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A Celebration of Wine. A Benefit for Arts and Education. Mark your calendar for one of Sun Valley’s most beloved events. The 34th Annual Sun Valley Wine Auction – a charity event unfolding over three glorious days in the heart of picturesque Sun Valley, Idaho. Experience the breathtaking beauty of the surroundings while enjoying spectacular wines paired with food from world-class chefs. Delight in exclusive Vintners Dinners, an unforgettable Auction Gala and a lively Wine Tasting and Vine & Dine.
Ticket packages on sale April 1, 2015. Click here for more information.
Artists are invited to apply for the 2015 Sun Valley Center Arts & Crafts Festival, to be held August 7–9 at Atkinson Park in Ketchum. Applications are now available online at www.zapplication.org.
Applications for the Festival are due by midnight Friday, February 28, 2015. Through a competitive blind jury process, approximately 130 artists will be chosen to exhibit in this summer’s show. The application fee is $35.
Join the Sun Valley Center for the Arts as they present the 47th Annual Arts and Crafts Festival. This Festival is a juried fine arts and crafts show, held outdoors in beautiful Ketchum, Idaho with an annual attendance of over 10,000 during the three day event. The Ketchum/ Sun Valley area is a mecca for outdoor enthusiasts and is also brimming with culture and nightlife. Check out the fly fishing scene, learn about the latest art gallery exhibits, hike in the Sawtooth Mountains, water ski on an alpine lake, bike the famous single-track, listen to an outdoor concert and of course visit the Sun Valley Center Arts and Crafts Festival. The possibilities are almost endless!
In 2013 the City of Ketchum was ranked #3 in America’s Top 12 Small-Town ArtPlaces. This mountain resort town is a year-round home to a well-educated, sophisticated community. Each summer Ketchum’s population swells to accommodate a large number of second homeowners, who come for the season, as well as summer tourists, who come for a week or weekend.
The Sun Valley Center for the Arts values and honors the work made by the individual artists. No commercial agents are allowed. A full list of rules and descriptions of categories is available at www.sunvalleycenter.org. This popular community event also includes artists’ demonstrations, live music, food vendors and a children’s activity area.
Full-time Blaine County residents will be granted an extra point in their favor during the jurying process to encourage local participation.
Artists who need help with or have questions about the application are invited to contact festival@sunvalleycenter.org or 208.726.9491 for more information.
On Saturday Jan 24, 2015, The Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Company of Fools will host the annual Casino Royale. Now in its seventh year, this high-rolling evening is further elevated with a new venue for 2015, taking place for the first time ever at the stunning Sun Valley Club.
The “Old Hollywood Glamour” of Sun Valley and its storied history inspires this year’s event. Guests will be transported by a red carpet arrival, stirring live performance, delicious drinks and delights, many opportunities to win fantastic raffle prizes and, of course, faux gambling, which makes the evening such an especially fun and unique experience.
This evening of gambling, cocktailing and fundraising is the year’s largest fundraiser that specifically benefits Company of Fools, a proud part of Sun Valley Center for the Arts. For 19 years the Fools have been delighting our valley both on stage and in the classroom with award-winning, professional theatre and their dynamic, artistic and educational programming. Casino Royale offers a wonderful opportunity to support the company as it continues to develop new ways to deepen and expand arts programming in the Wood River Valley. Join our 2015 Casino Chairs Lesley Andrus and Tim Black for one of the best “FUN-raisers” around!
2015 CASINO ROYALE RAFFLE
The most exciting 2015 Casino Royale raffle item is “It Happens in Sun Valley,” a ticket package for two for the valley’s major arts organization’s events. Developed in collaboration with Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, Sun Valley Film Fest and Sun Valley Company this collection highlights the abundance of world-class arts and cultural activities in the valley. Raffle winners will enjoy attending the 2015 Sun Valley Film Festival, 2015 Sun Valley Writer’s Conference, 2015 Sun Valley Ice Show & Dinner, 2015 Sun Valley Center Wine Auction Gala, a complimentary 2015 Guardian Membership to Sun Valley Center for the Arts and a collection of 2015 Center and Company of Fools events and performances, as well as a two-month Zenergy membership for one—an exhilarating package worth over $7,500!
The “Dine Around the Valley” raffle also returns this year—a collection of gift certificates worth more than $1,200 in dining at the valley’s favorite restaurants, including CK’s Real Food, Zou 75, Globus, and Cristina’s, just to name a few! Guests can also bid on the enticing “Red Carpet Roulette“ mystery gift boxes the night of the event; the bidding will start at $50 and contents are guaranteed to be valued a minimum of that amount (though many surprises will be worth considerably more such as one 2015/2016 full season ski pass from Sun Valley Company).
Black tie is optional, old Hollywood style is encouraged!
