Center for the Arts celebrates 20 years

By Astrid Verdugo

Pima Community College Center for the Arts celebrates its 20^th anniversary season this year.

The 2010-11 season contains PCC programs in theater, music, dance, visual arts and digital arts.

For the 20^th anniversary season, PCC Theater will present “Charlotte’s Web” directed by Mickey Nugent and “Anything Goes,” brought to stage by the creative team of Todd Poelstra, Mickey Nugent, David Waggoner and Mark Nelson.

“The Time of Your Life” and Sophocles’ “Antigone,” both directed by Frank Pickard, will also to be presented.

The PCC Music Department presents Dean and Anna Schoff for a vocal recital, a Raymond and Friends recital, Judith Sandoval-Ferg for a piano recital, the Chorale and College Singers, and a percussion recital by Homero Ceron.

Also to be presented are opera/musical theater scenes, jazz improve combos, jazz ensemble, orchestra, “Kaleidoscope: virtuosic vignettes for cello,” a piano recital by Raymond T. Ryder, “From Classical to Jazz to Rock” featuring Hank Feldman on tuba and vocals, “Tenor Madness: Contemporary Music for Tenor Saxophone,” and a tuba recital by Mark Nelson.

PCC Dance presents “grATTITUDE” and “4 Elements,” directed by Aurora Goncalves-Shaner.

Other CFA events include a spring fashion show, a digital video and film screening, and the Pima Writers Workshop.

The Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery launches “Portraits: Louis Carlos Bernal, Ann Simmon-Myers and Hirotsune Tashima,” “Retrospective: George Welch, “Neon Sculptures” by James White, and the Annual Student Juried Art Exhibition.

For more information, call the CFA box office 206-6986 or visit online at www.pima.edu/cfa.