Now is the time to get the work into all the downtown windows!!!

We need and many hands as possible in the next couple of days during buisness hours.

If you can help please call Tina @ 565-3703 to schedule a time to pick up art.

She will have directions for who goes where.

And all the supplies you will need.

Your participation will be the success of our event … the children have produced some great work this year …

Thank you for your support.

Cathy Haight and the Port Angeles Art Council

Go to http://www.pafaced.org/plein-air-classes.html for detailed information, supply list and registration. Or call the PAFAC at 360-457-3532

Classes scheduled: Series I Dates: (Six Weeks): June 8th, June 15th, June 22nd, June 29th, July 6th, July 13th Series II Dates (four weeks): August 3rd, Aug .10th, Aug. 17th, Aug. 24th Series III Dates (four weeks): September 14th, Sept. 21st, Sept. 28th, Oct. 5th Gallery Hours: 11am to 5pm – Thurs. to Sunday – Woodland Art Park: Open daylight hours year round Admission: Free PAFAC is located at 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles, WA 98362 Visit Pafac.org for more information on upcoming programs or call 360-457-3532.

We are having a meeting at Studio Bob on Wednesday May 1st, at 6pm. Studio Bob is located upstairs at 118 1/2 E. Front St. in downtown Port Angeles, between Lincoln and Laurel Sts, above Sound Bikes & Kayaks. The meeting is free and open to the public. We will finally discuss the results of our fall 2012 session about the state of the arts in Port Angeles. Cathy Haight, who led the Informational Cafe meeting, will present the results. This will lead us into a discussion of future initiatives for the Arts Council.  We will also talk about the Art Shack Gallery, a joint effort of the PAAC and the Juan De Fuca Festival, and Young@Art, exhibiting student work at downtown merchants storefronts the week before the Festival. I hope you can all attend, especially some of the new members who joined us during our March fundraiser.

Eric Neurath, president
Board of Directors
Port Angeles Arts Council

Details: Art hanging dates – Monday, May 13 through Thrus May 16th.

Art will be up for display between May 17th to May 28

Art will need to be picked up and returned May 28, 29 and 30.

Volunteers are needed May 13 to 16 to contact the merchant the art is assigned to. To arrange when and where a merchant would like the art installation. To pick up the art from the School District office of Tina Smith-O’Hara, to put up the display.

We request that the SAME VOLUNTEER be the one to return May 28, 29 or 30 to carefully remove the art, take all the tape off windows and carefully remove the tape without damaging it, and returning the art to Tina at the District office.

With OVER 35 participating merchants and elementary classrooms participating … the MORE VOLUNTEERS we have the smaller amount of work for each person!!!! It is a joyous project and has generated a great deal of good will in the community between Merchants who have a chance to highlight their business, proud families and students, the teachers, and the community.

Email your interest and times of day you are available. – Needs to be hours of operation for the merchants … 10am to 5pm or 6 is typical.

Cathy Haight
cathyjo@davidghaight.com

The December meeting of the Port Angeles Arts Council will feature storytelling by Cherie Trebon of the Story People of Clallam County and a presentation by Susan Hamilton, the current Spotlight Artist at the Peninsula College Longhouse Art Gallery.

The meeting will take place from 6pm to 7pm on Wednesday, December 5, in the Peninsula College Longhouse. The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments and a meet and greet will follow the presentations. According to Port Angeles Arts Council Board member Bruce Hattendorf, these special Arts Council meetings are designed to showcase local arts and artists and to provide networking opportunities for members of the local arts community and for those interested in supporting the arts community. Susan Hamilton is a Haida bead artist whose work is influenced by traditional tribal designs and Alaskan culture and landscapes. She is currently a full time student in Peninsula College’s Associate of Arts Degree Bridge Program, which integrates Native Perspectives into course work. Cherie Trebon is a lifelong storyteller who has been telling professionally since 1989. With the masterful use of her voice coupled with skillful gestures, she draws upon a broad repertoire of folktales, legends, myths, poetry and contemporary stories to transport listeners of all ages to far away places, times, or states of being. She is a member of the Board of the Story People of Clallam County. The Port Angeles Arts Council is dedicated to nurturing the vitality of the arts as an essential ingredient of the quality of life for area residents and visitors.

