The Arizona Shakespeare Festival will perform "Much Ado About Nothing" at 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, in the Colly Soleri Music Center at Arcosanti. A renaissance-themed dinner in the Arcosanti Cafe will follow the performance. Admission to "Much Ado About Nothing" is free; cost of the dinner is $8.95 per adult. Arcosanti tours are available; the last tour leaves at 4 p.m. and returns in time for the show (donations for the tour are welcome.) Four actors in "Much Ado" play all the roles in this Shakespearean comedy about love, betrayal and sinister rebels in a "modernish" setting. For more information about Saturday's performance, call 928-632-7135.
The community is invited to see the fantastic new Prescott Valley Public Library and walk throughout the 52,000-square-foot building at the grand opening 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 10.
This valuable addition to Prescott Valley will include the new campus for NAU Yavapai, a virtual interactive room, Friends of the Library Bookstore/Gift Shop, a drive-up window, study areas, a 200-seat performance theatre and council chambers, a crystal meeting room, two fireplaces, a 300-space parking lot, observation terrace, children's early literacy and interactive area, and adult and teen patios.
Tours of the new library and educational complex are scheduled every 30 minutes between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.
The day's festivities will include a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9:30 a.m. and the Route 66 Band from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. along with additional entertainment during the day. Respected authors and entertainers have been invited as honored guests.
Author Alan Dean Foster, a Prescott resident who has had more than 100 books published, will be a part of the book-signing segment.
The new Prescott Valley Library is located at 7401 E. Civic Circle Dr.
The music of Remedy and Lamar Hill will be in the spotlight at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, in Folk Sessions' last concert of the season at the Highlands Center. The "Harvest Time in the Afternoon" show will open with Hill, who will play and sing some folk and blues with finger-style guitar accompaniment. Remedy will take the stage with Paul Spradlin on lead guitar and vocals, Bill Rice on bass guitar and vocals, Scott Ellis on drums and vocals and Dennis Garvey on guitar and vocals. Tickets are $10 each. The Highlands Center is located at 1375 S. Walker Road in Prescott. For more information, call 776-9550.
The Phippen Museum's sixth annual Designer Home Showcase is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. There are five amazing homes, a gourmet lunch from the chef's at Talking Rock and a stunning new exhibit at the Phippen Museum. Seats on the buses are still available, so order your tickets today. The Home Guests will travel from mountaintop meadows and ponderosa pines to high desert chaparral and grasslands as they visit homes by Prescott's top designers and builders. The day will conclude back at the Phippen Museum with a wine and cheese reception of the current exhibit, "The Greatest Earth on Show," featuring the works of 43 world renowned landscape artists. Tickets are $75 per person and must be purchased in advance by calling the Phippen Museum at 778-1385 or via www.phippenartmuseum.org.
A special Classic Car Cruise-In will be from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at Humboldt Station, corner of Highway 69 and Main St. in Humboldt. The event will coincide with the town's Agua Fria Festival and Parade. There will also be Wild West-type shootouts by the Prescott Regulators, a gun show and auction, vendor booths, live music by Chris Berry & The Retrofitters and other fun events for the whole family throughout the day. Admission is free. For more information, contact Chris Berry at 227-3236.
Events coming to Yavapai College Performance Hall, 1100 E. Sheldon St., include:
Hector Olivera, an international acclaimed organist whose personal interpretations of both classical and popular music have amazed and delighted audiences around the world, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10.
The Smothers Brothers return to Prescott at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, for a night of comedy and music. The duo keeps finding the country's funny bone with new material and old favorites.
Bluegrass royalty Dr. Ralph Stanley and his Clinch Mountain Boys team up with the hottest new band in bluegrass, Cherryholmes, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23.
Destino3, a classical crossover trio, calls their sound "popera with a soul infusion, a unique blend of soaring operatic vocals, pop lick and contemporary R&B swagger." They will be in concert Nov. 12 and 13.
Rich Little, Dean of Impersonators and master of over 200 voices, continues to dazzle audiences with his portrayals of personalities in showbusiness, politics and fiction at 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14.
Pop legend Don McLean, famous for hits like "American Pie" and "Vincent," can be heard in concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20.
Prescott Pops Symphony: "Thank Goodness for Music," featuring conductor Paul Manz and French horn virtuoso David Cripps, will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22.
