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Show Southern Utah Fast Becoming Cultural Center of All of Utah Southern Utah may be the tail end of the state, but it is fast becoming Utah's summer sum-mer cultural center. For the past seven years the Utah Shakespearean Festival has performed to ever-growing audiences, in Cedar City.; the 1 UUh Civic Ballet spends its "econd summer season in "!pringdale: for the first time this summer Southern Utah irtists present an exhibit on the grounds of the Utah "Shakespearean Festival. Featured in the Festival Art Exhibit are works by Robert Gerring, Roy Gillis, Carmen Jones, David Jones, Wayne Kimball, Tom Leek, David Moller, and Ronda Nielson. Pieces on exhibit range from oils and watercolors to mixed media, graphics, ceramics, sculptures and weavings. Judging from the reaction of opening-night audiences, the Utah Shakespearean Festival Art Exhibit will become an annual event. Southern Utah now features summer Shakespeare, summer ballet, summer art shows. Future Fu-ture plans include addition of musical comedy, light opera, and grand opera. The combination combin-ation of color country and cultural cul-tural events results in ever-increasing ever-increasing touristic activity in Utah's former cultural hinter-1 lands. I |