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Sunday, August 16th at 7pm!
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This Sunday join us for the online premier of Young Playwrights Festival 2020. These actors and directors worked hard while PCA learned a new way to share the joy of performing in this time of virtual entertainment. Hear about the show from actors and production team involved while we watch together.
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Save Your Community Theater!
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Dear PCA Supporters and Patrons,
Like you, we have been both saddened and motivated by recent events. Despite the devastation and grief of the past few months, PCA is getting ready to move forward with your help. We are asking you to consider donating $50 dollars to honor our Golden Anniversary and to ensure that we have another 50 years to provide creative arts programs for generations to come with our “Save Your Community Theater” campaign. Like almost everyone, we were hit hard. Despite losing over $150,000 we continue to move forward with innovation and collaboration. PCA’s is actively focusing on community in time of crisis by deploying volunteers and efforts for: 1) the “PCA Serves” program, serving with a variety of needs that came up because of the pandemic 2) the “PCA at Home” program, a virtual entertaining and community art connection 3) the “PCA Cabaret program” a transformation of our Mainstage into a Cabaret which will allow for tables and appropriate social distancing. This will include a variety of food and beverage options with the support of community restaurants and nonprofits. eing safe while helping community art programing-truly a win-win opportunity! The expressive art helps us process our experiences, help us heal, and bring us together. Art is human development. We will not have to close our doors…yet. But we need your support to ensure that PCA not only survives but thrives. Be part of the next 50-year journey and give whatever you can to the “Save Our Theater” campaign by saying, “I LOVE THE ARTS!” In deepest gratitude, PCA Board and Staff |
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Virtual Race: We Are Going the Distance
Questions: Contact Tina Blake, development@pca-az.net
or (928) 710-9131 |
Celebrate over 50 Years of Prescott Center for the Arts and join us on a 5K in 1970’s style. That’s right, get your far-out jewelry, your tie-dyed clothes and jam with us by running, walking, or biking various 5k routes throughout Prescott. You can even bring your groovy dog! Sign-up with friends and get some exercise as a small group. The more the better for
a great cause, community arts. Entry Fee $25 Early Bird Entry $20 before August 25th All Veterans are FREE All racers receive a special bandanna, PCA button, and bragging rights that they helped support the “Save Your Community Theater Campaign,” honored local veterans, and can groove like the best of them from the 1970s. Pay an additional $5 for an extra bandanna for furry friend. “I Love the Arts” T-shirts are available for an additional $15. Going the Distance "Go the Distance" before September 12, 2020. Take pictures of your groovy self/team and share on social media - tell us how far and where you went! (Email your results to development@pca-az.net. Please include date, time, and pictures to be added to our Racers Board by September 10th).
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PCA's Film It Contests Happening through out August! #pcafilmitcontests
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PCA Presents: A Heartfelt Video Message
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Drama Winner Sophia Grubert
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PCA is proud to announce the winners of the performing arts categories of the Youth Scholarship Competition! Gratitude goes out to our judges, Steven Hilderbrand (Piano, Strings, Wind/Brass/Percussion), Tregoney Shepherd (Musical Theatre/Drama Categories) and Cristy Welty (Classical Voice). Thank you all for helping us make the competition happen this year with the shift to virtual performances and communication.
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PIANO: Division 1
1st Place - Nathan Spencer 2nd Place - Annabelle Lee Williams 3rd Place - Levi Brownlie PIANO: Division 2 1st Place - Jonathan Group 2nd Place - Nicholas Reyes 3rd Place - Abby Sanctuary STRINGS: Division 1 1st Place - Nathan Spencer STRINGS: Division 2 1st Place - Joseph Spencer WINDS/BRASS/PERCUSSION: Division 1 1st Place - Mario Zamora 2nd Place - Luke Moore 3rd Place - Shaelyn Braithwaite |
MUSICAL THEATRE: Division 1
1st Place - Norah Steverson 2nd Place - Hyde Bosley 3rd Place - Ariella Centeno MUSICAL THEATRE: Division 2 1st Place - Aly Warren 2nd Place - Judah Neese 3rd Place - Sophia Grubert DRAMA (All Ages) 1st Place - Aly Warren 2nd Place - Sophia Grubert 3rd Place - Georgia Harrington CLASSICAL VOICE: Division 1 1st Place - Norah Steverson 2nd Place - Ariella Centeno 3rd Place - Hyde Bosley CLASSICAL VOICE: Division 2 1st Place - Lily Grubert 2nd Place - Emma Steverson 3rd Place - Judah Neese |
About the Judges
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Steve Hilderbrand is proud to be celebrating his 40-year anniversary as a professional musician this year. During his career, he has served as Resident Musical Director for Players’ Theatre of Columbus (Ohio) and TheaterWorks (Peoria, AZ) as well as the Artistic Director of Central Community Theatre. As a musical director/orchestra conductor, he has worked with The Phoenix Theatre Company, Arizona Regional Theatre, Columbus Ensemble Theatre and The Ohio State University. He has musical directed/accompanied cabaret performances at Don’t Tell Mama in New York, The Loft in Providence (Rhode Island) and numerous Arizona venues. Steve is a highly sought-after voice teacher, vocal coach, accompanist and musical arranger and has been honored with multiple AriZoni Awards for musical direction for theatre. Has served as a judge for the NSAL (National Society of Arts and Letters) Musical Theatre Scholarship Competition on three occasions. Steve is also the Director of Music and Contemporary Worship at Central Church in Phoenix and has led their Jesus, Java and Jazz service for many years.