A musical group of brothers and sisters, Leahy, will showcase their mix of Celtic favorites and beloved Christmas carols in Leahy: A Celtic Christmas at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4.
For more information or tickets, call 776-2000 or visit www.yc.edu/communityevents.
Two Prescott-area authors will present readings from their books Sunday, Oct. 11, at the Prescott Fine Arts Gallery. At 12:30, Jane Ryan talks about her Tarahumara indigenous folktale, "Turkey Buzzard and Frog." Ryan is a retired primary teacher who presented a unit on myths and folktales to her students. Her husband imports handmade ceramics from a small village in Chihuahua, Mexico. On one trip, they encountered a Tarahumara teacher collecting myths and stories from the elders. The Ryans helped the teacher publish his stories and, in turn, he gave them several tales in the Spanish and Tarahumara languages. Ryan translated this particular tale into English and her daughter, Shelly Andrews, was the illustrator.
Elizabeth Kaites will talk about her collection of personal essays, "A Common Thread: Stories of Our Oneness," at 2:30 p.m. Her stories are heart-warming and explain how the extraordinary manifests into daily life. She will also recount her meeting with Mother Teresa.
The readings are free and open to the public. The PFAA gallery is located on Willis Street in the lower level of the Prescott Fine Arts Association building, 208 N. Marina St. For information, call 445-3286.
The Yavapai Symphony Guild, an auxiliary of The Yavapai Symphony Association, will have its first concert of the season at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct 13, at the Adult Center of Prescott, 1280 Rosser St. The performing artist will be cellist Amelia Amos.
The Prescott Astronomy Club continues its autumn season of public presentations and star parties at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, in the Prescott Public Library's Founders Suite. Dr. Nadine Barlow with NAU astrophysics and Arizona Space Grant Consortium will discuss "Beyond Tang: The Hidden Benefits of the Space Program." NASA's "Spin-Off" book will be available free to those who attend. On Saturday evening, Oct. 17, the astronomy club will have a public star party from 6 to 8 p.m. at Watson Lake. Both events are free.
Prescott Independent Theater (P.I.T) makes its musical theater debut with Richard O'Brien's "The Rocky Horror Show" just in time for Halloween. The show opens Oct. 16 and continues Oct. 17, 23 and 24 at the Lonesome Valley Playhouse, located at 8859 Valley Road, Prescott Valley.
"The Rocky Horror Show" was written by Richard O'Brien and opened in London in the summer of 1973. Now over 30 years later, director Jacob d'Armand and assistant director Christopher Smith bring this racy musical tribute to science fiction and B-horror flicks to Prescott.
For ticket information, contact Sarah Elliott at 710-0846. More information is also available at www.pitheater.com or www.myspace.com/pitheater.
Prescott Fine Arts Association is partnering with the Prescott Public Library to present Readers Theatre performances free to the public. "Galileo's Heavenly Dream" will be performed 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, in the Library's Founders Suite.
When the father of modern physics dozes off waiting for his heresy trial, history's greatest scientists, saints, and sages show up to help Galileo take on the dreaded Inquisition. It's Nova meets Monty Python... at a Renaissance Faire!
Readers Theatre performances are readings without the sets and full costumes of a stage performance, offering audiences an intimate atmosphere and challenging directors and actors with their minimal setting.
For more information, contact PFAA at 445-3286 or tickets@pfaa.net.
Prescott Gateway Mall has a space available for a haunted house. Any charitable organization interested in making money for their charity should contact Michele at 443-0067. The mall has its annual Halloween event already scheduled and has expressed an interest in making this a bigger and better event than in years past. The space available is next to Macayo's and across from Celtic Crossing Pub.
The Prescott POPS Symphony provides an opportunity for local musicians to participate in performances of light-hearted orchestral music. The symphony performers, all volunteers, range from 50 to 80 local instrumentalists and 40 to 60 vocalists at various concerts, plus local guest soloists and conductors.
Additional information is available at www.prescottsymphony.com.
The Prescott Chapter of the American Sewing Guild announces its "Sewing Safari" fashion show luncheon to be held 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Prescott Country Club clubhouse in Dewey. There will be door prizes, ticket drawings and a boutique full of beautiful items created by our members. The boutique will be open to the public from 10 to 11:30 a.m. For tickets and reservations, contact Fran Mauer at 772-1331. Tickets are $25 per person, with limited seating.
