Arts Notes
Friday, December 4, 2009
Arts sale
The annual Holiday Art Sale sponsored by the ESU Art Guild and Alpha Rho Theta continues until 5 p.m. today at the ESU Memorial Union. Artwork includes glass, ceramics, printmaking, drawings, photography and more. This fundraiser supports the student art clubs.
ESU radio play
Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” — the radio play by Philip Grecian — will be performed at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday at the Karl C.
Bruder Theatre on the ESU campus. For tickets, call 341-6378.
Concert
The ESU Department of Music presents the Community Chorus, A Cappella Choir and Orchestra in concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at Albert Taylor on the ESU campus, directed by Terry Barham and Jeremy Starr. The Don Carr Organ Recital will be performed at 3 p.m. Dec. 13 at Albert Taylor Hall. General admission is $5; students and senior citizens, $4. For more information, call 341-5431 or see www.emporia.edu/music/.
Art gifts
The Emporia Arts Council is featuring its 12th annual Art Gifts shop, which will be open through Dec. 31. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays. Fifty local and regional artists are offering art items, including glass, ceramics, paintings, textiles, jewelry and wood. Art Gifts will be closed Dec. 25 and 26. For more information, call 343-6473.
Hunt concert
Kelley Hunt, singer, songwriter and recording artist, will perform in concert at 9 p.m. New Year’s Eve at Liberty Hall in Lawrence to benefit the Douglas County food bank, ECKAN/Just Food. Tickets, on sale now, are $35, $30, $25 and $20, and can be purchased at ticketmaster.com., all Ticketmaster locations, the Liberty Hall box office at (785) 749-1972, 644 Massachusetts, or charge-by-phone at (816) 931-3330.