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N E W S R E L E A S E S Kate MacLeod's new album, BLOOMING, features the song "Riding the White Horse Home," based on Teresa Jordan's memoir. Kate, who Eric Fidler of the Associated Press called "one of the leading lights of the contemporary folk scene," will preview the CD in a concert at the Rose Wagner Theater in Salt Lake City on September 26. Teresa will join Kate on stage to talk about the song and read from her book. If you can't make the concert, you can preview and buy the CD at Waterbug. Here's the complete concert information: Sat. Sept. 26, 7:30pm Kate MacLeod's CD Celebratory Concert at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Black Box Theatre. 128 West 300 South, Salt Lake City, UT $15 general admission, tickets purchased through Art Tix: 801-355-ARTS, www.arttix.org Featuring Kate with guest musicians Mark Hazel, Robert Dow, Steve Keen and artist-author Teresa Jordan. Celebrating a new CD, Blooming, produced by Tim O'Brien and distributed by Waterbug Records. Benefit Concert for The Western Folklife Center on August 26, 2009 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Teresa Jordan will join Jerry Brooks, Hal Cannon and Ron Kane for a night of poems, songs, and stories under the stars in the garden of a historic Salt Lake home. Come help us support the important work of the Western Folklife Center. For more information, download the flyer. Teresa Jordan to Participate in Conference on World Affairs in Boulder, Colorado, April 6 - 10. The Conference, now in its 61st year, brings together 110 participants representing a wide range of backgrounds for what The New York Times calls “a week-long extravaganza of discussion and debate” on over 200 panels, plenaries and performances. All events are free and open to the public. You can download a full schedule. The panels on which Teresa will serve are listed below. You can learn more about the other panelists on the CWA website. Reading Fiction Helps Me Live in the Real World Wanted Dead or Alive: The Myth of the American West The Arts: Women's Voices Joe the Plumber Got a Book Deal. I Want Mine! STORYTELLING How to Train a Goldfish
Rocky Mountain Women's Insitute Retrospective Exhibition, April 5 - April 15, will feature storytelling by Teresa Jordan as part of the opening reception, April 5, 2009, at RedLine, 2350 Arapahoe Street, Denver, Colorado, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. RMWI has supported women in the arts for 35 years by offering associateships with studio space and stipends. Teresa was an associate in 1978 - 79. Tom Russell to Perform in Salt Lake City House Concert on Thursday, April 2, 2009, at 7:30. The concert will be hosted by Hal Cannon and Teresa Jordan in their home near the University of Utah. Tickets are $25, payable in advance, and all proceeds go to Tom Russell. For more information, download the flyer. Writing to Publish: An 8-week Course with Teresa Jordan starting Tuesday, February 17, 2009 in Salt Lake City. The purpose of this workshop is to help already-published writers increase their success and help those who have never published before work toward their first magazine or journal acceptance. This is a workshop for serious writers: you will be expected to develop an idea, submit it to an editor, and follow through writing the article or revising the idea for resubmission. Read the course description here. Teresa Jordan to be a Featured Performer at the 25th Anniversary of the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, January 24 - 31. Teresa will be telling stories and reading from her work at 4 p.m. on Thursday, January 29; 1 p.m. on Friday, January 30, and 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, January 31. These performances are open to anyone with a Deluxe Pass or a Day Pass, available at the Elko Convention Center. View the full program of events here. Teresa will also MC the evening concert, "Cowboys, Hoboes and Thieves" featuring Sourdough Slim, Don Edwards and Hot Club of Cowtown on Saturday night, January 31, at 8:30 p.m. Get tickets for the concert here. With
National Public Radio producers Hal Cannon and Taki Telonidis of the
Western Folklife Center's Media Office, Teresa will present a workshop
