See below for information and contact info. Naomi Strom-Avila Cultural Arts Specialist City of Tacoma 747 Market Street, Room 900 Tacoma, WA 98402 (253)591-5191 ________________________________ From: Sharon Styer [mailto:sharon@quietmusic.com] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 1:52 PM To: Sharon Styer Cc: Strom-Avila, Naomi; Lacey Leffler Subject: Photo Safari at The Broadway Center for the Performing Arts Hello All: The City of Tacoma and Tacoma Arts Commission have arranged with the Broadway Center for the Performing Arts to host our fall Photo Safari. As you know, Photo Safaris are an opportunity for local photographers to view significant locations and to document these locations for their personal artistic explorations. The City of Tacoma and the Broadway Center, as hosts of this Safari, invite photographers to share their photographs with the public in a photography exhibition at Tacoma City Hall Gallery throughout the fall. Your work will also be featured on the Tacoma Photo Safari Flickr site. The Broadway Center for the Performing Arts 901 Broadway Friday, October 10th Noon - 2 pm You must be pre-registered to attend. To register, simply respond to this email. (Sharon@quietmusic.com.) There are spaces for twenty-five photographers. And, as always, it is a first come, first-served basis. Once the list fills, I will contact everyone with specifics. The Broadway Center for the performing Arts comprises three theaters. We will be photographing all three. The Center requests that you wear closed toe shoes. They also recommend tripods as many areas we will explore are low light. The Pantages Theater The block now occupied by the Pantages Theater was once the site of a saloon, Tacoma's first library and Tacoma's first department store. Enter Alexander Pantages with his dreams of owning beautiful and successful vaudeville theaters across the country. With financial assistance from his mistress, Klondike Kate, they built the ornate Pantages Theater. The Pantages served as vaudeville live theater for eight years before being converted to a movie theater. In 1926, the theater was known as the Orpheum. In 1932, it was sold and renamed the Roxy. Restorations began in 1978 and reopened as the Pantages Theater in 1983. Rumor has it though that Alexander Pantages and Klondike Kate have haunted the theater throughout all of its changes. The Rialto The Beaux-Art style Rialto opened September 1918 - 90 years ago. Much of the original ornate plaster decoration - including replicas of cupids and eagles - remain in good shape today. In the 1990's, the Rialto was restored and joined the Pantages as the Broadway Center for the Performing Arts. Theater on the Square The third theater, Theatre on the Square, opened in October 1993. The 302-seat theater and a new rehearsal hall sit adjacent to the Pantages. Theatre on the Square is home to the Tacoma Actors Guild, the region's only professional theater company. The Theatre has full production capabilities with a rehearsal room, scene shop, costume shop and storage space. We hope this opportunity to photograph these architectural treasures will be of interest you. Please register early because, as you know, these fill up quickly. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Best, Sharon Styer, Photo Safari Coordinator City of Tacoma Community & Economic Development Department 253.332.6816