Royal Fireworks Concert Will Include Baroque Festival

A festival set in the baroque period will be a part of the annual Royal Fireworks Concert in Riverfront Park this summer.

To make the festival authentic, organizers have issued a call for jugglers, magicians and musicians to play renaissance- and baroque-era instruments, said Beverly Biggs, co-founder of Allegro, which is mounting the concert and festival.

Also wanted are experts in fencing and stage combat, storytellers and court jesters, as well as artists in calligraphy, pottery, sketching and other baroque-period visual arts.

And, people adept in the trades of the period, such as weavers, are invited to apply.

For more information, call the Allegro office at 455-6865.

Picture this

Taken a few good photographs lately?

Photographers are invited to submit slides and proposals to be considered for exhibition in Eastern Washington University’s photography gallery.

Photographers are to send between 10 and 20 slides of their current work, a resume and a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Richard Twedt, Director of University Galleries; Eastern Washington University MS-102; 526 Fifth Street, Cheney, WA 99004-2431.

Deadline for submissions is July 1. For more information, call 359-7070 or 359-2493.

To make paper

“Image Making in Handmade Paper” will be taught by Wendy Franklund Miller Saturday and June 7 at the Spokane Art School.

The class will run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day.

Participants will learn to incorporate stenciling and a photoscreen technique with three types of papermaking pulp. No experience is necessary.

Cost is $100, which includes all supplies.

To register, or for more information, call the school at 328-0900.

For kids only

Kids between 3 and 11 years old can learn how to draw, paint, work with clay, make crafts and paper - or take a host of other art-related workshops this summer at the Corbin Art Center.

Beginning June 15, participants can attend between one and four workshops each week at the center, 507 W. Seventh.

For a class schedule, or more information, call 625-6677.

Auditions

Gilbert and Sullivan musicals will be staged at Washington State University’s Summer Palace - and adults and children of all ages are invited to audition.

Auditions for “The Sorcerer” and “The Mikado” will be 10 a.m. to noon, 1:30 to 4 p.m. Saturday; and 1:30 to 4 p.m. June 7. All tryouts will be in the Wadleigh Little Theater on WSU’s Pullman campus.

Auditioners should prepare a serious or comic monologue and a song, not to exceed six minutes. Accompaniment will not be provided.

For an audition appointment, call Barbara Jones at (509) 335-7447.

Kudos

The Summer Youth Theater program sponsored by Eastern Washington University and Fairchild Air Force Base received the Dorothy Mullens Arts and Humanities Award for the Pacific Northwest Region.

Besides Washington, competition included groups from Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and British Columbia.

The program pairs Fairchild kids, 6 to 14 years old, with EWU students and faculty members.

Katherine Wolters, Spokane, has been selected to attend the Pacific Northwest Ballet School in Seattle.

Of the 1,400-plus students who auditioned, only 135 were selected to attend the six-week course.

The prestigious summer dance program is run by the Pacific Northwest Ballet Company.

Spokane quilter Margie Karavitis was a finalist in the 14th American Quilter’s Society Show and Contest in Paducah, Ky.

Her quilt, “Lonesome Dove,” was among 400 of the world’s finest hand- and machine-crafted contemporary quilts from 42 states and eight foreign countries displayed at the four-day event.

The 1898 Royal Heirloom quilt from the Cheney Cowles Museum collection is part of an exhibit of historic and contemporary quilts at the First United Methodist Church in Portland.

Women of the Cowlitz Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington Territory made the quilt as a wedding gift for the bride of a local minister.

The exhibit, “The Tie That Binds,” runs through Monday.

Diana Moses Botkin, a Bonners Ferry artist, took third place in painting and the People’s Choice Award for her oil painting, “Immortality Will Be Health,” at the National Christian Fine Arts Exhibit in Farmington, N.M.

SAM competition

The Seattle Art Museum is accepting submissions for its 20th Betty Bowen Memorial Award competition.

The contest is open to emerging artists in Washington, Oregon and Idaho in all media, except film and video.

Entrants are to send six labeled slides of recent works, a resume, and a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the Betty Bowen Committee, Modern Art Department, Seattle Art Museum, P.O. Box 22000, Seattle, WA 98122.

Entries must be postmarked by June 26. For more information, call (206) 654-3131.