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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Kathleen Cahill, "Charm" playwright, in a post play discussion @ Weber State University Department of Performing Arts (Eccles Theater, October 11)

Meet the Playwright

Who:                Weber State University Department of Performing Arts
What:        Kathleen Cahill, "Charm" playwright, in a post play discussion
When:        October 11 o immediately following the production of "Charm" (begins at 7:30)
Where:        Eccles Theater, Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts

Weber State University Department of the Performing Arts will be holding a post-play discussion with the playwright, Kathleen Cahill, immediately following the production of her play, "Charm," Thursday, October 11, in the Eccles Theater. Audience members will have an opportunity to ask questions of Cahill; the director, Tracy Callahan; as well as members of the cast.

Kathleen Cahill has been a playwright in residence at Salt Lake Acting Company for the last two years and the team has produced very exciting new works.  Her play, "Charm," premiered at SLAC in 2010 and also won the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award. A New England transplant, Cahill now lives in Salt Lake City.

A study guide for this production is available. Email crjennings@weber.edu for a .pdf

"Embark" Repertory Dance Theatre (Jeanne Wagner Theatre, October 4-6th)

  Embark
October 4-6, 2012 | 7:30 pm
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
Jeanne Wagner Theatre
Repertory Dance Theatre is honoring the ground-breaking revolutionaries...those who are daring, expanding, challenging, and re-defining dance with a three night performance of Embark, October 4-6, 2012 at 7:30 pm.With choreography ranging from the modern dance legends, Merce Cunningham and Michio Ito to new and inspiring work by the RDT dancers and local choreographers Jacque Bell & Barton Poulson, this concert will explore ideas of East/West cultures, the Avant Garde, and dance & technology.

Pieces include:

How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run by Merce Cunningham
A lively, playful, athletic dance for 9 dancers, performed to a sound-score created by John Cage. The choreography keeps the dancers constantly in motion, never staying in a given place for very long, with two or three things simultaneously occurring on stage at all times. Bill Allred of X96's Radio from Hell and Ricklen Nobis of RDT will deliver the John Cage narrated sound-score live on stage, alongside the dancers.

Selections from Michio Ito
RDT spotlights the work of a unique Japanese artist, Michio Ito, one of a boundary-crossing generation that brought about the literary, musical and artistic breakthroughs of modernism, and the eclectic beginnings of American modern dance.

Eight Seconds of Fame by the RDT Dancers & the community
RDT embarked on a new project—creating choreography by incorporating movement phrases donated by the community. During the Utah Arts Festival, RDT invited people to contribute EIGHT SECONDS of movement to be put into a “movement bank.” Over 75 people (of all ages and abilities) shared their movement including pedestrian actions, gestures, shapes, or dance-moves that were part of their own movement language. As Merce Cunningham would have suggested, “human movement has limitless possibilities.”

Hello World by Jacque Bell & Barton Poulson
Hello World is an interdisciplinary, multimedia collaboration between a modem dance choreographer – Jacque Bell – and a social psychologist/data scientist – Barton Poulson. It uses dance and digital imagery to create visual and kinesthetic order and disorder. "Hello World" is a play on internal drives and external perceptions.

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Pre-Concert Lecture with Executive/Artistic Director, Linda Smith & Barton Poulson - free and open to the public!
Friday, October 5 and Saturday, October 6 at 7:00 pm in the Rose Room (downstairs at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center)

Click here to learn more
Tickets
Tickets available through ArtTix
801-355-ARTS | www.arttix.org

Community Night (October 4) full price tickets: $20*
Tickets (Oct. 5-6): $30*

Students/Seniors: $15
*ticket price will increase $5 on the day of the show
Tickets for groups of 10 or more: $20 each*
Join the event on Facebook and invite your friends!
Jeanne Wagner Theatre
Repertory Dance Theatre is honoring the ground-breaking revolutionaries...those who are daring, expanding, challenging, and re-defining dance with a three night performance of Embark, October 4-6, 2012 at 7:30 pm.With choreography ranging from the modern dance legends, Merce Cunningham and Michio Ito to new and inspiring work by the RDT dancers and local choreographers Jacque Bell & Barton Poulson, this concert will explore ideas of East/West cultures, the Avant Garde, and dance & technology.

Pieces include:

How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run by Merce Cunningham
A lively, playful, athletic dance for 9 dancers, performed to a sound-score created by John Cage. The choreography keeps the dancers constantly in motion, never staying in a given place for very long, with two or three things simultaneously occurring on stage at all times. Bill Allred of X96's Radio from Hell and Ricklen Nobis of RDT will deliver the John Cage narrated sound-score live on stage, alongside the dancers.

Selections from Michio Ito
RDT spotlights the work of a unique Japanese artist, Michio Ito, one of a boundary-crossing generation that brought about the literary, musical and artistic breakthroughs of modernism, and the eclectic beginnings of American modern dance.

Eight Seconds of Fame by the RDT Dancers & the community
RDT embarked on a new project—creating choreography by incorporating movement phrases donated by the community. During the Utah Arts Festival, RDT invited people to contribute EIGHT SECONDS of movement to be put into a “movement bank.” Over 75 people (of all ages and abilities) shared their movement including pedestrian actions, gestures, shapes, or dance-moves that were part of their own movement language. As Merce Cunningham would have suggested, “human movement has limitless possibilities.”

Hello World by Jacque Bell & Barton Poulson
Hello World is an interdisciplinary, multimedia collaboration between a modem dance choreographer – Jacque Bell – and a social psychologist/data scientist – Barton Poulson. It uses dance and digital imagery to create visual and kinesthetic order and disorder. "Hello World" is a play on internal drives and external perceptions.

***

Pre-Concert Lecture with Executive/Artistic Director, Linda Smith & Barton Poulson - free and open to the public!
Friday, October 5 and Saturday, October 6 at 7:00 pm in the Rose Room (downstairs at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center)

Click here to learn more
Tickets
Tickets available through ArtTix
801-355-ARTS | www.arttix.org

Community Night (October 4) full price tickets: $20*
Tickets (Oct. 5-6): $30*

Students/Seniors: $15
*ticket price will increase $5 on the day of the show
Tickets for groups of 10 or more: $20 each*
Join the event on Facebook and invite your friends!

'Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism" @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism
New Exhibition Opening at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts



Dale Nichols, January, 1935, oil on canvas, courtesy the Williams College Museum of Art

Salt Lake City, UT – The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is pleased to present Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism, a retrospective exhibition of paintings by American illustrator and painter Dale Nichols (1904-1995). The exhibition will be on view from September 28, 2012 to March 18, 2013 in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building at the University of Utah.

Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism comes to the UMFA from The Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art in David City, Nebraska, where it was originally organized by Amanda Mobley Guenther. The exhibition was re-imagined for the UMFA by Donna Poulton, curator of the art of Utah and the West, and will showcase more than twenty works spanning much of the artist’s long career.

