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The Idyllwild Arts Native American Festival Week starts at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, July 3, in the IAF Theatre on the Idyllwild Arts campus and runs through Saturday, July 9. The featured program for Sunday evening is Hawaii’s first poet laureate and champion Slam Poet Kealoha performing “The Story of Everything.” This multimedia stage show…
Ken Dahleen opens season 14 of the Idyllwild Summer Concert series with a Dixieland combo in the Fourth of July Parade and his Big Band Staff on the concert stage that night at the Idyllwild Community Center. “It’s the first time we’ve opened the series on the Fourth of July,” said Dahleen. His Dixieland six,…
Retired arts educator Ken Young, popular with Idyllwild audiences for his portrayals of famous painters, made his last Idyllwild appearance as French pointillist Georges Seurat Thursday night at the Rainbow Inn. The Friends of the Idyllwild Library and Idyllwild Community Recreation Council co-sponsored the event.
Richard Barker is not a painter or a visual artist. But he has developed a theory about how art can influence and shape us. In his talk, Barker will review recent history and the future direction of art, using painting as the medium for his discussion. Barker speaks as part of the Idyllwild Community Center…
Tom Nolan, JPL public outreach speaker, came to Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the 1997-98 El Niño. As a marine biologist, he has watched how climate-change cycles have spawned ocean-influenced weather patterns. He will be guest speaker at AstroCamp on Thursday, Nov. 12, discussing the upcoming El Niño, predicted to equal or eclipse the 1997-98…
About 50 people came to the ICC Speaker Series Thursday night at Silver Pines Lodge. Dr. Patrick Smith, professor of geology at Mt. San Jacinto College, spoke about “Earthquakes Between Two Faults.” He discussed what Idyllwild and its environs may experience in the near future as a result of being situated between two earthquake fault zones — the San Andreas to the east and the San Jacinto to the west.