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Friday, September 17, 12:30pm - 7pm at Lost Nation Golf Club
Swinging for the Arts is a Best Ball Scramble to benefit The Next
Picture Show; we play rain or shine! The entry fee of $240 for a
foursome of golfers, $120 for a twosome of golfers, and $60 for a single
golfer includes a day of golf, a cart, drawings, prizes, dinner after
golf, and fun!
Registration deadline is Tuesday, August 31. Don't delay!
Download
the application PDF
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The fall semester at VIVA! runs from September 13 through December 4. Register now for instruction for all ages in strings, piano, voice and drama!
VIVA! provides high quality instruction which
seeks to build strong technical skills as well as develop each student's
individual and unique expression of his/herself. We seek to broaden each student's exposure to the many facets of the arts through master classes,
workshops and performances by professional teachers and musicians.
Visit www.vivaschool.org for more information!
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Claudia will be at The Next Picture Show on Friday, August 13th, 7pm in concert.
Limited Seating--$20 a ticket.
Michigan native Claudia Schmidt has covered a lot of musical ground since beginning with a stirring rendition of "Tammy" at age four around a neighborhood bonfire.
Over 30 years as a touring professional have found Claudia Schmidt traversing North America as well as Europe in venues ranging from intimate clubs to 4,000 seat theatres, and festival stages in front of 25,000 rapt listeners. She is familiar with the mediums of radio and TV, including regular stints on Public Radio International's "A Prairie Home Companion" in its early incarnation, and starring in an hour-long documentary called "I Sing Because I Can't Fly," produced by KTCA TV in St. Paul. She participated in the delightful Les Blank movie "Gap-Toothed Women," contributing a song as well as an interview.
She has recorded fourteen albums of mostly original songs, exploring folk, blues, and jazz idioms featuring her acclaimed12 string guitar and mountain dulcimer playing. Recently, she collaborated with the New Reformation Jazz Band on a Dixieland gospel recording and a tribute to Gershwin and Ellington in celebration of their hundredth birthdays. Claudia's 2003 release on Redhouse Records -- Wings of Wonder-- features many new songs with instrumental support by Dean Magraw and Peter Ostroushko. I Thought About You, is her second effort leading her own swinging sextet - Claudia Schmidt & The JumpBoys. In the fall of 2003 Claudia released an all spoken word CD featuring some of the many pieces she’s made famous in her performances over the past thirty years. The CD, ROADS, includes 17 poems and essays from her rich performance repertoire. In the Summer of 2006 Claudia released her first self-produced folk/acoustic CD Spinning. This recording is a coming home of sorts for Claudia with a studio full of Michigan's finest musicians. Most recently, in the fall of 2006, Claudia teamed up again with Dean Magraw this time for a live jazz recording at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis. This great example of Claudia at work on stage features classic jazz pieces along with several of her own jazz-inspired works.
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The Next Picture Show presented a watercolor workshop for a group visiting from Shepherds Ministries in Wisconsin.The group enjoyed the days instruction by the fine arts teacher Debbie Thompson.
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It’s
the little gallery that could. The Next Picture Show, a nonprofit fine
arts gallery in the heart of downtown Dixon that nearly closed its
doors because of a lack of funds, will receive an Illinois Alliance
for Arts Education public and community service award March 18 in
Springfield.
Bonnie Kime, executive director of the gallery, learned of the honor in a
letter from the IAAE, inviting her to the ceremony at the governor’s
mansion. “I was greatly surprised,” said Kime, 61, of Dixon. “It was a
great day.”
TNPS was chosen because of its numerous local arts programs. In addition
to exhibits, art shows, classes and workshops, the gallery hosts
recitals, receptions, concerts, banquets and more. Looking at Kime’s
long list of gallery offerings, IAAE Executive Director Barbara
Heimerdinger thought, “My goodness, she’s done so much.” “To make a fine
arts gallery successful in Small Town USA is almost impossible,” said
Debbie Thompson, Reagan Middle School art teacher who nominated The Next Picture Show.
“To create one that is thriving is unheard of.”
From its home in a renovated 1854 building at 113 W. First St., the
gallery partners with Episcopal Church of St. Luke and Philander Hall to
offer VIVA! Performing Arts School, which offers music and drama
courses.
“Our mission is to educate all facets of the arts,” Kime said. It’s a
mission that nearly came to an end last year. In August, Kime said the
gallery might have to close if more operating money wasn’t found.
Businesses and community members rallied to buy memberships and provide
donations to keep the gallery afloat.
Fine arts always have played a role in Kime’s life. The arts help a
person live a whole, well-rounded life, and are especially important for
young children, she said. “It takes maybe one person or one little
glimmer to change a child’s life,” Kime said. “We all need that
opportunity.”
About the alliance
The Illinois Alliance for Arts Education is a nonprofit organization of
arts educators in dance, drama, music and visual art, whose mission is
to ensure high quality arts education for all Illinois students in
grades K-12.
Learn more at www.illinoisalliance4artsed.org online.
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