Dale Nichols is regarded as one of the four major American Regionalist artists alongside Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry. The work of these four men, created in the Midwest during the Great Depression, defined a period when artists turned to nature and everyday scenes to create a uniquely American style of art.

Raised on a rural farm in Nebraska, Nichols spent most of his career creating stylized paintings of familiar landscapes and scenes from his youth: red barns, deep snow, and farmers hard at work. Many of Nichols’ works on view in Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism honor the agrarian ideal, and provided an image of hope for a struggling nation.

Nichols received art instruction at the Arts Institute of Chicago and gained early recognition for his magazine cover illustrations in House and Garden and The Saturday Evening Post. During the 1920s and 1930s, Nichols worked as a professor and became the Carnegie Professor in Art at the University of Illinois. In the 1940s he indulged his wanderlust by traveling repeatedly to Alaska and spending extended periods of time in Guatemala and Mexico. Visitors to Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism will have the opportunity to experience paintings from each of these periods.

“Nichols' stylized paintings of agrarian themes capture a mood and time that is neither sentimental nor nostalgic,” says Donna Poulton, UMFA curator of the art of Utah and the West. “He portrays the real work of farmers and their environment in twentieth century America.”

Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism is generously sponsored by the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation; the Ray, Quinney & Nebeker Foundation; and the UMFA Special Exhibitions Council.
For more information about this exhibition and others coming to the UMFA this fall, visit www.umfa.utah.edu.

Jonathan Horowitz’s Your Land/My Land: Election ’12 @ UMOCA (Various locations, October 5-November 24)

UMOCA Presents Jonathan Horowitz’s Your Land/My Land: Election ’12
Oct. 5-Nov. 24, 2012

Salt Lake City – The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art joins the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the New Museum in New York, and other museums across the United States to present Jonathan Horowitz’s Your Land/My Land: Election ’12—a special exhibition coinciding with the 2012 American Presidential election.

Your Land/My Land: Election ’12 is a reimagined installation originally presented by Horowitz during the 2008 presidential election. At each location (as in ’08), red and blue area rugs will divide the exhibition space into opposing zones, reflecting America’s color-coded, political, and cultural divide. Back-to-back monitors will be suspended between the carpets, with one broadcasting a live feed of Fox News, the other of MSNBC. The lyrics of This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie, which originally addressed the issue of land ownership, will be applied to the wall.

The space created by Horowitz will provide a location for people to gather and watch coverage of as well as talk about the presidential election. The installation’s central trope is a divided United States swathed in only red and blue.

“It’s an unprecedented opportunity to align contemporary art institutions in such a synchronized manner,” said Aaron Moulton, senior curator at UMOCA. “This exhibition manages to represent our political system and our country in a way that is both ironically balanced and unnervingly accurate. It gives new agency to art museums as an active space to create dialogue with our visitorship through an event that so profoundly affects us all.”

According to Horowitz, “If race and gender were the defining themes of the ’08 election, economic policy and economic disparity will likely be the defining themes of the 2012 election. The placement of the lyrics will extend this metaphor to the land of the museum and the land outside. To some, museums are decidedly blue—elitist bastions of liberalism—to others, they are lynchpins of a capitalist art market analogous to other capitalist markets that have been collapsing around us.”

When Your Land/My Land opens, a portrait of President Obama, as the current representative of all Americans, will hang from the ceiling between the two sides and a portrait of Mitt Romney will sit on the floor. On election night, each venue will host an election returns event, with the installation becoming a minimalist backdrop. If Obama wins, the position of the two portraits will remain the same. Should Obama be unseated, their positions will be switched.

Special events: UMOCA will extend its hours for viewers to experience the vice presidential debate and election night in the museum (Oct. 11, 7-9 p.m. and Nov. 6, 7 p.m.-TBD).

Participating venues include:
Contemporary Art Museum: St Louis, MO – Sept.7–Nov. 11
Contemporary Art Museum: Raleigh, NC – Sept. 22–Nov. 13
Contemporary Arts Museum: Houston, TX - late Sept.–Nov. 11
Hammer Museum: Los Angeles, CA – late Sept. – late Nov.
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art: Salt Lake City, UT – Oct. 5–Nov. 24
New Museum: New York City, NY – Oct. 10- Nov. 18
Telfair Museums: Savannah, GA – Oct. 5–Nov. 18
Jonathon Horowitz is participating in the group exhibition, Battleground States, also opening at UMOCA on Oct. 5, 2012. The two exhibition openings will occur during UMOCA’s monthly First Friday series on Oct. 5, 8-10 p.m. with DJ Street Jesus, food, and a cash bar.
About the Artist
Since the early 1990’s, Horowitz has made art that combines the imagery and ambivalence of Pop Art with the engaged criticality of conceptualism. Often based on popular commercial sources, his work examines the deep-seated links between consumerism and political consciousness, as well as the political silences of postwar art. Recent solo exhibitions include “Minimalist Works from the Holocaust Museum,” Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland (2010), “Apocalypto Now,” Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2009), and the retrospective exhibition, “And/Or,” P.S.1, New York (2009).

About UMOCA
The award-winning Utah Museum of Contemporary Art exhibits groundbreaking artwork by local, national, and international artists. Five gallery spaces provide an opportunity for the community to explore the contemporary cultural landscape through UMOCA’s exhibitions, films, events, classes, and presentations.

Founded in 1931, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art has been recognized as Best Museum in the State of Utah for 2011 and 2012 and is a four-time recipient of funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation.

Located at 20 S. West Temple; open Tuesday-Thursday: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Friday: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.; Saturday: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.; closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is free. For more information call (801) 328-4201 or visit www.utahmoca.org.

Peek Disability in Media Award Event for Carrie Fisher @ Utah Film Center (September 26th)

CARRIE FISHER IN UTAH TO HONOR THE LEGACY OF THE REAL RAIN MAN
FISHER NAMED SECOND RECIPIENT OF PEEK DISABILITY IN MEDIA AWARD

