Save Saturday, August 11, for a special event at the State Theatre in Kalamazoo. Starting at 4 p.m., fourteen bands will play a benefit concert for Bob Hill, a 2005 Gull Lake High School graduate. Bob suffers from a genetic disease, keretoconus, that, if untreated, leads to blindness. Bob started going blind during his senior year at Gull Lake. Last year, a benefit concert at the Richland Area Community Center raised $1,200 for a corneal transplant for one eye; this year's concert will pay for Bob's second surgery, and any extra will be donated to the next benefit concert.
If you'd like to make a donation, make a check payable to First Presbyterian Church of Richland, mark it "Bobbaroo," and send it to the church at 8047 Church Street, Richland, MI 49083.
Even better, come out to a great concert on August 11. Admission is free, but please bring a generous donation! Bands will include Frontier Ruckus, Eyes of an Enemy, Asphodel Fields, Patience Patients, Olivet, Red Amendment, Fernelity, The Giving Tree, Daywalker and the Skychild, The Kinds, Common Shiner, and Combat Corduroy, a Gull Lake-related band that includes Annie Jennings (PAC '06), Brandon Jennings, Logan Castle (PAC '04), John Petro, and Andrew Watkins. It should be a great evening for a great cause.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Thursday, July 19, 2007
New school, new arts facilities
A report on the new Gull Lake High School building from PAF's staff liaison, Robin Nott:
The new high school, opening on August 12, will be providing Gull Lake fine arts students with improved learning environments. Each of the three fine arts disciplines (Music, Theatre, and Visual Art), will move in to wonderful new classroom facilities this fall. Gull Lake Visual Art students will be enjoying two new art studios, a painting and drawing studio and a sculpture and ceramics studio. Each studio is very large and well equipped with plenty of natural light. There is also a student art gallery located between the two studios, visible from the hallway.
Our vocal and instrumental music students will be moving into state-of-the-art facilities. Both rooms offer ample space, and plenty of well-designed support spaces, including storage, practice rooms, offices, and a recording studio. The acoustics and design of the classrooms will provide optimum responsiveness for music education.
Our Theatre (Performing Arts Company) students will be moving into a wonderful new arena "black box" theatre. The 3600 sq. ft. arena theatre includes state-of-the-art lighting and sound equipment for our students to employ in theatre production. The theatre will double as the Communications/Theatre Arts classroom during the day. There is a technical support space attached to the arena, for limited scene construction and makeup. This theatre will be suitable for music concerts, plays, and other performance art events like our Spring Showcase. Our annual state tour competition play will continue to perform on the old high school traditional stage, in the new middle school.
The community still lacks an auditorium to showcase the talents of our students, but great strides have been made with the new high school's new arts education facilities.
The new high school, opening on August 12, will be providing Gull Lake fine arts students with improved learning environments. Each of the three fine arts disciplines (Music, Theatre, and Visual Art), will move in to wonderful new classroom facilities this fall. Gull Lake Visual Art students will be enjoying two new art studios, a painting and drawing studio and a sculpture and ceramics studio. Each studio is very large and well equipped with plenty of natural light. There is also a student art gallery located between the two studios, visible from the hallway.
Our vocal and instrumental music students will be moving into state-of-the-art facilities. Both rooms offer ample space, and plenty of well-designed support spaces, including storage, practice rooms, offices, and a recording studio. The acoustics and design of the classrooms will provide optimum responsiveness for music education.
Our Theatre (Performing Arts Company) students will be moving into a wonderful new arena "black box" theatre. The 3600 sq. ft. arena theatre includes state-of-the-art lighting and sound equipment for our students to employ in theatre production. The theatre will double as the Communications/Theatre Arts classroom during the day. There is a technical support space attached to the arena, for limited scene construction and makeup. This theatre will be suitable for music concerts, plays, and other performance art events like our Spring Showcase. Our annual state tour competition play will continue to perform on the old high school traditional stage, in the new middle school.
The community still lacks an auditorium to showcase the talents of our students, but great strides have been made with the new high school's new arts education facilities.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Meeting? Not until August.
Sorry, all! Because so many people are not able to be there, the regular meeting of the Performing Arts Foundation scheduled for Thursday, July 12, has been cancelled.
Our next meeting will be held at the Richland Area Community Center at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, August 9.
In the meantime, please keep in touch via email (PerformingArtsFoundation@gmail.com) and by checking out this blog with great regularity. Please send along your news, pleas, and listings, and we'll keep everyone up to date.
