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MUSIC CENTER - GROUP MOTION DANCE GROUP
Welcome to Group Motion Dance workshop participants. Group Motion Company is a professional dance theater ensemble of versatile artists, melding dance, theater, music and visual arts into a provocative and innovative performance experience. The g... |
Aug 4, 2008 |
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BRONZE FOUNDRY
We continue our report from 7/30/08 on work in the Bronze Foundry. After the melted bronze is poured into the snap-flask molds, it takes only minutes to cool back to its solid state. At this point, the bells are 'broken' out of their sand molds, gi... |
Aug 1, 2008 |
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BRONZE FOUNDRY
This continues our report from 7/28/08 on the foundry bell creations ... Once the stylus tools have been used to mark designs into the sand, the cope and drag sand blocks are put back together. Now, negative space exists where the aluminum pattern... |
Jul 30, 2008 |
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BRONZE FOUNDRY
Crafting the bronze wind bells is a labor intensive process. Presently the Foundry Apse is workspace for about five artists who shape the sand molds and pour the molten liquid metal to cast Soleri Original bells. Over the next few postings, we wi... |
Jul 28, 2008 |
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ITALIAN NIGHT 2008 - DINNER & CONCERT
ITALIAN NIGHT at Arcosanti, once again, was a great success. A lively crowd of visitors and many alumni enjoyed a lovely evening that began with a tour of the site and a delicious dinner served in the Vaults. Menu consisted of antipasto, insalata ... |
Jul 23, 2008 |
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ITALIAN NIGHT 2008 - PREPARATION
The ITALIAN NIGHT event is the best visited event of the year, usually between 300 and 350 visitors come to enjoy a delicious dinner in the dramatic setting of the vaults. What few visitors can realize is how much preparation it takes for our crew ... |
Jul 21, 2008 |
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WORLD CONGRESS OF ARCHITECTURE
On June 30th, 2008, Paolo Soleri was featured as a guest speaker at the 23rd UIA World Congress in Turin, Italy. The Congress takes place every three years and brings together thousands of architects and architecture students from countries through... |
Jul 14, 2008 |
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SOLERI ORIGINAL DRAWINGS
Exciting news from the Soleri Archives. We received a whole new collection of original Soleri drawings from the about 1940 to around 1948. While cleaning out a little used back closet in the Soleri residence, his daughters discovered a whole stack... |
Jul 7, 2008 |
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JUNETEENTH 2008 FESTIVAL AND ARTS FAIR
JUNETEENTH Festival started with days of preparation. We reported on 6/16 about installation of the gigantic parachute over the Colly Soleri amphitheater. [photos from left] At Cordes Junction, the crew [planning coordinator Jenn Epstein with wo... |
Jun 18, 2008 |
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JUNETEENTH 2008 FESTIVAL AND ARTS FAIR
This week-end was filled with wonderful music during the JUNETEENTH 2008 Jazz Splash Festival. Images of the performances will be posted on 6/18/08. Today's report gives a few glimpses of some of the preparation for the event. We reported on 1/18... |
Jun 16, 2008 |
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JUNETEENTH 2008 FESTIVAL AND ARTS FAIR
The Arcosanti crew is in the midst of preparation for JUNETEENTH 2008, an annual festival of African-American Art and Music, including Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Reggae. The festival commemorates the date that most slaves first heard about President Linc... |
Jun 13, 2008 |
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SOLERI BELL SUMMITS EVEREST
<!-- First Paragraph seperate multiple paragraphs with --!> Earlier this week, the Soleri Archives received a package from Jaye George, Arcosanti's Ambassador to Nepal. Ms. George, of Paradise Valley, Arizona, took a trip to the Himalayas in Octob... |
May 16, 2008 |
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SOUNDS AND TASTES OF INDIA
<!-- First Paragraph seperate multiple paragraphs with --!> Arcosanti was bustling with activity for Saturday's annual Sounds and Tastes of India festival. Beginning in early afternoon, residents and visitors alike were treated to a classical Indi... |
May 14, 2008 |
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SOLERI VISITS NAPLES
<!-- First Paragraph seperate multiple paragraphs with --!> While Paolo Soleri was in Rome for the conference on sustainability in April 2008, he also went to Naples to attend a special conference organized for him by Professor Luigi Fusco Girar... |
May 2, 2008 |
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COLLY SOLERI MUSIC CENTER - 2008 VIVALDI EVENT
With Spring in the air - or on the wind gusts, if you are on our mesas - the concert season has begun at Arcosanti. On Saturday April 26, the annual Vivaldi performance was held. With a crowd of approximately 80 people, the Colly Soleri Music Cen... |
Apr 30, 2008 |
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PAOLO SOLERI SPEAKS AT ECOCITY CONFERENCE IN SAN FRANCISCO
Alumna Laura Powers e-mailed these images this morning. Paolo Soleri was invited to speak at the ECOCITY conference at the Masonic Conference Center in San Francisco on Saturday, April 27. 2008. [Photo: Laura Powers & text: sa] Conference... |
Apr 28, 2008 |
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PAOLO SOLERI IN ROME - RICHARD MEIER CHURCH
While Paolo Soleri was in Rome for the conference on sustainability on April 15th, 2008, he also made a trip to visit “Dives in Misericordia”, the world famous church designed by architect Richard Meier. The building, completed in 2005, attracts th... |
Apr 23, 2008 |
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PAOLO SOLERI AT SUSTAINIBILITY CONFERENCE IN ROME, ITALY
On April 15, 2008, Paolo Soleri was featured as a guest speaker at “Building Well to Live Better”, a three day conference organized by the Roman Catholic Church to address issues of sustainability and the environment. The intent of the conference w... |
Apr 21, 2008 |
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COLLY SOLERI MUSIC CENTER - JAZZ WITHOUT BORDERS
CANNON-FIRE Jazz Showcase brings a series of monthly dinner-show performances for presenting regional, national, and international artists. The programs offer quality weekend opportunities for family enjoyment. The 'artists' will appear each 'Second... |
Apr 11, 2008 |
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SCHOOL OF THOUGHT - UPCOMING VATICAN CONFERENCE
School of Thought is a weekly hour with Paolo Soleri, usually Wednesday afternoons at 3pm, where public visitors, workshop participants, volunteers and staff can ask Paolo about his architecture and philosophy. Each week has a suggested subject and... |
Apr 9, 2008 |