SUN DOME HOME SHOW: Looking for the perfect touches for your home? Come to the Bay Area Home and Patio Show on Saturday and Sunday at the USF Sun Dome, 4202 E Fowler Ave. The show will feature new trends in home decorating, remodeling and landscaping. Also, meet Joe Farrell, host of Trading Spaces: Family. The show will run 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $6 for adults, $5 for seniors, and free for children 12 and younger. Call 974-3111.
GORILLA THEATRE: Pull up a seat for the classic work of absurdist drama The Chairs, by Hungarian-born playwright Eugene Ionesco, Friday through Sunday at the Gorilla Theatre, 4419 N Hubert Ave. The theater of the absurd is a genre that attempts to use illogical situations and humor to deal with a perceived futility of existence, in an attempt to confuse and shock the viewer. In this play, viewed as a seminal work of the genre, an elderly couple set up chairs around the stage to entertain a series of invisible guests, who have come to hear a message that the old man wants to tell the world. Show times are 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $22 for adults, $16 for seniors and military, and $11 for students. Call (813) 879-2914.
USF ARTS: USF welcomes internationally renowned artist Alex Katz for a symposium and reception Friday, with an exhibition to follow from Tuesday to Feb. 26. The exhibition will feature a number of his "cartoons," which are sketches that he creates as part of the process to create his final paintings. To create the "cartoons," Katz pricks holes in the outlines of a sketch, places the outline over a canvas and dusts it with a pigment. The symposium is 6:30-7:30 p.m. in Music Recital Hall FAH 110, and the reception is 7-9 p.m. in Room CAM 101, 4202 E Fowler Ave. Call (813) 974-4133.
- Contact Jeremy Hayes with upcoming events at 813 269-5302, fax at (813) 269-5310 or e-mail at jchayes@sptimes.com
