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Show TheSaltLakeTribune _ ly : ppt SUMBAY © MEANS ON-MOVIES, D-3. mJACKGOODMAN, D-3 BOOKS, D-5 MARTSLISTINGS, D-7-10 PUZZLES, D-4 PUZZLE ANSWERS, D-6 MARCH11, 2001 Steve Griffin/The Salt Lake Tribune Poet Judy Jordan survived a hardscrabble childhood and has since added two masterof fine arts degrees to her résumé — including onefrom the University of Utah, whichis what broughtherto Salt LakeCity. Another opee eee Gold Starfor Judy Jordan Trent Nelson/TheSalt Lake Tribune Ben Cameronisthe national president of Theatre Communications Group. He wasin town for meetings at Salt Lake Acting Company. The Cameron Philosophy Reinventing the role ofart in the Age of Technology BY CELIA R. BAKER q ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE You don’t know anyonelike Ben Cameron. Tall, shiny-pated and quick to smile, Cameron is easy to notice. Things get more interesting whenhe speaks. The wordscrackle ata light- df ning pace; the thoughts are wide-ranging and » emerge fully formed. You don’t know anyone whothinks the way es he thinks. In a keynote speech he delivered last year, Cameron imagined taking a walk through a Target store, divesting it of the impact ofarts, artists and arts instruction. nonprofit theaters. His understanding of the business world andhisreference to Target are not coincidental — he was formerly senior program officer for Dayton Hudson Foundation, then manager of communityrelations for Target Stores (a Dayton Hudson subsidiary), su- pervising a $51 million national program for arts, education andsocial action. There's more. From 1990-92, Cameron was director of the National Endowmentfor the Arts theater pro- * “The music over the loudspeakersis clearly the first to go — something not everyone ad) mittedly may regret, but there you are,” says Cameron. The audio and entertainment departments,booksection andfashion racks are also gone. Missing, too, are the clever designs of housewares, furniture, makeup and jewelry. The advertisers that keep the business viable disappear; the planners who display the merchandise attractively are missing; and the architects who designed the building don't exist. “Tn short, we're outin a field, where no one can find us or be aware thatweexist, trying to sell generic products in unappealing packaging.” Cameron is executive director of Theatre Communications Group, a New York City- gram. His unusual combination of top-level experiencein the disparate universesofarts, government and business makes it possible for Cameron to forge if among all three. He wasin Salt LakeCity recently at the invitation of Salt Lake Acting Company to talk with SLAC managers, other theater professionals and community leaders eGeds SUC olfa Friday & Saturday, March 23 & 24 AbravanelHall, 8 p.m. BY MELINDA MILLER i ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE : Utah writer Judy Jordan will be reading her poetry for an audience at Westminster College on Thursday. By the time she takes the stage, everyone there will knowif they are hearing the winnerof the 2000 National BookCritics Circle Award for Poetry, for her book Carolina Ghost Woods. The awards — amongthe mostprestigious literary prizes in this country — will be announced Mondaynight. But, as theysay,it is an honor even to be nominated. “I’m sort ofassumingI won't win,” Jordan,39, said from. her homein Salt Lake City a day before flying to New York City for the awards presentation. “I’m going to see three different plays — I'm kindof excited — and we're all [the nominees] doinga little reading on Sunday night — about five minutes each.” e Jordan is guessing 7 the poetry award could go to Yusef for his book Talking Dirty to the Gods. She admires Komunyakaa’s work, and besides, he about the national and local role of arts in was nominated before, in 1998, and also won a Pulitzer Prize. She looks forward to hearing him read. Meanwhile, win or lose, Carolina Ghost Woods will have another honor to stamp onits cover — alongside the society. The mantras of corporate practice spring from this man’s tongue with Stephen R. from the American AcademyofPoets.”It also received the 2000 Utah Bookofthe Year Award for Poetry and earned its See CAMERON,Page D-6 See JORDAN,Page D-5 based national organization for professional The Utah Symphony plays Utah authorof ‘Carolina Ghost Woods’ nominated for the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry “THE SALE” March I 1-March 31 spotthat says “Winner of the 1999 Walt Whitman Award All the world's a stage and he plays every sceneto the hilt! BJORN STOVA This spectacular program features Carter Brey in Elgar's hauntingly beautiful Cello Concerto, Britten'selectrifying FourSeaInterludes and Rachmaninoff’s mostcolorful work for orchestra, The Symphonic Dances. 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