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Flagstaff Cultural Partners e-Newsletter
January 2010
Flagstaff Cultural Partners

Greetings!

From all of us here at Flagstaff Cultural Partners, we wish you the very best in your endeavors in the coming year. I really like this time of year, because it feels like we have everything ahead of us - a new year to play in. So much promise for what's to come!

We have much on tap at the Coconino Center for the Arts in the coming weeks and months to make for a great start to "Twenty-Ten" (rolls off the tongue nicely, doesn't it?). In the next few weeks, we will see the opening of the smashing new photography exhibition, Landscape Interrupted, a much-anticipated performance by none other than John Gorka, and a concert by the supremely talented guitarist, Gabriel Bianco.

That's just the beginning: February features our 3rd Annual Valentine's Day concert with Anne & Pete Sibley, and in March, we'll host the Viola Awards to recognize and celebrate excellence in the arts.

I can't wait to see all this - and the rest of what the year has to offer in the arts in Flagstaff.

Cheers,

John Tannous "JT"
Executive Director

Fine Crafts Sale
Featured Event - Landscape Interrupted

Opening Reception
Saturday, January 16, 6-8pm

Landscape Interrupted
A Photographic Exhibition of the Influenced Landscape

Mitchell Butte UT-AZ border 1995, by Terry Falke


The new photography exhibition, Landscape Interrupted, explores the space where natural landscapes and the human element collide. Feature artists are Susan Lynn Smith and Terry Falke. The public is invited to the opening reception on Saturday, January, 16th from 6-8pm and the exhibit will run from January 19th - February 17th. Admission is free.

For more information about Landscape Interrupted, click here.


 with support from:


   
  BBB Revenues - City of Flagstaff  City of Flagstaff     
News in the Arts - January

Centennial Mural - Call for Artists
The City of Flagstaff seeks submissions for a mural design and creation along 100 feet of wall creating an enduring depiction of significant aspects of Flagstaff's history over the past 100 years. The mural will be located at the Flagstaff Visitor Center on the north retaining wall along a portion of the Flagstaff Urban Trail System (FUTS) where both residents and visitors from around the world will have a chance to view the piece. Click here to download the call for entries.

Arts Integration through Dance and Drama Workshop
Explore ways to use dance and theatre to create experiential, kinesthetic learning in all disciplines. The workshop provides creative experiences for integrating arts based-learning and connecting arts integration to problem solving, critical thinking, and collaboration. January 12, 4-7:30 pm, Mountain School Gym, 311 W Cattle Drive Trail. Open to any interested educator, arts educator, or community member. Contact: Amanda Perino at 679-8073 to register.

Art and Science Grant Opportunity
Flagstaff Cultural Partners requests proposals for grants from the 2010/2011 Art & Science Fund. This year FCP will award over a quarter-million dollars to local, art, science and cultural, non-profit organizations. The submission deadline is Monday, March 22nd at 5pm. Click here for applicant guidelines and documents.

recycled artCall For Entries - Recycled Art Show
Flagstaff Cultural Partners invites artists, aspiring artists and just plain folk to enter works of art into the 8th Annual Recycled Art Show. Entries must be made with a least 80% recycled or reused materials. All ages are welcome to enter but students 18 and younger are entered for free. Deadline for entry is March 1st. Click here to download the Call for Entry Form.
The FCP Top Five - Movies of the Decade

For our January FCP Top Five, we decided to gaze back through the years and ponder the cinematic gems that we defend are the best films of the last ten years. Films were considered for concepts such as their aesthetically-pleasing look, cultural influence and spectacular plot. Or if we thought the movie was just plain AWESOME. The following list required some personal consideration followed by a little nostalgia and much heated debate.

However...tArizona Commission on the Artshis month's list is only a true top five in the sense that the five of us each defend that our own individual lists prove superior over everyone else's. After one extended staff meeting, a series of "do-over" voting sessions and some time apart, we could only bring ourselves to agree on three (3) films that would make a collective list. And they are (most loved first):

Amelie
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Little Miss Sunshine

Any of the following films could have made our list were we able to put our differences and our egos aside (in no particular order):

The Royal Tenenbaums
No Country for Old Men
City of God
Ratatouille
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Pan's Labrynth

Given the level of debate between the five of us alone, we can imagine that you would not agree with our list. What are your top films of the decade? Click here for our blog and comment!


In This Issue
Featured Event: Landscape Interrupted
News in the Arts: January
Top Five Movies of the Decade
Can't Miss Events - Flagstaff
Coconino Center for the Arts
E V E N T S
JANUARY

16. Opening Reception - Landscape Interrupted
John Gorka
17. John Gorka in Concert.

19-Feb 17. Photography exhibition, Landscape Interrupted

29. Classical Guitarist Gabriel Bianco in Concert

FEBRUARY

Anne & Pete Sibley
14. Annual Valentines Day Concert: Anne & Pete Sibley

27. Opening Reception: Youth Art Exhibition

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22-26. Spike Lee Film Festival

14. Umphrey's Magee

all month: Gunnar Widforss: Painter of the National Parks




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Other resources for arts and culture:

Flagstaff CVB

NAU College of Arts & Letters


Flagstaff Cultural Partners


 Support for Flagstaff Cultural Partners is provided by:

City of Flagstaff - BBB Revenues
City of Flagstaff - BBB Revenues

Coconino County
Coconino County

Arizona Commission on the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

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