Salt Lake City, Utah - Following the first sold-out Evening with Temple Grandin, the Utah Film Center will honor renowned actress and author Carrie Fisher with this year's Peek Award for Disability in Media.
According to the 2011 Annual Report from the Utah Department of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, close to 200,000 people in Utah suffer from mental illness (approximately 7% of Utah´s
population) and only about 24% of those afflicted have received treatment. Carrie Fisher´s visit to the state in celebration of the life and impact of the real Rain Man, Salt Lake City native Kim Peek, promises to be a deeply impactful and personal experience.
The Utah Film Center together with generous support from the Utah Autism Foundation and other community partners have joined forces to present an Evening with Carrie Fisher to increasing community awareness about disability, particularly mental illness, and the critical role that media can play in promoting understanding and acceptance. While upwards of 54 million Americans are estimated to have some kind of mental disorder each year, only about eight million of those seek help, and the fear and shame they experience can often lead to tragic ends.
The event will take place on Friday, November 9, at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center with Barry Morrow, the Academy Award®-winning screenwriter of Rain Man, presenting the Peek Award to Ms. Fisher as he permanently loaning his Oscar® statuette for the people of Salt Lake City to enjoy through the Utah Film Center, in celebration of the legacy of Kim Peek, who served as the inspiration for the film Rain Man. Ms. Fisher will give an exciting keynote address followed by an on-stage interview with KUER  RadioWest's host Doug Fabrizio. The evening will be emceed by journalist Carole Mikita.
Prior to the keynote event, we will hold an elegant reception with Ms. Fisher for VIP ticket holders and sponsors at Valter´s Osteria. Ms. Fisher will also be in the lobby after the keynote to participate in a book signing for all ticket holders.
The Peek Award will annually honor an actor, filmmaker, or subject of a film who is positively impacting our society's perception of persons with disabilities. As well as inspiring those suffering from mental illness to seek treatment, Ms. Fisher serves as an example that each person is more than their disability and it is possible to lead a "normal" life and even achieve great personal and professional success.
Diagnosed with Bipolar II disorder, actress and author Carrie Fisher has struggled with manic depression all of her life, braving national scrutiny to share her story and provide inspiration to others who also suffer from mental illness. Ms. Fisher has advocated for decades to increase education, awareness, and research about mental illness, as well as to dispel the stigma surrounding this type of affliction. Through her incredible creativity, candor, and wit, Ms. Fisher is able to use humor to bring awareness to this serious issue and help others decide to seek treatment and speak out.
Tickets are $50 per person, $45 for Utah Film Center Members, and VIP.
Tickets including the pre-reception with Ms. Fisher are $150.
Tickets will go on sale September 26 through ArtTix at www.arttix.org.
More details about all of our upcoming events and membership can be found at UtahFilmCenter.org, Twitter @UtahFilmCenter and Facebook www.facebook.com/Utah-Film-Center

5th Annual College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Awards Assembly @ University of Utah (Officer's Club on September 26th)

Please join us for the 
5th Annual College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Awards Assembly
Thursday September 27th, 10:45am-12:15pm
Nancy Peery Marriott Auditorium, Kingsbury Hall


Featuring stunning performances and riveting screenings from the talented students in the College of Fine Arts and honoring our remarkable 2012-13 Distinguished Alumni


The honorees are: Art & Art HistoryBruce Lindsey, Dean of the College of Architecture and of the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Ballet --Sandra Birch Allen, Associate Professor of Dance at Brigham Young University and was Associate Chair of the Dance Department from 2009-2011.  Film & Media Arts -- Trent Harris, writer and director of six feature films, many experimental movies, and more than one hundred documentaries for PBS, National Geographic, NBC and others.  Modern Dance -- Keith Johnson, from Keith Johnson /Dancers and Professor at California State University Long Beach.  Music -- Raymond ChobazProfessor of Music and Conductor Laureate of the Gainesville Symphony Orchestra and Music Director/Conductor of the University of Florida Symphony Orchestra.  Theatre -- Timothy McCuen PiggeeAssociate Professor and Area Head for Musical Theatre at Cornish College of the Arts.  
 
The honorees will be presented a bronze medal and certificate at the CFA Awards Banquet Wednesday September 26th at the Officer´s Club at Fort Douglas on the U of U campus.  The Awards Assembly the following morning brings the entire college to the stage featuring performances from the School of Music and the Departments of Ballet, Theatre and Modern Dance. There will be a video presentation from the Department of Art & Art History and a animated short film screening from the Department of Film & Media Arts. 
 
The Assembly is free and open to the public.  We welcome all for an entertaining morning as we champion the arts.   Please join us in Kingsbury Hall, September 27th at 10:45AM. For more information on this event please visit www.finearts.utah.edu, or call 801.581.6764.

NEWS: CUAC to exhibit the work of seven Utah artists in Los Angele's international art fair

CUAC to exhibit the work of seven Utah artists in Los Angele's international art fair, Art Platform
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In recognition of the excellent programming over the years, CUAC is one of 20 international non-profit art venues asked to curate exhibitions during Art Platform, a three day event September 28, 29, and 30, in Santa Monica, CA. While the event is in California, it is consistent with CUAC's purpose of helping Utah artists gain international exposure and context.
CUAC has elected to feature the work of seven Utah artists: Allan Ludwig, Cara Despain, Daniel Everett, Jared Lindsay Clark, Jared Steffensen, Jason Metcalf, and Venessa Gromek.
CUAC expects 30,000 members of the international art community to view the works by those artists. Works range from painting by Allan Ludwig, sculpture by Jason Metcalf, Jared Lindsay Clark, Jared Steffensen, and Venessay Gromek, photography by Daniel Everett, and video by Cara Despain.
This program is typical of the things CUAC strives to offer the Utah art community. As we try to survive our censorship and seek a new home, please make a donation.

Costume sale @ Weber State University Department of Performing Arts (Shephard Union Building on October 11th/12th)

Time to Dress Up?

Who:                Weber State University Department of Performing Arts
What:        Costume Sale
When:        October 11 o 12:00-7:00 PM
                October 12 o 10:00am-4:00 pm
Where:        The Lair o Shepherd Union Building

Weber State University Department of the Performing Arts will be holding a costume sale Thursday, October 11 from noon-7:00 pm and Friday, October 12, from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, in the Lair of the Shepherd Union Building.  The sale will include clothing, vintage clothing, costumes, fabric, wigs, hats, some accessories, and other items that are periodically cleaned out of costume storage due to space.  Proceeds go to support and maintain the costume studio. Those wanting a head-start on this year´s Halloween costume will want to shop this sale. Nothing over $20!
For more information about the sale, contact Jean Louise England, Costume Studio Manager, 801 626 7768 or  jeanengland@weber.edu.

NEWS: Registration for the 2013 Local Arts Classroom

Americans for the Arts officially launches and opens registration for the 2013 Local Arts Classroom, back by popular demand!  This five-month virtual leadership development series, running January through May 2013, provides an opportunity for emerging local arts leaders to master foundational concepts and build skills through exposure to current practice in the core areas of local arts development.  The program is designed to serve arts professionals with less than 10 years of experience in the arts field, including current undergraduate or graduate students and those who are transitioning into the field from another sector. 

Selected participants will attend seven 90-minute webinars and seven 60-minute post-webinar discussion calls, each offering opportunities to connect with field leaders.  Participants will also have opportunities to regularly connect with peers around the country, and have access to a Classroom participant only web portal that will include resources to further study in each subject. 

Topics we will cover include:

·         Cultural and Community Planning:  Building a Common Agenda for Development
·         Space for Art:  Creating Spaces for Arts Production, Presentation, and Community Engagement
·         Advocacy:  Making the Case for Arts and Culture
·         Stewardship and Resource Development:  Raising Funds, Friends, and Allies
·         Activating Community Leadership:  Board and Staff Development
·         New in 2013Career Development:  Navigating Opportunities in the Local Arts Field

Participants in the 2013 Local Arts Classroom will be selected via a competitive application and panel process.  A maximum of 40 individuals will be accepted into the program. 

