QUINN JACOBSON @ SUU's ART INSIGHTS (CC: Sept 29)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 09/14/11
Michael French
Public Information Coordinator
College of Performing and Visual Arts
Southern Utah University
Office: 435-865-8667
michaelfrench@suu.edu

FOR CALENDAR EDITORS: ART INSIGHTS, QUINN JACOBSON

WHAT:              Photographer Quinn Jacobson explores people and places in society that exist on the fringes of life. Depicting “otherness,” Jacobson has captured the forgotten people and places in America and Germany. Mr. Jacobson will present on his unique photography and distinct style as a part of the SUU’s Art Insights lecture series.

WHO:               Art Insights      

Southern Utah University, Department of Art and Design

WHEN:             Thursday, September 29, 2011

TIME:               7:00pm

WHERE:           The Great Hall, Hunter Conference 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.

SUU’S ART INSIGHTS TO FEATURE

PHOTOGRAPHER QUINN JACOBSON

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah: Photographer Quinn Jacobson explores people and places in society that exist on the fringes of life. Depicting “otherness,” Jacobson captures the forgotten people in America; criminals, addicts, amputees, mentally handicapped, and the homeless. Jacobson will share work that is a product of his three years photographing remains of the destroyed Synagogues of the Holocaust, and portraits of Germans and Ausländers. This work explored, in a very personal way, his Jewish heritage and history and what "otherness" means in Germany today. He will present his works and techniques in SUU’s Department of Art and Design’s weekly lecture series, Art Insights, on Thursday, September 29, 2011. The lecture begins at 7pm at The Great Hall in the Hunter Conference Center admission is free and the general public is encouraged to attend.

Memory, identity and difference are words that best describe the work of Quinn Jacobson. The above projects were combined into one body of work entitled, "Glass Memories". It was exhibited in 2010 at Centre Iris Gallery in Paris, France. Jacobson works in the first three photographic processes; Daguerreotypy, Calotypy and the Wet Plate Collodion process. For this project, he worked primarily in an abandoned photographic process called Wet Plate Collodion - photographs on glass and metal plates—a popular process during the American Civil War in the middle of the 19th century. He uses the process for connection with his sitters and subjects as well as metaphor. Jacobson has a B.I.S. degree in Photography, Visual Art and Communication from Weber State University, Ogden, Utah U.S.A. and an M.F.A. in Photography from Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont U.S.A.  He has recently moved back to the United States from Europe. 

Art Insights is a weekly program hosted during the fall and spring semesters by SUU’s Art and Design faculty. Students and community members meet weekly to experience presentations and discussions by visiting artists and art educators from around the nation who share their work and insights and attend gallery openings. Admission is free, and the general public is invited to attend.

Learn more about Quinn Jacobson’s special artistic style and subject by attending his Art Insights’ appearance. 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 Shakespeare 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.

NINE YOUNG MUSICIANS TO PERFORM CONCERTO MOVEMENTS WITH UTAH SYMPHONY AND NEW ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR: Sept 27

Media Contact:

Hilarie Ashton, Public Relations Manager

hashton@usuo.org, (801)869-9027

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 14, 2011

NINE YOUNG MUSICIANS TO PERFORM CONCERTO MOVEMENTS WITH UTAH SYMPHONY AND NEW ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

SALT LAKE CITY – Nine of Utah’s most talented young musicians, ranging in age from 11 to 18, are excited about something – they’ve been awarded the opportunity to perform solos with the Utah Symphony.

The symphony’s 52^nd annual Salute to Youth concert will feature these soloists under the direction of new Assistant Conductor Vladimir Kulenovic, Tuesday, Sepember 27 at 7 p.m. in Abravanel Hall.

This year, the concert’s featured young artists are made up of four pianists, three violinists, one flautist and one marimba player. They will perform excerpts from concertos regularly played by professional soloists, such as Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, Mozart’s Concerto No. 10 for two pianos and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

This will be Maestro Kulenovic’s first time conducting this performance, which also marks his first performance as Utah Symphony Assistant Conductor during the Utah Symphony’s full regular season in Abravanel Hall.

Single tickets for the performances range from $8 to $20 and can be purchased by calling (801) 355-ARTS (2787), in person at the Abravanel Hall ticket office (123 W. South Temple) or by visiting www.utahsymphony.org. Season ticket holders and those desiring group discounts should call (801) 533-NOTE (6683). Ticket prices will increase $2 when purchased on the day of the performance.

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About Vladimir Kulenovic, Assistant Conductor

Since his professional conducting debut in 2006 with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada, Mr. Kulenovic has conducted performances with the Verbier Festival Orchestra, Beethoven-Orchester Bonn, Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein, Aspen Music Festival AACA Orchestra, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, Indian Hill Orchestra, Connecticut Valley Chamber Orchestra, Juilliard Conductors' Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra, Peabody Institute Symphony Orchestra and Boston Conservatory Orchestra.                         

Mr. Kulenovic studied with Kurt Masur at the Kurt Masur Conducting Seminar in New York in 2008 and 2009, as well as at the Beethoven-Orchester Bonn and the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, where his final performance with the Verbier Festival Orchestra was internationally televised on Medici TV.  Mr. Kulenovic spent the summer of 2010 as a conducting fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, and has also conducted in other prestigious music festivals worldwide, including the National Arts Centre Conducting Programme, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, and the Mozarteum Internationale Sommerakademie in Salzburg.

Mr. Kulenovic was awarded the prestigious Alfred B. Whitney Prize for the highest scholastic achievement at the Boston Conservatory where he graduated summa cum laude, as valedictorian, earning degrees in Conducting and Piano Performance.  As a pianist, Mr. Kulenovic was awarded the Second Prize at the Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Paris.

About the Young Musicians

Sara Noel Bauman (18) began studying the violin at the age of 3 and has studied with Katherine Kunz, Joseph Gold (Oakland, CA), Meredith Campbell, Jenny Oaks Baker, Hasse Borup (University of Utah), and is currently studying with Alex Woods (Brigham Young University). She also soloed with the Utah Symphony under the direction of David Cho in the 2009 Salute to Youth concert. She was concertmaster in an All-Star Evening with the Utah Symphony and has been a member of the Young Artist Chamber Players, Temple Hill Symphony, and Utah Youth Symphony. Sara enjoys playing the piano, organ, and competitive tennis. She is currently majoring in violin performance at BYU and will be soloing in the Assembly Hall as part of the Temple Square Concert Series on November 19, 2011.

Trenton H. Chang (13), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, began piano lessons when he was almost 5 years old. Rebecca and Ralph Van der Beek were his original teachers. Currently, he studies with Gary Amano and Brandon Lee. At age 5, he received the Mini Artist award in the USU Piano Festival, and at age 8, he won 1^st place in the 2006 UMTA State Concerto Competition. In 2009 Trenton performed in the Salute to Youth concert with the Utah Symphony, with the Utah Chamber Artists at Libby Gardner Concert Hall, and in the Beverly Sorenson Young Artists Concert. Trenton is interested in languages: he speaks English and Chinese fluently, and is also studying Japanese and Spanish. Trenton will be an 8^th grader at Bear River Charter School this fall. He enjoys hiking and traveling, and he has a good sense of humor.

Anastasia Magamedova (13), born in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Central Asia, began piano studies at age 5.  She currently studies piano with Dr. Vera Oussetskaia Watanabe and is a full-scholarship student at the Gifted Music School. Anastasia is a winner at both the 2010 and 2011 Utah Symphony Youth Guild auditions, and has won awards at the Summer Arts competition.  She most recently performed on the Gifted Music School’s Spring Gala which was broadcast on KBYU-FM, and she also appeared on local TV in KTVX’s “Good Things Utah”.  Anastasia is currently attending The Waterford School.  She enjoys horseback riding, reading, and spending time with her friends and family.

Michael Marsden (14) began his percussion studies at age twelve with Todd Campbell, band teacher at South Davis Jr. High.  His private percussion study began that same year with Keith Sorenson, founder of Play Music Educational Studios.  Currently, Michael studies percussion with Heath Wolf and is a member of the South Davis Jr. High Band under the direction of Chris Earl. He is a ninth grade student at South Davis Junior High, and has been a high honor student throughout his junior high experience.  He donates his time to work with younger children each week in the Boy Scout Program.  Michael is the oldest of four children in his family and is the son of Robert and Cynthia Marsden.

