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Arts Connection for May 25-26, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
By: Rebecca Morgan

This week, the funding crises for two Daytona Beach arts groups, caught in the middle of a legal battle. Also, folk lovers put together a last minute replacement for the cancelled Florida Folk Festival, called the Florida FAUX Festival, and stories from the past 5 years of WMFE's Arts Connection.

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The future of two Daytona Beach cultural groups are hanging in the balance, as the city’s summer arts season gets underway. Seaside Music Theatre and the Florida International Festival are caught in the middle of a three-year legal battle over the Daytona Beach News Journal’s sizeable contributions to local arts organizations.

The summer season at SMT begins this weekend with the children's production of GO DOG GO - performances are Friday & Saturday mornings at 10am; a Luncheon Party is next Saturday, June 2nd.  South Pacific opens June 7 and the annual Fundraising Gala has been moved from the end of the season to the beginning - it is June 9.  Other shows this summer are Silver Screen Serenade, Nine, Snapshots, and Peter Pan.  For information, call 386-252-6200.  The News Journal Center is at 221 N. Beach Street.

 
Although the 55th Annual Florida Folk Festival has been cancelled due to fires burning in North Florida, organizers here in Orlando put together a 12-hour music festival for this Saturday night.  They call it the Florida Faux Festival, and it's at the Plaza Theatre.  Admission is $10; contra-dancing will take place Saturday afternoon in the parking lot.  The theatre is at 425 N. Bumby Ave. in Orlando.  407-228-1220


The Orlando International Fringe Festival is in its final days - over 75 shows are featured in 9 venues at Loch Haven Park, plus an outdoor stage.  Monday is the Patron's Pick day, with the shows that sold the most tickets during the festival. 

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I began as host of WMFE's Arts Connection on May 24, 2002 - and so on this 5th anniversary, I take a look back at some of my favorite stories! 

>> From June, 2005 and a series on how arts are being used to heal, meet music therapist Alaine Reschke

>> Kristian and Doug Truelsen portrayed Irish brothers Frank and Malachy McCourt in Orlando Theatre Project's 2006 production of A Couple of Blaguards

>> U-Turn Dance, from April, 2005

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More of my favorite stories from the past 5 years:

>> The New School of Orlando

>> from the Sept. 13, 2002 program marking the 1st anniversary of 9/11...taize music from St. Margaret Mary Church, the City of Orlando's remembrance service at Lake Eola and music written to commemorate 9/11 by local composer Robert Kerr.