on Collecting and Presenting Family History on Tuesday, January from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. More information about the 25th Annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering here October, 2008 Events: Women Write the Range, a conversation with Laura Pritchett and Teresa Jordan, Friday, October 3, 2008, Boulder, Colorado 12:15 - 1:15 pm, Outdoor Pavilion, Millennium Hotel, 1345 Twenty-Eighth Street Teresa Jordan reads from How to Train a Goldfish and Other Stories from the Open Road, Thursday, October 16, 2008, Denver, Colorado
5:30 - 6:30, St. Cajetan's Student Center , Auraria Higher Education Campus in downtown Denver Chekhov’s Shorts, Wednesday October 22, 2008, Salt Lake City, Utah
6:00 pm, 4th Floor Special Collections, Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 East 400 South, Salt Lake Join Teresa Jordan at the Kanzeon Zen Center, Thursday, July 17 at 7:30 p.m., for a presentation from her work-in-progress, How to Train a Goldfish and Other Stories from the Open Road. The evening is part of Arts Month 2008 and is free for members; $25 suggested donation for others. For more information, contact: The Kanzeon Zen Center, 1274 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, UT. Telephone: 801-328-8414. Western States Tour -- April 4 – 20, 2008 April 4, 2008, Utah State University, Logan, Utah April 9, 2008, Western Wyoming Community College, Rock Springs, Wyoming April 10, 2008, Riverton, Wyoming, Central Wyoming College April 10, 2008, Riverton, Wyoming, Central Wyoming College April 11, 2008, Cody, Wyoming April 11, 2008, Powell, Wyoming April 16, 2008, Eureka, Nevada April 17, 2008, Winnemucca, Nevada April 17, 2008, Winnemucca, Nevada April 18, 2008: Fallon, Nevada April 19 , 2008: Elko, Nevada April 19 – 20, 2008: Elko, Nevada Teresa Jordan awarded residency at Soapstone,a retreat for women writers, in March, 2008. Located in Oregon's coast range,Soapstone offers two women at a time private writing studios and the opportunity for uninteruppted work in a secluded place. Each year, Soapstone awards approximately thirty residencies, drawn from 300 to 400 applications. Having just returned from two months in Argentina, Teresa will use her time at Soapstone to work on her book-in-progress, Learning the Language and Other Midlife Adventures in Spanish. Teresa Jordan to teach "Writing the Contemporary Essay," a six-week class, Summer, 2007. In the hands of such writers as David Sedaris, Joan Didion, Oliver Sacks and Frances Mayes, the contemporary essay has evolved into one of our most popular literary forms by using compelling aspects of literary craft such as vivid prose, character development and storytelling to explore the burning questions of the day. It is a form appropriate to virtually any subject from memoir to medicine, from sports to spirituality, from cooking to camping. Whether your writing is a private pursuit or you intend to publish, experience with the essay can help you hone your writing and guide you deeper in your exploration. Each week, class will focus on a different aspect of craft, using targeted writing exercises and studying examples in literature to see how great authors have responded to similar challenges. As a teacher, Teresa's goal is to help you improve during the class; even more important, she wants to develop your ability to grow on your own, long after the class has ended. Toward this end, the class will focus on the three skills that have formed the foundation of good writing practice throughout history: reading well, writing well, and critiquing well. The class will be intimate and personalized, limited to no more than ten people. All levels of experience are welcome. Because of the small class size, two sections are available. DETAILS Section 1: Monday, July 16 - August 20, 2007; 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. Section 2: Wednesday, July 18 - August 22, 2007; 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. Location: To Be Decided (near the University of Utah in Salt Lake City) Fee: $300 Call Teresa for more information or email her at tj@teresajordan.com. Teresa Jordan to give talk on "Learning the Language" as part of the Spring Lecture Series at the Roswell Museum and Art Center in Roswell, New Mexico, on Thursday, April 19, 2007, at 7 p.m. Since at least the Tower of Babel, the world's peoples have encountered each other across the barrier of language. Depending on the success of their communication -- and sometimes in spite of it -- they inevitably engage each other in some combination of thievery, politics, war, trade, marriage, and the sharing of knowledge. Teresa recently returned from a two-month Spanish immersion course in Argentina and began