WHAT HAPPENED AT THE ARIZONA CONSORTIUM, 2012?
December 2012
We had a fabulous Open Mic on December 30 , 2012 at the Dog-Eared Pages Used Books store. Thank you so much Melanie and Thom for always being so hospitable!! A special Thank you to Kim “Max” White and Melanie Tighe for organizing our open mic and curating the art display. Many thanks to everyone who joined us and shared their passion and inspirations with us. A huge thank you to our artist of the month - Baron Dixon. Baron’s "Catastic" art works will be on display for the month of January. All are invited to visit and check out the exhibit. A huge thank you to a special musical performance by B Thomas Cooper. Our next open mic will be on January 27. We will feature a new artist! Join us! To see a few images click here.
November, 2012
We had a fabulous open mic on November 25, 2012 at the Dog-Eared Pages Used Books store. Thank you so much Melanie and Thom for always being so hospitable! Many thanks to everyone who joined us and shared their passion and inspirations with us. A huge thank you to Photographer Joe Flocco for his display of photographs for the month of December at the books store. All are invited to visit and check out the exhibit.Our next open mic will be on December 30. We will feature a new artist! Join us! To see images - click here
MULTI-CULTURAL JAMZ 2012 “UNITY IN OUR COMMUNITY 2012” - 11/24/2012
Island Breeze Entertainment and American Legion "Thunderbirds" Post #41 in participation with the Arizona Consortium for the Arts Charity organized the event for the community. The past Post Commander and Public Relations Officer - Robert P. Hernandez opened the event with the Pledge of Allegiance and welcomed everyone. Also, the current Commander, Alfonso Aranda welcomed everyone. Robert Hernandez also spoke about the History of the Legion. The event included representation by Multiple cultures and also various vendors. Everyone enjoyed different games, won prizes, experienced live entertainment, participated in raffles, participated in arts and crafts, and competed in the Coconut Olympics. A huge thank you to all who joined us. A special Thank you to all the performers: Chamorritas – Latte Girls; Glenn David Taylor - Singer/Musician; Classical Pianist - Kristen Jessica Smith; Clean Comedy by Keith Ellis; Kandahar – Colleen O'Donnell Pierce– Belly Dancer; Tammy Z - Tammy Zappier – Singer/Musician; Jonathan Gabriell – Singer/Musician and singer/musicians - Johny Norman and Greg Reyes. Thank you to Island Breeze for all the games and raffle prizes. To see images from the event on Facebook click here.
October, 2012
Annual Fall Festival of the Arts - A Huge Success
On Sunday, October 28, the Arizona Consortium for the Arts celebrated our 5th Anniversary at the Annual Fall Festival of the Arts. We are grateful to the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park for collaborating with us and providing the spacious courtyard for the event. Thank you to the museum's Director, Kyle Mckoy and Seth Willey. It was truly a great day! Many thanks to all the talented musicians, singers, dancers, artists, artisans, vendors, community organizations and children's activities stations. The festival attendees were treated to an amazing array of music, dance and cultural presentations, exquisite works by local artists and artisans, readings from the UNSTRUNG Poetry Magazine, live painters - Jim Covarrubias and Marjory Boyer, face painting by Debra Lee Murrow and bracelet making by Anna Yakupovich. A huge thank you to Keiko Conn and the Touch of Creation Cultural Events for adding fun, joy and smiles to our event. There was a costume contest and presentations by LRS Tokyo Girls and Guys and Tokyo Girl Miss Miki Suehio , the Sushi Man and the Fox . Thank you to the masterful performances by the Maestro Zhanna Tevan’s Arizona Classical Kids piano students and by Maestro Laima Howe’s piano students. Everyone was mesmerized by the Japanese swordsmanship demonstration Iaido by the Touch of Creation Cultural Events. Everyone enjoyed the performances by the amazing singer Laurie Fagen, Odyssey Triball Dance Group, singer/musician and artist Jonathan Gabriel, a beautiful performance