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4A Daily News – Thursday, November 21, 2013 Pastimes & Arts entertainment RBUHS to present 'Laughing Stock' Wreath-making workshop set in Chico Dec. 7 shows will be held in the school's Performing Arts Center on campus. Cast includes GordonGrey Grotke, SarahCaitlyn Ruszczyk, Tyler- Tanner Durfee, Mary- Jenny Muto, Jack- John Foley, Susannah- Kaitlyn Dorman, Ritchfield- Kyle Beal, Daisy- Becca Blanchard, VernonSamuel Story, CrystalHope Bass, Braun- DJ Woods, Karma- Jodie Capps, Henrietta- Haley Isaacson, Ellen- Brittany Swenson, UnderstudyMitchell Morehead and UnderstudyKatelyn Stewart. Crew includes Stage Manager- Cierra Buxton, and Props MastersCassidy Heaney and Grace Gwaltney. The production is directed by Lisa Ernst with Technical Directors Gabriel Sakuma and Oscar Razo. The Red Bluff High School Theatre Department will present its fall production of Laughing Stock, by Charles Morey, at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Nov. 21 and 22. Laughing Stock is a hilarious backstage farce and genuine affectionate look into theater life. When The Playhouse, a rustic New England summer theater, schedules a repertory season of Dracula, Hamlet and Charley's Aunt, comic mayhem ensues. The audience follows the well-intentioned, but over-matched company from outrageous auditions, to ego-driven rehearsals, through opening nights gone disastrously awry, to the elation of a great play well told and the comic and nostalgic season close. Tickets are $3 and the Cowboy poetry competition ELKO, Nev. — The Western Folklife Center and its 30th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering recenlty announced the launch of a spoken word poetry competition, Expressing the Rural West: Poetry of the Next Generation, on YouTube.com. Poets between the ages of 18 and 35 are invited to submit videos which include an artist introduction and do not exceed four minutes in length. Submissions must be original compositions, content should have a rural focus and poems should be performed and not read. Poets must be currently living in one of the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Poems will be judged by the public as well as by a committee of two professional poets and two staff members of the Western Folklife Center. There will be a winner of the public vote and a winner of the juried competition. The winner of the public vote will receive two free 3Day Deluxe Passes to the 30th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering and a free Gathering poster. The winner of the juried competition will be given a performance slot at the event and must be able to travel between Jan. 29 to Feb. 2, 2014. Travel and lodging will be paid by the Western Folklife Center. Videos should be uploaded on the Expressing the Rural West: Poetry of the Next Generation competition YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/2014poetrycontest. Public judging will end on December 19 and contest judges will select a winner by Dec. 21. The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering turns 30 years old in 2014, and the nation's greatest celebration of the American West, its people, culture and traditions, will turn its focus to the future of the region. From Jan. 27 to Feb. 1, 2014, in Elko, Nev., the Gathering will present poetry, music, fine western gear, films, workshops, dances and discussions with a clear focus on encouraging the next generation and working together to ensure the sustainability of the occupational and artistic traditions of the rural West. More than 50 poets, musicians and musical groups from the U.S. and Canada will perform on seven stages at four different venues. For a full list of participating artists and much more information, visit www.westernfolklife.org. A Wreath Making with Native Plants Workshop is scheduled for 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, in 129 Holt Hall, CSU, Chico. Bring native plant beauty and cheer into your holiday season. Learn about native plants and preserve them in a naturally fragrant native plant wreath. Jennifer Jewell and Adrienne Edwards will be the instructors for this workshop. Jewell is a garden writer, photographer and creator of In a Northstate Garden and outreach coordinator at the Gateway Science Museum. Edwards is a botanist, ecologist and arborist who teaches at Chico State, consults on environmental issues, develops educational materials and designs native plant restorations. Registration fee is $35, or $45 to make two wreaths. For more information about registration, call the CSU, Chico Biology Office at (530) 898-5356 or send an email to jbraden@csuchico.edu. Detailed workshop descriptions and sign up forms are available on the Chico State Herbarium website: www.csuchico.edu/biol/Herb/Events.html. Holiday concert for scholarships California State University, Chico's Department of Music and Theatre gets the holiday season off to a resounding start with the annual Glorious Sounds of the Season! concerts at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 6-7. Proceeds from the performances go towards music scholarships for CSU, Chico students. Presented in Harlen Adams Theatre, Glorious Sounds of the Season! has become a Chico-area holiday tradition. Sold-out performances have become the norm the past several years. Concert coordinator Dr. David Scholz recommends anyone interested in attending one of the concerts purchase a ticket "sooner than later" to insure getting a good seat. Glorious Sounds of the Season! features various music ensembles from the department, including the Wind Ensemble, Jazz XPress, A Cappella Choir, Brass Choir, Chamber Singers, and the University Chorus, as well as student and faculty soloists, small ensembles and performers from the Chico community, including the Children's Choir of Chico. The Centennial Organ is also featured during the performances. There will be several opportunities for the audience to join in with the performers by singing along on various seasonal favorites, such as "Silent Night," "Deck the Halls" and "Jingle Bells." All in all, more than 25 musical selections will be performed. "This is a unique holiday concert because the audience will hear such a variety of fabulous musical ensembles in one night," said Scholz. "It is a fast-paced concert with groups performing not only from the stage area, but from the aisles of the theater as well. Since we move from piece to piece with no applause, the time passes very quickly. People in the audience don't even realize that 90 minutes have flown by." While proceeds from the concerts benefit music students in the form of scholarships, Scholz said the department never loses sight that Glorious Sounds of the Season! is also a way of giving back to the Chico community. "The Music Department develops closer ties to the residents of Chico, and many locals look forward to this concert every year," he said. "Glorious Sounds of the Season! Really helps to put everyone in that holiday mood." Advance tickets, at $20 for all seats, are available at the University Box Office at 898-6333; add $2 for tickets purchased at the door. For disabilityrelated accommodations, please call 898-4325. SF bans tour buses around 'Full House' homes SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco officials have banned tour buses in a neighborhood that has become a major tourist draw for a set of Victorian homes featured in the opening credits to the 1980s and '90s television show, ''Full House.'' The Municipal Transportation Agency's Board of Directors voted 5-0 on Tuesday to ban the buses Red Bluff Garden Club's from a 25-square-block area around and including Alamo Square Park, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The park is across the street from some of the most colorful, iconic examples of homes known as ''Painted Ladies.'' It also provides views of downtown San Francisco. Residents have complained that the buses, which they estimate at more than 50 a day during the peak season, double-park, Scholarship Christmas Boutique 616 Cedar St,. Red Bluff (Old Holiday Market) FRESH WEATHS, ARRANGEMENTS and more Dec. 12, 13 & 14 9:00am-6:00pm For Custom Orders Call 527-4578 or 526-4578 The Gold Exchange block driveways and sideswipe parked cars. ''This is unsafe,'' resident Kelly Edwards told directors at the meeting. The local neighborhood association sponsored the ban, according to the Chronicle. Tour bus operators say the city is making itself less attractive to tourists, and the buses are not a problem. ''I fully understand neighbors' concerns, but if people can't come to San Francisco and see the sites that San Francisco is famous for, they won't come anymore,'' Patricia Hunting, a tour guide, told the board. 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