Mariah Sam (14) began playing the piano at the age of four with the help of her mother and her siblings who are also pianists. Mariah currently studies with Jacqui King in Vernal, Utah. She has participated in many competitions and music festivals throughout the state. She has taken first place over the years in the Weber State, Uintah Basin, and Utah State piano festivals. Her piano studies gave her the unique opportunity to perform in the 2009 Gina Bachauer master class with Marina Lomazov of Ukraine. Mariah is often invited to perform at weddings, banquets, and parties in her community. On two different occasions she has been asked to provide the music for the Chamber of Commerce banquet in Vernal, where the State Congressman and Governor were guest speakers. 

Elizajane Schetselaar (11) began violin at age five and currently studies with Denise Willey.  She is in the 6th grade at Lincoln Academy and is an excellent student.  She also plays the piano and enjoys playing in the Vivaldi Quintet with her twin brother. Elizajane is currently concertmaster of the Lyceum Chamber Ensemble and the Junior Timpanogos String Orchestra. This past November she soloed with the Utah Valley Orchestra in one of the final performances at the Provo Tabernacle. She has played with the Suzuki Youth Orchestra of the Americas in Minnesota and for the American String Teacher's conference in California. She also enjoys skiing, playing soccer and swimming as a member of HAST.  She is the daughter of Eric and Janet Schetselaar.

Rebekah Willey (17) began playing violin & viola at twelve months with her mother, and studied with Deborah Moench and Barbara Williams. She now studies under Alex Woods of BYU. She soloed on Salute to Youth in 2004, 2006 and 2011 5^th-grade concerts. Last summer she performed on a 1692 Stradivarius on the Strad for Lunch series in New York City. She has won seven prizes in the Utah State Fair Music Competition.  She also won the Utah Prize in the 2007 Stradivarius International Violin, and the grand prize in the 2010 Utah Baroque Competition.  Concertmaster of the Lyceum Philharmonic and Music Festival from age 12, and of Utah’s All-State Orchestra as a freshman, she played her first full symphony at age 7.  She loves vocal lessons and sang the soprano solos in “Messiah” last Christmas.

Catherine Winters (15) a sophomore at Timpanogos High School, has studied flute since age six, and currently studies with Dr. Elizabeth Weissman.  In 2011, Catherine won the state and national Stillman-Kelly competitions sponsored by the National Federation of Music Clubs. She has soloed with the Utah Symphony, the Utah Valley Symphony, and the American Fork Symphony.  Catherine has played in the master classes of Tara O’Connor, Linda Chesis, Christina Jennings, Keith Underwood, Gary Woodward, Rhonda Larsen, Susan Milan, Lisa Byrnes, and Zart Doumbourian-Eby. She also plays the piano and will test for her black belt in taekwondo next January.  Catherine loves to read, do photography, and be with her friends.  Her previous teachers include Marilee Hawkins and Laurel Maurer.  She is the daughter of Alan and Jill Winters of Lindon.

Kana Yoshigi (12) is a full scholarship student at the Gifted Music School. She was a winner of the 2011 Symphony Youth Guild Auditions. Currently studying with Dr. Vera Oussetskaia-Watanabe, her former teacher was Mari Evans. An outstanding student and athlete, her numerous awards include top honors in science, debate and swimming. Kana was 2009 state champion in short and long course swimming in her age category. Daughter of Dr. Masaaki and Megumi Yoshigi, Kana was born in Japan.

About Utah Symphony | Utah Opera

Utah Symphony | Utah Opera is dedicated to providing Utah residents and visitors with great performances that engage, educate and enrich lives. The Utah Symphony, which performs at Abravanel Hall, and Utah Opera, which performs at the Capitol Theatre, reach 450,000 citizens in Utah and the Intermountain region, with educational outreach programs serving more than 175,000 students annually. The organization employs 60 staff and 83 full-time musicians, presenting four full opera productions and more than 70 symphony performances in each regular season as well as a summer season at Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah. For more information please visit www.usuo.org.

Program

Antonin Vivaldi              “Spring” from The Four Seasons for Violin and Orchestra, R. 269

                                    Giunt’e la primavera: Allegro

Elizajane Schetselaar, Violin

Ludwin van Beethoven   Concerto No. 1 in C Major for Piano and Orchestra, op. 15

                                    Allegro con brio

Trenton Chang, Piano

Dmitri Shostakovich      Concerto No. 2 in F Major for Piano and Orchestra, op. 102

Allegro

Mariah Sam, Piano

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart        Concerto No. 10 in E-flat Major for Two Pianos, K. 365/316a

                                                Allegro

Anastasia Magamedova, Piano

Kana Yoshigi, Piano

INTERMISSION

Toshiro Mayuzumi         Concertino for Xylophone and Orchestra

                                    Presto

Michael Marsden, Marimba

Sergei Prokofiev           Concerto No. 1 in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, op. 19

                                    Andantino

Sara Noel Bauman, Violin

Carl Nielsen                   Concerto for Flute and Orchestra

Allegro moderato
Catherine Winters, Flute

Felix Mendelssohn        Concerto in E Minor for Violin and Orchestra, op. 64

Allegretto non troppo-Allegro molto vivace

Rebekah Willey, Violin

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150 Fingers • 88 Keys • An All-Steinway Celebration @ WSU (Ogden: Sept 27)

150 Fingers • 88 Keys • An All-Steinway Celebration

Who: Weber State University Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities 

and the Department of Performing Arts

What: A Concert Celebrating All-Steinway School Designation

Where: Austad Auditorium

When: Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 7:30 pm

The Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities celebrates the designation of Weber State University as an All-Steinway School with a free concert Tuesday, September 27 at 7:30 pm in the Austad Auditorium. The “All-Steinway School” designation will be conferred on the WSU music program in the Department of Performing Arts at this free concert celebration. Children 8 years and older are welcome to attend. A dessert reception immediately follows the concert.

The program will include WSU faculty performers Karen Brookens, Kendra Johnson, Don Keipp, Thomas Priest, Viktor Uzur, Ralph Van der Beek, Shi-Hwa Wang, Gerta Grimci Wiemer and Yu-Jane Yang.  Student performers are Sharon Gatrell Datuin, Jared Jaccard, Fan-Ya Lin, Zoe Lu, Nicholas Maughan, Nathaniel Quigley, Brienna Smith, Eliza Taylor and Byron Yue. 

The repertoire includes 

Solo performance:

“Gnomenreigen” by Liszt, (Lu); “The Earl King,” transcription by Liszt  (Yue);  “La Campanella” by Liszt (Lin)

Duo performance:

 “Chanson triste” and “Le manoir de Rosemonde” by Henri Duparc  (Brookens, voice and Wiemer, piano); “Romance” by Amy Beach  and “The Song of Taiwan” by Tyzen Hsiao (Wang,violin and Yang, piano)

Trio performance:

Poulenc’s “Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon, 2nd mvt” (Van der Beek, piano, Johnson, oboe, Priest, bassoon); 

“Dumky-Trio in E Minor, Op. 90” (III and VI) by Dvorak (Wang ,violin, Uzur, cello & Yang, piano 

and an extravagant finale by a Five Piano Ensemble: 

arrangements by N. Jan Tan of  Strauss’ “Blue Danube Waltz” arranged for five pianos, ten hands, fifty fingers; and Khachaturian’s “Sabre Dance.” (five pianists: Lin, Jaccard, Smith, Datuin and Maughan). 

Other selections will fill this program with a surprising and delightful “showing off” of WSU talent and exquisite Steinway pianos.

WSU will formally join a group of more than 120 prestigious global institutions of higher education (including Curtis Institute of Music, Yale School of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, and Central Conservatory of Music in China) that exclusively feature Steinway & Sons pianos for performance and music education.

Madonne Miner, Dean of the Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities, notes “Becoming a Steinway School, Weber State demonstrates its commitment to piano students and faculty, but also to the future of the very best in music education.  Music educators may specialize in a range of instruments, but no matter what their specialization, all music educators must be able play the piano--here, the piano they play will be a Steinway.  I am delighted WSU is joining that elite corps of schools that are ‘All Steinway.’”