volunteering in Salt Lake City's Latino community. These very personal experiences have given her new insight into the frontier -- that place where one language encounters another -- from the Lewis and Clark Expedition to current day Iraq. In this talk she weaves personal anecdotes with meditations about history, culture, and the role of language in human endeavor. As part of her work with the Roswell Museum, she will also teach a series of workshops, including "Creating the Illustrated Journal" for high school students on Friday morning, February 20; "Writing from Personal Experience" for students at New Mexico Military Institute on Friday afternnoon, February 20; and "Writing from Personal Experience" for adults, all day on Saturday, February 21. For more information, contact the Roswell Museum and Art Center at (506) 624-6744. It is located at 100 West Eleventh Street, Roswell, NM 88201. Teresa Jordan awarded residency at Ucross Foundation for February, 2007. The Ucross Foundation was founded in 1981 and is located on a historic 22,000 acre ranch in northeast Wyoming near the town of Buffalo. As noted on its website, "the foundation accepted its first residents in 1983 and today is an internationally known working retreat for over 60 artists and writers annually, hosting painters, poets, sculptors, writers, photographers, filmmakers and others from across the United States and around the world." Teresa will use her time there to write a book proposal. Teresa Jordan to exhibit with Wild Women Artists at Duncan LittleCreek Gallery, 518 Commercial Street, Elko, Nevada, January 8– February 3, 2007. Come join the Wild Women opening reception and sale February 2nd from 5 to 8 p.m. in Duncan LittleCreek Gallery, next to Capriolas in downtown Elko. A month-long gallery show of all the artists' work will hang downstairs January 8 - Februrary 3. Upstairs, each woman will display additional wares for sale Friday, February 2, noon - 8 p.m. and Saturday, February 3, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. To benefit the Western Folklife Center, each of the Wild Women has contributed a unique item for the silent auction at the Elko Convention Center. Teresa Jordan will teach a two-day workshop, “Writing the Family Encyclopedia,” through the University of Utah Lifelong Learning Program, in Sandy, Utah on June 10 and June 17, 2006. You can learn more about the workshop and register online. Teresa Jordan will premier "The Bird Men of Kyrgyzstan," as part of the Deep West Video Project at the 2006 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, February 3 - 4, 2006. This short film portrays falconers and eagle hunters Teresa met when she attended the At Shabysh festival in northern Kyrgyzstan in November 2005. View: High Speed Connection or Dial Up
Teresa Jordan to exhibit with Wild Women Artists at Northeastern Nevada Museum, Elko, Nevada, January 4 – February 5, 2006. Meet the artists at a reception on Friday, February 3, 2006 from 4 to 8 p.m. when they will display and sell additional one-of-a-kind artworks. This year’s theme, "Wild Women Telling Tales," will feature a display of collaborative art journals created by the Wild Women. This year-long project required each artist to choose a topic and format for her journal, define the boundaries and send it on to the others for their contributions. Every month, each member received a journal and created an entry to go with its theme until each journal had traveled to all the eleven participating artists. The journaling artists are Jill Altmann, Jimmie Benedict, Susan Glaser Church, Kathleen Curtis, Kathleen Durham, Mary Lee Fulkerson, Teresa Jordan, Kristen Frantzen Orr, Barbara Glynn Prodaniuk, Gail Rappa and Sidne Teske. Artists participating in the museum show include Jimmie Benedict, pieced, quilted and embroidered clothing; Susan Glaser Church, metal sculpture; Kathleen Durham, stories in cloth and clay; Teresa Jordan, paintings and monoprints; Kristen Frantzen Orr, artglass beads and jewelry; Barbara Glynn Prodaniuk, clay; Gail Rappa, jewelry; and Sidne Teske, pastel paintings. Guests this year are September Vhay, painter; Patty Fox, painter; Sparky Kramer, guitar maker; and Claudia Knous, felt maker. Once again the group will have a raffle during the three day sale, to continue to sponsor the Wild Women Emerging Artist Award in conjunction with the Nevada Museum Of Art and The National Scholastic Arts Awards. Northeastern Nevada Museum, 1515 Idaho St, Elko NV 89801, (775) 738-3418.