CLICK HERE for Registration Details and to download the Application Form

For more information, contact Leadership Development Program Manager Stephanie Hanson at shanson@artsusa.org.

Celebrate Chinese Heritage @ Utah Cultural Celebration Center (1355 West 3100 South, September 29th)

West Valley City to Unveil Chinese Gate, Celebrate Chinese Heritage at Utah Cultural Celebration Center

WHAT:           Chinese Heritage Gate unveiling and community celebration
           
WHEN:           September 29, 2012
                        6:00 - 10:00 p.m.

WHERE:         1355 West 3100 South
                                               
WHO:              Everyone is invited to the Chinese Heritage celebration free of charge.

WHY:              Ten years in the making, the Chinese Heritage Gate has finally been installed at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center. The gate will be a prominent structure on the Cultural Center grounds, inviting visitors to admire its architectural beauty and reflect on Chinese culture. A public unveiling ceremony will celebrate the installation of this culturally significant gift.

                        In addition to the public celebration on September 29, two special complementary exhibits have been installed at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center showcasing artwork from Taiwan. The Beauty of Nantou 2012 features contemporary fine art by over 25 of Taiwan´s most famous and celebrated artists. Why Taiwan Matters is an informational photography exhibit that traces the history of Taiwan from its beginnings as a full democracy to preserving traditional culture to contributions to the global economy, arts, medical field and technology. In addition to these two exhibits, gifted art and artifacts from West Valley City´s Sister City will also be on display. The exhibits open on September 29 as part of the celebration, and will feature art demonstrations by visiting Taiwanese artists.

                        Special thanks goes to Nantou and West Valley Cities; England Logistics; Chinese Heritage Foundation of Utah; Evergreen Ocean Division, and the West Valley City Sister City Committee for making the entire project, from conception to construction to delivery, a reality for the Cultural Center and the Chinese community.

For more information on this festive celebration or upcoming events at the Cultural Center, please call 801-965-5100 or visit www.culturalcelebration.org. For more information about the Chinese Heritage, visit www.wvc-ut.gov/friendshipgate.
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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

Opera on the Scene @ Weber State University (Garrison Choral Room, October 16th)

Opera on the Scene

Who:                Weber State University Department of Performing Arts
What:        An Evening of Opera Scenes, directed by Karen Brookens
When:        Tuesday, October 16 o 7:30 pm
Where:        Garrison Choral Room (BC136), Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts

Weber State University Department of Performing Arts presents an evening of opera scenes directed by Dr. Karen Brookens, Tuesday, October 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Garrison Choral Room (BC136), Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts.  Children eight years and older are welcome.  Tickets are $6 for students, seniors and those with military I.D. and $7 for all others.

A new season of opera scenes will be presented by the voice and choral education students in the music department. An evening of duets, trios and ensembles will feature the operas "Carmen," "Cosi fan tutte," "Don Giovanni," "The Mikado," "The Ballade of Baby Doe," and "The Old Maid and the Thief." All scenes are under the direction of Dr. Karen Brookens and accompanied by Nylene Douglas.

The Opera Program at Weber State University is flourishing with talent and opportunities. More and more students are starting to see and hear what Weber State University has to offer them in the area of opera study. 

The successful production of Gilbert and Sullivan´s "The Gondoliers" in 2009 and "Die Fledermaus" by Strauss in 2011 marked the continuance of a fully-produced opera every other year. Mozart´s "Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)" will be presented  March 28-30, 2013. Dr. Brookens has been directing this program for the last ten years. 

For more information about this concert or opera opportunities at WSU, contact Dr. Karen Brookens, 626-6439 or kbrookens@weber.edu.

"Beneath A Twisted Oak" @ Olpin Union Building Little Theatre (Salt Lake City, October 18th)

October 18, 2012
7:30 pm
Beneath A Twisted Oak
Directed by Brenda Bensch

"From the back garden you will be able to see the wild wood." Celebrate October´s Witching Month while traveling a path blazed by Neil Gaiman, master story-teller and Newbery Award-winner! "Remember: giants sleep too soundly, witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always . . . ." Gaiman opens "tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams."

Olpin Union Building Little Theatre
200 S Central Campus Drive
SLC

Free Parking with validation
Free Admission
Free Refreshments

Partially funded by
Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks
Salt Lake City Arts Council

Richard C Russell
lderlore@xmission.com

WSU AAT (Associated Actors and Technicians) play @ Webster State University (September 26th)

Weber State University Department of Performing Arts AAT (Associated Actors and Technicians) presents a reading of a new play by WSU Theatre Major, Shauna Ross, Wednesday, September 26th, at 6:00 pm in the Wildcat Lair, Shepherd Union Building. The reading will be followed by a talk-back session facilitated by WSU Theatre faculty, Jenny Kokai. Shauna plans to submit her work in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) and invites constructive criticism. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information about this event or about AAT, contact Derek Williamson (801-645-5504), publicity

Panels from The AIDS Memorial Quilt @ Southern Utah University (Cedar City, UT, October 8-20)

SUU´S HUNTER CONFERENCE CENTER
TO FEATURE "PANELS FROM THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT"
OCTOBER 8-20, 2012
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah: Created to commemorate the lives lost to AIDS over the last decades, The AIDS Memorial Quilt serves as a political and social statement about the impact of this plague. As part of SUU´s Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery fall exhibition, Everything In Between: Art Quilts, Fabric Collage, and Embroidery, Panels from The AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on exhibit from October 8-20, 2012, in SUU´s Hunter Conference Center on the second floor. The Panels will be on view Monday through Saturday from 10am until 4:30pm; admission is free. Panels from The AIDS Memorial Quilt opens on Monday, October 8th at 10:00pm with a reception from 1:00-3:00pm in the Whiting Room of the Hunter Conference Center.

In the late 1980s as the AIDS epidemic spread around the globe, a group of strangers assembled in a San Francisco storefront to document the lives lost to the disease. Their mission was to create a memorial for those who had died of AIDS and to help people understand the devastating impact of the disease at all levels, and in all constituencies, of society. These people served as the foundation of The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Today the Quilt is a powerful reminder of the AIDS pandemic. The actual Quilt consists of 48,000 individual 3-by-6 foot memorial panels, most commemorating the life of someone who has died of AIDS, which have been sewn together by friends, family members and loved ones.  
On Tuesday, October 9th at noon a special Convocations will feature the distinguished AIDS activist and co-founder of The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, Cleve Jones. His presentation will be held in the Gilbert Great Hall in SUU´s Hunter Conference Center. An American AIDS and LGBT rights activist, Jones conceived of The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt which became, at 54 tons, the world's largest piece of community folk art as of 2009. In 1983, he co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation which has grown into one of the largest and most influential People with AIDS advocacy organizations in the United States. The Convocation is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a reception for attendees.
Thursday, October 11th is National Coming Out Day and the Queer Straight Alliance of Southern Utah University will host a Coming Out Carnival from 4:00-6:00pm. The event celebrates the National Day of recognition, acceptance and respect. Other SUU student clubs will also participate in the event. The Carnival is scheduled to be held on SUU´s Business Quad and it is free.
On Monday, October 15th, there will be a screening of the Academy Award-winning documentary, Common Threads: Stories of the Quilt. Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, the film focuses on several people who are represented by panels in the quilt. After the screening there will be a discussion of the film. The screening will place in Sharwan Smith Center Theater and will begin at 7pm. The screening is free and the public is invited to attend.This event is sponsored by the SUU Student Association.   

