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salinadowntown — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:50:39 +0000

SALINA SYMPHONY TO PRESENT “THE MAGICAL MUSIC OF DISNEY” MARCH 11

salinadowntown — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:49:10 +0000

Lose yourself in a fairy tale come true when the Salina Symphony presents music from “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Lion King,” “The Little Mermaid,” “Aladdin,” “Mulan,” “Tarzan” and more at the Stiefel Theatre on Sunday, March 11, at 4 p.m.

Adults and children alike are invited to enjoy a unique experience in which timeless animated images are synchronized with music to transport them to their favorite Disney musical moment.

Tickets may be purchased at the Stiefel Theatre Box Office, by calling 785-827-1998, or online at www.ticketmaster.com. Single admission is $15 for adults and $8 for children/students.

The Salina Symphony is a regional orchestra dedicated to enriching lives through artistic music performance and education. For more information, contact Adrienne Allen at
(785) 823-8309 or visit www.salinasymphony.org.

SALINA SYMPHONY TO HOLD JAZZ FUNDRAISER MARCH 2

salinadowntown — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:33:56 +0000

Enjoy an evening of jazz at the Salina Symphony’s upcoming “All That Jazz” Fundraiser Gala, to be held Friday, March 2, at the Salina Country Club. The evening will include dinner, a benefit auction and live jazz music featuring Kansas City based vocalist, Eboni Fondren.

Referred to as a “smooth, sultry vocalist” by Coleman Hawkins Jazz Society, Fondren delights audiences with her dynamic stage presence and stylistic embellishments since.

Fondren will perform favorites such as “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “Summertime,” “Blue Skies” “Orange Colored Sky,” “Sway” and “The Best is Yet to Come.” She will be accompanied by a jazz band comprised of Symphony musicians.

Tickets are $75 each and may be purchased at the Symphony Office or by calling 785-823-8309. Proceeds will benefit the Symphony and Youth Symphony Program.

The Salina Symphony is a regional orchestra dedicated to enriching lives through artistic music performance and education.

For more information, contact Adrienne Allen at (785) 823-8309 or visit www.salinasymphony.org.

First Thursday Art Rush-February 2

salinadowntown — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:14:24 +0000

An Evening of Art, Shopping, Food and FUN!!!

KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Internal Dialogue, The Gallery, Sams Hall of Fine Arts,
Photography Exhibit, January 11-Feb 17
100 E. Claflin | 785.827.5541 ext. 5166 | kwu.edu

STIEFEL THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
Stiefel Classic Movie: Catch Me If You Can, Feb 2, 7:00 pm
“Theory of Yes”, Watson Room, Paintings by Andrea Fuhrman, Abilene, KS
151 S Santa Fe | 785.827.1998 | stiefeltheatre.org

SMOKY HILL MUSEUM
How Much Did Kansas Really Bleed?
Dr. Brian Craig Miller looks at the events leading up to the Civil War Thursday, Feb 2 at 5:30
211 W Iron | 785.309.5776 | smokyhillmuseum.org

SALINA ART CENTER
Tony Feher’s Installation at the Warehouse
Feb 2, 5 to 7 p.m. 149 S. 4th St. | 785.827.1431 | salinaartcenter.org
Streams of Consciousness: The Histories, Mythologies, and Ecologies of Water, thru
March 11
242 S Santa Fe | 785.827.1431 | salinaartcenter.org

ART CENTER CINEMA
The Descendants, Jan 27-Feb 9 150 S Santa Fe | 785.452.9868

BERGEN’S GALLERY AND STUDIO
Rails and Wheels: The Railroad Corridor Project model by
Richie Bergen, Reception Feb 2, 5-9 p.m.
320 N. Santa Fe | 785.825.7642 | bergensculptures.com

SALINA PUBLIC LIBRARY
Novel Notes: The KWU String Quartet, Feb 2, 5-7 p.m.
301 W Elm | 785-825-4624 | salinapubliclibrary.org

And The 2011 Sculpture Tour Salina People’s Choice Award Winner Is….

salinadowntown — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:35:18 +0000

(Salina, Kan.) Since May, 2011, citizens and visitors to Salina have been taking the “Tour” and voting for their favorite of eighteen works of art in downtown Salina. After seven and a half months and a very close race, “Watch Dog” by Louise Peterson is the winner of the first Sculpture Tour Salina People’s Choice purchase award. “Watch Dog”, a bronze sculpture of a Great Dane lying down, will be purchased by the City of Salina and become part of Salina’s growing public art collection.

