Production Firm Wants ‘Full House’

Sun., Nov. 3, 1996

Nina Culver Correspondent

North By Northwest Productions, Inc. of Spokane is looking for a “full house” of actors to serve as a database for its productions of TV and radio commercials, corporate videos, on-camera talent, audio voice-overs, etc.

From 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 9, the talent search will be in the Firth Chew Theatre in the basement of Spokane Civic Theatre, said Diane Eve, production coordinator.

Auditioners, 16 years and older, should wear solid (no pattern), non-white clothing.

Actors who have already worked with North By Northwest are asked to attend to be included in the database.

More auditions

Auditions for River City Dance Company’s production of “The Nutcracker” will be Nov. 10 at the Metropolitan School of Ballet, 820 W. Sprague. The performance will be Dec. 21.

Audition times are 4 p.m for beginning ballet students, 5 to 14 years old; 4:45 p.m. for intermediate boys and girls, 9 to 14; 5:30 p.m. for advanced ballet dancers for partnering and pointe work; and 6:30 p.m. for beginning and intermediate dancers from 15 to adult.

There is no audition fee, but a $35 performance fee will be charged and dancers are be required to provide their own costumes.

Call director Teresa Knudsen at 448-7920 for more information.

Ballet master

Shamil Yagudin, ballet master of Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet, will teach a class for advanced level dancers from 4 to 5:15 p.m. Nov. 12 at The Academy of Dance, 14214 E. Sprague. The cost is $15; reservations are required and class size is limited. Call 922-3023.

Be a freelancer

A new publication, sponsored by Eastern Washington University’s Black Education Program, will focus on the social, political, economic, spiritual and historical experiences of people of African descent.

And the newsletter wants submissions from the public.

“We are seeking essays, poetry, art, short stories and op-ed pieces,” said Danielle Tillman, director.

Deadline for the first issue is Nov. 20. Send submissions to EWU Black Education Program, MS-164 Eastern Washington University, 526 Fifth St., Cheney WA 99004.

For more information, call 359-2205.

Art of the brush

A Sumi-e Oriental brush painting by Keiko Van Holt, a Spokane watercolor artist, was accepted into the regional juried show at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. The exhibit runs through Dec. 1.

In addition, Van Holt’s Oriental calligraphy of Kokoro (a heart) received the Uyehara International Associate Calligraphy Award in the annual juried show of the Sumi-E Society of America, exhibited in Toronto last October.

Sumi-e is the art of brush painting developed from ancient Chinese calligraphy.

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