Fan-Ya Lin, a national and international award winning student pianist is equally thrilled. “With Steinway pianos, students are able to create more colors, listen for longer lines, play more delicate tones, and explore bigger range of dynamics, above all, bring the music alive.”

Becoming an All-Steinway School

The quest for WSU’s music program to become an All-Steinway School began in 2002 with gifts from the Stewart Education Foundation and the B. W. Bastian Foundation which funded a Steinway 9’ and a Steinway 7’ grand piano for the Browning Center. In the ensuing decade, the Stewart and Bastian Foundations and many others continued to support fundraising efforts, and the inventory of Steinway pianos began to grow.

In 2008, WSU Provost Mike Vaughan recognized the value of providing Steinway pianos for music students as more and more WSU music students began bringing home top prizes from regional, national, and international competitions. His office made a commitment to help fund the remaining pianos to achieve All-Steinway School designation for WSU.

Students were enthusiastic in embracing the Steinway Initiative and got involved in fundraising, with one WSU piano student, Fan-Ya Lin, taking the lead as the “Honorary Chair of the WSU Steinway Initiative.” As the national first place winner of the Music Teachers National Association Steinway Young Artist Piano Competition (and the youngest pianist winning the national title in the 43-year-history of this competition), Fan-Ya was awarded a $23,000 upright Steinway piano. Fan-Ya generously donated her winning prize upright piano to Weber State University AND performed a two benefit concerts to raise the additional funds for WSU to exchange the upright piano for an $83,000 Steinway 7 foot concert grand piano! 

In all, more than $1.1M in funding resulted in a collection of 41 Steinway and Boston (designed by Steinway) pianos, including three Steinway 9’ concert grand pianos and nine Steinway 7’ concert grand pianos for WSU’s Department of Performing Arts and the Val A. Browning Center for the Peforming Arts - two of the 9’ pianos and one 7’ pianos belong to the Browning Center.

In August 2011, the last of the summer’s Steinway purchases was delivered to the applause of WSU music faculty and students, and a free celebration concert was planned as WSU’s gift back to the community. This concert will feature 18 outstanding WSU music faculty and piano students and five Steinway grand pianos, and will include an official “All-Steinway School” plaque presentation by a representative from Steinway & Sons, New York.

For more information: “All-Steinway School,” contact Carol Biddle, cbiddle@weber.edu.

For more information about the concert contact Janneca Johnson, 801-626-6424 or jannecajohnson@weber.edu

NEWS: Cultural Center Releases ARTrageous Tuesdays Educational Programs

Cultural Center Releases ARTrageous Tuesdays Educational Programs

West Valley City – The Utah Cultural Celebration Center is pleased to announce our educational program schedule for the 2011-12 school year.  Make reservations for your students to join us for ARTrageous Tuesdays! We offer diverse arts and cultural activities for student groups of all ages throughout the year. 

Typically, ARTrageous Tuesdays! programs are about 90 min to 2 hours long, and include a guided exhibit tour or live performance followed by a hands on, participatory, arts making or cultural experience. The program changes each month to take advantage of the diversity of events going on at the center throughout the year. Programs are offered FREE of charge to all public and private school groups and after school groups throughout the valley. Groups of about 30 students at a time are preferred. Splitting into smaller groups and alternating between the exhibit tour and hands-on activity will allow us to accommodate larger groups of 60 or more. School groups are expected to bring a number of teachers or other adults to chaperone students appropriately. ARTrageous Tuesday programs are offered from 9am through 5pm. Reservations are required, and will be accepted on a first come first served basis. 

2011-2012 School Year SCHEDULE

September 27             99 Most Beautiful Names

October 11                  ARTrageous Bullying!   

Oct 24 & 27                 Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)

November 8                ARTrageous Capoeira

Dec 5                          ARTrageous Villages/ Fair Trade

Dec 12 & 13                Trees of Diversity & Holiday Ornament Making

January 10                  Middle East Exploration

February                     ARTrageous Break Dancing (to be confirmed)

March                          Afro-American Story Telling (to be confirmed)

March 27                     ARTrageous Shakespeare

April 17                                Maori War Dance Traditions

May                             Celebrating U on the Circle (to be confirmed)

May 29                        FIESTA!   

July 17                        Face of Utah Sculpture Exhibit

For more information or to discuss customized programs, contact Susan Klinker, Program Director, 801-965-5101or susan.klinker@wvc-ut.gov .  To Make Reservations, contact Anna Cutler, Admin. Assistant at the Cultural Center, 801-965-5083 or anna.cutler@wvc-ut.gov

For more information about ARTrageous Tuesdays or other events or exhibits at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center call (801) 965-5100 or visit www.culturalcelebration.org

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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

KING LEAR @ SUU (CC: Sept 29 - Oct 8)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 09/15/11
Michael French
Public Information Coordinator
College of Performing and Visual Arts
Southern Utah University
Office: 435-865-8667
michaelfrench@suu.edu

FOR CALENDAR EDITORS: KING LEAR

WHAT:              Considered to be one of Shakespeare’s greatest dramatic masterpieces, King Lear is renowned for its probing observations on human suffering and family relationships. Lear decides to dispose of his estate among his three daughters, based on their devotion. His elder daughters, Goneril and Regan, offer their father false flattery while the youngest, Cordelia, cannot find the words to express her sentiments which infuriates Lear. He awards the kingdom to his two elder daughters…and his decision soon brings tragic consequences for all.

WHO:               Southern Utah University, College of Performing and Visual Arts,

                        Theatre Arts and Dance Series

WHEN:             Sept. 29, 30, Oct. 1, 7 & 8, 2011

TIME:               7:30pm / Pre-show @ 7:00pm

WHERE:           Adams Shakespearean Theatre, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT

TICKETS:         435) 586-7872, Monday-Friday, 8am-4:30pm or visit: www.suu.edu/arts

PRICES:           General Adult Admission: $10; SUU Faculty & Staff: $8; Student & Youth: $5;

SUU Students: Free with valid I.D.

SUU’S DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE ARTS AND DANCE
TO PRESENT SHAKESPEARE’S CLASSIC TRAGEDY
KING LEAR

Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah: A classic tale of family loyalty and betrayal, William Shakespeare’s King Lear remains as one of the stage’s great tragedies. Southern Utah University’s College of Performing and Visual Arts presents the classic saga September 29-30, October 1 and 7-8 at the Adams Shakespearean Theatre in Cedar City. Curtain time is 7:30pm for all performances with a pre-show by SUU's Fools' Assembly at 7:00pm. The production is directed by Peter Sham, co-chair, Theatre Arts and Dance, and launches the 2011-2012 Theatre Arts and Dance Season.

Considered to be one of Shakespeare’s greatest dramatic masterpieces, King Lear is renowned for its probing observations on human suffering and family relationships.  As the drama unfolds, Lear decides to dispose of his estate among his three daughters, based on their devotion. His elder daughters, Goneril and Regan, offer their father false flattery while the youngest, the loyal Cordelia, cannot find the words to express her sentiments which infuriates Lear. He awards the kingdom to his two elder daughters…and his decision soon brings tragic consequences for all.

Director Peter Sham, book and lyrics for Lend Me a Tenor the Musical which opened on London’s West End summer 2011, sums up the play as “King Lear is called by many directors and scholars, ‘Shakespeare’s most un-stageable play.’ This complex work deals with greed, lust, sibling rivalries, adultery, old age, madness, the earth, the stars and the notion that things are seldom what they seem; that hatred and evil may wear the mask of beauty and kindness. Our production will endeavor to explore a human Lear, who is both king to his subjects and father to his children, a man who descends into madness and back again as he struggles to relinquish control of his kingdom to his heirs. Our goal is to create a production of King Lear, in both design and concept, that is clear and immediate to audiences of today while illuminating the darkest corners of humanity and to that end SUU's adaptation promises several surprises never before seen in any production of King Lear in history.” 

Collaborating with Sham on developing his vision for the drama are set designer Brian Jude Beacom, costume designer Kaylin James, lighting designer Holly Pierce, hair and make-up designer McKenzie Denison, sound designer Kristen Hair, and composer Christine Frezza, Amy Norton serves as stage manager.

