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Riverside Arts Center, Fall, 2007, Newsletter

We’re seeing the arts in a new light
“Nobody notices the tech ––unless it’s bad.” -Barry LaRue, RAC Facilities
The Arts Center has purchased 14 used ETC Source Four lighting instruments on eBay. “So far,” says facilities chair Barry LaRue, “we’re under budget, having spent a little over $3,000. We were given the go-ahead to spend $4,000 by the Foundation Board. We still need some gel frames, a lens tube or two and new lamps, but even after that I intend to bring the project in under budget.”

Twelve of the fourteen new lighting instruments were in place for PTD’s production of Steel Magnolias ; the others are scheduled to be updated and installed later.

Paul Bianchi and Nelson Burton have been spearheading the lighting clean-up. On Memorial Day weekend, volunteers hung the instruments. Bianchi prepared a document outlining where each unit hangs and how to make circuit connections to help designers preparing a lighting plot.

Special recognition also goes to Tom Holly and Cindy Hutchins for dealing with the finance and delivery issues.

Says LaRue, “I really believe we have stepped into the 1990s in terms of lighting quality. That’s a heck of a lot better than the 1970s we had gotten accustomed to in recent years in the Riverside Arts Center theater.”

Eleanor Shelton is newest RAC Board Trustee

A writer and editor, Shelton works in Public Relations and Marketing Service at Washtenaw Community College. Her talents will be appreciated in her new role at the Riverside.

Search site offers unique opportunity for RAC browsers
What if the Riverside Arts Center earned a penny every time you searched the Internet? Well, now we can!

GoodSearch.com is a new search engine that donates half its revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. You use it just as you would any search engine, and it’s powered by Yahoo!, so you get great results.

Just go to www.goodsearch.com and be sure to enter “Riverside Arts Center Foundation” as the charity you want to support. Just 100 of us searching four times a day will raise about $730 in a year without anyone spending a dime! And, be sure to spread the word!

Since RACtives have been using Goodsearch.com since mid-February, we have accumulated $10.51. The minimum contribution from Goodsearch.com annually is $20.00 so we need to make sure we come in above that mark by the end of September or our money gets distributed to others.

“I’ve been using it and I think a couple of others have been, too,” says Barry LaRue. “Just imagine RAC making $730 a year that way” he notes, “That would be almost as much as one week’s rent in the theatre!”