Path of Beauty: Singing the Grand Canyon Collaborative Performance Experience

Song, soundscape, and visual imagery combine to offer audiences a
contemplative journey through the Grand Canyon

"Path of Beauty: Singing the Grand Canyon" with Sound Circle,
photographer Christopher Brown and guest artists
St. John's Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder
Dec. 10-12
7pm

"Path of Beauty: Singing the Grand Canyon" is a colloboration between Sound Circle, the 16-voice Boulder-based women's a cappella ensemble, photographer Christopher Brown and guest artists including Bonnie Carol playing hammered dulcimer, Southwestern singer/songwriter Becky Reardon, harpist Christine Tulis with percussionist Kem Stralka, and Tree Andrew playing Native American flute.



The program was premiered last May at the Broomfield Auditorium and is being repeated as a Solstice season offering based on the strength of audience response to the premiere. The goal of the performance, which is a continuous flow of song, soundscape, and visual imagery, is to offer the audience a contemplative journey through the Grand Canyon.

Christopher Brown's book, Path of Beauty: Photographic Adventures in the Grand Canyon, has just been published by St. Martin's Press. Many of the photos in the book are included in the performance.

Music by composers including Malcolm Dalglish, Bobby McFerrin, Bill Douglas, Kimmerjae Makarus, and Mary Ellen Childs, Becky Reardon, Joan Szymko, with poetry by Joy Harjo and others, will intertwine with improvisational material and soundscape.

Tickets are $20 for general admission, and $15 for seniors and children. To purchase tickets, gotobrownpapertickets.com/event/133234 or call 1-800-838-3006; or purchase at Boulder Body Wear, 2660 Canyon Blvd. in Boulder. Advance purchase is recommended.

For more information, contact Sound Circle at (303) 473-4525 or visit the Sound Circle website.

"Reflections on Cultural Identity" art show opens at the Muse Gallery, October 8

Traditional transforms into Contemporary in Reflections on Cultural Identities

The Muse Gallery, 356 Main Street, in downtown Longmont will feature Reflections on Cultural Identities by Denver artist Kanako Uno in the WESTend exhibit space, and all new work by resident artists in the Main Gallery.

Uno’s work is a biographical travelogue of sorts, exploring the journey of one woman whose roots and origin are in Japan, but who now lives in the American West of Denver, Colorado. Her paintings employ traditional Japanese imagery and media, while incorporating her own unique, signature contemporary style.

“Our ideas and identities are shaped by cultural and social environments. I have learned how much identity means to us. As such, my experiences in the U.S. have shown me the values of identity and cultures. My focus in this series aims to share the stages of emotional development that individuals discover through time, space, and self-recognition. My goal is to stimulate ideas of identity and cultures through visual dialogues to help my viewer look into themselves so that they may become aware of greatness within their own cultures, origins, and identities.” - Kanako Uno

Kanako Uno was born and raised in Kyoto, Japan. Uno began her formal education at the University of Colorado Denver in 2003. Uno’s work has been exhibited at the Emmanuel Gallery, University of Colorado Denver (UCD) student juried shows in 2003 and 2009, the invitational student group show Fiesta at Courtyard Marriott, Downtown Denver in 2006, and at the College of Art and Media Advising Office in UCD in 2006. Uno currently has her work displayed at the UCD Writing Center and at the College of Art and Media Advising Office.

OPENING RECEPTION

Meet the artists on Friday October 8, 2010 at the opening reception from 6-9pm. The reception will feature appetizers by Sakura, wine provided by Fox Creek Wine, Beer & Spirits, and Beer from Left Hand Brewing Company. The exhibition runs through November 6, 2010. For more information contact the Muse at 303-678-7869. The exhibition is sponsored by the Boulder County Arts Alliance and the Kanemoto Families.

THE MUSE GALLERY

The Muse Gallery is a collaborative artist gallery in downtown Longmont where local artists display and sell their work. For the community, it is the Gallery where they can view and buy local art ranging from jewelry to abstract paintings. While the Muse is a member gallery, not all members show at the same time, so each exhibition is fresh and new.

