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Show Utah Arts Festival Opens in Salt Lake June 23 ... . . - . films featured this year are: "stagecoach" with. John Wayne, Claire Trevor and John Carradine; "Bad Day at Black Rock" -with Spencer Tracy and Lee Marvin; 'Little Big Man" with Dustin Hoffman and Faye Dunaway; and "Rancho Deluxe" De-luxe" with Sam Waterson land Jeff Bridges. . W f ,ey. -rv- T.hy v -r "fn ni iinmnii ii V I'll ii' V fi itv" n 'nil" ..;.. dftivM . V , i . fm W. : .. men will exhibit and sell their work during the Festival. Festi-val. Arts and crafts will represent the entire spectrum spec-trum of visual arts including ceramics, wood working jewelry, fiber, printmaking, stained glass and photography. photo-graphy. Four large scale artists projects will be set up throughout the Festival. These projects are designed to involve the Festival goer with the artist. Artist Gyll . Huff will film video portraits - of Festival guests and show the tapes daily on a large screen at the Festival. Artist Chad Buck has created life-size figures of a man that guests will discover, search for, and rediscover as they walk through the Festival. Festival goers will watch as a 'work of art, created in the "Site as Studio' project by , Ed Dolinger, evolves during the Festival. Artist Stephen Taft's neon forms, hung on the Symphony Hall and Art Center walls, will create an electrifying atmosphere and wilL challenge guests to . figure out their underlying meaning. area with projects designed to amuse and entertain children between the ages of three and five. . This year demonstrating artists will demonstrate the art of making both traditional and ethnic crafts in one hour and three hour sessions. A special event will be demonstration demon-stration of Raki, the ancient Japanese art of making and firing pottery. Other demonstrations demon-strations will include violine construction, quilt making, ice sculpture, willow furniture furni-ture making and Tongan Tapa cloth and mat making. Demonstrations begin daily at 12:30 p.m. and continue until 8:00 p.m. on the Demonstrating Artists stage north of the Bistro. Sidewalk cafes, colorful booths and carts will serve a variety of traditional and ethnic foods to hungry Festival guests. Navajo, tacos, crepes, quiche, traditional tradi-tional South American food, oysters and clams on the half shell and Chinese food will tempt any appetite at the Festival. The performing word is a celebration of prose, poetry Camp Curtain Up opens on Monday, June 14 at the Egyptian Theatre. This day camp for performing arts is for children entering second through eighth grades. Each session runs two weeks, Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 3 PM. Children will be involved in acting, mime, dance, makeup, music and more. Each session includes a journey to Salt Lake City's Pioneer Memorial Theatre to see the Afternoon Players. Instructors include Don Gomes, Carroll Horton, Leslie Luyken, Sydney Reed, Steve Hunt, Lynn O'Toole and Susan Jarman. Anyone interested should call Park City Performances at 649-9371. The sixth annual Utah Arts Festival will be held June 23.: through June 27. The Festival is held outdoors in the Bicentennial Arts Complex Com-plex on West Temple Street in downtown Salt Lake City. It began as the Salt Lake Festival of the Arts and has since expended to include works and performances by artists from all over Utah and the intermountain West, making it a major cultural event. The Festival includes performance groups, visual artists, demonstrating craftsmen, crafts-men, poets, artist projects, a wide variety of ethnic foods and the popular Children's Art Yard in an ongoing display of the arts from 11 a.m. until 11 p.m. daily. This year the Festival is embarking on its first theatre project with the western premier of "Diamond Stud" "Diamond Studs" is a light, humorous, foot stomping, bluegrass musical - based on the life of Jesse James. The musical will be staged in a large yellow and white tent theatre located between the Salt Palace and the Salt Lake Art Center. Starring in the play as the notorious Jesse James will beJim Stoddard wtih Marsha Miller splaying the role of his , - cohort, Belle Starr. The play will be directed by Frances Royster, with Evelyn Bartho-lmew Bartho-lmew as musical director and Linda C. Smith as choreographer. choreo-grapher. It will open Tuesday, June 22, at 8 p.m. and run Wednesday, through Saturday with two performances daily at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. A concluding matinee performance will be .held Sunday, June 27 at 2 p.m. During the Festival, tickets for all performances may be obtained free of charge from the information booth located at the north end of the Festival grounds. Two outdoor stages, the Main and Bistro Stages, will be located at the north and south ends of the Festival grounds. On them, the Festival will offer performances perfor-mances daily. Highlights will include performances by the Utah Symphony (Wednesday, (Wed-nesday, June 23. at 8:15 . p.m., The Repertory Dance Theatre (Friday, June 25 at 8:00 p.m., Ballet West (Saturday, June 26 at 8:00 p.m.), the Utah Opera Company (Wednesday, June 23 at 6:45 p.m.) and the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company Com-pany (Thursday, June 24 at 8:00 p.m.). Other performances perfor-mances will include ethnic dances, chamber music, jazz ensembles, bluegrass groups and recitals by contestants in the Gina Bachauer Interna-tionakPiano Interna-tionakPiano Competition, Wednesday through Saturday at 6:00 p.m. on the Main Stage. IV . rT I J'TF-xp: ' I I ;. , J m5 tC. .Jsi? LTX Indian Art at Festival and plays with daily readings by Black, Native American, Japanese and Utah authors. Included in the readings are works by Dorothy Solomon, a prose writer who will read from her award winning autobiography about polygamy. poly-gamy. Also included will be award winning poet Lorraine Ferra who will read from her works and Susan Bagley and students of theatre who will do dramatization of Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide Sui-cide - When the Rainbow is Enuf." Readings will be held in the Creer Auditorium of the Salt Lake Art Center. This year's film event will be presented by the Utah Media Center. The event will feature Western films dating from 1939 until 1978. They will be shown at 12 p.m., 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. daily at the Salt Lake Art Center Auditorium. A few of the The Children's Art Yard features participatory activities activi-ties for children and their parents. Children will learn how to paint, weave, build and work with clay. This year, the Art Yard's theme is the Ice Age. Children will create and decorate sabor-toothed sabor-toothed tigers and a giant papier-mache woolly mammoth, mam-moth, complete with its long tusks and woolly body. They ; can sit or stand in a large fabricated cave whose interior inter-ior has been decorated with pictographs and petroglyphs reminiscent of the ice age. Children will be provided with opportunities to build an architectural structure on the Art Yard grounds, decorate a totem pole and see performances by the Children's Dance Theatre, the Utah Opera Company, the Children's Theatre Company Com-pany and more. There will also be a special preschool |