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The newly elected board of the Art Alliance of Idyllwild met on Saturday, Jan. 28, to revise the organization’s bylaws. Outgoing President Shanna Rob said bylaws needed revision since this was the first leadership transition since they were initially drafted. “This was the first election in which the members had a voice in electing their…
The year 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of a substantial and somewhat controversial force in American cultural life, that of Leonard Bernstein. As a powerful advocate for classical and popular forms of music, particularly those produced in the United States, and as an equally important spokesperson for a variety of activist causes…
The popular and longstanding Idyllwild Community Center Speaker Series has a new producing partner. The Idyllwild Arts Academy will work with ICC to present this year’s series, focusing on the career paths and goals of Idyllwild Arts seniors. Eduardo Santiago, Idyllwild author and founder of the summer Idyllwild Author Series, is the academy’s Art in…
Idyllwild Arts’ Theatre Department next presents “Hotel Cassiopeia,” playwright Charles L. Mee’s dreamlike evocation of the life and carefully calibrated creations of American “sculptor” and collector of found objects Joseph Cornell. Famously reclusive, Cornell is best known for his juxtapositioning of delicate found objects in glass-fronted shadow boxes. His “memory boxes” arranged iconic objects in…
Two busloads of South Los Angeles high school rugby players, alums, parents and friends, over 100 in all, made the trek to Idyllwild for the premiere of their documentary film “Red, White, Black and Blue.” The extra bonus for the L.A. troupe was snow, something many of them had never seen.
Patriotic music and themes from stage and screen Ken Dahleen and his Big Band Staff open season 19 of the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series with a patriotic tribute to the Fourth of July and songs from Broadway and the movies. The popular eight-week series, in a nod to locals, takes place on Thursday nights, not…