RING FESTIVAL LA NOW ONLINE
WEBSITE SHOWCASES MORE THAN 100 CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL
INSTITUTIONS WHO HAVE JOINED WITH LA OPERA IN
CELEBRATING THE ARTS, LA STYLE Citywide Festival Runs April 15-June30, 2010 (Los Angeles, CA) August 25, 2009 - In 2010, LA Opera will join forces with more than 100 cultural and educational institutions in Los Angeles to stage Ring Festival LA, a citywide celebration of arts and culture based on LA Opera's first-time presentation of Richard Wagner's epic Ring cycle. LA Opera created the new website: RingFestivalLA.com an online resource to serve the needs of those interested in learning more about the events, seminars, and exhibitions that will take place in a wide variety of educational and cultural venues throughout Southern California during the ten-week long celebration. According to Plácido Domingo, LA Opera's Eli and Edythe Broad General Director, "When I first discussed the idea of creating a Ring Festival at a Los Angeles Times roundtable in March 2008 with several of my colleagues from other cultural institutions, we all thought that it would be a wonderful way to celebrate the diversity of our city's world-class cultural offerings, centered on a genuine cultural milestone: the first complete Ring cycles ever presented in Los Angeles. Opera, and especially the Ring, invites exactly this sort of intensive analysis and discussion, and the Festival will provide many different forums for gaining insights into the past and exploring moral issues." The new RingFestivalLA.com website features a timely newsroom that features articles of interest, fact sheets and news releases. The "Partners" section provides a full listing of participating organizations as well as listings of the events that are taking place at cultural and educational institutions throughout the region and links to the Partners. In addition, there are links to LA's first-ever Ring cycle and resources for further study, e-newsletter sign-up and archive, and invitations to engage with Ring Festival LA via the Festival blog multimedia section. There are also social media links to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube. "Los Angeles is a disparate, diverse and experimental city - divided and separated in so many ways," said Barry Sanders, Ring Festival Leader. "Ring Festival LA will bind the community together through the many entertaining, thought provoking, and enlightening events that will take place during the festival. What makes this a great city is what happens here and we intend this to be a celebration felt by everyone. I am delighted that the public can now begin to plan out the events they will want to engage in during the run of the festival by visiting RingFestivalLA.com."
RING FESTIVAL LA PARTNERS
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
ACE Gallery
American Cinematheque
American Film Institute
American Jewish University
Bergamot Station: Ruth Bachofner Gallery
Beverly Hills Library
Billy Wilder Theater @ Hammer Museum
The Bohemians
Boston Court Performing Arts Center
Brand Library, Glendale Public Library
Burbank Public Library
c3: Center for Conscious Creativity
California African American Museum
California Art Club
California Institute of the Arts
California State University, Northridge
Cardex
Center Theatre Group
Cinespia Cemetery Screenings
Claremont Public Library, County of LA Public Library
Classical KUSC FM 91.5
The Colburn School
Congregation Kol Ami
Cool Street Music
County of Los Angeles Public Library
Crowell Public Library
Descanso Gardens
Eli and Edythe Broad Stage
Geffen Playhouse
Gelson's
German Consulate General - Los Angeles
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
Grammy Museum
Grand Performances / daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra
Griffith Observatory
The HeArt Project
Hispanics for LA Opera
The Huntington Library
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
J. Paul Getty Museum
JACARANDA: music at the edge
KCET
KPCC-FM Radio
LA County Arts Commission
LA County Museum of Art
LA Inc.
LA Trade Technical College
LA Unified School District
La Verne Library, County of LA Public Library
Laemmle Theaters / Arthouse Marketing
Laetitia Vineyard & Winery
The Latino Museum of History, Art and Culture
Library Foundation of Los Angeles
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Los Angeles Conservancy
Los Angeles Film Festival
Los Angeles Magazine
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Los Angeles Public Library
Lyric Opera of Los Angeles
Machine Project LA
Mount St. Mary's College
Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Latin American Art
Music Center: Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County
Musical Theatre Guild
Norton Simon Museum
Opera America
The Opera League of Los Angeles
Operetta Foundation
Oxnard Public Library
Pasadena Public Library
Patina Restaurant Association
Platt Branch, Los Angeles Public Library
Porter Ranch Branch, Los Angeles Public Library
Redondo Beach Library
Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum
Santa Monica Library
Santa Monica Museum of Art
Southern California Wagner Society
Sundance Institute
Symphony in the Glen
Thousand Oaks Library
University of California Los Angeles
University of La Verne
Urban Educational Partnership
USC - Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies
USC Brain and Creativity Institute
USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
USC Thornton School of Music
USC - The Marshall School of Business
The Verdi Chorus
Villa Aurora
Young Musicians Foundation
Listing of partners as of August 24, 2009
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