Salida CitizenSteamPlant Event Center

Does your 6-to20-old have talent?

SteamPlant Event Center — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:40:28 +0000

The Friends of the SteamPlant will hold auditions for the second annual Central Colorado’s Got Talent Show this weekend. The auditions will be held starting at 4:00 pm on February 18 and 19 in the SteamPlant Event Center Theater. The show features performers from Central Colorado’s most talented 6-to-20-year-olds. Two public presentations of the show are scheduled at the SteamPlant Event Center on March 17& 18. Five judges with performance backgrounds will select up to 14 acts to perform in this prestigious 2012 show.

Anyone wishing to schedule an audition should call 719.221.0651. Acts of all kinds are welcome. Auditioners should arrive performance ready with instruments, CD’s or accompanist and an act that is ready-or-nearly-ready to perform.

Alvin Youngblood Hart & Valerie June perform at the SteamPlant

SteamPlant Event Center — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:21:22 +0000

Grammy Award-winning bluesman Alvin Youngblood Hart will perform with Valerie June at 7:30 p.m. tonight, Jan.27, at the SteamPlant Event Center. Described as a musician’s musician, Hart has garnered praise from the likes of Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton. Legendary bluesman Taj Mahal once said of Hart, “The boy has got thunder in his hands.”

Hart travels the world performing solo and with his band, Muscle Theory. While Hart’s career highlights are too numerous to list, major accomplishments include:

1997 W.C. Handy Award for Best New Artist.
1998 Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll Award for best blues album.
2001 Living Blues Magazine’s best guitarist.
2003 Grammy nomination.
2004 Grammy award.
Two Living Blues awards.

In 2006 Hart worked as guitar tutor to actor Samuel L. Jackson for his role in the movie “Black Snake Moan.” In 2007 Hart portrayed a juke joint musician in the Denzel Washington film “The Great Debaters.” Explore his music here.

Opening act Valerie June is a Tennessee musician whose voice has been described as “liquid silk.”

For years June has performed in Memphis, where her talent and stage presence earned her a feature spot on the MTV Web series “$5 Cover.” A self-taught guitarist, banjoist and songwriter, June has crafted a sound that draws on the best of Southern traditions and has attracted a following throughout the United States, Ireland, Hungary and Germany. Explore her music here.
Tickets cost $25 the day of show. Tickets are available at the SteamPlant Box Office, which is open until showtime, on the SteamPlant website or by calling 719.530.0933.The concerts are being produced by A Music Company Inc. and KRCC Concerts.

Dance, Salida, Dance

SteamPlant Event Center — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:17:13 +0000

This Saturday night at 7:30 pm, Salida’s first ever collaborate dance performance, “Dance Salida Dance” takes the main stage of the SteamPlant Event Center for a memorable evening. By combining an eclectic mix of modern dance, Broadway, tap, jazz, hip hop, tango, African and contra dance, the event showcases a diversity of local talent. Participating performers include: Arkansas Valley Music and Dance, Barbra Baker, Casa Tango, CEDE Dance Studio, High Steppin’ Dance Company, Soma Dance Company and Susan Topping.

Tickets are $15 for adults; $5 for students and children. Buy them through participating dance studios, the SteamPlant Event Center or online. This event is a benefit hosted by the Friends of the SteamPlant to fund future dance performances at the Event Center.

Brief Harold & Harri O’Connor Art Exhibition

SteamPlant Event Center — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:49:24 +0000

The SteamPlant Event Center is delighted to welcome world renowned artist Harold O’Connor and his son Harri O’Connor to its Diesslin Gallery for a brief exhibition of photographs, Wed. Jan. 11 – Wed., Jan. 18. The exhibition opens with a public art reception on Thurs., Jan. 12 from 5:30 – 7:00 in the SteamPlant’s Riverside Annex. Complementary wine, beer and hors d’oeuvres.

Their photographic series collages rural landscapes with massive European buildings & cityscapes to enhance their most captivating elements. Harold, best known for his jewelry making, has work on permanent display in private and public institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC & the Renwick Gallery of the Southsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Harri lives in Helsinki, Finland, where he creates abstract videos and photo collages. He graduated from Univ. of New Mexico with a M.F.A. and attended Salida High School.

Auditions for the Stage Left Production “Dancing at Lughnasa”

SteamPlant Event Center — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:57:52 +0000

Have the itch to act? Stage Left Theatre Company is looking for 5 women, ages 20 – 40, and 3 men, ages 18 – 50, to star in its’ spring production Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel. The play, to be produced at the SteamPlant Event Center, is set in 1936 Country Donegal, Ireland as the feast day ‘La Lughnasa approaches. With humor and truth, the five Mundy sisters address issues of love, youth, unquenchable passions, Catholic propriety versus pagan ritual and the age at which we become too old to dance. Auditions, this Sat., Jan. 7, are by appointment only. Call 719.239.1978 and ask for Jan. Please prepare a short monologue (30 – 60 seconds) in an Irish accent. Expect to read short passages from the script. Designers, builders and techs are also needed.

Calling All Artists!

SteamPlant Event Center — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:37:39 +0000

Calling All Artists: The SteamPlant Event Center is currently seeking nine local artists to feature in our Paquette Gallery in 2012. Each selected art exhibition will run for six weeks. The Paquette Gallery, located in the Event Center lobby, is open during business hours, special events and one hour prior to shows in our theater. During each exhibition, the selected artist is featured on our website and in a full length Mountain Mail article. The SteamPlant hosts a complementary evening artist’s reception.

Interested in applying? Download our 2012 Exhibition Proposal here or pick one up at the SteamPlant Box Office. Don’t delay, as applications are due Nov. 28, 2011. Each requires a brief description of the proposed show, 10 – 15 digital images and an artist statement. Artists of all ages and mediums are encouraged to apply. If you have any questions, please call us at 719.530.0933.