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YAVAPAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE PRESCOTT CAMPUS TO HOST 13TH EDITION OF PRESCOTT FILM FESTIVAL

By R. Oliphant
Thursday, September 7th, 2023

Festival to be held Sept. 19 – 24, at the Jim & Linda Lee Performing Arts Center and various locations across Yavapai Community College’s Prescott Campus

Yavapai Community College will host the 13th edition of the Prescott Film Festival at the Jim & Linda Lee Performing Arts Center and various locations across Yavapai Community College’s Prescott Campus from September 19 through the 24th. 

Screenings and major events will be held at the Jim & Linda Lee Performing Arts Center, on the Yavapai Community College Prescott Campus, 1100 E. Sheldon Street. The Prescott Film Festival offers a variety of ticket packages. The PFF Platinum Pass ($298) offers reserve seating at all films and access to the VIP Director’s Loft. All-Film Passes ($178) and Six-Film Discount Pack ($72) are also available. Individual screenings are $14 general admission, with a 50% discount for students, YC employees and OLLI members.

Tickets are available online or at the Jim & Linda Lee Performing Arts Center Ticket Office, open Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, from 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.; and Thursdays and Fridays, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Film trailers and a full festival schedule will be available soon on the Prescott Film Festival website, www.prescottfilmfestival.com, and the Jim & Linda Lee Performing Arts Center site, www.ycpac.com. For more information, please call: (928) 776.2000, or email: helen.stephenson@yc.edu.

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COMMUNITY COLLEGE VERDE VALLEY MAY GRADUATE SHANANDOAH STERLING INVITED TO STAR IN THE ACADEMIC HONOR SOCIETY’S “I AM PTK” NATIONAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN

By R. Oliphant
Saturday, June 29th, 2019

 Ushered  videographers around the Verde Valley during shoots for campaign in June

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

Categories : Event, FILM

PRESCOTT FILM FESTIVAL JUNE 8 – 16 GOING STRONG WITH YAVAPAI COLLEGE SUPPORT

By R. Oliphant
Sunday, June 10th, 2018

College provides venue, workshops, etc. for event; recall College shut down its internationally acclaimed Sedona Film Institute in 2015 that worked closely with the  Sedona Film Festival; Film festival focus now all on and all about Prescott

The ninth annual Prescott film Festival that runs from June 6 through the 16th is going strong. Recall that President Penelope Wills shuddered the internationally acclaimed film school in Sedona in 2015. Since that time, the college as directed an enormous amount of its resources toward the Prescott film Festival.  You can find the dates and times for many of the events by clicking here.

The Blog says: “Too bad the east side of the County counts so little.”

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COTTONWOOD-OAK CREEK SCHOOL DISTRICT CHILDREN STAR IN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FILM ENCOURAGING AFTER HIGH SCHOOL TECHNICAL AND/OR COLLEGE EDUCATION

By R. Oliphant
Saturday, February 3rd, 2018

Idea based on Texas film seen by Wills and communicated to  Steve King; children pledge to obtain either career training or a college degree after high school

Everyone consistently agrees that world class education must be a top priority for today’s children.  Cottonwood-Oak Creek Superintendent Steve King, after a discussion with Yavapai Community College President Penelope Wills,  decided to do something more than just talk about it. He asked Yavapai College’s Film Department if it would work with him and the children in his District to create a film entitled, “My Education Pledge.” (A similar effort had been launched in Texas and Wills’ apparently saw the Texas film during a visit to Las Vegas.) The College agreed to make the film.

The premier of the film was held Friday, February 2 at 2 p.m. at the Cottonwood-Oak Creek auditorium that is located at 1 N Willard Street in Cottonwood. About 150 attended the premier including parents, children, school and college officials.

The film runs about three and a half minutes and its purpose is to inform Arizonans about the importance of post secondary education.  It also fits into the goal of Achieve60AZ, which  is to help generate greater public and private awareness of the need for a better educated citizen. (It will be shown throughout the state in an effort to generate greater awareness of the need for after high school technical and college training.)

The Yavapai Community College Governing Board was given a preview of the film at their January 16 meeting in Prescott.  The film can be viewed below or on the College website.  (Click here to go to the College web site where the film can be found in the video of the meeting when it is posted.) A copy of the film as shown to the District Governing Board appears below.

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