arts and culture activities, as documented in the recently completed Cultural Facilities Master Plan. Creating and supporting facilities to house such events are important factors in community planning across the County.
One key recommendation of the Plan was for the County to provide a framework for developing and sustaining facilities across the county to meet the current and future needs of its arts and cultural organizations, residents and visitors. The new Salt Lake County Cultural Facilities Support Program is the fulfillment of that recommendation.
The Cultural Facilities Support Program (CFSP) encourages any qualified Salt Lake County-based arts group, cultural organization or business to apply and be considered for possible County matching support, based on available funding, for the construction, renovation, or study of an arts or cultural facility.
Philip Jordan, CFSP administrator and Division Director for Salt Lake County’s Center for the arts says he is thrilled to launch the new program. During the research phase of the Cultural Facilities Master Plan, Jordan visited with a number of communities and arts organizations hearing ideas for new or renovated facilities
“This Support Program will help those communities and organizations develop comprehensive plans to help them move forward,” Jordan said. “The application is comprehensive and requires applicants to have documented public support and funds in-hand prior to making application.”
Without a dedicated funding stream for arts and culture facilities, applicants will need to make a compelling case for funding in their documentation. “To that end, we are creating an online database of information that anyone can use to help strengthen their application,” Jordan added.
Eligible applicants complete a comprehensive application. Project applications undergo two thorough reviews by an internal County team and a citizen’s Advisory Board. The review process will analyze feasibility – can the project be built and operated at the cost presented – and demonstrated need – do the community and county need the project. Those projects passing both reviews will be forwarded to Mayor Peter Corroon with a favorable recommendation for inclusion in the annual County budget, depending on available funding.
The Support Program will accept applications from Wednesday, October 20, 2010, through February 28, 2011, for consideration in the 2012 County budget cycle. For complete details on the Program and to download an application, go online to www.slccfa.org and click on the Cultural Support Facilities Program link.
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Trevor Southey: Reconciliation Exhibit @ UMFA (Oct 21 - Feb 13, 2011)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts:
--Shelbey Peterson, UMFA Public Relations and Marketing Associate
shelbey.peterson@umfa.utah.edu, p: 801-585-1306, c: 801-580-7848
--Donna Poulton, UMFA Associate Curator of the Art of Utah and the West
donna.poulton@umfa.utah.edu, p: 801-585-6815
Trevor Southey: Reconciliation
October 21, 2010-February 13, 2011
Salt Lake City, UT – The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) presents Trevor Southey: Reconciliation, a retrospective exhibition of the most significant works from each period of former Utah-based artist Trevor Southey’s (b. 1940) career. Organized by guest curator Day Christensen, in collaboration with Donna Poulton, UMFA associate curator of the art of Utah and the West, the exhibition will be on view in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building at the University of Utah from October 21, 2010–February 13, 2011.
Two thousand square feet of gallery space on the UMFA’s first floor is devoted to Trevor Southey: Reconciliation. The exhibition comprises more than 60 works created over the last 50 years, including oil paintings, sculpture, and works on paper, which collectively create a profoundly biographical body of work.
The exhibition is designed to trace four distinct passages in Southey’s life that have defined the essential qualities of his character and art.
The first room in the gallery space explores his youth in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and early art education in England. The second passage focuses on his life as a married, practicing member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his desire for a utopian lifestyle created around family, farmstead, and art.
Works in the third section reflect Southey’s decision to acknowledge his homosexuality in 1982, which was not a repudiation of his previous life, but rather an attempt to acknowledge his own identity. In the final two rooms, Southey’s reconciliation of his life decisions are explored through his evolving artistic approach to the human form.
“One of the most striking and endearing qualities of the artist Trevor Southey is his candor and honesty—traits that characterize not only his personality, but are richly reflected in the sculpture, etchings, and paintings in this evocative retrospective,” said Donna Poulton.
“The UMFA has been planning Trevor Southey’s retrospective exhibition for two years, and we are delighted to present the work of this talented and much-loved artist,” said Gretchen Dietrich, executive director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. “Southey’s art—rooted so deeply in the human figure—is an amazingly rich and lyrical exploration of what it means to be a human being.”
Trevor Southey: Reconciliation is generously sponsored by the B.W. Bastian Foundation, Jim Dabakis, Stephen Justesen, Tom McCarthey, and Mary McCarthey, with additional support from Day Christensen, Sam Stewart, Diane Stewart, Alyssa Warnock, John Warnock, and Marva Warnock.
FREE PUBLIC PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
Artist Reception
October 21 • 4:30-6:30 pm
Meet artist Trevor Southey, enjoy light refreshments, and experience the Trevor Southey: Reconciliation exhibition on opening night at an artist reception. This event is supported in part by the University of Utah Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center (LGBT) as part of Pride Week. For a full list of Pride Week events, please visit http://www.sa.utah.edu./lgbt/events/Uprideweek.html.
