News from the Mesa County Libraries 970West Studio
April 2021
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Mark your calendars: Public reservations
for the Studio Live Room start June 1
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The 970West Studio Live Room will be open for public reservations starting June 1, after nearly a one-year hiatus in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, this room has been used to a great extent by Mesa County Libraries staff to provide virtual programming, including Story Times, history presentations, Audissey podcast recordings, and more.
Starting May 17, patrons can begin making reservation requests to use the Live Room in June.
Studio users must meet the following requirements to make a reservation:
- Attend a studio orientation.
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We currently offer orientations online. Visit the virtual 970West Studio Orientation page to take an orientation.
- Be a resident of Mesa County.
- Have a Mesa County Libraries account in good standing (owe less than $10 in charges).
- Library account information must be current.
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
For more information about studio reservations call 970-243-4442 or email studio@mcpld.org.
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All-ages community art project to show community’s pandemic resiliency |
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What has helped you cope with the pandemic? A new community art project lets Mesa County residents share how they endured the past year.
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County residents can pick up an all-ages “Do Art, Feel Better” Take and Make kit from any Mesa County Libraries location or The Art Center of Western Colorado while supplies last. The kits contain a ribbon and instructions, and residents can use their individual creativity to decorate the ribbon so that it expresses what helped them the most. There is no charge to participate.
- Ribbons can be returned to your local library branch or The Art Center the week of April 26, and they will be placed in trees throughout the county in May. Then they’ll be gathered and sewn together into tapestries that will be displayed throughout the community this fall and winter.
The idea behind the Do Art, Feel Better project is to promote creativity as a method of relieving stress and fostering resiliency. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people turned to art and writing as ways to handle the stress and uncertainty of the pandemic’s turmoil. This project seeks to capture the ways that Mesa County residents dealt with the pandemic in their own ways.
Partners in Do Art, Feel Better include Mesa County Libraries, The Art Center of Western Colorado, the Grand Junction Downtown Creative District, the Western Colorado Writers Forum, and Museums of Western Colorado. The project is supported financially by a grant from the Grand Junction Commission on Arts and Culture.
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Enjoy the works of Dr. Luis López in celebration of National Poetry Month
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This April marks the 25th anniversary of National Poetry Month. What better time is there to read and listen to poetry?
Take some time this month to enjoy the works of L. Luis López in the 970West Digital Collection. |
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Dr. López is a professor emeritus from Colorado Mesa University. He taught high school and coached baseball for a few years and became involved in civil rights activism. He applied to study at St. Johns College in Santa Fe, where he graduated with his master's in liberal arts. He was granted a fellowship studying Lyric Poetry under Dr. Helen Hennessy Vendler at Harvard University, and another studying Innocent Suffering with Dr. Terrence Tilley at St. Michael’s College.
Learn more about Dr. López's story by watching L. Luis López - Poet, a Mesa County Libraries production in which he talks more about his education, his experiences, and poetry as an art form.
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Hear the story of Japanese American and
WWII veteran, Yutao Mine
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April 5 was Go for Broke Day. Originating from a Hawaiian phrase believed to mean “bet everything on a single roll,” this saying is often attributed to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. This famous army regiment in World War II was mostly composed of Japanese American soldiers during a time when anti-Japanese sentiment was prevalent in the United States following the military attack on Pearl Harbor. |
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Yutao Mine was a native of Grand Junction. He fought in Italy, France, and Germany during WWII. Yutao served with the famed 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team.
In a video interview with the Mesa County Libraries Veterans Remember project, Yutao reflects about his time in the war, being a German prisoner, and dealing with racism at home.
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Joe Vigil, a creative technologist at the 970West Studio and an Army veteran himself, had the unique privilege to interview Mr. Mine.
"When I served on active duty in Hawaii, the legacy of the 100th/442nd was all around us," Vigil said when asked about Go for Broke Day.
"A lot of the Nisei soldiers were from the islands. That's where I first heard of them." Nisei is a Japanese term that describes a person who is born in the United States or Canada whose parents were immigrants from Japan.
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"I never thought I'd meet a Go For Broke soldier here in Grand Junction," Vigil said. "Yutao Mine was such a special person. For all of his achievements in combat (Bronze Star, Purple Hearts, POW), he was so humble, a common virtue amongst the greatest generation."
Veterans Remember is an ongoing project of Mesa County Libraries that seeks to collect and document the memories, thoughts, and experiences of U.S. military veterans who live in Mesa County. You can watch stories like Yutao Mine's by visiting the 970West Digital Collection at mesacountylibraries.org, or you can view this collection on Mesa County Libraries' YouTube page.
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Check out our new Local History
playlist on YouTube
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Are you interested in local history? Do you want to learn more about Mesa County's history?
Discover the past on Mesa County Libraries' YouTube page. Watch videos about a historic ranch, ghost towns, early post offices, mining, the legacy of a Ute chief, and more!
All these history videos are produced by Mesa County Libraries and the 970West Studio.
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Studio gear highlight:
The Slate ML-1 virtual microphone
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Not sure which microphone to use for your next 970West Studio reservation? Why not try the Slate ML-1? You can reserve the Slate ML-1 when you make your 970West Studio reservation or ask for it when you arrive for your session.
The Slate ML-1 is a large-diaphragm microphone designed to capture a relatively transparent audio signal that can then be processed by Slate's Virtual Mixing System to emulate a collection of vintage microphones.
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Set the mic up in front of the vocalist to get a clean signal, then use the Virtual Microphone System to choose from a mic-locker full of vintage microphones. The VMS software can emulate popular microphones like the Neumann U47, the AKG C12, and the Sony C800G.
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Follow the 970West Studio on Instagram |
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Follow @970west_studio on Instagram for weekly posts about all things 970West Studio. We share gear updates, local band highlights, video releases, and more!
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Contact Mesa County Libraries at 970-243-4442 or visit mesacountylibraries.org |
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