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Village Briefs
Multimedia artist visits art group
The Saratoga Contemporary Artists will host multimedia painter Carolyn Larsen at its meeting March 14 at 7 p.m. in the modular building at the Saratoga Senior Center. After the group votes to determine what topic Larsen should paint--landscape, interior or people--she will demonstrate her oil painting technique. Her work has been exhibited at Golden Gate Park, Kensington Art Centre, the Triton Museum of Art, Gallery Saratoga and the Los Gatos Art Museum.
Refreshments will be served. The public is welcome. Saratoga Contemporary Artists promotes the arts and lets artists of different levels and styles socialize, network, review each others' works and occasionally paint together. For more information, call 408.255.5026 or email jnsno2@aol.com.
Students invited to enter olympiad
The West Valley-Mission College Foundation is now accepting entries for its 2002 Olympiad of the Arts. Student artists, actors, writers, photographers, dancers and musicians are invited to enter the competition. All students must be enrolled in a high school or college in Santa Clara County.
The purpose of the Olympiad is to encourage creativity in the cultural environment by promoting and rewarding excellence in all fields of the arts. The Olympiad was founded in 1928 by U.S. Sen. James Phelan, builder of Montalvo, and Dr. Henry Meade Bland, an English professor at what was then San Jose State College. The men saw the Santa Clara Valley as the "Athens of the West" and wanted their Olympiad held every four years, to coincide with the Olympic Games.
For rules and guidelines, call 408.741.2066 or visit www.missioncollege.org/community/olympiad/ on the Internet.
Local nonprofit needs role models
The Role Model Program seeks adult volunteers to serve as mentors for elementary and middle school students by going into classrooms and giving interactive presentations titled "Dare to Dream." Hours are flexible. The Role Model Program is a nonprofit, San Jose-based organization that empowers at-risk students to achieve academic excellence and personal success. For more information, call 408.246.0433 or visit www.therolemodelprogram.org on the Internet.
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