The Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering is scheduled for August 8, 9 and 10 on the Prescott Campus at the Performing Arts Center. Click here to purchase tickets. Below are some of the shows that are scheduled. Click here to see the full schedule of events.
The Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering presents their first “Western Art Exhibit” at the Art Gallery on the Prescott Campus featuring five outstanding western artists whose art has been featured on its collectible souvenir posters. The exhibit dates are August 8, 9, and 10 (Thursday to Saturday) from 10:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. A live poetry event is scheduled for Saturday, August 10 from noon to 2 p.m.
Artists Joe Netherwood, Bill Nebeker, Steve Atkinson, Shawn Cameron and Marless Fellows have been chosen for this exhibit which coincides with the Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering.
The Missoula Children’s Theatre production had a very successful tour in Yavapai County in June of this year. Among the communities participating were Cottonwood, Sedona, and the west side of the County as represented by Yavapai Community College.
The production company fees are paid for in a variety of ways. In the case of Sedona, the local Rotary Club and other sponsors supported the project. In Cottonwood, the Parks and Recreation Department was the driving force.
In Prescott, it appears (but we cannot verify because the College will not return questions about it) that Yavapai Community College picked up the costs associated with the program. The Performing Arts Center on the Prescott Campus was the center for the program and the productions by the children were listed as events by the College.
The production company provided two professional actor/directors along with costoumes and other theatre paraphernalia. The program runs five days with 20 hours of rehearsal for children ranging in ages beginning in kindergarten through 12th grade. The cast can consist of up to 60 local children who put on two productions.
The Missoula Children’s Theatre organization says that its primary goal is the development of life skills in children through participation in the performing arts. It states that “within each MCT cast, girls and boys are equal; the disabled become able; the shy experiment with bravery; the slow are rehearsed to perfection; and the gifted become part of the whole. The lesson they learn is that all of them are necessary for the show to go on. Few arenas exist where responsibility is taught and learned so clearly. MCT provides a unique opportunity to learn the lessons of group dynamics while excelling as an individual – a lesson from art that carries into life. MCT strives to use participation in the performing arts as a vehicle to develop lifeskills including social skills, communication skills, self-discipline, a strong work ethic, an understanding of the team concept and self-esteem.”
Children’s Theater Group: Yavapai Community College PAC
The Yavapai Community College Film and Media Arts Program is part of a very special “Phoenix, Oregon” 70 city nationwide screening tour that will take the film to the East coast and back this summer. The screening on July 8 at the Prescott Campus was the only chance for local Prescott audiences to see the film and partake in a Q&A with the filmmakers.
The showing of the film, sponsored by the YC Film and Media Arts Program, was followed by a Q&A with Writer, Director & Editor Gary Lundgren and Producers Annie Lundgren and Luis Rodriguez. The film screened at the YC Community Room, (next to the library on the Prescott Campus.)
Shanandoah Sterling
The Community College announced in a press release that Shanandoah Sterling was singled out from 3,700 Phi Theta Kappa members attending a national conference this spring in Orlando, Florioda, and invited to star in the academic honor society’s “I AM PTK” national marketing campaign.
Denise Woolsey, YC PTK Faculty Advisor, said Shanandoah was one of just a few students chosen for the campaign based on a photograph taken during the conference. “In May I was emailed and asked if I could recommend her as a good representative for PTK. Of course I gave her a glowing recommendation. She will be a great representative for YC and PTK.”
Shanandoah has already fulfilled her PTK role, ushering a pair of videographers around the Verde Valley and starring in shoots in, among other locations, her Sedona home office, in the Sedona Public Library where she is a volunteer English as a Second Language Teacher, at the YC Sedona Center, the Verde Valley Campus and in a Southwest Wine Center vineyard.
Shanandoah is an aspiring English teacher who attended Yavapai Community College as a part-time, returning adult student, Shanandoah said she appreciates the opportunity to promote PTK to community college students nationwide. “I want PTK to attract more students,” she said. “It opens doors to scholarships and more. I am happy to be sharing what PTK has done for me.”
PTK membership was invaluable for ensuring success in college and beyond, Shanandoah said, noting that PTK members are nearly twice as likely as other community college students to earn a bachelor’s degree when they transfer to a university.
Shanandoah joined PTK after inquiring about campus activities available to part-time students with her college advisor. She recalled that initially she was one of only a handful of PTK members at the Verde Valley Campus. By working with other student clubs and organizations over time, membership more than tripled, she said.
Shanandoah was the vice president of the Verde Valley Campus PTK last year. She was also an All-Arizona Academic Team scholarship recipient; she earned the President’s Academic Excellence Award for the Verde Valley campus; and she was the student speaker for the Verde Valley Campus commencement ceremony. Although proud of all of her student achievements to date, Shanandoah said she is “beyond humbled and shocked” to be one of the faces of PTK’s new marketing campaign. ”It’s a big honor.”
The videos created from the two-day shoot with Shanandoah are scheduled to begin posting on PTK social media and the organization’s website around Aug. 1.
