The Yavapai Community College Performing Arts Center on the Prescott campus has announced that it is adding a wine dinner as a component of its upcoming season of performances. The Center, which loses hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, announced an outstanding line-up of programs for the coming year. For more information, please click here.
The first fall session of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s (OLLI’s) “Lunch & Learn” program will be devoted to discussing issues related to community college education in the Verde Valley. The program, free and open to the public, will be held Wednesday, Oct. 1, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in room 34 of the Sedona Center (across Rte. 89A from Red Rock High School).
Guests are invited to bring their lunch or come for complimentary coffee, tea, water and a little snack. An informal discussion begins at 12:30 p.m., followed by speaker presentations starting at 1 p.m. The session is titled “Moving Forward: Visions for Yavapai College’s Sedona Center.” The discussion is related to Yavapai College’s formation of a committee to provide ideas for community college education in the Verde Valley. The committee will include representatives from Sedona, and the Oct. 1 program is intended to identify ideas that Sedona’s representatives might bring to the committee.
Brief presentations, followed by discussions, will be made by: Rob Adams, City of Sedona mayor; Linda Buchanan, community education coordinator on the Verde Valley Campus; Dave Lykins, superintendent of Sedona-Oak Creek Unified School District; James Perey, executive dean of the Yavapai College Verde Valley Campus; Mike Raber, City of Sedona senior planner and chair of Western Gateway Community Focus Area Work Group; Robin Weeks, OLLI director/coordinator; Jennifer Wesselhoff, president/CEO of the Sedona Chamber of Commerce; and Ruth Wicks, Verde Valley Community College advisory committee member.
To read the entire announcement of this event in the Verde Independent, please click here.
The Yavapai Community College Verde campus Art Gallery in Clarkdale will present the “Radical Center” exhibition from September 29 to October 23. The exhibit features the works of artists Rose Moon, Cathy Gazda, and Paul Gazda.
There will be an opening reception on Thursday, October 2 from 5-7 p.m. The Verde Valley campus Art Gallery’s hours are Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., and it is closed Friday through Sunday. For more information, please click here.
The next meeting of the Verde Valley Community College Citizens Advocates will be held Wednesday, September 3, 2014 from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Yavapai-Apache Lodge (below Cliff Castle Casino), 333 Middle Verde Road, Camp Verde, Arizona 86322. The meeting will be in the Camp Verde/Cottonwood Ballroom.
Mr. Steve DeVol will be premiering his video on Yavapai College and the creation of the independent administration in the Verde Valley. The meeting is open to the public. If you want more information, you may call 928-300-9270.