by Kandahar- Colleen O'Donnell Pierce, readers from the USTRUNG Magazine and thekards. The audience was dancing and singing along with the performers. The delicious celebration cakes were donated by Richard and Nicholas. We celebrated in grand style. Thank you to all the community organizations: Kerr Cultural Center, Phoenix Conservatory of Music, Red Cross, Island Breeze, Radio Phoenix - The Arizona Community Media Foundation, Local First Arizona, Ear Candy Charity, Sketch Art by Cj Heu, COLORME' Art Spa, Touch of Creation Cultural Events, Arizona Asian American Association and Brokers for Charity. A special thank you to thekards for their amazing performance! Thank you to Jessica Aikin and the Aikin family, thekards families and thekards for donating their sound equipment and to Jared and Lucas for helping all the performers with the sound. A huge thank you to Rick and Rebecca Dyer, Nicholas Baio, Scott Balthasar, Jonathan Gabriel, Jim Thornton, Anne Wallace, Ben Kern, Bobby Harr, Yakupovich Family, Steven Sable, Rick Cibik, Jacque Personne Rice, Janae Jaynes-Learned; Cj Heru, Mark Zemnick, Lori Landis, Cj Rider, Stacey Bailey, Bonnie Gibbs, Denise Landis, Jason Lee Davis, Victor Aronow, Patricia Jensen, Mari Dillard, Holly Parsons, Malayev Family, Mastov Family, Colleen O'Donnell Pierce, Elizabeth Makela, Melissa Isom, Gabriel Bey and Warren Chu of AZ Culture and many other volunteers who helped us in the planning of the event, helped promote and advertise the event, saw the need and helped during the event and everyone who helped with set up and tear down. Lunch was provided by Papa John’s Pizza. Legends Cadillac and Brokers for Charity donated water and Yelp Phoenix donated Fans. Dog-Eared Pages Used Books, Fort McDowell Adventures and Bearizona donated gift certificates. Thank you to everyone who joined us, your continued support is so appreciated by everyone! Click here to see images from the festival. (photo credit: Zemnick Photographer)
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There are also photos from the festival in the Blue Guitar Magazine - pages: 8, 73 - 80 Click on - The Blue Guitar Fall 2012
There are also photos on Facebook, click here.
September 2012
We are 5 years old. We will celebrate our consortium’s 5th anniversary On Sunday, October 28 at our Consortium’s Annual Fall Festival of the Arts. It will be at the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park from noon - 4pm. The festival will be outside in the beautiful courtyard area of the museum. Performances by local artists in all genres, cultural representations, readings from the UNSRTUNG and a special performance by thekards! Thank you to thekards for providing and helping with the sound equipment! Free to attend. Join us! Free to be a vendor - interested? email info@artizona.org
Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park - 1300 N. College Avenue, Tempe, AZ 85281
A Call to Artists and Writers for Fall
The Blue Guitar magazine seeks literary sumissions from Sept. 1 through Oct. 5. Submissions are sought in all genres — fiction, poetry, plays, creative nonfiction. Writers must submit original work and must live in Arizona. Simultaneous submissions will be accepted, but the writer must notify the magazine as soon as possible if the work is accepted elsewhere. It is free to submit, and submissions may be made in multiple genres. Please include your name and the best way to contact you on your submission. To submit or for further information, e-mail Rebecca Dyer at rebeccadyer@theblueguitarmagazine.org
The Blue Guitar magazine seeks art submissions in all mediums for the Fall 2012 Edition from Sept. 1 through Oct. 5. The art entries will be juried for inclusion in the Fall Issue. Any artists who work in any visual art media and are 18 years or older and are Arizona residents can submit. It is free to submit and up to 5 images can be submitted. Artists are encouraged to submit images of work by e-mail. Images must be identified in the e-mail with the artist’s name and contact information, titles of works, dates and mediums. To submit or for further information, e-mail Rebecca Dyer at rebeccadyer@theblueguitarmagazine.org.