The Mountain Spinners and Weavers Guild is holding several upcoming events. The bi-annual fashion show rehearsal is Saturday, Oct. 17. The show exhibits wearable art and is a fundraiser for the guild, providing scholarships and programming for the educational benefit of members and the public.
Lyn Hart will demonstrate tapestry weaving on Saturday, Nov. 21. And the Christmas Potluck is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 19.
Meetings are 9 a.m. the third Saturday of every month at the American Lutheran Church, 1085 Scott Drive in Prescott.
For more information, contact Margaret Espinoza at 541-7774, e-mail mswguild.info@gmail.com or visit www.mtnspinweave.org.
Go Girl Go! is a program that combines physical activity with an educational component that helps girls learn how to cope with circumstances and change behaviors that threaten their well-being and embrace a physically active lifestyle. Participants will learn and play a different sport or recreational activity.
Registration is underway now at Prescott YMCA, 750 Whipple St. Sessions will be Oct. 21, 28, Nov. 4, 18 and Dec. 2 and 9. Middle-school girls will meet from 1:30 to 3 p.m.; elementary school girls will meet 3 to 4:30 p.m. The cost is $15 for the program. Scholarships are available. For more information, call Diane DeLong at 708-7214.
The Prescott Film Festival & Series' next feature is a comedic spoof of the old "dark house" thrillers from the 1930s.
Showing 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, at Prescott Mile High Middle School in Hendrix Auditorium, "Dark and Stormy Night" has it all: an old mansion on the titular dark and stormy night; scary family portraits with eyeballs that move; hidden passages; hooded phantoms; murder, mayhem and quick-paced dialogue that will make the audience want to see it again.
Come in 1930s-era costume and the top five costumes will receive two free tickets to the festival's November screening.
The guest filmmaker for October is Daniel Roebuck, the star of "Dark and Stormy Night," who has also appeared in dozens of films and television shows.
Tickets for the Oct. 21 screening are $6.50 at the door, cash or check. The box office opens at 5:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.prescottfilmfestival.com.
The fourth annual Trinity Arts & Crafts Festival is Oct. 24. This is an open event for anyone interested in selling his or her handcrafted specialties. Those who are interested may call Trinity Presbyterian Church in Prescott and register before Sept. 16. The number is 445-4536.
Mile High Mystics Psychic/ Holistic Health and Arts Festival is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, at Hassayampa Inn on Gurley Street. Admission is free. The event will include readers, chair massage, body work, energy healing, metaphysical products, jewelry, books, gifts and more. For more information, call Nancy at 443-5325.
The Prescott Fine Arts Association (PFAA) and the West Yavapai Guidance Clinic Foundation will co-sponsor Prescott Ghost Talk 2009, a spooky, scary and entertaining evening of ghostly folklore, on Saturday, Oct. 24, at the PFAA Theatre on the corner of Marina and Willis streets in downtown Prescott. There will be three seatings at 6, 7 and 8 p.m. at a charge of $10 per seat, with all proceeds benefiting the two nonprofit organizations.
The Macbeth Witches will greet patrons in the courtyard, followed by eerie tales told by the goblins themselves inside the haunted theatre. This year's ghost stories include "The Spirit of Tom Mix," "The Walker Party and the UFO," "The Ghost Dog on Whiskey Row," "The Haunting of the Hassayampa Inn," "The Lady of the Night" and "The PFAA Apparition." The show will include a spirited story presented by an old-time radio troupe, the New Mercury Theatre Players. At the conclusion, audience members will be escorted to the PFAA Gallery by the Prescott Regulators and Shady Ladies for refreshments and a viewing of the current art show.
The show is not intended for children under seven years old, and all children must be accompanied by an adult. Ghost Talk 2009 will take place rain or shine, and tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information and tickets, go to www.wygc.org and click on the Ghost Talk 2009 button or call 445-3286.
"Land Sakes! Landscape Art for Kids," a special program for children, will take place at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, in the Phippen Museum's Cultural Hall.
Children will learn the concepts of background, foreground and perspective as they create their own Western-inspired landscapes.
Space is limited; the museum suggests making early reservations by calling 778-1385. More information is available on the museum's website www.phippenartmuseum.org.
The Celebration of the Three Sisters will be from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Smoki Museum, 147 N. Arizona Ave., Prescott. The keynote speaker will be Michael Kabotie. Tickets are $60 and can be purchased at the Smoki Museum or One Root, 500 W. Gurley St. For additional information, call 445-1230.
