Each week, Arts Orange County and Culture OC deliver you this look at the stories and events happening in our arts and cultural community.

Baroque Music Festival - Opening Concert

Every year the Baroque Music Festival stages a week of site-specfic concerts spotlighting chamber composers of the 17th and 18th centuries - J.C. Bach and Handel are just two of the composers featured in "London Fog, Italian Sunshine," the kickoff performance in Newport Beach MORE

Longtime Friends Come Together to Bring ‘Hedwig’ to Life at the Maverick

The underground punk musical rocks at Fullerton’s Maverick Theater in time for Pride Month.

Is a Deluxe Performing Arts Center in the Cards for Mission Viejo?

Multiple moving parts will keep proposed project in the air for years – but ‘starter theater’ is likeliest stop-gap solution.

Backhausdance Presents Immersive, Site-Specific Work at Bowers Museum

PHOTO STORY: In site-specific dance, the choreography is influenced by the environment in which it takes place and in most cases would not be the same if it was removed from that environment.

For example, in Backhausdance's new work "Glow/Brillo," which will premiered during a free event at the Bowers Museum on Sunday, June 9, dancers lean over balcony railings, perch on walls, travel up and down a staircase and dance around trees.

The work was created during a five-week residency at the Bowers Museum and was made possible by a grant from the city of Santa Ana Arts & Culture Office.

Each week, we recommend a variety of events and experiences from the listings at SparkOC.com, our free website for Orange County's arts and cultural community.

Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight

Emilie du Châtelet was a scientific genius in the 18th century and this play, staged at the Brea Curtis Theatre, dramatizes the struggle between the head and the heart through her extraordinary life and legacy MORE

Film Night: Barbie

A free, outdoor screening of the modern movie classic at Eastgate Park in Garden Grove MORE

Tardeada Con Familia/Family Afternoon

Santa Ana's LibroMobile invites families to a tradition-filled Sunday afternoon festival with music, dancing, art, and food MORE

Makers@Muzeo with Mahtab Mohammadi

An artist-in-residence at Anaheim's MUZEO, Mahtab Mohammadi's work is influenced both by the patterns of Persian Gardens and her own experiences as an Iranian-American, and you can observe her at work creating new pieces on Thursdays and Saturdays throughout June MORE