The cast is headed by Payden Adams in the title role of Lear. Adams has appeared onstage at SUU as the Stage Manager in Our Town, Schroeder in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and most recently as the scene-stealing Boyet in Love’s Labour’s Lost. He has just returned from Wuhan, China, where he created the role of Edgar Snow in the Hubei Opera and Dance Drama Theatre world premiere production of Dream of Helen. On undertaking the role of Lear, Adams replied, “Having the opportunity to portray King Lear, arguably one of Shakespeare's greatest roles, is a dream come true. The complex challenges one faces when dealing with text, physicality and age should be enough to scare the pants off of even the most experienced actor... not this one."

The cast also features Emilie Andersen-Moulton as the loyal Cordelia while Darrah Jones and Emma Phelps portray the treacherous Goneril and Regan respectively. The cast includes Brian James as Earl of Gloucester, Jenny Smith as the Fool, Grayson Moulton as Edgar and McKay Tripp as Edmond. Featured in the show are Alex Allred, Morgan Calloway, Jed Christensen, Heather Gibeson, Matthew Hanchey, Ben Harris, Nathaniel Marble, Chris Rudolph and Jessica Winward.   

In addition to the performance, there is a pre-show by SUU’s Fools Assembly that begins at 7:00pm.

Come to the Adams Shakespearean Theatre to experience one of the Bard’s most blistering dramas, King Lear. Ticket prices are: $10 General Admission; $8 SUU Faculty/Staff, $5 Youth and free for SUU students with a valid ID. Money-saving season subscriptions are still available for Theatre Arts and Dance Series (which includes six events) at $48 for the General Public and $24 for Student/Child. For tickets, call (435) 586-7872, Monday-Friday, 8am-4:30pm, or purchase at the Centrum Arena box office. Tickets may be purchased online at www.suu.edu/arts.

The Theatre Arts and Dance Series includes the witty musical revue, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; the heartfelt Almost, Maine; the song-filled Broadway adaptation Little Women the Musical; Breaking Bounds: a Student Dance Concert; and Journeys: a Faculty 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 Shakespeare 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.

NEWS: SUU’S 2011-2012 THEATRE ARTS, DANCE, AND THE MUSIC MASTERWORKS SEASONS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 09/15/11
Michael French
Public Information Coordinator
College of Performing and Visual Arts
Southern Utah University
Office: 435-865-8667
michaelfrench@suu.edu

SUU’S 2011-2012 THEATRE ARTS AND DANCE

AND THE MUSIC MASTERWORKS SEASONS

Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah: There is an enormous wealth of music, theatre and dance happening at Southern Utah University’s College of Performing and Visual Arts during the 2011-2012 school year. From a classic Shakespearean tragedy to a tuneful adaptation of a beloved family novel to spectacular and dynamic choreography, SUU’s Department of Theatre Arts and Dance presents a season that is both entertaining and enlightening. Two one-act chamber operas are among the highlights of SUU’s Department of Music’s Masterworks series.

The Theatre Arts season commences with a vibrant staging of William Shakespeare’s King Lear. The startling tale of family loyalty and betrayal among nobility will be directed by Peter Sham, SUU director of theatre, fresh from his triumph on London’s West End and the opening of his hit Lend Me a Tenor the Musical. The production will play the Adams Shakespearean Theatre and will be performed September 29-30, October 1, 7 and 8 at 7:30pm. Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro (book and lyrics) and composer Jimmy Roberts’ witty musical revue, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, examines contemporary dating – the do’s and a lot of the don’ts. Director T. Anthony Marotta, who recently staged Godspell for the SUU stage, guides the fun. The show runs October 27-29 and November 3-5, 2011 at SUU’s Auditorium Theatre. Performances begin at 7:30pm. Hailed as one of the most produced new plays in recent years by The New York Times, Almost, Maine by Tony Award nominee John Cariani centers on the romantic happenings on a cold Friday night in a small New England town – situations which prove to be universal in theme and appeal. Performed in the Randall L. Jones Theatre, the show runs March 1-3 and 8-10 at 7:30pm. The joys and woes of the March sisters come to life in this song-filled adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved American novel, Little Women the Musical. Featuring a book by Allan Knee, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein and music Jason Howland, this delightful musical will be directed by SUU’s Professor Richard Bugg, founder and artistic director of the Neil Simon Festival. The musical will be performed at the Auditorium Theatre, April 12-14, 16 and 19-21, 2012, at 7:30pm.

SUU’s dance season begins on November 30 with Breaking Bounds, Student Dance Concert. This dynamic evening showcases the choreography of talented students in a vibrant fusion of movement and music. The concert will be held at the Auditorium Theatre November 30 through December 3, 2011. All performances begin at 7:30pm. The SUU dance faculty takes center stage as choreographers in Journeys, Faculty Dance Concert. Featuring works by Kay Andersen, Paul C. Ocampo and Chien-Ying Wang among others, this concert includes a variety of new works by the dance faculty performed by the students. A recreation of one of Burch Mann’s signature works for American Folk Ballet is a highlight of the program. The concert will be performed at the Auditorium Theatre February 2-4 and 9-11, 2012. All performances will begin at 7:30pm.   

The Music Masterworks Series starts on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 with the SUU Wind Symphony in concert at the Heritage Theater in Cedar City beginning at 7:30pm. This rapturous evening features contemporary and traditional works showcasing the wind band repertoire including Aaron Copeland’s “Down a Country Lane,” Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Fantasia in G Major,” and Joan de Meij’s Symphony No. I “The Lord of the Rings, Movement I, Gandalf.” Opera Scenes features classic scenes from the opera and musical theatre stages based on the theme “Bickerings, Battles and Brawls.” The performance will include moments from The Merry Widow, Don Giovanni, Carmen and even Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun. Performed in the intimate Thorley Recital Hall, the program runs Wednesday through Saturday, November 9 through 12, 2011 and begins at 7:30pm. SUU gets into the seasonal spirit with a Holiday Choral Concert at the Heritage Theater in Cedar City on Monday, December 5, 2011. The evening features SUU’s three choral ensembles in a lively program celebrating the holidays with a concert of traditional favorites. The concert begins at 7:30pm. In the New Year, the SUU Symphony Orchestra performs a diverse array of classic musical selections on Monday, February 27, 2012 at Cedar City’s Heritage Theater at 7:30pm. Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief and Milton Granger’s The Proposal are paired together by SUU Opera. The two chamber pieces will be performed in the intimate Thorley Recital Hall, Wednesday through Saturday, March 7-10, 2012 at 7:30pm. The joint is jumping when SUU’s Jazz Band takes Cedar City’s Heritage Theater stage on Saturday, March 24, 2012. The concert begins at 7:30pm and features a variety of works from the jazz catalogue. SUU’s Orchestra and Choirs join forces for an Easter Concert on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at the Heritage Theater in Cedar City. The performance begins at 7:30pm. The final Music Masterworks concert features SUU’s Wind Symphony on Wednesday, April 25, 2012. The performance will be in the Heritage Theater and will start at 7:30pm.

Ticket prices for the Theatre Arts and Dances series are: $10 General Admission; $8 SUU Faculty and Staff, $5 Student/Youth. Pricing for the Music Masterworks concerts is: General Adult Admission: $8, SUU Faculty & Staff: $6 and Student/Child: $4. SUU students are admitted free to both Theatre Arts and Music Masterworks performances by presenting a valid ID at the door. Money-saving subscriptions for Theatre Arts and Dance (includes four stage productions and two dance concerts) are now available at $48 for adults and $24.00 for students and youth. Subscriptions to the Music Masterworks series (features all eight concerts/performances) are available now at adult: $52 and Student/Child: $26. Contact the ticket office for subscriptions. For tickets, call the ticket office at (435) 586-7872, Monday-Friday, 8am-4:30pm, or order online at 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 Shakespeare 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.

Salt Lake City’s first-ever Gandhi Film Festival @ Gandhi Alliance for Peace and Utah Film Center (Sept 23 - 25)

Salt Lake City’s first-ever Gandhi Film Festival is presented by the Gandhi Alliance for Peace in partnership with Utah Film Center. The film festival is dedicated to curating films that embody the life and spirit of Mahatma Gandhi; and seeks to advance the understanding, appreciation and practice of nonviolence protest and activism by demonstrating through film, those examples in history and contemporary life, who teach us how to lead and nation build with peaceful, creative, collaborations.

The film festival features 8 films from 5 countries that aspire for a more just and nonviolent world and illuminate inspiring examples of leadership and co-existence.