The WESTend exhibit space
T The WESTend is a dedicated space within the Muse Gallery created to provide a space for diverse well-known to emerging artists with a variety of themes and are local to national and international artists. It was created for shows just like this – ones that challenge or engage Longmont with a message to share and art to enjoy.

The Main Gallery
The Main Gallery will feature new work by our resident artists. The Muse Gallery’s resident artists for this exhibition are Ana Maria Botero, Jon Clarke, Katherine Ware-Wolniewicz, Susan Strok, Angelo Ambrosia, Linda Sole Faul, Lora Becker, Carolyn Bradley, Caron Ellis, Scott Mohr, Ani Espriella, Lisa Pentz, Dan Hollingshead, Janet Aitken, Marcy Davis, and new Muse artists Kathleen Reilly, Barbara Hegy, Debra Rocchi and Doug Beall. Each month the Muse features student art from Front Range Community College. Our featured artist is jewelry artist Liz Giles. Our resident artists bring a variety of styles and mediums including hand blown glass and ceramics to jewelry, painting and photography.

Muse Community Space
Japanese Art Scrolls by Rocky Mountain Elementary 3rd Graders. Rocky Mountain students have been studying Japanese art and created their own Art Scrolls. A special student reception will be held on Sat, Oct 16 at 2pm at the Muse. During the reception student ambassadors from the Longmont Sister Cities will share their experience of their summer travels.

Gallery Hours
Tuesday - Friday, 11am -5pm
Saturday, 10am -4pm

Exhibition sponsored by the Boulder County Arts Alliance & the Kanemoto Families

It's October - It's Time for Open Studios Fall Artist Tour!

“One of the best [tours] in the nation”

(source: John Villani, “The Best 100 Art Towns in America”)

October 2 & 3 and 9 & 10, noon – 6pm, free and open to the public
October 1, 6-8pm – Public Reception, Canyon Gallery Boulder Public Library

The annual Open Studios Fall Artist Tour of 128 artist studios in and around Boulder, CO. On the first two weekends of October, 128 artists reveal the secrets of their creations to the public. Tour their studio, watch them create, talk to them about their process, try your hand at it and maybe leave with a new piece of art. Open Studios is a free event averaging 5000 visitors and over 70,000 individual studio visits. September 11 – Oct. 10, one piece from each artist will be on display at the Canyon Gallery of the Boulder Public Library.

OpenArts believes that Art must be accessible to everyone and Open Studios strives to make that happen through events that are relaxed, unintimidating, educational and free. Local artists are some of our most treasured resources that often go unappreciated. Boulder has one of the highest per capita resident artists in the country and Open Studios celebrates their valuable contribution to our lives by revealing their gifts to all.



New this year: The Guidebook has gone online! Now, everyone can easily access information about the tour, the artists and even the map online at Open Studios website. A full color Map with artist images will also be for sale throughout the Front Range for $6 + tax. Visit the Open Studios website for locations. Purchase is not required but makes the tour easier and support Open Studios, a not-for-profit organization.

Open Studios signs and the Map will direct visitors to the studios around Boulder. The Map will note wheelchair accessibility, new artists, bike routes and studios hosting special activities for children.

For more information visit the OpenArts Boulder or the Open Studios websites.

A Public Party for Boulder’s Arts Scene!

AmericanStyle Magazine Readers Rank Boulder among Top 25 For Arts

City honored for its commitment to arts institutions and arts tourism
Boulder County Arts Alliance and Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery plan public celebration



Once again the readers of AmericanStyle magazine have named Boulder as among America's Top 25 Arts Destinations, ranking it No. 8 in this year's survey. The magazine recognizes the power of the arts in promoting economic development and community revitalization.

Through the poll, readers tell AmericanStyle where they’ve been going to view, enjoy and shop for great art. Says publisher Wendy Rosen, “We all know that art and handcraft galleries are among the few remaining places where you can find authentic, made-in- America gifts and art products.”

