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

Monday, 3/3

This is your last week to see Life is a Dream, at the Mad Cow Theater, Stage Right, a comedy from 1635 by the so-called "Shakespeare of Spain", Pedro Calderon de la Barca. Performances are Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00, and Sundays at 3:00, with a special pay-what-you-wish performance on Wednesday at 8:00.
http://www.madcowtheater.com/


The Osceola Center for the Arts presents their 2nd Annual Images of Osceola Photography Show and Community Photo Contest. There is an opening reception and awards ceremony tomorrow from 6 to 8.
www.ocfta.com/


The Maitland Art Center will host a day bus trip on Wednesday to Boca Raton Museum of Art to visit the current exhibition DEGAS IN BRONZE: THE COMPLETE SCULPTURES. 

http://www.maitlandartcenter.org/

Seminole Community College's Fine Arts Gallery continues its 2008 season with an exhibition by Jan-Ru Wan, who creates fiber art using the processes of weaving, stitching, printing, and the use of unusual materials. The exhibit opens tomorrow, running through March 27, and there will be an opening reception tomorrow from 5-7 in  the Sanford/ Lake Mary Campus Fine Arts Gallery.
www.scc-fl.edu/arts

 

And this week at the Enzian, see THE AIR I BREATHE, a film co-screenwritten by Bob DeRosa, a former Orlando writer, comedian, and filmmaker, who also used to be the Programming Coordinator for the Florida Film Festival. The film runs through Thursday, with showings Monday, Tuesday and Thursday night at 6:30, and Wednesday at 9:30. 
http://www.enzian.org/

Tuesday, 3/4

This is your last week to view A SILENT SEASON - DRAWINGS OF RICARDO MANUEL DÍAZ, at Valencia Community College's East Campus Gallery, and MASTERS OF SURF PHOTOGRAPHY 2, by Art Brewer, at the Brevard Museum of art. 

www.valenciacc.edu/gallery

http://www.brevardartmuseum.org/

The Comma Gallery presents ALCHEMY: 2 ARTISTS TRANSFORM AND CHANGE, featuring the art of Bill Platt and Karen Carasik. Both artists worked together and separately with various tools and mediums to create the mixed media art that will be featured in the exhibit. It opens this Thursday, and will run until April 7th.
http://www.commagallery.com


This Thursday is the Orlando Museum of Art's First Thursday Event. The theme is beatniks and Bongos: Abstract Art. The event will feature artwork that embodies the beatnik era, and the Akangana Latin Band will provide musical entertainment. Frank Messina, a poet from New York, will present a special live prose performance, accompanied by Joe Pasquale and "The Kerouac Project" performers Brad Kuhn and Darlyn Finch. In addition, representatives from the Enzian Theater and the Florida Film Festival will be showing a selection of film shorts.

 

Visitors to this First Thursday event will also have access to AMERICAN CHRONICLES: THE ART OF NORMAL ROCKWELL, on display now at the Orlando Museum of Art. 

http://www.omart.org/

http://www.spokeface.com/bio.html


Also on Thursday, Arts on Douglas will host an informal panel discussion with guest curator and art historian, James Murphy. He will be joined by several artists participating in the group exhibition, MIXED TO THE MAX, currently on display at the gallery. The panel will address the concepts and experimental processes involved in creating mixed media artwork. The panel discussion, beginning at 5, is free and the public is encouraged to participate.
http://www.artsondouglas.net/

Wednesday, 3/5

The Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens will present Volusia Students Creates, an exhibition featuring select work of elementary, middle, and high school students throughout Volusia County. The exhibit opens this Friday and will run through March 21. 
www.ormondartmuseum.org/


This is your last weekend to see Gilbert and Sullivan's comedic operetta, THE MIKADO, at the Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center at the Helen's Stairs Theater. Performances are Friday and Saturday at 7:30, and Sunday at 2.
http://www.helenstairstheatre.com/

 

The Orlando Repertory Theatre will present Nickelodeon's Blues Clues Live! The Most Spectacular Place.  In an arrangement with Theatrical Rights Worldwide and Nickelodeon, the Orlando Rep will be the first regional theater to bring the production to the stage. The production opens this Friday night and runs until March 30. Showtimes are Fridays at 7, Saturdays at 2 and 7, and Sunday at 2.

http://www.orlandorep.com/


 

