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Show M.I.A. MUSIC FESTIVAL SET FOR JUNE9-12 IN S.L Two major festivals featuring more than 2,500 young people in music and drama will highlight the annual MIA June Conference "of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saint when it meets in Salt Lake City June 9, 10. II and 12, it was announced today by General President Bertha S. Reeder and General Supt. Joseph T. Bentley. The festivals will be the greatest youth drama and music festivals in the world featuring young people from all over the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The drama festival of one-act plays and roadshows will begin the conference festival work on Thursday Thurs-day with two performances, one at 5:30 p.m. and one at 8:30 p.m. This festival will be repeated at the same times on Fr'day and on Saturday. All performances will be at the Terrace, 464 South Main Street. The music festival will be presented pre-sented on Friday and Saturday from the Tabernacle on Temple Square. There will be two performances each night, at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. The MlA conference is a training conference for leaders of the LDS Church's youth program. Thousands Thous-ands of leaders gather at Salt Lake City for department workshops and general instruction sessions. All workers En the program are urged to attend and others interested are welcome. General conference seat-sions seat-sions are scheduled to begin Friday, June 10. For the first time this year drama festival parthcipants and all friends of the drama will be invited to participate par-ticipate tin an after-theatre supper on Saturday, June I I at 10 p.m. at the Terrace. The drama festival will present about 30 of the best one-act plays prepared and presented by the wards of the church during the past year. The plays selected for this conference showing were chosen in stake and division competition throughout the church. Plays coming com-ing will represent many states, Canada, Can-ada, and Mexico. More than 500 young thespians will be on the boards during the conference performance. 1 he play will be produced on three stages simultaneously in the Terrace. There will be two proscenium proscen-ium stages and one arena (in-the-round) stage. Tickets for drama productions and the first annual after-theatre supper are now available in MIA offices at 40 or 50 No. Main in Salt Lake City. The mua)',c festival, based on the theme "This Is My Father' World", will feature a 2,000 voice chorus of young people from 16 to 25 years of age. Young people will come from 1 80 stakes of the church including in-cluding besides Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Ari-zona, and California, auch distant areas as Florida, Canada, Seattle, Washington, D. C., St. Louis, New Orleans, and Mexico. The chorus will ng music from 1 8 different countries and will be supplemented by special choreography choreo-graphy of dances native to me of those countries. The dance numbers will be costumed end staged. Climax will come with the processional pro-cessional of flags when 1 80 flag bearers will enter the Tabernacle from all entrances carrying flags from the 90 countries of the world. Each flag bearer will be fully costumed cos-tumed in the style of dress for the country of the flag being carried Entrance will be to original music for brass ensemble written by Crawford Craw-ford Gate. |