Lunch and Library

Fifth Friday Ballroom Dance, 7:30-9:30 pm, Guilford Grange, 4909 Guilford School Rd, Greensboro. Free for first time guests, $1 for Step Set Dance Club members, $5 for guests. No partner needed. Refreshments. Phone: 336-852-0515 Email: charleshafer@gmail.com for info.

First Sunday Tea Dance, 3:30-5:30 pm; Guilford Grange, 4909 Guilford School Rd, Greensboro. Join host Tim Saunders and enjoy your favorite ballroom dances. $7, Phone: 336-324-1924

National Ballet Academy Denver Summer Intensive nJune 24, 2013 - July 27, 2013nnAbout the Intensive nThe National Ballet Academy of Denver offers an comprehensive technique intensive International Summer School for serious young dancers from the USA and overseas. Each day consists of five to six hours of classes and workshops, six days a week. Emphasis is placed on each dancer’s technical and artistic growth through individualized attention, career development classes, and special workshops. All classes offered during the summer intensive will serve to enrich the dancer’s exposure to the classic ballet training curriculum.%u2028%u2028A distinguished faculty from the National Ballet Academy of Denver led by Artistic Directors Cornell Callender and Andrei Vassiliev along with renowned international guest teachers, join the staff to make up a distinguished teaching faculty, providing classes in a variety of dance styles, under the guidance of our Directors.%u2028%u2028The course offers classes including Classical Technique, Pointe, Repertoire, Pas de Deux, Body Conditioning and Variations. %u2028%u2028Students may apply to be accommodated at the School's supervised dormitory, subject to availability. General hotel information and costs of accommodation will be sent by the Summer School Office to those offered places. It is the responsibility of the individual student's family/guardian to arrange accommodation.nFor more information please visit www.nationalballetofdenver.org n

Along with all the fun of ArtQuest, each week a new special table project in the NC Art Studio highlights some of the artist's materials, ideas, and themes presented in The Gallery exhibition. To view the Independents exhibition, ask your Facilitator for a tour or visit on your own! Artist Mark Brown is often influenced by music and poetry in his paintings. This week (May 14-18) come to ArtQuest and find out! Paint your own poetry inspired artworks. $5 per person.

Each object on exhibition has a distinctive story, and each has a compelling connection to American culture. Discover more with Curator Susan Webster.

nScott Barkan is a guitarist, singer and %u200Bsongwriter based in New York's Hudson Valley.After years of working as an in demand sideman for various songwriters and bands around the country, having his guitar playing and songwriting featured on national television (The Real World, The Hills, Keeping up with the Kardashians, etc.), as well as leading numerous guitar oriented instrumental projects, Scott has recently struck out as an acoustic based solo artist.n%u200BnThe new project, which finds Scott's signature shimmering guitar tones and skronky, avant/country improvisations serving as the backdrop for his witty, self-effacing and often heartbreaking lyric writing, is without-a-doubt Barkan's most personal project to date.