Panel Discussion: “Alpine Ideal”
October 21 • 6:30-8:00 pm
The UMFA is pleased to present a panel discussion with artists Trevor Southey, Gary E. Smith, Dennis Smith, and Neil Hadlock. These gentlemen will discuss their lives and artwork, focusing on a movement in the 1970s known as the Alpine Ideal.
For more information, please visit http://www.umfa.utah.edu/trevorsouthey_reconciliation or http://www.trevorsouthey.com. A press kit can be downloaded at http://www.umfa.utah.edu/southeypresskit.
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The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is located on the University of Utah campus in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building at 410 Campus Center Drive. The UMFA’s mission is to engage visitors in discovering meaningful connections with the artistic expressions of the world’s cultures. Like the University of Utah, the UMFA strives to be a safe haven for discussion, dialogue, and free expression. General admission is $7 adults, $5 youth and seniors, FREE for U of U students/staff/faculty, UMFA members, higher education students in Utah, and children under six years old. Free admission offered the first Wednesday and third Saturday of each month. Museum hours are Tuesday – Friday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Wednesdays 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Weekends, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.; closed Mondays and holidays. For more information call (801) 581-7332 or visit www.umfa.utah.edu.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts:
--Shelbey Peterson, UMFA Public Relations and Marketing Associate
shelbey.peterson@umfa.utah.edu, p: 801-585-1306, c: 801-580-7848
--Donna Poulton, UMFA Associate Curator of the Art of Utah and the West
donna.poulton@umfa.utah.edu, p: 801-585-6815
Trevor Southey: Reconciliation
October 21, 2010-February 13, 2011
Salt Lake City, UT – The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) presents Trevor Southey: Reconciliation, a retrospective exhibition of the most significant works from each period of former Utah-based artist Trevor Southey’s (b. 1940) career. Organized by guest curator Day Christensen, in collaboration with Donna Poulton, UMFA associate curator of the art of Utah and the West, the exhibition will be on view in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building at the University of Utah from October 21, 2010–February 13, 2011.
Two thousand square feet of gallery space on the UMFA’s first floor is devoted to Trevor Southey: Reconciliation. The exhibition comprises more than 60 works created over the last 50 years, including oil paintings, sculpture, and works on paper, which collectively create a profoundly biographical body of work.
The exhibition is designed to trace four distinct passages in Southey’s life that have defined the essential qualities of his character and art.
The first room in the gallery space explores his youth in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and early art education in England. The second passage focuses on his life as a married, practicing member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his desire for a utopian lifestyle created around family, farmstead, and art.
Works in the third section reflect Southey’s decision to acknowledge his homosexuality in 1982, which was not a repudiation of his previous life, but rather an attempt to acknowledge his own identity. In the final two rooms, Southey’s reconciliation of his life decisions are explored through his evolving artistic approach to the human form.
“One of the most striking and endearing qualities of the artist Trevor Southey is his candor and honesty—traits that characterize not only his personality, but are richly reflected in the sculpture, etchings, and paintings in this evocative retrospective,” said Donna Poulton.
“The UMFA has been planning Trevor Southey’s retrospective exhibition for two years, and we are delighted to present the work of this talented and much-loved artist,” said Gretchen Dietrich, executive director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. “Southey’s art—rooted so deeply in the human figure—is an amazingly rich and lyrical exploration of what it means to be a human being.”
Trevor Southey: Reconciliation is generously sponsored by the B.W. Bastian Foundation, Jim Dabakis, Stephen Justesen, Tom McCarthey, and Mary McCarthey, with additional support from Day Christensen, Sam Stewart, Diane Stewart, Alyssa Warnock, John Warnock, and Marva Warnock.
FREE PUBLIC PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
Artist Reception
October 21 • 4:30-6:30 pm
Meet artist Trevor Southey, enjoy light refreshments, and experience the Trevor Southey: Reconciliation exhibition on opening night at an artist reception. This event is supported in part by the University of Utah Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center (LGBT) as part of Pride Week. For a full list of Pride Week events, please visit http://www.sa.utah.edu./lgbt/events/Uprideweek.html.
Panel Discussion: “Alpine Ideal”
October 21 • 6:30-8:00 pm
The UMFA is pleased to present a panel discussion with artists Trevor Southey, Gary E. Smith, Dennis Smith, and Neil Hadlock. These gentlemen will discuss their lives and artwork, focusing on a movement in the 1970s known as the Alpine Ideal.
For more information, please visit http://www.umfa.utah.edu/trevorsouthey_reconciliation or http://www.trevorsouthey.com. A press kit can be downloaded at http://www.umfa.utah.edu/southeypresskit.
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The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is located on the University of Utah campus in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building at 410 Campus Center Drive. The UMFA’s mission is to engage visitors in discovering meaningful connections with the artistic expressions of the world’s cultures. Like the University of Utah, the UMFA strives to be a safe haven for discussion, dialogue, and free expression. General admission is $7 adults, $5 youth and seniors, FREE for U of U students/staff/faculty, UMFA members, higher education students in Utah, and children under six years old. Free admission offered the first Wednesday and third Saturday of each month. Museum hours are Tuesday – Friday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Wednesdays 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Weekends, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.; closed Mondays and holidays. For more information call (801) 581-7332 or visit www.umfa.utah.edu.
