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Ticket calendar: May 9, 2008
· The Herald
Updated 05/09/08 - 9:34 AM |

Friday, May 9

Rock Hill High School choral department spring concert, 8 p.m. May 9, school auditorium. Tickets, $5 from students or at the door. Featured will be the concert choir, which receivly received a superior rating at the state choral festival and won first place in the Smoke Mountain Choral Festival in Gatlinburg, Tenn. They will perform festival music, classical pieces and a finale of popular music. Also featured will be Bella Voce, an auditioned female group, with music by Brahms, Holst and Kodaly. The program will begin with the Concert Choir singing “O Magnum Mysterium” by Carillo in the round and will end with Bobby Darin’s “Mack the Knife.”

Dr. Ralph Stanley and His Clinch Mountain Boys, 8 p.m. May 9, McGlohon Theater, Charlotte. Details, blumenthalcenter.org or (704) 372-1000.

Interior Design Senior Exhibition, through May 9, Lewandowski Student Gallery, Winthrop University.

20th annual Undergraduate Juried Show, through June 19, Rutledge Gallery, and MFA Thesis Exhibition, April 11 to June 19, Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Gallery, Winthrop University. Spring reception, 6:30 to 8 p.m. April 11, Rutledge Gallery.

Theatre Charlotte presents “Little Shop of Horrors,” the story of an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood, May 9 to 11 and 15 to 18, 2008, 501 Queens Road, Charlotte. Tickets, $24 adults, $22 seniors and $10 students. Tickets, (704) 335-1010 or www.theatrecharlotte.org.

ARPA 10 Exhibition, through May 17, Center for the Arts, 121 E. Main St., downtown Rock Hill, featuring 10 artists who were residents at the McColl Center for the Visual Arts in Charlotte in the summer of 2005. They are J. Michael Simpson, Paula Smith, Linda Brown, Alyssa Wood, Jennifer Gilomen, Felicia Van Bork, Laura McCarthy, Amy Sanders, Charles McMurray and David Edgar. Opening reception, 6 p.m. April 10, free and open to the public. Details, Arts Council of York County, 328-2787.

“I Am My Own Wife,” throgh May 18, Booth Playhouse, N.C. Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte. Play tells the true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German transvestite who navigated the two most repressive regimes of the 20th century, the Nazis and the Communists. Hours, 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sundays. Tickets, $26.55 to $34.50, available at (704) 379-1380 or www.blumethalcenter.org.

Charlotte Wine and Food Weekend: Vintage 2008, through May 10, featuring Vintner Dinner Series, Big Bottle & Blues wine sampling, Connoisseur Tastings and wine seminars, various locations, Charlotte. Details, www.charlottewineandfood.com.

“River Docs” a Catawba River Narrative,” an exhibit featuring visual images of the Catawba River, through Jan. 4, 2009, Museum of York County, Rock Hill. Exhibit features the panoramic imagery of Byron Baldwin, aerial photographs of Nancy Pierce and historic platinum-palladium technique of Raymond Grubb, documentiong various locations along the Catawba River during the four seasons. Installation artists Marek Ranis and Maja Godlewska transformed curvilinear iron rods and flowing curtains into a dramatic visual representation of the river. The exhibit is the result of a collaboration between the Culture and Heritage Museums and The LIght Factory in Charlotte, where it was previously exhibited. Details, 329-2121.

Finding Priscilla’s Children, exhibit that tells the story of one slave child’s life, through May 11, South Carolina State Museum, Columbia. Priscilla, a 10-year-old girl from Sierra Leone, was sold during an auction in 1756 to Elias Ball, a wealthy rice planter in South Carolina. Her story is told through a document that goes back 256 years, beginning with her trip on the Rhode Island slave ship Hare and tracing her life on the Ball plantation. She died in slavery at age 65 and was survived by 10 children. A descendant, Edward Ball, discovered her history while researching his own family tree. Genealogy workshop, Feb. 16 with genealogist Alexia Helsley. Admision, $5 adults, $4 seniors 62 and older and military, $3 ages 3 to 12 and free for children youner than 3. Hours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. sundays. Details, (803) 898-4999.


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