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Show - ' ; ,-. ! '"''I ill tn '. , 'it li'- i f II f l A ., -ill ill : I 1 I f -f-r,v i hi if 11 ' s4 - , Will- V V Kl v-. :r Ai a i v " fJ ' Hi ' v t' fA : - A crowd from the 1982 Arts Festival takes in the sights. picture's trained bear. Sometimes, it's difficult to get an animal to go through the moves you need for the scene. But today the action was captured in one or two takes, and director Richard seemed pleased. One scene was a-bit' of outhouse humor. The three kids were waiting outside, in obvious discomfort. Then the door opened, and the bear lumbered out. What the audience isn't supposed to see is the trainer, off camera, luring the bear away with food. Some of the actors don't need food, however. According Accor-ding to the director, the bear will follow Flower like a dog after his master. Others in the cast are new to animals, and to feature motion pictures. Anne Czesny, as the oldest of the children, is appearing in her second picture. She's 15 years old, and has been appearing ap-pearing in commercials since she was 9. She has completed complet-ed one year at Skyline High School. The drama class there gave her the experi- Utah Arts Festival offers something for everyone ence, for the first time, of acting in front of people instead of a camera. The third child is played by " 10-year-old Shane Wallace of Orem. Richard said that Generic Films is just what it sounds like. "We have no frills. Everything we spend goes on the screen," he said. After Af-ter "Children of the North Woods," which will be released in October, Richard has six or seven other projects in the v; orks. "I don't care about Hollywood," he said. "If I did, I'd be there." Regardless Regard-less of the subject, he said, "I want to make quality motion pictures." The Utah Arts Festival returns again this week to the streets of Salt Lake, with a variety of live performing arts, movies and visual feasts. The Utah Arts Festival began seven years ago as the Salt Lake Festival of the Arts. Since then, with increasing in-creasing interest from art-. art-. ists and the public, the festival has grown to include a billboard project, a phone booth theatre and a wide spectrum of arts programming. program-ming. It is the only statewide, state-wide, state supported festival festi-val in the nation. It is a joint effort of the state, city, county, with help from private corporations and more than 1,500 volunteers who donate thousands of hours. ' The festival runs Wednesday, Wednes-day, June 22 through Sunday, Sun-day, June 26. Hours are 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday. It is located in downtown Salt Lake on West Temple, on the plazas and, Sidewalks of the Salt W'ce Center, Salt Lake Art Center and Symphony Hall. ' For the festival's billboard project, three designs were selected from 94 entries. Each design selected has been handpointed on a 14' x 48' billboard by the artist and reproduced on twenty 21 '8" x 10' billboards by Reagan Outdoor Advertising. The paintings will loom above festival guests as they walk through the grounds. The 60 reproductions of the three -: designs will be set up in locations throughout the state and will remain up throughout the month of June. Seventy visual artists from Utah and other states in the Intermountain West have been selected to participate in the festival. The artists will bring arts and crafts including pottery, stained glass, textiles, paintings, woodwork and jewelry to display and sell from their booths on the plaza and lawn in front of Symphony Hall. Once again the Children's Art Yard will be the focal point of the festival for children and their parents. Each year the art yard offers participatory arts activities for children, including painting, paint-ing, pottery, weaving, singing, sing-ing, dancing and theatre performances. This year children will share in the construction of giant scare-' crows and a life-size papier-mache papier-mache cave dwelling alcri with the making of a community quilt ana a group weaving. Children can create fanciful sculptures at the art yard's beach, a 40' x 8' sandbox complete with a backdrop of blue sky and seagulls. The performing arts schedule is a rare mix of ballet, opera, rock 'n' roll, jazz, bluegrass, ethnic and modern dance. Utah's acclaimed ac-claimed Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company will perform per-form on the main stage, Thursday at 8 p.m. The main stage features Ballet West at 8 p.m. on Friday, and the Utah Symphony joined by the Utah Opera Company at 8 p.m. Saturday. Colorful food booths and carts will offer a variety of drinks and food, spicy Creole and cajun seafood, Japanese jakitori, barbequed shark, savory Navajo tacos, Chicago-style geordanos and red-hots red-hots and Caribbean and West Indian seafood. The festival's demonstrating demonstrat-ing craftsmen will be on hand daily from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. to demonstrate the techniques used in water-witching, water-witching, rope making, basket bas-ket weaving and rug braiding. braid-ing. They will also teach, festival guests the art of making Armenian rugs, bagpipes, bag-pipes, dulcimers and Kabuki. masks plus much more. Friday, June 24 at 7:15 p.m. in Symphony Hall, Pinchas and Eugenia Zu-cherman, Zu-cherman, violinist and flutist, flut-ist, will perform chamber music to support the Sundance Sun-dance Institute and the Utah Arts Festival. Tickets are $10 and $12 and are tax-deductible. tax-deductible. They are available avail-able at the Utah Symphony box office, 123 West South Temple in Salt Lake City. In a tribute to music's donation to film, the Utah Arts Festival in cooperation with the Utah Media Center is presenting Music and Movies as this year's film event. Ten musical hits from 1935 to 1981 will take to the screen in the Creer Auditorium Auditor-ium at the Salt Lake Art Center. Festival guests can see Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers dance to the music of Irving Berlin in "Top Hat" or the Beatles rocking and rolling in "A Hard Day's Night." Other classics to be screened are "The Magic Flute," by Ingmar Bergman, Berg-man, "Cabaret," Bob Fosse's academy award film starring Liza Minnelli and "Dumbo," Walt Disney's animated film. The films will be shown at 1 p.m., 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. daily. Admission Admis-sion is free. |