An insightful presentation, When Viruses Go Viral: The Biology of Viruses, will be given by Dr. Jon Karpel, SUU Assistant Professor of Biology, on Tuesday, October 16th. This seminar will explore viruses and their characteristics including HIV, West Nile and influenza. The presentation is scheduled to be held in SUU´s Education Building, room 104 and begins at 5pm. The seminar is free and open to the public.
The final event scheduled will be Remembrance: A Tribute, scheduled for Wednesday, October 17th. Through dramatic readings, songs and personal recollections, this tribute centers on the people who we have lost to AIDS, represented by the Quilt, personal reminiscences or selected from theatre pieces or literature. Beginning at 7pm, the tribute will be held in the Hunter Conference Center´s Whiting Room. The event is free and open to the public.  
Southern Utah University´s Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery invites the community to bear witness to Panels from The AIDS Memorial Quilts. For more information about the SUU's Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery or to sign up for the mailing list, please call the gallery at (435) 586-5432, or visit the gallery website at www.edu/pva/artgallery.
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 and the new Center for Shakespeare Studies. 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, 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.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Notes from September 12 Culture Bytes: Leveraging the Most out of Civic and Cultural Parterships


Melinda Cavarallo (Deputy Director, Center for the Arts)

Center for the Arts, part of Salt Lake County owns Capitol Theatre, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Abranvanel Hall 

Sometimes there’s an expectation to give our venues away for free. But we aren’t able to because there’s that earned revenue expectation so it’s not a huge burden on the tax payer.

Successful partnerships: Rose Exposed
  • Sept 1
  • it was wonderful to highlight the building, the 6 resident arts organizations came together, it was free during the day
  • we were able to level some of our costs to support that
  • it was a great partnership between downtown alliance, visit salt lake (nowplayingutah.com), the city, and others


 Jesse Dean: Assistant Director of Public Policy, Downtown Alliance

  • Discussed how the downtown alliance can help you leverage your potential
  • always looking for new opportunities, from orgs, artists, etc.
  • mission to create a more vibrant capitol city. Arts are the heart of a vibrant city
  • want to make sure we’re focusing on more successful events
  • goal to help market those partnerships and organizations
  • Rose Exposed was an interesting experience because we got to help with the marketing and having them all work together. 
  • Eve is another example as it’s a 3 day cultural collaboration over new years (for the 2011 Eve: included Derek Dyer’s art installation, called Glow Forms, giant glow in the dark building blocks); also had 7 other arts groups performing

Helen Langan, Senior Advisor to Mayor Ralph Becker

  • when Mayor Becker was reelected last november, he had worked prior to put together a livability agenda for his second term, and one of those 12 points is the arts and culture of SLC. Click here to read it: http://www.slcclassic.com/links/livability.pdf
  • livability plan’s goal is to make it one of the most green, inclusive, and diverse
  • arts and culture really assist in making the emotional core of the city
  • part of having a livable city is the economy
  • hence that connection between businesses wanting to come because the cultural scene is vibrant
  • the works rests in the relationship we’ve been cultivating with salt lake county and the downtown alliance
  • such as the cultural core project that we launched a few years ago
  • also partnering with hospitality and business companies
  • the city is committed to (through livability program):

  • Click here to read: http://www.slcclassic.com/links/livability.pdf
  • HIGHLIGHTS:
    • establishing a micro loan program for individual artists to explore and share their work
    • a storefront studios space at the street level (function as studios, performance space, etc.)
    • review and expand current arts and culture funding projects
    • move forward with construction of UPAC
    • Support Capitol Theatre renovation
    • seek best use and renovation of Utah Theater

explained funding for cultural core
  • still in development phase
  • it’s not going to be like a new ZAP, it’s going to be more about audience development
  • from increased tax revenue of city creek
  • interested in new ideas, collaborative ideas like the Rose Exposed


In terms of successes and challenges: one of our greatest successes have been our partnership with salt lake county, we’ve transformed the relationship that existed before. We’re pushing each other as partners in really exciting ways

Challenges: limited resources, never enough time and money to do everything you want to do


Nan Ellin: Chair, Department of City & Metropolitan Planning, University of Utah
(also sitting on Cultural Core finance committee)

Cultural core is just getting started, so not too much to report on beyond the meetings we all attended

So now is a great time to get input from cultural community on general principles

Downtown rising (2007): we embrace a vision for our city that is about much more than buildings and places. Visions are about people and their ability to live fulfilling and productive lives

These principles are great founding principles for the cultural core initiative as well.
Shared a model that she uses in terms of principles called “Path to Prosperity”

When you want to achieve prosperity
  • start with your assets
  • polish it
  • come up with new ideas, propose it
  • prototype it
  • promote it
  • present it as a gift

Typically people start partnerships with problems or deficits we’re trying to fill. Instead, take a step back and look at our assets. ask: what are our gifts

Instead of starting with a tabula rasa, start with a tabula plena

She sees cities as works of art. We’re all urban artists creating some beautiful masterpieces together

Showed some things they are doing at the U to help this happen for Salt Lake.
  • salt lake city workshop
  • abandoned rail corridor on 900 South (looked at the high line, an urban garden)
    • named it the 9 line (student designed the logo)
    • did an asset map of what’s along the line
    • turned it into a trail, had an opening celebration (walk run, bike, celebrate)
    • The 9 line even shows on google maps!

By focusing on assets and co-creating we’re rallying resources to realize the vision

Instead of thinking about needs so much, let’s think about gifts: energy, tools, our knowledge, we can create jewels with those things

When we begin with strengths instead of weaknesses, what seems to be our greatest problems can be our greatest opportunities

Example: 
  • people were saying the bats in Austin were a problem, but then they said this is a good thing and turned it into a festival
  • In phoenix, instead of saying we have a sun problem, let’s make it an opportunity to make shade structures that double as solar energy panels
  • taking vacant lots in phoenix, planted sunflower fields

She has a book called “Good Urbanism”

JOB: Costume Director @ Utah Symphony | Utah Opera


Costume Director
Utah Symphony | Utah Opera


Job Description: UTAH SYMPHONY | UTAH OPERA has an immediate opening for the position of Costume Director. This position reports to Utah Opera’s Artistic Director and oversees a full-time staff of seven and part-time staff as needed. Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to day to day management of the costume shop, development and maintenance of budgets, point of contact with guest costume and wig/make-up designers, scheduling/managing staff and promotion of rentals/construction program. The successful candidate should have a minimum of an
undergraduate in design or technical costuming, significant management experience, and at least two years in theatrical costuming. Good communication and team leadership skills are a must.

