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Art In The Park Sunday At City Park
by Bob
Lowe
July 23, 2004
The
annual "Art in the Park" juried exhibition, sponsored
by the Appleton Art Center, will be held from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. Sunday July 25 at City Park in downtown Appleton. The
event attracts an estimated 20,000 people each year and will
feature artwork and crafts from more than 200 artists and
exhibitors. Also featured will be the nonjuried "Art
off the Park" on the campus of Lawrence University, which
will display the handiwork of 200 vendors and craftpeople.
The event also will have activities for children, including
face-painting, food, beverages and musical entertainment.
Listed on the musical schedule are the Geriatric Jazz Band
at 8:45 a.m. and 11 a.m.; Gary Koepke (a.k.a. The Ghost),
at 9:45 a.m.; the West Bend Dance and Tumbling Troupe at 11:45
a.m. and 1:15 p.m.; the Island Jazz Quartet at 12:30 and 2
p.m.; the New River Trio at 2:45 p.m.; Brenda Theabo and Kevin
Wells at 4 p.m. and throughout the day, the group, Equadormanta,
an instrumental ensemble featuring Latin American-flavored
music. A free trolley will be making a continuous loop from
the Washington Street parking ramp to Art in the Park and
Art off the Park during the festivities. Motorists can park
in the ramp for free all day and take the trolley four blocks
to both events.
READY FOR SOME PACKER FOOTBALL? If you are like most Green
Bay Packer fans, you probably can’t wait for the football
season to get underway. And we aren't just talking about the
regular season, which does not begin until 8 p.m. Sept. 13,
when the Packers will appear on ABC’s "Monday Night
Football" at the Carolina Panthers stadium in Charlotte,
N.C. Many Packer "railbirds" want to know about
training camp, when the players will be arriving in town and
preseason games. Packer training camp gets underway in just
a week, on July 30. The annual "Packers Family Night"
intra squad scrimmage between the defense and offense is set
for 7 p.m. Aug. 7 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay.
More than 44,000 tickets to the event have already been sold.
The game will be followed by an on-field question-and-answer
session with head coach Mike Sherman and several players.
The Packers preseason schedule is at follows: 7 p.m. Monday.
Aug. 16, they play the Seattle Seahawks at Lambeau; 7 p.m.
Saturday Aug. 21, the Pack plays the New Orleans Saints at
home; 7 p.m. Aug. 27, they travel to Jacksonville to play
the Jaguars and at 7 p.m. Friday Sept. 3, they play the Tennessee
Titans at the Coliseum in Nashville. All the games will be
televised.
REISCHL RESIGNING FROM LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY Bridget-Michaele
Reischl, who has been orchestral director at Lawrence University
in Appleton since 1992, has resigned to accept a position
as director of orchestral activities at Ball State University
in Muncie, Ind., beginning this fall. She will, however, retain
her position as music director of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra,
with whom she recently signed a three-year contract. "I
care deeply about my work here in Green Bay and northeastern
Wisconsin, and I look forward to continuing to invest in this
fabulous orchestra and this wonderful community," Reischl
said in a statement released to the media. While at Lawrence,
she directed the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra and did a guest
conducting stint with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the
state’s premiere orchestra, when it visited St. Norbert
College in Green Bay in Feb. 2002. At Ball State, she will
be responsible for directing a graduate orchestral conducting
program for master’s degree and doctoral students. She
also will serve as artistic director and conductor for the
Ball State Symphony and the Muncie Symphony Orchestra. Reischl
became the first American to win the prestigious Antonio Pedrotti
International Conducting Competition in 1995 in Italy. In
1999, she was given the added title of Kimberly Clark Professor
of Music, one of six Lawrence faculty members named to en
endowed professorship. Reischl said one of the goals she would
like to achieve is to have the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra
play the national anthem for the Green Bay Packers prior to
a game at Lambeau Field. "I’ve become a very big
Packers fan since I moved to Wisconsin," she said. "I
just can’t stand it, that I’m music director of
the Green Bay Symphony and we have the Green Bay Packers right
here. I don’t care if it takes me forever to get it
to happen."
