Florida State University is hosting it's annual event Seven Days of Opening Nights!
The following is a description of the event according to their website:
Seven Days of Opening Nights is a performing-arts festival that takes place each February and spotlights Florida State University's commitment to the arts — music, theatre, dance, visual art, film and literature. Now widely embraced as the high point on Tallahassee's cultural calendar, the festival began in 1999 and was an immediate success with both the university and the Tallahassee community.The 2011 festival marks Seven Days' return to Ruby Diamond Auditorium, which has undergone a mammoth $35-million renovation and is now poised to become known as one of the finest small concert halls in the Southeast. The past two seasons, Seven Days used various venues in and around the community, to great effect, but it will be good to come home."There's a lot of expectation surrounding Ruby Diamond, and there's a lot of expectation for the first Seven Days back in the hall," says Steve MacQueen, Director of Seven Days. "I think both the new hall and the new season will definitely answer — and exceed — those expectations."Education is integral to the festival, and the majority of the artists who perform at Seven Days also spend time with FSU students in master-classes, giving invaluable insights into craft, process and art. Students and faculty are frequently invited to perform onstage with the artists, as well. In recent years, Seven Days' educational component has begun reaching out to grades K-12, as well."Seven Days of Opening Nights is much more than a string of great performances," explains Sally McRorie, Dean of the College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance. "It engages our students, faculty, community, and beyond with quality arts and artists. That culture of achievement is what a truly great university provides."Why 'Seven Days'?
Good question. In the festival's first year (1999), the festival lasted seven days. That hasn't happened since, but the name stuck. By this time, most people knows that '7 Days' is a metaphor for quality, not a measure of quantity.
For more information, visit http://www.sevendaysfestival.org/
According to the festival's website, the following events will occur in February:
February 2011
3 Tift Merritt & Simone Dinnerstein
8 p.m.
Turner Auditorium at TCC
11 Jim Roche
A Retrospective
6-8 p.m.
FSU Museum of Fine Arts
11 Mark Morris Dance Group
8 p.m.
Ruby Diamond Auditorium
12 Randy Newman
8 p.m.
Ruby Diamond Auditorium
13 Gabriela Montero
2 p.m.
Pebble Hill Plantation
13 Bill Cosby
5 & 8 p.m.
Ruby Diamond Auditorium
14 Gabriela Montero
8 p.m.
Turner Auditorium at TCC
15 PRISM
8 p.m.
Ruby Diamond Auditorium
16 Anthony Bourdain
8 p.m.
Ruby Diamond Auditorium
17 Luciana Souza
8 p.m.
Turner Auditorium at TCC
18 Kronos Quartet & Wu Man: A Chinese Home
8 p.m.
Ruby Diamond Auditorium
18 "Silents!"
midnight
FSU Student Life Cinema
19 Saturday Matinee of the Arts
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Tallahassee Museum
19 Geoffrey Gilmore & A Film You Haven't Seen
3 p.m.
FSU Student Life Cinema
19 Ira Glass
8 p.m.
Ruby Diamond Auditorium
20 "Silents!"
3 p.m.
FSU Student Life Cinema
20 FSU Symphony Orchestra & FSU Jazz Sextet
with guest soloist Marcus Roberts
8 p.m.
Ruby Diamond Auditorium
21 Savion Glover
8 p.m.
Lee Hall at FAMU
For tickets, visit http://www.sevendaysfestival.org/tickets