Art
Shows at APU
Among the First Friday openings on May 6 is "Reunion" in Alaska Pacific University's Grant Hall gallery space, a series of paintings by Lorri Davis that depict children in the act of discovering something about the natural world. Davis calls her show "an encouragement for the viewer, no matter what age, to reunite with nature … and, while you are at it, take a child with you." The adjacent Carr Gottstein Academic Center gallery will feature parallel pictures of everyday life by Mary Lee and Mareca Guthrie, mother and daughter, from Fairbanks. These will be the last shows at APU until August.
Music
Anchorage Civic Orchestra
Isabelle Libbrecht, winner of the Anchorage Civic Orchestra's High School Concerto Competition, will be the soloist in the "Fantasie Brillante on Themes from Bizet's 'Carmen'" for flute and orchestra at ACO's spring concert. Trumpet man Logan Bean, will be featured in the premiere of conductor Philip Munger's Trumpet Concerto. Also on the program: "The Festive Overture" by Dmitri Shostakovich and the Fourth Symphony of Johannes Brahms. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at Sydney Laurence Theatre. Tickets are available at centertix.net.
Art
Street artist talk
Anchorage's Ariel "Bisco" Taylor will be among the participants in the Street Art program at the Anchorage Museum in July, part of the Urban Intervention series incorporated into the museum's Polar Lab program. Before then, on Thursday, May 5, "Bisco" will take a look at the street art culture in Anchorage and the U.S. The talk takes place at noon and is included with museum admission.
Music
Anchorage Community Concert Band
"Folksongs and Fanfares" is the theme of the Anchorage Community Concert Band's concert at 7 p.m. Saturday in East High School Auditorium. The program includes Ralph Vaughan Williams' "English Folk Song Suite," the "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" by John Williams and a jazzy number titled "The Saints' Hallelujah." Tickets are available at centertix.net.