The Gandhi Film Festival runs September 23-25 at the City Library 210 E. 400 S. All screenings are free and open to the public. 

*Want to be involved? Volunteer opportunities and schedule available by clicking on this link. (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArVrwpLlx2pkdE5OSHdjOEV0R1U1cUZ2SjlNWUdmekE&hl=en_US) 

If you would like a printed version of the program to distribute to your colleagues and friends please contact Mariah Mellus at mmellus@utahfilmcenter.org 

Opening Night - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

7:00 PM

THE FRONTIER GANDHI: Badshah Khan, A Torch for Peace

Director: T.C. McLuhan

Country: USA

Year: 2008

Runtime: 92 min

Twenty-one years in the making, this tells the epic story of Badshah Khan, a remarkable Muslim peacemaker born into Pashtun warrior society.  Khan, in partnership with Mahatma Gandhi, raised a 100,000 strong, nonviolent and multi-ethnic army of men, women, and young people to resist British colonial rule in the first half of the 20^th century.

Director Teri McLuhan will be in attendance for a post-screening q+a.

Opening Night reception to follow the screening.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

11:00 AM

PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL

Director: Virginia Reticker

Country: USA

Year: 2008

Runtime: 72 min

Pray the Devil Back to Hell chronicles the remarkable story of the courageous Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country.

Winner, Best Documentary Feature: 2008 Tribeca Film Festival; Winner, Witness Award: 2008 Silverdocs Film Festival; Winner of 17 other film festival awards

Q+A via Skype to follow screening.

PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL is presented in partnership with KUED. 

1:00 PM

ONE MAN, ONE COW, ONE PLANET

Director: Thomas Burstyn

Country: New Zealand

Year: 2007

Runtime: 56 min

This film tells the story of how farmers across India are reviving bio-dynamics, considered an arcane form of agriculture, as a solution to modern farming methods and their environmental impact. The movement is being led by an elderly New Zealander that many are calling the new Gandhi.

Official selection at over 12 international film festivals.

3:00 PM

THE GREEN WAVE

Director: Ali Samedi Ahadi

Country: Germany

Year: 2010

Runtime: 80 min

THE GREEN WAVE is a touching documentary-collage illustrating the dramatic events and telling about the feelings of the people behind Iran’s 2010 Green Revolution.

Official Selection: 2011 Sundance Film Festival, 2011 San Francisco Film Festival, 2011 Human Rights Watch Film Festival, 2010 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

5:00 PM

BRINGING DOWN A DICTATOR

Director: Steve York

Country: USA

Year: 2002

Runtime: 56 min

This award-winning film documents the spectacular defeat of Slobodan Milosevic in October 2000, not by force of arms, as many had predicted, but by an ingenious nonviolent strategy of honest elections and massive civil disobedience. Narrated by Martin Sheen, this film has screened at numerous film festivals around the world. Q+ A with director Steve York to follow screening.

Official selection at over 10 international film festivals.

7:00 PM

ISLAND PRESIDENT – 7:00 PM

Directed by Jon Shenk (USA 2011, 101 min.)

The Island President follows the globetrotting journey of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, the lowest-lying country in the world, who, after bringing democracy to his country, takes up the fight to keep it from disappearing under the sea. The film captures the beauty of the Maldives, and Nasheed’s charm and charisma, and then follows him as he navigates back-room diplomatic battles, trying to forge international consensus on lowering carbon emissions.

Official Selection: 2011 Telluride Film Festival, Official Selection: 2011 Toronto International Film Festival

A Q+A session will follow the screening.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

1:00 PM

BUDRUS

Director: Julia Bacha

Country: Israel

Year: 2009

Runtime: 70 min

An award-winning feature documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. Skype Q+A to follow screening.

Official selection at over 40 film festivals, including 2010 Berlin International Film Festival; 2010 Hot Docs Film Festival; and 2010 Silverdocs Film Festival. Winner of 18 awards.

3:00 PM

GANDHI

Director: Richard Attenborough

Country: United Kingdom

Year: 1982

Runtime: 191 min

This awe-inspiring biopic about Mahatma Gandhi brilliantly underscores the difference one person can make. Epic and unforgettable, the film swept the 1983 Oscars, winning eight awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Screenplay and Best Director.

SLC's DINE O' ROUND: Sept 16 - Oct 1

DINE O' ROUND Salt Lake City’s best restaurants are participating in the 9th annual Fall Downtown Dine O’ Round. In addition to the regular menu, 40 participating restaurants offer a three-course dinner for $15 or $30 per person and 29 restaurants offer Lunch On Us!, a two-item lunch for $5 or $10. Indulge the frugal foodie in you during Downtown Dine O’ Round. There are no coupons, no punch cards and no strings attached. Presented by American Express. When: Now! Sept. 16-Oct.1 Location: Downtown SLC More information: dineoround.com

Utah Film Center Schedule Sept 20 - Dec 20

Tuesday, September 20 – 7:00 pm
Salt Lake City Library - 210 East 400 South
MY PLAYGROUND
Director: Kaspar Astrup Schröder
My Playground explores the way Parkour and Freerunning are changing the perception of urban space and also how the spaces and buildings on which they move are in turn changing them.

Wednesday, September 21 - 7:00 pm
MISS REPRESENTATION
The Logan Art House and Cinema - 795 N. Main Street Logan Utah
Directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom – Post-screening Q&A via Skype
MISS REPRESENTATION explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman.

Official Selection – 2011 Sundance Film Festival, 2011 Silverdocs Film Festival, 2011 San Francisco Film Festival and 10 other film festivals; Winner, Audience Award – 2011 Sonoma Film Festival

Thursday, September 22 – 7:00 pm
MISS REPRESENTATION
Pleasant Valley Library - Ogden - 5568 S. Adams Avenue Parkway, Ogden
Directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom
MISS REPRESENTATION explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman. This screening will be followed by an interactive Skype q+a broadcast from the City Library in Salt Lake City. Additional support for this screening from the Girl Scouts of Utah and YWCA of Salt Lake City.

Thursday, September 22 – 7:00 pm
MISS REPRESENTATION
Utah Museum of Fine Arts - 410 Campus Center Dr.
Directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom
MISS REPRESENTATION explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman. This screening will be followed by an interactive Skype q+a broadcast from the City Library in Salt Lake City.

Official Selection – 2011 Sundance Film Festival, 2011 Silverdocs Film Festival, 2011 San Francisco Film Festival and 10 other film festivals; Winner, Audience Award – 2011 Sonoma Film Festival

GANDHI FILM FESTIVAL
September 23-25
Salt Lake City Library - 210 East 400 South
Screening times vary.
Salt Lake City’s first-ever Gandhi Film Festival is presented by the Gandhi Alliance for Peace in partnership with the SLC Film Center. The film festival is dedicated to curating films that embody the life and spirit of Mahatma Gandhi; and seeks to advance the understanding, appreciation and practice of nonviolence protest and activism by demonstrating through film, those examples in history and contemporary life, who teach us how to lead and nation build with peaceful, creative, collaborations.

The film festival features 8 films from 5 countries that aspire for a more just and nonviolent world and illuminate inspiring examples of leadership and co-existence.

The Gandhi Film Festival runs September 23-25 at the City Library. All screenings are free and open to the public. More information about the film festival including a complete list of films, screening times and information about visiting guests will be available online at www.slcfilmcenter.org.

Thursday, September 29 – 7:00 pm -
THELMA AND LOUISE
Star Hall – 159 E. Center St., Moab
Directed by Ridley Scott
Rated R
Join us for a special screening to celebrate the 2oth Anniversary of this award-winning film – shot in part in Moab. Leigh Von der Esch, Managing Director, Utah Office of Tourism (and former Utah Film Commissioner) and producer Mimi Polk Gitlin for a post-film conversation about the making of the film.

Monday, October 10 – 7:00 pm
FEMALE TROUBLE
The Tower Theatre - 876 E. 900 S.
Directed by John Waters
This twisted follow-up to Pink Flamingos isn't for the squeamish. Cult icon Divine stars as a spoiled teen who leaves home when her parents refuse to buy her the one Christmas gift she covets: cha-cha heels. After a sexual encounter with a sleazy derelict, she turns up pregnant and soon becomes a career criminal with a taste for murder.

