City of Irvine Ends Great Park Amphitheater Partnership with Live Nation | |
The Irvine City Council has ended negotiations with Live Nation for the Great Park amphitheater. City Manager Oliver Chi has been asked to come back to council within 90 days with a new process and timeline to replace the temporary FivePoint amphitheater that will have up to 10,000 seats and an in-house speaker system with no residential noise impacts.
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National Endowment for the Arts Creates Disabilities Toolkit | Clockwise, from top left: Dancer Sidiki Conde performing at the 2007 NEA National Heritage Fellowship concert, photo by Michael G. Stewart; Deaf West Theatre’s production of Oedipus, photo by Craig Schwartz; Mary Verdi-Fletcher works with students during Dancing Wheels’ 2019 Summer Dance Intensive, photo by Sara Lawrence-Sucato/The Dancing Wheels Company; Gospel music ensemble Blind Boys of Alabama, photo by Jim Herrington | |
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The National Endowment for the Arts has developed a toolkit for people with disabilities seeking careers in the arts. Designed for performers, visual artists, teaching artists, cultural workers, administrators and more, the toolkit will help disabled artists access career opportunities.
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Opportunities Open for Artist Grants
and Residencies
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Artist Onajide Shabaka at Oolite Arts Studio Residency. Photo by Phillip Karp. Courtesy of Oolite Arts. | |
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Applications are currently being accepted for multiple artist grants and residencies throughout the country. Opportunities are available for artists of all genres, but please note that some have specific home residency requirements.
Read more here.
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Left to right: Jacqui Groseth, Amy Behrens, Kylie Travis | |
Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens has announced the appointment of Kylie Travis as the Executive Director of Operations and Programming and Jacqui Groseth as the Executive Director of Resource Development and Administration. This leadership team will guide Casa Romantica during the transition period following the departure of Amy Behrens, Executive Director, who held the executive role and a senior leadership role at Casa Romantica for seven and a half years.
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Katherine Yang has been named Vice President of Education & Community Engagement by the Philharmonic Society of Orange County. With a background and formal education in music performance and arts administration, Katherine Yang has worked professionally in the music field for nearly a decade both for New York and Southern California performing arts institutions.
To learn more about the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, visit https://www.philharmonicsociety.org/
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Dominic Mumolo has been named Senior Director of Development for the College of the Arts at California State University, Fullerton. He had most recently been Director of Philanthropy at Providence Mission Hospital Foundation. Dominic's other philanthropic efforts have been with such institutions as Laguna College of Art and Design, Orange County Museum of Art and Pacific Chorale.
To learn more about the College of the Arts at CSUF, visit https://www.fullerton.edu/arts/
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South Coast Repertory Teaching Artist
Diana Burbano Receives Prestigious Playwriting Honor
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South Coast Repertory Conservatory Teaching Artist Diana Burbano earned a coveted spot as a finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference with her play “Beheading Columbus.” Out of more than 1,200 submissions to the NPC, only 5% made it to the final round. From there, a select number will move on to development in the month-long conference.
To learn more about the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, visit https://www.theoneill.org/npc
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Dick Schweickert, who served on the Arts Orange County Board and was its Board President from 2000-2003, has passed away at age 84. Dick also served as Board President of Laguna Playhouse, and was on the Board of Counselors of Pacific Symphony in addition to being a supporter of South Coast Repertory.
Read more here.
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Both Pacific Chorale and the All-American Boys Chorus have been on separate European tours. In fact, each group performed at Salzburg Cathedral in Austria just nine days apart. | |
Pacific Chorale performing at Salzburg Cathedral on July 15, 2023 | |
All-American Boys Chorus performing at Salzburg Cathedral on July 24, 2023 | |
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Arts Orange County Board Member Edmund Velasco takes a selfie while proudly sporting his ArtsOC hat while on vacation in Taormina, on the Italian island of Sicily. Edmund is President of the Orange County Musicians’ Union, Local 7, American Federation of Musicians.
To learn more about the Orange County Musicians' Union, visit https://www.ocmusicians.org/
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Tickets Available Now for the
Annual OC Arts Awards on October 17
| This benefit evening recognizes and celebrates the arts organizations, artists and arts patrons in the OC community whose significant contributions during the past year, or over the course of a lifetime, have notably impacted the arts in Orange County. For tickets and more information, visit https://artsoc.org/events-and-programs/orange-county-arts-awards/ | |
Requesting Submissions for “In Memoriam” at Arts Awards | |
ArtsOC customarily devotes a portion of its annual Arts Awards event to remembering those who passed during the prior year. This year's event is on October 18, and we invite you to submit for our consideration individuals who contributed to our OC arts community as artists, arts leaders, arts educators, and arts patrons. Please share with us a sentence or two about them and their affiliations and, if possible, an image. Send to rstein@artsoc.org. | |
We acknowledge with respect our presence on the ancestral lands of the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians - Acjachemen Nation and the Tongva People. | | | | |
