The Yavapai Community College Student Nurses Association is sponsoring a blood drive to be held on the Verde Valley Campus and Sedona Center October 2. To set up an appointment to donate blood, the College provided contacts:
Contact Dr. Stephanie Scovill at 928-771-4859,
Cynthia Schroder at 928-649-5470 or
Register to donate at BloodHero.com with code YCVERDE
The Yavapai Community College Film and Media Arts Program is among the worldwide hosts of the 2019 Manhattan Short Film Festival. Catch the festival at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1 in the YCPAC. Once in, you may weigh in on your festival favorites. General admission tickets are $10 and YC students with an ID are admitted for $5.
The The Mary D Fisher Theater in Sedona is also joining in the festival. It has listed the following dates for showing the festival movies: Friday 9/27, Sunday 9/29, Monday 9/30, Tuesday 10/1 and Thursday 10/3.
The festival involves the showing of ten short films from around the world that are simultaneously screened in over 400 cities spanning six continents during a one-week period, with the Best Film and Best Actor awards determined by the total ballots cast by the audiences in this Oscar-qualified film festival.
The 10 Manhattan Short films hail from seven countries with films from Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Iran, three films from the United Kingdom, and two films from the USA. These 10 represent the best short films from among 1,250 submissions to the festival from 70 countries.
Festival organizers write that “the range of film genres includes intimate dramas; spine-tingling tales; a car that feels a part of a family; and a film about an apocalyptic future as part of the Manhattan Short program.”
The Yavapai Community College Film and Media Arts Program brings a showing of ML. Lincoln’s documentary movie, “Wrenched, to the Verde Valley Campus, on Tuesday, September 24 at Building M, Room 137. The show begins at 6:30 p.m. It is the new edit, with footage of environmental activist Tim DeChristopher.
The Community Colleges describes the moving as showing how Edward Abbey’s conservationist novels influenced the emerging environmental movement of the 1970s and ‘80s. Even today, Abbey’s books, particularly The Monkey Wrench Gang, inspire radical action groups in their fight to protect wilderness.
The movie is described in part on the movie’s own website as follows:
It “reveals how Edward Abbey’s anarchistic spirit and riotous novels influenced and helped guide the nascent environmental movement of the 1970s and ‘80s. Through interviews, archival footage and re-enactments, ML Lincoln captures the outrage of Abbey’s friends who were the original eco-warriors. In defense of wilderness, these early activists pioneered ”monkeywrenching” – a radical blueprint for “wrenching the system.” Exemplified by EarthFirst! in the early ‘80s, direct action and civil disobedience grew in popularity. With tree-spiking, forest occupation and high-profile publicity stunts such as the cracking at Glen Canyon Dam, this group became the eventual target of FBI infiltrators, leading to the arrest of various members.”
The movie is free and the public is encouraged to attend.
As noted above, “Wrenched” was produced and directed by YC film school graduate ML Lincoln.
Sources: Yavapai Community College; “Wrenched” website.
The Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering is scheduled for August 8, 9 and 10 on the Prescott Campus at the Performing Arts Center. Click here to purchase tickets. Below are some of the shows that are scheduled. Click here to see the full schedule of events.
The Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering presents their first “Western Art Exhibit” at the Art Gallery on the Prescott Campus featuring five outstanding western artists whose art has been featured on its collectible souvenir posters. The exhibit dates are August 8, 9, and 10 (Thursday to Saturday) from 10:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. A live poetry event is scheduled for Saturday, August 10 from noon to 2 p.m.
Artists Joe Netherwood, Bill Nebeker, Steve Atkinson, Shawn Cameron and Marless Fellows have been chosen for this exhibit which coincides with the Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering.
The Missoula Children’s Theatre production had a very successful tour in Yavapai County in June of this year. Among the communities participating were Cottonwood, Sedona, and the west side of the County as represented by Yavapai Community College.
The production company fees are paid for in a variety of ways. In the case of Sedona, the local Rotary Club and other sponsors supported the project. In Cottonwood, the Parks and Recreation Department was the driving force.
In Prescott, it appears (but we cannot verify because the College will not return questions about it) that Yavapai Community College picked up the costs associated with the program. The Performing Arts Center on the Prescott Campus was the center for the program and the productions by the children were listed as events by the College.
The production company provided two professional actor/directors along with costoumes and other theatre paraphernalia. The program runs five days with 20 hours of rehearsal for children ranging in ages beginning in kindergarten through 12th grade. The cast can consist of up to 60 local children who put on two productions.
