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CommentsThe Gold of Fall
Editorial
Ruben Hernandez
Ruben Hernandez
Most Valley residents spend the months from June to September thinking about what they will be doing in the months from October to May.
If you are like me, most of your steamy summer days are spent daydreaming of future days cool and future nights with brisk, chilly breezes.
That’s because many of us will put on heavier clothing, don sports jackets or leather coats, and head out on the town searching for arts and culture that will entertain – and if we are lucky – inspire our lives.
But attending an art event is not a simple thing. There are plenty of considerations: Depending on which urban arts complex we visit – downtown Phoenix, Mesa Arts Center, Jobing.com Arena – there is time to allot and gas expenses to tally.
There’s the before and after at restaurants and watering holes. There’s the coordinating, planning and maybe even some arguing with your art-attending companion. Probably the easiest step is the paying for the venue tickets.
So if attending an arts event is that complicated for you, imagine the Herculean logistics involved with putting on an arts event.
First, there’s fundraising and grant-writing to pay staff to run operations. Planning for programming occurs two seasons out in order to contract with talent and acts. There’s frantic marketing and promotion in local media to get people into the seats of your venue.
On the day of opening night, there are the hundreds of details of stage, sound and lighting. And just before the show, there’s the coordination of ushers and volunteers to accommodate the audience.
And then, the curtains part and the magic begins.
We at Latino Perspectives consider our annual Fall Arts Preview a chance to honor the many presenting production companies in the Valley because we know what goes on backstage and back office.
Writer Claudia Provencio talked to the people who make the magic happen, and provides readers with insight into the whys of what we see on stage.
For us, it’s a chance to acknowledge and honor all the hard work that springs from a passion to bring together artists with audience. In the process, both artists and audience are enriched and transformed.
Education is another transforming experience we write of in our August issue.
Like arts and culture, educational methods are never static, so we here at Latino Perspectives consider it a responsibility to keep you informed of what is happening in our schools.
Writer Georgann Yara keys in on the growth of online earning of degrees and certifications. Achieving our educational goals allows us to live the lives we dream of.
Writer Nicole Greason shows us what’s old becomes new again with her reporting on the retro trend of getting a degree in a straight, four-year shot.
As always, our writers put a lot of effort into their articles, and we thank them, because the beneficiary of their journalistic expertise is you, our loyal reader.
So relax and enjoy our August edition as you prepare for the onset of the arts and culture season and the fall return to school campuses.
