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

To find more cultural events, visit The Red Chair Project, Central Florida's official guide to arts and culture.

 

Monday, 4/21

The Voices of Valencia will perform tomorrow night at the East Campus
http://valencia.cc.fl.us/east/finearts/music/bignews.cfm

and at Seminole Community College, the choir NIGHT AT THE MOVIES tomorrow night
www.scc-fl.edu/arts/2007-08arts-calendar.htm

THIS IS THE LAST WEEK TO SEE THESE ART EXHIBITS

The Osceola County Student Art Show at the Osceola Center for the Arts in Kissimmee
www.ocfta.com

Encausting paintings by Jeff League at Millenia Fine Art
www.milleniaarts.com/cat/Orlando/The-Locations_441.aspx

SOUTHERN AUTOGRAPHICS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF TODD BERTOLAET at Crealde School of Art in Winter Park
www.crealde.org

and The GREAT MASTERS OF CUBAN ART exhibit closes Sunday at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach
www.moas.org

 

Tuesday, 4/22

Several local poets will celebrate Earth Day and National Poetry Day at Urban Think Bookstore tonight starting at 8, including Terry Godbey, Phil Deaver, Susan Lilley and Russ Kesler
www.urbanthinkorlando.com

The Brevard Theatrical Ensemble presents Celtic Tales and Elegant Tea this Friday and Saturday at the Porcher House in Cocoa Village
www.brevardensemble.com

and you have several opportunities this week to either learn about art or meet local artists. Tomorrow at Noon, The Orlando Museum of Art offers QUESTIONS FOR THE CURIOUS it’s a gallery talk with the museum’s curators
www.omart.org

At 12:30 every Thursday - the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona presents a Lunchtime Gallery Talk
http://www.smponline.org/

This is the 4th weekend of the month, so you can enjoy the 4th FRIDAY RECEPTION at Gallery One in downtown Kissimmee
http://www.galleryoneartists.com/

And the monthly Art Walk on Flagler Avenue in New Smyrna Beach is this Saturday from 10 until 5
www.flaglergallerygroup.com

 

Wednesday, 4/23

THESE PLAYS CLOSE THIS WEEK

MACBETH at the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre
www.orlandoshakes.org

MURDER WE WROTE: THE IMPROVISED WHODUNIT at Rollins College
www.rollins.edu/theatre

RABBIT HOLE the 2007 pulitzer prize winner for drama at Theatre Downtown
www.theatredowntown.net

and JOHNNY GUITAR at the Plaza Theatre in Orlando
http://www.theplazatheater.com/

Also closing Sunday is an art exhibit by VICTOR BOKAS at the Maitland Art Center
www.maitlandartcenter.org

There’s an ongoing exhibit called LEGENDARY FLORIDA at the Volusia County Courthouse, with paintings of historical events in Florida’s history by Jackson Walker
http://delandmuseum.com/legendaryflorida/index.html

And there a month left to see the Norman Rockwell exhibit, and the Orlando Museum of Art has extended its hours. The museum is open Monday - Saturday from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
www.omart.org

 

Thursday, 4/24

DUEL OF FOOLS is at Sak Comedy Lab tonight at 8 and at 8 and 10pm tomorrow and Saturday.
http://www.sak.com/

Composer David Lang just won the pulitzer prize earlier this month and he is in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Lang will give a presentation and Q&A at Stetson University tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 in Presser Hall
386.822.8983

RESPECT A MUSICAL JOURNEY OF WOMEN can be seen onboard The Rivership Romance every Friday night and Sunday afternoon
http://www.rivershipromance.com/events.htm

Mad Cow Theatre is holding a CABERNET Festival this Sunday as a fundraiser for this year’s CABARET Festival. It will be held at The Dessert Lady in Church Street Station
www.madcowtheatre.com

And BARRETTWERKS is a modern dance show by choreographer Ellie Potts Barrett and Voci Dance. It opens tomorrow night and runs through Sunday at Harwood-Watson Dance Studios.
http://hwdancestudios.com
www.vocidance.org

 

Friday, 4/25

The big band show, IN THE MOOD comes to the Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center in Sanford, Saturday at 2:00pm & 7:30pm
www.helenstairstheatre.com

also in Sanford, the public is invited to meetings this weekend on creating a community musical based on the city’s oral histories. The meetings are tonight and tomorrow afternoon.
www.jtfolkart.com

The SPACE COAST INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL is Saturday night at the King Center in Melbourne, with 15 ballet artists from around the world, including performers from American Ballet Theatre, Bolshoi Ballet and Momix
www.spacecoastballet.com

The new Nao Dance company will make its debut Saturday night at 7. The improvisation-based group is the latest "company-in-residence" at the Center for Contemporary Dance in Winter Park.
www.TheCenterForDance.org

And find out what summer camps are being offered by arts groups this Saturday when the Orange County Arts Education Center holds the Summer Camp Fair, Saturday from 10 until 3 at the Central Florida Fairgrounds
www.ocaec.org.

 

Saturday, 4/26

World Dance Day will be celebrated in Orlando tomorrow with performances from noon until 5 at Festival Bay Mall on I-Drive. The day will feature professional, community, ethnic, and school performers in all dance styles.
407-425-6893

Central Florida Folk presents folk legend Bill Staines in concert at Leu Gardens tomorrow afternoon at 2:30
www.cffolk.org

Young Musicians in Concert is an annual event at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke in downtown Orlando this year the Deanery boy choir and girls choir will be joined by the Geneva School choir and a professional orchestra for a Hymn Festival. It’s tomorrow at 6pm
http://www.stlukescathedral.org/CathedralSeries07_08.html

and get a preview of this year’s Orlando Fringe Festival Monday night at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center
http://orlandofringe.org/

 

 

 

 

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