Arts and entertainment briefs

This year’s theme for the Lee Street Theatre third annual “10-minute” play festival is “Six Feet Under.”

Open call for scripts from residents of North and South Carolina with a submission deadline of March 31, 2012.

Guidelines

1. The play must be a comedy and incorporate the overall theme of “Six Feet Under”.

2. Play must be easy to stage on a small black box stage with limited sets and props.

3. Limited to no more than three characters.

4. Two stapled copies of each script, in proper format, must arrive on or before the deadline to Lee Street Theatre, Attn: Bill Greene, 201 Coventry Lane, Salisbury, NC 28147. No email entries.

5. Limit your entry to 3 scripts, please.

4. The script(s) must not have been previously staged by anyone in any way.

5. Enclose one cover sheet per playwright with contact information (include email address) and the title(s) of the submitted script(s), along with a one-sentence synopsis. To ensure unbiased judging, the playwright’s name must not appear anywhere on the script(s), which will not be returned.

Only the winning playwrights will be notified (by email) on April 20, after which time open auditions will be held. Directed by Justin Dionne, Piedmont Players Marketing Director and Catawba College Theater graduate.

Six Feet Under will be performed June 6-9, 2012. Contact billgreene@fibrant.com with questions.

Free Yoga day

Experience free Yoga on Saturday, Jan. 21, to celebrate Yoga Day USA.

Each year yoga studios all over the country enjoy the sacred practice of Karma Yoga — Selfless Service — by bringing free Yoga classes to the communities. Artemesia Artworks & Yoga Studio, 323 W. Harrison St., will open classes to everyone that day, for free.

8 -9:30 a.m. Om Shanti Yoga: a blissful, gentle, peaceful class, awakening your body to its natural bliss.

9:45-11:00 a.m. Golf Body/Yoga Mind: Relax and have fun while improving flexibility and breathing to improve your golf game. Bring a club.

11:15 a.m.-1 p.m. Yoga for Awakening the Creative Spirit: Bring your journals and expect your ideas to flow.

5-6:30 p.m. Sunset Yoga: Spiritual. Quiet. Practice the art of human being, not doing.

Bring a canned food item for Rowan Helping Ministries. For details visit www.artemesiayoga.com or call Lewellen Daniel Padgett at 704-637-7193.

S-R Choral Society

The Salisbury-Rowan Choral Society will resume rehearsals for their spring/summer concerts on Tuesday, Jan. 24 at 7 p.m. at Coburn Memorial United Methodist Church, 901 S. Church St. The choir will be accepting any new members at this time.

For questions, contact director Matthew Newton, at 919-812-0742. For more information visit www.Facebook. com/Salisbury.Rowan.Choral.Society

‘This Has Been My Life’

“This Has Been My Life All My Life” is a special exhibition at Waterworks Visual Arts Center. This collaborative exhibition by photojournalist Sean Meyers and poet Janice Fuller will be on display through March 17.

The exhibition features works which pair photographs and poems based on interviewing and photographing residents at the Lutheran Home in Winston-Salem.

The opening reception of this exhibition is on Thursday, Jan. 26 from 6-8 p.m. and Meyers and Fuller will talk about their project. Refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public.

The exhibit is in the second floor Delhaize Conference Room, 123 E. Liberty St., www.waterworks.org

‘Miss Representation’

AAUW (American Association of University Women,) Salisbury Branch is hosting a screening and discussion of the documentary film “Miss Representation” on Saturday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Looking Glass Theaters’s black box theatre, 405 N. Lee St.

Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the film was written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom and exposes how main-stream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. It challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself.

Tickets are $10 and available at http://aauw-salisbury-nc.eventbrite.com/ or at the door. Contact Holly Czuba with questions at 919-923-6416 or holly.czuba@gmail.com

Seeking pastel artists

The Pastel Society of North Carolina, in conjunction with the Appalachian Pastel Society and the Piedmont Pastel Society, is hosting a statewide exhibit for chalk pastelists. The juror is Marla Bagetta.

Entry deadline is March 24. Exhibit dates for the 2012 North Carolina Juried Pastel Exhibition are June 1-30.

For Prospectus and information, visit www.pastelsocietyofnc.com. For any additional questions, contact Patricia Savage at p_savage@bellsouth.net

North Carolina Baroque at Old Salem

WINSTON-SALEM — Old Salem Museums & Gardens is presenting a concert with the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra on Sunday, Jan. 29 at 3 p.m. in the James A. Gray, Jr. Auditorium at the Old Salem Visitor Center, 900 Old Salem Road. The concert is free and open to the public and will include J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos 4 and 5, as well as works by Bertali, Schütz and Handel.

For more information call 336-721-7300 or visit www.oldsalem.org

Tosco acoustic party

CHARLOTTE — Tosco Music presents an acoustic music showcase with an eclectic mix of styles and singalongs for everyone, with a variety of performers, on Saturday, Jan. 28, from 7-11 p.m.

Performers so far include Kenny and Amanda Smith, John Schmitt, Mandolin Orange, Trio Sonata, Canto Libre, Pierce & Grace Pettis, Patrick Davis, The Presbyterian Home Band at River Landing, Daniel D. Bunky Moon, Bill Mize and more.

Tickets are $15 at www.Tix.CPCC.edu or 704-330-6534. The event is at the Dale F. Halton Theater, Central Piedmont Community College, 1206 Elizabeth Ave.

Knitting at Latta

Latta Plantation will hold a Beginning Knitting Workshop- on Saturday, Feb. 4 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

The cost is $25 per person and includes all supplies (knitting needles, yarn, etc.). Ages 12 and up are welcome.

Contact Maureen Stiene at mstiene@lattaplantation.org for more information. Pre-registration is required.

Latta Plantation is located at 5225 Sample Road, Huntersville.

Carolina Chamber Symphony Players present winter concerts

WINSTON-SALEM– The Carolina Chamber Symphony Players (CCSP) will perform two upcoming concerts. The first concert, “Winter Musings,” will be 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22 at Knollwood Baptist Church, 330 Knollwood St. The event is free and open to the public.

The second concert, “My Funny Valentine ” will be performed Feb. 11 at 7:30 at the Jon Kuhn Studio Gallery, 701 N. Liberty St. Musicians include Martha Bassett, vocals. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased through www.carolinachambersymphony.org.

For questions or for more information, call 336-725-1343.

Visit www.carolinachambersymphony.org.