Area roundup: Museum's Final Friday to look at death creatively
Star Press
MUNCIE — Muncie's creative community will again be celebrated — and celebrating —at the David Owsley Museum of Art (DOMA)'s Final Friday program, 6-9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26.
The museum's first Final Friday program of the semester, "Final Friday: DEATH," will feature a variety of distinct local voices as emcees Braydee Euliss and C.S. Hendershot introduce PechaKucha speed talks. An accompanying reception will offer refreshments, a cash bar, music, sketch portraits, and art demonstrations.
The museum's late hours will also offer a viewing of two special exhibitions at DOMA: "Gorey's Worlds" and "The Power of Place: 100 Years of Architecture at Ball State University." Admission for Final Friday is always free.
The David Owsley Museum of Art at Ball State University is at 2021 W. Riverside Ave.
Flute choir to offer free fall-themed concert
MUNCIE — Spooky tunes for the season, plus a movie theme or two, will combine for an entertaining and unique concert with the big and little voices of nothing but flutes – from the tiny piccolo to the large bass flute, when the Central Indiana Flute Choir performs its third Annual Fall Concert at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 28 at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church on West Moore Road.
The concert is free and open to the public, with free parking on-site.
The program will include "The Pink Panther," "Batman," "hitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang" (with sound effects), "When the Saints Go Marching In," "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and "Danse Macabre."
Central Indiana Flute Choir has 17 members, with flutes that represent all four voices of a choir: Soprano (piccolo), Alto (C flute), Tenor (alto flute) and Bass (bass flute). CIFC is affiliated with America's Hometown Band. The group's director is Rachel Eldridge.