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Volunteers Needed for Colorado Creative Career Festival

The third annual Colorado Creative Careers Festival will be held on Friday, February 24, 2012. This one-day Festival for high school students and educators will feature hands-on workshops taught by working professionals and higher education faculty, informational sessions about authentic job skills and expectations in the arts fields, and an interactive critique of submitted student projects and portfolios. The Festival will support the development of a strong student leadership organization within the arts that is open to all arts students, the awareness and understanding of growing career and technical opportunities with the Creative Arts clusters, and linkages between arts students and arts professionals.
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More Anti-Union Rhetoric from the League of American Orchestras

By Pete Vriesenga

The League of American Orchestras (LAO), formerly known as the American Symphony Orchestra League (ASOL) has ramped-up their anti-collective bargaining rhetoric lately. LAO’s latest publication: Fearless Journeys: Innovation in Five American Orchestras is yet another in a string of “new model” discussions that champion this message. The book claims to provide “hard evidence” through a small sample study that orchestras can become more “sustainable” by taking risks and modifying their collective bargaining agreements. Of course there is no mention of the established alternative, which is hundreds of amateur orchestras with no collective bargaining agreements that wander aimlessly to the public trough only to pay their administrators.
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POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

Colorado Music Festival & Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts
Education Director
(25 hrs/wk)

The Colorado Music Festival & Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts (CMF & RMCMA) presents a sixweek summer music festival at Chautauqua in Boulder, and operates a year�]round community music school in Lafayette providing music instruction on all instruments and voice to more than 500 students of all ages and abilities each week. (Visit www.comusic.org for more information). The Education Director is the principal architect of all festival and music school education programs. This position requires a strong background in music education, and knowledge of and commitment to the core principals of the National Guild for Community Arts Education, including excellence and access, which guide our music education programs.

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