The Arts Connection Minute lists arts events across Central Florida - it's heard weekdays at 3:04pm
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Monday, 5/5
There’s a Reception tomorrow night at the Osceola Center for the Arts for the Annual Juried Art Show. It runs from 6 to 8 www.ocfta.com
This is the last week to see an exhibit by James Michaels at the Brevard Art Museum in Melbourne
www.brevardartmuseum.org
and after that exhibit closes, the museum will be hosting one called POST SECRETS - that is a collection of anonymous, true secrets written and designed on post cards. The Brevard Art Museum has teamed up with the county libraries to give YOU a chance to create your own POSTSECRET postcard. There will be creation stations at five Brevard County libraries where residents can make a postcard, which may become part of this special exhibition. Or, if you’d rather share a memory, those are also being collected by the library for a book.
www.brevardartmuseum.org.
Tuesday, 5/6
The Southeast Museum Of Photography has an exhibit on Siberian Prison Camps, and in conjunction with it, there is a Russina film series. The final film is tomorrow night at 7 - it’s the 2002 film RUSSIAN ARK, an innovative film of St. Petersburg State Hermitage Museum that was shot in one take
www.smponline.org
The Orlando Area Writers Group will hold its monthly meeting tomorrow night at 6:30 at the University Club in Winter Park
http://fwaorlando.wordpress.com/
An exhibit of abstract paintings by Cicero Greathouse can be seen at Millenia Fine Art through May 23rd
www.milleniaarts.com/cat/Orlando/The-Locations_441.aspx
and at the Morse Museum in Winter Park, you can see The Quest of Beauty it’s the first study of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Life and Art done in a chronilogical manner
www.morsemuseum.org
Wednesday, 5/7
These plays open this weekend
THE TALE OF THE ALLERGIST'S WIFE at Daytona Playhouse
http://www.daytonaplayhouse.org
MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS with Jester Theatre it’s at the new Garden Theatre in Winter Garden
www.jestertheater.com www.wgtheatre.org
And closing this weekend is CLUE, THE MUSICAL at the Osceola Center for the Arts in Kissimmee
www.ocfta.com
Thursday, 5/8
Surfscape Contemporary Dance Theatre is a professional company in Volusia County. Its next production RAW is Friday & Saturday at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach.
www.surfscapedance.org
The Central Florida Dance Festival is Saturday there are 2 performances 2pm and 7:30 at the Johnny Holloway Theatre, which is located at Harwood-Watson Dance Studio
www.hwdancestudios.com/theaterevents.htm
Music Live will give a tribute concert for moms this Sunday at Lake Sumter Community College. Performers include pianist Bill Doherty, tenor Mark Gizzi-Schmidt, jazz singer Debbie Garrett, and bass Samuel Reynolds. The Mother’s Day concert starts at 3 (352) 343-2231 or (352)255-8865
and also on Sunday, the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra will give its final concert of the season at 4pm at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Center
www.fsyo.org
Friday, 5/9
Volvo Mayfaire by-the-Lake is this weekend in Lakeland it’s one of Central Florida’s oldest outdoor art festivals with over 180 artists from around the country, as well as entertainment and children’s activities. There will also be fireworks at 9pm
www.polkmuseumofart.org/content/interior.asp?section=events&body=mayfaire.htm
In conjunction with the art festival, the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland has a new exhibit of purchase awards from 25 years of the Mayfaire by-the-Lake art festival
www.polkmuseumofart.org/content/interior.asp?section=exhibitions&body=2008/mayfairepurchases.htm
The band Baron Von Bear will have a CD release party Saturday night at the Backbooth 4 local bands will be performing at the downtown Orlando club, starting at 7
www.backbooth.com
and The Orlando Philharmonic closes its season with the Verdi Requiem the orchestra is joined by 4 soloists and the Bach Festival Choir. The concert is Saturday night at 8 at the Bob Carr.
www.orlandophil.org
Saturday, 5/10
Several art exhibits open this weekend at Florida Southern College you can see the Lakeland Art Guild 38th Annual Spring Show
http://www.flsouthern.edu/news.asp?ACTION=view&ID=551
There’s an Opening Reception tonight from 7-10 for a solo show by artist IDITH LEVY it’s called UNKNOWN VISIONS, and features paintings and Mixed Media work; you can see it at the Office Gallery and Art Studio in downtown Orlando
www.TheOfficeGalllery.com www.MuseInArt.com
There’s another Opening Reception tonight from 6 to 9 for an art show by Carl Knickerbocker. It’s called Confessions of an Urban Primitive at Jeanine Taylor Folk Art in Sanford
www.jtfolkart.com
and at the Maitland Art Center, THE ART OF ROD REEVES opens this weekend - Reeves taught in the public school system for decades and has created his own art work as well as book illustrations.
www.maitlandartcenter.org
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