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This week: Pasco
By Times Staff Writer
Published December 30, 2005
PERFORMING ARTS
THE DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY TAMBURITZANS dance troupe will perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center, 324 Pine St. The group does the music, songs and dances of Eastern Europe and neighboring cultures. Tickets are $20, reserved seating, with a $2 discount for center members and students. Call (727) 942-5605.
VISUAL ARTS
ARTIST NIKOS KYPRIAIOS will share insights about his creative process and comment on his role as an artist of the Greek Diaspora in the 1970s, his return to Greece in the 1990s and his "post-modernist aesthetic" at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, 600 Klosterman Road, Tarpon Springs (a half mile west of U.S. 19). Admission is $3. His exhibit at the adjacent museum is on view until Jan. 8.
PROGRESS ENERGY ART GALLERY continues its All-Member Show at the gallery, 6231 Grand Blvd., New Port Richey, through the end of December. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays.
THE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF TARPON SPRINGS continues an exhibit of work by 10 award-winning Americans artists in the Forum Room of the church, 230 Grand Ave., Tarpon Springs. (From Pasco, go south on Alt. 19, west on Spring Boulevard, north on Grand.) The works are in the centuries-old traditional Chinese brush painting style. Viewing hours on 2 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. A reception for the artists will be from 2 to 4 p.m. on Jan. 7.
AN EXHIBIT OF SMALL AND LARGE QUILTS continues at New Port Richey City Hall at Main Street and Madison. The quilts were made by members of the West Pasco Quilters' Guild. There is an online quilt auction for the small quilts; bid at www.westpascoquilters.org and click on "Online Quilt Auction" by noon on Jan. 31.
WORKSHOPS AND AUDITIONS
THE WILL McLEAN BEST NEW FLORIDA SONG CONTEST will accept entries until Saturday. The lyrics must be about some aspect of Florida. Each writer can submit up to three songs. Winners will perform at the Will McLean Music Festival in March at the Sertoma Ranch near Brooksville. For entry forms and information, see www.willmclean.com or call 352 465-7208.
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