Utah Cultural Alliance E-Newsletter
June 23, 2008
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Dear Colleagues,
The UCA is a recipient of the Mayor's Artist Award for Service to the Arts.
Please join us at the Festival Stage at the Arts Festival at 7:30pm on
Friday June 27 for the presentation.
In this issue you will find:
* Utah Cultural Events and Information *
1) Apply Now for Free College Classes <#free>
2) UHC Hires Hikmet Loe to serve as first Literature Program Director <#loe>
3) Union Pacific Foundation sponsors the Grand theatre Free performances<#union>
4) Free Lecture Series Italian Center Of The West <#center>
5) Utah's Hogle Zoo To Honor U.S. Soldiers With Summer Salute To The
Military <#salute>
6) Utah Symphony to perform Free Outdoor Concert at Utah Cultural
Celebration Center <#outdoor>
7) Judaism and the Grateful Dead & Rock Concert on the Book of Genesis<#rock>
8) We're closing up shop at our Artists of Utah Spring 2008 Fundraiser<#shop>
9) Find Your Passion at the Utah Shakespearean Festival's 47th Season<#passion>
10) Gina Bachauer International Young Artist Piano Competition <#gina>**
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*Articles Of Interest <#article>*
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*Resources <#resource>*
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*Submission Guidelines <#guidelines>*
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*Acknowledgments <#acknowledge>*
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*Utah Cultural Events and Information *
1) *Apply Now for Free College Classes*
The Utah Humanities Council (UHC) is now accepting applications for The
Venture Course in the Humanities, a free eight-month college humanities
course for adults living on low incomes. In The Venture Course, students
study American history, literature, philosophy, art history, and critical
writing with college professors. Classes begin in early September in two
locations: Salt Lake City and Ogden. Students who fulfill all requirements
of the course will receive 8 college credits from Westminster College (SLC)
or Weber State University (Ogden).
To qualify for Venture, students must be at least 18 years old, live in a
household with income at or below 150% of the Federal poverty level, and be
able to read a newspaper in English. Tuition, books, on-site child care,
and bus cards are free.
For more information, call UHC, 801-359-9670, or visit
www.utahhumanities.org/Venture.htm to read about Venture and download an
application. Applications for The Venture Course will be accepted until the
classes are full.
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2)* **Utah Humanities Council Hires Hikmet Loe to serve as first Literature
Program Director*
The Utah Humanities Council (UHC) is pleased to announce that Hikmet Loe has
joined its staff as Literature Program Director, a newly created position. In
this capacity, she will collaborate with Utah's libraries and the broader
literary community to increase participation in humanities programs. She
also will design and present the annual Utah Humanities Book Festival. The
Utah Humanities Council is a non-profit organization that provides lifelong
learning through programs that explore diverse traditions, values, and
ideas.
"Hikmet's experience and contacts will be instrumental in expanding UHC's
literature program and in increasing the resources and services we offer to
libraries and the literary community. We are delighted that she has accepted
this position," said Cynthia Buckingham, Executive Director of UHC.
Ms. Loe brings a wealth of public programming and event planning experience
to this position, as her library career spans 27 years. She has collaborated
with many local and national organizations on library-related programs. At
The City Library she created and hosted individual program including
Branching Out (poetry) and How To on Tuesdays (various themes).
Ms. Loe has been an active member of the Utah Library Association since
1995, serving on many committees and in the capacity of ULA Board President
during 2005-2006 and as Program Board Chair for three years.
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3) *Union Pacific Foundation sponsors the Grand theatre Free performances*
The Grand Theatre (a 501-C3 Non-profit organization) has received a $2,500
sponsorship donation from the Union Pacific Foundation in order to help
support it's Free Invited Audience Performances for its 2008-2009 Season.
The Grand Theatre will open its season with Always…Patsy Cline (Sept.
