[Elected] UCA Newsletter November 26, 2007

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Utah Cultural Alliance
E-Newsletter

November 26, 2007

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Dear Colleagues,

In this issue you will find:

Utah
Cultural Events and Information

1) Plan-B
Theatre Company Announces The Premiere Of Gutenberg! The
Musical!

2) Holiday
events in Murray

3) Babcock
Performing Readers Professional Company: Merry Christmas, George
Bailey

4) Call for
Qualifications: Weber State to Gain New Addition to
Landscape

5) The
Grand Theatre presents the 6th Annual Messiah: A Community
Celebration

6) Brubeck
Brothers

7) Sundance
Institute Documentary Film Series Presents A Free Screening of
Nanking

Employment Opportunities

The Grand Theatre will be
holding auditions for the play, Inherit the Wind

Regional & National News

2008 Fellowship Recipients Announced

Articles of Interest

Resources

Submission Guidelines

Acknowledgments

Utah Cultural Events and Information

1)
Plan-B Theatre Company Announces The Regional Premiere Of The
Off-Broadway Hit Gutenberg! The Musical!

November 16-December 30, 2007

Plan-B Theatre Company is giddy (yes, giddy) (to be the first
theatre (company worldwide licensed to produce (GUTENBERG! THE
MUSICAL! (by Scott Brown and Anthony King, following the original
(West End and off-Broadway runs!

GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL! is a?wacky musical about Johann
(Gutenberg, the inventor of the (printing press (sort of).

Well actually, (GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL! isn't (about him as
much as it s about Bud (and Doug, to musical theatre creators (sort
of) who've written an epic (about him (sort of)...Waiting For Guffman
style. "HYSTERICALLY FUNNY" (Associated Press

A side-splitting alternative just in time for the
holidays!

By Scott Brown & Anthony King. Featuring Plan-B
favorites Kirt Bateman & Jay Perry. Directed by Jerry
Rapier. Musical Staging by Colleen Lewis. Musical
Direction by Jeffrey Price.

VENUE

Studio Theatre at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts
Center

138 West Broadway (300 South)

TICKETS

$18 General Admission

$10 Students (limit 2 per valid ID)

Tickets and info at 355-ARTS or http://www.planbtheatre.org/gutenberg

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE NOVEMBER 16-DECEMBER 30

Friday-Saturday at 8pm; Sunday at 2pm, thru December
2

Performances continue Thursday-Saturday at 8pm; Sunday at 2pm
thru December 30

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2)
Holiday events in Murray

Messiah Sing Along, Dec 9

Back by popular demand, the Murray Symphony will present a
Messiah Sing Along on Sunday, December 9 at 7 pm at Murray High.
A preshow featuring Top Brass will begin at 6:30 pm. Soloists
are from the University of Utah Choral Program under the direction of
Dr. Robert Breault including Soprano Melissa Gillespie, Alto Stina
Eberhardt, Tenor Shane Haag, Baritone Seth Kershisnik. The
event is free but patrons are encouraged to bring canned goods for the
food bank. Don't forget to bring your chorus
book.

Viva Voce, Dec 10

As part of Murray's Community Art Pass, Viva Voce! will
present a Christmas performance on December 10 at 7:30 pm at Murray
High. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $9 adults and $7
students and seniors. The program will open with a vibrant
arrangement of Glory to God with a powerful mixed meter and bongo
drums. Highlights include jazzy a cappella arrangements of Let
it Snow, I'll Be Home for Christmas, and Jingle Bell Rock. Other
features are a favorite from Viva Voce's Christmas CD, Jingle Bells, a
beautiful, new arrangement of What Child is This with a Spanish flair,
and Beethoven's famous Fur Elise like you've never heard it
before. The concert also includes a group sing-along and Nicole
Jackson as our special guest cellist.

Ebenezer Scrooge, Dec 21-22

As part of Murray's winter series, the annual Ebenezer Scrooge
Ballet will be presented by the Murray Ballet Centre at Murray High on
December 21 and 22 at 7 pm with an additional matinee at 2 pm on
Saturday. Bring your whole family to enjoy this magical
ballet created from Dicken's classic book. Tickets can be
purchased at Wrights Costume (phone 266-5999) or at the door for $6
adults, $5 children and seniors.

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3) Babcock Performing Readers Professional Company
Presents Merry Christmas, George Bailey

A play staged in a radio studio adapted from the classic
movie, It's A Wonderful Life

Babcock Theatre, lower level Pioneer Memorial
Theatre,

300 South University Street (1350 East)

December 6,7,8, at 7:30 pm

Tickets at Kingsbury Hall Box Office, 581-7100, www.kingtix.com, or at the
door

$9 adults, $5 students w/ID, plus handling charge.