August 2012
We had a fabulous open mic on 8/26, 2012 at the Dog-Eared Pages Used Books store. Thank you so much Melanie and Thom for always being so hospitable! Thank you to all the participants for sharing your exquisite talents with us. A special thank you to Melanie, Anna, Thom, Jim, Edgar, Donielle, Kat and Paula! All are invited to participate at our consortium's events. To see images click here.
We are proud and pleased to present to you the Summer 2012 inaugural issue of Unstrung, a magazine of, for and about poetry - click here
July 2012
Monthly Open Mic- We had a fabulous open mic on July 29, 2012 at the Dog-Eared Pages Used Books store. Thank you so much Melanie and Thom for always being so hospitable! Thank you to all the participants for sharing your exquisite talents with us. A special thank you to Frida, Melanie, Anna, Ro, Carmella, Thom, Jim, Ananth, Sharon and Cyd! All are invited to participate at our consortium's events. To see images click here.
Thank you to everyone who joined us on July 15 at the “Support the Arts” event/benefit! A special thank you to all the musicians, artists and to all who donated silent auction items. It was a great event. A special Thank you to Phoenix Suns, Nima Soltani, Corinne McAuley Fine Art, Lori Landis, Thornton Family, Tracy Blanchard at Pucci Salon for donating the Items. We are so grateful to Irina Reese, Julie Armstrong, Michael Cho, Cristín Duerinckx and Neal Sickles for bidding on the items. A huge thank you to Eric Aceves and Gary Hostallero for organizing the event!!! We still have the Suns Baskeball and the $200 Gift Certificate to Passions of Persia rugs. Please email to info@artizona.org or call 602-263-5373 and let us know if you are interested in these items. Thank you to Mark Zemnick for the photos. The photos are in The Arizona Foothills Magazine. To see photos click here.
June, 2012
We had a fabulous open mic on June 24, 2012 at the Dog-Eared Pages Used Books store. Thank you so much Melanie and Thom for always being so hospitable! Thank you to all the participants for sharing your exquisite talents with us. A special thank you to Kandahar, Frida, Melanie, Anna, Maurice, Sivan, Lana, Thom, Jim, Laima, Natalie, Cathy and Izabella. All are invited to participate at our consortium's events. To see images click here.
A Call to Poets for the Inaugural issue of Unstrung
The Blue Guitar magazine seeks poetry submissions for the inaugural Summer 2012 Issue of Unstrung, a magazine of, for and about poetry. Submissions will be accepted from June 1 through July 6. Poets must submit original work and must have a tie to Arizona. Simultaneous submissions will be accepted, but the poet must notify the magazine as soon as possible if the work is accepted elsewhere. It is free to submit, and multiple poems may be submitted. Please include your name and the best way to contact you on your e-mail submission. Please include in the e-mail subject line: Attn. Unstrung — Poetry submission, and send to Rebecca Dyer at rebeccadyer@theblueguitarmagazine.org. For more information, e-mail Rebecca at rebeccadyer@theblueguitarmagazine.org or visit www.theblueguitarmagazine.org.
May, 2012
We had a great Open Mic on May 27.
April, 2012
We had a fabulous Open Mic on April 29. Thank you so much Melanie and Thom for always being so hospitable! Thank you to all the participants for sharing your exquisite talents with us. A special thank you to Natalie, Shelby, Angela and the Suleymanov family, Nijole, Nicole, Melanie, Anna, Thom, Richard and Jim. Click Here to see images.
"Celebrate the Arts" was held on April 20/2012 at Hotel Indigo Scottsdale! A huge thank you to Brittany Rose of OurHappiestHour.com and her team for organizing this fun event! thank you to Rhythm & The Rose Trio, Artist Sara Amodio, JEWELRY & DECORATIVE ARTS - by Jan Jarres Creative Design for donating to our silent auction, and Joseph James @ Joseph James Art! many thanks to all who attended and supported us! A special thank you to Becki Banning! To see images click here.
