Art Notes, Feb. 3
By Casey Gillis on Feb. 03, 2010
Chorus sings love songs
FACination Chorus’ latest concert, “Let’s Fall in Love,” is a program of love songs like “Put a Little Love in Your Heart,” “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)” and “Unforgettable.”
The chorus, under the direction of Albert Carter and accompanied by Troy Mearkle, is made up of more than 40 community members singing along with local musicians.
Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday in the Academy of Fine Arts’ Warehouse Theatre. Tickets are $17 for adults, $13 for seniors and $9 for students; they can be purchased online at http://www.AcademyFineArts.com or by calling (434) 846-TIXX.
Bower Center hosts events
Bedford’s Bower Center for the Arts is hosting a series of events this weekend.
First up is the Passacaglia Quintet, a group of Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra members who will be performing a concert of chamber music at 7 p.m. Saturday.
The group gets its name from a musical term that denotes a composition consisting of continuous variations based on a short theme.
The event will utilize the center’s new grand piano. Tickets, which include a wine and cheese reception, are $15 for adults and $10 for students. They can be purchased at Arthur’s Jewelry, the Bedford Welcome Center or the Bower Center, which is located at 305 North Bridge St. For more information, call (540) 586-4235.
Come Sunday, Pastor Deo Gashagaza, a leading reconciliation leader in Rwanda, will help kick off the center’s “Inspired By Africa” program, a month-long series of free speakers, films and art exhibits.
Nancy Strachan, founder of Rwandan HUGS, a Bedford-based ministry, invited Gashagaza, executive director of Prison Fellowship Rwanda, to the area. He’ll be the center’s special guest at 3 p.m. Sunday, when Strachan will talk about her efforts in Rwanda. A reception and screening of “As We Forgive,” a short film about forgiveness in Rwanda, will follow.
While here, he’ll also speak at Lynchburg’s St. John’s Episcopal Church at 9:30 a.m. Sunday and at Forest’s Bethany United Methodist Church at 10 a.m. Monday.
For more information, call (540) 586-4446 or e-mail .
Sweet Briar opens exhibit
Dean Dass, a studio art professor at UVa, will open an exhibition of his works on paper, “The Lost Colony,” with a reception and gallery talk from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday in Sweet Briar College’s Babcock Gallery.
Dass, who teaches printmaking and leads the distinguished majors’ seminar at the university’s McIntire Depart-ment of Art, will show about 40 works, including collage, pencil, gouache, ink and mixed media.
“The Lost Colony” began as a chapter in “The New World,” a collaboration by a team of artists and writers, in-cluding Dass, who produced a book, exhibition and archive of the three-year project. The title refers to the mysteri-ous disappearance of more than 100 English settlers, who were left in 1587 on Roanoke Island (present-day North Carolina).
The exhibit will be up until March 28. Babcock Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and when the building is open for lectures, performances or other college-sponsored events. For more information, call (434) 381-6248 or e-mail .
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