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Arts Connection for March 23-24, 2007 This week, just a 1/2 hour program with a story on Cypress Elementary in Kissimmee, FL - one of 5 schools in the nation chosen by the Kennedy Center for the Arts to receive a Creative Ticket Award. Also, highlights from this week's cultural calendar.
Cypress Elementary in Kissimmee, was honored by the Kennedy Center as one of only 5 schools in the nation to receive this year's Creative Ticket Award. The program recognizes outstanding school-wide arts programs. There are 5 arts specialist teachers at Cypress (Debbie Fahmie, music; Maggie Carrillo, drama; Melissa Cooper, dance, Nayda Flores, visual art; and Mandy Justenson, movement--general movement based on research on brain development), but the arts program is embraced by all the classroom teachers as well. The school was 1st chosen as the state winner by Florida Alliance for the Arts/Arts for a Complete Education. Students are now in Washington D.C. and will perfrom at the Kennedy Center's Millenia Stage on Tuesday.
Here are some highlights from this week's Cultural Calendar - but see the Red Chair Project for details on hundreds of arts events. Orlando Opera presents Puccini's Madama Butterfly - Sunday at 2 and Tuesday at 7:30. 407-426-1700 The Winter Park Playhouse gives the Central Florida Premiere of I Love a Piano, which uses music of Irving Berlin; 407-645-0145 The inaugural Rolf and Brigitte Gardy International Piano Competition concludes Sunday at 3 at the Peabody Auditorium in Daytona, when the 3 finalists (chosen this past week from a field of 22) will perform with the Jacksonville Symphony. The winner will be announced at the conclusion of the concert. 386-253-2901 Central Florida Cultural Endeavors presents Noche Flamenca, Sunday at 7:30, and violinist Sara Chang on Tuesday. 386-257-7790 St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Oviedo presents the annual Lutheran Cantata Choir, Sunday at 3. 407-365-3408 Florida Children's Repertory Theatre presents Nightingale, Sundays at 1:30, and Mondays, Tuesdays & Fridays at 10:30am at the Starlight Theatre. 407-657-4483 Happenstance III is a collaborative dance showcase with 11 local choreographers. It runs March 23-April 1 at the Johnny Holloway Theatre, inside Harwood-Watson Dance Studio on Humphries Ave., near the south entrance of Orlando's Baldwin Park. 407-228-0005 The on-air broadcast this week includes a segment from the Voices of Florida series, on the culture of Tarpon Springs' Greek Community. It's is aired as part of Florida Heritage Month. |
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