The Northern Lakes Center For The Arts

The Hymn Sing/Her Sing Concert has been postponed until Saturday, March 1.

The Northern Lakes Center for the Arts ". . . one of Wisconsin's most vibrant arts organizations." -Dean Amhaus, Executive Director The Wisconsin Arts Board   The Northern Lakes Center for the Arts was established in 1989 as a comprehensive cultural center organized and designed to provide local residents with the opportunity to develop and share their creative talents and abilities with one another and with the general public.  The Center's success with bringing the arts to local residents and with bringing local residents to the arts has resulted in its being included in the book, The 100 Best Small Arts Towns In America, and in its being awarded the Rural Genius Award from the Front Porch Institute and the Wisconsin Governor’s Award in Support of the Arts.  All performances and concerts at the Northern Lakes Center for the Arts begin at 7:30 p.m.  Individual concert and performance tickets are available at the door (Adults: $5.00; Children: $1.00).  Season tickets ($25.00) are available at each concert or performance or by contacting:   The Northern Lakes Center for the Arts 113 Elm  Street Amery, Wisconsin  54001 Telephone: (715) 268-6811 www.northernlakescenter.org

Welcome . . .

to the Northern Lakes Center for the Arts.  We are pleased to be able to announce a full range of activities planned for our regular season, 2006-2007.  The Center is a home for several local arts organizations:

1.  The Northern Lakes Chamber Orchestra rehearses and performs music written by history's great classical composers in the Northern Lakes Concert Series, monthly concerts for the general public. 

2. The Northern Lakes Theater Guild, a community theater organization which produces and performs plays as part of the Northern Lakes Drama Series, has brought theater to life for local residents. 

3. The Northern Lakes Writers' Guild gathers local writers to discuss work in progress and publish their writing in Northern Lakes' Soundings.

4. The Northern Lakes Art Gallery exhibits work by local visual artists, from painters to photographers and from potters to sculptors, including a wonderful annual display of color and design by the Apple River Quilt Guild.

5. The Northern Lakes School of the Arts, an educational organization formed as an outgrowth of the Center's mission, develops the creative talents and abilities of local residents.  Our nationally certified school, unique in rural Wisconsin, offers local students the very highest quality instruction in music, drama, the visual arts, dance, writing, and other artistic disciplines taught by an experienced faculty.  The School provides the instructional basis for what happens at the Center in terms of concerts, performances and exhibits; the Center provides the perfect place where those developed abilities may be creatively exercised.

We hope . . .

you take the opportunity to visit the Northern Lakes Center for the Arts, attend or take part in our musical concerts or theater performances, visit our art gallery, or enroll in one of our School's instructional programs.  If you are interested in more information about the Center, please contact us.

Special This Season . . .

Besides the Center’s regular concert series and drama series performances, some of the special events and artists who will appear this season include: return performances by Layton James of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Gordon Bok as well as new friends with the Wisconsin Brass Quintet and a couple critical issues forums to discuss important local concerns. This will be a very special season.

The Northern Lakes Center for the Arts

presents

February, 2008

1          An Artist’s Reception  

9         "The Eloquence of E. B. White" - A reading by Ed Moersfelder

          The Northern Lakes Concert Series: “A Community Hymn-Sing” has been postponed until Saturday, March 1.  The Hymn Sing/Her Sing Concert has been postponed until Saturday, March 1.

Unless otherwise indicated, all concerts and performances begin at 7:30 p.m.

The Northern Lakes Center for the Arts

113 Elm St. • Amery, Wisconsin 54001 • (715) 258-6811

The Northern Lakes Center for the Arts

113 Elm  Street

Amery, Wisconsin  54001

Telephone: (715) 268-6811

 www.northernlakescenter.org

The Northern Lakes Center for the Arts is financially supported, in part, by the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin.

Several people have asked us to include a photo of the Center for the Arts. We feel this is one step better: a drawing of the Center by local artist, LeRoy Schwan.

"The Northern Lakes Center for the Arts" by LeRoy Schwan

The Northern Lakes School of the Arts

The Northern Lakes School of the Arts, housed in the Northern Lakes Center for the Arts, is affiliated with the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, a nationwide association of non-profit community schools of the arts founded in 1937. Member Guild schools offer high quality arts education with the best available artists and faculty.

"Steven playing violin"

As a Guild school, we believe that the arts are fundamental to our very existence. We believe that excellent instruction and expert individual education in all the arts disciplines is an increasingly important and vital factor in the welfare of all persons of all ages in all social, ethnic and economic groups. We believe that the arts give meaning and wholeness to all human existence, extending from the life of the individual to the community and ultimately to our entire civilization. Thus it must follow that the pursuit of the arts is the rightful heritage of every individual and not just the privilege of the gifted few. Therefore in this, as in every other sphere of human activity, the highest quality of instruction and artistic endeavor must be made universally accessible to all interested persons.

"Dance practice"                                                            "Maggie playing piano"

Sometimes we may think that living in a rural area means that our children will not have opportunities otherwise available in urban areas. By enrolling in the Northern Lakes School of the Arts, the only nationally certified school of the arts in rural Wisconsin, you will be able to become part of the national network that is the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, and part of this nationwide vision the arts play in our lives.

  "Michael playing piano"

The Northern Lakes School of the Arts is dedicated to providing local students with the highest quality instruction in the arts. At the Northern Lakes School of the Arts, students study music, theater, dance, writing and the visual arts in individual and group classes.

For more information, including how to enroll, please contact the Northern Lakes School of the Arts at 113 Elm St. in Amery, WI 54001, or call (715) 268-6811.

Let Art Begin At Home: The Amery Story    www.communityarts.net