See you at the August 9 meeting, and here until then.
Our next meeting will be held at the Richland Area Community Center at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, August 9.
In the meantime, please keep in touch via email (PerformingArtsFoundation@gmail.com) and by checking out this blog with great regularity. Please send along your news, pleas, and listings, and we'll keep everyone up to date.
See you at the August 9 meeting, and here until then.
Monday, July 2, 2007
To add to your calendar
Great events this summer!
It Takes a Village: Three free concerts highlighting the art of collaboration will take place at Western Michigan University's Dalton Recital Center. They are part of the SEMINAR summer music camp series featuring WMU faculty and guest artists.
7:30 p.m., Monday, July 9: YU-LIEN THE & FRIENDS: Contemporary music featuring piano, saxophone, cello and voice.
7:30 p.m., Thursday, July 12: CHRISTOPHER LAUGHLIN, Guitar: Classical guitar and others.
7:30 p.m., Monday, July 16: THE MERLING TRIO
More WMU listings, including concerts by SEMINAR students, may be found on WMU's website.
5th Annual Diversity Celebration of Kalamazoo: A festival of different cultures, featuring entertainment, booths, ethnic food for sale, and activities for children.
Noon - 8 p.m., Saturday, July 14, at Mayor's Riverfront Park (251 Mills St. in Kalamazoo). Again, admission is free!
Food vendors include: Dragon Inn, Rasa Ria, Las Juanitas, Gallagher's, Cynthia Tyson, Shawarma King, and others. Activities: YMCA-sponsored games for children, children's reading corner, henna tattoos, cultural booths featuring many nations, world trade booth featuring items for sale from around the globe, etc.
Performances throughout the day by: Mike & The Elastic Waste Band, Chinese Lion Dance, Dunuya Drum & Dance, Intercontinental Dance Troupe (Polynesian), Muslim Children's Choir, tap dancers, Bhangra Dance Troupe (Punjabi), mariachi singer, Native American storyteller, Salsa Dancers, Ujima Drum & Dance, Indo-American Dance Team, Geno Hinton Band, Yoroka SimbaJahi Reggae Band, Cathay Dance Group, Irish Dance, Dai Dance, and more. Come out for a great day of multi-cultural arts!
And don't forget the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra concert at Sherman Lake YMCA, Wednesday, July 11, at 8:15 p.m. Lawn seating is free and fun!
Meanwhile, happy Fourth of July to all! The Richland parade steps off at 11 a.m. on Wednesday.
It Takes a Village: Three free concerts highlighting the art of collaboration will take place at Western Michigan University's Dalton Recital Center. They are part of the SEMINAR summer music camp series featuring WMU faculty and guest artists.
7:30 p.m., Monday, July 9: YU-LIEN THE & FRIENDS: Contemporary music featuring piano, saxophone, cello and voice.
7:30 p.m., Thursday, July 12: CHRISTOPHER LAUGHLIN, Guitar: Classical guitar and others.
7:30 p.m., Monday, July 16: THE MERLING TRIO
More WMU listings, including concerts by SEMINAR students, may be found on WMU's website.
5th Annual Diversity Celebration of Kalamazoo: A festival of different cultures, featuring entertainment, booths, ethnic food for sale, and activities for children.
Noon - 8 p.m., Saturday, July 14, at Mayor's Riverfront Park (251 Mills St. in Kalamazoo). Again, admission is free!
Food vendors include: Dragon Inn, Rasa Ria, Las Juanitas, Gallagher's, Cynthia Tyson, Shawarma King, and others. Activities: YMCA-sponsored games for children, children's reading corner, henna tattoos, cultural booths featuring many nations, world trade booth featuring items for sale from around the globe, etc.
Performances throughout the day by: Mike & The Elastic Waste Band, Chinese Lion Dance, Dunuya Drum & Dance, Intercontinental Dance Troupe (Polynesian), Muslim Children's Choir, tap dancers, Bhangra Dance Troupe (Punjabi), mariachi singer, Native American storyteller, Salsa Dancers, Ujima Drum & Dance, Indo-American Dance Team, Geno Hinton Band, Yoroka SimbaJahi Reggae Band, Cathay Dance Group, Irish Dance, Dai Dance, and more. Come out for a great day of multi-cultural arts!
And don't forget the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra concert at Sherman Lake YMCA, Wednesday, July 11, at 8:15 p.m. Lawn seating is free and fun!
Meanwhile, happy Fourth of July to all! The Richland parade steps off at 11 a.m. on Wednesday.
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