Dean’s Dish – 2nd Blog Edition – February 25, 2013

Hello faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends of the VAPA Division at Cabrillo College!

Enjoy this 2nd edition of Dean’s Dish delivered via our new blog! Check out the new “Spicy Morsels” section on the Dean’s Dish plate, and links to Spicy ideas on the SPICE Rack.

Students, faculty, staff, and friends, please share info and web sites you’d like to post on this new blog with me at: john.graulty@cabrillo.edu.

Have a great week, and don’t miss the FREE TED 2013 live stream in Crocker Theater this Wednesday, February 27, from 8:30-6:45!

John Graulty

Dean of VAPA

John.Graulty@cabrillo.edu

Kudos Department

Congratulations to Dance Faculty member Cid Pearlman, who has been recognized by the Institute for International Education for her outstanding service on the Dance Peer Review Committee of the Fulbright US Scholar Programs, reviewing applications for the 2013-2014 academic year.

Congrats to new mamas and papas Scott Johnson, in the Cabrillo Extension division, and dance faculty member Stephanie Spencer, who have welcomed new sons into the world! We wish you all the best and hope you’re able to get at least some sleep in the coming weeks!

TED 2013 comes to the Crocker Theater this Wednesday – FREE live stream!

Thanks to the efforts of TEDx Santa Cruz, the Associated Students of Cabrillo College, and the VAPA Division, and with extraordinary support from Cabrillo College’s IT Department and Performing Arts Complex Coordinators, the entire Cabrillo College community has been granted FREE access to view the entire TED 2013 conference events on Wednesday, February 27, from 8:30am – 6:45pm, in the Crocker Theater, via a live stream broadcast from the TED 2013 Conference in Long Beach.

The TED 2013 theme is: “The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered.”

This is an extraordinary opportunity for our community to see a variety of experts in the fields of technology, entertainment, and design give inspiring talks on their cutting-edge work in these fields. Students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to stop by the Crocker Theater throughout the day on Wednesday to be inspired, free of charge!

The TED 2013 broadcast on Wednesday, Feb. 27th, runs from 8:30am – 6:45pm in the Crocker Theater. The detailed schedule for the entire TED 2013 conference, including Wednesday’s lineup, may be found at: http://conferences.ted.com/TED2013/program/guide.php#Wednesday,February27,2013

No matter what your discipline is, come and be inspired!

VAPA Faculty Out ‘n’ About

Theatre Arts faculty member Don Williams directs the African American Theater Art Troupe and UCSC Theater Arts Department’s joint production of James Baldwin’s The Amen Corner:

Parking for the amen corner is free after 5pm at the west or east remote lots.  Closer parking is offered at the theater arts complex but a permit is required. Permits can be purchased at the kiosk located in the parking lot or designated parking lots by the performance spaces.  For more information, please call 831-459-1861. A map of the campus and its parking locations can be found here:

http://maps.ucsc.edu/sites/maps-dev.ucsc.edu/files/UCSC%20Campus%20Parking%20Map.pdf

Tickets can be purchased at: https://www.santacruztickets.com/Online/searchResults.asp or by calling:
831-459-2159. For more information, please visit:  http://tickets.ucsc.edu/

Tickets must be purchased at the Stevenson event center on March 1st and 2nd performances.
Make checks payable to: UC Regents

From Victoria May, Cabrillo College visual arts instructor…

The opening for my third solo show at Don Soker Contemporary Art in SF will be on Saturday March 2, 4:00-7:00 with a talk around 6:00:

Spicy Morsels (focusing on Special Projects celebrating Interdisciplinary Creative Education)

Welcome to this new section on the Dean’s Dish menu, entitled “Spicy Morsels.” This section will include stories about especially spicy things happening in and around VAPA. Also, be sure to check out the new SPICE Rack on this blog, a section of links that I hope you will find informational and inspirational in the SPICE arena.

