The Arts Connection Minute lists arts events across Central Florida - it's heard weekdays at 3:04pm Monday, 3/24 Today is the last day to view the 2nd Annual Images of Osceola Photography Show and Community Photo Contest at the Osceola Center for the Arts. Volusia County Select, an annual juried student exhibition showcasing the work of Volusia County's high school artists, closes on Wednesday at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. www.atlanticcenterforthearts Seminole Community College's Fine Arts Gallery will close its exhibition of fiber art by Jan-Ru Wan this Thursday. This is your last week to view Poteet Victory's exhibit at Millenia Fine Art. http://www.milleniaarts.com As well as the exhibit NO CHILD'S PLAY at Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center. And Neighborhood Reflections by Infusion Tea Café's featured Artist of the Month, Cindy Murray, closes this week at the Edgewater Infusion location. http://www.cindymurrayphotography.com/. http://www.infusionorlando.com/ And the Harrison Piano Department presents the Spring Piano Concert, under the direction of faculty member, Rebekah Haubry, tomorrow nigh at 7:30 on the main stage of the Lois Cowles Harrison Center for the Visual and Performing Arts. Tuesday, 3/25 Seminole Community College will host its March session of Tuesday Voices, an open mic poetry reading series, tonight at 7:30 at the Lake Mary Campus. This session will feature the two winners of the Dr. Stephen Caldwell Wright Poetry Awards. The King Center presents the comedy MY SISTER'S AN ONLY CHILD, in the Studio Theatre, opening tonight and running through Sunday. http://www.stevesolomoncomedy.com/ UCF will continue its Guitar Series tonight at 8 in the UCF Music Rehearsal Hall with guitar duo Caputo and Pompilio. http://music.ucf.edu/news The Orange County Convention Center will host the 2008 World Ballet Competition in the Linda Chapin Auditorium, beginning tomorrow and running through Saturday. And the Poetry Ensemble of Orlando will perform tomorrow night at 7 at Infusion Tea, featuring Alice Friedman, Leslie Helpern, Estelle Lipp, Russ Golata, and Bob Osborne. 407-403-5814 or e-mail blacksox@att.net. Wednesday, 3/26 Daytona Beach College will present "La Isla de Guillermo," a comedy written and adapted by DBC Professor, Suzanne Stewart, tonight at 7 in the Daytona Beach Theater Center. This event will also feautre a barbershop quartet performance by Apackalips Now.
The 2nd Stage Series at Rollins College presents the drama Two Rooms by Lee Blessing, at the Fred Stone Theatre. Performance dates are Thursday through Saturday at 8, and Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2. Thursday, 3/27 The Harrison Chamber Winds, Chamber Strings, Chamber Orchestra, and Jazz Band, under the direction of faculty members Matthew Davis and Rob Lambert, will perform a concert tonight at 7:30 on the main stage of the Lois Cowles Harrison Center for the Visual and Performing Arts. The Lake Eustis Museum of Art will present Harold Garde: Sophisticated Spontaneity, opening tonight and running through May 18. This exhibit will be on view in the Museum and in Eustis City Hall Gallery. There will be a free opening reception tonight from 6 to 8 at both locations. The Daytona Beach International Festival will feature a performance by The Irish Rovers, known as international ambassadors of Irish music, tonight at 7:30 at the News-Journal Center. The Orlando Repatory Theater will open I Never Saw Another Butterfly, by Celeste Raspanti, tomorrow night at 7:30. It tells the story of Irena Synkova, a woman who educated and inspired children in Terezin, a Holocaust camp. The performances will run through April 13. The Winter Park Playhouse opens the Florida premiere of the comedy MID-LIFE! THE CRISIS MUSICAL tomorrow night at 7:30. Performances run until April 19. http://www.winterparkplayhouse.org/ And the 17th Annual Florida Film festival begins today and continues for 10 days around Central Florida. Presented by FullSail and the Enzian, the festival will include film premiers, food and wine receptions, industry parties and special events in several locations. Friday, 3/28 The Bach Festival Society presents Chamber Orchestra Kremlin tonight at 8 in the Tiedtke Concert Hall at Rollins College. They will also perform as part of the Fred Rogers Family Series on Saturday morning at 11. http://www.bachfestivalflorida.org/ Valencia Community College presents its Spring Dance Concert, tonight and tomorrow night at 8 in the Performing Arts Center on Valencia's East Campus. 407-582-2900 Southern Winds Theatre presents the one-man performance, "An Evening with Jack Kerouac: End of the Road." The performance will be on Saturday at the Holiday Inn in Altamonte Springs, with a luncheon at 11 followed by the performance at noon. After the play will be a performance commemorating the 1st ever Jazz Poetry Concert of 1957 by David Amram and Jack Kerouac, recreated by the David Amram Jazz Quartet. http://www.southernwindstheatre Carl Rosa Opera Company present HMS PINAFORE at the King Center in Melbourne tomorrow night at 8. http://www.carlrosaopera.co.uk/ And the Orlando Philharmonic will perform "Copland Chronicles" at UCF tomorrow night at 8 in the Visual Arts Auditorium. Saturday, 3/29 The Maitland Art Center has scheduled a Gallery Talk with Painter, Victor Bokas tomorrow at 1:30. His exhibition, Roots and Branches: A New Vision of Old Memories Current Works by Victor Bokas, is now on view at the Maitland Art Center. The Daytona Beach College Concert Choir and Musical Theater Ensemble, under the direction of Norton Christeson, will present an afternoon of American vocal music tomorrow at 3 in the Theater Center on the DBC Daytona Beach Campus. The Orlando Museum of Art will host a special Norman Rockwell Symposium at the museum tomorrow from 1 to 4, offering the chance to delve deeper into the exhibition American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell. The Symposium will include guest speakers Professor William Foster and Dr. Kurt Young, as well as a tour of the exhibition with Jan Clanton, associate curator of adult programs.
The Deland Little Symphony will present its spring concert tomorrow at 2:30 at the Deland Performing Arts Center. The program will include classical selections as well as Broadway tunes and music from Richard Rogers "Victory at Sea", and will feature pianist Ana Lourdes Rodriguez. 386-738-1077. And the Central Florida Ballet's annual Children's Ballet Series ends tomorrow with the a final production of PETER AND THE WOLF, in their studio theater at 2. To find more cultural events, visit The Red Chair Project, Central Florida's official guide to arts and culture.
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