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

The Wooden Floor's 41st Annual Concert: Onward

This highly-anticipated showcase from Orange County's marquee school for contemporary dance will feature the world premiere of three brand-new pieces created out of collaborative development with the students MORE

Summer Preview: A Look at the Best in OC Arts and Culture

If you are looking for things to do this summer, Culture OC has you covered.

A Look at the First Year of Pacific Symphony's Search for a New Leader

This season and next, fans of Pacific Symphony can watch a fascinating process that has only happened once before in the orchestra’s 45-year history: the search for a new conductor. Carl St.Clair, Pacific Symphony’s music director since 1990, will pass the baton to his successor, presumably after the 2024-25 season. This season, eight guest conductors led the orchestra – most of them auditioning for the job of music director. Next year we’ll see four more. 

Pacific Symphony’s transition comes at an interesting juncture for American orchestras. 

Dalí Exhibition at the Muckenthaler Raises Questions of Authenticity

It’s a story that’s almost too good to be true.

Maybe it is too good to be true.

Benjamin Feldman, a Washington, D.C.-based climate change policy consultant, rescued a trove of works that are believed to be by surrealist master Salvador Dalí. They apparently had been stashed away in boxes on the floor of a storage room in rural Appalachia for nearly 20 years. The owner died, and a friend who was clearing out the shed was about to haul the stuff to the dump or to a dumpster.

But Feldman insisted that the prints and a few sculptures should not be thrown away. Instead, he bought them, and now more than 50 of them are on display at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton through June 30.

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.

Sharing the Joy of Music

The Festival Singers of Orange County present a special concert in Mission Viejo bringing together beloved songs from throughout the 42-year tenure of retiring Artistic Director Gary Toops MORE

AAPI Heritage Month Anime Night & Concert: South Side Symphony & Kids on the Slope

Free on the Argyros Plaza at Segerstrom Center For the Arts with their new Plaza Pass, a one-night-only multimedia celebration of the intersection between historically Black musical genres and Japanese anime culture MORE

BE YOU Pride Fest

Fullerton Museum Center presents Orange County's largest Pride Month festival, featuring live music, a community bike parade, all-ages arts and crafts activities, and local artisans and vendors coming together to celebrate self-discovery MORE

Duran DurANTONY and Cleopatra

The Troubador Theater Company - aka the Troubies - are notorious for their fast-paced, comedy/rock-and-roll remixes of Shakespeare's plays, and they're bringing their latest work to San Clemente's Casa Romantica MORE