How to Apply: Please send resume and cover letter to jobs@usuo.org.

Contact Name: Natalie Cope
Email: jobs@usuo.org

JOB: Business Marketplace Coordinator @ Utah Nonprofits Association


Salary: $15/hour
Job Description: About UNA:
The Utah Nonprofits Association (UNA) is the umbrella membership association of nonprofit organizations in Utah. Incorporated in 1990, UNA was created by, and for, people who strive for a stronger, more professional nonprofit community in Utah. Our current membership includes over 650 nonprofit organizations and individual members.

UNA’s mission is to strengthen the Utah nonprofit community by:
1. Strengthening the quality of nonprofit leadership and management.
2. Enhancing the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations.
3. Promoting greater understanding of the role and impact of nonprofit organizations.
4. Encouraging networking and cooperative efforts among nonprofit organizations.


Position Background:
Utah Nonprofits Association is launching a new Business Marketplace on our website to provide one-stop access to services nonprofits need. This is also an opportunity for businesses who value nonprofit business to market their services to this audience.

Position Responsibilities:
The Business Marketplace Coordinator will provide excellent customer service; answer incoming calls and emails; prepare, disseminate and promote Marketplace information; follow up on referrals for potential customers and encourage them to become a member of the Marketplace; monitor website utilization, track paperwork, file reports and update Business Marketplace section of the UNA website.

Hours:
This part-time position will work flexible hours that average 10 hours per week between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. The hours will be coordinated with the Membership Services Manager and the other Utah Nonprofits Association staff, interns and volunteers. If successful, this position has the potential of increasing hours and could eventually become a full-time position.


Supervisor: Membership Services Manager

Qualifications and Skills Preferred
Experience with sales or marketing
Experience in the business sector
Experience with the nonprofit sector
Excellent computer, web and technical skills
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Some post high school business, marketing, administrative or related course work
Exceptional customer service orientation and satisfaction in providing assistance
Strong interpersonal skills
Strong organizational skills
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
Ability to work both independently and as a part of a team

Disposition
Willing to learn
Energetic and imaginative
Strong organizational skills with attention to detail
Strong interpersonal skills
Exceptional customer service orientation and satisfaction in providing assistance
Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
Ability to work both independently and as a part of a team
Professional appearance, manner and attitude
Able to remain calm under pressure

How to Apply: Please email cover letter, resume and 3 references to pshreve@utahnonprofits.org
No calls please.
Closing Date: open until filled
Contact Name: Patty Shreve
Email: pshreve@utahnonprofits.org

JOB: Director of Major Gifts @ Utah Symphony | Utah Opera


Job Description: Director of Major Gifts
Utah Symphony | Utah Opera

Utah Symphony | Utah Opera (USUO) is seeking an experienced Director of Major Gifts (DMG) to manage a portfolio of approximately 100 – 150 high value individual donors at all giving phases including identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship. Working in partnership with members of the Board of Trustees, the President and CEO, and Vice President of Development, the DMG will establish objectives and develop strategies to increase financial support from individuals. A key focus of this position will be to participate in comprehensive campaign planning and execution. The DMG will join members of the Development Department team, especially the Annual Giving Manager, in planning efforts and solicitation strategies. The DMG will work closely with and manage the Planned Giving Committee to grow Legacy gifts to the Tanner and Crescendo Societies. The DMG will remain current on programs and initiatives of USUO to support the mission of USUO. The DMG will represent USUO at various external functions as requested, and will perform other duties as assigned.

Specific responsibilities include:

•Serving as the primary liaison with campaign consultants to manage the continuation of the quiet phase of the Comprehensive Campaign;
•Managing day-to-day oversight of the Comprehensive Campaign including tracking and reporting progress, preparing materials for solicitations, and providing strategic support;
•Staffing members of the Campaign Core Leadership Team, the Development Committee and the Board of Trustees;
•Working closely with volunteers to identify and cultivate prospects, both for Comprehensive Campaign and Annual Fund purposes;
•Managing the Planned Giving Committee to maximize legacy gifts;
•Implementing a sophisticated major giving program;
•Implementing best practices in prospect management, stewardship and donor relations;
•Utilizing the Tessitura database program to manage prospect research, cultivation, solicitations and stewardship;
•Working closely with the eight-member development staff to meet contributed revenue goals.

Requirements include a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; a proven track record of successful major gifts solicitations including planned gifts; excellent interpersonal, customer service, written and verbal communication skills; ability to work well under deadline and to manage multiple projects simultaneously; ability to work independently and as part of a team; high level of initiative, attention to detail and excellent organizational skills; and experience with current and evolving trends in major gifts giving and solicitation. Position reports to Vice President of Development.
An affinity for the mission of USUO and a passion the arts are an integral component of the MGO position along with a willingness and ability to work frequent evenings and some weekends. Campaign experience and knowledge of Tessitura software preferred.

Utah Symphony | Utah Opera serves the people of Utah and beyond as the premier provider of the orchestral and operatic art forms. Our vision is to connect the community through great live music with performances at Abravanel Hall, the Capitol Theatre, the Deer Valley® Music Festival, and through our state-wide education programs. With an annual budget of $18 million, we serve over 350,000 people each year, and are one of only 17 full-time orchestras in the country.
How to Apply: Please send a cover letter and resume to jobs@usuo.org.

Contact Name: Leslie Peterson
Email: jobs@usuo.org

“Charm" by Kathleen Cahill @ WSU (Ogden: Oct 5 - 13)


A Little Stream Growing Wider as it Heads Toward the Sea
WHO:    Kathleen Cahill, playwright
WHAT:    “Charm,” a play about Margaret Fuller and Her Friends
WHERE: Weber State University Department of Performing Arts
WHEN:   October 5-13

Kathleen Cahill has been a playwright in residence at Salt Lake Acting Company for the last two years and the team has produced very exciting new works.  Her play, “Charm,” premiered at SLAC in 2010 and also won the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award. A New England transplant, Cahill appears to be thriving in a city on the lip of the Great Basin. 

from her SLAC blog http://www.saltlakeactingcompany.org/playwrights/resident-playwright/playwright-kathleen-cahill: As I recall, I was first noticed as writer when I penned the immortal phrase, “tender pillows of ravioli” for a restaurant in Massachusetts.  . . .I wrote a children’s play.  . . . I wrote a couple of radio plays and. . . sold them both to the CBC.  I wrote for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, little monologues about famous composers, and I wrote some short stories.  I wrote a couple of screenplays, and sold one of them to Public Television. My first play . . .workshopped at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York, and was produced by the University of Oklahoma where I was Artist in Residence.  My second play. . . was produced off Broadway, and then in Chicago, and was made into a radio play for NPR. The Massachusetts Artists Foundation gave me an award for a play called DITCHED. Someone hired me to turn it into a screenplay, and the money allowed my husband and me to make the down payment on our first house. A play called THE STILL TIME was produced in Chicago and received the Connecticut Commission on the Arts Playwrighting award.

