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A Poetry Soulstice

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  A Poetry Soulstice Danielle Beazer Dubrasky (Guest column for Iron County Today)   At a time when the arts struggle for validation, advocacy, and funding, why would anyone devote decades to reading, writing, or teaching poetry? The medium poets use is words—those intangible lenses that shape our perceptions. When we tell frustrated toddlers, “Use your words,” we are actually training them to become poets. Because that is what poets do—we use our words from our inner worlds to create a linguistic work of art, often inspired by the exterior world.   I teach poetry, and the first assignment I give is a “Cyclical Haiku.” Students write a series of haikus, one each day at set times: dawn, mid-morning, noon, afternoon, twilight. I did have one student protest, “But I’ve never seen the dawn.” To dispel any ideas that haikus are trite or limited to only a 5-7-5 syllable count, we study The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa , translations of ancient Japa...
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Cedar City Performance Space History

  Having a Place to Play (column for Iron County Today) by Sara Penny, CCAC Vice President Putting on a concert requires having a place to perform. The original Social Hall, public school auditoriums, SUU facilities, and the Heritage Center Theater have all provided venues for concerts, plays, and dances. We are now looking forward to the opening of the new SUU Music Building, which includes a concert hall.  Cedar City has embraced music since the first people who called this valley home.  The Paiute traditions remain strong, as domonstrated by  the annual Restoration Pow Wow.    By the time the pioneers arrived in Cedar City, there was already both an English choir and an American choir according to Morris Shirts, whom my daughter interviewed for a school project.  When the pioneers began settling the area in 1851 they held dances accompanied by fiddles.  By 1861, they needed a place for concerts and community events, so a Social Hall was propose...
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June Final Friday Art Walk 2026

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 Thanks to everyone who participates.  Here are a few photos.  Looking foward to seeing you again July 31. Coyote Bluegrass, a video snippet:  short music video link Southern Utah Handbell Choir Peter Buis at IG Winery Jason Tyler Burton at Shape Theory Ceramics Community Studio April Richardson and Tanisa Crosby, clarinet and flute at Johnson Art Center  (Orchestra of Southern Utah musicians) Richard and Marla McMaster and friends at Stone Path And at the Johnson Art Center SideNote at Artisans Gallery Laughing Larks Flute Ensemble Badwater at SUMA Plaza Lots of variety at the Green, on the corner of 100 West Center Started out windy, but ended up being a pleasant evening. There was also music on 200 West as part of the Beverley Center for the Arts tenth anniversary Galleries at 111 South Main are also open for the Art Walk Gold River Gallery Kolob Gallery Art Walks continue July 31: 
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Artsposure Adventures 2026 Report

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Artsposure Adventures program brings music, dance and other arts to our disabled population. Karen Brown-Gordon and Jill Spatafore are providing this service. Several local artists and performers are involved in the programs.  Videos of projects Drawing Percussion Samoan Dancing Celtic Sculpture   Streamers   Hip Hop Dance   Bowl Music
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Art Supplies to Students 2026

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Thanks to Jason Moodie, CCAC Board Member, for organizing art supplies for students through Iron Kids  program and Parowan Elementary. This CCAC project provided an art kit to 325 students.  We would like to expand the program.  Please Donate $10 per art kit so we can reach more students.  Checks welcome to  CCAC P.O. Box 2265 Cedar City, UT 84721  or  cash donations at the Final Friday Art Walks. We will also have have free art supplies for students at the Final Friday Art Walks, at the corner of 100 West University Blvd. (Center St.)  If you have children's books to donate they are welcome so we can regift them. Credit cards:  Paypal link for CCAC Notebooks and art supplies also donated to Youth Futures and Canyon Creek Services Art Supply Delivery Day The Cedar City Arts Council is funded by memberships:  Membership link We also appreciate donations, as well as grants from RAP (Recreation, Arts and Parks); Utah Division of Arts and Mu...
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