Published: March 01, 2007 05:23 pm         

Entertainment briefs: Published March 2, 2007

Brown Bag celebrates women’s history

The Vigo County Public Library’s Brown Bag Program celebrates Women’s History Month and the 125th Anniversary of the library with a special resurrection of librarian Sallie Hughes.

Hughes, head librarian of the Vigo County Public Library from 1906-1927, will be portrayed by local thespian Ann Venable from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. March 15 in the main library, Seventh and Poplar streets.

Lunch can be bought for $6 from Cucina Maria, including chicken Caesar salad and drink, with advance reservation.

To reserve a lunch, call Community Services at (812) 232-1113, Ext. 281 or 282 by March 12.

The Pfeifers to perform in Brazil

Christian recording artists The Pfeifers will be featured at 10:30 a.m. March 11 in Ebenezer Church in Brazil.

For more information, call (812) 448-8529.

The Ohio group also is scheduled to perform in Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church in Terre Haute on Thursday.

Artist to speak at Brown Bag at Swope

Artist Tom Swopes will speak in the Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series at noon Wednesday in the Swope Art Museum.

Swopes will discuss his work currently on exhibition in the Swope, 61 pieces of artwork including paintings, drawings and sculpture.

Swopes has been making art for more than four decades and has taught drawing, painting and sculpture at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College for 19 years. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Indiana University with a master’s degree in sculpture. He is an Indiana Arts Commission Fellowship recipient and has won numerous other awards. You will find his work in public and private collections in the United States and abroad.

The lecture will last about one hour and is free and open to the public. The audience is invited to bring along their own “brown bag” lunch.

Maple Syrup Festival continues this weekend

The second weekend of the Parke County Maple Syrup Festival is full of entertainment in the Red Barn of Mansfield.

Kevin Long of Terre Haute will perform from 3 to 4 p.m. Saturday. Long is the first recipient of the title of “Mansfield Idol 2006.” He sang his way through preliminaries and finals to win the opportunity to open the Summer Concert Series by performing his award-winning song before the Jeff Bates Concert last September.

Kayci Manderino of Montezuma won Mansfield Parke Teen Idol, performing “Jesus Take the Wheel.” She will perform at 1 p.m. Saturday. The next Mansfield Idol competition will be during the watermelon festival in August along with the princess competition.

The Maple Festival is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Food and shopping are available.

Saturday’s entertainment:

• 11 a.m. — Circle of Friends

• 12:30 p.m. — Cascade High School Guys and Gals Barbershop Chorus

• 1 p.m. — Kayci Manderino

• 2 p.m. — Covered Bridge Chorus

• 3 p.m. — Kevin Long

Ivy Tech to host artists’ reception

Ivy Tech Community College-Wabash Valley will be hosting an artists’ reception from 6 to 8 p.m. March 9.

The reception will be staged in the lobby of the Oakley Auditorium at the south campus, 8000 S. Education Dr. The reception features live music. The public is invited to attend.

The exhibit will showcase work from artist John Laska. The show is a retrospective of John’s work. The exhibit will run through the end of April.

Laska taught at Indiana State University and at ISU’s Laboratory School for more than 30 years.

He began his tenure in the 1950s and continued to teach high school students until the lab school closed its doors in the early 1980s.

He touched the lives and sparked the careers of hundreds of students and many of his students have become artists and art educators, both locally and nationally. The exhibit also showcases work by some of these former Laska students.

The art galleries are on the first and second floors of the Center for Information Technology.

Exhibits may be viewed 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday.; 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Friday; and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.