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EVENT OF THE WEEK
April 7 – 12, 2015
SCOTTSDALE CULINARY
FESTIVAL
presented by Scottsdale League for the Arts
This year is the 37th anniversary of the Scottsdale Culinary Festival, the longest running event of its type in the nation. The Festival has grown to a community favorite hosting over 35,000 guests, 20 events, 100 restaurants, dozens of top chefs and countless fine wine and spirit selections.
The six-day festival offers a diverse menu of luxurious dinners, themed cocktail parties and a signature event, the Great Arizona Picnic, featuring 50 restaurants, chef demonstrations, live bands and specialty tasting venues.
The festival is the primary fundraiser for the Scottsdale League for the Arts, whose members and staff work all year to present the festival. The League’s mission is to support artists, art programs, and arts education through fundraising and special events. Since 2002, the League has donated over $4 million to arts organizations in Arizona.
MORE EVENTS
UPTOWN GIRLS (lunchtime theater)
Herberger Theater Center
222 E. Monroe St., Phoenix
March 24 – April 9, 2015
THE MUSICAL ADVENTURES OF FLAT STANLEY
Valley Youth Theatre
Stroll to fabulous restaurants in downtown Phoenix and enjoy live music, good food and refreshing drinks. The funds raised benefit the Phoenix Symphony's Education and Community Engagement programs.
Scottsdale Arts District
Located primarily along Main Street and Marshall Way in Scottsdale Downtown
Every Thursday
The historic Scottsdale ArtWalk happens every Thursday night. Galleries get active with a night full of art openings, live music, food samplings and more. Hosted by the Scottsdale Gallery Association in partnership with the City of Scottsdale.
COMING UP
A one-man show, a rare and exciting addition to the Phoenix Theatre season, Buyer & Cellar is a new comedy fresh off its chart-topping run Off-Broadway! This is the story of Alex Moore, a struggling actor who finds himself taking an unusual gig in the basement of a true Hollywood A-lister. This diva, known to you as the best-selling artist of all-time, makes an appearance one day and what follows is an outrageous look at fame and the price paid to achieve it. One must ask, when bonding happens in the cellar, will the relationship ever make it up the stairs?
4 GIRLS 4 – Christine Andreas, Randy Graff, Andrea McArdle and Faith Prince
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
7380 E. Second St., Scottsdale
April 17, 2015 l 8 p.m.
Four dynamic, award-winning musical stars from Broadway, film, TV and recordings come together for an evening of song, dance, laughter and memories. Christine Andreas (“Eliza Doolittle” in My Fair Lady’s 20th-anniversary production), Randy Graff (Tony Award winner, A City of Angels), Andrea McArdle (Broadway’s original “Annie”) and Faith Prince (Tony Award winner, Guys and Dolls) perform the biggest hits from their extraordinary careers.
Childsplay
Musical Instrument Museum
4725 E. Mayo Blvd., Phoenix
April 20 – 22, 2015
On April 24, 2010, MIM opened its doors to the world as the first and largest global musical instrument museum. For the past five years, MIM has been engaging audiences with an extensive collection, dynamic programs and exceptional musical performances. You are invited to celebrate this milestone with a week of festivities featuring some of MIM's favorite performers and activities.
MOTOWN THE MUSICAL
MOTOWN THE MUSICAL is the true American dream story of Motown founder Berry Gordy's journey from featherweight boxer to the heavyweight music mogul who launched the careers of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson and many more. Motown shattered barriers, shaped our lives and made us all move to the same beat.
ASU Gammage
1200 S. Forest Ave., Tempe
April 21 – 26, 2015
ALL BALANCHINE
Ballet Arizona’s annual celebration of the great master George Balanchine, who defined and created American ballet. This year’s program features works from three different decades: Allegro Brillante, Stravinsky Violin Concerto and La Sonnambula.
Not-to-miss exhibitions A selection of the best ongoing exhibitions in the Valley
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
BANDY WARHOL – PORTRAITS
Phoenix Art Museum
1625 N. Central Ave., Phoenix
March 4 – June 21, 2015
As an artist, Andy Warhol’s unique visual language tells the story of an artist fascinated with the phenomena of fame and celebrity. This exhibition features Warhol’s depictions of the persona that forever embedded celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, Sylvester Stallone and Prince – to name a few – into America’s cultural conscience as well as several of his self-portraits including silkscreen works, Polaroids of the artist in drag, and family photographs of a young Warhol.
BEYOND THE BEAT: DRUMS OF THE WORLD
Musical Instrument Museum
4725 E. Mayo Blvd., Phoenix
Nov. 15, 2014 – June 21, 2015
The exhibition explores the immeasurable cultural and historical significance of drums around the world through the presentation of dozens of drums of all shapes, sizes, materials and uses from Asia, Oceania, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, and the United States.
BEAUTIFUL GAMES: AMERICAN INDIAN SPORT AND ART
Heard Museum
2301 N. Central Ave., Phoenix’¨
Through Nov. 29, 2015
Sports have played a pivotal role in American Indian tribal communities; in fact, many contemporary sports are rooted in traditional tribal sporting games. Tribal communities continue to be heavily interested in and involved in sports, particularly basketball, rodeo and running.
WOMEN ARTISTS: ANONYMOUS NO MORE
As a preview for hosting the American Women Artists annual juried competition and show in November 2015, Bonner David Galleries is showcasing the work of many of their talented female artists. The art world, long a bastion of men, has recently begun recognizing the many outstanding female artists who have made quite a name for themselves.
JAMES MARSHALL: RADIATE
THE GIFT: SELECTIONS FROM THE AMSTRONG-PRIOR ARCHIVE
GRIDIRON GLORY: THE BEST OF THE PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME
Desert Botanical Garden
75 N. Second St., Phoenix
Feb. 6 – May 3, 2015
The Desert Botanical Garden presents new works by world-renowned artists Philip and Matt Moulthrop. The exhibition features a collection of turned wood that reveals the inherent beauty of trees and shrubs native to Arizona. Woodturning has been a Moulthrop family legacy for three generations and their pieces are immediately recognizable by their distinct contemporary forms. You can find their work in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institute, the American Craft Museum of New York, and the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Desert Botanical Garden
75 N. Second St., Phoenix
March 7 – May 10, 2015
Take a stroll through the beautiful Marshall Butterfly Pavilion and find yourself surrounded by hundreds of fluttering butterflies. Watch as butterflies sip nectar and bask in the sun in this lush and colorful habitat. Special outdoor displays showcase plants that attract butterflies.
BURSTING AT THE SEAMS
What if we redefined beauty to redirect the focus from just physical atrributes to the sum of the whole person? True beauty has no measure or boundary, it represents the human spirit and belongs in the eyes of the
beholder. Artists in this exhibit share the beauty they see through the lens.
SIRI DEVI KHANDAVILLI – REYNIER LEYVA NOVO
Lisa Sette Gallery is pleased to present the works of two exciting international artists: the bronze sculptures of Indian artist Siri Devi Khandavilli and the historically charged conceptual works of Cuban artist Reynier Leyva Novo.
