Board of Directors
Luz Gonzalez
Board Chair
Leann Dale
Vice Chair
Sue Townsley
Secretary
Ron Dale
Treasurer
Tim Wood
Development Co -Chair
Chuck Leachman
Development Co -Chair
Geoff Corbin
CEO
Victor Ide
COO
Tracie Alexander
Director of Programming
Fatima Castellanos
Development & Marketing Associate
Pat Graves
Volunteer Manager
Laura Gutierrez
Outreach Coordinator
Greg Lindell
Database Manager
Thommy Kocan
Food Bank Community Ambassador
Jorge Carpio
Maintenance & Landscape Mgr.
37171 W. Buddy Rogers Ave
Cathedral City, CA 92234
760-321-1548
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Proposal to Cathedral City Public Arts Commission
"Yve Evans Presents" 2023 Blues/Jazz Concert Series
December 28, 2022
"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy , but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning." Plato
Cathedral City Senior Center proposes a new city-wide performing arts series. The Blues/Jazz concert series, free to the public of all ages, will be an introduction to some and a time to reminisce for others. Yve Evans is a local icon who, besides performing, speaks to the audience about the importance of the songs she sings and the music she plays.
At this point in the Coachella Valley, there isn't a free daytime concert series year-round for all to enjoy. The Cathedral City Senior City Center CCSC) is offering a five-concert series for 2023 to help fill that gap.
T
he second concert in the series (March 25) is a special one that will be videotaped for International Jazz Day, a partnership between the Herbie Hancock Foundation and UNESCO. In 2021, Yve and Sue Townsley put Coachella Valley on the UN Jazz map by submitting a concert with five musicians, choreographed by Yve. The Coachella Valley had never participated before, but this time, CCSC would like to concentrate on Cathedral City, especially because the city recently became an International City of Peace. The session will be shown around the world on April 30.
International Jazz Day is the world's largest celebration of jazz as a force for peace, intercultural dialogue, and international cooperation.
Each year on April 30, people from over 190 countries worldwide come together to recognize jazz for promoting respect for human rights and human dignity, eradicating discrimination, bolstering freedom of expression, fostering gender equality, and reinforcing the role of youth in enacting social change.
The concerts will be held in the main room at the Senior Center. We have scheduled three dates through Spring and will select the fall dates after Yve knows her performing calendar on cruise ships.
January 21, March 25, June 17, and two in the Fall, dates TBD.
All on Saturdays, all 3:00-5:00 pm.
CCSC is asking the Public Arts Commission (PAC) for $2,000 to cover the costs of the musicians for 2023. A banner will list all contributors.
Yve is approaching other sponsors for assistance with issues that may arise, i.e., instrument replacement. The concerts are free to the public, and CCSC will accept donations to cover refreshments. CCSC will match a potential public arts commission grant with an additional $2,000 for staffing, facility use, refreshments, cleanup, displaced rental income, and advertising.
A series of this nature will be positive for the city and the senior center.
If PAC chooses to participate, it will be good advertising seen around the world. The senior center is honored to serve the community and further the public arts commission's commitment to utilizing arts to foster creativity, empathy, and beauty and strengthen our communities socially, educationally, and economically
Thank you for your consideration.
Cathedral City Senior Center
Geoff Corbin Vic Ide
Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer