CULTURAL CENTER PUTS ARTS ON LINE : PROGRAM INFORMATION DELIVERED ON WEB SITE.Byline: Enrique Rivero Daily News Staff Writer Local culture is riding the information superhighway. Hoping to boost the awareness of city residents - and the world - in its arts and humanities offerings, the Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. Cultural Arts Center has created a World Wide Web site listing coming performances, along with ticket information, history and other facts. ``It's just another way to publicize pub·li·cize tr.v. pub·li·cized, pub·li·ciz·ing, pub·li·ciz·es To give publicity to. publicize or -cise Verb [-cizing, -cized] what's happening in the center,'' said Fred Helsel, assistant general manager of the performing arts venue. Since going on line in November, the Web site has been doing just what center officials hoped it would, Helsel said. ``We have had people call and we've asked them, how did you hear about us? And they said, we saw you on the Internet,'' he said. The Web site was created by Steve Fowler Steve Fowler is currently group editor of What Car? which includes the magazines What Car?, What Car? New Car Guide, What Car? Price Guide and the website whatcar.com. - owner of Sound Electro Flight, which specializes in Web sites. ``It's up and running,'' Fowler said. ``Right now, it's pretty much a complete and functional Web site,'' he said. The Web site features detailed descriptions of events - current productions and coming attractions Noun 1. coming attraction - a movie that is advertised to draw customers motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic, film, picture show, flick, picture - a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence - and retrospectives on past events. It also includes historical information about the 73-year-old center, which formerly served as a Methodist church. It also lists the names and phone numbers of center staff members. A new feature is a so-called hyper A Greek work meaning "above" or "more than." It is used as a prefix to technical concepts and products to convey a more advanced or more automatic capability. calendar, which lists events as they would appear on a wall calendar, Fowler said. Click on a given date and up pops the detailed listing. The site is still evolving. One feature that Fowler is eager to see is an on-line photo tour of the renovated building, which opened as the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center in November 1995. The tour would give Web surfers a peek inside the renovated facility - neoclassical ne·o·clas·si·cism also Ne·o·clas·si·cism n. A revival of classical aesthetics and forms, especially: a. A revival in literature in the late 17th and 18th centuries, characterized by a regard for the classical ideals of reason, form, on the outside, modern on the inside. ``Until I went inside I didn't realize that it was really a state-of-the-art facility,'' Fowler said. Helsel said the Web site gives the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center a wider exposure than it might otherwise have. When singer-actress Shirley Jones Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning singer and actress, perhaps best known for her role as "Shirley Partridge," the widowed single mother of five children, in the television series The Partridge Family was set to perform at the center's first-anniversary celebration, for example, fans were attracted from outside California by information posted on the Web site, Helsel said. ``It's nice to be able to have people from throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. or the world have access to information about the artists and have a contact if they need more information,'' he said. |
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