Musicians, dancers, listeners, organizers: open-outreach community meeting for TTU Vernacular Music Center, Saturday Sept 10 5-8pm: J&B Coffee (26th & Boston)
YOU ARE INVITED! On Saturday, September 10 at 5:00 PM in the back room of J&B Coffee (26th & Boston), the Texas Tech University Vernacular Music Center (http://ttuvmc.org ) hosts an open organizing meeting, potluck, and jam session for community involvement. Musicians, singers, dancers, listeners, organizers, families, and all others interested are very welcome! Bring your instrument & your dancin’ shoes!
The TTU Vernacular Music Center, celebrating its 10th year in Fall 2011, is a center for research, teaching, and advocacy in the world’s vernacular musics—those musics that are learned, taught, and passed on by ear and in the memory. In the 10 years since its foundation, the VMC has sponsored and partnered in hundreds of events across the TTU campus and around the region--concerts, workshops, guest lectures, dances—with a wide range of collaborating individuals and organizations.
At this open meeting, VMC organizers, staff, students, and ensemble representatives will be present to talk about what they do, to share information about the great events calendar planned for 2011-12, to announce several new initiatives, and to invite the community’s questions and suggestions. Participating will be: the directors of the TTU Early Music Ensemble (http://ttuearlymusic.org ), Tzumba! World Music Ensemble (http://on.fb.me/fHuMGg ), Ragtime Ensemble (contact mark.morton@ttu.edu ) and the Celtic Ensemble ( http://ttucelticensemble.com/ ), as well as representatives from the Tech Irish Set-Dancers (http://techsetdancers.com ), Caprock Morris border morris dance team ( http://caprockmorris.com/ ), and the Caprock English Country Dancers (http://englishcountrydancers.com/)
The 2011-12 calendar includes very exciting and engaging concerts, guest artists, and special events, including shows by all the participating ensembles, classes offered by the dance groups, guest lectures and participatory workshops by leading music and dance teachers from around the world, as well as October’s “Pirate Costume Ball,” December’s Caprock Celtic Christmas, and April’s “Dancing with Mr Darcy: A Jane Austen Evening with the Vernacular Music Center.”
This open meeting on September 10th is an outreach and brainstorming session, during which we hope to generate new and exciting ideas. We invite participation by all members of the community in the VMC’s wide slate of activities, and we look forward to sharing ideas and enthusiasm between and across the campus, the community, and the region. In addition, we announce the launch of the VMC’s 501(c)3 sister organization, the Roots Music Institute (http://www.rootsmusicinstitute.com) . We hope that you will join us!
Facebook “event” at: http://on.fb.me/o0jT1Z
Media contact: VMC director Dr Christopher Smith at TTU School of Music: 806.742-2270 x266 christopher.smith@ttu.edu ; VMC Administrative Coordinator Abi Rhoades thegoddessreborn@hotmail.com
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
21st Street Residents Celebrate End of Summer
The residents of the 3200 Block of 21st Street hosted a block party on Saturday night. Thanks to Denise Pope and Nichole Martens for stringing this event together and special thanks to Tech Terrace's own Ted Liggett for the outstanding pulled pork sandwiches- I had two.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Wrangler Bike Safety Rodeo
Date: September 24th, 2011
Time:
9:00-11:00 (Rodeo) Kids and parents learn about bicycle maintenance, Texas bike laws, and safe biking practices
11:00-12:00 (Neighborhood Roll) Kids and parents apply their learning on a supervised neighborhood ride (20 persons per group).
Location: Roscoe-Wilson Elementary School Playground and Tech Terrace neighborhood (for the Neighborhood Roll.)
Participants: Roscoe-Wilson Elementary students and their families
Requirements: Bring your bike and helmet and bike riding clothes. Drinks and snacks provided. Participants must sign a Release Form http://www.biketexas.org/en/component/docman/doc_download/80-release-form-template
Riders and families will learn, as they go through the course (maybe even more than once) the basics of: bike rules, helmet fitting, bike maintenance, basic riding skills and decision making on a course. Riders can then apply what they’ve learned on a supervised neighborhood roll. In groups of 20 or so (3 leaders per group on an identified course) students will use their new skills.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Back To School
Roscoe Wilson Elementary and Hutch Middle School hold their back to school nights this Thursday August 18th.
August Yards Of The Month
2608 32nd Street
Matt Gaiser
2621 32nd Street
Judith Abernathy
3317 19th Street
Yolanda and Dana Palmer
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