I was given a scholarship to NYU Tisch School for the Arts in Musical Theatre. I wrote the libretto for CLARA, an opera about Clara Schumann, and received a Rockefeller Grant to Bellagio Italy to work on it with the composer.  . . .I wrote  DAKOTA SKY that received the Jane Chambers Playwrighting Award.  . . .North Shore Music Theatre commissioned me to write a musical . . .which was performed at the Berkley College of Music in Boston.

Then I came to Utah and had brain surgery.  My life changed.  There were mountains and sky and something in the air (besides pollution I mean.)  I wrote a play in Utah that I had wanted to write for years, about Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalists: CHARM received it’s world premiere at the Salt Lake Acting Company. It received an Edgerton Award;  it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.  THE PERSIAN QUARTER premiered at the Salt Lake Acting Company and received another Edgerton Award.  It opens the season at Merrimack Rep in Massachusetts in September 2011.  I’m a member of a great playwrighting group here in Salt Lake.  I see my career as a playwright like this:  a little stream growing bigger and wider as it heads towards the “far and boundless sea” to steal a quote from one of my own plays.      

Awards:  Jane Chambers Playwrighting Award; Connecticut Commission on the Arts Playwrighting Award (twice)  Massachusetts Artists Foundation Award; Rockefeller Grant; National Endowment for the Arts New American Works Grant;, Edgerton Foundation Award (twice)  Drama League Award.  

Musicals:  The Navigator, Friendship of the Sea; Dakota Sky, an opera, Clara, two opera/cabarets, Fatal Song, and  A Tale of Two Cities: Paris and Berlin in the Twenties.  Listed in the top 25 songwriters in the Directory of Musical Theatre Writers. 

Plays: Course 86B in the Catalogue (Salt Lake Acting Company) The Still Time (Georgia Rep/ Porchlight Theatre, Chicago) Women Who Love Science Too Much (Porchlight Theatre and NPR Radio) Henri Louise and Henry (Cleveland Public, Firehouse Theatre, Massachusetts)  Charm ( National New Play Network Festival, Salt Lake Acting Company premiere, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Dallas; Orlando Shakespeare)  The Persian Quarter ( Salt Lake Acting Company, Merrimack Rep, Massachusetts.)  Downtown Express (Screenplay,  produced by David Grubin Productions. ) 

Works as Senior Editor, Masterpiece, WGBH-TV.  • contact: kathleencahill10@comcast.net



NEWS: Salt Lake City’s annual Craft Lake City Festival attained 501-c3 nonprofit status last week










Craft Lake City Becomes a 501-c3 Nonprofit Organization



SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 21, 2012 – Salt Lake City’s annual Craft Lake City Festival attained 501-c3 nonprofit status last week.

Angela Brown, Festival Director, says, “I am enthusiastic to announce that the IRS has officially recognized Craft Lake City as a 501-c3 nonprofit organization! This new infrastructure presents us with a myriad of new opportunities and will ensure sustainability of the organization for its existence in future years.  We look forward to keeping you updated on our progress in this area.”

Craft Lake City’s overarching vision is to validate, advocate, encourage and foster DIY art in Salt Lake City and surrounding areas. Craft Lake City not only holds an annual festival every August in downtown Salt Lake City, but also hosts community events throughout the year, such as workshops and public art exhibits, and partners with other local nonprofits to bring DIY art to the community in fresh, diverse, creative ways.
  • Craft Lake City hosts monthly craft workshops led by local artisans at a variety of Salt Lake City businesses. CLC advertises these workshops through our newsletters, distributed through www.craftlakecity.com.
  • Earlier this year, Craft Lake City joined forces with The Temporary Museum of Permanent Change to bring the work of Craft Lake City artisans to the streets in an outdoor gallery called “Celebration of the Hand.” Twelve Craft Lake City artisans present their works of art in steel frames next to the sidewalks on Broadway (300 South) between 200 West and 200 East.
  • Craft Lake City festival is an annual outdoor celebration of Utah’s DIY handmade culture. Held yearly in August at the Gallivan Center in Salt Lake City, the festival features over 200 local artisans and DIY Engineers, along with live entertainment that includes demonstrations, street performers, musical acts, and local food vendors. Craft Lake City welcomed nearly 15,000 attendees this year and featured new additions of street busking (street performing), food trucks, and a new category for 2012, DIY Engineers, in order to expand the term “craft” to include handmade items in all areas.
Craft Lake City has won a number of awards, including:
  •      Salt Lake City Weekly – ARTYs Award 2012, “Best Crafty Street Art” (Celebration of the Hand exhibit)
  •      Salt Lake Magazine – Best of the Beehive 2012, “Best Way to Arts and Craft”
  •      Salt Lake City Weekly – Best of Utah Award 2012, “Best Downtown DIY Festival”
  •      Salt Lake City Weekly – ARTYs Award 2009, “Best DIY Arts Fair”
For more information about Craft Lake City, check out craftlakecity.com, like us on Facebook (facebook.com/Craft.Lake.City) and follow us on Twitter (@craftlakecity).
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About CLC: Craft Lake City is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization that hosts monthly workshops, curates art exhibits and hosts a yearly DIY fest in Salt Lake City, Utah. Started by SLUG Editor Angela Brown in 2009, Craft Lake City encourages the local do-it-yourself culture. Craft Lake City mission is to educate, promote and inspire local artisans, while elevating the vibrant creative culture of the Utah arts community.









CLC Headquarters • 351 Pierpont Ave. 4B • SLC, UT. 84101 • 801.487.9221 • craftlakecity.com









Bookfair Fundraiser @ The Grand Theatre: (SLC: Sept 28 - Oct 5)


Please join us for a special Bookfair Fundraiser! The Grand will receive a small percentage from all purchases at Barnes & Noble Sugarhouse (including Starbucks!) using our voucher number.

The dates are September 28, 29, 30 for in store purchases and September 29 – October 5 for online purchases.
Our Voucher number is # 10855401

Also, please join us for a very special Storytime on Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 11:00am.
Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood will be on hand to read to children of all ages.
Only at Barnes & Noble Sugarhouse (Located on the corner of 2100 South and 1100 East in Salt Lake City.)

Thank you so much for your support and we look forward to seeing you there!

The Grand Theatre
801 957 3322

Poet Laureate Katharine Coles, Poetry Reading @ WSU (Ogden: Oct 4)


Past Poet Laureate Presents Reading

WHO:    Carl E. Andra Memorial Collection 
WHAT:    Katharine Coles, Poetry Reading by past Utah State Poet Laureate
WHERE: Hetzel-Hoellein (Special Collections), Stewart Library WSU campus
WHEN:   Thursday, October 4• 7PM

The Carl E. Andra Memorial Collection is presenting the past Utah State Poet Laureate, Katharine Coles, in a poetry reading on Thursday, October 4, at 7:00 PM in the Hetzel-Hoellein (Special Collections) Room. This event is free and open to the public. Several of her books will be available for sale at the event and also in the WSU Bookstore.

