The Yavapai Community College Music Department will present an “Expanding Jazz Horizons” program on Monday, May 2, at 7:00 p.m. on the Verde Campus. The program will be held in Building “M”, Room 137 on the Campus. The Campus is located at 601 Blackhills Drive, Clarkdale, Arizona.
The concert is for the public and it is presented without charge by the Music Department. See you there.
Associate Professor Michael Crimmins will speak Tuesday, April 19, at the Verde Campus, Room M-137 about the drought condition in Arizona and how the current El Nino event has evolved since 2015. The event is open to the public and free.
Dr. Crimmins is currently on the faculty of the Department of Soil, Water, and Environmental Science at the University of Arizona and is a Climate Science Extension Specialist for Arizona Cooperative Extension. In this position he provides climate science support to resource managers across Arizona by assessing information needs, synthesizing and transferring relevant research results and conducting applied research projects. His extension and research work supports resource management across multiple sectors including rangelands, forests/wildfire, and water resources as well as policy and decision makers. This work aims to support managers by increasing climate science literacy as well as developing strategies to adapt to a changing climate. He also serves as a drought monitoring expert on the Arizona Governor’s Drought Task Force and has worked with counties across Arizona to implement drought preparedness and impact monitoring plans.
The event is sponsored by the Verde River Basin Partnership. That organization will precede the speech with an update on its water resources work in the Verde Valley.
More information may be obtained by visiting the Verde River Basin Partnership by clicking here.
On Saturday, April 16, Yavapai Community College Firefighter Academy will be conducting an active shooter and hazardous material training exercise from 7 a.m. to approximately 1 p.m. on the Verde Campus in Clarkdale.
The drill will involve multiple emergency response agencies on the Verde Valley campus at 601 Black Hills Drive in Clarkdale, including local police and fire agencies, regional SWAT forces and Guardian Air.
Persons in Clarkdale, Cottonwood and the Verde Villages may see and hear military units, multiple emergency response vehicles and helicopter operations within the area. The College says that the public is welcome to watch from designated safe areas.
For questions, contact Ken Krebbs at 928-649-5488 (office) or 928-593-0377 (cell).
The Verde Campus will host a Master Chorale Concert on April 12th at 7:30 p.m. The concert is free and will be held in Building “M”, Room 137. Last year there was a big turnout so plan to arrive early.
The schedule for sharing major cultural events throughout Yavapai County during the months of April and May has been released by the College. So far, it appears that of the 15 events scheduled during those two months, only 2 are scheduled for the Verde Valley.
No others are scheduled for anywhere else in the County other than on the Prescott Campus.
The following is the summary published by the College of the forthcoming cultural events, which are subsidized by all the residents of Yavapai County. However, most or them are enjoyed by only a few who have reasonable access to them who live in Prescott/Prescott Valley at the 1,100 seat Community College dinner theatre on the Prescott Campus.
Tickets may be purchased atwww.ycpac.com or by calling 877-928-4253, up to four hours prior to the event. Today (Monday) tickets may be purchased in person at M-137, beginning one hour before curtain time. Tickets cost $9-$15. Series ticket receives a 10% discount, and tickets purchased in groups of ten or more receive a 10% discount.
The concert December 3 at room M-137 by the Yavapai College Trailblazer Big Band, and the Roughriders Big Band, was enjoyed by the audience of around 100 residents. The two bands explored the performance styles of legendary jazz masters through seasonal holiday music, as well as jazz standards. (The audience programs were accidentally left in Prescott.)
Dean Craig Ralston is working very hard to bring a series of cultural events to the Verde Valley. However, it is clear he receives little help from the Verde Valley Administration—at least that is how the barren classroom looked where the concert took place looked last night. If the College administration on the Verde Campus was seriously committed to developing cultural events brought to the Campus by Dean Ralston, it would actually invest in the projects by creating a serious venue.
For example, in room M-137 there is no portable stage on which the audience can see the performers as they perform. Why not? There was no lighting crew and no audio crew present to help Dr. Ralston. Why not? This was promoted as a holiday pre-Christmas concert, yet the room was a barren classroom; not a single holiday plant, etc. was to be seen anywhere. Does anyone in the Verde Administration know anything about how to stage a holiday event? Or care.
The College administration on the Verde Campus should have the responsibility of assisting Dr. Ralston and seriously engage in the cultural projects he is bringing to the Campus. Then again, the administrators don’t really care about serious support of Dean Ralston’s hard work, do they! Or the Verde Valley!
A recorded satellite broadcast on Monday, November 9 at 6:00 p.m. from London’s National Theatre presentation of “Hamlet” will be shown in room M-137 on the Verde Valley Campus (601 Black Hills Dr., Clarkdale). Tickets may ber purchased at www.ycpac.com or by calling 877-928-4253, up to four hours prior to the event. On the day-of-show, patrons can purchase tickets in person at M-137, beginning one hour before curtain time.
Tickets cost $9-$15. Series ticket receives a 10% discount, and tickets purchased in groups of ten or more receive a 10% discount.
Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, The Imitation Game, Frankenstein) takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Joining Cumberbatch on stage are Leo Bill (Gosford Park, Kinky Boots, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Ciaran Hinds (Game of Thrones, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows).
This presentation is directed by Lyndsey Turner (Posh, Chimerica) and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, National Theatre Live will broadcast this eagerly awaited production live to theaters.
As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death and paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.
“The most in-demand theatre show of all time.” – Evening Standard
Local favorites Brian Lockhard and Deborah Raymond will present a “Musical Tour of Europe” concert on the Verde Campus, November 13 at 7 p.m. The concert will be held in Building “M,” Room 137. It is free and open to the public.
Mr. Lockhard, a professor teaching music for Yavapai Community College on the Verde Campus, is a long-time favorite of Verde Valley concert goers. He is an accomplished pianist and composer.
Deborah Raymond is Associate Professor of Music at Norther Arizona University in Flagstaff. She has a wonderful soprano voice and has performed widely throughout Europe and the United States.
