Billings Press Releases
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Archive Edition on Air this Week!
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 02/28/2010 | | The Writer’s Voice of the Billings YMCA is pleased to present the “Archive Edition” of public readings on Community Seven TV throughout the months of March, April and May. read more | |
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Application now on-line!
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 12/31/1969 | | In order to foster environments where the innovation and creativity of artists are valued and celebrated, this program rewards Montana artists who have demonstrated:
• Extraordinary innovation in their work and artwork
• Outstanding originality and dedication in their creative pursuits
• A marked capacity for self-direction
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Venture Theatre Festival
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 01/04/2010 | | Venture Theatre Festival Heats Up the Winter!
Ever wonder what goes into staging a play, creating an original theatrical work or performing live… without a script? Venture Theatre invites you to witness the whole creative process! From January 7- 23, audience members can attend workshop rehearsals, explore the local youth poetry scene, laugh with the Venture Improv actors, and celebrate the work of seven up-and-coming local playwrights. read more | |
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Holiday Cabaret!
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 12/20/2009 | | Venture Underground presents the annual Holiday Cabaret!
The Venture Cabaret is your chance to hear some of the marvelous talent that springs eternal in our fair city. read more | |
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One Act Play Festival!
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 12/17/2009 | | Venture Theatre’s 15th Annual One Act Play Festival
Seven Short Plays to Trip Your Imagination!
Adultery, espionage, para-normal activity, life threatening situations – a lineup for a new FOX-TV series? No, it’s just a few of the themes explored in the wildly popular Venture Theatre’s One Act Play Festival read more | |
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Billings Poetry Slam
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 11/20/2009 | | The Alberta Bair Theater Education Dept is looking for high school and college students from Billings and the surrounding area who want to compete in an upcoming Poetry Slam at Venture Theatre on January 10. read more | |
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Adventures In Yellowstone
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 11/02/2009 | | Adventures in Yellowstone
Reading at the Western Heritage Center
The YMCA Writer’s Voice and the Western Heritage Center are pleased to present a reading by M. Mark Miller from his new book, Adventures in Yellowstone: Early Travelers Tell Their Tales, noon, Thursday, November 12, at the Western Heritage Center. This event is free and open to the public. read more | |
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"Writing Your Life"
| | | Category : Event Article | | Published : 10/26/2009 | | The YMCA Writer’s Voice and THE BIG READ present a writing workshop at Pictograph Cave!
Russell Rowland and Diane Arkava present “Writing for Your Life” read more | |
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Healthy Halloween at the YMCA
| | | Category : Event Article | | Published : 10/12/2009 | | Healthy Halloween Party
Saturday, October 31st, 3pm - 5pm at the Billings YMCA
The Billings YMCA is pleased to announce that the very popular Healthy Halloween Party will be held again this year, on Saturday, October 31st.
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FullMonty - ON SALE TONIGHT!
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 12/31/1969 | | Venture Theatre Presents The Full Monty
The grin and bare-it-all musical comedy with a whole lot of heart read more | |
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Adult Art Class: Photography Class at the YAM
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 09/25/2009 | | “Experience Art” Adult Classes at the Yellowstone Art Museum will feature a photography class with photographer Phil Bell on Saturday, October 3rd, 2009, from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. read more | |
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Butte, America
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 09/21/2009 | | Butte, America, a new film by Rattlesnake Productions and Emmy-nominated Montana filmmaker Pamela Roberts, is showing at 4pm and again at 7pm, on Saturday, October 17 at the historic Babcock Theatre in downtown Billings. read more | |
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Venture Goes FULL MONTY!
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 09/11/2009 | | Venture Theatre Presents The Full Monty
The grin and bare-it-all musical comedy with a whole lot of heart
September 18 – October 10
Venture Theatre kicks off its 2009-2010 season with The Full Monty - the boisterous, raucous Broadway musical about men who don't usually go to musicals! read more | |
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Auditions for Willy Wonka!
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 09/09/2009 | | Audition for Venture Theatre’s production of Willy Wonka!
“There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.” – Willy Wonka
Auditions for the Venture Theatre production of Willy Wonka are September 20, 21, 22, 23. Acting roles are available for 30-50 adults and youth (ages 8 and up). The musical will be directed by Venture Theatre Artistic Director Robert Brian Wood with musical direction by Timber Venard.
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A month of literary activities!
