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Idyllwild Garden Club As of Jan. 18, the Idyllwild Community Garden and Education Center has become a project under the Idyllwild Garden Club. This new partnership will expand current collaborations that already include compost bin sales, alpaca gold nugget sales, educational classes, speaking engagements and partnering with Idyllwild School of the Arts “Art in Society”…
For anyone who regularly drives on Highway 243 near Poppet Flats and wondered what the sign “Skyland” advertised, the answer came on Saturday, Feb. 27. More than a thousand supporters of Girl Scout camps gathered for a ribbon cutting marking the reopening of the 191-acre Camp Skyland Ranch. It is the newest property owned and…
By Scott Schroeder Special to the Town Crier Solange Signoret and her sister Juliette have performed in Idyllwild Arts Summer Program musicals and drama productions for the past several years, thanks to scholarship funding by Idyllwild resident David Martin. Last summer, Solange was the Wicked Witch in the “Wizard of Oz,” and her sister has…
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…
Part-timer Taraneh Saba went from economics professor to lawyer, serving many years as a deputy district attorney. Leaving that behind, she has returned to her lifelong vocation as a storyteller to write a novel based on one of the most terrifying cases she tried. TC: “How did you find Idyllwild?” TS: “I have always loved…
The Associates of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation, aka The Associates, held its monthly meeting via Zoom video conference on Monday, June 8. Marianne Kent-Stoll, vice president of educational programs at Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA), was the featured speaker as part of the ongoing Spotlight on Leadership series. Kent-Stoll spoke about the school’s response to the…