November 11, 2022

Each week, Arts Orange County and Voice of OC are excited to deliver to you this look at the stories and events happening in our arts and cultural community.
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People & Places

The Festival of Arts is celebrating its 90th anniversary with this free group exhibition of beloved Festival artists at their foaSOUTH Off-Site gallery in Laguna Beach MORE

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Local Veteran's Sacrifices Honored at New Heroes Hall Exhibit, 'Armed Only with a Camera'

The OC Fair & Event Center’s Heroes Hall veteran museum unveiled its latest exhibition last month, offering a glance into the eyes of WWII photographer Stanley Troutman, one of the first to capture the war in the Pacific after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The exhibit, “Armed Only with a Camera,” shows viewers the horrors and everyday perspectives of the war through Troutman’s photographs, letters, artifacts and other preserved memorabilia.


The exhibit opened to the public just a few weeks ago on Oct. 15. However, work to begin curating the photographic exhibition began three years ago when Troutman’s daughter, Gayle Rindge, first reached out to the Heroes Hall Museum about displaying her father’s work. Rindge organized original photos, caption sheets, correspondence and other war memorabilia that her father had kept and worked with museum director Carol Singleton to create a thought-provoking exhibit.

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Chance Theater’s Resident Playwright Program Gives Emerging Scribes a Leg Up

It took more than a decade, but in 2011, the Anaheim Hills-based company began collaborations with a continuing series of playwrights from across the nation.

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Review: OC Museum of Art's Opening Exhibitions Delight, Confound, Engage

The opening exhibitions at OCMA are a mixed bag, with moments of inspiration side by side with works that are not quite as inspiring. That said, it's worth the trip.

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. We always suggest you be mindful of the most recent health and safety guidelines in California, Orange County, and the venue for the listing.
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Actually

Santa Ana's theatre company Wayward Artist prevents a provocative dialogue about memory, ambiguity, and consent in this contemporary two-person play MORE

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10 years of Tab: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics

The Henley Galleria at Chapman University combines the literary and the visual in a special look back at the first decade of the international poetry periodical whose guiding principle has been "space before text" MORE

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Holiday Inn

Vanguard University's Lyceum Theater stages the beloved holiday musical perennial about the transformation of a quiet Connecticut farmhouse into a festive performance venue MORE

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Houdini Unchained

MUZEO hosts a unique exhibition dedicated to memorabilia of the master magician and escape artist, including the very milk can he escaped from in 1908 MORE

 

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