10-20), then The Ark (Oct. 15-25), A Trip to Bountiful (Jan. 28-Feb. 7,
2009), Musical of Musicals, the Musical (March 4-14, 2009) and finish with
Four Guys Names Jose and a woman named Maria (May 6-16, 2009.)
The Union Pacific Foundation grants to nonprofit organizations support
education, health and human services, and charitable outreach, and reflect
Union Pacific Foundation's 49-year tradition of supporting community and
civic programs.
Union Pacific Foundation
The Union Pacific Foundation is the primary philanthropic arm of Union
Pacific Corporation. The Foundation has distributed funds since 1959 to
qualified organizations in communities served by Union Pacific. The
Foundation is not endowed, but is funded each year from the operating
profits of Union Pacific Corporation. Much of the foundation's philanthropic
support is directed toward The Principals' Partnership, its signature giving
program. Union Pacific believes principals who are effective leaders build
strong schools, which in turn produce solid citizens, workers and adults.
When that happens, we all benefit.
About Union Pacific
Union Pacific Corporation owns one of America's leading transportation
companies. Its principal operating company, Union Pacific Railroad, links 23
states in the western two-thirds of the country and serves the
fastest-growing U.S. population centers. Union Pacific's diversified
business mix includes Agricultural Products, Automotive, Chemicals, Energy,
Industrial Products and Intermodal. The railroad offers competitive
long-haul routes from all major West Coast and Gulf Coast ports to eastern
gateways. Union Pacific connects with Canada's rail systems and is the only
railroad serving all six major gateways to Mexico, making it North America's
premier rail franchise.
For more information, contact Daniel Harbeke, 801-212-3993 or at the Grand
Theatre, Community Outreach Coordinator, Terri McGhee
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4) *Free Lecture Series Italian Center Of The West*
A 501(c)3 non-profit organization
Italian History and Culture Series
Italian Identity Today
Focusing on its religious aspects
A presentation by Pino Luca Trombetta,
Professor of Sociology at the University of Bologna, Italy
Summary: As famous philosopher Benedetto Croce used to say, "The identity of
a Nation is its own history."
Italy has a 3,000 year history of being little states in competition with
each other, even during Roman times.
The Catholic Church is the only institution that has spread and preserved a
certain moral unity through the centuries, but with an ambivalent role.
On one hand, the Church, through its pervasive presence of dioceses and
parishes in all territories, has shaped the moral and psychological
personality of the Italians, thus providing them with a sense of belonging.
On the other hand, the Church, having its own state in competition with the
others, has slowed the formation of an Italian unified state, and
consequently of a national political awareness.
Italy gained its political unity only 150 years ago, and this delay has been
damaging to the collective character of the Italians.
Today's Italy is still a fragmented mosaic of cities and towns, rich in
peculiar and ancient traditions, dialects and cultures, but lacking a
national political identity. Because of this situation, Italians give more
importance to the personal interests of the individual, of the family, and
of the ìclanî. The interest of the nation as a whole is still perceived as
far and distant, although some progress has been made.
Professor Trombetta graduated in Political Science at the University of
Messina. He has been teaching at the University of Bologna for years. His
many publications are focus on topics of sociology of religion, such as
personal religious syncretism, Rodney Stark's theories and applications,
and the changes of religious behavior in immigrants.
Where: At the City Hall, 450 S. 200 E. #335., SLC
Free Lecture will be held in the Cannon Room, a beautiful room on the 3rd
floor Room 335
Please use the East Entrance
When: Monday, June 30, 2008 at 6:00 p.m.
All are welcome,
This event is partially funded by the ZAP tax program Salt Lake County
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5) *Utah's Hogle Zoo To Honor U.S. Soldiers With Summer Salute To The
Military*
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before
them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."
--Thucydides
Hogle Zoo is set to honor members of the United States military this summer
with Military Appreciation Days Tuesday July 1 through Thursday July 3. On
these days, military personnel, veterans, and their immediate families
(spouse and dependent children) get free Zoo admission. (Military or veteran
ID required for free admission.)