Become a member of Babcock Performing Readers for $20 and
receive one complimentary ticket for December 6. See www.babcockreaders.com

Adapted, produced and directed by Dr. Shirlee H. Shields. The
play is staged as if in a radio studio in the 1940's with sound
effects by KUER. The tale of George Bailey is about the "everyman"
from small town America whose dreams have been quashed by family
obligations and civic duty - whose guardian angel has to descend on
Christmas Eve so save him from despair and remind him what the world
would have been like had he not been born - that he has indeed had a
wonderful life. A story with laughter and tears, this dramatization
celebrates the faith and the spirit of Christmas.

Not a Student Production, the cast includes actors from local
and national radio, TV, movie, and stage productions.

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4) Call for Qualifications: Weber State to Gain New Addition to
Landscape

The Public Art Program of the Utah Arts Council announces a
call for artist qualifications for the creation of site-specific
public art for the new Elizabeth Dee Shaw Stewart Arts and Humanities
Building (Elizabeth Hall) on the campus of Weber State University in
Ogden, Utah.

The competition is open to artists and/or artist teams from
states with reciprocal public arts programs. Artists can suggest the
incorporation and/or placement of public artwork throughout the
building and site. Projects can also be integrated into one or more
key locations. Interested parties are asked to submit a letter of
interest and qualifications for the project, a resume, and proposed
budget. Budgets should not exceed $306,000. The deadline for
submission is 5 p.m. on January 9, 2008 - this is not a postmark
deadline - and should be sent to Jim Glenn, Utah Public Art Program,
Attention: WSU Elizabeth Hall

Project, Utah Arts Council, 617 East South Temple, Salt Lake
City, UT 84102.

The Elizabeth Hall Public Art selection committee includes
representatives from the community, Weber State University College of
Arts and Humanities, the Division of Facilities Construction and
Management, MHTN Architects, artist representatives, and Utah Arts
Council Board members.

Elizabeth Hall will be a new, three-story, 94,300 square feet
building where students can engage in a free flow of information and
ideas that encourages interdisciplinary learning. Features of
the new facility include; 31 classrooms with multimedia capabilities,
three computer labs (including two for discipline-specific work in
technical and media writing and foreign languages), as well as 83
faculty offices. It will serve as home to departments of
communication, English, foreign languages, and telecommunications and
business education.

For information related to the project, visit www.utahpublicart.org or
contact Jim Glenn at 801-533-3585.

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5) The Grand Theatre will be presenting the
6th Annual Messiah: A Community Celebration.

This unique, exciting holiday event blends traditional choral
and musical arrangements of Handel's Messiah with the spirited energy
of Gospel. Now in our 6th year, look for some new songs and new
arrangements to keep this wonderful event fresh for our
audiences.

Come celebrate the diversity of two musical traditions side by
side!

Concert Dates:

December 6, 7, 8, & 10th, 2007

Where:

Grand Theatre 1575 S State St SLC, UT 84115

Located on Salt Lake Community College, South City
Campus

Tickets:

$24.00 Main floor and lower balcony

$10.00 Upper Balcony/all seats

Call 957-3322 to purchase tickets or online at www.the-grand.org

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6) Brubeck Brothers

Where:
Grand Theatre, located on the South City Campus of Salt Lake Community
College - 1575 South State Street

When:
Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 7:30PM

How
Much:
$25. All seats are reserved. Student discount tickets are
available with valid student I.D., which must be shown at the ticket
office prior to purchase. Call the Grand Theatre Ticket Office
at 801-957-3322 for more information, or go on line to purchase
non-student tickets at www.the-grand.org

Presented By:
GAM Foundation/Jazz SLC www.jazzslc.com

Press Contact:
801-278-0411: Gordon Hanks, GAM Foundation Co-Founder

Brubeck Brothers Info: www.brubeckmusic.com

The GAM Foundation/Jazz SLC Presents the Brubeck Brothers,
part of the Jazz at the Grand Theatre Series.

The Brubeck Brothers Quartet (BBQ) is an exciting jazz group
featuring two members of a well-known musical family; Daniel and Chris
Brubeck, sons of jazz icon, Dave Brubeck. The quartet features
Daniel on drums, Chris on bass and trombone, Mike DeMicco on guitar
and Chuck Lamb on piano. While the quartet's style is rooted in
"straight-ahead" jazz, they play just about anything, including funk,
rock, classic blues, reggae and world music. The group is also
known for their inherent ability to explore and play odd time
signatures.

All four men play with other musical groups and pursue other
passions when not performing together. Chris Brubeck is a well
known and sought-after composer who has written a trombone
concerto. Mike DeMicco, beside being an in-demand sideman, has
lead his own jazz group since 1987, and co-leads an organ trio with
Hammond B-3 player, Pete Levin. Daniel Brubeck has toured the
international music circuit for over two decades as the leader of his
own group, The Dolphins, a high energy fusion band. Chuck Lamb
co-leads a band with his partner, Theano.

