Metropolitan Opera simulcasts come to Lander

New York’s Metropolitan Opera comes to Lander this month by HD satellite television, thanks to the efforts of local opera fans calling themselves Lander Met Opera and staffers at the Fremont County Library. Lander and Jackson are now the only two locations in Wyoming to receive these broadcasts. The first performance will be Gluck’s masterpiece “Iphigénie en Tauride” featuring acclaimed tenor Placido Domingo, broadcast beginning at 10:30AM, February 26, 2011, with curtain-up at 11AM.  Five more operas will be presented this season: March 19, Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti); April 9, Le Comte Ory (Rossini); April 23, Capriccio (R Strauss); April 30, Il Trovatore (Verdi); May 21, Die Walküre (Wagner). Because the Metropolitan Opera requires that each attendee pay a fee of $10 per performance, single tickets will be offered for a $10 donation, the entire amount going to the Metropolitan Opera. Lander Met Opera will also accept additional donations to help cover its own printing costs and other expenses.

Performances will be shown on a large screen in the Library’s second floor conference room until the remodeling of the Carnegie Room is completed. Lunch on the day of each performance can be pre-ordered before the performance begins at 11 AM, from the Breadboard and enjoyed during intermission (usually 30 minutes). Tickets and more information will be available shortly at Main Street Books, Cabin Fever Books and at the Library.

If you wish to receive e-mail reminders for the broadcasts, contact Marvin Brown at marvjobrown@wyoming.com. Include your name, address, phone number, and email address.

Funding for this project covering equipment purchase and installation was provided by a grant from the Wyoming Arts Council through funding from the Wyoming State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.  Local donors, the Fremont County Library System and the Fremont County Library Foundation matched the WAC grant.

Photo: Fremont County Library Technology Coordinator Jonmikel Pardo stands on the Library's roof with special satellite antennas he helped install to receive the Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts.

UW Art Museum holds Feb. 25 gallery walk-through for Etsuko Ichikawa exhibit

Call for entries: Teen videos for ALA's "Why I Need My Library!"

From the American Library Association:

Attention teens! You can help win up to $3,000 for your library. Here’s how:

Make a video for "Why I Need My Library!"

Gather your friends and put together an original 1-3 minute video about why you need your library. Up to six people can work together to submit a video.
Pick your technique: Entries can be live-action, animation, machinima, or a combination of these. Check out this list of tips and resources on making a video.
Read through the judging criteria to see how entries will be judged.
Upload your video to YouTube

Upload the video to YouTube between January 11, 2011 and midnight April 18, 2011.
Be sure to tag your video with alaneedmylibrary15 if your designated videographer is between the ages of 13-15 or alaneedmylibrary18 if your designated videographer is between the ages of 16-18.
Mail in your entry form

One more thing: Don’t forget to mail in an entry form. Videos are submitted online, but an entry form needs to be received in the mail by April 18 in order for a submission to be eligible.
Read the complete guidelines for more information.
Prizes

From each age category (13-15 and 16-18):

Three 3rd place winners will receive $1,000 each for their selected libraries.
Two second place winners will receive $2,000 each for their selected libraries.
One winner or group of winners will receive $3,000 for their selected library, plus $50 gift cards to an online bookseller for each individual member of the winning group (limit of 6 participants per group)
The Why I Need My Library Video Contest is an initiative of 2010-2011 ALA President Roberta Stevens to engage teenagers as library advocates.

For more information, contact whyIneedmylibrary@ala.org.

"Delivered from Evil" book trailer by Ron Franscell

Wyoming native (and Wyoming Arts Council creative writing fellowship winner) Ron Franscell now lives and works in San Antonio. Some of you remember him from his nonfiction book, "The Darkest Night," an account of the rape and murder of two Casper girls in 1973. In his latest true crime book, due out in January, Ron explores the lives of ten people who survived mass murders. Many writers have gone to video in the form of book trailers to promote their work. In this one, Ron shows how it's done.