Kris Neri, an award-winning short story writer, will discuss what it takes to write a publishable short story when the Professional Writers of Prescott meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, in the Founders Suite of the Prescott Public Library. Neri will talk about the general principles that govern most stories, how stories of different lengths function, and the demands of different categories of fiction. She will also present a useful format that authors can use as a foundation for most short stories. Neri's latest publication is her new urban fantasy, "High Crimes on the Magical Plane," featuring fake psychic Samantha Brennan and genuine Celtic goddess-FBI agent Annabelle Haggerty. Neri and her husband, Joe, own the Well Red Coyote bookstore in Sedona. For more information, call Leslie Hoy, 445-4218, or visit www.prescottwriters.com.
Prescott Valley welcomes Newsboys with special guests Seventh Day Slumber and Bread Of Stone at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 29. Tickets are available online at www.gettix.net; by phone 1-866-443-8849; or at the Tim's Toyota Center box office.
Although Newsboys are Christian contemporary music staples, their following has reached far beyond the Christian music scene. The Grammy Award-winning music group has shared the stage with Styx, R.E.O Speedwagon and John Fogerty. For additional information, visit www.timstoyotacenter.com
The Phippen Museum, 4701 Highway 89 North, offers free (with paid admission) docent-led tours at 2 p.m. on the first Saturday of each month, except December and January. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for students, seniors and AAA members and free for children under 12. For more information, call the museum at 778-1385.
The Yavapai Symphony Guild, will be having its annual Young Musicians Competition in early November for classical music students from grades 6-9, and 10-12 in the categories of voice, strings, piano, and brass/woodwinds. If you have not received an application from your teacher, call Carol Friedman at 772-1648.
The Phippen Museum is planning a Western Artists Conversation for 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 14, with Western art collector Ginger Renner. Renner will share her personal insights and stories about the famous landscape artist Jimmy Swinnerton.
Space is limited, so the museum suggests early reservations by calling 778-1385. More information is available on the museum's website www.phippenartmuseum.org.
The Musical Theater program of Prescott High School's Fine Arts Department will be performing a tribute to honor more than 30 years of musical productions performed at Prescott High School.
"Give My Regards to Ruth Street" is a musical review covering a number of different musicals that PHS has produced through the years, including "Fiddler on the Roof," "Oklahoma," "Peter Pan," "Annie Get Your Gun," "The Wizard of Oz," "Annie," "Grease," "Guys & Dolls," "Oliver," "Bye Bye Birdie," "Little Shop of Horrors," "Godspell," "Les Miserables" and "Beauty and the Beast."
Performances will be at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, and Saturday, Nov. 21, in Prescott High School's Ruth Street Theater. Admission is $10. The box office will open at 5:30 p.m. for ticket sales.
Coming Dec. 1- 6 for the holiday season, Prescott Valley's Lonesome Valley Playhouse will present an adaptation of "Babes in Toyland" featuring the magical and enchanting music of Victor Herbert. The story is a happy excursion into magical Toyland, where some unexpected events have caused a disruption to its joyful and merry atmosphere. The story, filled with suspense, intrigue, and enchantment, is both joyful and heartfelt.
For additional information, call Clyde at 420-3321.
Don't miss the music of Mannheim Steamroller by Chip Davis Saturday, Dec. 5, at Tim's Toyota Center in Prescott Valley.
Created by Chip Davis, Mannheim Steamroller's signature sound is where classical and modern-day rock, acoustic and electronic music meet. Tickets are available online at www.gettix.net, by phone 1-866-443-8849 or at 10 a.m. Oct. 17 at the Tim's Toyota Center box office.
The Prescott POPS Symphony's upcoming concerts are:
Nov. 22, 3 p.m.: "Thank Goodness for Music" will ring in the Thanksgiving holiday with renowned French horn soloist David Cripps and the Central Arizona Concert Band under the direction of Clydene Dechert.
Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010, 3 p.m.: "A Fine Romance" will feature Hal Weller, formerly with the Las Vegas Philharmonic, conducting a sentimental season finale to celebrate Valentine's Day.
The concerts take place at the Yavapai College Performance Hall, 1100 E. Sheldon St., Prescott. Tickets are available from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Performance Hall or by phone at 776-2000.
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