COMMUNITY WRAP

STUDENT MUSICIANS

Youth orchestras to close concert season

The Las Vegas Youth Orchestras will perform their final concert of the season at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Artemus Ham Hall at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

All four orchestra groups will participate. The Youth Philharmonic will feature its concerto competition soloist, Roxanne Hidalgo, performing the Bruch Violin Concerto.

The student musicians in the youth orchestras are admitted by annual audition and represent all parts of the Las Vegas Valley. They range in age from 8 to 18.

Tickets are on sale at the Performing Arts Center box office on campus, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway. General admission is $7; $3 for students, senior citizens and disabled.

DRUM PERFORMANCE

Day of Percussion coming Saturday

The Nevada Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society will present its annual Day of Percussion from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday at Spring Valley High School, 3750 S. Buffalo Drive.

The event will include a collaboration among the society, the UNLV percussion program, the College of Southern Nevada percussion program and the Clark County School District percussion students to re-create the sound that began in 1933 with the International Marimba Symphony Orchestra during the Century of Progress Exposition.

Other performances include a drum set clinic with Bernie Dresel (Big Phat Band), a drum line demonstration by the Vegas Vanguard, a lecture by Bill Kemnitz from the original marimba orchestra, the Mabel Hoggard Drumming Ensemble and local student performers.

Admission is free to all Percussive Arts Society members. A $5 donation is suggested for all others. For more information, contact Brett Barnes at 371-4615.

CHILDREN'S EXHIBIT

Show teaches kids about home safety

The Great Safety Adventure, an interactive children's exhibit, is visiting Las Vegas Thursday through May 17.

The exhibit travels to elementary schools during the week and opens to the public on the weekends to teach kids and parents how to make their homes safer.

The national nonprofit Home Safety Council is launching its 10th anniversary tour of the award-winning exhibit. In an effort to create safer homes across the United States, the interactive "field trip on wheels" stops at elementary schools and Lowe's Home Improvement stores to bring home safety lessons to life for more than 1 million parents and children.

The Great Safety Adventure unfolds from a tractor-trailer truck to form a 1,000-square-foot animated home. A team of trained home safety experts called Safety Rangers and the Home Safety Council's mascot, Rover the Home Safety Hound, lead the Great Safety Adventure to help prevent home-related injuries that result in 20,000 deaths and 21 million medical visits annually.

The exhibit will visit several local schools and be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Lowe's at 2465 N. Nellis Blvd.; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 3 at Lowe's at 2570 E. Craig Road; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 10 at Lowe's at 6050 W. Craig Road; and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 17 at Lowe's at 7550 W. Washington Ave.