Events of Note

March 22 is Live Art Family Night with the Peking Acrobats

The Peking Acrobats have redefined audience perceptions of their ancient folk art, which dates back more than 2,000 years. With amazing displays of contortion, flexibility and control, these masters of agility and grace defy gravity. They perform daring maneuvers atop a precarious pagoda of chairs and they are experts at treacherous wire walking, trick cycling, precision tumbling and gymnastics. Accompanied by live musicians playing traditional Chinese instruments and high-tech special effects, the Peking Acrobats present all the pageantry and spectacle of a modern Chinese Theatrical Circus!

Your sponsorship nourishes the arts at the Townsend Center. Live Art contributions sustain programming and outreach in the Townsend Center Professional Series, as well as support the P.J. Hovey Live Art Scholarship Fund for art, music and theatre students.

For more info go to http://www.townsendcenter.org/live_art.html. For complete package details, contact the staff at the Townsend Center at 678-839-4722.

To buy tickets go to
https://www.choicesecure03.net/mainapp/eventschedule.aspx?Clientid=TownsendCenter.

Free Stuff

- Through March 22 at the Bobick Gallery, Annual Juried Student Exhibition. Raymond Veon is the juror. He is the interim director of fine and performing arts in the Department of Learning Excellence in Atlanta Public Schools.

- March 15, 7 p.m. Room 312 HUM, Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series
Pam Longobardi will speak about her art and environmental intervention. Her Drifters Project combines photography, sculpture and installation using marine debris. Recently named a “Coastal Hero” by Coastal Living magazine, the prolific artist has shown her work in Venice, Barcelona, Finland and China, and she has a new book out now called “Drifters: Plastics, Pollution and Personhood.”

For more info go to: http://www.pamlongobardi.com.

- March 12, 8:15 p.m.: Music for Strings Keyboard, and Voice For and By Women. Kathy Cashen Recital Hall
- March 13, 8:15 p.m.: Wind Ensemble, Josh Byrd, conductor. Townsend Center.
- March 15, 8:15 p.m.: Jazz Ensemble, Daniel Bakos, director. Townsend Center.
- March 27, 3:30 p.m.: Honors Day Recital, Cashen Hall.
- March 27, 8:15 p..m.: Student Recital, Michael Turner, saxophone. Cashen Hall.
- March 29, 6 p.m.: 8th Annual Saxophone Symposium. Cashen Hall.
- March 30, 8 a.m.: 8th Annual Saxophone Symposium. Cashen Recital Hall.
- March 31, 8 a.m.: 8th Annual Saxophone Symposium. Cashen Recital Hall.