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KIRILL GERSTEIN / MAY 16 2017-2018 SEASON / NOW on SALE April-June 2017 Volume 13, No MAY 2017 LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO MAY 18-20 | 8 P.M. EMEL MATHLOUTHI / MAY 13 KIRILL GERSTEIN / MAY 16 2017-2018 SEASON / NOW ON SALE April-June 2017 Volume 13, No. 6 Paul Heppner Publisher SPRING 2017 Sara Keats, Jonathan Shipley Encore Stages Editors Susan Peterson Contents Design & Production Director Ana Alvira, Robin Kessler, 4 Time to Act: Shaun Swick, Stevie VanBronkhorst Arts Patrons Can Protect Production Artists and Graphic Design Arts and Culture Mike Hathaway 9 Dressed for the Part: A WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL Sales Director Brieanna Bright, Joey Chapman, Harmony Arnold, Ann Manning, Rob Scott Costume Designer Based on the novel by Jane Austen Seattle Area Account Executives Book by Harold Taw Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed Dialogue Music and Lyrics by Chris Jeffries San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives 13 Encore Stages in Jonathan Shipley conversation with Ad Services Coordinator Janelle Velasquez JUL 12 - AUG 19 Carol Yip Sales Coordinator and Seán Griffin taproottheatre.org 206.781.970 7 Sara Keats, Jonathan Shipley Intermission Brain Transmission Online Editors 204 N 85th St 15 Test yourself with our Seattle, WA trivia quiz Encore Stages is an Encore Arts PROFESSIONAL THEATRE IN Leah Baltus A NEIGHBORHOOD SETTING Editor-in-Chief Program that features stories about Paul Heppner our local arts community side-by-side Publisher with information about performances. 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Painters and photographers in the future of the arts in of all levels of experience are hanging There were shockwaves felt nationwide when the White House released the America. their group show at the Mount Baker Neighborhood Center for the Arts. Three proposed 2018 federal budget. The Dollar Bill Cinema hosts a transgender budget calls for the elimination of the film festival, and there is a poetry slam at National Endowment for the Arts, Hugo House. Little kids are performing the National Endowment for the hip-hop at the Creative Dance Center, Humanities, and the Corporation for and the curtain rises on The Magic Flute Public Broadcasting. If the budget is at the Seattle Opera. There are original approved and, indeed, these historic paintings on the walls of our coffee institutions are eliminated, Seattle's shops and performances in the streets. arts and culture will be affected. Randy Engstrom, Director of Seattle’s Office of Seattle is bursting with art. Our citizens Arts and Culture, says, in a statement and, in turn, our city government, value issued in March, that the action “will the arts and support them generously. have profound economic and societal Art is everywhere because of arts impacts in Seattle and throughout the funding, and recently, one key source c o u n tr y.” 4 ENCORE STAGES “In times like these, when people feel stress and division, it’s the arts where Destination Retirement... we find meaning and solace,” says Luxury Living in Sunny Sequim Kristina Goetz, Artist Trust’s Director of Development. “Artist Trust helps make the telling of that truth possible.” Fidelma McGinn, Vice President of the Seattle Foundation, believes in the power arts can wield. “Our mission [at the Seattle Foundation] is to ignite powerful, rewarding philanthropy to make greater Seattle a strong, more vibrant community for all.” Patrons get ready to GiveBIG Patrons of the arts—theatre Designed with you in mind: audiences, museum members, The Lodge is an elegant full service, independent retirement community concert subscribers—are citizen offering fine dining, spacious apartments and individual cottages. philanthropists. 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Each individual group 2016/17 designs and implements an individual campaign for GiveBIG donations, but the collective energy of the day gives every organization a boost. Seattle is prepared Seattle is in a fortunate position to be generally well-equipped to weather budget cuts by way of the White House. “The city of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture has seen its budget increase significantly, thanks in large part to the 1% for Arts plan, and the admission of tax surpluses propelled by the likes of Chihuly Garden and Glass and the Great Wheel,” says McGinn. In the early 1970s, Seattle established a comprehensive system for assuring that creativity would remain a part of civil life in perpetuity. The city instituted the progressive 1% for Art ordinance, which has since become a model other cities have replicated worldwide. The proposal stipulated that, noted a Seattle Times article at the time, "All requests for appropriations for construction projects from eligible funds shall include an amount equal to one (1) percent of the estimated cost of such project for works of art" and that those monies would go for the "selection, acquisition, and/or installation of works JUNE 30 & JULY 1 of art to be placed in, on, or about A LIVE PRESENTATION OF public facilities.” In 2015, McGinn notes, the city invested 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY $3 million to support more than 360 individuals and institutions. Following Pablo Rus Broseta, conductor Trump’s proposed NEA cuts, Engstrom Experience Stanley Kubrick’s spellbinding, Academy Award®-winning masterpiece. Recognized as one of the greatest works of science fiction cinema, 2001: A Space at the Office of Arts and Culture issued Odyssey is acclaimed for its technological realism, boldness and inspired use of music. a statement, which says, in part: Watch the film on the big screen with the iconic score, featuring the epic opening “Our office envisions a city driven by scene set to Also sprach Zarathustra by R. Strauss, performed live by the Seattle Symphony. creativity that provides the opportunity In association with Warner Bros., Southbank Centre London and the British Film Institute. to engage in diverse arts and cultural experiences.” Mari Horita is the President and CEO of ArtsFund, an organization that gives FOR TICKETS: to the local arts community through 206.215.4747 | SEATTLESYMPHONY.ORG leadership, advocacy and grant making. 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