Weekend of Feb. 19
Empty Bowls
Sample soups and desserts by Fort Worth chefs, select keepsakes from handcrafted bowls, and more at Empty Bowls Fort Worth, a fusion of culinary and visual arts. Each dollar spent at Empty Bowls can provide food for five meals, benefitting Tarrant Area Food Bank.
www.tafb.org/tafb-events/empty-bowls
WHAT: Empty Bowls – Benefitting Tarrant Area Food Bank
WHEN: Feb. 19, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
WHERE: Will Rogers Memorial Center
8th Annual Vitro Moda
Vitro Moda is Sin Ca Na Studios way of uniting the exciting creation of glass (Vitro) and fashion (Moda) into a very unique fundraiser. Each year, they transform a venue into a New York runway. Couture models walk the catwalk with the best of glass art created by glass artisans from all over the United States. The event includes great food, wine, and a silent auction of nothing but glass.
www.sinaca.org
WHAT: Vitro Moda at Sin Ca Na Studios
WHEN: Feb. 20
WHERE: 1013 West Magnolia Ave.
Cliburn Festival – An American Influence
The Festival will comprise five concerts held February 18–21, 2016 at five different venues and will feature performances by all American performers: pianists Ralph Votapek (1962 Cliburn gold medalist), Spencer Myer (2009 Cliburn competitor), and Henry Kramer; soprano Ava Pine; baritone Jonathan Beyer; and the Attacca Quartet.
www.cliburn.org
WHAT: Cliburn Festival – American Influence
WHEN: Feb. 18-21
WHERE: Five different venues
Arlo Guthrie: Alice’s Restaurant 50th Anniversary Tour
The Alice’s Restaurant 50th Anniversary Tour brings together an ensemble of fine musicians never to grace the stage together at one time. Arlo’s deft band includes Terry Hall (drums), Bobby Sweet (guitar, vocals), Darren Todd (guitar), and his son, Abe Guthrie (keyboards).Each show is also curated with a special multi-media presentation featuring previously unseen images from the Guthrie archives.
www.basshall.com
WHAT: Arlo Gutherie: Alice’s Restaurant 50th Anniversary Tour
WHEN: Feb. 18-20
WHERE: Bass Hall
Clever Little Lies at Circle Theatre
Circle Theatre kicks off the New Year with Joe DiPietro’s Clever Little Lies. Currently playing off Broadway, Clever Little Lies is a story about love and marriage… for better… and for worse. It follows what happens when family secrets and lies are revealed over the course of an evening.
www.circletheatre.com
WHAT: Clever Little Lies
WHEN: Through March 5
WHERE: Circle Theatre
Weekend of Feb. 26
Center Stage
Begin with caviar and champagne in the beautiful opera hall’s Grand Lobby, then continue the affair with sublime cuisine and extraordinary wines, enjoyed once guests are seated on the elaborately set stage of Bass Hall. The evening’s special bonus is the presentation of the Walter Kaufmann Lifetime Achievement Award, bestowed upon a distinguished and unparalleled leader in Fort Worth’s food-and-beverage community, the Lancarte Family.
www.fortworthfoodandwinefestival.com
WHAT: Fort Worth Food and Wine Festival – Center Stage Event
WHEN: March 2, 6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
WHERE: Bass Hall
Cowtown Marathon
Fort Worth’s premier marathon weekend, with fun and competition for all age groups. The Cowtown is celebrating our 38th year as we welcome the world to Fort Worth, proud to be the largest multi-race event in the State of Texas.
www.cowtownmarathon.org
WHAT: Cowtown Marathon
WHEN: Feb. 26-28
WHERE: Courses vary depending on race
Taming of the Shrew & The Tamer Tamed
Revile in the original Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare on Saturday Feb. 27. Then take in the comedic sequel written by seventeenth century playwright John Fletcher switches the gender roles of the Shakespeare play: here the women seek to tame the men.
www.stolenshakespeareguild.org
WHAT: Taming of the Shrew & The Tamer Tamed by Stolen Shakespeare Guild
WHEN: Feb. 26-27
WHERE: Fort Worth Community Arts Center in the Sanders Theater
Etudes, the Concert, Allegro Brillante – Texas Ballet Theatre
Études is a tribute to dancing. The ballet follows the dancers from the basic five positions to the most difficult steps, from the daily hard work in the rehearsal studio to the most brilliant and elegant stage performance, showing the different sides of the art of ballet, from pure, poetic allusion to the romantic ballet to sheer bravoura. The ballet builds up like a crescendo ending with a firework finale that combines dance, spirit and style: a challenge to a whole Company.
www.texasballettheatre.org
WHAT: Etudes, the Concert, Allegro Brillante
WHEN: Feb. 26-28
WHERE: Bass Hall
American Epics – Amon Carter Museum
The first major exhibition in more than twenty-five years to feature the life and works of the renowned American painter Thomas Hart Benton (1889¬1975), American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood explores the previously overlooked relationship between Benton’s art and movie making.
www.cartermuseum.org
WHAT: American Epics
WHEN: Through May 1
WHERE: Amon Carter Museum