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Idaho Dance Theatre presents: Pre- Flight: A Preview Performance
Ming Studios
Sunday October 9 at 7pm
$7 at the door for non-members
The performance features excerpts from Idaho Dance Theatre’s upcoming shows, Taking Flight: A New Generation. Here is a glimpse of what to expect.
Anna Adaska's, Communion of One, Solitude of Many, performed to lively acoustic guitar, captures the joy of community through movement.
Nathan Powell’s new work, A Four Sided Triangle, is a dive into classical ballet with a slight twist. Elements of the dancers’ true colors come across in this energetic work with music by Dvorak and Entheil.
Marla Hansen’s, Scenarios, takes us on a journey of five contrasting moods with evocative music performed by the Balanescu String quartet. Starting with a mirage and ending with a road trip, we experience a gamut of emotions.
Lemuel Reagan’s, With Mother and Father, is about social and individual abuse. With music that is energetic to slow and resolute, we are shown, in a poetic fashion, the consequential fragmentation of the collective and individual.
MING Studios
Tonight! Intimate music in an intimate space: MING Studios
I'll be performing nothing but the hits. The ones you've heard, the ones you haven't, and the ones that exist as hits only in the liminal space that is the intersection between art and commerce. With Jake Marchus and Frankie Tillo
See all your lucky faces very soon...
This Sunday at MING Studios. Come hear me sing my songs with a small band:
Jake Marchus and Frankie Tillo.
It’s going to be very very good and you will come up to me afterwards and thank me for insisting that you come instead of staying home and streaming a mediocre TV show. You’re welcome.
“Nothing to See Here,” is actually two bodies of work that Claassen put together. Both are based loosely on a series he did over 20 years ago based on the Idaho State Seal. He said he’s intrigued by insignia, seals and badges because they seem to be based on a consensus of what a country is like but these things often don’t really represent what a country is.
The exhibit at MING Studios has an opening reception on Saturday, March 19 at 7 p.m., followed by a sketchbook share Saturday, April 2 at 3 p.m., and a community art talk Saturday, April 16 at 3 p.m. The show runs from March 19 to April 23.
Looking for a unique and inspiring sound experience? Look no further than MING Studios’ My____on Mondays. Every Monday, MING Studios publishes a new audio, performance or experimental piece where only one rule applies: the title must begin with the determiner “My”.
With 30 episodes in the can, MING compiled for us a fun mix of narratives, art and sound from the archive.
Episode 1: My Concrete Mondays
Episode 2: My Soundscape Ecology
Episode 3: My 54 Word Poems
Episode 5: My Vending Machine Poetry Dream
Episode 9: My Mondays in Sarajevo
Episode 10: My Vigil
Episode 11: My Dirty Fingernails
Episode 14: My Harmonium
Episode 18: My Frankenstein Monster
Episode 30: My Six Yaks
What’s your “My”? Drop us a line in the Comments, and head to
www.mingstudios.org to listen to episodes or submit your unique approach and perspective to this concept.
Earlier this year, Mayor McLean and the Boise City Department of Arts and History announced Boise Contemporary Theater as the 2022-23 City of Boise Cultural Ambassador. Since their first production in 1996, Boise Contemporary Theater has been committed to telling new, interesting stories and inspiring our community to examine their perspective the perspectives of those around them.
The City of Boise Cultural Ambassador Program was created in 2010, and past ambassadors include Anthony Doerr, Treefort Music Fest and the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Last year's ambassador was MING Studios.
Left to right: Director of Arts & History Terri Schorzman, Boise Contemporary Theater Producing Artistic Director Benjamin Burdick, MING Studios Founder Jason Morales
Last night, alumnus Cultural Ambassador MING Studios met with current City of Boise Boise Contemporary Theater to relay the baton and exchange best practices at BCT’s theater location on Fulton Street.
During his tenure and despite the pandemic, Founder Jason Morales and his team at MING Studios continued to build on and create new partnerships with arts and educational programs abroad, bringing weekly online artist screenings from Europe, and hosting and featuring solo and group exhibitions by local and international artists. In response to COVID-19, MING Studios also developed new programming, like the popular “My _____ on Mondays”, and offered its space for studio usage to local artists for free.
As Cultural Ambassador, Producing Artistic Director Benjamin Burdick and his Team at BCT will continue the theater’s legacy of outreach to teachers and schools through the Academy for Contemporary Theater and the Theater Lab programs, and build on the success of its inaugural playwright’s festival. While still in the early stages of planning, Benjamin hopes to commission a play with themes that are both specific to Idaho, and universal enough to take to other theaters around the country and potentially beyond.
Image: Director of Arts & History Terri Schorzman (left) and Jason Morales (right) hand Cultural Ambassador award to Benjamin Burdick (middle).
