CEBA: Upcoming Events

40 local 7th grade girls will take part in esteem and team building activities and an array of exciting classes that will include a deep sea experience, designing their own pair of Peace pants, exploring the science of smell, Rhumba to Zumba dance, and directing and editing their own digital film mini documentary. All while staying overnight in the DSC dorms with focused DSC women as their counselors.

Maynard Dixon Country 2010

Every year in the last full week of August, The Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts hosts Maynard Dixon Country, an art show, gathering and sale of work by thirty-forty of America's premier artists.

Artist Maynard Dixon treasured the area near Zion National Park, and made some of his most powerful paintings there. Along with his wife, Edith Hamlin, the Dixons hosted many artists at their home and studio in Mt. Carmel. It is in the spirit of Dixon's creative collaboration with his artist contemporaries that Maynard Dixon Country was born.

Maynard Dixon Country artists gather for a week of painting, discussion and celebration of the artistic life. The weekend art show, which is open to the public, features lectures, an art preview, a wet paintings sale, on-site painting demonstrations and a gala awards dinner. All of these events make Maynard Dixon Country much more than an art show; rather, it has become a rare congregation of some of the best talent in the country united in celebration of one of America's most important artists and each other.

Much of the proceeds from art sales at Maynard Dixon Country support the Thunderbird Foundation's projects, including art day camps for people with special needs, the artist retreat program and the emerging artist scholarships, which allow three Utah high school students to join the professionals at Maynard Dixon Country.

For more information about the event please visit http://www.thunderbirdfoundation.com/maynard-dixon-country.cfm

Please contact Kelly Stowell at 435-899-0443 for more information or e-mail to stowell@dixie.edu. The schedule of events includes:

Soup cook-off

Golf contests

Vendors/food booths/games

Kane County Fireman, E.M.S. fundraiser-9/11 emergency responder tribute

Car show

Motorcycle show and shine

Farmers Market

Arts and Crafts

Live Music by Cold Creek and Kane County's own The Katch

Performances by St. George Contemporary Dance Group

Rocky Mountain Oysters Feast

Plein Aire Painting

If you are a vendor please review the rules and regulations for the festival.

Rules & Regulations   Vendor Application (pdf)

DOCUTAH is poised to experience its first year as an international documentary film festival in September, 2010 in breathtaking Southern Utah.

The festival will take place in locations throughout Washington and Kane Counties and will run for 10 days, including two weekends, with two galas and a closing awards ceremony. We will also feature Springdale, Utah at the mouth of Zion National Park as one of our venue cities with a special screening at the O.C. Tanner Amphitheater.

 The goal of DOCUTAH is to create a film festival of international scope. We will accept worldwide submissions with entries that will represent a diverse collection of subject matter and countries. DOCUTAH's focus is on independent films looking for distribution. We also encourage student submissions.

In addition to screening films at both indoor and outdoor venues, we will host master class seminars with internationally renowned guest lecturers who are industry professionals providing an academically based/ hands-on approach to film making. We will also feature a distributor market place - an invaluable networking hub.

The Purple Sage Writers Retreat is a new event that will be held every year. Each year will focus on issues relating to the publication of a specific genre of writing. This year the retreat will address Writing Historic Fiction and Non-Fiction.

2010's "Business of the Arts" seminar will build on last year's hugely successful kickoff event attended by more than 200 artists. The seminar will address a wide range of issues to help artists build their love of art into a business.