Be sure to join us at second saturday ART NIGHT 5pm-8pm May 12.

second saturday ART NIGHT

5pm-8pm Saturday, May 12

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The Arts Council will be receiving work on February 28th and 29th during the hours of 11am-5pm. Jurying will take place on March 2nd and 4th. We will be open for viewing on Friday, March 9th. and the opening reception will be on the 10th during Second Saturday Art Night. The awards presentation will be April 14th during April's Second Saturday Art Night at 7pm. We look forward to exhibiting the student work as we do every year.

High School Entry 2012

A Celebration of Clay:

Representing 40 years of Northstate

Ceramic Artists

Thursday, January 12 - Saturday, February 25

Reception

5pm-8pm Saturday, January 14

Second Saturday Art Night

4pm-8pm Saturday, January 27

Cultural Cruise

This class is designed to put your practice in your hands. These teachings are subtle, handed down through generations of gurus, sages and teachers. Having an open beginners mind will enable you to grasp the understanding with curiosity, enabling you to see yourself and the world in a way that will let the natural joy, which is your true nature, arise even in the most humble of circumstances  COST: $5

Program at the University of the Pacific. Members are winners of numerous DownBeat awards, including the 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011 awards for best collegiate jazz group in the country, this group has performed on the Monterey Jazz Festival, Playboy Jazz Festival, Brubeck Festival, Detroit International Jazz Festival, and others, and have done concerts in California, New York, Washington, Florida, Texas, Chicago, Toronto, Minneapolis, Washington DC, and on a State Department tour in Spain. They have performed in jazz clubs such as Yoshi’s in Oakland, Herb Alpert’s club Vibrato in Los Angeles, Blues Alley in Washington DC, the Dakota in Minneapolis, and the Jamboree Jazz Club in Barcelona. They have also performed at the annual conference of the International Association for Jazz Education, and at the First Annual Jazz Education Network conference in St. Louis, MO. The BIJQ also does clinics and performances in schools throughout the country.

February 18, 2012
Doors Open at 7:15pm Showtime at 8:00pm

WHERE: Concert will be at the Pilgrim Church at 2850 Foothill Blvd

COST: $30 – Ticket price includes Wine & Hors d'oeuvres

Tickets Available at the Cascade Theater

Well, you don't have to live in L.A. to enjoy this kind of side-splitting laughter; there's an improv troupe right here in Redding. The shows are 100% made up on the spot, we follow game formulas, and then plug in whatever the audience provides us as a setting, character, scenario.

Visit the Redding Improv Players Website.

Learn the Argentine Tango, a sensual romantic dance. Taught by Linda

Sabo who has over 25 years experience. Their will be a variety of instructors joining Linda to interpret the various styles of the Argentine Tango.   COST: $10 per person    Instructors: Linda Sabo & Rick Miller

 Salsa - 3^rd Sunday of each month from 7:00pm-10:00pm

Learn the salsa dance beginning with the basics from Alexandrea Szymanski. Salsa is a latin dance form with origins in Afro-Cuban dance. It is generally associated with the salsa music style, although it may be danced under other types of latin music.  COST: $10  

Instructor: Alexandrea Szymanski

Swing -4th Sunday of each month from 7:30pm-10:00pm

Learn the basic overview of swing dancing from beginner steps to advance moves from Rebejah English. Swing music has an infectious accent on the upbeat and makes even non-dancers tap their feet, and snap their fingers. The most elemental definition of Swing dancing, is any style of dancing to Swing music, and there are hundreds of styles. Swing dancing is usually characterized by it’s bounce and energy as well as lots of spins or under arm turns.  COST: $5      Instructor:  Rebekah English

Ballroom -Every Wednesday  6:30pm -10:00pm & Thursday  5:30pm -7:30pm and  the 1^st Sunday of each month  6:30-10:00pm

Learn this social dance, popular since the beginning of the 20th century, to dances in conventional rhythms such as the foxtrot and the quickstep. It's fun!  It's easy!

Come see for yourself! Create a new hobby that will last a lifetime! The dances that you can learn include: American Smooth, Foxtrot, Tango & Waltz.

COST: Wednesday’s - $5       Thursday’s - $10         1^st Sunday - $5

Instructors:

•  Step by Step School of Ballroom Dance   - Kathy Babcock (Thursday)
• A Step Ahead    - Ron & Faith Lane (Wednesday)
• Tess Dunlap (First Sunday)

Shasta Regional Community Foundation announces upcoming arts grant opportunities.  “We believe arts play a key role in building our communities; providing focus for, reflecting, and celebrating local culture.”  Beth Freeman, Program Director at the Foundation talks about the important role of the arts in the quality of community life and the way residents feel about and choose the places they live.  “The Knight Foundation recently completed a 3-year, 26 community study, “Soul of the Community” which demonstrated a strong connection between social offerings, including the arts, and how attached people are to their communities.  The arts are a key determinant in people’s decisions about where they’re going to live. We, at the Community Foundation, are also appreciative of the importance of literacy (for adults and well as children), and of literature; of reading for pleasure and understanding.”

With this initiative, supported by a grant from The James Irvine Foundation, the Community Foundation is making funding available to support artists, arts organizations, and other community-based nonprofit organizations to create works of public art: playing with words, memorializing inspirational writing (historic or contemporary), celebrating reading and writing.  “We envision these works as not only playful or inspirational, but reinforcing the value of reading, and helping to define places of community interest and pride. In other words, we anticipate verbal messages in these works, we also envision a strong non-verbal message about how our communities value and respect reading, literature, and literacy.”  Deadline for letters of intent is August 14, 2011, and may be postmarked or delivered.

The Community Foundation is simultaneously repeating an opportunity for local artists and for nonprofit organizations to apply for grants for more broadly focused arts projects or for youth arts.  Deadline for proposals is August 31, 2011, and proposals may be postmarked or delivered.

The two sets of guidelines for:  1. the literacy/literary focused public arts grants as well as, 2. the more general arts opportunities are available on the Foundation’s website:  www.shastarcf.org.

These grants are made possible by The James Irvine Foundation which is providing to Shasta Regional Community Foundation funds for the arts in a 1:1 match to donations from the community to build an arts endowment at the Foundation.  For more information about the grants or the endowment, contact:  Beth Freeman 244-1219.

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The Shasta Regional Community Foundation is a resource building organization in Shasta and Siskiyou Counties dedicated to meeting community needs through philanthropy, education and information.  Since 2000, the Community Foundation has awarded more than $9,000,000 in grants to area nonprofit organizations.  For more information call the Shasta Regional Community Foundation at (530)244-1219 or visit www.shastarcf.org.