Membership Renewal
We hope you will want to join us for our exciting fall series by joining the Institute or renewing your membership for the coming year (2007/2008). That membership year has been changed to begin September 1, 2007 through August 2008.
The Institute Board of Trustees changed the membership year to make it simpler for everyone to remember. From now on you can renew your membership at the same time you register for the fall programs. We hope this makes renewal and registration easier for everyone.
To join, please complete the annual Membership
Form here or the one received in your annual membership packet with your most current information and send it to the Institute. Membership dues are still tax deductible and remain at last year's levels. As always, you may pay either by check or VISA/MasterCard.
We are continuing the individual pricing for the lectures this year. All three lectures may still be purchased together, for a savings. Or, individual lectures can be bought, at a slightly higher price. Those who signed up for the entire series, (postmarked by Sept. 17) you will receive one guest ticket which can be used to bring a guest to one of the three lectures in the series.
Fall 2007 Program
Fall
Enrollment Form 2007
This past season's Institute programs were very successful and we think our 2007/2008 programming will be equally interesting and informative. This year's program series, "The Arts: Windows to the Soul," will be a look at the relationship between the arts and humanities and will be the topic for both the fall and spring.
We are looking to broaden our reach this fall and are delighted to be partnering with other organizations for some new events. We hope you take advantage of the additional opportunities for artistic events due to our collaboration with Music in Salado, PALS (Public Arts League of Salado) and The Bell County Museum.
The Arts: Windows to the Soul
The series will look at the relationship between the arts and humanities through the eyes of a musician, an author/poet/songwriter, and a photographer. The series will examine how music and the visual arts affect us, our minds, our memories, ourselves.
Lecture and Performance Series:
* Music Weekend -- Sept. 28-29:
o Friday, Sept. 28, 7 p.m., Salado Silver Spur Theater, Rising Star Concert with singers, David Pershall and Katie Horn; First concert in the Music in Salado 07-08 concert series, in conjunction with The Institute. Limited Seating. Open to the public. Priority given to MIST and IH members.
o Sat. Sept. 29, 4-6 p.m., Salado Silver Spur Theatre, 108 Royal St.; Robert Freeman, PhD, former Dean of the UT College of Fine Arts, musicologist and pianist; Lecture and optional dinner; Lecture title: "Where did music come from? And where is it going?"
* Poetry/Songwriting/Humor Weekend -- Oct. 14:
o Sunday, Oct.14, 4-6 Salado Silver Spur Theatre
Steven Fromholz
"Let's Drink to the Last Livin' Outlaw"
Lecture and Reception at the Central Texas Museum Hall of the Clans
* Photography Weekend - Nov. 3-4:
o Sunday, Nov. 4, 4-6, Celebration Center; Internationally acclaimed still photographer Keith Carter; Lecture and optional dinner. Lecture title: Gumbo Ya-Ya/Life as Art
o Saturday, Nov. 3, 5-7 p.m.; Photographic exhibit of Carter's "Ezekiel's Horse" collection at the Bell Country Museum. Reception and artist's talk sponsored jointly by the museum, the Institute and the Public Arts League of Salado. Free and open to Institute, Museum and PALS members and invited guests.
Biographical Information on the Speakers
Robert Freeman, PhD, is the immediate past dean of the UT College of Fine Arts. He is an accomplished pianist, musicologist, teacher and administrator who has spent his career looking for ways to connect music to other disciplines.
Prior to his seven year tenure at UT, Freeman spent 27 years as head of The Eastman School of Music and the New England Conservatory. Before that he taught at MIT, Princeton and Harvard and is currently the Regan Regents professor of Fine Arts at UT.
Freeman serves as executive director for the Arts Entrepreneurship Incubator at UT, is board chair of the Brain Music Institute at Harvard-MIT - Mass General, and is on the board of the Texas Medical Center at Houston where he's part of a team looking into ways to apply musician skills to other disciplines.
He received his undergraduate degreed from Harvard College and his master's degree and PhD from Princeton.
Rising Star Concert (David Pershall and Katie Holmes)
This special presentation is a collaboration between the Institute and Music in Salado, and will feature a public concert by two gifted young singers, David Pershall, baritone, and Katie Horn, soprano. Recently married, they have been hired by the Virginia Opera where David will be a Virginia Spectrum Artist and Katie will be a member of the company.
David Pershall, a Bell County native and 2007 graduate of Baylor University, is one of eight Americans invited to participate in the Seoul International Vocal Competition in Seoul, Korea in November, and has been recognized by the Metropolitan Opera as an outstanding young talent.
Steven Fromholz, Texas Poet Laureate, is often heralded as one of the last real Texas Troubadours. During his 40 year career he's been a singer, songwriter, poet, author, playwright, actor, storyteller, white water river guide and humorist extraordinaire. He was one of the charter members of the "outlaw music" genre in Texas and has been inducted into the Texas Music Hall of Fame.
Besides his own recording career, which has included a stint in Stephen Still's band, and 15 of his own albums, Fromholz is known as a "songwriter's songwriter." His tunes have been recorded by John Denver, Michael Martin Murphy, Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, and a host of other well-known entertainers.
His writing extends beyond music. His book, The Texas Trilogy, based on his song of the same name, has just been published and a book of his poems will be out in fall as part of the Texas Poet Laureate series.
He has extensive stage and screen credits and has been recognized as one of the 10 best river guides in U.S. He currently performs with his new band, The Texas Flatliners.
Keith Carter is an internationally recognized photographer and educator. The Los Angeles Times calls him "a poet of the ordinary" and his haunting, enigmatic photographs have been widely exhibited all over the world.
Both private and public collectors, treasure his prints and they are part of numerous permanent collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the George Eastman House, among others. The Wittliff Gallery at Texas State University houses his major collection. Nine books of his works have been published.
In addition to his photographic work, Carter teaches at Lamar University in Beaumont, where he holds the endowed Walles Chair of Art. He also conducts photography workshops around the country for amateurs and professionals alike.
Carter has received two National Endowment for the Arts Grants. He has received Lamar University's highest teaching honor, the University Professor Award, and he was named the Lamar University Distinguished Lecturer. In 1997, he was the subject of an arts profile on the national television news program, CBS Sunday Morning.
Special Member Only Tour Event:
Saturday, Oct. 27, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, special behind-the- scenes-tour of the museum and current exhibits. The Tour includes a specially arranged lunch at nearby Louie's 106 Restaurant, a popular and elegant Mediterranean grill in downtown Austin. Space Limited; Advance reservations required.
Information From Institute Spring Programs:
The spring lecture series entitled, "Privacy Lost: At What Cost?" netted attendees much useful information. Speaker Beth Givens, the director the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, provided a Privacy Survival Guide as well as a reading list of privacy publications to participants. The Privacy Survival Guide can be downloaded at the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse website: www.privacyrights.org. A bibliography of Privacy Publications is available here.
Recordings of Speakers Available
CD's of the lectures by these most recent speakers and others are available for purchase through the Institute. Audio tapes or CD's are available for almost all of the speakers who have presented to the Institute during the last 26 years. Audio tapes are $11.00 and CD's are $15.00 each. To order, please contact Erin at the Institute at ifh@vvm.com or at 254/947-5729.
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