In honor of Independence Day, Hogle Zoo will also hold Salute our Military
Day Thursday July 3 from 10 am to 3 pm. There will be several military
branches on grounds, as well as various veteran groups. Other Salute our
Military Day activities include:
- Military Vehicles on display
- Drill performances by the Utah Wing Civil Air Patrol in the Main Plaza
- 10 am flag ceremony performed by the Utah Wing Civil Air Patrol
- "Thank You Stars" that children can sign for a banner delivered to Hill
Air Force Base Troops
- U.S. Flag trivia game with prizes donated by Colonial Flag.
The work of our military men and women is so very important, please join us
on this fun and special day in honoring them. For more information, contact
Community Relations Coordinator Holly Braithwaite at (801) 584-1729 or email
at hbraithwaite@???.
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6) *Utah Symphony to perform Free Outdoor Concert at Utah Cultural
Celebration Center in West Valley City*
WHAT: West Fest 2008 and the Utah Cultural Celebration Center
present a free outdoor concert by the Utah Symphony, performing a special
patriotic program to kick off the July 4th weekend. Fireworks to follow
concert.
WHEN: Tuesday night, July 1. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. with the
performance starting at 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 West 3100 South
WHO: EVERYONE is invited to this FREE concert!
WHY: This summer the Utah Cultural Celebration Center proudly
presents WorldStage! Outdoor Concert Series – a variety of cultural
experiences for the whole family, all summer long.
WestFest and the Utah Cultural Celebration Center are proud to host the Utah
Symphony once again on our Amphitheater Stage. The annual, free concert is
always a great way to kick off the summer season. This year the symphony
will perform patriotic songs from American history, along with some
additional crowd-pleasing favorites. Fireworks to follow the concert.
For more information about this and other events or exhibits at the Utah
Cultural Celebration Center at 965-5100, or visit
www.culturalcelebration.org.
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7) *Judaism and the Grateful Dead & Rock Concert on the Book of Genesis*
Judaism and the Grateful Dead
Monday, July 14 ~ 7:00pm ~ I.J. & Jeannè Wagner Jewish Community Center (2
North Medical Drive, SLC)
When a musical community exists for over thirty years and a religious
community exists for over 4000 years, the two will cross paths. This could
not be more true of The Grateful Dead and Judaism. Join Rabbi Grife as he
guides us on an exploration of these connections followed by a Grateful Dead
jam session. Free and open to all.
Rock Concert on the Book of Genesis (with a Grateful Dead flare!)
Tuesday, July 15 ~ 7:00pm ~ I.J. & Jeannè Wagner Jewish Community Center (2
North Medical Drive, SLC)
Rabbi Grife has been exploring the spiritual bond between religion and music
throughout his life, as a Rabbi, songwriter and musician. With strong roots
in rock and roll, blues (and everything in between) Rabbi Grife has captured
the essence, significance and remaining questions about the first book of
the bible in his Rock Concert entitled "Tales From the First Book." Join
Rabbi Grife and his band for a spiritual and rockin evening! Free and open
to all.
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8) *We're closing up shop at our Artists of Utah Spring 2008 Fundraiser*
We're closing up shop at our Artists of Utah Spring 2008 Fundraiser and we'd
like to thank all of you who made financial contributions to help make 15
Bytes and our other programs possible for the next six months.
We have a few of our thank-you gifts left:
TICKETS
A pair of tickets to the Utah Arts Festival ($45 contribution)
A pair of tickets to Plan B Theatre's Fundraiser-- Banned ($105
contribution)
A pair of tickets to the Utah Symphony's Deer Valley Music Festival ($135
contribution)
BOOKS
Painters of the Wasatch Front ($105 contribution)
Early Utah Masterpieces ($60 donation)
You can see all our thank you gifts at
http://artistsofutah.org/08spfndsgifts.html
If you've already made a contribution for the appropriate minimum amount
(and are not receiving underwriting credit) and would like one of these
gifts, let us know.