The council is a forum for artists and arts organizations, advocates for arts education at all levels, and serves to facilitate and advise the development of art projects in the public sphere. The event is co-sponsored by Peninsula College and the Peninsula College Longhouse. For more information on the event and/or the Port Angeles Arts Council, contact Eric Neurath, president, at fotos@olypen.com or Bruce Hattendorf, treasurer, at bhattendorf@pencol.edu. For more information on the Peninsula College Longhouse contact Amy McIntyre at amcintyre@pencol.edu.

SYMPHONY CONCERT DATE:    Saturday, December 8, 2012

CONCERT TIME:
Morning Dress Rehearsal 10:00 am
Pre-concert Chat 6:40 pm
Evening Concert 7:30 pm

LOCATION:
Port Angeles High School Auditorium
304 E. Park Ave, Port Angeles, Washington

TICKET PRICES:
10:00 am Dress Rehearsal:  $5 Individual, $10 Family
7:30 pm Concert:  Reserved seating – $30 and $20
General seating – $15 Adults / $12 Senior & Student

TICKET OUTLETS:
In Port Angeles:
Port Book and News – General Admission Seating only
104 E. First ~ 452.6367
Symphony Office – General Admission and Reserved Seating
216 C North Laurel ~ 457.5579  Email:  pasymphony@olypen.com

In Sequim:
Sequim Village Glass of Carlsborg – General Admission Seating only
761 Carlsborg Road ~ 582.3098
The Good Book/Joyful Noise Music Center – General Admission Seating only
108 W. Washington ~ 683.3600
Online:  portangelessymphony.org – General Admission and Reserved Seating
By Phone:  Symphony Office  457.5579 – Gen. Admission and Reserved Seating

CONTACT:  Port Angeles Symphony
Mark Wendeborn, Executive Director
360.457.5579 office, 360.809.3656 cell
pasymphony@olypen.com
portangelessymphony.org

Adam Stern, Music Director/Conductor
206.200.0534
adamostern@gmail.com

CHARTER BUS SERVICE FROM SEQUIM:  None this season

MUSIC TO BE PERFORMED:

Along with the following music, Adam has some very special musical holiday surprises for the audience.  In the tradition of opening presents at this time of year, these surprises by Adam for the audience are gift wrapped and presented during the concert!  As a another special treat, we have the world premiere of a wonderful piece of music by a Seattle Composer!

Norwegian Dance No. 2
Edvard Grieg 
A Ukrainian Christmas (world premiere)
Peter Vukmirovic Stevens
phone  206.226.8776
petervstevens@gmail.com

Carol of the Bells
Mikola Leontovitch (arr. Stern)
Hänsel and Gretel: Evening Prayer
Engelbert Humperdinck 
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Traditional; first published 1780 (arr. Stern)

Other selections will be announced from the stage.

PROGRAM NOTES

BY Suzanne Berg

Norwegian Dance #2
Edvard Grieg  (1843-1907)

Edvard Grieg was a shy little man. He traveled as little as possible, preferring  to stay near his familiar fjords and write music that breathed the spirit of Norway. Although he wrote some large works, he felt more at home when writing short dances and melodious, quiet, lyric pieces. He lived for a while in Copenhagen, and then he and his wife settled in a villa near Bergen. An attack of pleurisy left him a sick man in later years, but he still made annual concert tours to promote not only his own music but that of Norwegian composers generally. He is buried in. the wall. of a cliff over a fiord near his home. Grieg’s music is not world-shaking, but its charming tunefulness and colorful harmony have made him one of die best-loved composers.

Carol of the Bells
Mykola Leontovych(1877-1921)

Carol of the Bells is a popular Christmas carol that was composed by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych. His English lyrics were entirely unrelated to the original ones created later by an American composer. The song is based on a folk chant knows in Ukrainian as “Shchedryk.” The rhythmic pattern has been arranged many times for different artists and groups, such as classical, metal, jazz, rock, and pop. The piece has also been featured in films and television shows.
The first version of the composition was composed in 1904, but it premiered in December 1916 and was introduced to Western audiences by the Ukranian National Chorus. A copyrighted English text was created by Peter Wilhousky in the 1930s, and since then it has been performed and sung worldwide during the Christmas season.

