The Culver City Council approved 16 grants for the 2015 Culver City Performing Arts Grant Program.  The program, which is also supported by Sony Pictures Entertainment, provides music, dance and theatre performances throughout the year -- many of which are certainly familiar to regular readers of this website.  The 2015 grantees include:

The Actors’ Gang

Benita…

Benita Bike’s DanceArt will offer a free performance on June 1 at 1:30 pm at Culver City’s Senior Center (4095 Overland Ave.) The chamber modern dance company will perform the brand new work “In the Garden,” accompanied by Finnish vocal music, as well as the quirky and humorous “Through the Lens,” and the ever-popular piece “Southern Memories,” set to traditional…

The Culver City Symphony's annual "Concert for Young Musicians is this Saturday, April 26, at 8:00 pm at the Veteran's Memorial Auditorium. The evening, featuring Beethoven's "Pastorale" Symphony No. 6, will offer performances by the two young violinists who were the winners of the orchestra's most recent Parness Concerto Competition: Aileen Chung-Age 14 and Yu…

The Culver City Symphony will perform this Saturday, February 22, at 8:00 pm at the Veteran's Memorial Auditorium. The program is unique in that it will feature concertos for both the viola and for the bass in one concert. The works will include:

Handel/Casadesus: Concerto for Viola (1924?), Benjamin Chilton-Viola

Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1, C Major, Hob. VIIb/1 (1761-65), Will Cravy-Bass

(Arranged for Bass…

The Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra with Soprano Emma-Grace Dunbar will perform "An Afternoon at the Opera" this Sunday at 3:00 pm at Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Culver City. The performance, which costs $15 or $10 for students and seniors will consist of the following program:

Mozart: Overture to The Abduction from the…

Donna Sternberg & Dancers will present its latest science-inspired work, Dark Energy, at the Veterans Memorial Building in Culver City this Sunday, November 10, at 3:00 pm. The site–specific performance will begin in the Rotunda Room of the Veteran's Building, where the company will talk about some of the properties of dark energy and demonstrate how it uses them…

The Culver City Symphony's season opening concert will pay tribute to the 200th Anniversary of the births of Verdi and Wagner -- this Saturday, November 5, at 8:00 pm at the Veteran's Memorial Auditorium. The evening will also offer a unique concert aria by Beethoven, and a Mozart symphony. 

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll…

The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles will present a Veterans Center for the Performing Arts production of the play Cry Havoc! in the Rotunda Room of the Veterans Memorial Building in Culver CIty this Saturday, Sunday and Monday, May 11-13, at 8:00 pm. Here's how they describe the play:

"After serving six years in the Army, and battling PTSD, a young…

Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre will present a dance performance, with choreography built into and around a 1961 vintage Oasis trailer, in Parcel B in downtown Culver City, this Saturday, May 4th, at 8:30 and 9:30. Tickets are $15 and $10 for seniors and students.

According to the artists, the performance, called At the Oasis, will explore “the idea of home as…

The Culver City Symphony Orchestra is presenting a concert this Saturday, April 6, at 8:00 pm at Veterans Memorial Auditorium. Admission is $10, and $5 for kids 17 years of age and under. The concert is free for Westchester Symphony Society members. 

For this special concert featuring winners from the orchestra-sponsored Parness Concerto Competition, the orchestra will present:

Camille…

The Culver City Symphony Orchestra is celebrating its 50th Year with a concert this Saturday, February 23, at 8:00 pm at Veterans Memorial Auditorium. For this special concert, the symphony welcomes guest conductor Andrew Shulman, Principal Cellist of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, former Principal Cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and an active international conductor and cello soloist. Admission is $10, and the concert is free for Westchester…

The Culver City Symphony Orchestra is celebrating its 50th Year with a free concert this Friday, November 16, at Veterans Memorial Auditorium.  The concert begins at 8:00 pm, but there is also a pre-concert talk with the Culver City Symphony's Music Director and Conductor, Frank Fetta, at 7:15, for Symphony Society members only.

The concert will include:

Peter Maxwell Davies: Ojai Festival Overture…

The Culver City Symphony Orchestra will present a concert featuring Faure, Debussy and Mendelssohn this Saturday, June 9, at 7:30 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Auditorium. 

Fauré: Prelude, Pelléas et Mélisande, (1898)

von Weber: Concerto for Bassoon, 1st mvt (1811), Nathan Kirchhoff-Bassoon

Debussy: Children's…

The Culver City Symphony Orchestra will present a concert featuring Saint-Saëns, Shostakovich, and Beethoven this Saturday, May 12, at 8 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Auditorium. 

The concert will include:

Saint-Saëns: Concerto for Cello, No. 1, a minor, (1872)

Shostakovich: Concerto for…

The dance troupe Donna Sternberg & Dancers will present The Flowering of Desire at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook in Culver City this Saturday, November 12, at 3:30. This site-specific performance will use the park landscape as a stage and will be accompanied by live music from composer…

The Culver City Symphony Orchestra will present its opening concert of the 2011-12 Season this Saturday, November 12, at Veterans Memorial Auditorium. Admission and parking are free. 

The concert will include:

Donizetti: Ah! Mes Ami, “The Daughter of the Regiment” (1840), featuring tenor Haqumai Sharpe…