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" @ SUU (Nov 4 - 13)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 10/20/10
Michael French
Public Information Coordinator
College of Performing and Visual Arts
Southern Utah University
Office: 435-865-8667
Cell: 805-260-8797
michaelfrench@suu.edu
Funny Thing Photo 1: Katelin Ruzzamenti (Geminae), Andrew Hunsaker (Pseudolus) and Annoeska Kuppens (Geminae). Photo: Danelle Cheney
Funny Thing Photo 2: Andrew Hunsaker as Pseudolus. Photo: Danelle Cheney
FOR CALENDAR EDITORS: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
WHAT: A wily slave, his love-smitten master, an innocent courtesan, a pompous warrior, a befuddled old man and others collide in the hilarious musical farce, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. With a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart (creator of the sitcom M*A*S*H), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, this Tony Award-winning musical features a bouncy score including the rousing "Comedy Tonight," the lyrical "Lovely" and the show-stopping "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid."
WHO: Southern Utah University, College of Performing and Visual Arts,
Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
WHEN: November 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, & 13, 2010
TIME: 7:30pm
WHERE: Auditorium Theatre, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
TICKETS: (435) 586-7872, Monday-Friday, 8am-4:30pm, or www.suu.edu/arts.
PRICES: General Adult Admission: $10; Student & Youth: $5; SUU Students: Free with valid I.D.
INFO: Phone: Arts Hotline: (435) 865-8800 or visit: www.suu.edu/arts
SUU’S COLLEGE OF PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS
PRESENTS THE TONY AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL FARCE
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
NOVEMBER 4-6 & 8, 11-13, 2010
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah: A wily slave, his love-smitten master, an innocent courtesan, a pompous warrior, a befuddled old man and others collide in the hilarious musical farce, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Southern Utah University’s College of Performing and Visual Arts’ Department of Theatre Arts and Dance celebrates the 80th birthday of Stephen Sondheim, America’s acclaimed composer and lyricist, with a production of his Tony Award-winning musical comedy. The fun begins on Thursday, November 4, 2010, and continues November 5, 6, 8, 11, 12 and 13. The show is directed by Matt Neves. Performances are at SUU’s Auditorium Theatre and curtain time is 7:30pm.
Set on a colorful street in ancient Rome, Pseudolus, a crafty and clever slave, will do anything to secure his freedom. When his naïve young master, Hero, falls in love with an equally innocent courtesan, the ever-resourceful slave sees his opportunity for emancipation. Pseudolus sets in motion a series of outrageous situations that lead to slapstick, door-slamming, mistaken identity and every device conceivable to create non-stop laughter. This wickedly funny and slightly naughty musical farce offers "something for everyone." The bouncy score by Stephen Sondheim includes the rousing "Comedy Tonight," the lyrical "Lovely" and the show-stopping "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid."
With a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart (creator of the classic sitcom M*A*S*H), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and based on the plays of Plautus, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum opened on Broadway in 1962 and won six Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Book for a Musical. Interesting to note, Sondheim was not even nominated for the score of his first musical as composer and lyricist. He would go on to create award-winning scores for Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods, among others – receiving multiple Tony Awards including one for Lifetime Achievement.
Director Matt Neves is creating a colorful and energetic staging of this timeless musical comedy. Collaborating with Neves on bringing all the fun to the stage are choreographer Jenny Smith, music director J.P. Kentros, scenic and lighting designer Michael M. Harvey, costume designer Kaylin James, and make-up and hair designer Kaitlin Woolley. Bryan Sommer serves as stage manager.
Undertaking the monumental role of Pseudolus is Theatre Arts and Dance faculty member Andrew Hunsaker, whose previous SUU appearances include his hilarious turn in the theatre department’s production of Lend Me a Tenor. Playing other principle roles are Cesar Ad́an Bojórquez (Marcus Lycus), Anthony Carter (Hero), Alisha Fabbi (Domina), Steven Grawrock (Senex), Jayson LeBaron (Hysterium), MacKenzie Pedersen (Philia) and Joe Spear (Miles Gloriosus). The cast also features Emilie Andersen, Lara Coret, Tatem Credille, Matt Hanchey, Annoeska Kuppens, Grayson Moulton, Brian Nelson, Katelin Ruzzamenti, Jenny Smith and Eric Waits.
For an evening of unending hilarity make your way to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Ticket prices are: $10 General Admission; $8 SUU Faculty and Staff, $5 Youth and free for SUU students with a valid ID. For tickets, call the ticket office at (435) 586-7872, Monday-Friday, 8am-4:30pm, or order online at www.suu.edu/arts. For more information, please visit www.suu.edu/arts or call the Arts Hotline at (435) 865-8800.