Scottsdale promotes Dave McGary's sculptures of Native Americans

This video comes to us via the Scottsdale (Ariz.) Convention and Visitors Bureau. It features sculptor Dave McGary and some of his work now on the grounds of the Camelback Resort and Spa. McGary grew up near Cody and got his start as an artist in Wyoming. He's best known for his Chief Washakie sculpture which is one of Wyoming's two pieces in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. A duplicate is in the Wyoming State Capitol Building and soon will be relocated to a spot in front of the Capitol Building. Another Chief Washakie statue resides on the Wind River Reservation. Dave has galleries in Scottsdale and Ruidoso, N.M.

Call for entries: "Wyoming Face of Travel"

From Wyoming Travel & Tourism:

Don't forget there is $500 CASH sitting out there with your name on it. All you have to do is create a short video about why you are the "Wyoming Face of Travel" and post it at http://www.wyomingfaceoftravel.com/ to be entered into the contest. It is so easy. But you have to enter by November 30!

The winner also takes away two free Wyoming Governor's Hospitality and Tourism Conference registrations for your company, a $740 value! The conference this year is January 30 through Feb. 1, 2011.

Tell us your story!
Encourage your employees to enter!
Don't miss your chance to win $500 CASH!

Best,

Alan Dubberley, Deputy Director
Wyoming Office of Tourism
1520 Etchepare Circle
Cheyenne, WY 82007
307-777-7777
alan.dubberley@visitwyo.gov
http://www.wyomingtourism.org/

Official Rules for Wyoming Face of Travel contest: http://wyomingfaceoftravel.com/pg/official_rules.htm

Sheridan Civic Theater Guild presents Neil Simon's "Plaza Suite"

UW Art Museum on YouTube: "Dufy on Design"

From the UW Art Museum blog:

The University of Wyoming Art Museum has added a new video to its uwartmuseum channel on YouTube. Dufy on Design is a walk through the exhibition, Dufy on Design: The Fabric Designs of Raoul Dufy.

Raoul Dufy (French, 1877-1953) has been recognized for his work as a Fauvist painter, known for bold color and strong lines. Dufy was also one of the great innovators of twentieth century textile design, an aspect of his work that has been relatively unknown. Dufy by Design: The Fabric Designs of Raoul Dufy, at the University of Wyoming Art Museum through August 21, 2010, explores Dufy’s collaborations with Parisian couture fashion designer Paul Poiret and the leading French silk manufacturer Bianchini-Frier. 100 original silk fabrics and fabric designs and thirteen dresses designed by Mongi Guibane and Christian LaCroix using Dufy fabric designs are included in the exhibit.

View the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UWE_JfmcRc

FMI: http://uwartmuseum.blogspot.com/

Laramie Municipal Band launches season 6/23

The Laramie Municipal Band's eight-concert season begins at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 23, at the Washington Park bandshell.

The band, directed by Bob Belser, University of Wyoming director of bands, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays through July 28 and also the morning of Sunday, July 4, at Laramie's Freedom Has a Birthday celebration. The concerts are family events, and all performances are free.

Comprised of community members and UW students, faculty and staff, the band is more than 100 years old.

Photo: UW Music Professor Bob Belser directs the Laramie Municipal band. (UW Photo)

Daniel Junge -- from making videos as an East High student to an Academy Award nomination

Filmmaking in the West and the Importance of Literacy from Indie Media: The New Journalism on Vimeo.

Opening night on May 21 at the Cheyenne International Film Festival is a fund-raising reception for the Laramie County Library Foundation honoring Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Junge. He’ll be screening three of his films, including “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner”. In this video, Daniel discusses growing up in Cheyenne and spending a lot of time at the library.

Projected images become moving sculptures in Sarkisian exhibit at the UW Art Museum

Peter Sarkisian (American, b. 1965), Extruded Video Engine, Large Shape 1, Version 3, 2007, vacuum formed thermal plastic, video projection, 39 x 40 x 8 inches, photo courtesy of the artist. Click to View Flash Video Pop-up.

