© SWCC Festival of the Arts
Featuring the SWCC Jazz Band and Jazz Vocal Ensemble
under the direction of
Dr. Joseph Trivette. The SWCC ensembles will be joined by
guest jazz musicians Matt Vance, Rich Wiley, Dave Morgan,
Matt Kendrick, Rick Simerly and SWCC graduate Ryan Mullins.
Enjoy JAZZ at its best-from Dixieland to Swing to Latin….
Admission is $5 at the door.
3:00 p.m.
King Community Center
This
world renowned group combines award-winning acrobatics,
traditional dance, spectacular costumes , ancient and
contemporary music and theatrical technique to present a
show of breathtaking skill and spellbinding beauty proving
there are NO LIMITS, physically!
11:00 a.m. Performance for students
7:30 p.m.
Performance
$5 at the door.
SWCC King Community Center
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Soar
with Lucky Lindy in the cockpit of the Spirit of St. Louis
as he battles bad weather, exhaustion---and ghosts—to emerge
as the first pilot ever to fly non-stop from New York to
Paris…and much more to this NO LIMITS! story of courage,
heartbreak and success.
A one-man show written and performed by Steve Carroll.
1:00 p.m. Performance for students
7:30 p.m. Performance
SWCC King Community Center
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Hear musical ideas from around the world transformed and
given life from the soil of Virginia as produced by these
creative musicians on instruments made from garden-variety
gourds. They play “gourdeous” music. The orchestra will be
joined by the Traditional Music PICK (Playing Instruments
Changes Kids) students from Buchanan County Schools, in
cooperation with Community Arts Council of Buchanan County.
“I planted a seed and grew an orchestra” proclaims Arthur
Stephens, “Professor of Gourdology.”
3:00 p.m.
Workshop with students
7:00 p.m. Performance
Grundy High School Auditorium
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This popular musical extravaganza features three
extraordinary pianists, Pavlina
Dokovska, Vladimir Valjarevic and Joseph Trivette. In a
variety of styles, they will perform selections for four
hands, two pianos, four hands and three pianos, six hands!
Composers presented will be Mozart, Gershwin, Barber,
Piazzolla and others.
SWCC King Community Center
Dr. J. Randolph Forehand will enlighten us
with his informative and creative Cultural Walk, using a
multi-media presentation of exquisite visual images and
enhancing music to accompany individual vignettes of
costumed personages important to the diversity of No Limits!
Come and meet Cleopatra, Thomas Jefferson, Joan of Arc,
Marie Curie, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Michael Jackson,
Galileo, Wright Brothers, Albert Einstein, Martha Graham,
Thomas Edison and a medieval engineer, builder of Gothic
cathedrals.
A buffet dinner, catered by Your Grate Escape, will precede
the Cultural Walk and will include cuisine as prepared by
famous chefs such as Julia Child, Paula Deen, Fannie Farmer,
Bobby Flay, Emeril Lagasse, Rachel Ray, Wolfgang Puck…..All
who never imagined there would be NO LIMITS! to their
success!
6:30 p.m.
Dinner with reservations required in advance
$20 per person/sponsors complimentary
Call 276-964-7348.964-7347 for reservations or contact
mary.lawson@sw.edu
7:30 p.m. Performance - Voluntary Donation at the door for performance only)
SWCC King Community Center
sponsored by Phi Theta Kappa
Foods will be a celebration of culinary delights with NO
LIMITS!
Prepare to be surprised….Tickets are $6. Call 276-964-7703
for tickets.
SWCC King Community Center
Unchained Melody: Freedom of Expression
with music by composers Dvorak, Faure, Popper, Brahms,
Debussy, Clarke, Gershwin, Heifetz and Schumann, who set
about to overcome the limits placed on freedom of
expression. They challenged requirements and pushed the
boundaries of classical form, harmony and tonality.
7:30 p.m. Performance
Elk Garden United Methodist Church
217 Hayters Gap Road
Rt. 80 East, off Rt. 19 in Russell County
NOTE LOCATION CHANGE
Dellinger Hall
Beyond Measure: The Virtuosity and Invention of a Prodigy
with music by composers Mozart, Paganini, Mendelssohn, Lalo,
Hindermith, Listz,
Kreisler and Enescu, who were prodigies possessing unlimited
potential and talent, exceeding in virtuosity the limits of
what was considered to be even humanly possible.
7:30 p.m. Performance
Tazewell Baptist Church
141 Tower Street, Tazewell
NOTE LOCATION CHANGE
Unmatched
in artistry, grace and refinement of movement, these
amazingly life-like marionettes perform scenes taken from
everyday life, all set to beautiful music by composers such
as Beethoven, Vivaldi, Strauss and Copland. Through a
combination of virtuoso manipulation, humor, poignancy and
poetic insight, Life in Motion carries the audience on a
journey that celebrates the richness of life.
1:00 p.m. Simple Gifts, Student performance
7:30 p.m. Life in Motion, performance
Lebanon High School
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King Community Center
Beyond
Borders: Voices from a Foreign Land
featuring composers Handel, Boccherini, Chopin, Korngold,
Bartok, Prokofiev, Dvorak and Berlin who could not be
contained by the borders of the country of their birth
either finding unlimited opportunity and success in distant
lands or escaping the limits of oppression or both.
7:30 p.m. Performance
Presented in honor of Betty T. Corte
A Blue Mountain Performing Arts event
First United Methodist Church, 200 South College Avenue
Bluefield, VA
Chamber Orchestra Spotlight on SWCC Music Students
Always a highlight of the festival, the Knoxville Symphony,
conducted by James Fellenbaum, will perform works by Stamitz,
Mozart, Goedicke, Boublil and Schonberg and others. A
highlight of the concert will be the performance of Saint-Saen’s
Piano Concerto, No. 2 performed by SWCC’s Dr. Joseph
Trivette. The orchestra will accompany SWCC music majors
(pictured) Danielle Muawad, vocal; Emily Rose, clarinet; Jessica
Browning, flute and Kelsey Sykes, trumpet and the SWCC
Community Chorus, under the direction of Dr. Joseph Trivette.
SWCC King Community Center
Art Exhibits
"Gary Bowling's House of Art Presents!"
This
"No Limits" exhibition will be a whole room installation utilizing varied 2-D and 3-D media created by artists young and old. Gary Bowling, a long-time visionary leader for the arts in the southern coalfields and beyond, will present his work and the work of several artists he represents at the Gary Bowling's House of Art in Bluefield, West Virginia.They will knock your socks off!
April 9 - June 8
Art Ball on Saturday, April 20th
from 1:00-3:00 pm
Appalachian Arts Center
No Limits: A Celebration of the Creative Spirit
This exhibition will highlight some of Southwest Virginia's most exceptional artists, including SWCC alumna,
Courtney Wyatt.Pull out your wildest clothes and join in the celebration at an
Art Ball on Saturday, April 20th from 1:00-3:00 pm (at AAC).SWCC student musician extraordinaire,
John Sharpe, (photo below)will be playing his favorite musical selections, accompanied by SWCC opera and jazz singers, while participating visual artists will be on hand for conversation.Come artfully
attired and enjoy homemade food, excellent music and a
whirlwind of creativity!
Exhibits are subject to change. Call 276-596-9188 for Appalachian Arts Center exhibit information and for all other exhibit information call 276-964-7228