While Boulder has received such recognition numerous times in the past and from a variety of sources, this marks the first time that the public will be invited to join in celebrating the honor. In an unusual collaboration between the non-profit and for profit sectors of the arts community, the Boulder County Arts Alliance and the Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery have joined forces to orchestrate an artful ceremony surrounding the award’s presentation to the City of Boulder.

Among the individuals and organizations contributing to this celebration are Philip Sneed of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Frequent Flyers Productions Aerial Dance Theatre, Helander Dance Theater Company, and The Dairy Center for the Arts. Receiving the award on behalf of the City will be Mayor, Matthew Applebaum. Those in attendance can expect fun, food, and entertainment galore. Champagne Toast generously provided by North Boulder Liquors.

Who: The Boulder County Arts Alliance and the Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery
What: A Public Party for Boulder’s Arts Scene
When: October 9th from 5-7 p.m.
Where: The Dairy Center for the Arts

Fringe Encore! Performances Announced

Congratulations to all the artists who were called back for "MORE, MORE, MORE!"

Haven't had your fill of Fringe? Just waiting to the last day to see the best of the best? Here's your schedule for the day...

FRINGE ENCORE! PERFORMANCES, WORKSHOPS & SPECIAL EVENTS

The Hill Flea
10:00 AM The Hill Flea

Naropa Lincoln Studio
10:30 AM, Workshop! - Going Solo: Creating Your One-Person Show

Naropa Nalanda Campus, Room 9190
12:30 PM, Workshop! - A Splendid Moment

FUMC Labyrinth
1:00 PM, Fringe Encore! Show - Gregg Tobo's Astonishing Magic Show

Dairy Carsen Theatre
2:00 PM, Red Light Winter

Community Dance Collective (CDC)
2:30 PM, Fringe Encore! Show - Pick Your Own Path

CU Museum of Natural History
3:45 PM, Fringe Encore! Show - River Story

Naropa PAC (Performing Arts Center)
5:00 PM, Fringe Encore! Show - Small Moment of Sky

BMoCA (Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art)
6:30 PM, Fringe Encore! Show - Good Girls Don't But I Do

Joyful Furniture
7:00 PM, Spinning Jenny

Trident Booksellers & Cafe
7:45 PM CANCELED Fringe Encore! Show

The Laughing Goat Coffee House
9:00 PM, Fringe Encore! Show - Piano, Poetry and Passion

Scotch Corner Pub
10:00 PM The Daily C.R.A.B.
and Closing Night Party

Fringe Buzz: Last Day to Fringe It Up!

Today is your last day to Fringe–make the most of it! We've had our ear to the ground and have some staff recommendations from the Fringe buzz. If you plan it right, you can catch at least six shows today!

Death Wore Elevator Shoes, 2:30pm, FUMC Labyrinth (First United Methodist Church), 1421 Spruce St.
The Secret Lives of the Divine, 4pm, BMoCA, 1750 13th St.
Gregg Tobo's Astonishing Magic Show, 4:30pm, FUMC Labyrinth (First United Methodist Church), 1421 Spruce St.
A Murder One Less, 5:30pm, BMoCA, 1750 13th St.
Like a Virgin, 6pm, CU Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building, CU Campus
Light As Air, Heavy As Sound, 7pm, Naropa PAC, 2130 Arapahoe Ave.
Bonne Nuit Poo Poo, 7pm, Community Dance Collective 2020 21st St, Unit B
Evolution of Soul 685, 8:30pm, Naropa PAC, 2130 Arapahoe Ave.
The Last Straight Man in the Theatre, 8:30pm, BMoCA, 1750 13th St.
Good Girls Don't, But I Do, 10pm, BMoCA, 1750 13th St.

Check out the Fringe website for more shows with their final runs today and tomorrow. Plus, don't miss Fringe Encore! featuring the best-selling show in each venue.