The Theatre Arts and Dance Series continues with Tennessee Williams’ classic American drama, The Glass Menagerie; Stephen Schwartz’s spirited musical, Godspell; Breaking Bounds: Student-Choreographed Dance Concert; and Journeys: Faculty-Choreographed Dance Concert.
ABOUT THE COLLEGE
The Southern Utah University College of Performing and Visual Arts is comprised of nationally accredited departments of Art and Design, Music, Theatre Arts and Dance, as well as a graduate program in Arts Administration. The College offers 16 different degree areas, including liberal arts Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees; professional Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Fine Arts in art and theatre degrees; and a Master of Fine Arts in Arts Administration degree. More than 60 full- and part-time faculty and staff are engaged in teaching and mentoring over 550 majors in the College. Over 1100 students enroll each year in over 195 arts classes on the SUU campus. The College presents 100 performances, lectures, presentations, and exhibitions each year. The College’s affiliate organizations include the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, American Folk Ballet, Utah Shakespearean Festival, the performance group Acclamation, and the SUU Ballroom Dance Company. For more information about the College of Performing and Visual Arts, contact the Office of the Dean at (435) 865-8561, or by e-mail at cpvamktg@suu.edu.
Michael French
Public Information Coordinator
College of Performing and Visual Arts
Southern Utah University
Office: 435-865-8667
Cell: 805-260-8797
michaelfrench@suu.edu
Funny Thing Photo 1: Katelin Ruzzamenti (Geminae), Andrew Hunsaker (Pseudolus) and Annoeska Kuppens (Geminae). Photo: Danelle Cheney
Funny Thing Photo 2: Andrew Hunsaker as Pseudolus. Photo: Danelle Cheney
FOR CALENDAR EDITORS: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
WHAT: A wily slave, his love-smitten master, an innocent courtesan, a pompous warrior, a befuddled old man and others collide in the hilarious musical farce, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. With a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart (creator of the sitcom M*A*S*H), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, this Tony Award-winning musical features a bouncy score including the rousing "Comedy Tonight," the lyrical "Lovely" and the show-stopping "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid."
WHO: Southern Utah University, College of Performing and Visual Arts,
Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
WHEN: November 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, & 13, 2010
TIME: 7:30pm
WHERE: Auditorium Theatre, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
TICKETS: (435) 586-7872, Monday-Friday, 8am-4:30pm, or www.suu.edu/arts.
PRICES: General Adult Admission: $10; Student & Youth: $5; SUU Students: Free with valid I.D.
INFO: Phone: Arts Hotline: (435) 865-8800 or visit: www.suu.edu/arts
SUU’S COLLEGE OF PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS
PRESENTS THE TONY AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL FARCE
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
NOVEMBER 4-6 & 8, 11-13, 2010
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah: A wily slave, his love-smitten master, an innocent courtesan, a pompous warrior, a befuddled old man and others collide in the hilarious musical farce, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Southern Utah University’s College of Performing and Visual Arts’ Department of Theatre Arts and Dance celebrates the 80th birthday of Stephen Sondheim, America’s acclaimed composer and lyricist, with a production of his Tony Award-winning musical comedy. The fun begins on Thursday, November 4, 2010, and continues November 5, 6, 8, 11, 12 and 13. The show is directed by Matt Neves. Performances are at SUU’s Auditorium Theatre and curtain time is 7:30pm.
Set on a colorful street in ancient Rome, Pseudolus, a crafty and clever slave, will do anything to secure his freedom. When his naïve young master, Hero, falls in love with an equally innocent courtesan, the ever-resourceful slave sees his opportunity for emancipation. Pseudolus sets in motion a series of outrageous situations that lead to slapstick, door-slamming, mistaken identity and every device conceivable to create non-stop laughter. This wickedly funny and slightly naughty musical farce offers "something for everyone." The bouncy score by Stephen Sondheim includes the rousing "Comedy Tonight," the lyrical "Lovely" and the show-stopping "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid."
With a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart (creator of the classic sitcom M*A*S*H), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and based on the plays of Plautus, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum opened on Broadway in 1962 and won six Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Book for a Musical. Interesting to note, Sondheim was not even nominated for the score of his first musical as composer and lyricist. He would go on to create award-winning scores for Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods, among others – receiving multiple Tony Awards including one for Lifetime Achievement.
Director Matt Neves is creating a colorful and energetic staging of this timeless musical comedy. Collaborating with Neves on bringing all the fun to the stage are choreographer Jenny Smith, music director J.P. Kentros, scenic and lighting designer Michael M. Harvey, costume designer Kaylin James, and make-up and hair designer Kaitlin Woolley. Bryan Sommer serves as stage manager.
Undertaking the monumental role of Pseudolus is Theatre Arts and Dance faculty member Andrew Hunsaker, whose previous SUU appearances include his hilarious turn in the theatre department’s production of Lend Me a Tenor. Playing other principle roles are Cesar Ad́an Bojórquez (Marcus Lycus), Anthony Carter (Hero), Alisha Fabbi (Domina), Steven Grawrock (Senex), Jayson LeBaron (Hysterium), MacKenzie Pedersen (Philia) and Joe Spear (Miles Gloriosus). The cast also features Emilie Andersen, Lara Coret, Tatem Credille, Matt Hanchey, Annoeska Kuppens, Grayson Moulton, Brian Nelson, Katelin Ruzzamenti, Jenny Smith and Eric Waits.