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 12/31/1969 | | The Big Read will present public readings, panel discussions, theatrical presentations, historic exhibitions and writing workshops in Billings, six counties in southcentral Montana, and on the Crow and Cheyenne Reservation from September 25 to November 1, 2009. read more | |
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Horses That Buck
| | | Category : Event Article | | Published : 08/11/2009 | | Horses That Buck, Margot Kahn, University of Oklahoma Press, 2008
Reviewed by: Sue Hart read more | |
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Orphans Quest to the Northern Border
Making Unexpected Discoveries
| | | Category : Event Review | | Published : 07/14/2009 | | Naomi Myrick, intern at Skinner/Benoit Public Relations, presents a crreative and whimsical perspective in her book review of the High Plains Book Award Best Fiction nominee Kyleah’s Tree, by Janet Muirhead Hill.
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Parmly Billings Library Announces Louise Erdrich W
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 07/13/2009 | | Graduate of both Dartmouth and John Hopkins University, Native American author Louise Erdrich has been named the 2009 Emeritus Award Writer, one of the annual High Plains Book Awards sponsored by the Parmly Billings Library. The ceremony and banquet is scheduled for Friday, October 2, 2009, in Billings and the public is encouraged to attend. Information is available at www.billings.lib.mt.us. read more | |
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Yellowstone Art Museum: Summer Open Studio!
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 07/02/2009 | | Yellowstone Art Museum - Every Thursday from June 25 - August 13, 2009.
Two sessions to choose from each week: 10 a.m. - noon
or 1 - 3 p.m.
Children ages 5 to 12.
All classes led by the museum art educators and museum docents. Tuition is $4.00 for YAM members and $5.00 for non-members. Remember class size is limited to 30 students, so call to pre-register! read more | |
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NEA Awards Major Literary Grant to the YMCA
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 06/25/2009 | | For Immediate Release: June 25, 2009
Contact: Corby Skinner, 406-248-1685 ext 231 corbyskinner@yahoo.com
THE YMCA WRITER’S VOICE ANNOUNCES A $13,500 GRANT FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
[BILLINGS, MONTANA, JUNE 25th]— The Writer’s Voice of the Billings Family YMCA is pleased to announce that the organization has once again been selected as a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant for The Big Read. read more | |
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| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 06/09/2009 | | The YMCA Writer’s Voice is pleased to present "George Armstrong Custer, Norman Maclean, and Me,” a reading and signing with O. Alan Weltzien, the editor of The Norman Maclean Reader. Weltzien was the recipient of much acclaim for his scholarly editing of the Maclean book as well as his own new book titled, A Father and an Island: Reflections on Loss. This book, a memoir, focuses on the loss of a father to an incurable disease and younger days shared with this father on Camano Island, Washington. read more | |
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Literary Videos on Channel 7
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 06/10/2009 | | The YMCA Writer’s Voice is pleased to present the Lannan Literary Videos on Community Seven TV. The Lannan Literary Videos feature major poets and writers reading and discussing their work. The series is designed to promote the work of contemporary writers and to increase the audience for exceptional prose and poetry. Programs will air every weekend: at midnight Friday and Saturday; 4pm, Saturday; and 3pm, Sunday. read more | |
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Book Award Finalists Announced
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 06/01/2009 | | 2009 High Plains Book Award Committee Announces Finalists
Thirteen books have been selected as finalists for the 2009 Parmly Billings Library High Plains Book Awards. All of the books were published for the first time in 2008 and written by a regional author or writing team, or is a literary work which examines and reflects life on the High Plains. Nominations were received from 20 publishers and several individuals in the U.S. and Canada. read more | |
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Season Finale with Chee-Yun
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 04/02/2009 | | Celebrate the Masters: Mozart, Beethoven & Brahms on Saturday, April 18 at 7:30 at the Alberta Bair Theater with the Billings Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestra Anne Harrigan. read more | |
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Save the Date!