Thanks MING Studios ❤️
Congratulations to Boise Contemporary Theater for being named the next City of Boise’s Cultural Ambassador!
During her State of the City Address, Mayor McLean touched on the importance of memorializing our stories so future generations can understand how we weathered this period of growth and change, together, making the storytellers at BCT a perfect fit for this role.
Of this appointment, Producing Artistic Director Ben Burdick says:
"As a theater that values collaboration and connection within the community, BCT will continue to make our thought-provoking main-stage productions, as well as our education programs, accessible to as many Boiseans as possible. We look forward to partnering with the City to promote Boise’s exemplary arts organizations within our own community, across the country and internationally."
Our sincere thanks to MING Studios for leading in this role for the last two years, and for meeting the challenges faced during the coronavirus pandemic with flexibility, creativity, and innovation.
The City of Boise Cultural Ambassador is appointed by the Mayor of Boise every odd-numbered year, for two years. Acting as Boise’s honorary representative to the world, the Cultural Ambassador engages with national and international audiences through the public expression of culture that helps develop, document, research, share, or reflect upon Boise’s cultural life.
Images: Boise Contemporary Theater by Brooke Burton; Theater Lab (2 & 3) and The Wolves by Andy Lawless
ANNOUNCING …the recipients of grant funding for fiscal year 2022! 26 organizations will receive grant awards between $5,000 and $3,000 for cultural projects that occur between October 1, 2021 and September 30, 2022 and benefit Boise residents.
The recipients are:
*Alzheimer’s Association: Greater Idaho
*Argos Productions
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Boise Gay Men's Chorus & Boise Women's Chorus
Boise Baroque Orchestra
Boise Philharmonic
Boise Rock School
*FARE Idaho
*Flamencos United
Foote Park Project – Foundation for Idaho History (Idaho State Historical Society)
GlobalLounge
HomeGrown Theatre
Idaho Dance Theatre - IDT
Idaho Film Foundation
Idaho Shakespeare Festival
LED
*Lost Grove Brewing
MING Studios
Opera Idaho
KRBX, Radio Boise - 89.9/93.5 FM
Story Story Night
TAG Historical Research & Consulting
The Boise Chordsmen
*The Twisted Ewe, a yarn shop
*Treefort Community Fund (Treefort Music Fest)
TRICA Children's Arts
*indicates first-time recipients
Congratulations to everyone! Learn more about their projects by heading to
www.boiseartsandhistory.org.
Read press release:
https://bit.ly/2WpGvHU
Images: Arts & History Grant Recipients Boise Gay Men’s & Women’s Choruses, Story Story Night, Meaghan Novoa, and Idaho Office for Refugees
City of Boise
OPPORTUNITIES: 2021 Mayor's Appreciation Day for Arts, History, & Culture Performances AND City of Boise Cultural Ambassador
Learn more and apply!
https://bit.ly/3zMBBUD
As a government agency and with a responsibility to support Boise’s creative and cultural sector, we have striven to bring about several initiatives this past year to support the creative community in a time of crisis. We are excited to open two more for Boise area creative and cultural workers.
2021 MAYOR'S APPRECIATION DAY FOR ARTS, HISTORY, & CULTURE PERFORMANCES
In lieu of the biennial Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in Arts & History, the 2021 Mayor’s Appreciation Day for Arts, History, & Culture will create an opportunity for our community to come together in celebration of our broader cultural sector with performances by and compensation for these irreplaceable workers.
We invite Boise area artists, performers, and organizations to submit applications for the opportunity to perform during the first ever Mayor’s Appreciation Day for Arts, History, & Culture, scheduled for September 9, 2021 on City Hall Plaza. We encourage artists to showcase existing work, however, new work may also be submitted.
Learn more and apply through July 19, 2021!
https://bit.ly/2SUtLaV
CITY OF BOISE CULTURAL AMBASSADOR
Every odd-numbered year, the Mayor of Boise appoints a local arts organization and/or individual as Cultural Ambassador to exemplify the best of Boise’s vibrant and diverse cultural community and to represent our city to the world. Awardees are offered funding for a two-year term of service. MING Studios is the current .
Applications for the City of Boise Cultural Ambassador for fiscal years 2022 & 2023 are open through July 19, 2021. The next Cultural Ambassador will be announced at the 2021 Mayor’s Appreciation Day for Arts, History, & Culture on September 9, 2021.
Learn more and apply!
https://bit.ly/2TRDGya
Find out more about the City of Boise's Cultural Leadership programs:
https://bit.ly/3zMBBUD
Image: Performance by Shimi Tree at 2017 World Village Fest by former City of Boise Cultural Ambassador and Recipient GlobalLounge
Mayor McLean