For an evening of unending hilarity make your way to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Ticket prices are: $10 General Admission; $8 SUU Faculty and Staff, $5 Youth and free for SUU students with a valid ID. For tickets, call the ticket office at (435) 586-7872, Monday-Friday, 8am-4:30pm, or order online at www.suu.edu/arts. For more information, please visit www.suu.edu/arts or call the Arts Hotline at (435) 865-8800.
The Theatre Arts and Dance Series continues with Tennessee Williams’ classic American drama, The Glass Menagerie; Stephen Schwartz’s spirited musical, Godspell; Breaking Bounds: Student-Choreographed Dance Concert; and Journeys: Faculty-Choreographed Dance Concert.
ABOUT THE COLLEGE
The Southern Utah University College of Performing and Visual Arts is comprised of nationally accredited departments of Art and Design, Music, Theatre Arts and Dance, as well as a graduate program in Arts Administration. The College offers 16 different degree areas, including liberal arts Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees; professional Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Fine Arts in art and theatre degrees; and a Master of Fine Arts in Arts Administration degree. More than 60 full- and part-time faculty and staff are engaged in teaching and mentoring over 550 majors in the College. Over 1100 students enroll each year in over 195 arts classes on the SUU campus. The College presents 100 performances, lectures, presentations, and exhibitions each year. The College’s affiliate organizations include the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, American Folk Ballet, Utah Shakespearean Festival, the performance group Acclamation, and the SUU Ballroom Dance Company. For more information about the College of Performing and Visual Arts, contact the Office of the Dean at (435) 865-8561, or by e-mail at cpvamktg@suu.edu.
New date: Professional Developmen Seminar @ Washington Couny Arts Council (CC: Nov 15)
EVENT TITLE: Professional Development Seminar
Calling all artists, arts organizations, and art lovers!
Join the Washington County Arts Council (WCAC) for a community discussion concerning the future of the arts in our Southern Utah County on Monday, November 15 from 6:30-8:30 pm at St George Branch of the Washington County Library System (88 West 100 South, Community Room B).We will discuss common arts issues based on needs and wants within the county and will create a plan for the County to move into the future - with arts at the forefront! For more information , call the WCAC at (435) 674-2687, email info@washcoarts.org or visit www.washcoarts.org.
Calling all artists, arts organizations, and art lovers!
Join the Washington County Arts Council (WCAC) for a community discussion concerning the future of the arts in our Southern Utah County on Monday, November 15 from 6:30-8:30 pm at St George Branch of the Washington County Library System (88 West 100 South, Community Room B).We will discuss common arts issues based on needs and wants within the county and will create a plan for the County to move into the future - with arts at the forefront! For more information , call the WCAC at (435) 674-2687, email info@washcoarts.org or visit www.washcoarts.org.
Annual Chili Bowl Sale @ SUU (CC: Oct 25 - 27)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 10/19/10
Michael French
Public Information Coordinator
College of Performing and Visual Arts
Southern Utah University
Office: 435-865-8667
Cell: 805-260-8797
michaelfrench@suu.edu
FOR CALENDAR EDITORS: ANNUAL CHILI BOWL SALE
WHAT: The Annual Chili Bowl Sale features beautifully rendered bowls created by students who are Ceramics Majors for purchase. All buyers are offered a free choice of either chili or soup to fill their purchase. The bowls range in price from $10 to $15. In addition, raffle tickets will be sold for a chance to win a piece donated by a professional artist.
WHO: The Ceramics Guild, Southern Utah University
WHEN: Monday through Wednesday, October 25-27 7, 2010
TIME: 10:00am-3:00pm
WHERE: Living Room, Sharwan Smith Center, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
INFO: Phone: Arts Hotline: (435) 865-8800 or visit: www.suu.edu/arts
PRICES: Bowls range $10.00 to $15.00
SUU’S CERAMICS GUILD
SPONSORS ANNUAL CHILI BOWL SALE
OCTOBER 25-27, 2010
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah: An event that uniquely merges fundraising, food and, most importantly, art, SUU’s Ceramics Guild’s Annual Chili Bowl Sale takes place Monday through Wednesday, October 25 to 27, 2010, in the Living Room of the Sharwan Smith Center from 10:00am to 3:00pm. The sale is open to the general public who are encouraged to attend.
The Annual Chili Bowl Sale features beautifully rendered bowls created by students who are Ceramics Majors. The bowls are for purchase and all buyers are offered a free choice of either chili or soup to fill their newly acquired artwork. The bowls range in price from $10.00 to $15.00. In addition, raffle tickets will be sold for a chance to win a piece donated by a professional artist.