Teresa Jordan will present the lecture “30,000 Years of the Horse in Art” in several villages on the banks of Lake Issyk-kul in Kyrgyzstan in November, 2005, as part of the At Chabysh festival, a gathering of nomadic tribes celebrating the culture of the horse with traditional horse races and mounted games, music and storytelling. The festival is a reinvigoration of the sorts of gatherings that took place for hundreds, even thousands of years until they were forbidden during the Soviet period. Teresa has been invited as part of a cultural exchange organized by Vista 360†, a group from Jackson, Wyoming dedicated to building relationships among mountain and horse cultures around the world. The primary goals of the At Shabysh festival are to provide an opportunity for the nomadic tribes to celebrate horse culture and to build support for the preservation of the Old Kyrgyz Horse, an ancient breed adapted to the high mountains. The Soviets worked to eliminate the breed and developed a “New Kyrgyz Horse,” cross-breeding chiefly with Thoroughbred stock. The Old Kyrgyz horse survives now only in a few isolated herds in remote mountain villages. Members of the exchange include Candra Day, Vista 360† Director; the musical group New Frontier, consisting of Hal Cannon, Ron Kane, and Linda Svendson; Oona Doherty, videographer; Melinda Kornblum. Melody Lin, Lorna Miller and Nancy Resor, horsewomen; Anne Muller, photographer; Arial Muller, visual artist; and Ben Read, journalist.
Teresa Jordan to exhibit with Wild Women Artists at Wilbur May Museum in Reno, Nevada, October 28 - December 28, 2005. The Wild Women, a group of artists from California, Nevada and Utah working in a wide variety of media, will present their work at the annual 'Blowout' three-day sale at Wilbur D. May Museum in Reno October 28, 29 and 30. Accompanying the sale, there will be a smaller exhibit in the May Gallery from October 28th through December 28th. This year’s theme, "Wild Women Telling Tales," will feature a display of collaborative art journals created by the Wild Women. This year-long project required each artist to choose a topic and format for her journal, define the boundaries and send it on to the others for their contributions. Every month, each member received a journal and created an entry to go with its theme until each journal had traveled to all the eleven participating artists. The journaling artists are Jill Altmann, Jimmie Benedict, Susan Glaser Church, Kathleen Curtis, Kathleen Durham, Mary Lee Fulkerson, Teresa Jordan, Kristen Frantzen Orr, Barbara Glynn Prodaniuk, Gail Rappa and Sidne Teske. Artists participating in the museum show include Jimmie Benedict, pieced, quilted and embroidered clothing; Susan Glaser Church, metal sculpture; Kathleen Durham, stories in cloth and clay; Teresa Jordan, paintings and monoprints; Kristen Frantzen Orr, artglass beads and jewelry; Barbara Glynn Prodaniuk, clay; Gail Rappa, jewelry; and Sidne Teske, pastel paintings. Special guest artists this year include Linda and Carolyn Dufurrena, photographer and author respectively; Claudia Knous, felt maker; Randall Kramer guitar maker; September Vhay, painter; and Linda Hussa author and poet. Lisa Vaccarro and Therese Genion, the 2005 Wild Women Emerging Artist Scholarship Award winners, will also be included in the gallery exhibit. Once again the group will have a raffle during the three day sale, to continue to sponsor the Wild Women Emerging Artist Award in conjunction with the Nevada Museum Of Art and The National Scholastic Arts Awards. The
Wilbur D. May Center at Rancho San Rafael Regional Park
