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Julie Taymor: Playing with Fire, a multimedia retrospective of work by acclaimed theater and film artist Julie Taymor, is on view at the Wexner Center in Columbus. Taymor, best known as director and designer of Disney's The Lion King, is the creative force behind many other innovative productions. This exhibition, featuring large-scale installations from key productions of her career, with stage sets, masks, puppets, costumes, drawings, set designs, video clips, photographic documentation and music, will travel the country after its Columbus premiere. The exhibition runs through January 2.

OhioDance Choreographers Showcase, October 29 at Kuss Auditorium, Clark State Performing Arts Center in Springfield, includes a concert in a broad range of styles by choreographers from around Ohio. The event is part of the 1999 OhioDance Festival, October 29-30 at Wittenberg University, with dance classes, a dance educators workshop, a youth dance festival and an informal dance concert. For more information call 614/442-3937 or visit www.saso-oh.org/ohiodance.

Charlie Waller and the Country Gentlemen will open the Wayne Center for the Arts Bluegrass Series Saturday, November 6, at Wayne Center for the Arts in Wooster. The concert will run from 7-11 pm. Waller, inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Association Hall of Honor in 1996, has made numerous appearances at the Grand Old Opry in Nashville. For more information call 330/264-2787.

The U.S. Senate passed the FY2000 Interior Appropriations Bill on September 23. The measure includes a $5-million increase for the National Endowment for the Arts and a $5-million increase for the National Endowment for the Humanities, bringing the NEA to a proposed funding level of $103 million and NEH to $115.7 million. On September 27, the measure was sent to a House-Senate conference committee, which began to reconcile the Senate's proposed increases with level funding for the NEA and NEH contained in the bill passed by the House. Advocates are urging the House conferees to agree with the Senate's funding levels for the NEA and NEH.

OAC DEADLINES & PANEL MEETINGS

November 1
Operating Support I, off-year deadline

November 15
YouthReach panel meets

NEW PANEL MEMBERS
Beginning this panel season, a person with a disability will sit on each of the Ohio Arts Council's funding review panels. For more information contact Phyllis Hairston, Building Diverse Audiences Program coordinator, at the Ohio Arts Council.

SEND US A WINNER
Nomination forms for the 2000 Governor's Awards for the Arts are due October 13. Awards are given to Ohio individuals and organizations in recognition of outstanding contributions in arts administration, arts in education, arts patron, arts outreach, business support of the arts, individual artist and partnerships in the arts. Awards will be presented at a public ceremony March 22, 2000, at the Columbus Athenaeum. For more information contact Katie Popoff at the Ohio Arts Council, 727 East Main Street, Columbus OH 43205-1796; phone 614/466-2613; fax 614/466-4494; toll-free 888/2-GET-OAC; email kpopoff@oac.state.oh.us. The nomination form is available on the OAC website at www.oac.state.oh.us.

WE'RE BUILDING OHIO THROUGH THE ARTS

The Ohio Arts Council, a state agency established in 1965, builds the state through the arts - economically, educationally and culturally - preserving the past, enhancing the present and enriching the future for all Ohioans. The Council believes the arts should be shared by the people of Ohio. The arts arise from public, individual and organizational efforts. The OAC supports and encourages those efforts.