Events
FRANC D'AMBROSIO'S BROADWAY
March 20th, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Yreka Community Theater
The much-loved sounds of Broadway will soon be heard in Siskiyou County when Franc D'Ambrosio's Broadway comes to the Yreka Community Theater in a Red Scarf Society for the Performing Arts concert.
In his March 20 performance, Franc D'Ambrosios's electrifying tenor is sure to thrill our local audience when he performs selections from "The Phantom of the Opera" and many other Broadway show tunes in a celebration of the music which has firmly established Broadway as an American art form.
Based in New York City, Mr. D'Ambrosio has worked with such luminaries as Luciano Pavarotti, Barry Manilow and Michael Bolton. He is a well known and accomplished artist who has made his mark performing on Broadway, on television, in the movies, on recordings, and, most recently, in the 200 city national tour of "The Phantom of the Opera" in which he had the starring role. For further information, access his web site www.francdambrosio.com.
Not only is Franc D'Ambrosio a stellar performer, he is also dedicated to the teaching and encouragement of budding artists. He generously will offer a master class to talented and interested singers at the Yreka Community Theater on Friday, March 21.
The RSSPA is proud to present Franc D'Ambrosio's Broadway on Thursday, March 20 at the Yreka Community Theater at 7:30 p.m. A reception will follow the concert.
Please join us for an evening of exciting, familiar, and foot tapping music. We guarantee you will leave the theater humming.
Voices of Siskiyou
The Red Scarf Society for the Performing Arts is sponsoring a haiku poetry competition for a historical/cultural project - "Voices of Siskiyou" - funded by a grant from the Shasta Regional Community Foundation's "Art in the Community." Ten boulders lining the pathway to Yreka Community Theater (YCT) will have haiku poems sand blasted on them by local artist Ralph Starritt. Each boulder poem will represent one of the groups influential in the history of Siskiyou County: Artists, Chinese, Explorers/Trappers, Gold Miners, Native Americans, Pioneer Settlers, Providers (Cowboys, Farmers and Ranchers), Railroaders, Timber Workers, and Women.
After February fifteenth, a research information booklet and entry forms can be found at each Siskiyou County Library branch, at each school and museum in the county, or from the people listed below.
Entry forms can be downloaded here:Students and adults residing in Siskiyou County are eligible. Contestants may have multiple entries. Each haiku is submitted by printing only the "voice" name and the three-line poem on a 3x5 file card. File cards are to be paper clipped to the entry form. Poems will be judged on originality, clarity of idea, how well the poem reflects the historical "voice", and how true it is to the haiku pattern. Judges will be selected from the community.
Entries need to be postmarked by April 25, 2008, and mailed to the Red Scarf Society, P.O. Box 1824, Yreka, California 96097. Writers of the ten selected poems will be notified in writing by June 1, 2008. All entries will receive publicity and be placed in a scrapbook housed at YCT. For further information, call Suzanne Breceda (842-2477), Judithe Washington (842- 2055) or Mary Ellen Bryan (842-4656).
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