See you at La Lunch!

You have to eat lunch, so why not grab a friend or co-worker and head downtown to join Piedmont Opera at La Lunch on Thursday, March 8  for a lunch filled with music, drama, and excitement? 


Join Piedmont Opera and other arts enthusiasts for a behind-the-scenes lunch at the Piedmont Club. Maestro James Allbritten and several of the principal cast members will be on hand for a close up look at The Crucible. Please call the Piedmont Club to RSVP at 336.724.7077. Space is limited. Cost is $15.00 per person and includes tax and gratuity.


Want more information? Visit the Piedmont Opera website. 

Reynolda House hosts "A Genius For Place"

Looking for something fabulous to do this Friday night?  Hop on down to Reynolda House and join for the opening party of "A Genius For Place" from 7 to 9 pm. Inspired by the garden parties Katharine Smith Reynolds hosted at Reynolda in the 1920s, the opening party will feature Japanese lanterns, a jazz combo playing music of the era, hors d'oeuvres, and a cash bar. As a special treat, costumed ice skaters will entertain party-goers on a synthetic pond installed in the auditorium. Visitors also may tour the main floor of the historic house.   $5; members/students free About the Exhibition Beginning in the late nineteenth century, new fortunes in the United States made it possible for many city-dwellers to commission country estates. Wealthy industrialists could work in town, and, by train or automobile, escape deteriorating urban centers to enjoy healthy air and breathtaking scenery, even at the end of each day. A widespread belief in the cultural and salutary benefits of rural life, plus the availability of money, prime land, and growing legions of professionally trained landscape architects, set the stage for ambitious residential landscape designs across the country. From 1895 to the waning years of the Great Depression, thousands of American estates were created from Mount Desert, Maine, to Santa Barbara, California. Together their designs comprise an important, virtually unexamined art movement. Seven such places are the subject of this photographic exhibition.  A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era was organized by Library of American Landscape History, Amherst, Massachusetts. Reynolda House is grateful for the generous support of... EXHIBITION PARTNERS Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Leigh and Gray Smith PROGRAM SPONSORS Henri and Royall Brown Claire and Hudnall Christopher Anne and Andy Copenhaver Mary and Frank Driscoll Cyndi Skaar and Ernie Fackelman Scottie and David Neill Lynn and Jeff Young Gwynne and Dan Taylor

Come see the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company Collection!

THIS WEEKEND ONLY! The Complete RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company Collection   PUBLIC SALE     February 10-12, 2012 Friday, Saturday 10 am - 7 pm, Sunday 12 - 5pm   Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts 251 N. Spruce St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101  $5 Admission    Your admission fee allows you entry for the entire weekend.   Children 6 and under are admitted FREE.  Pieces from as little as $5 to $5,000 and everything in between.  An extraordinary opportunity to buy quality, affordable art, antiques and collectables.  Proceeds from the sale will support Arts Council programs, its Funded Partners and member organizations. For more information contact The Arts Council at (336) 725-8916.    It's finally here and we have been busy moving art and prepping our facility for the public sale!  Take a sneak peek at some of the items you'll find this weekend!           THANK YOU! This sale would not be possible without the assistance of many Arts Council volunteers and staff.  Thanks in advance, it's going to be a busy art-buying weekend!

Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers

Mark your calendars, theater lovers! This spring, March 21-April 7, no rules theatre company will be performing Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers at the Hanesbrands Theater, here in Winston-Salem. This is a dark, adult take on the childhood classic.

If you've never heard of no rules, they are a fresh and innovative new theater company who operates both in Washington, D.C. and also here in Winston-Salem, N.C., as several of the company's staff members are graduates of the University of North Carolina- School of the Arts. They are a recent recipient of a Helen Hayes award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company.

So if you want to feel like you live in a big city for the night, join The Art's Council's newly formed Art Nouveau Society, for arts lovers under 40, on Thursday, March 22, as we join other theater goers for a fabulous evening of theater in downtown Winston-Salem. And afterwards? Try a cocktail at Tate's, or perhaps a late-night lemon bar at Camino Bakery, both right around the corner from Hanesbrands Theatre on 4th Street.

Want to buy tickets? Check out the ticket purchasing link: http://www.rhodesartscenter.org/now-showing/peter-pan/.

Enjoy the show!