Wednesday, October 12 – 7:00 pm
THE LAST MIMZY
Sorensen Unity Center - 1383 South 900 West
Directed by Bob Shaye
Based on the acclaimed sci-fi short story by Lewis Padgett, The Last Mimzy tells the story of two children who discover a mysterious box that contains some strange devices they think are toys. As the children play with these “toys,” they begin to develop some remarkable abilities, which sets in motion a race to solve the mystery of the toys’ origin and their meaning.

Friday, October 14 – 7:00 pm
PUBLIC SPEAKING
Salt Lake Art Center - 20 S. West Temple
Directed by Martin Scorsese
A feature-length documentary starring author Fran Lebowitz, who is known for her unique take on modern life. The film weaves together extemporaneous monologues with archival footage and the effect is a portrait of Fran's worldview and experiences.

Wednesday, October 19 – 7:00 pm
THE PRUITT-IGOE MYTH
Salt Lake City Library - 210 East 400 South
Director: Chad Freidrichs
Explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of public housing in America, while tracing the personal and poignant narratives of several of the residents.

Wednesday, October 19 – 7:00 pm
WE WERE HERE
The Logan Art House and Cinema - 795 N. Main Street Logan Utah
Directed by David Weissman
WE WERE HERE documents the coming of what was called the “Gay Plague” in the early 1980s. It illuminates the profound personal and community issues raised by the AIDS epidemic as well as the broad political and social upheavals it unleashed. It opens a window of understanding to those who have only limited notions of what transpired in those years.

Official Selection – 2011Sundance Film Festival, 2011 Berlin International Film Festival

More info at loganarthouse.com or slcfilmcenter.org. Follow us on facebook at “Utah Film Circuit – Logan.”

Utah Film Circuit screenings are made possible by Zions Bank

Thursday, October 20 – 7:00 pm
LIFE IN A DAY
Rose Wagner - 138 W. Broadway
Directed by Kevin Macdonald
Presented as part of the SLC Film Center and KUER’s THROUGH THE LENS Series that is generously sponsored by Rio Tinto (Small Logo).
Oscar-winning film director Kevin Macdonald's Life in a Day is a user-generated, feature-length documentary shot on a single day—July 24, 2010. The film was created from over 4, 500 hours of video submitted to YouTube and brings together the most compelling of the over 80,000 videos created.

Official Selection – 2011 Sundance Film Festival

Thursday, October 20 – 7:00 pm -
BAG IT
Star Hall – 159 E. Center St., Moab
Directed by Suzan Beraza
Try going a day without plastic. Plastic is everywhere and infiltrates our lives in unimaginable and frightening ways. In this touching and often flat-out-funny film, we follow an “everyman”, who is admittedly not a tree hugger, as he embarks on a global tour to unravel the complexities of our plastic world.

Winner – 9 film festival awards

Thursday, October 27 – 7:00 pm
The City Library
JOURNEY OF THE UNIVERSE
Salt Lake City Library - 210 East 400 South
Directed by Patsy Northcutt and David Kennard
Q+A with Executive Producer and Co-writer Mary Evelyn Tucker moderated by Terry Tempest Williams
Author and evolutionary philosopher Brian Thomas Swimme shares his infectious curiosity about life's biggest questions and our role as humans in this awe-inspiring universe. He connects such big picture issues as the birth of the cosmos to the invisible frontiers of the human genome, as well as to our current impact on Earth's evolutionary dynamics.

Wednesday, November 9 – 7:00 pm
GHOST BIRD
Salt Lake City Library - 210 East 400 South
Directed by Scott Crocker
Run Time: 85 min
Ghost Bird tells the timely story of the Ivory-billed woodpecker's miraculous rediscovery in 2005. The birdʼs resurrection was heralded around the world as proof that conservation efforts on behalf of threatened species were making the critical difference between life and death. While the fate of Ivory-bills remains uncertain, there is no question the vital role local conservation efforts play in reversing the planet's extinction crisis.

Official Selection: 2009 Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival and 6 other film festivals. Winner: Cine 2010 Golden Eagle Award; Winner: Southern Soul of Independent Film Award.

Friday, November 11 – 7:00 pm
BLANK CITY
Salt Lake Art Center - 20 S. West Temple
Directed by Celine Danhier
Today, Manhattan is a byword for overpriced property, overexposed landmarks and overdressed fashionistas. In the late 70s, however, it was rat-infested, crime-crippled, cheap and nasty environment where that fueled the creative spirit of the music, film, art and fashion scenes.

Monday, November 14 – 7:00 pm
POISON: 20th Anniversary Edition
The Tower Theatre - 876 E. 900 S.
Directed by Todd Haynes
Acclaimed by some film critics as one of the defining films of the “New Queer Cinema,” POISON interweaves three stories, each dealing with the darker aspects of sexuality.

Winner, Grand Jury Prize – 1991 Sundance Film Festival

Tuesday, November 15 – 7:00 pm
THE VISUAL LANGUAGE OF HERBERT MATTER
Director: Reto Caduff
This revealing look at the fascinating life story of the highly influential mid-century modern design master Herbert Matter explores his use of photography as a design tool and bringing the semantics of fine art into the realm of applied arts.

Thursday, November 17 – 7:00 pm - OGDEN
THE TREE OF LIFE
Pleasant Valley Library - 5568 S. Adams Avenue Parkway
Directed by Terence Malick
Rated PG-13
Brad Pitt and Sean Penn star in this 1950s adventure about a confused man named Jack, who sets off on a journey to understand the true nature of the world. Growing up in the Midwest with two brothers, Jack has always been torn between his mother's guidance to approach everything he encounters with an open heart and his father's advice to look after his own interests.

Winner, Palme d’Or – 2011 Cannes Film Festival

Thursday, November 17 – 7:00 pm
INTO ETERNITY
Star Hall – 159 E. Center St., Moab
Directed by Michael Madsen
Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storage, which is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock - a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years.

Winner of over 16 international film festival awards.

Friday, November 18 – 7:00 pm
Salt Lake Art Center
A TERRIBLE BEAUTY – MIDWAY/LISTENING TO THE CALL AND CRIES OF ENGAGEMENT
Photography and Film by Chris Jordan and Music by Christen Lien
Thursday, December 1 – 7:00 pm
The City Library
MARION WOODMAN: DANCING IN THE FLAMES
Directed by Adam Greydon Reid
Renowned Jungian analyst and author, Marion Woodman is celebrated for her work on feminine psychology and addiction, but her words and her wisdom speak to nearly everyone.

Presented in partnership with the Jung Society of Utah.

Thursday, December 8 – 7:00 pm
BUCK
Star Hall – 159 E. Center St., Moab
Directed by Cindy Meehl
Rated PG
A richly textured and visually stunning film that follows Buck Brannaman – a real-life “horse-whisperer” – from his abusive childhood to his phenomenally successful approach to horses. A truly American story about an unsung hero, BUCK is about an ordinary man who has made an extraordinary life despite tremendous odds.

Winner, Audience Award – 2011 Sundance Film Festival; Winner, Audience Award – Full Frame Documentary Film Festival; Official Selection – 2011 SXSW

Friday, December 9 – 7:00 pm
HERB + DOROTHY
Salt Lake Art Center - 20 S. West Temple
Directed by Megumi Sasaki
He was a postal clerk. She was a librarian. With their modest means, the couple managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history. Meet Herb and Dorothy Vogel, their shared passion defied stereotypes and redefined what it means to be an art collector.

Monday, December 12 – 7:00 pm
TRIGGER
The Tower Theatre - 876 E. 900 S.
Directed by Bruce McDonald
Trigger is the story of two rock n' roll women who once shared a friendship, a band and a whole lot of chaos. Now a dozen years later they meet again, and over the course of one evening rediscover friendship, remember rock n' roll and reignite chaos.

Wednesday, December 14 – 7:00 pm
TURTLE: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY
Salt Lake City Library - 210 East 400 South
Directed by Nick Stringer
Run Time: 81 min
Rated G
Turtle: The Incredible Journey is the story of a little loggerhead turtle, as she follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world.

Official Selection at film festivals around the world.

