 Coco
Zhao
Shanghai's "Billie Boy Holiday"
Saturday,
May 3, 8 p.m.
Rosslyn Spectrum |
$20
Tickets from ticketmaster.com
703-573-SEAT
Information: 703-228-1850
Out of a small town
called Shao Yang in China comes jazz vocalist Coco Zhao, whom a
Paris radio station dubbed "the boy Billie Holiday". Discovering
jazz at 17, Zhao released his first album "Heart Strings" in Korea
just 2 years later. He cross-pollinates Asian vocals with the
distinct styles of contemporary American jazz, and although the
lyrics are sung in Chinese, Zhao's distinctive singing transcends
cultures. He challenges the stereotypical jazz vocalist image with
music steeped in a unique heritage infused with his own youthful
interpretations.
A Planet Arlington event.
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Spring Forward! Center Dance
Performance with Dana Tai Soon
Burgess & Co.
May 16 - 18, 2008
Thomas Jefferson Theatre
703-522-2414 Tickets available online
Fri. & Sat. at 7:30, Sun. at 2 p.m.
Center Dance Company
presents its Spring dance concert with
featured guest Dana Tai Soon Burgess and Co. The program will
include Act III of Swan Lake, Fractures and Khaybet
by Dana Tai
Soon Burgess & Co., and the revival of Center Dance Company's
A Bluegrass Portrait choreographed by company founder Kathryn
Fredgren and colleague Pamela Stewart.
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Closing Time, by Owen McCafferty
Keegan Theatre
May 8 - June 7, 2008
Theatre on the Run
703-536-1600
A run-down pub in Belfast acts as a refuge for the drinkers who
stop there, including the owners. This is a day like many before
it, yet different, as the people who gather realize that sometime
they must face up to the truth. Closing Time is a tender and
comic portrait of love, dignity and emotional damage from the
award-winning writer of Shoot the Crow, Mickymojo and Scenes
from the Big Picture.
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The Thread as the Line: Contemporary Sewn Art
May 2 - July 12, 2008
Ellipse Arts Center
Opening:
Thursday, May 1
Artist's Talk: 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Reception: 6:30 - 9 p.m.
Clarendon Strings will perform during the reception
Curator: Ellipse Arts Center Director
Cynthia Connolly
An exhibition of the work of sixteen local, national and international
artists who use traditional sewing and embroidery in contemporary fine art.
Knitting Jam with Laure Drogoul's Apparatus for
Orchestral Knitting
Thursday, May 15, 6 - 9 p.m.
Amplify your craft by bringing your knitting to participate in
Baltimore-based artist and Sondheim prize winner, Laure Drogoul's interactive
sound sculpture and knitting circle.
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Pictured:
Artwork by Jennifer Boe
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 Arlington's
Arts al Fresco
Over 100 Events, Al Summer Long and Absolutely Free!
May 15 - September 25, 2008
703-228-1850
Lunchtime Concerts in Rosslyn and
Ballston - Heritage Arts Festivals
from Mongolia, Hawaii, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador - weekend
performances at the bucolic Lubber Run Amphitheatre - The Rosslyn
Jazz Festival (Sat. Sept. 6) - The
3rd Annual Planet Arlington World Music Festival
(Sat. August 30) - Dancing at Twilight on the Waterview Terrace
adjacent to the Palomar Hotel in Rosslyn - a James Bond Film
Festival in Rosslyn and Crystal City -
The Arlington County Fair
(August 7 - 10), and much, much
more: join us for another summer of
wonderful free entertainment for the whole family, all summer long and
absolutely free.
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Winnie the Pooh
The Children's Theatre
May 30 - June 8, 2008
Thomas Jefferson Theatre
703-548-1154
Join the lovable bear stuffed with
fluff as he finds himself involved in all
sorts of adventures with his friends Eeyore, Piglet and Rabbit.
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 Film:
Golden Venture (2006)
A Journey into America's Immigration Nightmare
Cross Cultural Film Series
Central
Library, 1015 N. Quincy Street
6:30 p.m. Free 703-228-6340
The film chronicles the ongoing
struggles of passengers who were aboard the Golden Venture, an immigrant
smuggling ship that ran aground near New York city in 1993. Passengers
had paid $30,000 to be brought to the U.S. from China's Fujian Province,
expecting to arrive indebted but unnoticed. The Golden Venture crash
became a symbol of a growing national concern over illegal immigration.
Filmmaker Peter Cohn will lead a discussion about the film just after
the screening.
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