Saturday, January 4, 2014

Folsom Lake College Announces Auditions For Spring Awakening

The Falcon’s Eye Theatre at Folsom Lake College announces auditions for Spring Awakening.

Audition Dates: January 27, 2014

How to Audition: Auditions are BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. Go to the Falcon’s Eye website falconseyetheatre.com, and click AUDITIONS. Follow prompts to make appointment.

Time: 6:30 – 10:30 p.m.

Callback Auditions: January 28 and 29 by invitation only.

Audition Location: Auditions will take place in The Dance Studio, PE building room 203, on the Folsom Main Campus of Folsom Lake College, 10 College Parkway (off E. Bidwell St.), Folsom.

Vocal Audition: Prepare a short song (approximately 16 bars) of your choice that highlights your vocal range. Please select a song in the rock-and-roll/Broadway style of Spring Awakening. You are welcome to sing a selection from the show if you’d like. Please bring sheet music in the correct key. An accompanist will be provided.

Dance Audition: You will be asked to participate in a dance audition. No preparation is necessary. However, auditioners MUST wear loose fitting attire and either ballet or jazz dance shoes. Be warmed up and stretched out, ready to move at the time of the appointment. No bare feet or socks will be permitted.

MonologueAudition: Auditioners MUST prepare a monologuethat is no more than 60-seconds-long from any play. Please no teleplays, screenplays or passages from novels or song lyrics. Also, please no original writing. This monologue should best portray the actor's strengths and can be of any genre. This monologue must be memorized.

Headshot and Resume: It is requested, but not required, that Auditioners bring a full-sized 8X10 photo-headshot and resume outlining training and performing experience for acting, dancing and singing.

Callbacks: Auditioners who are called back will also be asked to audition by way of cold readings from the text. Therefore, it is recommended that Auditioners be familiar with the story of Spring Awakening before auditioning. Call-backs are expected to run until approximately 10p.m.

Rehearsal Dates: Approximate dates and times are February 3 through April 9, 2014, evenings and some weekend afternoons. Minor conflicts with these dates will be considered permissible. Those with significant conflicts with these dates should not audition.

Performance Dates: April 10 through April 14, 2014, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:30p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2p.m. Performances will be held on Stage One at the Harris Center at Folsom Lake College.

For more information, please visit falconseyetheatre.com.

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Friday, January 3, 2014

Public Tours Of HGTV Dream Home 2014 At Schaffer's Mill Begin January 9th

Tours of the beautiful HGTV Dream Home 2014 at Schaffer’s Mill will begin Thursday, January 9th and continue every Thursday-Sunday from 10AM-4PM through February 14th.

Tickets to tour the home are $20 each and available online at schaffersmill.com. All proceeds from tour ticket sales will benefit the Tahoe Forest Health System Foundation. Schaffer’s Mill, a 475-acre, 400-homesite gated community and private club located just east of Truckee, was chosen by HGTV as the location for the HGTV Dream Home 2014 this past spring.

HGTV built and decorated the beautiful 3,200-plus square foot modern mountain retreat at Schaffer’s Mill. The HGTV Dream Home 2014 was revealed on HGTV on Wednesday, January 1st during a one-hour show. The network will now give the home away to one lucky winner through its HGTV Dream Home 2014 Giveaway.

“I recently toured the HGTV Dream Home and it is amazing,” said John Marlin, Managing Partner for Schaffer’s Mill. “If you have an opportunity to tour the home, I highly recommend it. Not only, is the architecture and decorating incredible, but the proceeds from tour ticket sales benefit a local Tahoe/Truckee charity -- the Tahoe Forest Health System Foundation.”

The HGTV Dream Home was designed by Truckee-based Ward-Young Architects and was built by Tanamera Builders. Blending traditional and contemporary forms, the home is designed with two wings: a living wing and a bedroom wing with large expanses of glass and sliding door systems to create transparent and direct connection between indoors and outdoors.

Past locations for the HGTV Dream Home include Kiawah Island, South Carolina in 2013, Park City, Utah in 2012, Stowe, Vermont in 2011 and Sandia Park, New Mexico in 2010. The Schaffer’s Mill community features home sites from the $200’s, Mountain Lodges from the $900’s and estate homes and luxury cabins from $1.2 million.

Open since 2008 and named after the “Father of Truckee,” George Schaffer, Schaffer’s Mill pays homage to Mr. Schaffer, his ideals and vision. Schaffer’s Mill is a private Golf and Lake Club. Memberships are available to those living inside or outside of the community.

For more information on Schaffer’s Mill or HGTV Dream Home 2014 tours, visit schaffersmill.com.