Tuesday, December 20 – 7:00 pm
MALLS R US
Salt Lake City Library - 210 East 400 South
Director: Helene Klowdawsky
Combining nostalgia, dazzling architecture, pop culture, economics and politics, MALLS R US examines North America's most popular and profitable suburban destination – the enclosed shopping center – and how for consumers they function as a communal, even ceremonial experience and, for retailers, sites where their idealism, passion and greed merge.

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UTAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION (logo), UNIVERSITY OF UTAH COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE + PLANNING (logo), APA-UT (logo), and AIA UTAH (logo)

DESIGN MATTERS is generously sponsored BY 3FORM (logo).

NEWS: Utah Chamber Artists and Salty Cricket Composers Collective Announce Winner of Commission Competition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, September 15, 2011 Utah Chamber Artists and Salty Cricket Composers Collective Announce Winner of Commission Competition The Two Winning Pieces Will be Performed at the Sept 19 & 20 “Chant & Contemplation” Cathedral Collage Utah Chamber Artists Concert ---------------------- SALT LAKE CITY -- In a first-ever partnership, Utah Chamber Artists (UCA) and the Salty Cricket Composers Collective announced that the winner of the commission competition is Stephen Voorhees. The call was for two short works for string quartet. After reviewing dozens of submissions, Stephen Voorhees' two works were both chosen as the winners. The competition was adjudicated by UCA Artistic Director, Barlow Bradford. Stephen is a graduate student in orchestral conducting at the University of Utah, a Utah native and graduate of Murray High, and frequently conducts Salty Cricket performances as well as submitting his own works to their programs. The winning two pieces will be premiered at the Utah Chamber Artists’ annual Cathedral Collage concerts called, “Voicing Wonder...Chant & Contemplation” on September 19 & 20, 2011. The concerts will begin at 8:00pm and will be held at the Cathedral of the Madeleine. Admission is free to the public and no tickets are required. The two commissions are scored for string quartet and based on medieval chant. These will serve as preludes for other pieces on the concert. Various chants, both sung and played on instruments, will thread the music selections together throughout the program. “I choose both of Stephen's works as they exactly express the atmosphere we are trying to communicate at those points in the program," said Bradford. “The atonal piece, called 'Aeternam' by Voorhees and based on the Requiem Aeternam chant, precedes an intense work by J.A.C Redford which was written in memory of the composer's sister-in-law who was brutally murdered last December. Stephen's work is fierce and emotional and makes an ideal companion for Redford's piece. Voorhees' 'And Ever, Amen: A Memory' precedes my own 'Ave Maria.' This elegiac work's gorgeous and peaceful nature will be amplified within the beautiful acoustic space of the Cathedral of the Madeleine. I am a composer myself, and it was thrilling to be directly involved in generating new music from Utah composers." More information about this concert can be found at utahchamberartists.org. Additional information about Salty Cricket Composers Collective is located at saltycricket.org. More info about Stephen can be found at: http://www.stephenvoorhees.com/. #### -- Crystal Young-Otterstrom Vice-president & Marketing Director crystal@saltycricket.org M: 801.652.0737 The Salty Cricket Composers Collective www.saltycricket.org 450 E 100 S #29 SLC, UT 84111

Year-long Classes @ Spy Hop (start Oct 4)

Musicology
 A one-of-a-kind opportunity to write, record, and produce original music with other music savvy teens. From songwriting to recording to your very own CD release party, Musicology will give you the full experience of working in the music industry.
 Oct. 4, 2011 - July 26, 2012
Tues - Thurs 6-8pm
$150 per month
**tuition assistance available

Watch This! 
Do you want to change the world? Join Spy Hop's civic-minded, grass-roots youth-produced TV show and get the tools and the connections to make your voice be heard.
 Oct. 4, 2011 - Oct. 3, 2012
Tues - Thurs, 4-6pm
FREE

PitchNic
 Spy Hop's award winning year-long film class is the next step in your creative and technical film pursuits. Spend a year with other passionate, experienced, creative teens to write, shoot and edit a documentary or narrative film.
 Oct. 17, 2011 - Nov. 19, 2012
Mon - Wed 6-8pm $150 per month
**tuition assistance available

October Classes @ Spy Hop

Urban Adrenaline
 Get the techniques of the pros and get your hands on the latest gear to make your own skateboarding video. You'll get camera and editing basics and then hit the local skatepark as well as Skate-4-Homies to capture all the action.
 Oct. 4 - 20, 2011
Tues - Thur, 4 - 6pm $100
**tuition assistance available

 Urban Adrenaline
 Get the techniques of the pros and get your hands on the latest gear to make your own skateboarding video. You'll get camera and editing basics and then hit the local skatepark as well as Skate-4-Homies to capture all the action.
 Oct. 4 - 20, 2011
Tues - Thur, 4 - 6pm
$100
**tuition assistance available

 Virtual Worlds
 Create your own virtual world in Unity 3D. Learn the ins and outs of game design as you work with a team to create a 3D video game and create your own world built around fast-paced driving or flight mechanics.
 Oct. 4 - 20, 2011
Tues - Thur, 4 - 6pm $100
**tuition assistance available

 SPARK workshops for kids ages 7 - 12!!
 Once a month, come down to Spy Hop for the day and pick up some new digital skills. Based on our wildly popular summer workshops, these immersive programs give you all the tools to take what you've learned back home and make your own movies.
 OCTOBER 8 9 - 3pm

NEWS: CELEBRATING BEETHOVEN: The 2011-2012 Gina Bachauer International Piano Concert Series

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 8, 2011 Contact: Julie Anderson Tel: 801.297.4250 E-mail: juliea@bachauer.com CELEBRATING BEETHOVEN: The 2011-2012 Gina Bachauer International Piano Concert Series Three international pianists performing Beethoven and other masters of the piano Hinrich Alpers, Germany September 17, 2011, 7:30pm Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Janina Fialkowska, Canada February 9, 2012, 7:30pm Libby Gardner Hall, University of Utah Dmitri Levkovich, Russia April 13, 2012, 7:30pm Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center The series begins September 17th returning Bachauer favorite Hinrich Alpers: Hinrich Alpers, pianist Saturday, September 17th, 7:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Salt Lake City, Utah 7:30pm – Jeanne Wagner Theater, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (138 W. 300 S. Salt Lake City). Tickets $15 (Students $10) - http://www.arttix.org/ - (801) 355-ARTS German pianist Hinrich Alpers, laureate of the 2006 Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition and 1st Prize winner of the 3rd International Telekom Beethoven Competition, returns to Utah for a solo piano event, with music of Beethoven, Grieg, Schumann, and Liszt. "... music making of the highest order. Remember this name: Hinrich Alpers." (The New York Sun) "Radically compelling" (Straubinger Rundschau) We are pleased to offer you two complimentary tickets to attend this concert. Please contact our office at (801) 297-4250 before 4:00 p.m. on September 15th to reserve your tickets. For more information on Hinrich Alpers or other concerts in the series, please visit www.bachauer.com and click on Concert Series. Or call (801) 297-4250. ###

UTAH SYMPHONY PERFORMS DOUBLE BEETHOVEN AND STRAVINSKY (SLC: Sept 23 - 24)

