#thisweekatpvcc: Free Film Festival, Music Festival and Food Trucks!

FILM FESTIVAL @ PVCC - THE ARTS AND ARTISTS THROUGH FILM PRESENTS:

Mrs. Henderson Presents (Great Britain, R; 103 min.)

Wednesday, September 30th @ 6:30pm. Free Admission. CPA-Mainstage Theater.

First Saturday Outdoor Concert Series: October 3, 2015 at 6:00pm, Free Admission

Paradise Valley Community College’s Center for the Performing Arts (CPA) will host a series of music concerts on the first Saturdays in September, October and November 2015. These free performances are presented on the CPA’s outdoor amphitheater stage from 6-8 p.m., and audience members are invited to bring a folding chair or blanket as the space accommodates lawn seating only.  Several of Phoenix's most popular Food Trucks will be on site to serve concessions. Cash donations will be accepted. Kids Craft Area supervised by students in PVCC's Education Program.

October 3rd Event Features:

Music: Rebel Heart (Country/Blues/Rock)

Food Trucks: Frites Street - Gourmet Pomme Frites and Tom’s BBQ

Fine & Performing Arts Student Spotlight Video - Lindsay, Dance

A short video highlighting PVCC's dance program and the experiences of student Lindsay Bush. Learn more about PVCC's dance program at: www.paradisevalley.edu/dance

PVCC Dance Audition - Wednesday, Sept. 9th, 2015

PVCC DANCE AUDITION

Wednesday, September 9th

3:00-4:10P

Room F109

CHOREOGRAPHERS:

Sonia Valle: DAN155-43084, F109, MW, 3:00-4:10P

Micaela Church: DAN150-13194, M-151 Studio Theatre, MW, 4:30P-5:50P

Nancy Happel: DAN150-13325, F133, TR, 11:40a-1:00P

Important: Students attending the audition must be co-enrolled in a Ballet, Modern Dance, or Jazz class at PVCC.  No prepared material required, just be prepared to dance.  Wear comfortable clothing.  Students who make the audition will be asked to enroll in a Dance Performance Class (DAN150 or DAN155) for 1 credit and perform in the PVCC Dance Collection scheduled on Friday, December 4th and Saturday, December 5th, 7:30P in the PVCC Center for the Performing Arts.

For more information please contact Sonia Valle at

602-787-6808 or sonia.valle@paradisevalley.edu

Fall 2015 Visual Arts Events at PVCC

The PVCC Visual Arts Department is pleased to host the following events, workshops and visiting artists during Fall of 2015. We hope to see you there!

Friday, September 18th, 6-9pm

CHINESE CERAMIC MASTER ARTISTS EXHIBIT AND RECEPTION

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See exceptional ceramic masterpieces created by Chinese Ceramic Master Artists. Meet the artists and enjoy refreshments, live music and a silent auction to benefit the PVCC Glassblowing Program. 

Saturday, September 19th, 5-9pm

FIRED UP! HANDS-ON CERAMIC WORKSHOP

PVCC Ceramics Studio (D Building)
 

Choose a handmade ceramic pot, apply raku glaze, and watch your piece transform before your eyes into Art. This event is from 5-9pm in the PVCC Ceramics Studio (D Building) and is $25 per person. Proceeds benefit the PVCC Glassblowing Program. 

Friday and Saturday, October 30 & 31, 8am-4pm

VISITING ARTIST SERIES: GLASS WORKSHOP WITH ANA THIEL

PVCC Ceramics Studio (D Building)
 

Free for PVCC students, this hands-on workshop introduces participants to techniques for working with hot glass by pouring, casting and combining with other materials. Registration is limited. Reserve a spot by emailing david.bradley@paradisevalley.edu.

Sunday, November 9th, 3-4pm

VISITING ARTIST SERIES: LECTURE WITH GLASS ARTIST ANA THIEL

Center for Performing Arts Main Stage
 

Ana Thiel is an internationally known artist who uses hot glass combined with other materials to create art. She was educated at Pilchuck Glass School, founded by Dale Chihuly, and has exhibited and taught around the world. She lives in San Miguel De Allende, Mexico. Free to the public, held at the Center for Performing Arts Main Stage.