Private VIP tables have already sold out, but individual tickets are still available. The fun begins at 7pm on Saturday, January 24 at The Sun Valley Club. Tickets to Casino Royale are $150 per person and include $1,500 of “funny money,” which you can use to try your hand at black jack, poker and craps.
Call us at 208.726.9491 or CLICK HERE for tickets.
It’s hard to think of a cultural movement that’s more American or that’s had a greater influence on American life than Rock & Roll. This fall and winter, The Sun Valley Center for the Arts celebrates our musical and social heritage with the Under the Influence of Rock & Roll, a BIG IDEA multidisciplinary project. Programming opens with a gallery exhibition and opening celebration at The Center in Ketchum on November 21 and continues with films, concerts, workshops and more through January 30, 2015.
By the 1960s Rock & Roll had transcended the realm of music and had begun to shape an entire generation’s understanding of the world around them. For many fans, Rock & Roll offered an identity: it guided how they spent their money and time, how they dressed and wore their hair and who their friends were. Under the Influence of Rock & Roll speaks to how rock, born out of counter-culture rebellion, has permeated the very fabric of our country and our collective memories, from television and film to fashion and design to political and social history.
How are you influenced by Rock & Roll? Come enjoy programming for Under the Influence of Rock & Roll and learn more about this powerful force in our culture and how it’s figured in your life.
FREE OPENING CELEBRATION PARTY
Fri, Nov 21, 5:30–7pm
Free at The Center, Ketchum
The exhibition will include paintings, photography, sculpture, contemporary and historic show posters and a timeline of the 1960s created by Sage School students that illustrates the connections between Rock & Roll and social, political, musical and historical events. Join us for refreshments as we celebrate the opening of Under the Influence of Rock & Roll. You’re invited to wear your favorite rock & roll concert t-shirt or even dress up as your favorite rock star.
FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOURS
Thu, Dec 4 & Thu, Jan 8, 5:30pm
The Center, Ketchum
Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with Center curators and gallery guides.
FREE GALLERY WALK
Sat, Dec 27, 5–7pm
The Center, Ketchum
Start your Gallery Walk at The Center!
FILMS
All films will be screened at the Magic Lantern Cinemas, Ketchum
Tickets for each film are $10 / $12 nonmember
Special Rockumentary Film Festival pass: 6 films for $50 (for films screened Nov 22–23)
Tickets for A Hard Day’s Night and This Is Spinal Tap sold separately.
This Is Spinal Tap
Thu, Nov 20, 7pm
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The Beatles A Hard Day’s Night
Fri, Nov 21, 9pm
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ROCKUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
Sat & Sun, Nov 22 & 23, showtimes at 2pm and 4:30pm (specific film times to be announced on The Center’s website)
Tickets available on Nov 14
Troubadours: The Rise of the Singer Songwriter
A musical journey tracing the lives and careers of James Taylor and Carole King, pillars of the California singer/songwriter scene, which converged in and around LA’s Troubadour Club in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Featuring interviews with Lou Adler, Elton John, Steve Martin, David Crosby, Jackson Browne and more.
Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n Roll
This documentary covers the concert at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri to celebrate Chuck Berry’s sixtieth birthday. Featuring performances by Robert Cray, Eric Clapton and Etta James with Chuck Berry. Plus interviews with Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bruce Springsteen and more who discuss Berry’s influences and life.
The Last Waltz
Directed by Martin Scorsese, the Band performs its last concert on Thanksgiving 1976 at San Francisco’s Winterland. Scorsese interviews the Band’s five members and explores life … and the wear and tear … of 16 years on the road.
It Might Get Loud
The essential documentary on the electric guitar – and three guitar masters: the Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White. Through interviews the film reveals how each musician developed his unique sound and style.
Stop Making Sense
Filmmaker Jonathan Demme presents the phenomenon that was the Talking Heads in 1984. The live performance at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood was the location for this essential concert film. Come see the Big Suit and rock out to 18 straight songs from David Byrne and his band … kicking off with “Psycho Killer.”
More films may be announced soon.
$10 / $12 nonmember – special film festival pass: 3 films for $25
CONCERTS
Guy Davis
Fri, Dec 12, 6:30pm
Sun Valley Opera House
$25 / $35 nonmember / $15 student
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Rock undeniably comes straight from the blues and Guy Davis is a bluesman extraordinaire. The son of actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Guy Davis has dedicated himself to reviving the tradition of acoustic blues and brings the blues to life through the songs of great blues masters, African American stories and his own original songs.
Bill Payne
Fri, Jan 30, 6:30pm
Sun Valley Opera House
$25 / $35 nonmember / $15 student
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Co-founder of Little Feat, Bill Payne is considered one of the finest American rock and blues pianists by many of the rock’s greatest piano musicians, including Elton John. He has worked and recorded with a who’s who of rock and blues: Bonnie Raitt, Pink Floyd, Bob Seger, J.J. Cale, Emmylou Harris, Stevie Nicks and more.