Media Contact: Hilarie Ashton, Public Relations Manager hashton@usuo.org, (801)869-9027 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 13, 2011 UTAH SYMPHONY PERFORMS DOUBLE BEETHOVEN AND STRAVINSKY SALT LAKE CITY – A grand iconic concerto performed by one of the great pianists of his generation, Beethoven’s “Emperor” will mark the finale of a Utah Symphony program featuring works by two of history’s most innovative composers. Utah favorite Garrick Ohlsson will join the Utah Symphony and Music Director Thierry Fischer for Ludwig van Beethoven’s Concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”) on Friday, September 23 and Saturday, September 24 at 8 p.m. in Abravanel Hall and Thursday, September 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Browning Fine Arts Center in Ogden, Utah. Fischer and the orchestra will preface Ohlsson’s performance with Igor Stravinsky’s Suite No. 1 and Suite No. 2 as well as Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, a continuation of their season-long countdown of all nine Beethoven symphonies. Stravinsky completed his two colorful Suites for small orchestra in the midst and wake of the renowned premiere of “The Rite of Spring,” which was recently performed by Fischer and the Utah Symphony in May of 2011. Since his appointment as Music Director of the Utah Symphony, Fischer has frequently programmed works by Stravinsky, known today as one of the most influential classical music composers since Beethoven. Beethoven, known as a crucial figure in the transition between Classical and Romantic eras in Western music history, is also thought to have saved his best concerto for last. It is seen by many scholars as one of his most progressive works. The concerto’s moniker of “Emperor” was not applied by Beethoven, but hints to its powerful, heroic themes. Beethoven’s cheerfully subtle Symphony No. 8, another one of his final compositions, may appear to some concertgoers to be looking nostalgically back on the Classical era as opposed to the “Emperor” Concerto’s innovative forward-thinking. Single tickets for the performances range from $17 to $51 and can be purchased by calling (801) 355-ARTS (2787), in person at the Abravanel Hall ticket office (123 W. South Temple) or by visiting www.utahsymphony.org. Students can purchase discounted tickets with a student ID. Season ticket holders and those desiring group discounts should call (801) 533-NOTE (6683). Ticket prices will increase $5 when purchased on the day of the performance. Maestro Fischer and Toby Tolokan, Utah Symphony Vice President of Artistic Planning, will present a free pre-concert lecture each night, 45 minutes prior to the start of the performance in the First Tier Room of Abravanel Hall. Press photos available by logging in at http://www.utahsymphony.org/about/press-and-reviews/itemlist/category/35-media-kit. (Username: usuoimages, Password: media). About Garrick Ohlsson, Piano Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Although he has long been regarded as one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Frédéric Chopin, Ohlsson commands an enormous repertoire, which ranges over the entire piano literature. A student of the late Claudio Arrau, Ohlsson has come to be noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire. His concerto repertoire alone is unusually wide and eclectic – ranging from Haydn and Mozart to works of the 21st century – and to date he has at his command some 80 concertos. Previously, Ohlsson appeared in North America with the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and the National Symphony Orchestra, among others. He performed Prokofiev’s Fifth Piano Concerto with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, followed by a west coast tour including Seattle and Los Angeles’ Disney Hall. With pianist Yoko Nozaki, Ohlsson reprised their performances with Mark Morris Dance Group in the critically acclaimed “Mozart Dances”. With contralto Ewa Podles, he embarked on a tour of North America, followed by the release of their live-recorded recital from London’s Wigmore Hall, a project he will revisit with her in the same hall in December 2009. Ohlsson has also appeared with the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Houston, San Francisco, and Toronto, among others. Special projects included performances in Berkeley and Los Angeles with Mark Morris Dance Group and pianist Yoko Nozaki in “Mozart Dances”; performances with the Russian National Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski in California and at New York’s Lincoln Center; and a Florida tour with the Pittsburgh Symphony. Additionally, he performed with the Warsaw Philharmonic, RTVE Madrid, the MDR Leipzig Symphony Orchestra, and the Sydney Symphony with Vladimir Ashkenazy. A prolific recording artist, Ohlsson can be heard on the Arabesque, RCA Victor Red Seal, Angel, Bridge, BMG, Delos, Hänssler, Nonesuch, Telarc, and Virgin Classics labels. A native of White Plains, N.Y., Ohlsson began his piano studies at the age of 8. He attended the Westchester Conservatory of Music and at 13 entered The Juilliard School in New York City. His musical development has been influenced in completely different ways by a succession of distinguished teachers, most notably Claudio Arrau, Olga Barabini, Tom Lishman, Sascha Gorodnitzki, Rosina Lhévinne and Irma Wolpe. Although he won First Prizes at the 1966 Busoni Competition in Italy and 1968 Montréal Piano Competition, it was his 1970 triumph at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, where he won the Gold Medal that brought him worldwide recognition as one of the finest pianists of his generation. Since then he has made nearly a dozen tours of Poland, where he retains immense personal popularity. Ohlsson was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in 1994 and received the 1998 University Musical Society Distinguished Artist Award in Ann Arbor, Mich. In February 2008, he won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra) for his Beethoven Sonatas, Vol. 3 (Bridge Records, Inc.). He makes his home in San Francisco. About Utah Symphony | Utah Opera Utah Symphony | Utah Opera is dedicated to providing Utah residents and visitors with great performances that engage, educate and enrich lives. The Utah Symphony, which performs at Abravanel Hall, and Utah Opera, which performs at the Capitol Theatre, reach 450,000 citizens in Utah and the Intermountain region, with educational outreach programs serving more than 175,000 students annually. The organization employs 60 staff and 83 full-time musicians, presenting four full opera productions and more than 70 symphony performances in each regular season as well as a summer season at Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah. For more information please visit www.usuo.org. Program Igor STRAVINSKY Suite No. 1 Andante Napolitana Española Balalaika Igor STRAVINSKY Suite No. 2 Marche Valse Polka Galop Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8 in F Major, op. 93 Allegro vivace con brio Allegretto scherzando Tempo di menuetto Allegro vivace INTERMISSION Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, op. 73 “Emperor” Allegro Adagio un poco mosso Rondo: Allegro Garrick Ohlsson, Piano About UBS, Utah Symphony Season Sponsor UBS is proud to continue as the Season Sponsor of the Utah Symphony through the 2011-2012 season. The firm has partnered with the symphony since 2004. Headquartered in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland, UBS is a global firm providing services to private, corporate and institutional clients. Its strategy is to focus on international wealth management and the Swiss banking business alongside its global expertise in investment banking and asset management. In Switzerland, UBS is the market leader in retail and commercial banking. UBS is a significant supporter of orchestral music globally. In addition to its season sponsorship of the Utah Symphony, the firm currently sponsors several outstanding symphony orchestras such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra. These partnerships reflect UBS's dedication to supporting the communities where it operates, as well as a philosophy of working collaboratively with its clients to deliver the customized solutions that help them pursue their goals. ### Hilarie Ashton Public Relations Manager 801.869.9027 office 801.335.9387 cell

The Utah Film Center Celebrates 10 Years of Film With a Special Evening With Geena Davis (SLC: Sept 28)

Media Alert Contact: Levi Elder September 13, 2011 lelder@utahfilmcenter.org - 801.746.7000 The Utah Film Center Celebrates 10 Years of Film With a Special Evening With Geena Davis Salt Lake City, Utah – To celebrate 10 years of creating conversation and community through film, the Utah Film Center kicks off a year-long series of special events with a Special Evening with Academy Award-winning actress Geena Davis on September 28 at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center at 7:00 PM. Ms. Davis will participate in a conversation about her life and career, on and off screen. The conversation will be followed by a screening of THELMA & LOUISE, which is celebrating it’s 20th Anniversary, with a post-film Q+A featuring the film’s producer, Mimi Polk Gitlin. Ms. Davis will be interviewed by Leigh von der Esch, Managing Director of the Utah Office of Tourism, who worked to ensure that the iconic scenes of THELMA & LOUISE were shot in Utah. An Evening with Geena Davis is sponsored by Zions Bank with additional support from the Utah Office of Tourism. Tickets are available for $50.00 ($42.50 for Utah Film Center Members) at ArtTix.com for or by calling 888.451.2787. Upcoming events include Evenings with John Waters (Oct. 13) and Temple Grandin (Nov. 3), both at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. Details for the events can be found at UtahFilmCenter.org and tickets are available at ArtTix.com. More details about all of our upcoming events and membership can be found at www.UtahFilmCenter.org, Twitter@UtahFilmCenter and Facebook www.facebook.com/Utah-Film-Center The Utah Film Center programs now encompass our year round programs including Films Without Borders, Creativity In Focus, Through the Lens and the Pioneer Park Picture Show; two annual film festivals, Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Children and Youth and the Damn These Heels! LGBT Film Festival that also carry their own year-round programming. This year also marked the launch of the Utah Film Circuit, in Logan, Ogden, Moab and St. George, establishing a statewide network of community partners to recruit diverse audiences and resources for our independent, foreign, documentary, and children’s programming. The Utah Film Center brings the world of film to local audiences through free community screenings and discussions, outreach programs and visiting artists and industry professionals. Emphasizing social content and artistic excellence, we present the best documentary, independent and dramatic cinema year-round. We collaborate with various organizations to promote a diversity of ideas to provide forums for underrepresented groups and to develop new audiences for film. The Utah Film Center programs are generously supported by the George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Rio Tinto, Sorenson Legacy Foundation, Zions Bank, and Zoo, Arts & Parks. ###