Boulder International Fringe Festival
Through August 24
www.BoulderFringe.com
Box Office: 720-563-9950

Art Explodes Across Boulder! 5th Annual Boulder International Fringe Festival Opens August 12

Art explodes across downtown Boulder during the fifth Boulder International Fringe Festival, with live theater, dance, visual and narrative art, puppetry and workshops. The 12-day cultural event takes place from Aug. 12-23 across 14 locations, including theaters, restaurants, stores, coffee shops and parks. Selected randomly by lottery, artists come from Bulgaria, Tokyo and Brooklyn to complement local talent.

THEATER HIGHLIGHTS

Gregg Tobo's Astonishing Magic Show. An old-time magic show exploring the power of Belief and the origins of Destiny. Eye-popping magic to awaken your sense of wonder. Prepare to be astonished! Opens Fri Aug 14 - 8:30 PM at FUMC Labyrinth (First United Methodist Church). See details and complete schedule of performances. Rated G.


Theatre Reverb's "Bonne Nuit Poo Poo". Max, Maxi and the Operator hunt for a living seed in this action-packed collage of pop-culture and apocalyptic fantasy film featuring video, text, movement, dance, and stream-of-consciousness comedy. The production was created by Theatre Reverb, a young independent group of Brooklyn-based theatre artists. Opens Aug 13 - 8:30 PM at Community Dance Collective (CDC). See details and complete schedule of performances. Rated R.

BAGS: Obsessions of a Hoardaholic. Glimpses of an obsessive personality and some of his adventures as he attempts to cling onto objects that he thinks will help him navigate through life. Written by Lee Michael Buckman, New York, NY. Opens August 13 at 7:30pm, CU Museum of Natural History. See details and complete schedule of performances. Rated R.

"Good Girls Don't, But I Do". Are there “rules” for meeting Mr. Right? Incorporates both original and culled texts, movement, and song in an exploration of what it means to be a woman in contemporary society. Opens Aug 13, 7:00 PM at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA). See details and complete schedule of performances. Rated PG-13.

Cindy Marvell's "A Juggling Journey". Cindy Marvell, Artistic Director of the Boulder Circus Center, turns gravity on its head in this tour-du-frenzy of the new vaudeville world as seen through the eyes of a juggler. Audience participation for kids. Opens Fri Aug 14 - 8:30 PM at Community Dance Collective (CDC). See details and complete schedule of performances. Rated PG.

See complete schedule of Theater performances

MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS

Dreaming Machines. Created by Kurt Bauer & Arnie Swenson. Dreaming Machine performances are approached through improvisation with instruments played from all over the world along with bamboo, marbles and an occasional industrial drill-bit, and more. The audience will experience Chinese hillbilly swing, twisted spirituals, maybe a cover by Townes Van Zandt or Tony Bennett, and subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, musical performance art. Thu Aug 20 ONLY - 8:30 PM at The Laughing Goat Coffee House. Read more... Rated R.

The Gift. Created by Created by experimental musical troupe 100 Camels in the Courtyard. Paul Bowle's short story, The Garden, is the point of origin for musical improvisations of controlled chaos that build and crescendo in one single 45-minute sonic movement. Besides Bowles, influences include the iconoclastic The Gift (1968), a song by the Velvet Underground and the Canadian post-punk avant-gardists Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Aug 16 ONLY - 8:30 PM at The Laughing Goat Coffee House. Read more... Rated G.

See complete schedule of Music performances

DANCE HIGHLIGHTS

Light as Air, Heavy as Sound. Present by DeXdance/T-Lion Body Stories. Two choreographers stir a smattering of concoctions exploring, investigating, provoking, pushing, and entertaining human ideas of boundary, memoir, and crossings. Eight women dancing an unexpected melange of precision and abandon, lusciousness and drama.... Open Aug 13 - 8:30 PM at Naropa University - Performing Arts Center. Details and complete schedule... Rated G.

