May 28, 2009
Things to Do May 29, 2009
Music
INDIAN MUSIC: 7:30 p.m. Free with optional supporter's dinner from 6 to 7 p.m. for $50. The South Asia Cultural Society hosts a performance by the Hindustani sarod instrumentalist Partho Sarothy. Tamarack, Beckley. For dinner reservations, call 304-255-0293, ext. 328. For more on the artist, visit www.parthosarodi.com.
LIVE ON THE LEVEE: 6:30 to 10 p.m. Free. Santa Cruz with opening act Mike P and the Lower Case Gs. Haddad Riverfront Park. Food and beverages will be for sale and a 50/ 50 raffle to benefit local charities. Visit www.myspace.com/liveonthelevee. For more on Santa Cruz, visit www.santacruzband.com.
FREDA COOPER & MOUNTAIN GOLD BAND: 7 to 10 p.m. Admission by donation. Elk River Community Center, 902 Main St., Elkview. Call 304-965-3722.
JUVENILE DIABETES BENEFIT: 5 p.m., Empty Glass. Lineup includes Simple Sadi, Dugan Carter's Full Flavor, The Rabble Rousers, Blue Million, Jay Hill and the Dirty River Coal Band, Wherling Dervish, Illmatics, Andy Parks and Tom Daugherty. For more details, visit www.myspace.com/theemptyglass.
Stage/Theater
"WEST VIRGINIA: WORDS AND MUSIC": 8 p.m. Adults $25; seniors, students and children $15. Charleston Stage Company presents an original show that takes monologues by West Virginia writers and intermingles them with music from the Mountain State. Clay Center Walker Theater. Call 304-561-3570 or visit www.charlestonstagecompany.com.
"AND THEN THEY CAME FOR ME": 7 p.m. Admission $3. John Adams Middle School students present "And Then They Came for Me," a multimedia play that combines videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors Ed Silverburg and Eva Schloss with live student actors who recreate scenes from their lives. Call 304-348-6652.
"CUPID RISING": 8 p.m. Tickets $5.50 students and seniors, $9.50 adults at the door. The new Dan Kedhe play by the Contemporary Youth Arts Company is a farce on teen love. Capitol Center Theater, 123 Summers St. Call 304-342-5716 or e-mail CYAC2...@juno.com.
Dance
EXTREME COUNTRY DANCE CLUB: Patterned partner dance at 7:30 p.m. and open dance 8 to 10:30 p.m. (Basic beginner lessons at 6). Admission $5. Elk Elementary Center, Mink Shoals exit of Interstate 79. Call 304-949-3973, 304-549-0910, 304-779-9109 or 304-346-7467.Music
INDIAN MUSIC: 7:30 p.m. Free with optional supporter's dinner from 6 to 7 p.m. for $50. The South Asia Cultural Society hosts a performance by the Hindustani sarod instrumentalist Partho Sarothy. Tamarack, Beckley. For dinner reservations, call 304-255-0293, ext. 328. For more on the artist, visit www.parthosarodi.com.
LIVE ON THE LEVEE: 6:30 to 10 p.m. Free. Santa Cruz with opening act Mike P and the Lower Case Gs. Haddad Riverfront Park. Food and beverages will be for sale and a 50/ 50 raffle to benefit local charities. Visit www.myspace.com/liveonthelevee. For more on Santa Cruz, visit www.santacruzband.com.
FREDA COOPER & MOUNTAIN GOLD BAND: 7 to 10 p.m. Admission by donation. Elk River Community Center, 902 Main St., Elkview. Call 304-965-3722.
JUVENILE DIABETES BENEFIT: 5 p.m., Empty Glass. Lineup includes Simple Sadi, Dugan Carter's Full Flavor, The Rabble Rousers, Blue Million, Jay Hill and the Dirty River Coal Band, Wherling Dervish, Illmatics, Andy Parks and Tom Daugherty. For more details, visit www.myspace.com/theemptyglass.
Stage/Theater
"WEST VIRGINIA: WORDS AND MUSIC": 8 p.m. Adults $25; seniors, students and children $15. Charleston Stage Company presents an original show that takes monologues by West Virginia writers and intermingles them with music from the Mountain State. Clay Center Walker Theater. Call 304-561-3570 or visit www.charlestonstagecompany.com.
"AND THEN THEY CAME FOR ME": 7 p.m. Admission $3. John Adams Middle School students present "And Then They Came for Me," a multimedia play that combines videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors Ed Silverburg and Eva Schloss with live student actors who recreate scenes from their lives. Call 304-348-6652.
"CUPID RISING": 8 p.m. Tickets $5.50 students and seniors, $9.50 adults at the door. The new Dan Kedhe play by the Contemporary Youth Arts Company is a farce on teen love. Capitol Center Theater, 123 Summers St. Call 304-342-5716 or e-mail CYAC2...@juno.com.
Dance
EXTREME COUNTRY DANCE CLUB: Patterned partner dance at 7:30 p.m. and open dance 8 to 10:30 p.m. (Basic beginner lessons at 6). Admission $5. Elk Elementary Center, Mink Shoals exit of Interstate 79. Call 304-949-3973, 304-549-0910, 304-779-9109 or 304-346-7467.
GOOD TIME COUNTRY DANCERS: 8 p.m. (lessons at 6:30). Cost $5. Line dance and patterned couples dance. Dunbar United Methodist Church, 1401 Myers Ave. Call 304-545-6377 or 304-524-7611.
Open Mic
JAM SESSION: 7 to 10 p.m. Admission by donation. Knights of Pythias, Tennessee Avenue and Randolph Street. Call 304-548-7122, 304-988-9742 or 304-965-1045.
Etc.
MISS RAINBOW PRIDE: 6 p.m. Admission $15. "Miss Rainbow Pride" will be crowned as part of the 13th Pride Parade and Festival, May 29 to June 7, celebrating the LGBT community in West Virginia. Visit http://www.pridewv.org.
LECTURE/FILM: 7:30 p.m. Free. Taylor Books, 226 Capitol St. Jeff Barrie, director of the film "Kilowatt Ours," speaks and shows a new cut of the film about energy conservation. He will be joined by his wife, Heather Barrie, who is a musician. Sponsored by the Kanawha Valley Sustainability Fair. Call (304) 342-1461.
CRITICAL MASS FUN BIKE RIDE: 6 p.m., free, starting at the Habitat ReStore, 815 Young St, corner of Piedmont Road. Ride to the Capitol and back, about 4 miles. Part of the Kanawha Valley Sustainability Fair. Contact lidapri...@gmail.com.
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