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Idyllwild Arts Academy honors Black History Month with a concert featuring the Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra and jazz faculty head Marshall Hawkins’ Seahawk Modern Jazz Orchestra.
At 5 p.m. Saturday, July 19, a groundbreaking celebration will mark the official start of construction for Idyllwild Arts Foundation’s new $6.5 million concert hall. The 298-seat facility will become the centerpiece of IAF’s 200-acre, mountaintop campus and is named in honor of Idyllwild Arts’ first president, William M. Lowman. The construction process is estimated…
Besides the better-known arts — music, theater and visual — taught at the Idyllwild Arts Academy, fashion design also is an important part of the curriculum. And similar to the performing arts, the student fashion designers are happy to share their creativity with the local community. Next Saturday, March 11, the school, in cooperation with…
Kate Dennis is such a hot commodity as a director these days that she needs an administrative assistant to schedule time for her to breathe. Yet the Australian-born Dennis’ respect for the Idyllwild Arts Academy Film and Digital Media Department will bring her up to inhale the fresh air of the mountains on a…
Mary KnabIdyllwild-area resident I am obsessed with all things written about the Middle Ages in England. I have probably read most of the novels written about the famed War of the Roses. I read both fiction and nonfiction about this time in world history. So, when a new novel appears in my Kindle recommendations, I…
Local nonprofit Young Idyllwild has as its primary mission education — the mentoring and guidance of the young people of Idyllwild on how to become strong community leaders. Young Idyllwild was the vision of Kathy Sacher Wilson, who saw a need to coach and mentor Idyllwild young people though participation in projects that required cooperation…