Source: Yavapai Community College press release; photo posted on Community College web site and edited by Blog: https://www.yc.edu/webtools/apps/opi/news/grid.asp
Every Saturday morning from 7:30 AM – 12:00 PM MST you will find the Prescott Campus alive with residents enjoying a visit to the Prescott Summer Farmers Market. The event is held in the Yavapai Community College Parking Lot D on the Campus. The event will run every Saturday until October 26.
The market is a PFM producer-only farmers market, meaning every item sold is either grown or produced by the seller using Arizona-grown ingredients. Each week at the market, customers can find a variety of fresh vegetables, fruits, flowers, baked goods, eggs, nuts, grass-fed beef, pork and poultry. Local farmers grow a variety of vegetables throughout the season, including leeks, potatoes, beets, radishes, carrots, salad mix, squash, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, and melons.
Customers can swipe their SNAP/EBT, debit or credit cards to receive tokens at the information booth. The Double Up Food Bucks Arizona program allows customers to double their SNAP benefits at the market, up to $20 per market visit. All vendors always accept cash.
The market brings hundreds of persons to the Community College Campus each weekend. A nice subtle public relations marketing touch for the Community College. Some persons on the east side of the County have urged the Community College to begin to utilize existing, or create new open space, on the Verde Campus for similar types of events.
Yavapai Community College announced in a press release that 110 graduates of the Sedona Center and Verde Campus attended commencement ceremonies last week. Earlier, the Blog had reported the number as 80. The Community College news release follows in full:
Clarkdale AZ (May 13, 2019) – Commencement signaled the completion of one life-changing journey and the start of something new for more than 110 degree and certificate-earners sharing the Commencement spotlight Friday evening at the Yavapai College Verde Valley campus.
The ceremony’s keynote speaker, Cottonwood Mayor Tim Elinski, extolled the 2019 YC graduating class for helping create a vibrant community and strengthening the local economy. And, while he encouraged graduates to stay and build their lives in the Verde Valley, he urged them not to scrimp on adventures. “Please have as many adventures as you possibly can, but do consider coming back to the community that cares about you so much,” he said.
In her address to fellow graduates and a Mabery Pavilion overflowing with well-wishers, aspiring English teacher Shanandoah Sterling of Sedona, looked back on her own, much-delayed educational journey with fondness and mirth. She encouraged her classmates to continue dreaming and setting new goals. “Take the foundations of success gained here at Yavapai College into tomorrow, next week and the years to follow … Wherever your journey takes you, be it onto a four-year university, embarking into a chosen career, outreaching into your community or striving to help others obtain their dreams, I know you will be successful.” Read More→
Yavapai Community College honored outstanding faculty, staff and alumni at its “Evening of Recognition” ceremony held Tuesday, Aril 30 at the Verde Valley Campus.
Jim Bostwick
Veteran math teacher Jim Bostwick was named outstanding faculty member. The announcement was met with a standing ovation. Dr. James Perey, executive dean of the Verde Valley Campus and Sedona Center, said of Bostwick, “Jim has always had the greater good in mind, with a firm philosophy in a student-centered approach to his work.”
Sedona Culinary Institute instructor Kat Biemann earned outstanding adjunct honors and Lori McIntyre, instructional assistant for the science department, was named outstanding staff member.
Earning Outstanding Alumni honors this year was Ron Sauntman. Ron attended Yavapai College where he received his Associate of Science in Fire Science in 2012. He went to Grand Canyon University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Emergency Management in 2014 and an M.S. in Leadership and Disaster Preparedness in 2016. Her was awarded the Firefighter of the year in 2002 from Camp Verde Fire District and received two citations from the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors in 2017 for work done in Emergency Management during the Goodwin Fire. The Yavapai County Emergency Services Manager, Perey said, “exemplifies the power of career and technical education and what it means to set lofty goals and achieve career excellence.”
Yavapai Community College leaders, faculty and staff honored students from the Verde Campus and Sedona Center at the “Evening of Recognition” ceremony held Tuesday, April 30 at the Verde Valley Campus.
“The students recognized at this ceremony are some of the finest examples of students who have worked hard to distinguish themselves from others academically and through leadership and service,” Dr. Lisa Rhine said in her ceremony address. “I am excited to see what the future holds for these students who have made academic excellence, leadership and service to others a priority in the pursuit of their education.”
Rhine presented the President’s Award for Academic Excellence, to Shanandoah Sterling of Sedona. Earning the Vice President’s Award for Academic Excellence in 2019 was accounting student Nicole Earl of Cottonwood.
Following is a list of additional 2019 Outstanding Student honorees:
Yavapai Community College and the Cottonwood Old Town Center have joined together in 
bringing Emmet Cahill to Cottonwood for a one-night concert at Cottonwood’s Old Town Center for the Arts on April 27. The concert begins at 7 PM.
Emmet Cahill is the 26 year-old County Westmeath native who is described as having taken “the Emerald Isle by storm.” He was a musical prodigy at the age of five. He trained at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, which named him its “Most Promising Young Singer” in 2010.
He is a winner of multiple national singing competitions who has performed in Dublin’s National Concert Hall. He was named the Irish Music Association’s “Irish Tenor of the Year” in 2013.
For information regarding tickets for this event, please go to the Old Town Center for the Arts website by clicking here.