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6A – Daily News – Thursday, March 31, 2011 Pastimes Schoolhouse Odyssey Photographer and arts educator Diana Schoen- feld will present an exhi- bition of black and white photographs from “Schoolhouse Odyssey,” her extended photograph- ic study of remote loca- tion schools and the oral histories and stories she has gathered along the way. From 1995 through 1997, Mineral School became a part of her study. The Schoolhouse Odyssey exhibit will include some Mineral stu- dent portraits inspired by early American folk art portraiture traditions. The students studied folk examples in painting and mid-nineteenth century daguerrrean and tintype era photography. The students learned that early American por- trait compositions often included an object that had special meaning for the subject of the portrait. The daguerreotype of a man with his butterfly collection (circa 1850) is one of several examples they studied. The assignment was for each student to decide what he or she wanted to include in his or her por- trait, and how to position themselves in the school- yard for an interesting compositional setting. It was a true collaboration with the photographer. Each portrait is unique. The Mineral students created philosophical statements about why art is important. Their state- ments, some portraits, and a memoir of former teacher, Jane Hoofard, will be in The Youth Gallery portion of the show along with pho- tographs of Humboldt County’s Englewood School. Englewood School is a redwood log cabin built in Shasta Jazz Big Band The Shasta College Division of Arts, Communications and Entertainment presents the Shasta College Commu- nity Jazz Big Band in Concert at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6, in the Shasta College Theatre. The Community Jazz Big Band is a true large size jazz big band consisting of 22 musicians who will perform big band jazz from the 1930s through 2011. Performance tickets are $3 general admission and 80 percent of the ticket sale profits are used to purchase music for the Community Jazz Big Band. For more infor- mation contact either the Music Department at 242-7730 or the Community Jazz Big Band conductor Dr. Larry Grandy at 242-2362. World Music The Shasta College Arts, Communications, and Social Sciences Division announces the "World Music with Dr. Ron Kean Concert" at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 14, in the Shasta College Theatre. Joining the renowned Ethnic Music expert Dr. Kean, will be the Sasta College Chamber and Concert Choirs, in a lecture and demonstration concert exploring the exciting genre of World Music. Admission for this exciting presentation is $7 general admission and $5 for students and seniors. For more infor- mation, call 242-7730. Tickets can be purchased at the Theatre Box Office the day of the performance, or in advance at www.shastacollege.edu/choral/. 1860 that served as a schoolhouse from 1886- 1907. It was restored and preserved as a private schoolhouse museum on the ranch where it was originally built. Former teacher Velma Childs, who with her two sons, owns and protects Englewood School, has written a histo- ry of the school to accom- pany the photographs. The exhibition will be at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, in two different galleries. The downstairs Youth Arts & entertainment Symphony to involve youth with photography, music North State students will be seeing, hearing and shar- ing artistic expressions that involve both the eyes and ears, thanks to multi-faceted outreach program coordinated by the North State Symphony this year. The project is supported by a grant from The James Irvine Foundation. “We’re looking forward to having students from around the area join us in the magical experience of mak- ing art,” said Kyle Wiley Pickett, music director. Representatives from the North State Symphony will visit area classrooms to demonstrate musical instruments and present special, curriculum-related programs, each lasting 40 minutes or less. Students may attend Redding and Chico youth concerts in May, at which the symphony orchestra will play works chosen for them by Pickett and visiting children’s music personality Dr. Noize. Courtesy photo Gallery will highlight Humboldt County’s his- toric Englewood School, March 23 - May 1. The upstairs Thonson Gallery will present the larger “Schoolhouse Odyssey”. The Opening Recep- tion will be “Saturday Arts Alive!,” 6-9 p.m. April 2 and May 7. The Gallery Hours are Thursday through Sun- day, noon to 5 p.m. For more information call (707) 442-0278, visit www.humboldtarts.org or call 528-9271. Combining art forms, the classroom programs will inspire the creative impulses of the students by linking orchestral music and student photography. Students 14 and younger from around the North State can send their own photographs of the natural landscape, their homes and towns. The student photos will be con- sidered for public exhibition and to be included in a doc- umentary-style film prepared by a professional filmmak- er. In November, the Symphony will perform a chil- dren’s concert that features the film with the student pho- tography, while performing a live soundtrack, music by Aaron Copland. This video score will be repeated at a North State Symphony concert in November that will also feature the new orchestra piece, “Ansel Adams America,” by Chris and Dave Brubeck, as projections of the world-famous American’s photographs set the mood. Both student and adult audiences will view the Novem- ber concerts of music and film/photography, while area galleries will display the photos in their original form. Ann Prater, of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at CSU, Chico, said the symphony hopes the Brubeck- Adams work will attract members of the local artistic community who have a love of photography and/or jazz, and thus broaden attendance to the symphony concerts. For more information on participating in the photogra- phy contest, call 898-5984 or visit www.northstatesym- phony.org. Paradise Gem and Mineral Club Annual Show The Paradise Gem and Mineral Club will host its 57th Annual Show for pub- lic enjoyment and educa- tion. All members of the public are welcome and admission is free for chil- dren and young adults who are 16 and younger. The club is the oldest in Butte County and this is the longest running show in an eight county area. This year the show will feature an Ice Age Mammal exhibit courtesy of Apple- gate Lapidary. The exhibit will include an outstanding 8-foot 4-inch standing cave bear fossil, a woolly rhinoc- eros head with an intact two foot horn, and the leg bone and lower jaw of a mam- moth, all from the Ural Mountains and Rhine River region of Europe. The fos- sils are 50,000 to 70,000 years old and are in excel- lent condition. Don’t miss Courtesy photo this rare exhibit. The show will have many other educational and youth activities, mineral exhibits, a raffle, silent rock auctions, and demonstrating lapidary specialists in silver smithing, faceting, stone carving, and other lapidary methods. The show hosts many of the finest rock and mineral dealers in the North State, Oregon and Nevada. The The World Famous Palomino Room 1/2 off Lunch or Dinner entree with purchase of 1 entree must present coupon *equal or lesser value Lunch: Tues-Fri 11am-2pm Dinner: Thurs-Sat 4pm-9pm 723 Main St., Red Bluff 527-5470 www.palominoroom.com dealers provide a wide array of products and sup- plies, including books, specimen minerals, rare rocks, fossils, crystals, beads, finished jewelry, pol- ished stones, jewelry mak- ing supplies and lapidary equipment. For the “gold bugs” there will be metal detecting equipment and gold pan- ning. The profit from the raffle is earmarked for both Gayle’s Tuxedo Rentals New Location 223 Main St. 527-1381 736-1341 inside Flower Boutique across from Taco Bell local scholarships and com- munity education in miner- alogy and lapidary. The show is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Satur- day, April 9 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 10 at the Elks Lodge, 6309 Clark Road, Paradise. 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