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 04/02/2009 | | Join the Western Heritage Center to celebrate the Grand Opening of Echoes of Eastern Montana and five other new exhibits! read more | |
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Dirty Rotten Scroundrels in Billings
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 03/13/2009 | | The National Tour of the scamming, scheming, double-crossing hit Broadway musical, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, is coming to the Alberta Bair Theater in Billings for one show on Tuesday, March 31 at 7:30pm. The show is a part of the US BANK Broadway Series and is sponsored by KULR 8 TV. read more | |
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BookFest and The Big Read
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 03/04/2009 | | 7th annual High Plains BookFest kicks off
October 2-3, 2009 – Billings, Montana
The YMCA Writer’s Voice and the Billings Cultural Partners are pleased to announce the focus of the 7th annual High Plains BookFest will be Native American culture, history, literature and art. read more | |
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Repertory Dance Theatre
| | | Category : Event Article | | Published : 03/03/2009 | | Every question you’ve ever had about modern dance, but were afraid to ask - will be answered by Utah’s Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) Time Capsule: A Century of Dance, Wednesday, April 15, 7:30pm, at the Alberta Bair Theater. RDT’s performance in Billings was originally slated for Saturday, March 21, but scheduling conflicts required ABT to move the performance date to Wednesday, April 15. read more | |
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Music Feeds the Soul... Help the Symphony Feed Bel
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 12/31/1969 | | The Symphony encourages its patrons to bring NON PERISHABLE food donations to the March 14 concert "Happy Birthday, Bach!" Those unable to attend the concert or who prefer may drop off donations at the Symphony offices or the box office of the ABT from March 9 to March 13. read more | |
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Billings Symphony Celebrates Bach
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 02/26/2009 | | Under the baton of Maestra Anne Harrigan, the Billings Symphony Orchestra AND Chorale are joined by the Bozeman Symphonic Choir and local soloist Anne Kania read more | |
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Billings Symphony Presents FREE Family Concert
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 01/08/2009 | | Two performances of Peter and The Wolf will be performed by the Billings Symphony Orchestra on Sat., Jan. 24 at 11 and 12:30 at the Alberta Bair Theater. No ticket is required. Doors open a half hour prior to each performance. read more | |
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MOMIX AMAZES
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 10/02/2008 | | ABT SEASON OPEN WITH THE VERY UNCONVENTIONAL,
BUT TOTALLY DELIGHTFUL, DANCE COMPANY: MOMIX
7:30pm, Wednesday, October 8, 2008, Alberta Bair Theater
Unlike any other dance company, MOMIX provides a joyous, fantastic magical creation – eye-popping, mind boggling production filled with athletic prowess. MOMIX provides an unpredictable yet charming, fun, psychedelic journey into the imagination of one of America’s premiere choreographers, Moses Pendleton.
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Six Writers, Six Stories of Adventure!
| | | Category : Event Article | | Published : 10/03/2008 | | Six writers, six stories:
Exploring The Call of the Wild at the High Plains BookFest
1:00pm and 7pm, Saturday, Oct. 18 at the Alberta Bair Theater
Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire…and to plunge into the forest.”
– Jack London from The Call of the Wild
What is it about wilderness that compels the human heart? Six regional writers will share their stories of challenge and adventure in two keynote readings as a part of the 6th annual High Plains BookFest on Saturday, October 18 at the Alberta Bair Theater. Tickets are $10; one ticket is good for both events, free for students. Tickets available at the Alberta Bair Theater, 256-6052.
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The Call of the Wild!
| | | Category : News | | Published : 10/02/2008 | | October 16-19, 2008 in downtown Billings - 26 public readings, panel discussions, receptions and more!
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ABT Tickets on Sale August 9!
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 07/31/2008 | | ALBERTA BAIR THEATER 2008-2009 SEASON INDIVIDUAL TICKETS
All Shows on Sale! We’ve Got It All!
Ticket office hours for Saturday, August 9, begin at 9am!
Phone and on-line orders will be taken at 10am.
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Yellowstone Art Museum’s Summerfair
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 07/18/2009 | | The Yellowstone Art Museum celebrates its 31st annual Summerfair!
Saturday & Sunday, July 18 & 19, 2009
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Admission: $2 adults, $1 kids, $5 families
Summerfair is the region's largest and best arts and crafts festival. It's a fun family event featuring as many as 100 artists' booths, food, entertainment, and children’s and adult art activities. This exciting event attracts more than 10,000 people throughout the weekend and is a wonderful way to share the joy of art with friends and family.
