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Arts Connection for March 16-17, 2007
Friday, March 16, 2007
By: Rebecca Morgan

The inaugural Rolf & Briggite Gardey International Piano Competition, Hurricane on the Bayou & exhibits at the Orlando Science Center, a preview of the Florida Film Festival, music for St. Patrick's Day, a history of Spring Break in Florida and an interview with Orlando poet, Steve Kronen.


Learn about cultural events at Red Chair Project.

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ART NEWS - Women Playwright's Initiative announces competition winner; UCF Professor John Shafer makes theatre history with Internet Play; and Florida Heritage Month begins.


The inagural Rolf & Brigitte Gardey Piano Competition begins Monday - 22 pianists compete in 3 elimination rounds, which are free & open to the public - Round 1--Monday, 9am-5pm, Tuesday, 9am-1pm; Round 2--Wednesday, 9am-5pm; Round 3--Thursday, 9am-5pm; all at the News Journal Center in Daytona Beach.  The 3 finalists will then perform a full piano concerto with the Jacksonville Symphony on Sunday, March 25 at 3pm at the Peabody Auditorium in Daytona.  386-253-2901


This weekend, the Orlando Science Center gives the World Premiere of the giant screen film, Hurricane on the Bayou.  Looking at the sensitive wetlands in the area, it was being filmed in New Orleans just before Katrina hit and became a documentary on the impact of that storm on the sensitive waterways.

Also on display at OSC - Animal Grossology, through April 29 and the landmark exhibit, Our Body: The Universe Within, running through July 29.   UCF Art Students will be sketching this exhibit March 17-19 and 21-25; an exhibit of student & faculty "anatomical art" will be on display thru May.  407-514-2188.

 

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The 16th Florida Film Festival opens next Friday, March 23 and runs through April 1st, with 170 films, plus educational forums, parties, and a new Food & Wine Festival the 1st weekend.  Roger Moore, film critic of the Orlando Sentinel, previews the festival for The Arts Connection.....

Roger's Top 6 picks (for those purchasing a FFF 6-Pack) are --
Live Free or Die
Swedish Auto
When Pigs Fly (filmed in Bunnell, FL)
Operation Homecoming
Away From Her
The Valet
Other films mentioned by Roger in the interview are: The Strand, Full Grown Men, and A Death in the Woods.


Three internationally-acclaimed Irish groups are coming to central Florida this weekend to help us celebrate St. Patrick's Day - The Magic of Ireland at the Peabody Auditorium, Saturday at 2pm & 7:30pm; Dervish at the News Journal Center, Saturday at 8pm; and Leahy, Sunday at 7pm at The King Center in Melbourne.


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With Spring Break in full swing, Bill Dudley looks at the history of this springtime event and the relationship between breakers and the Florida coastal towns that host them.


For this week's Poetic Logic, producer Sara Schlossman chats with Steve Kronen, a local poet whose work has appeared in The New Republic, The American Scholar, Poetry, Agni, APR, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, and The Threepenny  Review.  He has been a fellow at Bread Loaf, and the Sewanee Writers Conference, received two Florida Arts Council grants, and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

His first book, Empirical Evidence, won the Contemporary Poetry Series prize and was published by the University of Georgia Press in 1992. Splendor, his most recent book, was published by BOA Editions in May 2006.

Steve will be giving a reading this Sunday night at  7, in the library of First Unitarian Church of Orlando on Robinson St, and he will also read poetry as a participant in a war protest at the church, called The Way to Peace, on Saturday at 2pm.