Concerts
Friday, February 27, 2009
Concerts
• The ESU Department of Music presents the Choral Invitational Festival Concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the First United Methodist Church.
• At 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, the Chamber Winds, Brass, Percussion Concert will be held in Albert Taylor Hall on the ESU campus.
• The Orchestra Concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. March 10 in Albert Taylor Hall. Information: 341-5431. General admission is $5; students and senior citizens, $4.
Theater
• The Emporia Arts Council and the Montana Repertory Theatre are presenting Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” adapted by Christopher Sergel, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Albert Taylor Hall. Tickets for adults are $28; youth, $12; ESU students, free. Tickets may be purchased by calling the EAC at 343-6473, or at 618 Mechanic St., the Sweet Granada or the Granada Coffee Company.
• “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams will be performed at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday and March 4-7 in the Ronald Q. Frederickson Theatre in Roosevelt Hall on the ESU campus. Tickets for adults are $10; senior citizens, $9; youth, $5. For more information, call 341-6378.
Club scene
• Legend Mobile Music will be featured at 8 p.m. today at The Noose, 323 Commercial St., playing “classic oldies” from the 60s and 70s.
• The Co-Dependents will play at 9 p.m. Feb. 28 at Cap’n Drinkwater’s in Strong City; 7 p.m. March 14 at Heidi Inn at Lebo; 9 to 11 p.m. March 21 at The Noose; and 9 p.m. April 18 at Cap’n Drinkwater’s in Strong City.
• The Benders will play music from the 1950s and ’60s at 9:30 p.m. March 6 at Desperado’s.
Artists honored
The Kansas Arts Commission announced the recipients of the 2009 Kansas Artist Fellowships and Awards. Artists from Emporia who received the Kansas Emerging Artists Awards were Ashley Czajkowski and Ashton Ludden, both in visual and fine art. Awardees will be honored at a reception from 5:15 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Hayden Office Building in Topeka. For more information, call (785) 296-3335.
Quilting
The Washburn University art department and the Mulvane Art Museum in Topeka are offering three programs to celebrate the exhibition, “Quilting African American Women’s History.” “Fact and Fabrication: A Story Quilt workshop” will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in Room 20 at the Garvey Fine Arts Center. The tradition of story quilts will be discussed and participants will “incorporate discharge and dyeing techniques in the creation of their own small scale story quilts,” stated the news release. The cost is $50 for Mulvane Museum members and $60 for non-members.
The other two programs, both on March 7 at the museum, are free of charge. “Our Story: Family and Community” will be offered from 10 a.m. to noon. Participants will create a painted quilt block that will be sewn into a quilt celebrating personal stories and the community. the finished work will be exhibited in the museum education department. This is a family, adult and adult-with-child experience.
“Sharing our Stories” will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Quilt enthusiasts are invited to bring a handmade creation and share stories.
Registration is required for all programs. Online registration is at www.washburn.edu/mulvane or call (785) 670-2420. Classes fill quickly. There is free parking west of the museum. The exhibition will end April 5. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday; and 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission is free.
Guitarist
Guest artist solo guitarist Adam Holzman will perform at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Howard E. Wooden Lecture Hall at the Wichita Art Museum. Tickets are $20. For more information, see www.wichitaguitar.com or call the museum at (316) 268-4921.
Submit art
Artwork is being accepted for the Hutchinson Art Association 47th annual Outdoor Art Fair to be held held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 2. The deadline to reserve a space and send art is March 18. For more information, call HAC at (620) 663-1081.