For more information Contact David L. Bradley, Visual Arts Faculty
Email: david.bradley@paradisevalley.edu
Phone: (602) 787-6615
Office: M-165

 

PVCC Theatre Auditions: The Outlaw Robin Hood

The Outlaw Robin Hood is an action-filled play about law and order in Medieval England with some of our favorite characters. In this version of the well-known tale of Robin hood heroic deeds are seen anew in Robin bedeviled with a dilemma; obey the law and see people suffer the worst evils of the feudal system or break the law and see injury and death to his people. The Outlaw Robin Hood is a modern play of ageless appeal, recommended for ages nine and older.

Roles Available: 20

Outlaws: Robin Hood, Little John, Will Scarlet, Will Stutely, David of Doncaster

Townspeople: Midge the Miller, Alice his wife, Adam his son, Arthur-A-Bland the Tanner, Grace his wife, Eadon the Innkeeper, Eleanor his daughter, Polly his other daughter

Court: Bishop of Herefore, Sheriff of Nottingham, Captain of Guards, Two Guards, The King, Sir Guy of Gisborne

Audition Date: August 26-27, 2015; 6-9pm

Callbacks: August 28th 2015; 6-9pm (be prepared to cold read and move)

Location: Studio Theater/M-East
18410 N. 32nd St
Phoenix AZ 85032

Casting protocol: Call 602-787-6595 to sign up for a 5 minute audition time slot

Headshot and resume: preferred but not required

Preparation: Be prepared to cold read

Rehearsals begin: The week of August 31st (evenings - Mondays through Fridays)

Performance dates: October 9th, 10th, 16th and 17th at 7:30pm
October 9th and 15th at 11:00am
October 11th and 18th at 2:00pm

All performers cast in the production are required to register for THP201AA Theatre Production Class (1 credit)

For more information contact (602) 787-6596. Directed by Craig Kosnik. Fight Director: Andrea Robertson. 

 

Faculty Landscape Photography on Display at Desert Foothills Library

You are all invited to view the spectacular landscape images of three Valley photographers:
WILLIS PETERSON | former resident of Cave Creek, Former Chairman of Photography, Glendale Community College, long time Arizona Highways contributor
JERRY SIEVE | Long time resident of Cave Creek, Teacher at Paradise Valley Community College, long time Arizona Highways contributor
TOM BAKER | Current resident of Carefree, Photography student)

The images will be on display at:

Desert Foothills Library
September 21- October 5, 2015
38443 N. Schoolhouse Road
Cave Creek, Arizona

For more info email sieveimages@gmail.com

 

Student Spotlight: Peter Oldack, Theater

“In the advanced directing program you actually get the opportunity to mount your own show. It's a fantastic experience because you get to audition your very own actors. You get to look at people and say, “No, I don’t want you but I do want you." And then you get to struggle for several weeks while you try to stage everything; you put them in their place, you let them figure out things naturally, you tell them what you want to convey, and then hopefully after the end of that - after you’ve put your set together and your costumes and you’ve figured out what you want to do with makeup and you’ve told your actors everything you want them to do on stage that they haven’t discovered themselves - then hopefully you have a show." - Peter Oldack, PVCC Theater Student

Learn more about PVCC's Theater Program at www.paradisevalley.edu/theatre

Free First Saturday Concert Series at PVCC

This fall, the First Saturday Concert Series returns to PVCC with free outdoor concerts every First Saturday of the month in August, September, October and November of 2015.

These free performances are presented on the CPA’s outdoor amphitheater stage from 6-8 p.m., and audience members are invited to bring a folding chair or blanket as the space is lawn seating only. Several of Phoenix's most popular food trucks will be on site to serve concessions.

August 8th, 2015: An Evening in Brazil with Grupo Liberdade| 6pm | Free Admission

Featuring exciting music and dance performances by GRUPO LIBERDADE and the SAMBAZ DANCERS. Grupo Liberdade is a performance group dedicated to freedom of expression through Culture, Movement & Sound. They promote COMMUNITY, DIVERSITY & EMPOWERMENT drawing upon the traditional & contemporary rhythms of Brazil and beyond while bringing an original sound & energy to our desert metropolis.