Wayang Kulit – Traditional Balinese Shadow Theater explores an engaging delivery model!  The Balinese shadow puppets, presented as part of the 6th Annual Evening of World Theatre hosted by the Cabrillo College Theatre Arts Department, were fascinating this past Saturday night in Crocker Theater, and though it may not be a “re-invented” performance practice for them, the unusual ability of the audience to wander up on stage and behind the performers lent a human interest component to the evening’s performance that might be worth replicating in some of VAPA’s other live events. It revealed once again what recent audience research has shown — that patrons are interested in the artistic process as much as the artistic product. It was one of the few performances I’ve seen where at the end of the performance (because the audience was “free to move about the cabin” throughout the performance), audience members streamed on to stage to mingle with the performers and ask questions. The Cabrillo Orchestra collaboration with artists from the Cabrillo Student Art Association this past fall, where painters painted during the performance, had a similar effect of drawing audience and artist together after the performance. We really need to create more opportunities for audience and artists to come together before, during, and after performances, rather than heading each to their own destination, the artists back stage, and the audience out the lobby door (sometimes, sadly, never to return).

I suppose this is just one of the many benefits of having artists from other cultural perspectives perform on campus, and why the world theatre event each year is so valuable and important. Congratulations to Sarah Albertson and her team in Theatre Arts for bringing Wayang Kulit to campus!

Steve Wilson, Cabrillo College music instructor, has launched a very entrepreneurial recording project using a very successful fundraising drive he mounted to finance the project. If you’d like to know more, go to his website: http://www.swilsonmusic.com  and click on the tab that says ‘upcoming album.’

SPICE up your life by joining one of three dynamic SPICE teams! On Tuesday, February 5, from 12-2:30pm, nearly 40 VAPA and Cabrillo College faculty, staff, and students attended a workshop entitled: SPICE II – Special Projects to Stimulate Interdisciplinary Creative Education. This workshop allowed three new interdisciplinary SPICE action teams, comprised of faculty, staff, and students from the VAPA Division and beyond, to begin to develop strategic action plans and special projects that advance interdisciplinary creative education at Cabrillo. If you’re interested in joining one of these three teams, please share your interest with Dean John Graulty: john.graulty@cabrillo.edu. IMPORTANT: Please encourage student leaders in your ensembles, classes, clubs, etc, to join this effort, as well as key alumni and advisory committee members:

1. Arts Entrepreneurship Team – to help unleash the creativity in ALL our students, and help them leverage their creative skills in new ways to improve their lives and the lives of others.

2. Reinventing Live Arts Experiences Team – to involve/engage more Cabrillo College students in our live arts events by reinventing live arts experiences to make them more engaging, participatory, socially relevant, and meaningful for a broader segment of our student population.

3. Arts Marketing Team – to initiate and assess new student-driven arts marketing efforts including more word-of-mouth (WOM) and other novel marketing strategies such as social media, flash mobs, etc.

Business of Art Seminars: From Passion to Profitability

Cabrillo VAPA, in collaboration with Cabrillo Extension, the Small Business Development Center, the Business & Entrepreneurship Center and the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz offers a series of seminars to help artists start, manage, and grow their businesses. Artists will learn the basics of establishing an arts-based business, how to price their art, leveraging social media to increase sales and other marketing opportunities. All seminars $30 each. For full information or to register, please call 831-479-6331 or Cabrillo Extension website.

Saturday, March 30
Get Your Art Out There!
Solid Marketing Principles

Saturday, April 27
Leveraging Social Media for Your Art

Saturday, June 1
Cool Tech Tools to Sell Your Art

All seminars $30 each
All seminars 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Cabrillo VAPA Lecture Hall, Room 1001

Registration: at Cabrillo Extension

Upcoming & Ongoing Events

Cabrillo Gallery presents
Picturesque Flora Wallaceana –Botanical Ambulations in Greater Wallaceana 1854 to 1857
(An Installation by Scott Serrano)

February 15 – March 15
Cabrillo Gallery

Terra-Cotta Warrior Lecture & Tour to San Francisco

Rose Smith, M.A. is an Instructor at Cabrillo College in Aptos and currently teaches Asian Art History: China, Korea & Japan and a Survey of Western Art: Prehistoric through Modern. The Terra-Cotta Warriors from Xian, China will be exhibited from February 22 through May 27 at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Ms. Smith will be lecturing on these warriors and horses and many other artifacts from the era of the First Emperor of China, on Friday, March 1st at 6pm in Room 1001 on the Cabrillo Campus. The following day, Saturday, March 2nd she will be leading three separately timed museum tours of this exhibit.

You may register for the lecture or the tour or both events through www.cabrillo-extension.org or by calling the extension office at 831-479-6331. Space is limited for both events.