See complete schedule of Dance performances

WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS

Orchestra of Creation Song: Children's Instrument Making Workshop. Taught by Joey Medicinehorse. Children will construct handmade instruments ranging from simple drums, shakers, rubber band plucking boxes, bowls and others for the purpose to perform in CREATION SONG: The Children's Musical Extravaganza! Offered Aug 15, 19 and 20. Read more...

Going Solo: Creating Your One-Person Show Taught by Jimmy Hogg. Solo show boot camp for those who’ve always wanted to create their own show but have no idea where to begin. Fri, Sat & Sun Aug 21-23. Read more...

Stage Combat: The Basics. Taught by Jenn Zuko Boughn. Learn the basics of unarmed theatrical combat: how to look like an action star and yet stay safe! Aug 15 (Ages 14 and up). Read more...

See complete schedule of Workshop offerings

SPECIAL EVENTS

2009 Opening Night Party featuring the “All You Can Artist Buffet” with Jimmy Hogg, August 12. The kick-off of the 5th annual Boulder International Fringe Festival, each Fringe artist gets 1 minute to preview their show, preparing Boulder audiences for the maelstrom of creative expression that is the Boulder International Fringe Festival.

A huge hit every year, the opening night “All You Can Artist Buffet” is a high-energy kickoff to Fringe’s ’12 days of Art, Madness, and Beauty’. At Naropa University's PAC, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., from 7pm-12am. Rated PG-13 for Experimental Content, Adult Language.

The Daily C.R.A.B. at Scotch Corner Pub, free! Every night after Fringe shows, audiences, artists and crew kick back, relax and unwind with a drink in one hand and a CRAB in the other. Hosted by the zany (and yet charming) Jimmy Hogg (playwright/performer and comic), The Daily C.R.A.B. is not only an unpredictable, off-the-wall variety show, but provides audiences with the perfect opportunity to sample the Fringe’s offerings with live performances by different Fringe artists every night as well as exclusive, behind-the-scenes interviews. Daily from 10-11pm at the Scotch Corner Pub, 1800 Broadway, #150. Rated R for Adult Language.

Fringe Encore! 2009, August 23. The Fringe Encore! 2009 is a unique way to honor the artists that had the best audience response and to give their fans one last chance to see who the patrons couldn't get enough of. The show that sells the most tickets in each venue will be given the opportunity to perform a special Encore show on the last Sunday of the festival (August 23rd). Fringe Encore performers will be announced at the Daily C.R.A.B. on Saturday, August 22nd. Locations and times...

Fast Forward Fringe – Program A. Aug 18 7:30 PM, CU Atlas Building - Room 102. Featuring stop frame animations and live musical accompaniment by Laura Goldhamer of Dovekins. Read more...

Fast Forward Fringe – Program B. Aug 19 7:30 PM, CU Atlas Building - Room 102. Featuring stop frame animations and live musical accompaniment by Laura Goldhamer of Dovekins. Read more...

The Hill Flea - Flea Market/Kids Event! Boulder Fringe Festival and XO join forces to kick off a new community program on the last day of the Festival 2009: Sunday, August 23rd from 10am-5pm. As the best of the fest begins its encore in every venue, artists come out to celebrate the beginning of a new event on the hill. Performances on the Fringe Stage for the whole community - street theater, site-specific dance, music and spontaneous happenings throughout the market. In addition, the KidsFringe from 10:30am to 12:30pm will showcase art by and for kids of all ages. Sun Aug 23 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM, at Pennsylvania Ave, Between 13th and 12th – University Hill. Rated G. Read more...

See the complete listing of Special Events

GET THE SCOOP:

Boulder International Fringe Festival
August 12-23, 2009
Various locations throughout Boulder
View the complete schedule online

POST YOUR COMMENTS AND REVIEWS!

Have you seen a Fringe production? Post your comments and reviews here. Because Fringe performers are picked via lottery rather juries, they rely on audience feedback to find out what works, what can be improved, what to drop, what to explore further. Your feedback is vital to the growth of these artists. Post your comments below, or email reviews to events@brockpub.com.