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Thursday, January 2, 2014

16th Annual Sacramento Museum Day Returns February 1

Imagine. Explore. Discover.  To the delight of the greater Sacramento area community, thirty local museums will offer free or half-priced admission from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, February 1, 2014, during the 16th Annual Sacramento Museum Day!

Two museums have recently joined the association and community-wide event, including the California Statewide Museum Collections Center and the Center For Sacramento History.  During the highly anticipated event, 28 of the 30 museums will offer free admission whereas two destinations located in residential areas -- the Sacramento Zoo and Fairytale Town -- will offer half-priced admission to offset parking control and security costs.  Coordinated by the Sacramento Association of Museums (SAM) and the Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau, this hugely popular event is proudly presented by Chipotle Mexican Grill.

Sacramento Museum Day, a popular Sacramento cultural tradition, is designed to encourage all members of the community to experience the Capital City’s incredible wealth of art, history, science and wildlife -- at little or no cost.  Many of the museums are within walking distance of each other and easily accessible via public transportation. Event coordinators suggest that guests plan to visit no more than two or three different museums on this day in order to allow adequate time to enjoy the experience and to travel between individual sites.

In addition to offering free or reduced cost admission, some of the destinations are offering special activities during Sacramento Museum Day.    For instance, the Aerospace Museum will offer an “open cockpit” day where most aircraft will be open for viewing (weather permitting), a children's art contest and on-site exhibitors such as the Tuskegee Airmen.  And, some of today’s big monster tractors will hit the road to make a special trip to be on display at the Heidrick Ag History Center in Woodland.

“We are very excited to continue this popular annual tradition and we are proud to welcome two new museums to the event this year,” said Sacramento Association of Museums Chair Kristina Swanson. “With each passing year, more and more community members are introduced to the amazing array of arts, culture and museum offerings available in the Sacramento region.  And, we are especially pleased that Chipotle Mexican Grill has continued as a title sponsor.  The support of generous corporate sponsors is invaluable and helps to make Sacramento Museum Day possible each year.”

While admission is free at 28 of the participating museums during Sacramento Museum Day, admission to two destinations located in residential areas are half-priced as follows:  Sacramento Zoo is $5.75 for adults, $3.75 for children ages 2-11 and free for children under two;  Fairytale Town is $2.50 per person and free for children ages one and under.

Due to the popularity of Sacramento Museum Day, some locations must limit the number of admissions for safety reasons.   The event is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. but note the last guests will be admitted at 4 p.m.  More detailed information about participating museums, addresses, limitations, suggested parking and public transit options is available at sacmuseums.org (click on “Events”), or by calling the Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau at (916) 808-7777.

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Wind Song Animal Sanctuary - 2014 Workday January 4

Happy New Year!

Wind Song Animal Sanctuary will be having a workday at the sanctuary. Volunteers are needed!

Calling all volunteers and anyone who would be able to help on Saturday, January 4 at 8a.m.

Calling all volunteers and anyone who would be able to help.  With your time and skills, and this string of warm weather, we are planning a workday to help the animals. Here is a list of things that they will be working on:
  • Fix Fencing, Arena Panels, Pipe Barn Panel
  • Replace tarp roof on pigs house
  • Tractor to move manure piles from barn to manure pile
  • Weed eating star thistle around paddocks
  • Grooming horses; Trimming goats and pigs hooves
  • Clean pigs and goats pens
  • General clean-up, maintenance, trimming and raking
Please bring your own tools, equipment and friends and family to make this a fun and rewarding day with the animals.  Community Service hours available for high school students. 

If you are unable to attend and would like to make a donation for supplies, please go visit windsonganimals.org and note your donation as "Supplies."

All donations will benefit the 60+ senior and special needs animals  at Wind Song!

For more information, please visit windsonganimals.org.

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Monday, December 30, 2013

Keep Dance In Our Community—Consider A Donation This Holiday Season

Stages-Folsom Dance Arts has been working hard to keep dance alive and accessible to families, friends and supporters.

Through concert programming and special community outreach projects outreach projects, Stages continues to bring the art of dance to a diverse population!

You Can Make A Difference
Your donation to their non-profits arts group can make a huge difference. This is why they hope you will make consider donating a generous contribution as possible to the Stages-Folsom Dance Arts.

Giving Is Easy
Just click on this link or call the office to process a charge over the phone at 916-355-8080. You can also mail a check to Stages-Folsom Dance Arts, 118 Woodmere Rd., Folsom, CA, 95630.

Stages is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization so your donations is tax deductible. ID #: 68-0389088.

Your support is appreciated! For more information, please visit stages-folsom.org.

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