No strangers to Salt Lake City, the quartet ignited the 2005
Salt Lake City Jazz Festival by playing with the Utah Symphony
conducted by Keith Lockhart. The group has also performed at
numerous jazz festivals across North America and
Europe.

The GAM Foundation and Grand Theatre have partnered to present
this series, Jazz at the Grand Theatre, to augment the already popular
Jazz at the Sheraton series, also produced by GAM. Jazz at the
Grand Theatre will showcase eclectic, up and coming national
artists. The other Jazz at the Grand Theatre concerts include
Cannonball-Coltrane Project on February 23 and The Erin Bode Group on
April 19. For more information visit www.the-grand.org or www.jazzslc.com . The GAM
Foundation is sponsored in part by the Zoo, Arts and Parks
program.

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7)
Sundance Institute Documentary Film Series Presents A Free
Screening of Nanking

Powerful documentary tells the tale of war-time terror while
affirming the extraordinary impact individuals can make.

The 2007-2008 Sundance Institute Documentary Film series
continues on Wednesday, December 5th with a free screening
of Nanking, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and
received a Documentary Editing Award. Directed by Academy Award
winning team of Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman, Nanking tells the
story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of
World War II, and how a small group of unarmed Westerners established
a 'safety' zone where 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Presented in
association with the Park City Film series, the screening starts at
7pm at the Jim Santy Auditorium in the Park City Library, 1255 Park
Avenue. The film was most recently on the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts & Sciences short list of 15 films that will compete for the
five nominee spots in the Oscars' feature-length documentary category.
The producer of the film, Kim Strand will be in attendance and will be
available for Q&A after the screening.

View www.sundance.org
for the entire series lineup.

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Employment Opportunities

The Grand Theatre will be holding auditions for the play,
Inherit the Wind, on Saturday, December 8th from 10am to 1pm at the
Grand Theatre, located at 1575 South State Street.

Inherit the Wind dramatizes the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" in
which a Tennessee science teacher, John Scopes, was tried and
convicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.

All roles are open except Drummond and Brady and include men
and women ages 18-80, and youth ages 11-14.

Youth auditions will be from 10am-11am. All auditioning will
need to stay for the entire hour. Adult audition slots from 11am
-1pm in 5 minute intervals.

All auditioning are asked to be prepared to read from the
script. Sides will be available for 24 hour check. Bring a
current headshot and resume.

Directed by John Caywood

Show Dates:

Inherit the Wind: March 7-22nd. 2008

Where:

Grand Theatre

1575 S State St

SLC, UT 84115

Call 957-3322 to reserve an audition time or for more
information visit us online at www.the-grand.org

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Regional & National News

2008 Fellowship Recipients Announced

The Utah Arts Council is pleased to announce the winners of
the 2008 Visual Arts Fellowships: Utah artists Adam Bateman of Salt
Lake City and Eileen Doktorski of

Logan.

Each fellowship recipient will receive a $10,000 prize and
will be recognized, along with the 2009 Visual Arts Fellowship
recipients, in an exhibition taking place in March of 2009 at the Rio
Gallery in the Rio Grande Depot.

Since 1986, the Utah Arts Council has annually awarded two
fellowships to Utah visual artists. The fellowship recognizes,
encourages and promotes excellence displayed by individual artists
practicing crafts, painting, drawing, printmaking, photography,
sculpture, artist's bookmaking, and working in new genres, conceptual
arts and video. Recent recipients have included Amy Caron, Kaiti
Slater, George Mark England, Jacqui Biggs Larsen, Madison Newman
Smith, and Paul L. Stout.

For more information on the Utah Arts Council's Visual Arts
Fellowships, contact Lila Abersold, Utah Arts Council Visual Arts
Program Manager, (801) 533-3581 or labersold@??? .

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Articles
of Interest

Why Giving Away Your
Work Is Better

The accessibility of creative work on the Internet is changing
traditional ideas about intellectual property, and some major artists
are beginning to respond.

Philadelphia Inquirer 11/18/07

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Why Broadway Union Talks Broke
Down.

Broadway is
all but shut down on it's busiest week of the year. Behind-the-scenes
chatter contends that the breakdown in negotiations was spurred by a
rift in union leadership.

Variety
11/21/07

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Novel Rejected By 15
Publishers Is Shortlisted For Prize

Catherine O'Flynn, 37, whose novel, What Was Lost, was turned
down repeatedly before it secured a publishing deal, began writing
while working long hours at a shopping centre. The Independent (UK)
11/21/07

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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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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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