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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Allegro hires full-time executive director

Spokane’s Allegro Baroque and Beyond classical music group has hired its first full-time executive director. Carla J. Warren, most recently director of development for the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Idaho, will join Allegro in time for next weekend’s Royal Fireworks Festival in Riverfront Park.

Allegro co-founders Beverly Biggs and David Dutton will continue as artistic directors. Biggs, who also has provided executive support to the organization, is moving to North Carolina in the fall but will continue to be featured in Spokane concerts.

In addition to the Royal Fireworks Festival, Allegro produces three concerts at The Met, another concert series in historic homes and a Viennese Ball at the Davenport Hotel.

Interim director at Civic

Jack Delehanty, longtime head of the theater department at Gonzaga Prep, has been named interim artistic director at the Spokane Civic Theatre.

Delehanty is expected to fill the role for four to six months while the Civic searches for a new full-time executive director to replace John G. “Jack” Phillips.

Auditions

InterPlayers will hold auditions for its 2004-05 season on Aug. 3 from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the theater, 174 S. Howard St.

Productions for the season include “Painting Churches,” “Dracula,” “Inspecting Carol,” “True West,” “Othello” and “A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking,” plus one play to be announced.

InterPlayers, a paid, professional theater, is seeking an all-community cast for “Inspecting Carol” in particular. Auditioners should prepare two contrasting monologues, one classical and one contemporary, not to exceed five minutes total (and not from any of the shows listed above).

Callbacks will be Aug. 4 from 6 to 9 p.m., and rehearsals begin Aug. 9. For an audition appointment, call 455-7529.

Kudos

“ Pullman artist Robert Helm has received one of this year’s Flintridge Foundation Awards, given to artists whose work demonstrates high artistic merit and a distinctive voice for 20 or more years. The California foundation honored five artists in California and five in Oregon/Washington, each of whom receive a $25,000 prize.

Helm, a professor of fine arts at Washington State University since 1971, paints and applies wood inlay to wooden panels, creating dreamlike images featuring objects, plant forms, birds and dogs.

“ Spokane painter Edie Dunlap’s watercolor “Stay Together” is one of 75 works accepted into the Montana Watercolor Society’s Watermedia 2004 Exhibition, Oct. 5-30 in Bigfork.

Classes

Corbin Art Center, 507 W. Seventh Ave., is offering the following classes beginning the week of July 26. Preregistration is required by calling 625-6200.

For adults: Garden Stone, July 28 and Aug. 4, 6 to 9 p.m., $32.

For children (all run Monday through Friday and cost $20, except for Adventure Camp, which is $89): Adventure Camp (ages 6-11), 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Science & Nature (ages 3-5), 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.; Sand Art (ages 6-11), 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.; Clay and Construction (ages 3-5), 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.; Drawing Media (ages 6-11), 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.; Young Adventurers (ages 3-5), 12:30 to p.m.; Flying Fun (ages 6-11), 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.; Sky Creatures (ages 3-5), 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.; Mystery Theatre (ages 6-11), 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.