The proceeds from the event go to support the visiting artist program in Ceramics and to teach a useful form of professional activity to Ceramics majors. Another major purpose is to raise funds to support student trips to the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts annual conference.
Purchase a bowl, enjoy lunch and support students by attending SUU’s Ceramics Guild’s Annual Chili Bowl Sale. For more information on the SUU College of Performing and Visual Arts events, please call the Arts Hotline at (435) 865-8800, or visit www.suu.edu/arts.
ABOUT THE COLLEGE
The Southern Utah University College of Performing and Visual Arts is comprised of nationally accredited departments of Art and Design, Music, Theatre Arts and Dance, as well as a graduate program in Arts Administration. The College offers 16 different degree areas, including liberal arts Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees; professional Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Fine Arts in art and theatre degrees; and a Master of Fine Arts in Arts Administration degree. More than 60 full- and part-time faculty and staff are engaged in teaching and mentoring over 550 majors in the College. Over 1100 students enroll each year in over 195 arts classes on the SUU campus. The College presents 100 performances, lectures, presentations, and exhibitions each year. The College’s affiliate organizations include the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, American Folk Ballet, Utah Shakespearean Festival, the performance group Acclamation, and the SUU Ballroom Dance Company. For more information about the College of Performing and Visual Arts, contact the Office of the Dean at (435) 865-8561, or by e-mail at cpvamktg@suu.edu.
Michael French
Public Information Coordinator
College of Performing and Visual Arts
Southern Utah University
Office: 435-865-8667
Cell: 805-260-8797
michaelfrench@suu.edu
FOR CALENDAR EDITORS: ANNUAL CHILI BOWL SALE
WHAT: The Annual Chili Bowl Sale features beautifully rendered bowls created by students who are Ceramics Majors for purchase. All buyers are offered a free choice of either chili or soup to fill their purchase. The bowls range in price from $10 to $15. In addition, raffle tickets will be sold for a chance to win a piece donated by a professional artist.
WHO: The Ceramics Guild, Southern Utah University
WHEN: Monday through Wednesday, October 25-27 7, 2010
TIME: 10:00am-3:00pm
WHERE: Living Room, Sharwan Smith Center, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
INFO: Phone: Arts Hotline: (435) 865-8800 or visit: www.suu.edu/arts
PRICES: Bowls range $10.00 to $15.00
SUU’S CERAMICS GUILD
SPONSORS ANNUAL CHILI BOWL SALE
OCTOBER 25-27, 2010
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah: An event that uniquely merges fundraising, food and, most importantly, art, SUU’s Ceramics Guild’s Annual Chili Bowl Sale takes place Monday through Wednesday, October 25 to 27, 2010, in the Living Room of the Sharwan Smith Center from 10:00am to 3:00pm. The sale is open to the general public who are encouraged to attend.
The Annual Chili Bowl Sale features beautifully rendered bowls created by students who are Ceramics Majors. The bowls are for purchase and all buyers are offered a free choice of either chili or soup to fill their newly acquired artwork. The bowls range in price from $10.00 to $15.00. In addition, raffle tickets will be sold for a chance to win a piece donated by a professional artist.
The proceeds from the event go to support the visiting artist program in Ceramics and to teach a useful form of professional activity to Ceramics majors. Another major purpose is to raise funds to support student trips to the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts annual conference.
Purchase a bowl, enjoy lunch and support students by attending SUU’s Ceramics Guild’s Annual Chili Bowl Sale. For more information on the SUU College of Performing and Visual Arts events, please call the Arts Hotline at (435) 865-8800, or visit www.suu.edu/arts.
ABOUT THE COLLEGE
The Southern Utah University College of Performing and Visual Arts is comprised of nationally accredited departments of Art and Design, Music, Theatre Arts and Dance, as well as a graduate program in Arts Administration. The College offers 16 different degree areas, including liberal arts Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees; professional Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Fine Arts in art and theatre degrees; and a Master of Fine Arts in Arts Administration degree. More than 60 full- and part-time faculty and staff are engaged in teaching and mentoring over 550 majors in the College. Over 1100 students enroll each year in over 195 arts classes on the SUU campus. The College presents 100 performances, lectures, presentations, and exhibitions each year. The College’s affiliate organizations include the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, American Folk Ballet, Utah Shakespearean Festival, the performance group Acclamation, and the SUU Ballroom Dance Company. For more information about the College of Performing and Visual Arts, contact the Office of the Dean at (435) 865-8561, or by e-mail at cpvamktg@suu.edu.
Max Weaver Exhibit @ SUU (CC: OCt 19 - Nov 15)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 19, 2010
Amie Conner
Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery
College of Performing and Visual Arts
Southern Utah University
Office: (435) 586-5432
AmieConner@gmail.com
FOR CALENDAR EDITORS: WORKS BY MAX D. WEAVER
WHAT: The art of former Art Department Chairman at Southern Utah State College, Max D. Weaver is displayed. The exhibit features oil paintings by the artist.
