Photos: This week in Idyllwild: December 24, 2015
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The Idyllwild Scholarship Fund awarded nine scholarships at its awards reception on May 15. The total amount awarded to the nine recipients was more than $30,000. Recipients are Maya Adame, Laura Tiacomulco, Raul Pimentel, Amy McKimson, Emilio Wettlaufer, Leela Kintz-Roosevelt, Noah Rutherford, Chloe Schelly and Evan Biley. The scholarships where based upon their application, interview,…
As a preadolescent, Michigan native David Haddad experienced what he calls an epistemological crisis. To define this for our readers, epistemology broadly means the nature and extent of human knowledge — how it is we either know or do not know something. For young Haddad, what it meant specifically was angst, discomfort and a feeling…
Six years with Marshall Hawkins Hemet native Owen Zorn, Idyllwild Arts Academy jazz bassist, has already established a distinguished track record. At the recent Berklee High School Jazz Festival in Boston, Owen was part of an IAA jazz sextet that took first place in its category. Owen also received the highest individual recognition the festival…
Students in the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program Youth Dance Culmination performed at Fischer Dance Studio on campus Saturday morning, demonstrating the skills they learned while attending the Summer Program.
On a foggy evening, with the side of the William B. Lowman Concert Hall lit by a giant spotlight, a standing-room-only audience listened to some of the best jazz many said they had ever heard. The evening was a tribute to Marshall Hawkins, who for more than 30 years, has been Idyllwild Arts’ director of…
After a well-attended successful launch of his third annual Idyllwild Author Series, Eduardo Santiago next presents Reyna Grande, author of “The Distance Between Us” (Atria Books, 2012). Grande recounts in her memoir how, when she was two, her family life was devastated by the departure of first her father, then her mother, as undocumented immigrants…
