2 Broadcaster Press January 26, 2016 www.broadcasteronline.com South Dakota Shakespeare Festival Announces 2016 Auditions, And Annual Fundraising Event “Wine With Will” Production: The Winter's Tale, by William Shakespeare Rehearsals: May 16-June 8, 2016, Warren M. Lee Center for Fine Arts and Prentis Park Performances: June 9-12, 2016, Prentis Park The South Dakota Shakespeare Festival (SDSF) seeks non-Equity performers for its fourth outdoor season of free Shakespeare in Vermillion’s Prentis Park, featuring Shakespeare’s Romance The Winter’s Tale. The Festival seeks professional actors, actor/ musicians, and teaching artists from the Great Plains region and nationally to form an ensemble-based Shakespeare company for a four-week contract in Vermillion, South Dakota. All positions are paid. Actors coming from out of town will be eligible for local housing and a travel stipend. The SDSF is also seeking children from the local community for unpaid apprenticeship positions in the acting company. Local auditions will be held Sunday February 7th, from 12-3pm at Warren M. Lee Center for Fine Arts on the University of South Dakota campus, in Vermillion, South Dakota. Callbacks will take place that evening from 6-10pm. Sign up for an audition appointment on the callboard at USD Theatre, call (605) 622-0423, or e-mail Walker.Iversen@coyotes. usd.edu to schedule an appointment. Please prepare one or two contrasting Shakespeare monologues, and bring a picture and resume. The South Dakota Shakespeare Festival will be hosting their annual fundraising event, “Wine with Will”, Friday, Feb.12, from 7-9 p.m. in the John A. Day Gallery in the Warren M. Lee Center for Fine Arts on the USD campus. The evening will be filled with Shakespeare sonnets, music, visual arts, hors d’oeuvres, wine tastings hosted by RED, and their celebrated silent auction. “Wine with Will” is made possible by the generous support of USD’s College of Fine Arts, Department of English, Department of Theatre, and USD Business Dean Emeritus Michael and Paula Keller. To reserve tickets please email: Emily. Morris@coyotes.usd.edu. The South Dakota Shakespeare Festival (SDSF) is a professional non-profit theatre company that is supported in collaboration with USD’s College of Fine Arts and Department of Theatre, and produced by Coyoteopoly, an interdisciplinary service-learning company designed and operated by students to reinforce classroom learning in USD’s Beacom School of Business. The mission of the South Dakota Shakespeare Festival is to increase the cultural, artistic and educational offerings of the state of South Dakota and surrounding regions through professional Shakespeare performances and arts education events delivered in a lively and accessible format. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Chaya Gordon-Bland, Executive Director Greg Huckabee, and Production Manager Scott Mollman, the South Dakota Shakespeare Festival seeks to fulfill an important cultural and educational need throughout the state and Great Plains Region. For more information about the South Dakota Shakespeare Festival visit: www. sdshakespearefestival.org House Votes To End State Membership In Midwest Higher Education Compact By Bob Mercer State Capitol Bureau lature’s Executive Board agreed upon in May 2015 called for ending South Dakota’s membership, taking $20,000 from the PIERRE – House Speaker Dean Wink handed over his gav- savings and putting the balance el as presiding officer Thursday of $75,000 to other purposes. Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s afternoon and stepped down to his desk to directly make the administration quit contributing to South Dakota’s membership case for ending South Dakota’s membership in the Midwestern in 2011, Wink said, and the full responsibility then fell on the Regional Higher Education legislative branch. Compact. “There’s been more and The state House of Repremore questions about why it’s sentatives agreed with Wink, in the (legislative) budget,” voting 49-15 with six members Wink said. excused. HB 1001 now moves Twelve states participate in to a Senate committee for its the Midwest Regional Higher second hearing. Education Compact. Wink, R-Howes, brought Wink said he called officials to a head the long-simmering in the 11 other states to inquire dispute about why the Legisabout their funding sources. He lature paid for South Dakota’s membership from the legislative said the common answer was the boards of regents. budget rather than the state House members from areas Board of Regents paying from where state universities are the state universities system’s located tended to provide the budget. opposition arguments Thursday Wink said the regents who to remain a member. govern the state universities “This is a buying club and saved “several hundred thousand dollars” the first few years they’ve been able to save money,” Rep. Scott Munsterafter South Dakota joined the man, R-Brookings, said. coalition in 2008. Munsterman said other The annual dues are units of government in South $115,000. The Legislature has Dakota such as school districts been paying $95,000 with the haven’t taken advantage of the balance unpaid. lower prices. The plan the House and “Let’s be careful and not Senate members on the Legismake a drastic change here,” Munsterman said. Rep. Jim Bolin, R-Canton, said South Dakota isn’t gaining anything substantial from its membership. “It’s not a new product. It’s been on the For more information market. For some reason it’s not contact: utilized,” he said. Vermillion Light & Power Rep. Jean Hunhoff, R-Yank115 W. Duke ton, said she couldn’t disagree Vermillion SD, 57069 with the arguments made to 605-677-7164 drop out but there wasn’t an advocate for the program to be used by school districts. “We need to give them some tools and this is one more time to do that,” Hunhoff said. House Republican leader Brian Gosch of Rapid City said he agreed with the tenor and the intention of the repeal legislation. you Gosch said the regents paid Sierra Club Embraces City Of Vermillion Electric Water Heater Rebate Program New Leader The Vermillion area Living River Group of the Sierra Club has selected a new leader. Clarence Pederson was chosen January 19 to replace Dr. James Heisinger as Chairman of the group. Pederson grew up on a farm in Roberts County, and has lived most of his life in South Dakota. He has served in various positions at the University of South Dakota, as well as in volunteer positions, including on the Clay County Conservation Board. Pederson replaces fifteen-year veteran Heisinger, under whose leadership the local Sierra Club group was instrumental in many positive developments in Clay County and the region, including: • Establishing a Canoe/Kayak Trail along the free-running stretches of the Missouri River and preparing interpretive signs at access points; • Supporting River Appreciation Day at Clay County Park for the county’s sixth-graders; • Promoting research at Spirit Mound, along with the Spirit Mound Trust, of which Heisinger serves as chairman; • Working with grass-roots organizations in Union County in opposition to the proposed Hyperion Refinery; • Sponsoring art exhibits, Earth Week events and many speakers on a wide range of environmental issues, and much more. As the incoming chairman of the group, Pederson hopes to build the Living River Group’s membership and the active involvement of area residents in conservation issues, community activities and outings, and environmental education projects. He recognizes that outgoing chairman Heisinger’s shoes will be hard to fill, but the group’s confidence in its new leader is clear in the unanimous support for his nomination. A GREAT TIME FOR A GREAT CAUSE! prizes • auctions dinner • fun 22ndal Annu www.rmef.org The City of Vermillion is offering a $3.00 per gallon rebate on new installation or replacement of electric water heaters purchased from a local Vermillion retailer or a local licensed plumber. To qualify for the program, water heaters must have a capacity of at least 40 gallons and participating customers must allow a load management receiver to be installed on the water heater by a city licensed electrician when applicable. In addition to the water heater rebate, there is a wiring rebate of $50 available to those customers who will be replacing gas water heaters with electric water heaters. To qualify for the wiring rebate all wiring must be done by a licensed electrician with a City of Vermillion electrical license. 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