If you haven't already made a contribution or pledge of support and would
like one of these thank you gifts, simply respond to this email with your
pledge of support.
Or go to:
http://www.artistsofutah.org/08spfunds.html
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9) *Find Your Passion at the Utah Shakespearean Festival's 47th Season*
Opening this week!
Find Your Passion at the Utah Shakespearean Festival's 47th Season
Who: The Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival
What: The 2008 season – Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen
of Verona, The School for Wives, Cyrano de Bergerac, Fiddler on the Roof,
Julius Caesar, Gaslight, and Moonlight and Magnolias
When: June 19 to October 25, 2008
Summer: June 19-August 30 with performances at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Monday-Saturday
Fall: September 19-October 25, performances at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday-Saturday
Where: 300 West Center Street in Cedar City, Utah 84720
Tickets: $22–$60
Find your passion this summer and fall at the Tony Award-winning Utah
Shakespearean Festival. Our 47th year will be packed with love, romance,
jealously, power, merriment, intrigue, and all things . . . well,
theatrical—and passionate.
The Festival's summer and fall seasons will offer a unique blend of
performances sure to ignite the passions of every playgoer. Its three stages
will feature four plays by William Shakespeare, a farce by Moliere, an epic
romance by Edmond Rostand, an exciting and heart-warming musical that can be
enjoyed by the entire family, a suspense-filled mystery, and a hilarious
modern comedy.
The summer season opens on June 19 and will run through August 30, 2008.
Featured in the Adams Shakespearean Theatre will be two Shakespeare plays,
The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Othello, as well as a great romantic drama
which fits perfectly into the outdoor Adams Theatre, Edmond Rostand's Cyrano
de Bergerac. The Randall L. Jones Theatre 2008 summer plays will be the
ever-popular musical Fiddler on the Roof, Moliere's classic farce The School
for Wives, and Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, which will get a bold,
new twist in the indoor theatre.
The fall season will continue September 19 through October 25, 2008 with
three plays in the Randall Theatre: Shakespeare's political tragedy Julius
Caesar, the famous melodrama mystery Gaslight, and a comedy based around the
writing of the screenplay for Gone with the Wind, Moonlight and Magnolias.
You can get your tickets by calling 800-PLAYTIX or by going online to
www.bard.org.
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10) *Gina Bachauer International Young Artist Piano Competition*
June 23-28
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center - 138 W. 300 S. SLC
Tickets: $10 per day. $5 for students. (801) 355-ARTS,
www.arttix.org
Thirty of the worldís finest teenage classical pianists will compete from
China, Japan, Canada, USA, Taiwan, South Korea, Ukraine, Spain, Poland,
Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, France and Serbia.
Individual playing times will be drawn Monday June 23rd at 6:30 p.m. in the
Rose Wagner Theater lobby. This opening social is free and open to the
public.
Each competitor will play two rounds before elimination on the night of
Friday the 27th. The finalists will play Saturday the 28th at 7:00pm. Six
cash prizes totaling $23,000 will be awarded at the end of the Young Artist
Competition Saturday night.
The performance schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, June 24th
Round One (Group 1)
12:00 PM - 4:58 PM 25 minute performances
4:58 PM - 7:00 PM Dinner break
7:00 PM - 9:24 PM 25 minute performances
Wednesday, June 25th
Round One (Group 2)
12:00 PM - 4:58 PM 25 minute performances
4:58 PM - 7:00 PM Dinner break
7:00 PM - 8:57 PM 25 minute performances
Thursday, June 26th
Round Two (Group 1)
10:00 AM - 1:12 PM 35 minute performances
1:12 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch break
2:00 PM - 5:12 PM 35 minute performances
5:12 PM - 7:00 PM Dinner break
7:00 PM - 10:12 PM 35 minute performances
Friday, June 27th
Round Two (Group 2)
10:00 AM - 1:12 PM 35 minute performances
1:12 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch break
2:00 PM - 5:12 PM 35 minute performances
5:12 PM - 7:00 PM Dinner break
7:00 PM - 9:37 PM 35 minute performances
Saturday, June 28th
Final Round
7:00 PM - 8:59 PM Finalist performances
9:00 PM - Awards Ceremony
Competitors' repertories can be found at
www.bachauer.com under the "Young
Artist Competitors" link on the main page.
Song Choi, 18, from Sandy, Utah, will compete again in the Young Artists
Competition. She was a semifinalist in the 2005 Competition and starred in
a Rachmaninoff concert with the Utah Symphony last month.
This year marks the 9th Young Artist International Competition. Since 1976,
the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation has held annual events
every June, attended by over 200,000 people. Established at BYU in 1976,
the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation became a division of the
Utah Symphony in 1981, and an independent non-profit organization in 1986.
In 2008, the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation was awarded a Best
in State award for Arts & Education.
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Articles of Interest <#interest>
US Government Eyes Non-Profit Endowments
(Warning!)<
http://insidehighered.com/views/2008/06/19/fryshman>
There is a mindset that believes that the granting of a tax exemption
entitles the government to control how the resources of the nonprofit sector
are to be spent. This raises questions about the compact made with the
American people when the income tax was first imposed. There were
understandings at the time, one of which was that nonprofit institutions
carrying out charitable functions would be exempted from the income tax.
InsideHigherEd 06/19/08
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Reconsidering The Women Writers Who Came
Before<
http://dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1170>
In the 1970s a number of books were written to reappraise women authors and
the literature they produced. For the most part these books focused on
nineteenth-century Britain (to a lesser extent on the United States and
France) and they clearly 'started something'.
Dissent 06/08
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The Case Against Second-Hand
Books<
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/06/why_i_hate_secondhand_books.html>
I can't stand second-hand books. For me, as a literary experience, they are
akin to sloppy seconds, a salad bar in a staff canteen at the end of a hot
weekday, or a recently-vacated cubicle in a public toilet. Let's be clear: I
don't merely have a mild preference for buying brand-new. No, I'm
digestively squeamish about used books.
The Guardian (UK) 06/19/08
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*Resources *
UCA utilizes many resourceful listserves and acknowledges their valued
contribution in compiling news and information that we are pleased to share
in the E-newsletter:
Americans for the Arts - Monthy Wire
APInews (Arts in the Public Interest)
Artists of Utah
ArtsJournal newsletter
Arts Wire Current
Board Cafe: The Newsletter Exclusively for Members of Nonprofit Boards of
Directors
Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest
Cultural Policy Listserv, Center for Arts & Culture
Downtown Alliance
Downtown Rising
Federation of State Humanities Councils
Grant Station
Steve Klass
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
National Council of Nonprofit Associations Action Center
National Humanities Alliance
NYFA Current
Salt Lake County Zoo Arts & Parks Program, Salt Lake City
TechSoup
The NonProfit Quarterly
Travel Arts Partnership Newsletter
Utah Arts Council
Utah Humanities Council
Utah Nonprofits Association
Utah Progressive Network (UPNet) E-Mail Alert List
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*Submission Guidelines for this Newsletter *
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*Acknowledgments*
The Utah Cultural Alliance would like to acknowledge the generous support of
its programs from:
Americans for the Arts
Art Works for Kids
The B.W. Bastian Foundation
Children's Museum of Utah
The George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation
The Fieldstone Foundation
KUER - FM
The Mark and Kathie Miller Foundation
Museum of Utah Art & History
National Association of State Arts Agencies
The John and Marcia Price Family Foundation
Salt Lake City Arts Council
Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks
Sundance Institute
Utah Arts Council
Utah Humanities Council
Utah Valley State College
Wells Fargo Bank
Wild Oats
Xmission Internet Service Provider
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