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Tregoney Shepherd. Broadway/National Tours: Les Miserables (Madame Thenardier), Phantom of the Opera (Wardrobe Mistress/Confidante. National Tour: Wicked (Midwife u/s Madame Morrible), Mary Poppins (Mrs. Brill). Regional: Sweeney Todd (Mrs. Lovett), Something’s Afoot (Miss Tweed), The Threepenny Opera (Mrs. Peachum), (The Music Man (Eulaylee Shinn), Cinderella (Stepmother), The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Mrs. McGlone), The Secret Garden (Mrs. Medlock), Big River (Miss Watson/Sally Phelps), Footloose (Vi Moore), Into the Woods (Witch), Blithe Spirit (Madame Arcati), Steel Magnolias (Clairee Belcher). Ms.Shepherd also has begun directing shows such as The Best Little Whore House in Texas, Guys and Dolls, Beauty and the Beast, Annie Get Your Gun, Little Shop of Horrors, The Sound of Music, Smokey Joe’s Café, Children of Eden and Seussical. Tregoney has her Doctorate in Vocal Performance from ASU. www.TregoneyShepherd.com
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Enjoy the Arts from Home
Check out the short film 'Fairy Tale Confidential' on Facebook! Written and produced by frequent PCA volunteers Bill and Celia Osborne. Join our Facebook Group where you can discuss the arts with other members of our community, and find videos like this one!
Watch Here! PCA wants to provide performing arts online for you, just like this film. Please fill out this quick survey and let us know what you think. Watch Show Promos on Youtube for Fun!
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Watch Taylor Stanley Dance a New Solo by choreographer Kyle Abraham
“We dance, and create dances for those who have yet to see themselves on a stage. We dance, and create dances for our community and beyond. We dance, and create dances to nourish our souls. We make dances to reflect, to ask, to heal.” 
Sissieretta Jones was a Trailblazing Black Opera Singer
Sissieretta Jones became the first Black woman to headline a concert on the main stage at Carnegie Hall in 1892. Jones was heralded as the greatest singer of her generation and a pioneer in the operatic tradition at a time when access to most classical concert halls in the U.S. were closed to black performers and patrons. She also performed at the White House and abroad. |
Prescott Center for the Arts Is Providing Service to Community, Entertainment, and Resources for Everything Art Related.
Please Note the Season is on Hold And More Information With Dates Will be Provided in the Near Future.
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Working from home has been challenging. My husband and the dog don’t really know what to do with me. I have completely rearranged the house to accommodate for a new desk, as far away as possible from the sound of YouTube racing and old western gunfights. PCA Serves is running smoothly and we are out working in the community, serving in ways we never dreamed we could serve. And when the time is right and the food banks are full again, we know our community will be there for us in return. We are one of the lucky ones that received a PPP Loan and our small group of employees will continue hold down the fort. The Capital Campaign is on hold and will remain on hold while our priority shifts to keep the center open for years to come.
I have taken a half time sabbatical to continue to monitor the finances while saving the organization some much needed funds. The board has sharpened their pencil and we are prepared for battle. And now, it’s time to create…at home! We invite you to enjoy PCA at Home! We will be bringing you suggestions for upcoming art shows and productions from all over the world that you can watch right at home. In the last few weeks we launched our online live hosted parties, where you can watch some of our archived productions and interact with some of the actors and the director. We will be bringing you acting, singing and readers theater all produced from our performing artists homes. You will be viewing our ‘artist of the week’ which highlights the incredible talent of our local visual artists. Now would be the time when I would normally say, ‘so sit back and enjoy’. Not this time! We want you to join us. Watch and enjoy yes! But when was the last time you did something creative? Creativity is not only great for your brain but it’s fun! So please, set aside 15 min a day, but do it daily, and create. It doesn’t matter what it is. A doodle, a sketch, knit, sing; whatever! But dedicate that time and stick to it daily. Make a list and write from it. Even if you don’t like to journal the list could be ‘Things that made me happy today’ or ‘Ways I was enough today’. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Art is all about risk! When you are creating ‘Be inspired by what you love’. Inspiration springs from there. Close your eyes for a second and try it! See you soon! Robyn Allen Executive Director, Prescott Center for the Arts |
Our community service continues as we distribute washable reusable fabric masks to the community. Many thanks to Deanna Matson and Debbie Davey. If you are out and about and see someone with a nice-looking mask, it was very likely made by one of these thoughtful productive ladies. Our organization is just one of the many local businesses that they have supported in this effort. The office at PCA has reopened with all the necessary safety precautions in place. If you come to see us, we will take your temp and provide you with a mask, and then meet your need or answer your questions. The Community Cupboard is still needing volunteers. If you would like to help email Joy Street at djstreet47@msn.com. Keep wearing your masks and staying the distance and the course and have a wonderful week.
Keep Smiling (under your mask), Laine
Volunteer Coordinator, PCA Serves
Keep Smiling (under your mask), Laine
Volunteer Coordinator, PCA Serves
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Response to the Pandemic
The health and safety of our guests, volunteers and employees is always of utmost concern at PCA. After careful consideration due to the growing concern about the Coronavirus (COVID-19), we have made the decision to postpone the performances of the remaining shows in our 2019-2020 season and will reschedule.
The safety and wellbeing of our actors, patrons, and community are of the utmost importance to our staff and board. We love and appreciate you all. Stay safe and be well. |
Please Thank and Support our 2020-2021 Season Sponsors
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