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| 2008 Icky Awards |
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008; 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance
Tickets for the second annual Iowa Cultural Corridor Innovative Excellence Awards (aka The Ickys) are now on sale. The cultural program is the signature event for the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance (ICCA), a group of 125 arts and culture organizations in the 11-county area around the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Corridor. The 2008 Icky Awards will be presented on Tuesday, Jan. 22, at 6:30 p.m. at Theatre Cedar Rapids, 102 Third St. SE, Cedar Rapids.
The Ickys are the area’s only Cultural Awards nominated and voted on solely by the 125 peer groups of the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance. The program will be hosted by Scott Schulte and Ric Swann of the very popular morning show on Z102.9 – “Schulte and Swann.” During the evening, awards will be presented to local cultural organizations in the categories of children’s programming, theater programming, dance programming, educational programming, visual arts programming, festival programming, music programming, historical exhibits programming and touring events programming. Special honors will also be awarded for cultural advocacy and collaboration.
The Icky award has again been designed and built by local sculptor Tom Newport, and is representative of the collaborative work of the members of the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance. “The award itself is a series of metal spokes that support each other in the balancing of a colorful glass ball,” said Joe Jennison, Executive Director of ICCA. “Supporting each other is exactly what we do every day and is why the Cultural Corridor continues to have the reputation as the cultural heart of Iowa and a major contributor to the state’s great quality of life.”
In addition to the awards, the Jan. 22 ceremony will also feature live recreations of 2007 performances by cultural groups that celebrated a milestone anniversary during the past year. Groups scheduled to perform include those representing Arts a la Carte (5 years), Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre (10 years), Dreamwell Theatre (10 years), Hardacre Film Festival (10 years), Habeas Corpus (20 years), Hancher Auditorium (35 years), Iowa Arts Fest (25 years), Jazz Under the Stars (20 years), Jefferson High School (50 years), Johnson County Historical Society (40 years), Red Cedar Chamber Music (10 years), Washington High School (50 years) and Young Footliters (25 years).
This event will also double as ICCA’s annual meeting. Tickets are $20 and are available to the general public through the Theatre Cedar Rapids box office at (319) 366-8591.
About ICCA
ICCA was formed in October of 2005 with the merging of the Johnson County Cultural Alliance (JCCA) and the Cedar Rapids Area Culture Alliance (CRACA). The group’s mission is to build, strengthen and lead the Corridor’s arts and culture organizations and the communities they serve. ICCA maintains www.culturalcorridor.org, the area’s one-stop shop for news and information about upcoming cultural events in the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Corridor.
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