Mahala Rai Banda; Kenge Kenge;
Cimarrón;
Pietra Montecorvino;
Barbara
Furtuna;
Liliana Araujo of
Nation Beat
Brave New Era
Curious about the renovations taking place at CSPS? The
building will be closed for the next seven months or so. When it
reopens in the spring of 2011, CSPS will truly be a cultural center
for the 21st century.
To survey the upcoming changes and answer your
questions, we're holding eight informational sessions at CSPS between
Fri July 30 and Thurs Aug 5. Each session lasts about an hour. Space
is limited. Check out the full schedule
here and if you're interested
reserve a spot.
(To read more about our recovery following the 2008 flood, the I-JOBS
grant and plans for the building, you can go
here.)
Landfall Festival of World Music
Our third annual Landfall
festival takes place in and around Greene Square Park, downtown Cedar Rapids Sept
22-25, 2010.
The four-day event includes free outdoor performances, as
well as workshops, classes and other events.
Featured artists announced so
far include Mahala Rai Banda, Gyspy brass from Romania; the
powerful drumming, singing and dancing of Kenge Kenge, Kenya; the spectacular joropo
music and dance of Cimarrón, from the Orinoco plains of eastern
Colombia;
and
passionate Italian folk-rocker
Pietra Montecorvino.
Also
Barbara Furtuna, an extraordinary
male vocal quartet from Corsica, France; the Panamerican mash-ups of
Brooklyn-based
Nation Beat; Georgian song and dance ensemble Zedashe;
acclaimed trio Salaam, performing music from the Middle East
and North Africa; and enchanting, world-inflected jazz from England's
Portico Quartet.
Like to help?
If you'd like to help organize Landfall, you're invited to join the planning team that's
meeting this summer. If you're interested in signing on, or if you have questions, write
john@legionarts.org.
Warhol awards $80,000 to Legion Arts
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has
awarded Legion Arts an $80,000 grant toward our building project. The grant
will allow us to purchase the historic firehouse next to CSPS, and to carry
out related planning. The firehouse, when renovated, will house visiting
artists and support an artist residency program.
The Warhol Foundation has been an invaluable supporter of Legion Arts over
the years. We're deeply grateful for this latest expression of the
foundation's commitment to artists and innovation.
Y
ou
can help Nate Morrison, Bill & Teddy
Shuttleworth, Greg Kanz, Gary & Susan Streit, Ellen Heywood, Glen &
Hanne Miska, and Laurie Haag are among those who recently made gifts
to Legion Arts.
You can join them by clicking the Donate Now button to the left.
It's quick, easy, safe and tax-deductible. Alternately, send a check
to Legion Arts, 1103 Third St SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52401. Your
support is crucial, and deeply appreciated.
Advance
tickets
Starting this winter, advance tickets for all CSPS shows are only
available through
MidwesTix.com,
an online service based in Des Moines. While change
can be awkward, this is one change we feel pretty good about. MidwesTIX.com
is small and local, a responsible, public-spirited company that keeps its
service charges low, gives back to the community, and is genuinely
supportive of artists and arts organizations.
This change also means that audience members can purchase tickets at their
convenience, day or night, 24-7. Advance-price tickets
may be purchased up to 5 pm the day of the show. And we'll
continue to monitor and tweak this arrangement so that it works for
you— the audience on whom
we and our artists depend. Let us know
your thoughts.
Student rush
As long as seats are available, full-time
students 21 and under can see any show at CSPS for only $5. Just show up at
the box office with your student ID 30 minutes before the show. CSPS on Twitter and Facebook
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