The Thunderbird Wednesday, January 4, 1984 Page 9 tiay i $ 1 , xf U- - - ' wS. i Visitors to the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery have a choice of three different exhibits to view. Posters printed by the SUSC Art Guild during the 1982-8- 3 academic year will be displayed in the gallery foyer for several months. The Guild creates posters for the Short takes r educational experience and as a Above, right, is an example from the Ruth C. Snyder collection of acrylic paintings, watercolors and collages which will debut within the gallery on Thursday, Jan. 5. Light refreshments will be served at the opening reception fund-raise- One of our concerns is youve got to continually build your new audience, he d The little notes. ladies won't be there forever. The presentation will include a narrated slide show on the life and times of the Bard, an explanation of the three plays planned for the upcoming season this summer will feature Troilus and Cressida, The Taming of the Shrew and The Tempest and an discussion period. Fred Adams, producing director for the festival, will begin tt.e series Jan. 9. Faculty and staff members Douglas Baker, Gwen Sandberg and S.S. Moorty will also fake their turns behind the podium. Hopefully, were being funded for the next three or four years, si we hope we can hit every school in the ;tate, says Phillips. r. from 5 to 9 p.m. The artist vill present an illustrated lecture at 8 p.m. Navajo Weavings from the Judge John C. Ritter collection, curated by the Utah Arts Museum, will show concurrently with theSnyder exhibit. Tour goes on road gray-haire- Bard to high schools The Utah Shakespearean Festival will soon spread the literary legacy of William Shakespeare all over the state of Utah thanks to a grant from the Utah Endowment for the Flumanities. Secured by Wesley Larsen, development director for the festival, the grant will fund a lecture tour to 25 high schools within the state. R. Scott Phillips, festival publicity director, says the tour will not only Cultivate interest in Shakespearean studies and encourage high school graduates with theatrical interests to attend SUSC, but also stimulate young people to attend the annual summer renaissance. k open-ende- d Five northern Utah high schools will get a taste of SUSC showmanship, song and dance when Opus II and the theatre arts dance ensemble leave Cedar City Sunday, Jan. 8 for a week-lon- g public relations tour. Its an effort to help northern Utah understand Southern Utah State College, says Ronald D. Aden, director of Opus II. Adens contemporary-jaz- z choral group will perform several Gershwin pieces, including Fascinatin Rhythm, as well as medleys by Neil Diamond and other pop artists. The dance ensemble, under the direcfon of Burch Mann, distinguished artist ir. residence at SUSC, will present a series Oi American rural and ethnic , dances popularized during the 1880s and some 1920s jazz danced to the tune of Blues My Naughty Sweetie Taught Me. WIP tryouts set Auditions for the winter quarter Works in Progress will be held Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 5 p.m. in AU 108. No prepared pieces will be needed and any SUSC student is welcome to try out, according to R. Scott Phillips. Three student-directe- d pieces will be presented Jan. 20 and 21 at 8 p.m. in the Auditoriums studio theatre. Phillip Shelburne, senior theatre major, will direct selected scenes from Rosencrantz and Guildenstem Are Dead by Tom Stoppard. A director has not yet been chosen for Sincerely Yours, an original play by theatre major David Mills. i