Wyomingarts visited the UW Art Museum's exhibits last Friday during a break in the Works of Wyoming "Starving Artists" seminars in Laramie.

"Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996-2008" knocked the socks off Wyomingarts. We heard it before we saw it -- the plink-plink-plink of water, the pounding of what seemed like a giant hammer, the whirring of an engine.

The sound effects were only a small part of the exhibition. The pounding comes from a projected wall where -every minute or so -- an object hits it from the opposite side. There is no opposite side, but it sure seemed as if some very large person or machine lives behind the wall and is denting it with metal objects.

"Extruded Video Engine, Large Shape 1, Version 3" is a colorful machine projected upon a sculpture that makes it 3-D. The engine has many moving parts and emits various mechanical noises. Printed messages travel along a fan belt-like apparatus and disappear into the soul of the machine.

Words are inadequate to describe Sarkisian's work. You have to see it for yourself. You have until May 8 to do so.

FMI: www.uwyo.edu/ArtMuseum

Call for entries: ForeWord Reviews

From Poets & Writers:

ForeWord Reviews, a magazine and online resource for writers, publishers, and purveyors of literature, is holding a video contest for independent press books published in 2009 and 2010.

The magazine is asking authors and publishers to enter book trailers of no more than three minutes each by the end of April.

The winning trailer, determined by public voting on the magazine's YouTube page, will receive an Apple iPad. Every eligible video submitted will be screened at Book Expo America, held in New York City in May, in the Indie Press Lounge.

For more about book trailers from our archive, check out Sarah Weinman's "Book Trailers: The Key to Successful Video Marketing" and "Five Successful Book Trailers."

FMI: http://www.pw.org/content/book_trailer_contest_for_indie_press_authors

Jeff Lockwood interviews Mark Ritchie

"Wyoming Signatures" host Jeff Lockwood engages Mark Ritchie, UW Art Professor, in a discussion about the way in which we perceive art and the creation of illusion through art. Wyoming Signatures is produced by UWTV. Read more. See the video at http://uwyo.edu.

Governor's Arts Awards: W.E.S.T.

Wyoming Educators of Secondary Theatre (W.E.S.T.)

View great vids about "Wyoming Folks" on Facebook fan site

Watch Wyoming Folks: Are Afraid in Travel & Culture  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

Dean Peterson, the talented videographer for the Department of Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Resources, let us know today about the new "Wyoming Folks" fan page on Facebook.

The page has links to the videos shot and produced by Dean. They include "Wyoming Folks: Are Afraid" (scary stuff) and "Wyoming Folks: Don't Hibernate" (The Great Outdoors) and other neat topics.

To become a fan, go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wyoming-Folks/308737917493?ref=ts

Bear River State Park - Video Series

Bear River State Park has partnered with the Uinta County Library to preview the video series, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea."

The six-video series, directed by Ken Burns and written and co-produced by Dayton Duncan, will be previewed on Tuesday September 22, at the Bear River Travel Information Center.

The series will be shown hourly beginning at 9 a.m. Anyone interested in previewing this series is welcome to attend. The series will be aired on PBS beginning on September 27 and running through October 2.

For more information, call Bear River State Park at 307-789-6547.

Film Shoot Out in Cheyenne begins Oct. 23

From http://www.theshootoutcheyenne.com/:

The Shoot Out Cheyenne asks its filmmakers to trust their courage, imagination and determination by making a 7-minute film in just 24 hours. The challenge and skill involved becomes evident with the list of required technical, material, and timing 'rules' for creating the films.

Once again we will be offering pre-event workshops to help people get ready for the event by learning about the event from past winners, obtain a better understanding of the rules of in-camera editing and challenging limitations designed by the organizers. Sign up for a pre-event workshop or go here to learn more.

The first The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival Cheyenne will kick off on Oct. 23 at 5:55 p.m. inside of the Historic Plains Hotel lobby. Hope to see you there!

Supported in part by Downtown Cheyenne, Cheyenne Convention & Visitor Bureau, and the Wyoming Film Commission.