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Upcoming Events in the Greater Orlando Area - April 9th - 13th

By
Services for Real Estate Pros with Holzmann & Associates

Here are some of the upcoming events for the Greater Orlando Area - as reported by WMFE.

Wednesday, 4/9

Bay Two opens tonight at Mills Park that's a new gallery at Mills Avenue and Virginia in Orlando. The event starts at 7 and features art, music, and film.
http://www.eventsatmillspark.com/

These plays OPEN this week
THE MIRACLE WORKER at the Bay Street Theatre in Eustis
JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at the Helen Stairs Theatre
THE DINING ROOM at the Little Theatre of New Smyrna Beach
CLUE, THE MUSICAL at Melbourne Civic Theatre
TARTUFFE by Seminole Community College

Thursday, 4/10

The Orlando Ballet School will present "Stars of Tomorrow", a program showcasing the school's emerging talent. Performances are Thursday at 7, Friday at 8 and Saturday at 2 and 8 at the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center on North Orange Avenue
(407) 426-1739. 

The UCF Guitar Series continues tonight at 8
http://music.ucf.edu/news_events.php

Friday, 4/11

Opening Reception Friday evening at Millenia Fine Art for painter Cicero Greathouse; his exhibit of work inspired by mandala art and Florida landscapes runs through the end of May
http://www.milleniafineart.com/cat/Orlando/The-Locations_441.aspx

And Empty Spaces Theatre presents a Becket Festival featuring 11 of Samual Beckett's short plays and Waiting for Godot. It runs April 11th thru the 20th plus there are free readings at locations around central florida,.
http://emptyspacestheatre.org/

Friday Nights at the Morse continues thru the end of this month tonight you can enjoy a gallery demonstration at the Morse Museum in Winter Park
http://www.morsemuseum.org/

Saturday, 4/12

The WMFE Open House Saturday from 10 until 3 there will be lots of activities for the whole family, including music performances by Stetson University's Barron String Quartet, the Apollo String Quartet from UCF, violinist Robert Kerr, The Four Aces Barbershop Quartet and a new recorder group called Consort Primavera. It's all right here at the WMFE studios on east colonial drive
http://www.wmfe.org/site/PageServer?pagename=support_openhouse

EQUIFEST is Saturday, April 12 from 10 to 5 at the Lake Helen Equestrian Center. The annual festival features champion horse demonstrations and an equine art show. It's held in conjunction with the annual Equus art exhibit at the Museum of Florida Art in DeLand
http://www.museumoffloridaart.com/.

Also on Saturday is the Taste of Oviedo from 10 until 6 - featuring local restaurants, arts & crafts and live entertainment.
http://www.tasteofoviedo.org/

Also - don't forget that The Great Public Art Challenge is coming up this afternoon from 2 to 4pm.  The treasure hunt among downtown Orlando's public art offers prizes and it begins at the Orange County Administration Center on Rosaline Avenue
http://www.orangecountyfl.net/cmsdocs/dept/countyadmin/arts/greatpublicartchallengeflyer.pdf

The Space Coast Pops are performing Saturday at 2:30 at the Merritt Island First Baptist Church
321-632-7445

There's a lot of great music to enjoy this weekend.  The Orlando Philharmonic performs tonight at 7 at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Oviedo and again on Monday at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center. 
http://www.stlukes-oviedo.org/
http://www.orlandophil.org/

The Brevard Symphony Orchestra closes its season with a concert of Russian music tonight at the King Center in Melbourne. Plus you can meet music director Chris Confessore and musicians Sunday afternoon from 1:30 to 3:30 at the Barnes & Noble in Melbourne
http://www.brevardsymphony.com/

The Bach Festival presents Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 tonight at 8 pm and again tomorrow at 3 in Knowles Chapel at Rollins College
http://www.bachfestivalflorida.org/

Sunday, 4/13 

The Orlando Philharmonic's next Darden Family concert is tomorrow afternoon with the delightful BEETHOVEN LIVES UPSTAIRS, a story about a boy whose family has rented a room to the famous composer. Pre-concert Activities start at 2 and the concert is at 3 on Sunday.
http://www.orlandophil.org/

Central Florida Folk presents the eclectic music of Mountain Brew it's a free concert Sunday at 2:30 at Langford Park in Orlando
http://www.cffolk.org/

And The Imperial Symphony's annual cookie concert is Sunday at 3 at the Lakeland Center
http://www.imperialsymphony.org/schedule/details.asp?EventID=110