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Artist-photographer Kathy Harmon-Luber (center) holds a photograph just purchased by writer-poet and Idyllwild Arts Trustee Cheri Bentley-Buckman (left) during a reception at Artspresso Gallery. The reception featured Harmon-Luber’s photographs of Italy and was attended by a sizable crowd including Jim Newcomb (right), co-owner of the Quiet Creek Inn. Photo by Cid Castillo

Lama Tashi one of the world’s most prolific contemporary and traditional Tibetan Buddhist visual artists, recently made a stop in Idyllwild to introduce himself, his art, and his culture. Presented by LIVING FREE Animal Sanctuary, on March 12th at the Rustic Theater, guests were afforded an unforgettable, multi-faceted spiritual art-in-society event by an established contemporary artist…
The Hemet Unified School District (HUSD) held its Honor Band performance at Hemet High School this past Saturday. A total of 170 students from multiple schools throughout the district were handpicked by faculty and staff. The selected students were divided into three groups — elementary, middle and high school. All 170 students, ranging from grades…
Han Xiao “Helen” Lai, an 11th-grade classical music student at the Idyllwild Arts Academy, is one of 111 semifinalists in the Los Angeles Music Center’s 2016 Spotlight Awards. More than 1,100 performing arts students from Southern California auditioned. This year’s semifinalists come from Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties. The Music Center program, now in…
On Dec. 3, the Art Alliance of Idyllwild (AAI) held its third-annual Christmas Art Kit Gift Giveaway in front of the post office. After six months of gathering over 300 items and putting them into over 160 art kits, AAI gave them away to local parents, grandparents and children. The kits were arranged in age…
The ninth-annual Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema is from March 6 to 11 this year, with more than 130 films scheduled to be shown during the six-day festival. “This is the most we’ve ever screened. 2018 could be the best year yet for quality feature films,” said IIFC chair and founder Stephen Savage. And Andrea…