The Missoula Children’s Theatre organization says that its primary goal is the development of life skills in children through participation in the performing arts. It states that “within each MCT cast, girls and boys are equal; the disabled become able; the shy experiment with bravery; the slow are rehearsed to perfection; and the gifted become part of the whole. The lesson they learn is that all of them are necessary for the show to go on. Few arenas exist where responsibility is taught and learned so clearly. MCT provides a unique opportunity to learn the lessons of group dynamics while excelling as an individual – a lesson from art that carries into life. MCT strives to use participation in the performing arts as a vehicle to develop lifeskills including social skills, communication skills, self-discipline, a strong work ethic, an understanding of the team concept and self-esteem.”
Children’s Theater Group: Yavapai Community College PAC
The Yavapai Community College Film and Media Arts Program is part of a very special “Phoenix, Oregon” 70 city nationwide screening tour that will take the film to the East coast and back this summer. The screening on July 8 at the Prescott Campus was the only chance for local Prescott audiences to see the film and partake in a Q&A with the filmmakers.
The showing of the film, sponsored by the YC Film and Media Arts Program, was followed by a Q&A with Writer, Director & Editor Gary Lundgren and Producers Annie Lundgren and Luis Rodriguez. The film screened at the YC Community Room, (next to the library on the Prescott Campus.)
Shanandoah Sterling
The Community College announced in a press release that Shanandoah Sterling was singled out from 3,700 Phi Theta Kappa members attending a national conference this spring in Orlando, Florioda, and invited to star in the academic honor society’s “I AM PTK” national marketing campaign.
Denise Woolsey, YC PTK Faculty Advisor, said Shanandoah was one of just a few students chosen for the campaign based on a photograph taken during the conference. “In May I was emailed and asked if I could recommend her as a good representative for PTK. Of course I gave her a glowing recommendation. She will be a great representative for YC and PTK.”
Shanandoah has already fulfilled her PTK role, ushering a pair of videographers around the Verde Valley and starring in shoots in, among other locations, her Sedona home office, in the Sedona Public Library where she is a volunteer English as a Second Language Teacher, at the YC Sedona Center, the Verde Valley Campus and in a Southwest Wine Center vineyard.
Shanandoah is an aspiring English teacher who attended Yavapai Community College as a part-time, returning adult student, Shanandoah said she appreciates the opportunity to promote PTK to community college students nationwide. “I want PTK to attract more students,” she said. “It opens doors to scholarships and more. I am happy to be sharing what PTK has done for me.”
PTK membership was invaluable for ensuring success in college and beyond, Shanandoah said, noting that PTK members are nearly twice as likely as other community college students to earn a bachelor’s degree when they transfer to a university.
Shanandoah joined PTK after inquiring about campus activities available to part-time students with her college advisor. She recalled that initially she was one of only a handful of PTK members at the Verde Valley Campus. By working with other student clubs and organizations over time, membership more than tripled, she said.
Shanandoah was the vice president of the Verde Valley Campus PTK last year. She was also an All-Arizona Academic Team scholarship recipient; she earned the President’s Academic Excellence Award for the Verde Valley campus; and she was the student speaker for the Verde Valley Campus commencement ceremony. Although proud of all of her student achievements to date, Shanandoah said she is “beyond humbled and shocked” to be one of the faces of PTK’s new marketing campaign. ”It’s a big honor.”
The videos created from the two-day shoot with Shanandoah are scheduled to begin posting on PTK social media and the organization’s website around Aug. 1.
Source: Yavapai Community College press release; photo posted on Community College web site and edited by Blog: https://www.yc.edu/webtools/apps/opi/news/grid.asp
Every Saturday morning from 7:30 AM – 12:00 PM MST you will find the Prescott Campus alive with residents enjoying a visit to the Prescott Summer Farmers Market. The event is held in the Yavapai Community College Parking Lot D on the Campus. The event will run every Saturday until October 26.
The market is a PFM producer-only farmers market, meaning every item sold is either grown or produced by the seller using Arizona-grown ingredients. Each week at the market, customers can find a variety of fresh vegetables, fruits, flowers, baked goods, eggs, nuts, grass-fed beef, pork and poultry. Local farmers grow a variety of vegetables throughout the season, including leeks, potatoes, beets, radishes, carrots, salad mix, squash, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, and melons.
Customers can swipe their SNAP/EBT, debit or credit cards to receive tokens at the information booth. The Double Up Food Bucks Arizona program allows customers to double their SNAP benefits at the market, up to $20 per market visit. All vendors always accept cash.
The market brings hundreds of persons to the Community College Campus each weekend. A nice subtle public relations marketing touch for the Community College. Some persons on the east side of the County have urged the Community College to begin to utilize existing, or create new open space, on the Verde Campus for similar types of events.