January 21, 2011 – 3:05 pm
Friday, Jan. 21 The Bard’s Town 1801 Speed Ave. www.inkyreadingseries.com Free; 7 p.m. The InKY Reading Series will open its 2011 season with a night of two genres featuring fiction writer Alex Taylor and poet Sean Patrick Hill. Alex Taylor is originally from Rosine, Kentucky and now teaches in the MFA program at McNeese State University in [...]
January 21, 2011 – 2:43 pm
Friday, Jan. 21 Fat Daddy’s Pizza 10619 W. Manslick Road • 363-7551 Free; 7 p.m. Damaged Goods improv troupe and I have something in common. I wish I could say I was as hilariously creative as they are, but the only thing I can truthfully claim that we share is a January birthday. To celebrate [...]
January 21, 2011 – 2:36 pm
Jan. 21-Feb. 26 Cressman Center for Visual Arts Gallery 100 E. Main St. • 852-0288 www.art.louisville.edu Folk artist LaVon Williams’ exhibition “Rhythm in Relief” has more than 60 woodcarvings designed to make you feel the rhythm. The exhibit, organized by the Kentucky Folk Art Center at Morehead State University, overflows with the African-American heritage of [...]
January 21, 2011 – 2:00 pm
The ArtsWORK-New Albany Networking and Workshop presents Al Gorman on Saturday, Jan. 22 from 10-11 a.m. at the Carnegie Center for Art and History, 201 E. Spring St. in New Albany, 812-944-7336. Gorman is the Director of Studio Arts for Zoom Group, will be discussing StudioWorks, a unique studio/gallery for adult artists with developmental disabilities, [...]
January 21, 2011 – 12:00 pm
This Sunday, exotic dancer Ami Burton will sizzle your drawing practice with her fun and provocative poses. For the past three years, Ami has worked as an exotic dancer. Her work as a dancer has helped her to become very limber, allowing her to cultivate moves that are animated, twisted, and yoga-inspired. Cabaret Life Drawing [...]
January 21, 2011 – 8:00 am
“What I Keep: Photographs by Susan Mullally” at The 930, 930 Mary St., 635-2554. The exhibition will be on view from Jan. 21-March 6. The opening reception is Friday, Jan. 21 from 7-10 p.m. with a free concert by Cheyenne Marie Mize and husband&wife. “This work explores ideas of class, race, ownership, value, cultural identification [...]
January 20, 2011 – 12:00 pm
“Strange Attractors: Exchanges between Reason and Potential” is at the Ronald L. Barr Gallery at IUS, 4201 Grant Line Rd., New Albany. The opening reception is on Jan. 20 from 5-7 p.m. Artists included are Daniel Bare & Valerie Zimany, Brian Boldon, Russel Hulsey & Thomas deLisle, Kris Grey, Gibbs Rounsavall, Travis Shaffer, Dmitry “Dima” Strakovsky, [...]
January 20, 2011 – 10:39 am
Jan. 20 & 22 www.louisvilleorchestra.org $20; 584-7777 On Thursday, Jan. 20, at 6:30pm Principal Pops Conductor, Bob Bernhardt brings his light-hearted manner to the Brown Theatre for the second NightLites concert of the season. The program will feature favorites from stage and screen including works by Gershwin, Joplin and Bernstein. Single tickets range from $20-$26 [...]
January 20, 2011 – 10:33 am
Thursday, Jan. 20 Art Sanctuary at Alley Theater 1205 E. Washington St. www.youtube.com/lylejanes $10; 8 p.m. Like Wayne and Garth before him, Lyle Janes has to be the modern king of public access cable. During the past 12 years of “The Lyle Janes Show,” he has garnered a huge local following interviewing actors, musicians, politicians [...]
January 20, 2011 – 10:30 am
Jan. 20-23 The Improv Fourth Street Live www.improvlouisville.com $15; various times Louisville original Tom Mabe has been proclaimed a “comic superhero” by sources as varied as The New York Times and Paul Harvey — and now he’s bringing his superpowers home to Louisville once again. Most noted for his outlandish public pranks, he’s released three [...]
January 20, 2011 – 10:29 am
Jan. 20-29 Walden Theatre 1123 Payne St. • 589-0084 www.waldentheatre.org $8-$15; 7:30 p.m. (plus 2 p.m. Sat.) You’ve likely read it at least once and have probably seen the movie, but no one’s going to make you take a test or write about it — unless maybe you’re one of the thousand or so students [...]
January 20, 2011 – 8:00 am
The Arts Council of Southern Indiana’s Pat Harrison Arts Center Gallery, 820 E. Market St. in New Albany, 812-949-4238, is showing Larry Beisler’s “Organics” from Jan. 20- March 18. The opening reception is Feb. 4 from 6-8 p.m. His inspiration for his abstract forms comes from nature. He has no preconceived idea as to what [...]
January 19, 2011 – 12:00 pm
Brook Forrest White, Jr., owner of Flame Run, 828 E. Market St., has been selected to create a new glass sculpture for the rotunda at The Falls of the Ohio Interpretive Center, 201 W. Riverside Dr. in Clarksville, 812-280-9970.
January 19, 2011 – 10:08 am
Through Feb. 13 Hite Art Institute Galleries Schneider Hall, U of L • 852-4483 www.art.louisville.edu Four local groups have gotten together to bring international textile artist Jane Dunnewold to town, and they definitely plan to keep her busy. U of L already has her exhibition “Etudes: A Daily Practice” up. Dunnewold will give a lecture [...]
January 18, 2011 – 4:16 pm
Jan. 18 & 20 Fern Creek Traditional High School 9115 Fern Creek Road 485-8251 $5; 7 p.m. “The Gift of the Magi” is based on the classic O. Henry story about the young married couple who discover the true meaning of giving when deciding on surprise Christmas gifts for each other.
