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4A Daily News ��� Thursday, February 14, 2013 Pastimes & Arts entertainment Book signing 7th annual Search for Talent The Red Bluff Exchange Club invites the people of Tehama County to come to Red Bluff���s historic State Theatre on Saturday, Feb. 16 to attend a gala evening of performances by 21 outstanding, talented young people who will be competing in the 7th Annual Exchange Club Search for Talent show. This year���s show will be opened by former Search for Talent contestants Brianna Penner and Kelly Rodriquez singing the Star Spangled Banner. Stacy Stone, former winner and country-western performer, will provide a guest performance during the show. The evening���s performances will feature four acts in the Primary (age 69) Division, 11 acts in the Junior Division and five acts in the Senior Division. At the end of the competitive performances, Ashtin Lopeman, last year���s Junior Division winner, will perform an operatic piece. Awards and prizes will be presented to the contestants, and the first place winners in each division will be invited to perform and compete in the Exchange Club District Search for Talent Competition, which will be held at the Feather Falls Casino in Oroville on May 4. In past years, winners of the Red Bluff competition ��� Chad Bushnell, Devin Penner, Ashiah Scharaga ,Stacy Stone and Ashtin Lopeman ��� have all won at the district level. The show will begin at Author Sheri Downs will be holding a book signing event at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21 at Old School Restaurant, 1135 Pine St. in Redding. Downs, a resident of Redding, will be available to sign copies of her book, What's Love Got to Do With It? All of humanity is looking for real love. Many of us have been disillusioned in our search and have even concluded that it only exists in fairy tales and Hollywood. Wars are fought over it, lives have been lost over it, studies have researched it, and songs are even sung about it, yet the quest goes on to discover its true meaning. In her book, What���s Love Got to Do With It?, pastor, author, singer, and motivational speaker Sheri Downs takes you on a journey in search of real love. Through a shattered childhood to a devastating divorce and life as a single parent, Sheri Downs demonstrates that even the most oppressive situations can be overcome. Her story will first bring you to tears, then leave you hopeful, believing that real love does actually exist. You will turn the pages in anticipation as she reveals how God���s love emerges in every circumstance. She is a life transformed by the ���real love��� that never fails. You will not want to put this book down until you too have the answer to the daunting question, What���s love got to do with it? For more information, call Jim Miller at 888-3619473 or send an email to jim@tatepublishing.com. Rent Party 7 p.m. Saturday. Attendees are advised to arrive early as it is expected that this gala event will sell out. Tickets are $5 for Chinese New Year The Rotary Club of Weaverville will hold its 28th annual Chinese New Year Celebration and Educational Scholarship Fundraiser 6-9 p.m. on Saturday, March 9, at the Weaverville Veterans Memorial Hall. Cost is $50. Tickets may be purchased starting Feb. 20 at State Farm Insurance 306 Hwy 3, Weaverville, or by calling (530) 623-4000 or Roy Weil (530) 739-3699. The year of the Snake brings all sorts of fun and merriement. Come enjoy a Dim Sum buffet made by local Rotarians, come to be seen by all the people of town. It will be a night of mingling, socializing eating, drinking and merriement. Come enjoy a live auction, silent auction, Dutch auction and the famous Keys to Paradise raffle. See if the key you purchase unlocks the treasure chest. If so you will win a week���s stay at a luxurious condo in Hawaii. There will be many surprises along the way. All proceeds go to fund Scholarships High School Seniors at Trinity High School. The Rotary Club has given out more than $250,000 in scholarships in the last 27 years. adults and $3 for ages 10 to 18. Children younger than 10 will be admitted free of charge. The proceeds from the evening provide the prizes and awards to the contestants and support for the programs of the Exchange Club and the Soroptimist International of Red Bluff. Celebrate Black History Month by stepping back in time and going to the Harlem Renaissance Rent Party, a costume party for a cause, on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m. on the Harlen Adams Theatre stage. Rent Parties were a way for Harlemites in the 1920s and 1930s to pay their rent. Hosts would hire musicians, cook food and with the proceeds have money to cover their rent. CSU, Chico���s Black Faculty and Staff Association invites you to participate in this tradition and at the same time support The Bookstore, located in Downtown Chico. All proceeds from the Rent Party go directly to The Bookstore. The Harlem Renaissance Rent Party will be filled with partygoers dressed up as anyone from 1919 to 1929, and prizes will be awarded to those with the best costumes. The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement from the 1920s and 1930s in New York City���s Harlem neighborhood. The Harlem Renaissance gave birth to many mainstream African American writers and musicians. Without this movement literature, theatre, art and politics would not be the same. Celebrate this revolutionary time at this year���s Harlem Renaissance Rent Party. Donations of $5 or more will be welcomed at the door. For more information, contact Tracy Butts, professor in CSU, Chico���s Department of English and coordinator of the event, at 898-5151 or via email, tbutts@csuchico.edu. CSU to present composer Paul Dresher The 9th annual New Music Symposium will take place Thursday, Feb. 28. and Friday, March 1, and will include free performances and master classes that celebrate the art of music composition. Honoring the late Alfred Loeffler, composer and music professor at Chico State, this year���s symposium features a compelling and unique performance by composer Paul Dresher and percussionist Joel Davel, as well as works and perfor- mances by CSU, Chico music students. Works by student composers will be featured during the first concert, which takes place Thursday, February 28th at 7:30 p.m. in the Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall. Headlining the event on Friday, March 1st at 7:30 p.m. in the RowlandTaylor Recital Hall, will be acclaimed composer Paul Dresher. Called ���a maverick in the very best sense of the world��� by famed composer John Adams, Dresher���s music combines elements of minimalism, rock ���n��� roll, non-western music and electronics into a coherent and remarkably personal style. A 2006-07 recipient of a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in Composition, Dresher has been commissioned by numerous organizations including the Library of Congress, Kronos Quartet, and American Music Theater Festival. His music has been performed throughout North America, in Asia and Europe, and is available on multiple CD releases. ���I have a huge amount of respect for Paul Dresh- Early Bird Special Served 6:30am9:00am Mon.-Fri. Ham & 2 Eggs Hash Browns or Home Fries & Toast 499 $ No substitutions 7875 HWY 99E S ORDER LOS MOLINOS, CA TO GO 384-1265 er,��� said Department of Music faculty member David Dvorin, artistic director of the event. ���Not only is he an accomplished composer with a truly individual voice, but he has successfully created and managed his own touring performance ensemble for over twenty years, presenting both his own work and that of other notable contemporary composers.��� For the Friday evening concert, Dresher, along with virtuoso percussionist Joel Davel, will perform a program of original compositions for electric guitar, marimba lumina (and electronic mallet instrument), and his remarkable 15 foot-long invented stringed instrument, the quadrachord. A recent video of the duo performing at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive can be seen on YouTube a t : http://bit.ly/WRmwKC. For more information contact Dvorin at 8984848 or ddvorin@csuchico.edu. 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