Mike Bradshaw, a volunteer of the Secret City Festival since its inception, was honored in February at the Annual Southeast Festivals and Events Conference in Knoxville.

101 W. Vermilion St. / 233-7060 Featuring more than 75 original oil paintings, presenting the bayous, fields, architecture, people, places and lore of Acadiana as created by George Rodrigue in the Main Gallery.

Applications are being invited from individuals, artists, arts organisations, theatres, clubs and communities across Staffordshire for a share of this year’s county arts grants fund.

PROFESSIONAL THEATER SARASOTA “Black Pearl Sings!”

CONCERTS

The economy may be in trouble, and everyone’s talking about cutting back. But you wouldn’t know it from Fort Worth’s perennial Main St. Fort Worth Arts Festival, beginning Thursday and running through April 19.

Can’t make it to Main St.? Here are some other spring festivals in the region:

The Huntsville Festival of the Arts (HFA) has been recognized for its efforts by Festivals and Events Ontario. Out of approximately 2,500 annual festivals and events staged each year in Ontario, the HFA has been named one of the top 100.

A movie that documents the work of troop greeters at Bangor International Airport will make its Maine premiere Thursday at the Collins Center for the Arts in Orono.

Community festivals, those one-day vacations from work and the world, are succumbing to life’s pressures.