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PICTURED: Boris Brott, New West Symphony’s founding songs director and  Conductor Laureate, died April 5, 2022 in Hamilton, Ontario. Picture submitted

MVC debuts three new reveals

The Museum of Ventura County is obtaining its summertime underway with a entire slew of new exhibits and programming.

3 separate exhibits open up on June 16. The Jazz Age in Ventura County — from Prohibition and the prosperity growth to a tide of repression and exclusion — will be comprehensively explored in illustrations or photos and artifacts discovered in All That Glitters. Get a different glimpse of the past with Chromatic: The Museum in Six Hues, which will feature pieces from the museum’s long term selection amassed above 100 yrs. These objects, each and every of which inform a story, go beyond is effective of art to contain rarities, antiques and even every day objects owned by community people. A retrospective of the work of the late Carol Rosenak (1925-2002) will also be on display screen, covering 30 decades of her creativity, from early printmaking to nevertheless lifes and abstract operates. 

A reception for all three exhibits will be held on Saturday, June 18, 3-5 p.m., and museum customers will acquire a complimentary ticket for a Bee’s Knees cocktail courtesy of Ventura Spirits Corporation. 

Save the Pollinators: A Youth-Led Environmental Restoration Venture opens at the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula on June 17, 2022.

And speaking of bees . . . the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula will soon debut Conserve the Pollinators: A Youth-Led Environmental Restoration Project. The exhibit showcases by pictures, songs and artwork the function of the Conserve the Pollinators Task, created by teenagers in Ojai with the goal of combatting the dramatic lower in birds, bees and butterflies by means of the development of the Inexperienced Valley Challenge Pollinator Corridor. The show opens Friday, June 17, with a reception 5-7 p.m. 

This summer time MVC will also host Engage in-Nicely TEKnologies summer months camps starting off June 27. Kids will have the opportunity to learn about science, engineering, engineering and math by way of artistic engage in with LEGOs. Lessons just take area Monday by way of Friday, with each morning and afternoon sessions and courses for diverse age groups offered. 

For a lot more information on all these actions, pay a visit to venturamuseum.org.

OPC debuts legacy fund

On June 4, the Ojai Playwrights Convention celebrated its 25th anniversary with a advantage gala, “Caring and Daring Jointly,” held at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles. At the function, OPC declared the founding of the Robert H. Egan Legacy Fund. Honoring the get the job done of longtime creative director and producer Robert Egan, the fund will assist New Functions Competition playwrights.

Robert Egan at Ojai Playwrights Meeting 25th Anniversary Profit Gala at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles on Saturday, June 4, 2022. Photograph by Capture Imaging, Inc.

It was a bittersweet celebration, as 2022 is the closing season for Egan, who is leaving just after additional than two a long time with OPC.

“I’m genuinely honored that the firm I have been concerned with for 22 yrs has made a decision to produce this fund in my identify,” mentioned Egan by way of press release. “My occupation purpose has been to obtain and nourish playwrights as they create the work that illuminates our earth. This fund will assist make that keep on to happen at OPC.”

Egan will go on to lead OPC by way of the New Works Festival, taking put Aug. 7-14. Later, he plans to pursue a assortment of initiatives in film, theatre and tv, together with the creation of a overall performance workshop “The Ramsdell Project” with his wife, Michelle Joyner, which will choose position on the couple’s farm in Massachusetts.

OPC has fashioned a 12-member committee to facilitate a nationwide research for a new artistic director.

Boris Brott, 1944-2022

Musicians close to and much mourn the passing of New West Symphony Founding Audio Director and Conductor Laureate Boris Brott, who handed absent April 5 in Hamilton, Ontario. He was 78 many years old.

In 1992, Brott succeeded Frank Salazar as the audio director of the Ventura County Symphony, which later merged with Conejo Symphony Orchestra to become New West Symphony. He would go on to serve as songs director for a lot more than 15 a long time, developing NWS as a single of the most respected orchestras in Southern California, winning rave critiques from critics and audiences alike. He also worked internationally and in his indigenous Canada, the place he established the Brott Music Competition in 1987. He would sooner or later be named an Officer of the Buy of Canada and a member of the Buy of Ontario.

“Those fortunate more than enough to do the job with him at New West Symphony loved his infectious sense of humor on quite a few satisfied occasions,” reported Natalia Staneva, NWS CEO, and Michael Christia, songs director, by means of press release. He was a large of the classical new music planet. Boris, you will be dearly skipped.”

Every Now and Then Theatre requires gold

Every single Now and Then Theatre was honored with the Intercontinental Communitas Gold Award for Excellence for local community assistance volunteerism and social obligation. The Ventura-dependent radio drama troupe received for its December 2021 broadcast Acquiring Xmas Spirit with Grandma, which it co-offered with Conejo Players Theatre. Newstalk 1590 KVTA Radio streamed the a person-hour holiday break drama nationwide on Dec. 24 and 25, 2021.

The manufacturing told the tale of a younger male who misplaced his Christmas spirit but regained it although baking cookies and listening to stories advised by his grandmother. The drama highlighted Emmy Award-successful information anchor Tracy Lehr performing as superstar host. Acquiring Christmas Spirit with Grandma also picked up a Platinum Award at the 2022 Global AVA Electronic Awards.

The all-volunteer Just about every Now and Then Theatre’s productions benefit foster youngsters by delivering broadcast copies to cast and crew in trade for their donations to KVTA Radio’s Kids Fund. For far more details, pay a visit to everynowandthentheatre.com.