Would you like to volunteer for Summerfair? Please contact Shannon Johnson, Auction & Summerfair Coordinator, at 406-256-6804, x239, or e-mail her at summerfair@artmuseum.org read more | |
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Spirit of the American West
Fine Art Show & Sale at the Billings Depot
| | | Category : Event Article | | Published : 12/31/1969 | | Mary Williams Fine Arts of Boulder, Colorado is pleased to invite you to the 10th annual “Spirit of the American West” Fine Art Show & Sale, in Billings for the first time this year. We are bringing a vast inventory of fine antique prints, oil paintings, vintage posters and more. This show will feature important American antiques from artists such as Karl Bodmer, George Catlin, Jo Mora, John James Audubon and Thomas Moran. We will also be bringing work from our group of over 30 rocky mountain artists, notably Steven Lee Adams, John Austin Hannah, Mary Roberson, Stephen Smalzel and Alison Dearborn Rieder. We will also have our exclusive line of reproductions – vintage movie posters, railroad posters and national park maps. Themes such as Western Americana, Natural History, Native Americans, Sporting, Fly Fishing, Botanicals, Mountain Landscapes, National Parks, Winter Sports and more. A portion of the proceeds from this show will be donated to the Yellowstone Park Foundation. A rare Yellowstone print will be raffled to benefit the foundation, as well.
The show will run from May 8 through May 10, 11am-8pm, at the historic Billings Depot, 2310 Montana Avenue. 406-656-7273. To browse our inventory, visit www.MaryWilliamsFineArts.com
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Bair Family Museum Opens in May
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 04/07/2008 | | BAIR FAMILY MUSEUM opens May 1st.
Come walk in Charlie’s shoes!
A trip to the Bair Family Museum allows visitors to step into the home of one of Montana’s most prosperous families. read more | |
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Alissa Rose
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 03/28/2008 | | Soprano Alissa Rose is a native of Billings, Montana whose multi-faceted career has taken her around the United States and abroad. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, after having spent three years in Germany, where she sang at the State Theaters in Osnabrück, Münster, and Bielefeld, as well as singing with the West German Radio Chorus. read more | |
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Jeffrey G. Kitto Biography
| | | Category : Event Article | | Published : 03/28/2008 | | Jeffrey Grant Kitto, tenor, makes his Rimrock Opera main stage debut as Nemorino in Elixir of Love. read more | |
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Alissa Rose Biography
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 03/28/2008 | | Billings native Alissa Rose’s multi-faceted career has taken her around the United States and abroad. She recently completed her Doctor of Music Arts at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and currently lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. read more | |
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Downtown Billings Supports Bike Patrol
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 01/31/2008 | | Downtown Billings Alliance supports Billings Police Department Bike Patrol
Billings, MT, Jan. 29, 2008: The Business Improvement District and the Downtown Billings Association, referred to as the Downtown Billings Alliance, recently allocated $2500.00 toward the purchase of winter gear, bike bags, flashlights, and helmets in support of the Billings Police Department Bike Patrol. The Downtown Billings Alliance has long supported the efforts of the Billings Police Department and the Bike Patrol.
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6th annual High Plains BookFest - The Call of the
| | | Category : Press Release | | Published : 01/17/2008 | | 6th Annual High Plains BookFest: The Call of the Wild
October 16-19, 2008 – Billings, Montana
A Call for Proposals!
The YMCA Writer’s Voice and the Billings Cultural Partners are pleased to announce the theme of the 6th Annual High Plains BookFest, The Call of the Wild. read more | |
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Montana Virtuosos
| | | Category : Event Article | | Published : 10/31/2007 | | The Billings Symphony Orchestra is proud to present Montana Virtuosos, a showcase of three outstanding Montana Association of Symphony Orchestra (MASO) 2007 Young Artist Competition participants – pianists Nicole Ficek and Ashlee Young, and cellist Helene Werner under the direction of guest conductor Laura Jackson former Assistant Conductor and American Conducting Fellow of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, November 10, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. at the Alberta Bair Theater. “Concert Cues”, a twenty minute interactive discussion of the evening’s musical selections with Marvin Granger and the three guest soloists, begins at 6:45 p.m., and is free to all ticket holders. read more | |
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BCP Receives Chamber Pick 6 Award
| | | Category : Event Article | | Published : 10/30/2007 | | The Billings Cultural Partners Golden WestFest, a month-long series of events that showcase Billings' cultural community and rich western heritage, is the recipient of the Billings Chamber of Commerce Pick 6 Campaign. read more | |
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Billings Event Spotlight
The Planets & The Heavens03/13/2010 7:30 p.m.A collaboration between our Billings Symphony Chorale and our local Skyview High School chorus that begins with Poulenc’s Gloria and will take listeners to new heights as they watch actual footage from the Hubble Space Telescope on screens on either side of the stage above the orchestra while they perform Holst’s The Planets. Alberta Bair TheaterBillings Symphony Society
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Billings Weather
- Light Snow Fog/Mist
Temp 31.0 (F) / -0.6 (C)
Wind Southwest @ 3.5 MPH (3 KT)
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