“Watch Dog” will be the first People’s Choice work permanently placed in the Sculpture Garden to be established this spring in Oakdale Park. Sculpture Tour Salina and two City Departments (Arts and Humanities and Parks and Recreation) have been working together to establish the Sculpture Garden near the Oakdale formal gardens. According Mike Hoppock, Sculpture Tour Salina Chairman, “We are very excited about the creation of the sculpture garden. It’s a great opportunity to showcase both the artwork and the formal gardens.”

Brad Anderson, Executive Director, Salina Arts and Humanities, emphasized that Oakdale Park will definitely create the right setting for sculptures of a wide range of sculptural subjects in about any scale. “Watch Dog” is expected to be permanently placed in time for the Smoky Hill River Festival in June.

Chairman Hoppock, also announced that 25 new sculptures have been selected by the Sculpture Tour Salina Jury for an 11 month installation downtown. The new works will be unveiled Saturday, May 19, 2012.

The winning artist, Ms. Peterson lives with her husband, Chris, their Great Danes and 3 cats near the small town of Guffey, Colorado. Louise has won over one hundred and ten awards for her work. She is a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society, a professional member of the Society of Animal Artists, Allied Artists of America, Miniature Painters, Gravers and Sculptors, Hudson Valley Art Association and the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club. She is currently represented by fourteen fine art galleries in the United States and England.

Sculpture Tour Salina Press Conference

salinadowntown — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:17:21 +0000

Sculpture Tour Salina is hosting a press conference to announce the sculpture which won the 2011 People’s Choice Award.

TIME: 2:00 PM
DATE: Thursday January 26, 2012
WHERE: Stiefel Theatre Lobby

We look forward to you joining us for the announcement.

FastTrac New Venture Program

salinadowntown — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:15:17 +0000

Registration is being accepted in the FastTrac NewVenture program, a program of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Participants will spend 27 hours over eight weeks meeting with entrepreneurs, local professionals and business coaches. Phyll Klima, certified FastTrac facilitator, noted that participants will spend as much time outside the formal sessions developing their complete business plan.

Registration fee is $200. All sessions will be at the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce, 120 W. Ash.

The program is made possible in part by funds from the Kansas Rural Business Development Tax Credit Program as administered by the Kansas Department of Commerce and as invested by the North Central Kansas Community Network Co.

If you have any questions or would like to participate please contact:

Phyll Klima
FastTrac Facilitator
785-825-0535
pklima@salinadowntown.com

Salina Symphony to Make “French Connection”

salinadowntown — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:35:26 +0000

Enjoy an afternoon of popular French music with the Salina Symphony on Sun., Jan. 29, at 4 p.m. at the Stiefel Theatre.

The concert will include a performance of Saint-Saens’ “Violin Concerto No. 3” by guest soloist Emily Shehi. The Symphony will also perform Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,” Liszt’s “Les Preludes” and Ravel’s “Bolero.”

Shehi, age 12, had her orchestra solo debut at age eight with the Liberty Symphony Orchestra. She has served as concertmaster for the Symphony Orchestra of Olathe Area Youth Symphony for the past two years, and has appeared as a soloist in the Arts in Olathe program.

Shehi was selected to participate in the 2011 Starling-Delay Symposium on Violin Studies at The Juilliard School. She studies with Alice Joy Lewis, director of the Ottawa Suzuki Strings in Ottawa, Kan.

Concert tickets may be purchased at the Stiefel Theatre Box Office, by calling 785-827-1998 or online at www.ticketmaster.com. Single admission is $22 for adults and $12 for students.

The Salina Symphony is a community orchestra dedicated to enriching lives through artistic music performance and education. For more information, contact Adrienne Allen at

(785) 823-8309 or visit www.salinasymphony.org.

City Commission to Consider Downtown Lighting Contract Jan 9

salinadowntown — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:31:22 +0000

At 4:00 PM on Jan 9 the City Commission will consider the downtown lighting investment grade audit contract. We need you to be there if at all possible to support this next step towards new lighting downtown. A favorable vote by the City Commission will bring downtown one step closer to a possible lighting project to replace the tall cobra head lights and the short with 12-14 foot tall LED lights.

This contract is called an “Investment Grade Audit” – if Salina does not meet the projected energy savings to pay for the new lights – Johnson Controls WRITES A CHECK to the City for the difference! Here’s a link to the FACTS as presented: http://salinadowntown.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/LeeDLights.pdf

This is the ONLY downtown project that stands a chance of being on the City of Salina Capital Improvement Plan in the coming year. Even though SDI staff, board, and committees advocate for improvements, at this point there are NO downtown projects on the FUNDED LIST for the coming five years.

Please make this meeting at 4:00 PM Monday January 9 a priority. Room 107 at the City County Building, 300 W Ash.

If you are unable to attend, please contact your City Commission to support this potential project!