WHO: Southern Utah University
WHEN: October 19, 2010 – November 15, 2010
TIME: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m
WHERE: South Hall, 1st Floor, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
PRICES: Free and the General Public is encouraged to attend.
INFO: Arts Hotline: (435) 865-8800 or visit www.suu.edu/pva/artgallery
Works by Max Dickson Weaver
on exhibit in SUU’s South Hall Gallery
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT: Southern Utah University’s South Hall Gallery is currently displaying works by Max Dickson Weaver. This exhibit runs now through November 15, 2010. South Hall Gallery is open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.
Max Weaver is a native of Layton, Davis County, Utah, and currently resides in Orem, Utah. He has spent most of his career teaching art. He first started at Helper Junior High School, and also taught at Cypress and Logan High School. Max then went on to serve as the Art Department Chairman at Southern Utah State College and then joined the faculty at Brigham Young University, where he taught for 21 years until his retirement in 1982 as a full professor. In addition, he was worked as a part-time instructor at Utah State and the University of Hawaii. After retiring he went on to be the Art Chairman of the Art Train that went through the State of Utah for two weeks during Governor Calvin’s Rampton’s tenure. Max has exhibited his pottery, painting, prints, jewelry and crafts in many one-man shows throughout the western United States. The exhibit in South Hall is a collection of his oil paintings.
For more information about this exhibit, visit www.suu.edu/pva/artgallery or call (435) 586-5432. The Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery’s mission is to exhibit, collect and preserve historic and contemporary works of art significant to the interior American West. In addition, the Gallery hosts art exhibitions that represent the principal artistic styles and periods of world cultures.
ABOUT THE COLLEGE
The Southern Utah University College of Performing and Visual Arts is comprised of nationally accredited departments of Art and Design, Music, Theatre Arts and Dance, as well as a graduate program in Arts Administration. The College offers 16 different degree areas, including liberal arts Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees; professional Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Fine Arts in art and theatre degrees; and a Master of Fine Arts in Arts Administration degree. More than 60 full- and part-time faculty and staff are engaged in teaching and mentoring over 550 majors in the College. Over 1100 students enroll each year in over 195 arts classes on the SUU campus. The College presents 100 performances, lectures, presentations, and exhibitions each year. The College’s affiliate organizations include the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, American Folk Ballet, Utah Shakespearean Festival, the performance group Acclamation, and the SUU Ballroom Dance Company. For more information about the College of Performing and Visual Arts, contact the Office of the Dean at (435) 865-8561, or by e-mail at cpvamktg@suu.edu.
Amie Conner
Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery
College of Performing and Visual Arts
Southern Utah University
Office: (435) 586-5432
AmieConner@gmail.com
FOR CALENDAR EDITORS: WORKS BY MAX D. WEAVER
WHAT: The art of former Art Department Chairman at Southern Utah State College, Max D. Weaver is displayed. The exhibit features oil paintings by the artist.
WHO: Southern Utah University
WHEN: October 19, 2010 – November 15, 2010
TIME: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m
WHERE: South Hall, 1st Floor, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
PRICES: Free and the General Public is encouraged to attend.
INFO: Arts Hotline: (435) 865-8800 or visit www.suu.edu/pva/artgallery
Works by Max Dickson Weaver
on exhibit in SUU’s South Hall Gallery
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT: Southern Utah University’s South Hall Gallery is currently displaying works by Max Dickson Weaver. This exhibit runs now through November 15, 2010. South Hall Gallery is open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.
Max Weaver is a native of Layton, Davis County, Utah, and currently resides in Orem, Utah. He has spent most of his career teaching art. He first started at Helper Junior High School, and also taught at Cypress and Logan High School. Max then went on to serve as the Art Department Chairman at Southern Utah State College and then joined the faculty at Brigham Young University, where he taught for 21 years until his retirement in 1982 as a full professor. In addition, he was worked as a part-time instructor at Utah State and the University of Hawaii. After retiring he went on to be the Art Chairman of the Art Train that went through the State of Utah for two weeks during Governor Calvin’s Rampton’s tenure. Max has exhibited his pottery, painting, prints, jewelry and crafts in many one-man shows throughout the western United States. The exhibit in South Hall is a collection of his oil paintings.
For more information about this exhibit, visit www.suu.edu/pva/artgallery or call (435) 586-5432. The Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery’s mission is to exhibit, collect and preserve historic and contemporary works of art significant to the interior American West. In addition, the Gallery hosts art exhibitions that represent the principal artistic styles and periods of world cultures.
ABOUT THE COLLEGE
The Southern Utah University College of Performing and Visual Arts is comprised of nationally accredited departments of Art and Design, Music, Theatre Arts and Dance, as well as a graduate program in Arts Administration. The College offers 16 different degree areas, including liberal arts Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees; professional Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Fine Arts in art and theatre degrees; and a Master of Fine Arts in Arts Administration degree. More than 60 full- and part-time faculty and staff are engaged in teaching and mentoring over 550 majors in the College. Over 1100 students enroll each year in over 195 arts classes on the SUU campus. The College presents 100 performances, lectures, presentations, and exhibitions each year. The College’s affiliate organizations include the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, American Folk Ballet, Utah Shakespearean Festival, the performance group Acclamation, and the SUU Ballroom Dance Company. For more information about the College of Performing and Visual Arts, contact the Office of the Dean at (435) 865-8561, or by e-mail at cpvamktg@suu.edu.
