Tentative Plan of Cultural Events

July 3, 2009- Provo Gallery Stroll- Community Centered Activity

July 7, 2009- Student Recital- Live Music Event

July 8, 2009- Murder by Death- Film Screening

July 15, 2009- Twilight- Film Screening

July 18, 2009- West Side Story Theatrical Event

August 3, 2009- Lindon Days- Community Event

August 8, 2009- BYU dancesport- Dance Event

Cultural Event

Two days ago I went to Walter Wicks expo at the museum of arts at BYU. I enjoyed it so much that I went back today with a special someone who I knew would also enjoy it. I think one of the first things I noticed as I entered was the music that was playing as I saw a big painting of a robotic city and remembered how much I would have loved to see that kind of art as a child and I think its cool to see how interested of it I still am. As we walked around and looked at all the paintings we noticed that in almost all of them there was the same little robot hidden in all of them and what I really liked about Walter Wicks stuff is that he turns them into games and makes them fun for everyone as we try to figure out how things work on the paintings or just try to find hidden items. I recomend that everyone go and experience the fun.

Classroom discussion

Something that has been on my mind from today's discussion is about the talk by Spencer W. Kimball "The gospel vision of the arts". I like that the first presidency teaches us that we are going to have great composers and artists who are going to give us masterpieces in our time now and in the future. I think we have allready seen that since this talk was given. There is so much classical music that I personally enjoy and one of my favorite composers of today is John Williams. All of the music he has composed and that has been used in movies for our entertainment has captured my heart and imagination as i've seen dinasours come to life before my eyes in Jurassic park or two jedi's fighting somewhere in the galaxy in star wars. I also went to my first cultural event which was a Art exhibit at the MOA and I enjoyed the modern art thoroughly. I think that what we are seeing today has never been seen before in the history of the world and it will continue to move forward.

"Coming to your Senses"

As I was reading through the first chapters of the book I rather enjoyed the story of coach "Digger" Phelps. It was very amusing to me, it made me laugh to be honest. I love sports and I love art, that is part of being a well rounded person as we should strive to be but I don't have to take down all my trophies and replace them with art to be that kind of person. I'd say the book is being a little biased here.
I enjoyed reading chapter three where it talks about flesh vs. spirit, or the natural man. We all go through this personal struggle in life and I believe art can depict and teach this very well.