SMARTS open house scheduled Tuesday

SMARTS open housescheduled Tuesday
YOUNGSTOWN -- Students Motivated by the Arts will host its annual Holiday Open House from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday at the SMARTS Center, 258 Federal Plaza West, next to Edward W. Powers Auditorium.
SMARTS and The Arts Council of Youngstown and Mahoning County have invited area schools to participate in a contest by making tree decorations, table decorations or wreaths.
SMARTS is an arts education project of the Youngstown State University College of Fine and Performing Arts, the College of Education, and other organizations. It offers arts education programming after-school, weekends, and summers.
Applications for pupils K-12 are being accepted for free SMARTS arts education classes to start in January. Classes include visual arts, music, dance, writing, and theater.
For more information contact Becky Keck, SMARTS director, or Kelly Bancroft, SMARTS coordinator at (330) 941-ARTSok or on the SMARTS Web site at www.fpa.ysu.edu/smarts.
Museum displays holiday items
WARREN -- The Sutliff Museum on the second floor of the Warren-Trumbull County Library, is showing a collection of handmade, bejeweled holiday trees through the end of January.
Irene G. Was of Warren created the collection on display at 444 Mahoning Ave. NW. She began by decorating pyramid cones, then plastic foam and, finally, ceramic trees from "found" materials. She collected jewelry at garage sales and added them to make extravagant holiday decorations.
Was will also have paintings on exhibit this month at the Butler Institute of American Art's Trumbull County campus.
For more information, call (330) 399-8807.
Kuumba festival at rock hall
CLEVELAND -- The third annual Kuumba Cultural Arts Festival will be fom noon to 2 p.m. Dec. 18 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's main stage.
The holiday performance will include excerpts from the production "The Coming of the King."
The festival began as an offshoot of the Kuumba Arts Festival produced by Cleveland State University and the Culture Coalition of Greter Cleveland. Dance, drama, African drumming, music classes and stage production and management are combined and presented by the Foluk & eacute; Cultural Arts Center participants, who will perform at the festival.
Girard museumopen for tours
GIRARD -- The Girard Historical Society's Barnhisel House Museum is decorated for the holidays. It is open for tours on the second and fourth weekends of December and for tours on other days by appointment, (330) 545-6162.
Music from the worldat Cleveland Institute
CLEVELAND -- The CIM New Music Ensemble will present contemporary music from around the world, featuring works by Zhou Long, Christopher Rouse, Aaron Jay Kernis, Gyorg Ligeti and Toru Takemitsu, at 8 p.m. Thursday.
Gilbert Galindo, student of CIM Composition Department Head Margaret Brouwer, will conduct the New Music Ensemble, composed of Sean Snapp, flute; Courtney Miller, oboe; Bill Kalinkos, clarinet; Helena Kopchick, bassoon; John Gattis, horn; Colin Sieg, trumpet; Eric Starr, trombone; Brian Sweigart, percussion; Stephanie Nilles, piano; Robyn Julyan, Raffaella Wahby, Sarah Wood and Jing Zeng, violin; Helen Carlson and Bonnie Yeager, viola; Chien Chia-Long, cello; and Wen-Ling Shih, contrabass.
Holiday concert fromGreenville orchestra
GREENVILLE, Pa. -- The Greenville Symphony Orchestra will hold "The Many Moods of Christmas," a fund-raising concert at 2 p.m. Dec. 19 at the Passavant Center on the campus of Thiel College. The Shenango Valley Choral joins the GSO.
Tickets available the door are $12 and $10 with flier, students $5, and preschoolers are free. Parking is free.
Quote/unquote
"The man is a crockpot of different things. ... He led one of the most exciting, insane lives I've ever read in my life, and I just had to play him." -- Leonardo DiCaprio told AP Television News at the Los Angeles premiere of "The Aviator." The actor stars in Martin Scorsese's biopic of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes.