The Arts Connection Minute lists arts events across Central Florida - it's heard weekdays at 3:04pm To find more cultural events, visit The Red Chair Project, Central Florida's official guide to arts and culture.
Monday, 3/31 Two new exhibits opened recently at the Museum of Florida Art in DeLand a collection of experimental graphic prints, and The Art of Clarence Van Duzer: Sculptor, Painter, and Educator both run thru the end of Mayhttp://museumoffloridaart.com/ Other exhibits that just opened include Colors of Florida watercolors by Brennan Gorrie at Bok Sanctuary in Lake Wales and Art From Found Objects, a juried competition by the Ridge Art Association in Winter Have….there’s a reception for that exhibit this Saturday at 6:30 http://www.ridgeart.org/schedule.htm The Southeast Museum of Photography is holding a Russian film series in conjunction with its exhibit
Tuesday, 4/1 Urban Think Bookstore kicks off National Poetry Month with a reading tonight by Darlyn Finch, Brad Kuhn, Tod Caviness, and Summer Rodman. It starts at 7:00 tonight.http://urbanthinkorlando.com You can enjoy several university ensembles perform this week the UCF Student Jazz Chamber Groups perform tonight at 8 and the full jazz ensemble is FRIDAY at 8 and at Seminole Community College, there’s a spring choral concert tonight at 7:30 and the Gospel Choir performs Friday at 7:30 www.scc-fl.edu/arts/2007-08arts-calendar.htm In other concerts this week - Itzhak Perlman comes to Daytona Beach, Thursday night at 7:30 Canadian guitarist Remy Boucher performs tonight at 8 as part of the UCF Guitar Series The Florida Lakes Symphony will give 2 concerts in Lake County---Thursday at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Mount Dora and Friday at Montverde Academy and the Daytona Solisti Chamber Orchestra will perform Sunday afternoon at St. James Episcopal Church in Ormond Beach
Wednesday, 4/2 There are a number of plays you can see this weekend across Central Florida… The Lake Wales Little Theatre present Home Games through April 13th To Kill A Mockingbird opens this weekend at Theatre Winter Haven The new Garden Theatre presents SPORT, produced by PB&J Productions www.wgtheatre.org The Glass Menagerie is at the Sands Theatre Center in DeLand and Theatre Downtown presents the Central Florida Premiere of RABBIT HOLE , the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama. It opens Friday and runs through April 26
Thursday, 4/3 1st Thursday is tonight at Orlando Museum of Art the theme this month is Beyond Geppeto - the history and evolution of puppets in art and performance. There will be films by Heather Henson and other puppeteers and try your hand at making a puppethttp://omart.org/events/events.thursdays.html The youth theatre at Titusville Playhouse presents Robin Hood this weekend There’s an Opening Reception Saturday for an exhibit of fiber artist Lauren Austin. It’s at the Harris House Galley in New Smyrna Beach Southeastern University in Lakeland will present Mozart’s opera Cosė Fan Tutte this weekend at the Polk Theatre And Orlando Opera concludes its 50th Anniversary Season with Puccini’s TURANDOT it opens tomorrow night at the Bob Carr and also runs Sunday at 2 and Tuesday at 7:30
Friday, 4/4 The Explorations V Children’s Museum in Lakeland present the annual Children’s Festival tomorrow from 10am to 3http://www.explorationsv.com/ The 3rd annual International Folk Festival is Saturday from 3 until 9pm at Casselberry City Hall. The father & son who explored the Titanic and created the Titanic Experience that’s at the Orlando Science Center, will appear at the center Sunday from 2 until 6 The Steinway Society of Central Florida will host the presentation of a piano to a needy student, and a concert tomorrow at 2:30 at Steinway Piano Galleries in Altamonte Springs. Congressman John Mica will present the piano, and the concert features former New York City opera singer Catherine Lamay performing broadway songs. and Sunday night at Stetson University, German professor Christoph Schwartz will conduct the University’s choral groups in a concert of lost music of Viktor Ullmann, a Jewish composer who will killed in the Holocaust. The concert is in Elizabeth Hall Chapel in DeLand Saturday, 4/5 The UCF Music Department presents another concert form its International Piano Series - Hanny Schmid Wyss will perform tonight at 8 in the Visual Arts Auditorium Jay Pickens will present his HEART AND SOUL CABARET tonight at 8 at the Johnny Holloway Theatre, located at Harwood-Watson Dance Studio in Orlando Tomorrow afternoon at 1, author Kathleen Radebaugh will give a book-signing at Urban Think Bookstore. The book is set in the Central Florida cattle industry of the late 1800’s Central Florida Winds will give a concert tomorrow at 3 at Trinity High School in Suntree. and, the Orlando International Piano Competition presents the Gems of Juillliard series teenage pianist Ji-Yong will give a recital tomorrow at 5 at the Grand Bohemian Ballroom on downtown Orlando
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