New YouTube video from Bill Boycott sings Daisy's praises

Lander's Bill Boycott, a WAC roster artist, and Dr. Jo sing about Daisy -- "The Best Dang Dog in the USA"

Wyoming Lifestyle Magazine TV tours renovated Broadway Theater in Rock Springs

Broadway Theater set for a grand opening April 13. Get more info here.

Call for entries: Wyoming Short Film Contest

From a  press release:

For the fifth year running, the Wyoming Film Office is seeking submissions for the Wyoming Short Film Contest. Film makers can submit their videos online at www.wyomingshortfilmcontest.com by April 4, 2012.  A $25,000 first prize will be awarded to the winning entry with a storyline that takes place in Wyoming, features Wyoming, or presents the state as a major character.

Colin Stricklin, Film Office Specialist explains the process, “There are three stages to the contest that allows for more public involvement and engagement. The submission round, the public voting round, and the judges' panel round. After the submission round ends, all entries will go on to public voting. The ten short films with the most votes become finalists. Our judges' panel will review these finalists and select the ultimate winner.”  

The judging panel is made up of film production, visual arts and industry representatives and they will judge the entries based on certain criteria including cinematography, screenplay, acting, sound design, editing and overall production value.

The Grand Prize Winner will be announced May 10, 2012. For more information visit www.filmwyoming.com

New music video from Cheyenne's Reboot the Robot

Russian Club of Jackson Hole and Dancer's Workshop offer free screening of Bolshoi Ballet's "Sleeping Beauty" Feb. 26

The Russian Club of Jackson Hole and Dancers' Workshop will screen the Bolshoi Ballet's Sleeping Beauty at the Center Theater for FREE! Sunday, Feb. 26, 2-5 p.m. FMI: www.dwjh.org

Sneak peek at video featuring Promoting Arts in Lander Schools (PALS)

Governor's Arts Awards - PALS to be feted Feb 24th from Indie Media: The New Journalism on Vimeo.

John D. Nesbitt and his horse Pal introduce John's latest western novel

Torrington, Wyoming, writer John D. Nesbitt and his horse Pal introduce John's latest western novel, Gather My Horses. John is a long-time member of Wyoming Writers, Inc.

Hole Dance Films and Dancers' Workshop celebrate new collaboration Jan. 14 in Jackson

Hole Dance Films will now be a part of Dancers’ Workshop and will strive to incorporate technology, media and dance film throughout Dancers’ Workshop’s programming. 

To celebrate this collaboration, Hole Dance Films and Dancers’ Workshop will stage a performance and fund-raiser on Saturday, Jan. 14, 7-9 p.m., in Dancers’ Workshop Studio No. 1 at the Center for the Arts in Jackson.

Tickets are $10 and are available at Dancers’ Workshop, which is located in the Center for the Arts, 240 S. Glenwood, or at the door.  $50 for VIP tickets – includes front row seating, champagne and a red carpet photo! FMI: 307.733.6398.

This evening will consist of a performance of Elusive Stranger, performed by Erin Roy and Kate Kosharek which was well received at Spoke the Hub Theater in Brooklyn, N.Y., last March. This piece utilizes film and live dance together to tell its mysterious story. Other HDF films will be screened throughout the evening, including Dream on Vine St, a film recently completed that involves over 20 Jackson locals including Ben Roth, Lawrence Bennett, Margaret Rose Breffielh, Sarah Konrad, Karen Forss Hogan and many more!

Artistically directed by Carrie Noel Richer and Kate W. Kosharek, Hole Dance Films is a unique production company with extensive experience in alternative filmmaking, narrative story telling, site-specific dance and cutting edge choreography. 

"Dance your Ph.D." -- or just dance for the sake of dance

From TEDx Brussels

Videos from TEDxJacksonHole now online

Nona Yehia

The Wyoming Arts Council gave a partnership grant to Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival this year to support the Tedx project. A library of Tedx videos now exists. Presenters include one by Wyoming Bob Berky and a presentation by Contemporary Dance Wyoming. Some of these can be accessed from the web site at http://tedxjacksonhole.org/speakers/. Here are the links to all of them for your viewing pleasure:

Louie Schwartzberg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QVNoeENM8c

Bob Berkey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQCKBU7DMbk&feature=BFa&list=SPC12CA379BFFA2DAA&lf=list_related

Kyle Ruddick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o991qXufTXA&feature=relmfu

Nona Yehia & Jefferson Ellinger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqsbnee80gQ&feature=relmfu

Mike Chamberlain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpLzI27febM&feature=BFa&list=SPC12CA379BFFA2DAA&lf=list_related

David Gonzales

Laly Lichtenfeld:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL79XLvVBsc&feature=BFa&list=SPC12CA379BFFA2DAA&lf=list_related

Contemporary Dance Wyoming:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zituLZ1hhtY&feature=BFa&list=SPC12CA379BFFA2DAA&lf=list_related

Juan Martinez: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_yM7eojpLs&feature=BFa&list=SPC12CA379BFFA2DAA&lf=list_related

David Gonzales: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS9kHk8slRI&feature=BFa&list=SPC12CA379BFFA2DAA&lf=list_related

Video of Sue Sommers, Pinedale artist

Video of Pinedale's Sue Sommers by Cheyenne filmmaker Alan O'Hashi: http://vimeo.com/30579172. Sue is one of the artists featured in the WAC fellowship biennial which opens Nov. 4 at the Art Association Gallery in the Center for the Arts in Jackson.

"Between the eternal and the ephemeral" through Aug. 6 at UW Art Museum

Revised Dates: Show runs through Aug. 6 at the UW Art Museum: Etsuko Ichikawa: “NACHI – between the eternal and the ephemeral

This exhibition by Etsuko Ichikawa (Japanese, b. 1963) is comprised of a series of large glass pyrographs (drawings created with molten glass on paper), thousands of suspended cotton threads and a video projection. Ichikawa's multi-media installation was inspired by the Kumano waterfall, Nachi, which has been a destination for worship and purification for 1,200 years. The installation creates a space for museum visitors to experience silence and reflection. Ichikawa was in residence for four weeks in the UW Art Department and at the UW Art Museum to work with students and assist with the museum installation.

Funded in part by an anonymous donor, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Advisory Board of the UW Art Museum, Wyoming Public Radio and the Wyoming Arts Council through the Wyoming State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art.

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/