The Arts Connection Minute lists arts events across Central Florida - it's heard weekdays at 3:04pm

This is the last week to see Home-Grown: A Selection of Southern Self-Taught Artists. It closes Sunday at the Mennello Museum of American Art
http://www.mennellomuseum.org/

BIRDS WITH AN ATTITUDE just opened at the Ormond Memorial Art Museum; it’s a collection of modern art by 6 regional artists. The museum also has a new gallery and classroom space -- the Emmons Cottage Garden Gallery opened over the weekend it’s an 1885 cracker house located in the museum gardens.
www.ormondartmuseum.org

Visitors to the Orlando Museum of Art will have the chance to meet and talk with Yolanda Munoz. She’s one of the artists in the exhibit of Puerto Rican art and will be at the museum tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday from 1:30 to 3:30
http://omart.org/

Broadway Across American - Orlando opens it season tonight with ANNIE. It runs thru Sunday at the Bob Carr
http://www.broadwayacrossamerica.com/BAA.Public.Web/Pages/SeasonTicketHolder/BAACity+cityID+61.html

This is the final week to see an exhibit of photography by Jeremias Paul and oil paintings by Brandon Smith Seminole Community College
http://www.scc-fl.edu/arts/art/exhibition.htm

There’s an exhibit of Polk County Folk Art at the Polk County Historical Museum in Bartow
http://www.polk-county.net/county_offices/leisure_svcs/hist_museum/index.aspx

The MELBOURNE COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA beings its season with a free tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30 at The Melbourne Auditorium
http://mcofl.tripod.com

Tomorrow night is the 3^rd Thursday art event in Downtown Orlando
http://www.dadorlando.com/

Third Thursday is also the kick-off for the first Orlando Art and Music Experience the 3-day festival features live music and gallery exhibits at City Arts Factory, the Gallery at Avalon Island and other downtown art galleries. It begins at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday & Friday and 8pm on Saturday
www.orlandoartmusic.com

Tennessee Williams’ CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF opens tonight at Daytona Beach Community College the production is presented in honor of DBCC’s 50th Anniversary
http://dbcc.edu/

THE HEIDI CHRONICLES also opens tonight at Mad Cow Theatre. The Pulizter and Tony-award winning play is by Wendy Wasserstein.
www.madcowtheatre.com

There’s a Closing reception tonight from 5:30-8:30 for the exhibit by The Parramore League of Artistic Youth. The reception is at Johnson’s Diner in Parramore
http://www.play.bappy.com/custom.html

You can learn the ABC’s of Publishing & Online Promotion at a workshop tomorrow, sponsored by The Orlando Area Writers Group . It’s at the Palm Coast Community Center.
http://fwaorlando.wordpress.com

Sol Latino will perform at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in College Park on Sunday at 7:30 the group specializes in music from South America
http://home.cfl.rr.com/ajwsmmd/musdepframeset.htm

JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at the Osceola Center for the Arts
www.ocfta.com

BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA at Lakeland Community Theatre
http://www.lakelandcommunitytheatre.com

The WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ at Lake Wales Little Theatre
http://www.lwlt.org/