The Alpert Foundation and CalArts Present 2008 Alpert Award in the Arts at Vibrato, Bel Air

The Alpert Foundation and CalArts Present 2008 Alpert Award in the Arts at Vibrato, Bel Air

Hosted by Actor Ed Harris

6:00 - 7:00 PM Arrivals; 7:30 PM Program

 LOS ANGELES, May 22 /PRNewswire/ --   Expected Attendees - Available for Interview:   --  Herb and Lani Alpert   --  Actor Ed Harris   --  Actor Andy Garcia   --  CalArts President Steven Lavine and Janet Sternberg   --  Alpert Foundation President Rona Sebastian   --  Alpert Award Director Irene Borger    

Who/What: For the fourteenth year, The Herb Alpert Foundation and CalArts announce five winners of the 2008 Alpert Award in the Arts at a festive dinner and awards presentation. The awards and dinner will be held at Vibrato in Bel Air, CA on Tuesday evening, May 27, 2008, with cocktails at 6:30 PM, and dinner beginning at 7:30 PM. One winner each from five disciplines -- Dance, Film/Video, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts -- will receive a prize of $75,000 and a future weeklong residency at CalArts. Winners are chosen for the challenging nature of their recent and past work by panels of three noted artists and arts professionals.

   Where/When:  Tuesday, May 27 at Vibrato Grill                2930 Beverly Glen Circle, Bel Air     To arrange your coverage of this event, please call David Barber at               213-718-7100 or email d.barber@dcpublicity.com      For Herb Alpert: Contact: Michael Jensen, Jensen Communications,              626-585-9575 or by email at: info@jensencom.com   

Initiated and funded by The Herb Alpert Foundation and administered by The California Institute of the Arts, Alpert Award in the Arts rewards experimenters who are challenging and transforming art, their respective disciplines and society. Since the Awards' inception, the 65 past recipients have gone on to further recognition, producing significant and acclaimed works and receiving major cultural prizes and awards -- proving repeatedly that the Alpert Awards identify important mid-career artists who effect a change both in their fields as well as in the cultural landscape.

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CONTACT: David Barber, +1-213-718-7100, d.barber@dcpublicity.com, for
Alpert Award in the Arts; or Michael Jensen of Jensen Communications,
+1-626-585-9575, info@jensencom.com, for Herb Alpert

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