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Show i m• • • i WED/THURS/FRI, MARCH THE PARK RECORD www.parkrecord.com PAINTTH Clips Assemble for peace After five years in Iraq, one group is inviting the community to spring into action. Join the Park City Peace Rally today at A p.m. at The Olympic welcome plaza, comer of S.R. 224 & Kearns Blvd. Cheers to Spiro Arts oin Spfro Arts for an evening of dinner, lively conversation and dancing during Spiro Art's Inaugural Gala Cocktail Event at 7 p.m. to benefit 2008 artist residencies and student programs. Music at the event will feature the Park City Jazz Band.To purchase tickets, contact Terzian Galleries at (435) 649-4927, Rory Murphy at (435) 640-5068 or Spiro Arts at (435) 649-6258. For details, log on to spiroarts.org. Group to discuss 'Autobiography of a Yogi' The Summit County Book Discussions are on the fourth Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. The discussions are free.The group will meet in the auditorium in the Summit County Library at Kimball Junction. Books are available at the library. On March 27, the book is "Autobiography of a Yogi." April 24, the book is 'The Universe in a Single Atom" by the Dalai Lama. Discussion leader is award-winning author Lynne Finney. Call 615-3900 for info. Benefit to support ArtsKids after-school forum for young teens and youth By ANNA BLOOM Of the Record staff n a snowy afternoon in the art room at Treasure Mountain International Middle School, young artists crouch over large sheets of paper islands on the linoleum floor. They arc carefully decorating with cut cloth and paint within the outlines of their bodies on the page. The assignment is to create a mixed-media portrait of a super-hero in their own image. Katie Colton, 15, crafts a glamorous vampire with black and red feathers in her hair, the kind she likes to read about in books. Whitney Jones, 14, and Nicole Fraleigh compose their ideal anirrial-loving Hollywood superstar with glittered hair and pink bows. Jones, who has just wrapped up a chorus role in the school's production of "Grease"' says she hopes to.take.acting more seriously in the future and Fraleigh reveals she already has plans to begin a kennel in Idaho with a friend. Art therapist Jennifer SteinwurLzel assigned the project as part Arts-Teens, a more mature version of the after-school youth program Arts-Kids for children 8 to 12 years. The program teams up kids with artists like Steinwurtzel each fall and spring for 10 weeks for about two hours each week. "Tm a big mixed-media artist myself, and I thought it would be a good idea for the kids O Buy cookies from a scout Local Girl Scout troops will be selling cookies at several locations including Albertsons, Smiths and Wal-Mart for three weekends in March through Sun March 30. SCOn SINE0WW RECORD Jennifer Steinwurtzel, an art therapist volunteering for Arts-Teens at Treasure Mountain International Middle School joins Ryan Davison, 15 on the floor of the art room. Arts-Teens, part of Arts-Kids, creates community after-school for kids 8 to 15. The nonprofit's annual fundraiser, "Paint the Town" will be held March 29 at the Kimball Art Center. Please see Creating, C-3 Mountain Town Staees returns to it Freshfaces,a new year: nonprofit appoints Orion's Music Shop owner as new executive director Learn about 'The Brain - Our New Frontier' The University of Utah and Spiro Arts cordially invite die communicy to attend The Park City Institute lecture featuring Dr. Erik Jorgensen who will entertain the topic, "The Brain-Our New Frontier",Thursday.April 3. Social Hour and Program is from 6-8 p.m. at the Spiro Arts at Silver Star, 1825 Three Kings Drive.To ensure adequate seating and refreshment please RSVP to Janine Murphy at 801.585.0742 or janine.murphy@utah.edu. 19-21, 2008 By ANNA BLOOM Of the Record staff Brian Richards' radical plan as the new executive director of Mountain Town Stages is to return the nonprofit concert organization to its roots. With a new year and a new board, Richards is going back to music making at the local, intimate level, introducing the monthly Home Concert Series that invites the public to smallerscale musical experiences in local houses, a dramatic reversal from 2007 s grander events. "I think last year we got away from some of the things that Mountain Town Stages does well," he says. "We got away from our mission statement." Eliminating last year's addition of the phrase, "internationally recognized musical community." Richards has brought the wording back to the nonprofit's original task: "To produce, support and foster live music for the Park City and Summit County residents; to enhance their cultural experience." "We felt that because of that term, internationallyrecognized,' that we had to be bigger than we wanted to be," he explains. "But I believe if you focus on the things you do well and you do things that people connect with, and your hearts in the right place, then you will be recognized at an international level." The best example of what Richards calls Mountain Town Stages "year to leam from" was the Rocky Mountain Motorcycle Jam on July 7,2007. The event at The Canyons was intended to gross $25,000 and attract a large crowd that would cross state lines from Idaho and Wyoming. Instead, it lost the organization $50,000. "It really put us in a huge hole. For one day, it looked like Mountain Town Stages wouldn't be able to exist," CDfir>so he reveals. "We said, 'Whoa, did this really happen?' It really forced us to re-evaluate ourselves."' Before 2008, six members of the board and executive director Toby Martin, for various reasons, stepped down and Mountain Town Stages had taken out an operational loan. "Last year, I don't think we put our old executive director in a position to succeed - we took on huge events and we also added weekly Wednesday concerts at Deer Valley Resort," Richards says. "This year, we're going to concentrate on the stages we have - at Deer Valley, in Peoa, at The Canyons, and at La Casita. We're not going to try and bite off more than we can chew." Until the announcement of his appointment, Richards, who has served on the board of trustees for Mountain Town Stages for five years, was acting as president and as part of a committee searching for a new executive director. But after months of sifting through resumes, the job, it seemed, had his name on it. "We wanted someone who was familiar with the town, who understood how Park City works, and none of our applications fit the bill," he says. "I was doing so much work as the president, I thought, since I fit the profile and since I've been looking for a new challenge after operating (Orion's Music) for 10 years, it seemed like perfect timing." Among the changes Richards has already helped to make is to lighten up three-hour board meetings, asking each member to bring in a song at the start be it on CD SCOTT SINE/BWK RECORD Brian Richards, owner of Orion's Music Shop was appointPlease see Mountain Town, C-5 ed executive director of Mountain Town Stages this month. TWO FOR ONE DINNER* ^ V OFFER VALID* AT GHIDOTTI 'S, GRAPPA & WAHSO art Wednesday, March 19th -Thursday March 20th, 2008 NOT VALID ON FRIDAY OR SATURDAY - RfSERVATlONS APPRECIATED ^Receive a complimentary entree when you purchase another entre"e of equal or greater value. Please present coupon to server when ordering. Offer valid only when you use your American Express®, MasterCard®, Visa®, or Discover®. Offer cannot be combined with any other savings or offers. 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