Highlights from this week's cultural calendar - the Orlando Chorale opens their 5th anniversary season with Mozart, Sunday at 3 at 1st United Methodist Church in downtown Orlando (407-786-8624); the Polasek Museum in Winter Park has a new exhibit of artwork by Zelda Fitzgerald, and in parnetship with Rollins College will present a 3-day academic symposium, Icons of an Era - Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, beginning Wednesday, Nov. 15. Registration is still open for any or all events, including a dramatic reading of the couple's love letters on Thursday night. (407-647-6294); and the Music Series at St. Luke's Cathedral presents a Veteran's Day Concert with their choir and the Orlando Concert Band on Saturday at 7:30pm at St. James Cathedral. (407-849-0680).

Orlando Ballet pays tribute to the late Fernando Bujones on Saturday night at 7:30 with a program called Bravo Bujones, featuring the company and some of the best male dancers in the world, performing pieces associated with Bujones as a dancer, choreographer and artistic director. (407-426-1739)

Casey Saxon wanted to combine her passion for jazz dance with her degree in film; she formed Cinedance Jazz Dance Company last year, and their next production, A.D.D. runs for 2 weekends at the Johnny Holloway Theatre. Performances are Fridays at 8 pm, Saturdays at 2 & 8 pm and Sundays at 8 pm. The theatre is at Harwood Watson Dance Studio, off Colonial Drive near Fashion Square Mall. (407-319-7552)

The 31st Festival of the Masters at Downtown Disney is this weekend, Saturday & Sunday from 9:30am-5:30pm. The fine art juried show requires applicants to have won a major prize at another juried show in the past 3 years. In addition to the fine art, there is a chalk art show with the Central Florida Chalk Artists Association, a student art show, an exhibit by Disney artists who entered the festival's signature art competition, and at the House of Blues, the 8th Annual Folk Art Festival. Many other activities and entertainment takes place throughout the Downtown Disney area.

In part 3 of this week's program, we turn to the Arts Connection Archives for stories about artists who currently have events in the area.

Anna Tomczak has an exhibit of her polacolor transfers, including pieces created with the rare 20x24 large format Polaroid camera, at Arts on Douglas in New Smyrna Beach through November 25. I spoke with her in February of 2004. (386-428-1133).

John Emery and Jerry Preston formed Preston Studios 30 years ago and have become nationally known creators of stained glass mainly for residential and commercial projects. Their commissions include the chapels at MD Anderson Cancer clinic in Orlando and the Flagler Memorial Hospital, as well as the Aquarina subdivision in Brevard county; those pieces are now displayed at the Eau Gallie Library and the Melbourne Beach Library. A Retrospective Exhibit celebrating their 30th anniversary is on display through November 19 at the Brevard Museum of Art and Sciences. I spoke to Emery in March of 2003. (321-242-0737)

Florida Today's arts writer Pam Harbaugh talked to John Emery about this exhibit - read her article here.

Terry Ann Thaxton spoke to Poetic Logic producer Sara Schlossman in 2003 about her poetry and how she become a writer. This Wednesday, No. 15 at 7pm, Thaxton will give a reading from her first book, Getaway Girl, at the Harris House Annex in New Smyrna Beach as part of ACA's Poets and Painters Fall Lecture Series. (386-423-1753)