The endowment for the Andra Collection,* completed in 2011, specified that poetry readings be offered  from time to time to draw attention to the Collection’s existence and importance to the campus and community.  It was agreed that poets of regional, state, or local importance be featured.  

This year, Katharine Coles, who is the immediate past Poet Laureate of our state, has been selected to read. Poet, novelist, and editor Katharine Coles earned a BA at the University of Washington, an MA at the University of Houston, and a PhD at the University of Utah. She is a professor of English at the University of Utah.   She is the author of many collections of poems, including “The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension,” “A History of the Garden,” and “The One Right Touch.”  She has also published two novels:  “The Measurable World,” and “Fire Season.”  Her work often deals with the importance of nature and science in our lives 

Coles has received numerous honors for her work, including a term as Utah’s poet laureate, both a fellowship and a New Forms Project grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a PEN New Writer’s Award, an Antarctic Artists and Writers Grant from the National Science Foundation, and grants from the Utah Arts Council and the Salt Lake City Arts Council. 

At the University of Utah, Coles has directed the Creative Writing Program; co-directed the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature, with mathematician and biologist Fred Alder; and served as series editor for the University of Utah Press’s Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Book Award. She lives in Salt Lake City.

*The Carl E. Andra Memorial Collection was started in the Weber State Library Special Collections in 1977 by Jean Andra (now Jean Andra Miller) in memory of her first husband, the late Carl E. Andra, who passed away in April of 1977.  Carl Andra was an Assistant Professor of English at WSU from 1965 until his passing.  The Collection emphasizes his favorite aspect of contemporary American and English Literature of the 20th Century, namely the work of major writers, especially poets, of that time.  The Collection now houses about 1500 volumes, and includes works from writers of major European languages in addition to those written in English.  It contains many works that are first editions, or signed by the authors, as well as works of a rare or collectible importance.  More information about the collection can be obtained from Sarah Langsdon at slangsdon@weber.edu.

As many of the themes of Coles poetry are taken from math, science and the natural world, this program is included in the campus-wide, year-long discussion, “Water Works.” For more information about this project see: http://weber.edu/waterworks/

For more information about Katharine Coles: k.coles@english.utah.edu



" 5 Blocks" Exhibit of Youth Mixed Media Artwork Showcased at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (SLC: Sept 21 - April 21)



PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts:
--Dana Hernandez, 801.585.9880, dana.hernandez@umfa.utah.edu
--Tracey Matthews, 801.581.8336, tracey.matthews@umfa.utah.edu
--Annie Burbidge Ream, 801.585.5168, aburbidgeream@umfa.utah.edu

5 Blocks
Youth Mixed Media Artwork Showcased at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts


Image courtesy the UMFA

Salt Lake City, UT – How do we shape the spaces around us, and how do those spaces shape us? The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is pleased to present 5 Blocks, an exhibition of mixed media artwork by students who examined questions about the built environment. 5 Blocks will be on view from September 21, 2012-April 21, 2013 in the Emma Eccles Jones Education Gallery at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building at the University of Utah.

5 Blocks resulted from collaborations between Hawthorne Elementary School in Salt Lake City, Granger High School in West Valley City, and educators from the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Over the course of the 2012 spring semester, the elementary and high school students explored the history, design, development and future of five-block areas near their schools. Through a variety of media, 5 Blocks communicates what the students discovered when they left the classroom and engaged with their neighborhoods.

Using all five senses, Hawthorne Elementary students discovered past and present stories of a five-block area in Salt Lake City. The students experienced their community as a dynamic place of change and expressed their findings through photography, sketching, sculpture, painting and writing. Visitors to 5 Blocks will encounter a three-dimensional cityscape and collage created by the elementary school students and UMFA educators.

Granger High students focused on a bustling, commercial five-block area in West Valley City. They researched the city’s revitalization efforts, examined the area in terms of design and management, and learned about West Valley City’s General Plan. In response, the students expressed their visions for the future of their neighborhood through digital prints and both wire and ceramic sculpture.

During the planning of 5 Blocks, UMFA educators consulted with Damon Rich, a nationally recognized city planner who currently serves as the Urban Designer for the City of Newark, New Jersey. Rich assisted the UMFA in piloting new curricular approaches to connect the UMFA’s education programs to architecture and planning in Utah. 

“This partnership provided a number of wonderful opportunities for my students,” said Andrea Heidinger, teacher at Granger High School. “This project was especially unique because students had a chance to work with and learn from artists and urban planners. The artistic results that came from the community explorations and discussions yielded a rich and diverse range of artwork of which the students can be proud.”

5 Blocks is supported in part by the Utah Arts & Museums, with funding from the State of Utah and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by The Williams Foundation. For more information about this exhibition and others coming to the UMFA, visit www.umfa.utah.edu

PUBLIC PROGRAMMING

Evening for Educators
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at 5:30 p.m.
Teachers and others with an interest are invited to discover ways to help students of all grade levels explore their built surroundings at an Evening for Educators. Funded in part by the StateWide Art Partnership, this program is free and open to the public and will feature a lecture by Damon Rich. 

Third Saturday for Families: House Sculptures
Saturday, January 19, 2013 from 1:00-4:00 p.m. 
Kids and parents can explore the youth artwork on view in 5 Blocks and then make sculptures of their own houses and neighborhood buildings. Third Saturdays are funded in part by the Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts and Parks program.

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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. 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. 























Concert and Chamber Choirs Fall Choirfest @ WSU (Ogden: Oct 17)


Fall Choirfest Features Original Works

Who: Weber State University Department of Performing Arts
What: WSU Concert and Chamber Choirs Fall Choirfest
When: Wednesday, 17 October 2012, 7:30 pm
Where: Austad Auditorium, Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts

The Weber State University Department of Performing Arts presents the Weber State University Concert Choir and Chamber Choir in concert Wednesday, October 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Austad Auditorium, Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts. Children 8 years and older are welcome. The choirs are directed by Dr. Mark Henderson. 

We are doing Rachmaninof’s “Bogoroditye Devo/Rejoice, Virgin” from his Vesper Service, performed in Church Slavonic; a set of three songs for choir, piano and two flutes by Mark Henderson called “Pied Beauty” on poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins; Bach’s great fugal motet “Lobet Den Herrn,” and other lighter things like a group of English folk songs.

Tickets are $7/$6. Those with military identification will receive the student price. Tickets can be purchased at the Dee Events Center Ticket office, the Browning Center Box Office, by phone at 1-801-626-7000 or on-line at weberstatetickets.com or at the Browning Center Box Office beginning one hour before curtain.  

For more information about this concert, contact Dr.  Mark Henderson, 801 626 6448 or mhenderson@weber.edu