And as part of Worldwide V-Day, Kellie Greene and SOAR will present THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, tomorrow night at the Footlight Theater at the Parliament House. The cast includes several local celebrities, and all proceeds will go to benefit SOAR and other victims of domestic violence. Showtime is 7:30.
http://www.soar99.org/
www.wanzie.com/boxoffice

Thursday, 3/6

The Atlantic Center for the Arts presents INsideOut, a presentation of works in progress by artists participating in Atlantic Center's Artists-in-Residence program. The event is tomorrow at 7, and will include sculptor Rachel Harrison, composer Augusta Read Thomas, and poet Chase Twichell. 

www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org

  

The Lake Eustis Museum of Art will continue their Target Art Program, this Saturday from 10 till 1. The theme for this month's event is Influences and Inspiration, and guests will be able to create their own works of art around this theme. 

http://www.lakeeustismuseumofart.org/


The Datyona Beach College's Brass Quintet will present a special free concert in honor of Spring Break. The concert will be held at the Daytona Beach Campus, tomorrow at 1.
www.dbcc.edu/apps/headlines/news.asp

 

Megacon hosts their Indie Film Expo, this Friday from 6:30 to 8 at the Orange County Convention Center. Nine cutting-edge award-winning independent films, spanning genres of action, anime, comedy, science fiction, and horror, have been selected to be showcased. 

And in conjunction with their Indie Film Expo program, Megacon will host a panel discussion on filmmaking on Saturday. Hosted by "Students of the Unusual" publisher Terry Cronin, the panel will feature guest filmmakers and actors, and will address the ins and outs of independent filmmaking. 

 http://www.megaconvention.com

Friday, 3/7

Cindy Murray is Infusion Tea Cafe's featured Artist of the Month. Her photography  will turn the camera on our community and present a stylized view of familiar College Park in an exhibition called Neighborhood Reflections, on display until March 29. There will be an Artist's Reception on Saturday at 7 at the Edgewater location of Infusion Tea Cafe. 

http://www.infusionorlando.com/ 

http://www.cindymurrayphotography.com/.


 The Brevard Community Chorus will join the Brevard Symphony Orchestra at the King Center tomorrow for a special performance of Gabriel Faure's Requiem. Performances are at 2 and 8. 
http://www.kingcenter.com/

Vocalist and Pianist Johnny Rodgers will perform at the Deltona Arts Center, tomorrow night at 7:30 as part of Florida Jazz Initiative's "Jazz in Deltona" series.
www.deltonaarts.com/

 

 And tomorrow visit the Historic Bok Sanctuary in Lake Wales for their Bok Wine & Jazz Festival. There will be an opening performance by the Harrison School fo the Arts trio at 6:30, followed by an outdoor concert featuring Grammy-nominee Dan McMillion and his jazz orchestra at 7.

 

Saturday, 3/8

The Lutheran Cantata Choir and Chamber Orchestra presents a concert of Sacred Music, with a program ranging from the works of J.S. Bach to contemporary choral arrangements, this Sunday at 3 at St. Luke's in Oviedo. 

stlukes-oviedo.org


 The Orlando Chorale, Central Florida's 70-voice choir of professional and experienced singers under the direction of Gregory Ruffer, and the Orlando Chamber Singers will celebrate the human voice with a program of all a cappella works on Sunday at 3:00.  The concert will be held at the First United Methodist Church of Orlando.

 www.theorlandochorale.org


The Orlando International Piano Competition continues its spring recital series tomorrow at 5 with a performance by Julliard School student Sijing Ye at the Steinway Piano Galleries in Altamonte Springs. The recital will be followed by a wine reception.
www.OrlandoPianoCompetition.org


Music LIVE, Inc. announces its fully staged opera production of Gilbert & Sullivan's comic operetta, "Pirates of Penzance," performed tomorrow at the Lake Wales Arts Center.

www.lakewalesartscenter.org  

 

Like Minded Artists, a group of fine and performing artists, will be hosting a Pot Luck Dinner at the ArtHouse in Casselberry tomorrow at 6. Guests are encouraged to bring their own art in addition to a food dish, and there will be spontaneous performance pieces all evening.
http://www.likemindedartists.com/  



Tomorrow at 6 Orlando's three cathedral choirs St. Luke's Episcopal, St. James Catholic Cathedral and the Anglican Cathedral of the Incarnation will sing "The Seven Last Words of Christ", an Oratorio by Theodore Dubois. The Stetson University Orchestra will be featured, as well as guest soloists from the voice faculty of the University of Central Florida. The concert will be held at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke.

www.stlukescathedral.org/index.html

 

 

 

 

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