Week Ahead: Mother's Day Concert, play about French Revolution, 'The Little Mermaid Jr.'

Week Ahead: May 8-14, 2022

HAPPENING NOW

Next Generation’s Mother's Day Concert: 4 p.m. today, Eastside High School Theatre, 1201 SE 43rd St. Tickets: $15 adults, $10 ages 6 and older. (371-2986, pofahldancestudio.com/works) Works include neo-classical ballet, traditional ballet, jazz, contemporary works, tap and musical theatre works with music from Strauss to RedOne – "Dream Girls" to "Hair Spray!"

"The Revolutionists": 8 p.m. today-Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Hippodrome Theatre, 25 SE Second Ave. (373-5968) Hilarious, witty, female-powered play following four women during the French Revolution Reign of Terror.

Doja Dance: 8 p.m. Wednesday, High Dive, 210 SW Second Ave. Tickets: $10 in advance, $15 day of show. (872-5949)

Overtime Self Made: 7 p.m. Thursday, High Dive, 210 SW Second Ave. Tickets: $20 in advance, $30 day of show. (highdivegville@gmail.com, 872-5949)

"The Little Mermaid Jr.": 7:30 p.m. Friday, Phillips Center, 3201 Hull Road. Tickets: $17 general admission, $12 ages 1-3, free for infants. (392-2787) Presented by the Star Center and Caring and Sharing Learning School.

Driptones, Clay Dixon and the Piccadillies, and Northy: 9 p.m. Friday, High Dive, 210 SW Second Ave. Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 day of show. (highdivegville.veeps.com)

Pop Punk Emo Night with DJ Roxx Xxavage: 9 p.m. Saturday, High Dive, 210 SW Second Ave. Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 day of show. (872-5949)

UPCOMING

Headliners for the Frontliners: 7 p.m. May 15, Phillips Center, 3201 Hull Road. Tickets: $20-$53. (392-2787) Presented by Professionals to USA Inc. in cooperation with Golden Martin Productions, starring Martin Nievera, Ai-Ai Delas-Alas, Robin Nievera, Golden Canedo, Betong Sumaya and Carol Banawa.

Wednesday Night Titans KHALIKO: 8 p.m. May 15, High Dive, 210 SW Second Ave. Tickets: $12 in advance, $14 day of show. (highdivegville.veeps.com)

"American Idiot": 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays May 20-June 2, Gainesville Community Playhouse, 811 S. Main St.. (gcplayhouse.org) The show is based upon the Grammy Award-winning album of the same name by the rock band Green Day.

Dance Sun Country 15th Anniversary Recital: Rock This Stage: 1 p.m. May 21, Phillips Center, 3201 Hull Road. Tickets: $20 general admission, $17 ages 3-11, free ages 2 and younger. (392-2787) Dance Sun Country’s 15th anniversary recital featuring approximately 40 dances including performances by all students and classes, from the Dance Tots through advanced-level dancers.

Cade's Fourth Birthday: 1:30 p.m. May 21, Cade Museum, 811 S. Main St. Cupcakes will be served while they last. There will be a Codebotics competition where children working in teams will solve puzzles and navigate robotics through obstacles.

Alonzo Felder, The Rev. ASJ Allen Gainesville Book Launch: 7 p.m. May 23, location TBA. (portiz@ufl.edu) The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program will be co-sponsoring the book launch with the A. Quinn Jones Museum and the city of Gainesville. The event is in support of Alonzo Felder's new book, "Discovering A.S.J. Allen: A Story of Skinfolk, Kinfolk, and Village Folk," published by the Florida Historical Society Press.

Hawthorne Annual Homecoming: 11 a.m. June 30, July 1 and July 2, Shell Elementary cafeteria, Hawthorne. Speaker Lenton "PoP" Herring will speak. Free barbecue dinner after program.

EXHIBITS

"Science Up Close: Fantastic Fossils": Open now, Florida Museum of Natural History, 3215 Hull Road. Admission: $7 adults; $6.50 Florida residents, seniors and non-University of Florida college students; $4.50 ages 3-17; free to museum members, children ages 2 and younger and UF students with a valid Gator 1 Card. (floridamuseum.ufl.edu/visit/plan, floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/fantastic-fossils, 846-2000) The exhibition is a collaborative endeavor linking the museum’s exhibits and collections staff, giving people a look at never-before-seen specimens and real fossils. Researchers from the vertebrate paleontology, invertebrate paleontology and paleobotany collections will be in the exhibit as part of its working lab, providing a glimpse into the daily life of curators, collection managers, students and volunteers.

"She/Her/Hers: Women in the Arts of China": On display through March 24, 2024, David A. Cofrin Asian Wing. (harn.ufl.edu/exhibitions/current) Exhibition unravels the intersecting roles women played as subjects, artists and consumers of art in traditional, modern and contemporary China. Features a wide range of works -- paintings, calligraphy, textiles, ceramics, bronzes, photographs, and lacquer and silver wares, some of which have never been on view before. Organized around four themes -- "Representing Femininity," "Anonymous Beauty," "Female Artists" and "Beyond the Boudoir" -- this exhibition not only realizes a full spectrum but also provides a more nuanced view of women’s dynamic engagements with and contributions to the arts of China throughout history.

This article originally appeared on The Gainesville Sun: Week Ahead: Next Generation, Revolutionist. dance recital