Julien's Journal May 2016 (Volume 41, Number 5)

STEPPING OUT ARTS MUSIC MAY EVENT CALENDAR SUBMIT YOUR EVENTS! Please submit your events online at: juliensjournal.wufoo.com/forms/juliensjournal-event-calendar-submission. June events must be received by Wednesday, May 4. DON’T SEE IT HERE? Find the latest information and events submitted after our print deadline on our website, JuliensJournal.com. BROADWAY BREAKING BOUNDARIES Friday-Saturday, April 29-30 7:30 PM @ Grand Opera House This Dubuque Chorale concert features songs from Broadway that helped broaden our view of the world. The Dubuque Chorale, Cadenza, and Children’s Choir perform a program of Broadway music, dance, and history. The theme is how influential Broadway has been in areas of social change. Guests will include local stage performers and dancers. Visit DubuqueChorale.org. DUBUQUE YOGA FESTIVAL Friday-Sunday, April 29-May 1 Various Times @ Grand River Center More than 250 people experienced the soul-sustaining joy and well-being that permeated the inaugural Dubuque Yoga Festival and 300-400 people are expected this year. The festival is a celebration of yoga for everyone – yoga teachers, students, families and beginners will delight in the soulfulness, healing, and joy. The festival’s mission of expanding and sustaining the souls of participants is accomplished by cultivating love, community, mindful movement, kindness, learning, celebration, and cooperation. Visit DubuqueYogaFestival. com. MAKERS FAIRE Saturday-Sunday, April 30-May 1 @ National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium This new event celebrates creativity, craftsmanship, an ingenuity. Details are forthcoming. Visit RiverMuseum.com. 4 ❖ Julien’s Journal ❖ May 2016 EVENTS CULTURE MACBETH Friday-Sunday, April 29-May 1 7:30 PM (Fri.-Sat.) & 2 PM (Sun.) @ Butler Hall, UD Heritage Center Shakespeare’s shortest, darkest, and most powerful tragedy is presented to commemorate the 400th anniversary of his death. Shakespeare dramatizes the psychological and political impact of evil when used to satisfy ambition for power. Nicholas Radcliffe directs the University of Dubuque production. Visit www.Dbq.edu. DUPACO COMMUNITY-WIDE GARAGE SALE Saturdays, April 30 & May 7 @ Dubuque, IA; Manchester, IA; Platteville, WI To promote people, thrift, and the community, Dupaco Community Credit Union organizes a number of community-wide garage sale. Community-wide garage sales are organized for Dubuque and Manchester, IA on April 30 and for Platteville, WI on May 7. Visit DupacoGarageSales.com. DAAC MUSIC SERIES: PROJECT 1 Sunday, May 1 5-9 PM @ The Smokestack Join the Dubuque Area Arts Collective (DAAC) at the Smokestack for the first final performance of Project 1, DAAC’s music mentoring program for high school students. Singer-songwriters, jam bands, blues, punk, and more will be featured. Not just a learning program for students, our adult mentor-musicians will say they’ve learned even more. All ages are welcome. Visit DAArtsCollective.com. ROUNTREE ENSEMBLE Sunday, May 1 3 PM @ UW-P Center for the Arts The Rountree Ensemble is the professional chamber music ensemble-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Their final concert of the season celebrates the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Sesquicentennial with music composed during the years of the Normal School and the Wisconsin Mining Trade School. The first half features chamber wind music of Carl Nielsen and Carl Reinecke. After intermission, the ensemble is joined by UW-Platteville’s Chamber Choir, University Singers, and Concert Choir in a performance of Anton Bruckner’s “Mass No. 2 in E minor,” composed in 1866, the same year as the founding of UW-Platteville. General Admission is $7; student admission is $5. Visit UWPlatt.edu/Music. INSPIRING PEOPLE SERIES: BIBI MCGILL Sunday, May 1 4:30-5:45 PM @ Inspire Café The objective of the Inspiring People Series is to create and celebrate inspiration thus lifting up our community and all humankind. Raised in Denver, CO, Bibi McGill discovered yoga in 1996 and has since traveled the world studying classical eightlimbed yoga systems and leads classes and workshops at studios and festivals around the globe. Participation is free. Visit Inspire-Cafe.com. DSO/DUMA ART COMPETITION EXHIBIT Ends Sunday, May 1 @ Studio Works View original pieces of student artwork with used Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto (the piece Midori will perform with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra during her residency) as inspiration. Interpretations of this theme are at the artist’s discretion. Visit DbqStudioWorks.org. ROUNTREE GALLERY SPRING EXHIBIT Ends Sunday, May 1 10 AM-4:30 PM (Sat.) & 12-4:30 PM (Sun.) @ Rountree Gallery (Platteville, WI) This 22nd annual juried exhibit features local art by artists of all ages. Admission is free. Visit Mining.Jamison.Museum/ Rountree-Gallery. LA CAGE AUX FOLLES AUDITIONS Sunday & Wednesday, May 1 & 4 1 PM (Sun.) & 7 PM (Wed.) @ Grand Opera House The Grand Opera House will holding auditions for La Cage aux Folles, performing July 22-24 & 28-31. Actors should prepare 32 bars of a musical theatre selection in the style of the show that best shows their vocal range and bring sheet music; an accompanist will be provided. Actors must provide a list of all conflicts or potential conflicts between June 11 and July 21. Those wishing to audition but are unavailable to arrive at the start of the audition time should call the Grand Opera House business off

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