Lecture series features Moore
The Barnes County Historical Society Lecture Series will feature William “Archie” Moore speaking on “Historic hunting in North Dakota: Population Trends of the Giant Canada Goose, Whooping Crane and Prairie Chickens” at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 18, at the Barnes County Historical Society Museum, Valley City, N.D.
JC hosting Land recital March 18
The Jamestown College Department of Music is hosting a recital by pianist Michael Land at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 18, in the Reiland Fine Arts Center’s DeNault Auditorium. The recital is free and open to the public. The program will include Beethoven’s Variations in C minor, Schumann’s Fantasiestucke, Lizst’s Consolation No. 3 in D-flat Major, and Piazzolla’s Tango Suite.
Quilt ‘til You Drop! set at heritage center
Quilters or quilt fans can take in an entire day of individual and family activities for young and old alike on Saturday, March 20, commemorating National Quilters’ Day. The Quilt ‘til You Drop! events will take place at the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. All events — except the quilting classes — are free and open to the public. They are sponsored by the State Historical Society of North Dakota and the Capital Quilters of Bismarck in recognition of National Quilters’ Day.
Zimmerman teaching fine art printmaking
Beginning Monday, Mary Zimmerman, artist and printmaker extraordinaire, will start teaching fifth-graders in Jamestown the fun and beauty of hand-made designs on paper.
World’s Largest Buffalo in film
The 76-minute “World’s Largest” documentary, directed and produced by Amy Elliot and Elizabeth Donius is in the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, starting Saturday.
Rock band ends series
To conclude the 2010 Performing Arts Series at Jamestown College, Post-Traumatic Funk Syndrome takes the stage with “The Best of Classic Rock” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 27, in the Reiland Fine Arts Center’s DeNault Auditorium. The 12-piece Fargo-based band includes horns, keyboards, bass, drums, guitar, and male and female vocals. The Jamestown College Jazz Band will also perform.
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Hunter Carpenter, Brittany Cuffe, Alex Igl, and Brianna Johnson have been chosen to perform with the North Dakota Junior High All-State Band. Carpenter is a percussionist with the JMS 7th Grade Band. Cuffe plays bass clarinet in the JMS 8th Grade Band. Igl is a trombonist in the 8th Grade Band, and Johnson plays flute in the JMS 8th Grade Band. Each of these students are JMS Band section leaders.
RELATED CONTENTComedy revue on stage, again
For the thousands of people hoping to hear the Last Annual Comedy Revue is defunct, dead and gone — sorry, your luck is out. It’s going on stage next weekend for the 27th time.
RELATED CONTENTT.V. ratings improve for Oscar telecast
An estimated 41.3 million people saw “The Hurt Locker” top the popular “Avatar” for best picture in the most-watched Academy Awards telecast since 2005.
GF native wins Oscar for makeup work
Joel Harlow, a 1986 graduate of Grand Forks Red River High School who started designing ghoulish masks and props as an elementary student in summer arts programs, received an Oscar for makeup at the Academy Awards Sunday. Harlow and partners Barney Burman and Mindy Hall accepted the award for their work on “Star Trek,” which won over make-up artists for the films “Il Divo” and “The Young Victoria.”
Grand Forks native wins Oscar
Joel Harlow, a 1986 graduate of Grand Forks Red River High School who started designing ghoulish masks and props as an elementary student in summer arts programs, received an Oscar for makeup at the Academy Awards Sunday.
‘Hurt Locker’ takes Oscar
Here is the list of winners at the 82nd annual Academy Awards
Libraries celebrate Dr. Seuss birthday
Green eggs and ham are sure to be a popular treat at some Twin Cities public libraries this week.
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