DISTINGUISHED WOMEN’S SPEAKER SERIES COMING TO THE WEIDNER
"LifeLines: Engaging Stories. Exceptional Lives,"
the first national women’s speaker series in northeast
Wisconsin, will be coming to the Weidner Center for the Performing
Arts in Green Bay, beginning early next year. The series kicks
off with comedienne and actress Joan Rivers, who will appear
on Monday Jan. 31, 2005; Mariane Pearl, a journalist and widow
of Wall Street Journal Report Daniel Pearl, who was kidnaped
and killed by terrorists in Pakistan, will speak on Monday
March 7, 2005; Madeline Albright, America’s first and
only female secretary of state, will discuss some of the most
dramatic political and world events in recent years on Tuesday
March 29, 2005 and Maya Angelou, the nation’s poet laureate
and one of the great voices of contemporary literature, will
speak on Wednesday May 4, 2005. The goal of the series will
be to "bring the world’s most distinguished women
to the region each year for the intellectual, emotional and
spiritual enrichment of women in this area," according
to Sherri Valitchka, director of marketing for the Weidner
Center. "The Weidner Center’s goal with this series
is to provide the women of northeast Wisconsin with opportunities
to learn and to share in a nurturing atmosphere designed to
promote personal discovery," said David Fleming, executive
director of the Weidner Center. Rivers is known for many things
-- a best-selling author, Tony-nominated actress, playwright,
screen writer, lecturer, director, columnist, syndicated radio
host, television talk-show host, jewelry designer, red carpet
fashionista, and most importantly to her, a mother and grandmother.
Using her unique gifts of humor, compassion and tenacity,
Rivers has triumphed over personal tragedy and attained professional
success. Pearl was six months pregnant when her husband was
killed while on assignment. She has penned a memoir titled
"A Mighy Heart" that chronicles this terrifying
and unforgettable story of her husband’s reasons for
being in post 9/11 Pakistan to the time since his death and
becoming a mother. During the two presidential terms of President
Bill Clinton, Albright was front an center in some of the
leading foreign policy initiatives launched by the U.S. government,
from the pursuit of peace in the Midle East to NATO’s
humanitarian intervention in Kosovo. As secretary of state,
she reinforced America’s alliances, advocated democracy
and human rights and promoted American trade, business, labor
and environmental standards around globe. Angelou, described
as "a remarkable Renaissance woman, is a poet, educator,
and director. On her various travels throughout the world,
she captivates her audiences lyrically with vigor, fire and
perception. She has authored such best-selling titles as "I
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," "Gather Together
in My Name," "Singin' and Swingin'," and "The
Heart of a Woman." Multi_talented, she produced and starred
in the great play "Cabaret for Freedom" and starred
in "The Blacks." She wrote the original screenplay
and musical score for the film, "Georgia, Georgia,"
and was both author and executive producer of a five_part
television miniseries, "Three Way Choice." Her accomplishments
have earned her the Ladies Home Journal "Woman of the
Year" award in communication an Matrix Award in the field
of books from Women in Communication She received the Golden
Eagle Award for her documentary, "Americans in the Arts,"
produced by PBS. She is one of the women admitted into the
Director's Guild. In 1974, and was appointed by former President
Gerald Ford to the Bi_Centennial Commission and later by President
Jimmy Carter to the Commission for International Woman of
the Year. Her personal outreach to improve conditions for
women in Third World, primarily in Africa, has helped change
the lives thousands of less privileged.
Tickets, which will be sold exclusively by subscription to
the four-event series, are on sale at the Weidner Center Ticket
office for $196 and $156, plus processing fees. Call 1-800-328-8587.
Box office hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m. on Saturday.
HOT DOG VENDOR RETURNING TO COLLEGE AVENUE
After Appleton police closed down the popular Looy’s
hot dog stand on June 23 because the owner, James Edgerton,
did not have a street solicitor’s permit, it created
such a flood of complaints from patrons and supporters that
the city was forced to reverse course and allow the candy-striped
carts to resume selling its treats on College Avenue during
the late night. Police said the carts may have also contributed
to unruly crowd behavior and littering on The Avenue. But
after meeting in an extraordinary session before this week’s
Common Council meeting, the city’s Safety and Ordinance
Committee recommended that Edgerton be allowed to sell his
hot dogs, brats and chili dogs between the hours of 9 p.m.
to 3 a.m. The Common Council on Wednesday approved the measure
by a vote of 10 to 4. The ordinance allowing the sales will
be in effect until Sep;t. 30, after which city and police
officials will evaluate what impact the hot dog stand is having
on the downtown. Edgerton said he will compromise and move
his cart from in front of the Park Central entertainment complex
to a location not so close to a bar.
RIMES TO APPEAR AT RESCH CENTER
Singer LeAnn Rimes will perform at the Resch Center in Ashwaubenon
on Aug. 14. For ticket information, contact Ticketmaster at
920-731-5000.
DAEHN LEAVING APPLETON WEST FOR UNIVERSITY POSITION
Mike Daehn, a theater teacher at Appleton High School-West
for the past nine years, has resigned to take over Ball State
University theater education program. He will be an assistant
professor at Ball State in Muncie, Ind. He will leave Appleton
after accompanying his West students to Scotland in August
to perform "The Crucible." Daehn helped start Appleton’s
Renaissance School for the Arts. "I have absolutely loved
my time in Appleton," he said, "but this opportunity
was too good to pass up."
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