Friday at 8:35am & 5:44 pm:
This week, textile artist Liese Sadler joins her father, accomplished photographer Marvin Stasak in an unusual exhibition titled Pics and Pixels. It’ll be on display beginning this afternoon at 6:00 p.m. at the Rail Walk Gallery, 409 Lee Street in Salisbury.
Friday at 1 pm:
Saturday, October 6, in Greensboro's Aycock Auditorium it’s your chance to get a whole lot of wonderful opera favorites in one great concert. It’s the Greensboro Opera’s 2012 Opera Gala, an entire evening of grand opera arias sung by University of NC Greensboro alumni accompanied by the UNCG Orchestra, and a 60 member chorus all under the baton of Maestro Dmitry Sitkovetsky.
The program features performances by 2004 alumnus, currently of the New York City Opera, Sidney Outlaw, Joel Sorensen currently of The Met and San Francisco Opera, and Fletcher Opera Institute standout Stephanie Foley Davis. Tenor and UNCG Opera Director David Holly dropped by WFDD with this Gala preview.
Enjoy the National Theatre of London live in HD at Hanesbrands Theatre in Winston-Salem. The new season kicks off On October 15, with The Last of the Haussmans starring Julie Walters. Internationally known film producer, reporter, critic, author and University of North Carolina School of the Arts professor Dale Polluck shares a preview with David.
First Presbyterian Church is celebrating 150 years in the Winston-Salem community. Sunday's service on October 7, at 10:30am is titled "Faithful through Generations" and will be held in the church's new worship center. It will also feature a new composition, Rhapsody and Song of the Sea, by choral director Michael Dodds. The orchestral prelude begins at 10:15 a.m. and it’ll be performed by full orchestra, festival choir and featured tenor soloist Glen Siebert. First Presbyterian planning committee member Mac Smyth, and conductor/composer Michael Dodds describe the importance of this celebration.
The Dance Project will present an evening with the Van Dyke Dance Group beginning Thursday, October 4, and running through Saturday the 6th. It’s part of the 17 Days Festival in Greensboro and the performances will be held at 8:00 p.m. in the University NC Greensboro Dance Theatre. Van Dyke, the 2011 Betty Cone Medal of Arts winner, will premiere a new dance her dance titled Time will be featured on this year’s North Carolina Dance Festival tour in Greensboro’s Aycock Auditorium. Those performances will be November 2nd and 3rd.
North Carolina dancer, choreographer and educator Virginia Dupont is now in her 18th season with Van Dyke and spoke with David.
Textile artist Liese Sadler joins her father, accomplished photographer Marvin Stasak, for the exhibit Pics and Pixels at 6:00 p.m. on October 5 at the Rail Walk Gallery, 409 Lee Street in Salisbury. Sadler's work encompasses many forms of non-representational explorations of structure and color in mixed media and she’s a master of wearable art.