September 5th, 2015: The Cal Tjader Tribute Band| 6pm | Free Admission

With exciting performances of Mambo, Cha cha cha, and other grooves, The Tjader Tribute Band pays homage to one of the most important Latin-jazz artists of the last century.

October 3rd, 2015: Rebel Heart: Country Rock| 6pm | Free Admission

Rebel Heart is a 5 piece band from Arizona consisting of seasoned stage veterans covering percussion, lead guitar, bass, and lead vocals. The dual vocalists carry a powerful and soulful sound and presence. They offer a variety of country, rock, and blues ranging from old to new.

November 7th, 2015: A Night on Broadway| 6pm | Free Admission

Featuring vocalists Kristen Drathman and Tommy Strawser, enjoy a night on broadway with your favorite show tunes. 

For more information about events at the Center for the Performing Arts, view our Fall 2015 Events Calendar or call 602-787-7738. Box Office hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday thru Friday and one hour prior to show.

The Center for the Performing Arts is conveniently located at 34th Street and Union Hills at the east end of the campus of Paradise Valley Community College in North Phoenix. Parking is free.

Fired Up! - RAKU Nights - PVCC Ceramics Program Benefit

Join us for a very creative and unique date night or outing with friends!

Fired Up! - Raku Nights is a fundraising event AND a hands-on ceramics workshop rolled into one!

$25 per ticket includes:
*Your selected piece of hand-thrown pottery to design, glaze and take home.
• Dramatic Raku Kiln firing of each piece
• Pottery throwing demonstration
• Appetizers and dessert
• Live music performed by the PVCC Faculty Jazz Ensemble

Purchase tickets in advance as seating is limited.
Call 602-787-6684 for additional information or email:
development@paradisevalley.edu

Proceeds benefit the PVCC Ceramics Program Support Fund.

Acts Creative Week 3 : San Francisco

PC: Brock Sanders Photography

PC: Brock Sanders Photography

By Keith Kelly

Though I didn't intend to start the creative summer with three different types of creative arts - that's seems to be the case!  This week I'm in San Francisco in a workshop for a musical I've been involved with.  It is a week-long intense experience comprising singers, musicians, a rad director, and all manner of folks.  Though I've been working on or around this musical/theater piece for more than a year - each time I go into another workshop/performance I'm nervous.  And usually, I don't get nervous.  

I think it is that the lines of communication, the collaborative-yet-heriachical nature of the interactions between and betwixt participants is awkward to me - like watching a tv in a language you don't speak/understand.  Like, I kinda know what's going on, but I have to pay attention and respond to cues or signals that I may misinterpret.  Anyway, this week I'm making music! 

What's on my mind to start: 
approach the music with an open mind/ear - stay curious about what the possibilities for the music are and explore that space.  

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The first day of the workshop was fantastic!  The creative moment that sticks out is when the music director and I were vamping (marking time under dialogue in this case) and after more than a few repetitions of the harmonic pattern we slowly morphed into something else, rhythmically.  Most of the playing had been very downbeat driven - heavy chunk-chunk-chunk-chunk playing, all notes on the piano being hit at the same time.  But then I broke up the notes into something resembling a montuno (a common Latin music piano rhythm) - and it sounded cool!  The heavy downbeat rhythm transformed into an off-beat/bouncy light moment.  The music director and I looked at each other and smiled, played it till the end of the vamp, him now accenting some of the same offbeats I was playing.  The dialogue finished and we went on to the next section of the music.  We laughed about it later that day.  But that was it.  It was just a few seconds, maybe a minute, but it was a nice creative moment.
 
The next few days were focused primarily on getting the production "up and running" for presentation on Friday. In terms of focusing on creativity, it was little moments: a rhythm here, a change of chord inversion there.  These ideas, tried out and tested, went quickly from - "what about this?" to "okay, that's how that goes from now on" - due to the pressure of the immenent presentation.  This kind of work - quick building as I think of it - is one of those muscles I don't get to stretch too often.   Though the rehearsal days are long, the time to work individual moments (at least in the music) is not.  It's part relying on what one knows works and part attempting to make something unique/different/strange/not obvious (thought also not too weird) -- HA!!