Sideshow with Postage Due. Held in conjunction with the seventh annual Ybor Festival of the Moving Image, Sideshow with Postage Due is a two-person show featuring mixed-media circus banners by Tampa artist Lori Ballard and postal art by Gulfport graphic designer Steve Smith. Ballard’s surreal, black-and-white photographic images are inspired by childhood memories of the circus as well as by her recent gig as the Florida State Fair’s official photographer. Smith’s tongue-in-cheek “anti-stamp” prints combine fine art techniques, computer graphics technology and an antique pinhole perforator. On display March 26-April 9, with an opening reception on the opening night of the filmfest, from 6 to 9 p.m. Wed., April 1. Regular hours 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon. and Wed.-Fri., noon-7 p.m. Tues., HCC-Ybor Art Gallery Ybor Performing Arts Building, Palm Ave and 15th Street, Ybor City, free admission, 813-253-7674. (Leilani Polk)
Sustainable Living This monthly class explores sustainable alternatives like organic gardening, alternative transportation and local living economies. Registration is required; sign up in the Whole Foods lobby or by contacting sherell.white@wholefoods.com. Thurs., March 26, 6:30 p.m., Whole Foods, Tampa, $5 voluntary donation to Sweetwater Organic Farm.
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg joins the chamber ensemble for a program that includes Haydn's Symphony No. 6, "Le Matin", Piazzolla's "Four Seasons of Buenos Aires for Violin & Orchestra," Melinda Wagner's New Brandenburg Concerto (an Orpheus commission) and Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Haydn. Thurs., March 26, 8 p.m. Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, $35-$40, 727-791-7400.
This article appears in Mar 25-31, 2009.