Women of the Bible

SINSINAWA -- For the fourth year, Women of the Bible will be performed at Sinsinawa Mound Friday, March 18. It is a dramatic presentation told through the many and diverse voices of women from the Old and New Testaments.

Anita Gutschick, renowned actress from Baltimore, reaches back across the ages to vividly portray biblical women. Tickets are available for dinner and the performance or the performance only. Performances will be at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m., with dinner served at noon and 5:45 p.m. Dinner theatre tickets cost $18 and will be on sale until March 11. Performance only tickets cost $10 and are available until the time of the show.

For more information contact Janice DeMuth at 608-748-4411, ext. 811, or visit the Web site at www.sinsinawa.org/moundcenter

Sinsinawa Mound, the Motherhouse for the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, is located in southwest Wisconsin on Cty. Rd. Z, off Hwy. 11, about five miles northeast of Dubuque.

WATERTOWN -- The Council for the Performing Arts will go back in time when they present Big Band Cavalcade on Saturday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. at the Watertown High School Auditorium, 825 Endeavour Dr.

Big Band Cavalcade will take listeners on a tour through the swing era.

Tickets for Big Band Cavalcade are $20 for adults, $18 for seniors, and $12 for students. Tickets can be purchased by calling 920-674-2179, or by stopping by the council's office at 100 N. Main St., Suite A, Jefferson.

FOND DU LAC -- Enjoy an evening of Gilbert and Sullivan as Marian College's Searl Pickett Classical Concert Series (SPCCS) presents Innocent Merriment at the Windhover Center for the Arts in Fond du Lac Thursday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m.

Innocent Merriment features Martha Fischer, assistant professor of piano and head of the accompaniment program at the University of Wisconsin School of Music, and Bill Lutes, artist in residence at the UW-Madison School of Music.

Tickets are $12 each or $6 for college students with college ID. Tickets are available at the Windhover Center for the Arts, 51 Sheboygan St., or by sending a check to SPCCS, P.O. Box 1351, Fond du Lac, WI 54936-1351.

PRAIRIE DU SAC -- Wollersheim Winery is hosting its annual open house on Saturday and Sunday, March 5 and 6, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Activities both days include grapevine pruning demonstrations in the vineyard, cooking with wine demonstrations, and winemaker presentations. The open house will also feature the release of the estate-grown Prairie Blush 2004 wine.

Visitors are invited to explore the winery on a self-guided tour through the fermentation room, underground wine cellars, and production areas that are not generally open to the public. Winery staff will be on hand to answer questions as well as provide bottling line demonstrations.

The open house is free of charge and open to the public. From Madison, take Hwy. 12 west to north on Hwy. 188. For more information or an event schedule, visit the winery's Web site at www.wollersheim.com

MADISON -- In remembrance of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Wisconsin Public Television and the University of Wisconsin Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies are hosting a public presentation by holocaust scholar Peter Hayes.

The free event is being held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 8, at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union (Tripp Commons on second floor), 800 Langdon St.

Hayes, the Theodore Z. Weiss Professor of Holocaust Studies at Northwestern University, will focus on the interaction between German business and the Nazis and the implications of a modern corporate society.

For more information about the presentation, call 800-422-9707 or 265-2302 in the Madison area.

MADISON -- Sunday Afternoon Live from the Elvehjem welcomes Mark Fink and Friends on Sunday, March 6, at 12:30 p.m. in Brittingham Gallery III at the Elvehjem Museum of Art.

The Madison Symphony Orchestra principal oboist will perform with bassoonist Marc Vallon and pianists Eli Kalman and Todd Welbourne.

Sunday Afternoon Live from the Elvehjem is a free weekly chamber music series presented by the Elvehjem Museum of Art and Wisconsin Public Radio, with the cooperation of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music.

The series, hosted by music commentator Lori Skelton, is broadcast live on Wisconsin Public Radio stations, including WERN, 88.7, Madison.