Terra-Cotta Warrior Lecture

The Terra-Cotta Warriors from the tomb of China’s First Emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi (258-210BCE) will be discussed through a PowerPoint lecture. Although he was a unifier of the Warring States in China, history also remembers him as a destroyer of all opposition to his rule by burning books and burying scholars alive. Discovered in1974 by farmers digging a well, over 7,300 warriors have been uncovered to date. Come find out more about this leader whose intense desire for immortality led him to plan an extended rule into the afterlife by building an army complete with horses and chariots to protect him.

Fri., Mar. 1, 6-7:30 pm, Room: VAPA1001, Fee: $10

Terra-Cotta Warrior Tour

Discover why the Terracotta Warriors are the eighth wonder of the world! Along with over 100 rare artifacts unearthed from the tomb of China’s First Emperor, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco presents some of the finest generals, archers, and infantrymen from the life-size army.

Sat., Mar. 2, 11 am – 5 pm (Tour times: 11am, 12:30pm & 2:30pm), Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, Fee: $48 Includes admission to the Asian Art Museum for the day (11am – 5pm) Appropriate for children 10 years and older when accompanied by an adult. Participants are responsible for transportation to the Asian Art Museum.

Or Register for Both Events: Register for both the Lecture & Tour for just $52!

Opportunities for Artists & Students

Poster Design Contest for Cabrillo College Theatre Arts 2013 Theatre Festival

The winning poster will be commercially printed and heavily distributed for the festival.  Information to include on the poster: Cabrillo Theatre Arts Department presents Cabrillo Theatre Festival 2013, April 19 ­- May 12, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 pm and 9:20 pm. Saturday & Sunday Matinees at 2:00 pm and 3:20 pm. Cabrillo Black Box Theater. Tickets at www.cabrillovapa.com.  Packages and group rates available. The winner will receive recognition on all printed materials and see their work printed as both poster and postcard collateral, and print ads.  They will be given this collateral for their portfolios.

Guidelines for students:

1. All submissions should be an 8×10 color print, with artists name and contact information

2. Submissions should be physically delivered to the VAPA division office, ATTN: Linda Stinger

3. Deadline for all submissions is March 8.

4.  The chosen winner will be contacted via email or phone and asked to submit a hi-res digital image on disk, no later than March 14.

Cabrillo Stage Holds Open Casting Call for 2013 Season Cabrillo College¹s Professional Musical Theatre Company Welcomes Public to Audition March 2 and 3 – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Cabrillo Stage is proud to announce open call auditions for its 2013 Summer Repertory Season. This summer Cabrillo Stage will produce three musicals: La Cage Aux Folles, to be directed and choreographed by Janie Scott, will perform July 12 to August 11; Oklahoma, to be directed and choreographed by Kikau Alvaro, will perform July 26 to August 18; and the remounting of Joe Ortiz¹s musical memoir Escaping Queens, to play July 25 – August 18.

Auditions will take place at the Cabrillo Crocker Theater on Saturday and Sunday, March 2 and 3.  You must attend both the vocal and dance audition calls on either day. Vocal call is from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Dance call from 3 p.m. ­ 6 p.m., on both Saturday and Sunday.

AUDITIONS are on a first-come, first-served basis.  Bring sheet music in your key; accompanist will be provided.  Thirty-two bars or 1 minute cut-off time; stylistically appropriate tune. A cappella or taped accompaniment is not acceptable. A dramatic or character monologue no more than 1 minute long may be requested. Dress appropriately for dance auditions. AEA guest artists considered.

What: Cabrillo Stage auditions for the summer 2013 Repertory Season

When: Saturday March 2, 10 a.m. ­ 6 p.m. AND Sunday March 3, 10 a.m. ‹ 6 p.m.

Where: Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, CA

Information: www.cabrillostage.com or 831-479-6429

Applications for the 2013 Open Studios Art Tour are now available!

Applications will be accepted online at ZapplicationApplication deadline is midnight, April 30, 2013.Please visit our website for:

  • Updated Open Studios Art Tour Guidelines & FAQs
  • Application Step by Step checklist
  • Dates & locations for Application Assistance Workshops
  • Dates & locations for Digital Image Prep Appointments
  • Resource list for fine art photographers
  • 2013 Open Studios Art Tour Juror Bios

Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County, 1101G Pacific Avenue, Suite 320, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 831/475-9600 x17, events@ccscc.org

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