FREE Footlight Dance Company presents Rockin’ Dance
Wed, Feb 4, 7pm
Wood River High School Performing Arts Theater, Hailey
A free public performance of Rockin’ Dance, an exploration of the impact of rock & roll on dance through ballet, tap, jazz, modern and hip hop. From January 26 through February 6, Footlight dancers will be performing Rockin’ Dance in all Blaine County schools. These performances are Footlight’s annual free outreach service.
CLASSES
Teen Workshop: DJ and Music Production
Sat & Sun, Jan 10 & 11, 10am-4pm
The Center, Hailey
$10 pre-registration required
Registration available Nov 14
Learn the basics of being a DJ and what goes into music production with artist Devin Throngard, a.k.a. DEEVEAUX. Students will be encouraged to do what DEEVEAUX does best: mix music and make beats!
FREE Family Day: Rock Around!
Sat, Jan 24, 3-5pm
The Center, Ketchum
Travel through history to discover big moments in America’s most popular music movement. Families will tour the exhibition and participate in rockin’ hands-on activities!
LECTURES
Ethan Russell: Best Seat in the House
Thu, Jan 22, 6:30pm
NexStage Theatre, Ketchum
$25 / $35 nonmembers
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Author of the memoir Ethan Russell: An American Story and rock photographer of the Rolling Stones, the Beatles and the Who. In this lecture and slideshow, Russell will share compelling behind-the-scenes stories, illustrated with original photographs and music from his experience with these rock & roll greats.
FREE PLAY READING Graceland presented by Company of Fools
Sat & Sun, Jan 17 & 18, 6:30pm
The Center, Ketchum
Space is limited—reserve your seat in advance online or with our box office!
The place is the front entrance of Graceland, the late Elvis Presley’s Memphis mansion. The time is 5 o’clock in the morning, three days before the estate is to be opened to the public. Two ardent Presley fans, Bev and Rootie, are camped out before the gates, each determined to be the first to enter the sacred precinct. Featuring Jana Arnold and Russell Wilson under Andrew Alburger’s direction.
In addition to enjoying thrilling programming, attendees to multiple Under the Influence of Rock & Roll events will be in the running to receive a copy of the project poster, which The Center commissioned from world-famous Hatch Show Print. At each event, including evening exhibition tours, The Center will give away one piece of the poster. Guests who collect all five pieces will be entered into a drawing for a poster or a turntable or headphones from Crosley. Posters are also available at The Center to $25.
For more information about Under the Influence of Rock & Roll and to get tickets for events, please visit www.sunvalleycenter.org or call 208.726.9491.
The Sun Valley Center for the Arts will kick off their 2014–2015 Winter Concert Series on Saturday, October 25, with the wildly popular Portland Cello Project. This highly original and thrilling group will perform at 6:30pm at the Wood River High School Performing Arts Theater.
“Portland Cello Project has rabid fans, and with good reason,” said Kristine Bretall, Director of Performing Arts. “They are creative, playful, innovative—and maybe it goes without saying—but they are stunningly great musicians.” She added that the group is also guaranteed to surprise their audience with a versatile lineup: “They play everything from Bach to Brubeck to Beck. Expect to be wowed, by cellos, vocals, drums and more.”
Local music students will have a particularly special experience with Portland Cello Project. “These musicians are generous with their time and energies,” said Bretall, “and they’ll be working with three groups of students from the Wood River High School—Spiritus, B-Tones and the Wood River High School Chamber orchestra students—and all three groups will be a part of a few of the pieces during the evening concert.”
Since the group’s inception in late 2007, the Portland Cello Project (or PCP, as their fans affectionately call them), has wowed audiences all over the country with extravagant performances, everywhere from Prairie Home Companion to that punk rock club in the part of town your grandma warns you not to go to after dark. The group has built a reputation mixing genres and blurring musical lines and perceptions wherever they go. With a repertoire now numbering over 800 pieces of music, including many selections you wouldn’t normally hear from a cello, no two shows are alike.
Additional performances in the 2014–2015 Winter Performing Arts Series include:
• Blues musician Guy Davis on December 12, 2014
• Bill Payne, co-founder of Little Feat, on January 30, 2015
• Brian Sanders’ JUNK dance company on March 19, 2015
• TorQ Percussion Quartet on April 18, 2015
Tickets for individual performances are $25 for members, $35 for nonmembers, and $10 students for 18 and under. Tickets for the Performing Arts Series are still available to members for $112.50 for all five performances. A Performing Arts “Mini Series” is also available for $67.50; this covers January to March performances only, which includes Bill Payne, JUNK, and TorQ. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.sunvalleycenter.org or call 208.726.9491.