Hansel and Gretel: Evening Prayer
Engelbert Humperdinck  (1854-1921)

Hansel and Gretel is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck. He described it as a “fairy tale opera.” The libretto was written by Humperdinck’s sister, based on the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale Hansel and Gretel. Humperdink composed Hansel and Gretel in Frankfurt in 1892, and it was first performed in Weimar on December 23, 1893, conducted by Richard Strauss. It has been associated with Christmas since its earliest performances, and today it is still most often performed at Christmas time. It remains an everlasting masterpiece.
Evening Prayer portrays Hansel and Gretel as hungry and lost. Their mother sent them into the woods in anger after they accidentally spilled the milk — the only food their family had. Darkness fell, but before they went to sleep they said an evening prayer, asking for protection during the night.
When at night I go to sleep
Fourteen angels watch do keep,
Two my head are guarding,
Two my feet are guiding,
Two are on my right hand,
Two are on my left hand,
Two who warmly cover,
Two who o’er me hover,
Two to whom is given
To guide my steps to Heaven.

The Twelve Days of Christmas
Traditional; first published 1780 (arr. Stern)

The Twelve Days of Christmas was written in England as one of the “catechism songs” to help young Catholics learn the tenets of their faith.  It is an English Christmas carol that enumerates a series of increasingly grand gifts given on the 12 days of Christmas.   The twelve days mentioned in the song start on Christmas Day, or in some traditions, the day after Christmas Day (Boxing Day or St. Stephen’s Day), or the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6).
Although the specific origins of the chant are not known, it possibly began as a Twelfth Night “memories-and-forfeits” game, in which a leader recited a verse, each of the players repeated the verse, the leader added another verse, and so on until one of the players made a mistake.  The player who erred had to then pay a penalty.  This is how the game is offered in its earliest known printed version–in the children’s book Mirth without Mischief–published in England.  One hundred years later, a collector of folktales and rhymes described playing the Twelfth Night before eating mince pies.

Port Angeles Arts Council offers a meeting for public input on our efforts for 2013

Port Angeles Arts Council invites all interested members of the local community to participate in a brain storming session, where we will look to Port Angeles artists, arts organizations, and the public for ideas on programs and events that will promote and support the local arts scene. The meeting will be held on Wed. November 7th, 6 PM at Studio Bob, upstairs at 118 1/2 Front St, Port Angeles.

The Port Angeles Arts Council is in its 4th year connecting artists with schools, philanthropic organizations, and community events. Of note: we created the Young @ Art program, partnering with businesses, the school district, local artists and student artists. We support art programs and fundraising for the Kiwanis Beausite Camp, and we participate in local festivals including the Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts, Arts in Action and the Dungeness Crab and Seafood Festival.  We support the Second Weekend Art Walk events, showcasing local artists. We have advised the city of Port Angeles during the planning phase of the downtown waterfront improvement project.

Monthly meetings of the Port Angeles Arts Council take place on the first Wednesday of each month and are open to any and all Port Angeles residents that are interested in the promotion of arts in our community.

OUR MISSION: The Port Angeles Arts Council is dedicated to nurturing the vitality of the arts as an essential ingredient of the quality of life for area residents and visitors. The council is a forum for artists and arts organizations, advocates for arts education at all levels, and serves to facilitate and advise the development of art projects in the public sphere.

More information on the Port Angeles Arts Council can be found at our website: www.portangelesartscouncil.org, and more information on this meeting is available by contacting or email: cathyjo@davidghaight.com

Download the PDF:
Call for Manuscripts or Visual Arts

The City of Port Townsend, Washington, requests applications from artists able to plan and complete an outdoor art installation for its historic Uptown district. The work is to be a focus of interest in a public space that is anchored by a popular farmers’ market and a community center and surrounded by quirky and vibrant businesses and charming Victorian neighborhoods. It should express the spirit of this setting in a way that invites locals and tourists to pause, converse, and enjoy their participation in our community.

This embodiment of Uptown Port Townsend is to be a permanent landmark—durable and easily maintained in the wind and rain of a marine climate. It must also be touchable and safe for children. Aside from these caveats, we invite creative interpretations of the project, which might be realized through sculpture, mosaics, painting, lighting, seating, plantings, etc.

For requirements see:
http://home.olympus.net/~ptarts/

To Apply

Send application materials to Scottie Foster, as listed below. Please see information about the application process on the City of Port Townsend website.
Please refer questions to: sfoster@cityofpt.us

Budget

$20,000 will be awarded for all costs of the project: design, materials, fabrication, and installation (1% of the eligible capital budget for construction, the amount mandated for public art.) In addition, each finalist will receive $300 for the expense of preparing a detailed proposal. There is no money available for travel.

Schedule

July 23, 2012
Postmark deadline for project proposals
October 29, 2012
Presentations by five finalists
November, 2012
Final selection

Scottie Foster
Call for Artists
City of Port Townsend 250
Madison Street
Port Townsend, Washington 98368
(360)344-3057