Teresa Jordan will travel to Mongolia August 28 – September 11, 2005 as part of Sagebrush to Steppe, a cultural exchange sponsored by the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada. This trip represents the second half of the exchange, which brought Mongolian herders and musicians to the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada in 2003. The group will spend a week in the capital city of Ulaan Baatar and a week on horseback in the countryside. The musicians will perform in venues as varied as the American Ambassador’s residence and the Genghis Kahn Irish Pub in UB, and in informal gatherings around yak dung fires far from town. Along the way they will reunite with members of the 2003 exchange including Tseyengiin Tserendorj, a celebrated scholar of folk music and composer of Mongolian praise songs; his son Soyol-Erdene, “Soyoloo,” a singer and virtuoso morin khoor (horsehead fiddle) player; Tseden Darinyam, “Daria,” a huumi or throat singer; and Badasuren Bayaksaikhan, a master craftsman who made the horse-head fiddle that Yo Yo Ma used on the Silk Road tour. They will meet up with the fifth member of the 2003 exchange, horseman and singer Densma Tsend-Ayush, “Tseje,” at his camp a couple of hundred miles west of the capital to ride horseback for five days across Mongolian Steppe. The group includes Charlie Seeman, director of the Western Folklife Center; Hal Cannon, Founding Director of the WFC and National Public Radio producer; ranchers and musicians Stephanie Davis, Ron Kane, Bruce Stanger, Gail Steiger and Ken Jones; Linda Svendson and Kent Madin of Boojum Expeditions in Bozeman, Montana who have organized the trip; and board members and supporters of the Western Folklife Center including Mary Anne Mott, Agnieszka Winkler, Gary Crowe, Kent Nelson, Judy Clapp, Dave Stanley, and Nancy Jones.
Doen Sensei, Vice Abbott of the Kanzeon Zen Center, will focus on writing as a "Way," a practice of self refinement and understanding through a particular art form that becomes a method for forgetting the self and expressing one's true nature. Teresa will discuss the practice of writing and the various roles it can play in living an engaged and creative life. She will guide participants in exercises designed to explore how language, memory, observation and contemplation can trigger the creative process and enrich our lives. For more information and to register visit www.zencenterutah.org, call 801-328-8414, Kanzeon Zen Center International, 1274 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84102, or email office@zencenterutah.org.
Chickens
from the Dark Side on exhibit at the Kanzeon Zen Center, July 29 - August 21,
2005.
Teresa Jordan to guest host Radio West on KUER FM 90, Thursday, July 7, for a discussion about "Saving our children from Nature Deficit Disorder." Kids today have little hands-on contact with the natural world. Many learn in school about global warming and acid rain, but have never seen a bunny hop through the woods. Jordan talks to childhood development author Richard Louv about his new book "Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder." Regularly hosted by Doug Fabrizio, Radio West is KUER's award-winning local program that features conversations with authors, politicians, artists and others. Listeners are encouraged to join the conversation by calling (801) 585-WEST or via e-mail, radiowest@kuer.org. Tune in weekdays 11 a.m for the live show and at 7 pm for a rebroadcast, or listen online anytime. KUER broadcasts in Salt Lake County at 90.1 and can be heard throughout the state of Utah and into surrounding states by way of one of the most extensive translator systems in the country. Click here to learn how you can tune into KUER in your community.
Teresa Jordan to guest host Radio West on KUER FM 90, Thursday, April 21 for a discussion of Utah Zen. Jordan talks to Zen teacher Daniel Doen Silberberg Sensei. He's the Vice-Abbott of the Kanzeon Zen Center here in Salt Lake, the main temple for Kanzeon International. Why is one of the largest centers for Zen Buddhism outside of Japan located in Utah? Is Zen changing our state? Is Utah changing Zen? Regularly hosted by Doug Fabrizio, Radio West is KUER's award-winning local program that features conversations with authors, politicians, artists and others. Listeners are encouraged to join the conversation by calling (801) 585-WEST or via e-mail, radiowest@kuer.org. Tune in weekdays 11 a.m for the live show and at 7 pm for a rebroadcast, or listen online anytime. KUER broadcasts in Salt Lake County at 90.1 and can be heard throughout the state of Utah and into surrounding states by way of one of the most extensive translator systems in the country. Click here to learn how you can tune into KUER in your community.
Teresa
Jordan named Guest Editor for special literary editions of the Gilcrease Journal. |