March, 2012
The Fourth Annual Blue Guitar Spring Festival of the Arts was held at the Desert Ridge Marketplace on March 25, 2012. The Festival featured music, dance, an art activity and readings of literary works. A huge thank you to all the amazing performers who shared their talents with the community and made the festival a smash hit with attendees! A special thank you to all who attended and supported our festival!!! THANK YOU performers - Arizona Classical Kids and Mestro Zhanna Tevan; Nikki and Grace Tordil; Tammy Zappier and Sarah Clinebell; Clifton L. Collins Sr; Laurel Lee for balloon art; Peter Tompkins; Jonathan Gabriel; Michele Lefevre; Grupo Folklorico I'Naru, Tosca Kerr and Lynn Briones for art activity; readers: Richard Fenton Sederstrom, David Chorlton, Cora Holley and The Kards Band for amazing performances and support all day! A special THANK - YOU to Jared and Lucas of The Kards, Tim and Jessica Aikin, The Kards Band and their families for all their support, hard work and sound equipment! Thank you to Jim, Becca, Rick, Florentina, Jonathan, Leo, Zhanna, Tosca and Lynn for all your help during the festival. To see Images from 4th Annual Blue Guitar Festival of the Arts, click here.
We had a fabulous Open Mic on March 18!
We volunteered at the AZ Senior Expo on March 17 at the Mesa Convention Center. Thank you to Gaby Pulido for providing an exhibit booth for our consortium. Many thanks to Laurie Fagen, Clifton L. Collins Sr, Elizabeth Makela, Kelley Hughes, Melissa Isom and Marcella Alilee for volunteering and performing and thank you to Laurel Lee for baloon art. A special thank you to Colleen O’Donnell for helping to secure some of the performers.
February 2012
Many thanks to Hula’s Modern Tiki restaurant for selecting our consortium to be the recipients of the Mahalo Mondays Charitable Giving Program in February. We had a great time! Local artists displayed art works. Thank you to Holly Anderson for securing some of the artists! Hula’s Modern Tiki is located at 4700 N Central Ave, Phoenix 85012 NW Corner of Central and Highland - just south of Camelback Rd 602 265 TIKI http://hulasmoderntiki.com/ To see images from the event click here.
We are featuring our collection of donated art works at the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park - February 24 through August 26, 2012 - ARTizona.org/ art_from_the_collection 2012. The opening reception was held on Friday, February 24 - 6pm - 8pm. A huge thank you to the museum's director, Kyle Mckoy and our development advisor, Anne Wallace for securing the collaboration and the space for us. Many thanks to all the artists who donated exquisite works to our permanent collection. Thank you to Ashely Smith, Anne Wallace and Ben Kern for working on this wonderful project. Click here to view the slideshow!
If you would like to donate art to the 2013 exhibit, please email to info@artizona.org for more details.
A Call to Writers for Spring
The Blue Guitar magazine seeks literary submissions for the Spring 2012 Edition from Feb. 1 through March 9. Submissions are sought in all genres — fiction, poetry, plays, creative nonfiction. Writers must submit original work and must live in Arizona. Simultaneous submissions will be accepted, but the writer must notify the magazine as soon as possible if the work is accepted elsewhere. It is free to submit, and submissions may be made in multiple genres. Please include your name and the best way to contact you on your submission.
To submit or for further information, e-mail Rebecca Dyer at rebeccadyer@theblueguitarmagazine.org. For more information, visit www.theblueguitarmagazine.org.
A Call to Artists for Spring
The Blue Guitar magazine seeks art submissions in all mediums for the Spring 2012 Edition from Feb. 1 through March 9. The art entries will be juried for inclusion in the Spring Issue. Any artists who work in any visual art media and are 18 years or older and are Arizona residents can submit. It is free to submit and up to 5 images can be submitted. Artists are encouraged to submit images of work by e-mail. Images must be identified in the e-mail with the artist's name and contact information, titles of works, dates and mediums. To submit or for further information, e-mail Rebecca Dyer at rebeccadyer@theblueguitarmagazine.org. For more information, visit www.theblueguitarmagazine.org.
January 2012
We had a fabulous Open Mic on January 29. Many thanks to all the participants!
