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ArtSSpring-- Week Three Highlights!
ArtSSpring -- a 30 Day Celebration of the Arts in Sandy Springs -- continues this week with loads of action-packed, inspiring events all happening right here in Sandy Springs!
Visit www.artsandysprings.org or call 770-951-0021 for a detailed calendar. Highlights for the upcoming week follow.
This Week
NOTE: Thursdays during ArtSSpring are devoted to the magnificent, unique ART GALLERIES we are fortunate to have right here in Sandy Springs. We hope you will reserve every Thursday night to touring these beautiful facilities and appreciating the elegance and grandeur of artists of all genres from all over the world. The magical gallery featured this week is
5920 Roswell Road, Suite D-205, FREE
Enjoy a buffet of appetizers and beverages compliments of A Royal Affair Cafe as you view works of local artists Leigh Wyatt, Christi Hough and jewelry designer Cindy Butler, all for sale at this gallery style showing with a percentage of sales going toward breast cancer research. For more information, call 404-252-7714 or send an email to lwbisquit@mindspring.com.
Oil painter Christi Hough and water colorist Leigh Wyatt
will display their artwork at A Royal Affair Cafe
tomorrow evening from 6:30-8:30 pm.
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 8 PM
SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 8 PM
SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 3 PM, Act3 Productions Presents Steel Magnolias
Act3 Playhouse, Sandy Springs Plaza, 6285 Roswell Road, $10-23 (Act3 Box office: 770-241-1905 or at Curves, 6305 Roswell Road)
Enjoy a moving and funny production centering on six gossipy small town Louisiana women in a beauty partlor. Recommended for ages 12+. For more information visit the Act3 Productions website at www.act3productions.org.
Steel Magnolias, which met with immediate critical
and popular acclaim in its premier production in New York City,
starts this Friday at Act3 Playhouse.
SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 8:30 AM-- NOON, Sandy Springs Farmers' Market
235 Sandy Springs Circle, NW, FREE
Rain or shine, come gather with your friends and community and enjoy Sandy Springs' own local market full of local produce and honey and soaps and other amazing products, as well as live music! Art Sandy Springs will have a booth to share great information about art and culture in our community. Come visit us and support your local merchants!
SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 11-3 PM, Ginny McCormack's Cooking Demonstration and Book Signing and Jan Eubanks Art Exhibit
Belles Choses, 229 Sandy Springs Circle, FREE, no reservations required
Belles Choses proudly presents Ginny McCormack, cooking instructor, food columnist, author of Sunday in the South and editor of GinnyMcCormackcooks.com. There will be a live cooking deomonstration and book signing, as well as an exhibit of Jan Eubanks' artwork on display.
SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 6:30 PM, Movies Under the Stars Presents October Sky
Part of Sandy Springs Reads. Sandy Springs UMC Hitson Activity Center, 85 Mount Vernon Highway, FREE
Experience the acclaimed film October Sky, based on the book Rocket Boys, on a huge outdoor screen under the stars. The movie, which will begin playing at dusk, takes place in the heart of Sandy Springs on the terraced lawn of the Sandy Springs UMC Hitson Activity Center. Refreshments will be available at the concession stand. Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets. Local entertainment will begin at 6:30 pm.
 
SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 10 AM-- 5 PM, B'nai Tora Artist Market
B'nai Tora Synagogue, 700 Mt. Vernon Parkway, NE, FREE
Bring your friends and family to this great market featuring artists from the Atlanta Jewish Community exhibiting and selling multi-media paintings, pottery, jewelry, fabric art, upscale crafts and Judaic. The market is held indoors, so rain or shine! For more information call 404-257-0537 or visit www.bnaitorah.org.
SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 6 PM, April Wine Dinner
Brooklyn Cafe, 220 Sandy Springs Circle, #101,
$65 per person, reservations required
Enjoy an elaborate five course meal at Brooklyn Cafe, including a pairing of six wines chosen and described by two prominent sommeliers. Contact Jeff at 404-843-8377 or Jeff@brooklyncafe.com to make your reservations, or visit www.brooklyncafe.com.
TUESDAY, MAY 1, 4:30 PM, Imagination Soar Rocket Craft
Part of Sandy Springs Reads. EVENT FULL
Sandy Springs Library, 395 Mt. Vernon Highway
TUESDAY, MAY 1, 6-8 PM, Robotics and Rocketry with Lego Mindstorms
Part of Sandy Springs Reads. Sandy Springs Library, 395 Mt. Vernon Highway
Mary Roberts, with Youth Engaged in Science (YES!), will demonstrate the wizardry of rocketry through the use of Lego Mindstorm robotics. Mary is also a FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Senior Mentor and coordinates many FLL events. FLL is a robotics program designed to get children excited about science and technology, as well as teach them valuable employment and life skills. Learn about rocketry, robotics and how you can start or get involved in a local FLL team. For 4th grade through high school students.
TUESDAY, MAY 1, 7:30-8 PM, Theatre to Go Presents: Dream a Little
Dream With Me
Northwest Unitarian Universalist Church, 1025 Mt. Vernon Highway, NW, FREE (contributions requested), reservations not required, for 4th grade-- high school
Enjoy this delightful play, in which a middle-aged woman learns to lighten up, have fun, and live life without regrets all to popular tunes of the 50s. For more information call 404-256-3310 or email Sondra at sondra@atlantatheatretogo.com.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 4:30 PM, 3-2-1 Blast Off! Rocketry Program
Part of Sandy Springs Reads. EVENT FULL
May 2, Sandy Springs Library, 395 Mt. Vernon Highway, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 7:30 PM, The 3 Inspirational Tenors
St. Jude Catholic Church, 7171 Glenridge Drive, $10, reservations not required
Since 1995, these long-time friends and tenors have performed around the world, including St. Peter's in Rome! Hear favorites from gospel hymns to classical jewels with the smokin' piano styles of Harding Epps. For more information, email alannotes@yahoo.com or visit www.stjudeatlanta.com.
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