December Events @ Covey Center for the Arts (Provo)
HERE IS WHAT IS HAPPENING AT THE COVEY CENTER IN DECEMBER!
Utah Valley Symphony
7:30 p.m.;$5, $10, $12, $25
December 1, 2
Utah Premiere Brass
7:30 p.m.; $8, $10, $25
December 3
Secured Art Gallery
Comfort and Joy: Featuring work by the Gomm Stained Glass Studios and friends
December 3, Friday Night Gallery Stroll/Opening Reception
Joyful Noise (Brinton Black Box)
7:30 p.m.; $10
December 2-18
Joyful Noise is back by popular demand. It is the remarkable story of how Handel wrote the Messiah. Watch as love, passion, scandal, and struggle mix together when George Frederic Handel writes his most famous oratorio. Year after year, Joyful Noise is the Black Box season's greatest success, playing to sold-out audiences. Written by Tim Slover.
GET YOUR JUST DESSERTS!
Our Sweet Season is new this year. For the first two nights of each show only, you can enjoy a decadent dessert beforehand. Most nights, the director will drop in as well, to give you extra insights into the night’s performance. Come early (6:30 p.m.), reserve your seat in the theater, and then relax and enjoy your delicious dessert in the Covey Center Occasional Cafe.
Purchase tickets to the show alone, or add dessert for just a little more. How sweet is that?
Enjoy a different and delicious dessert with each Black Box play.
For Joyful Noise (available December 3 only),
--watch here for your decadent dessert choices!--
(Sweet Season tickets must be purchased at least 24 hours in advance. To buy Sweet Season, call our Ticket Office at 801-852-7007.)
David Lanz
2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
December 4
$25 Main Floor; $20 Balcony
In December, world-famous solo pianist David Lanz—pioneer, legend, icon and ambassador of the New Age music movement—will present his Christmas concert, featuring seasonal favorites as well as his best-loved pieces like the melodic and haunting “Christofori’s Dream.”
Lanz performed last December at the Covey Center. His concert sold out so quickly, we decided to bring him back again!
Chamber Music at the Covey
7:30.p.m.; $6, $8
December 10
Utah Regional Ballet presents The Nutcracker
7:30 p.m.; $18, $22, $26
2 p.m. Matinee, $16, $18, $20
December 11, 16-18, 20,21
Jazz at the Covey
7:30 p.m.; $6, $8
December 17
Utah Valley Symphony
7:30 p.m.;$5, $10, $12, $25
December 1, 2
Utah Premiere Brass
7:30 p.m.; $8, $10, $25
December 3
Secured Art Gallery
Comfort and Joy: Featuring work by the Gomm Stained Glass Studios and friends
December 3, Friday Night Gallery Stroll/Opening Reception
Joyful Noise (Brinton Black Box)
7:30 p.m.; $10
December 2-18
Joyful Noise is back by popular demand. It is the remarkable story of how Handel wrote the Messiah. Watch as love, passion, scandal, and struggle mix together when George Frederic Handel writes his most famous oratorio. Year after year, Joyful Noise is the Black Box season's greatest success, playing to sold-out audiences. Written by Tim Slover.
GET YOUR JUST DESSERTS!
Our Sweet Season is new this year. For the first two nights of each show only, you can enjoy a decadent dessert beforehand. Most nights, the director will drop in as well, to give you extra insights into the night’s performance. Come early (6:30 p.m.), reserve your seat in the theater, and then relax and enjoy your delicious dessert in the Covey Center Occasional Cafe.
Purchase tickets to the show alone, or add dessert for just a little more. How sweet is that?
Enjoy a different and delicious dessert with each Black Box play.
For Joyful Noise (available December 3 only),
--watch here for your decadent dessert choices!--
(Sweet Season tickets must be purchased at least 24 hours in advance. To buy Sweet Season, call our Ticket Office at 801-852-7007.)
David Lanz
2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
December 4
$25 Main Floor; $20 Balcony
In December, world-famous solo pianist David Lanz—pioneer, legend, icon and ambassador of the New Age music movement—will present his Christmas concert, featuring seasonal favorites as well as his best-loved pieces like the melodic and haunting “Christofori’s Dream.”
Lanz performed last December at the Covey Center. His concert sold out so quickly, we decided to bring him back again!
Chamber Music at the Covey
7:30.p.m.; $6, $8
December 10
Utah Regional Ballet presents The Nutcracker
7:30 p.m.; $18, $22, $26
2 p.m. Matinee, $16, $18, $20
December 11, 16-18, 20,21
Jazz at the Covey
7:30 p.m.; $6, $8
December 17
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