Uncategorized | Posted: November 6, 2008
Oregon folklorist and blogger Camilla Mortensen reports this: President-elect Barack Obama has begun to put together his transition team. The American Folklore Society announced this morning that one of its
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Uncategorized | Posted: November 6, 2008
Interested in President-elect Barack Obama’s policy on the arts? Here’s the part of the policy that refers to arts education. You can read the entire thing in pdf form at
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Uncategorized | Posted: November 6, 2008
Interested in President-elect Barack Obama’s policy on the arts? Here’s the part of the policy that refers to arts education. You can read the entire thing in pdf form at
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Uncategorized | Posted: November 5, 2008
From a press release: The Grand Teton Music Festival invites the community to enjoy the final product of its annual youth clinic — StringFest 2008. The annual three-day string clinic
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Uncategorized | Posted: November 5, 2008
Artist Deborah Ford talks about her photographic work at a Nov. 7 artists reception in the Northwest Gallery at Northwest Community College in Powell. Go to:http://www.northwestcollege.edu/news/detail.dot?inode=134509 for more details.
Uncategorized | Posted: October 30, 2008
Oct. 31 is the sign-up deadline for Poetry Out Loud.This recitation competition is open to high school students, grades 9-12, in language arts, speech/debate and drama classes. Teachers can sign
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Uncategorized | Posted: October 29, 2008
UW’s MFA program’s Emerging Fiction Writers Mini-Symposium takes place on 11/7 and 11/8. Chris Bachelder, Karl Iagnemma and Neela Vaswani, all terrific young fiction writers on the rise, will be
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Uncategorized | Posted: October 28, 2008
Manuel Munoz has had two books of short stories published. Zigzagger (Northwestern University Press, 2003) and The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue (Algonquin, 2007). Manuel shies away from being compartmentalized
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Uncategorized | Posted: October 23, 2008
UW’s Eminent Writers in Residence for the 09-10 academic year will be Philip Gourevitch for nonfiction, and Edward P. Jones for fiction. The Eminent Writer for poetry will be announced
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Uncategorized | Posted: October 1, 2008
From a UW press release: Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol will deliver the 2008 John P. “Jack” Ellbogen Symposium for Teaching and Learning address at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, in
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The Wyoming Arts Council believes that experiencing the arts should be accessible for all, including people with mental and/or physical disabilities, older adults, military/veterans, people living in institutions and those who lack access to the arts due to geographic isolation, cultural difference and economic hardship.
