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    <created-at type="datetime">2007-04-04T11:00:59-05:00</created-at>
    <description>&lt;br/&gt;Return to the 1970s with David Mamet&#8217;s eternal battle of men and women.  SEXUAL PERVERSITY is an abrasive but honest look at the state of sex in the minds of adults during the post-collegiate and early career building years. Mamet, as in all of his plays, shows honest humanity in tangible, easily-believed characters. The language is obscene &amp; perverse but horrifically true-to-life and natural. This play contains adult language.&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Performances are May 4-5, 10-12 and 17-19 at 7:30 PM. May 4 preview: all seats $10. Friday &amp; Saturday evenings: $16 adult, $14 student and senior; Thursday evenings: $14 adult, $12 student and senior. Student rush tickets, if available 30 minutes before each performance: $8 with I.D. Tickets go on sale April 17.&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Call 417-831-8001 for Tickets (out-of-town 888-452-0930)&lt;br/&gt;
www.VCTheatre.com&lt;br/&gt;
</description>
    <end-date type="date">2007-05-04</end-date>
    <end-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T22:00:00-06:00</end-time>
    <group-id type="integer">25</group-id>
    <id type="integer">371</id>
    <location>Vandivort Center Theatre</location>
    <name>Sexual Perversity in Chicago</name>
    <start-date type="date">2007-05-04</start-date>
    <start-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T19:30:00-06:00</start-time>
    <update-at type="datetime"></update-at>
    <user-id type="integer">1</user-id>
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  <event>
    <created-at type="datetime">2007-04-05T15:07:18-05:00</created-at>
    <description>&lt;br/&gt;SIDEKICK SKETCH COMEDY PRESENTS: HIGH SCHOOL DREAMS A New Comedy About the Hardships of High School&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;High School Dreams is the most ambitious undertaking yet for SIDEKICK Sketch Comedy. The show is set up more like a play than your average sketch revue. It follows the journey of five characters through all of the most important parts of high school, from the first day to the senior prom.&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The show will run at The Skinny Improv Comedy Theatre (301 Park Central East) May 3 at 8 and 10 p.m., and May 4-5 at 10 and 11:30 p.m.. Tickets are $5, or free on May 4 and 5 with the purchase of a Skinny Improv Main Stage show.&lt;br/&gt;



&lt;br/&gt;For more information, please contact The Skinny Improv at 417/831-LAFF, or e-mail Jeff Jenkins at info@theskinnyimprov.com.&lt;br/&gt;
</description>
    <end-date type="date">2007-05-04</end-date>
    <end-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T10:00:00-06:00</end-time>
    <group-id type="integer">25</group-id>
    <id type="integer">380</id>
    <location>Skinny Improv Comedy Theatre</location>
    <name>Skinny Improv Sidekick Sketch Comedy</name>
    <start-date type="date">2007-05-04</start-date>
    <start-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T22:00:00-06:00</start-time>
    <update-at type="datetime"></update-at>
    <user-id type="integer">1</user-id>
  </event>
  <event>
    <created-at type="datetime">2007-04-26T09:32:46-05:00</created-at>
    <description>Springfield Sister Cities Association and American Family Insurance present ArtsFiesta!, a Cinco de Mayo celebration of Mexican art, culture and music with an authentic Mariachi band from Springfield's sister city, Tlaquepaque, Mexico. ArtsFiesta! will be held Friday, May 4, 2007, from 6 to 10 p.m., in Founders Park in Downtown Springfield. &lt;br&gt;

An authentic Mariachi band from the Tlaquepaque community will perform at 6:15 p.m.; 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. during the festival.&lt;br&gt;Gate admission is $2; children 10 and under free. &lt;br&gt;For more information, contact: Erin Russell, Festival Manager, 417-831-6200</description>
    <end-date type="date">2007-04-26</end-date>
    <end-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T10:00:00-06:00</end-time>
    <group-id type="integer">25</group-id>
    <id type="integer">428</id>
    <location>Founders Park on Water Street</location>
    <name>ArtsFiesta!</name>
    <start-date type="date">2007-05-04</start-date>
    <start-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T18:00:00-06:00</start-time>
    <update-at type="datetime"></update-at>
    <user-id type="integer">1</user-id>
  </event>
  <event>
    <created-at type="datetime">2007-04-04T11:20:59-05:00</created-at>
    <description>Return to the 1970s with David Mamet&#8217;s eternal battle of men and women.  SEXUAL PERVERSITY is an abrasive but honest look at the state of sex in the minds of adults during the post-collegiate and early career building years. Mamet, as in all of his plays, shows honest humanity in tangible, easily-believed characters. The language is obscene &amp; perverse but horrifically true-to-life and natural. This play contains adult language.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Performances are May 4-5, 10-12 and 17-19 at 7:30 PM. May 4 preview: all seats $10. Friday &amp; Saturday evenings: $16 adult, $14 student and senior; Thursday evenings: $14 adult, $12 student and senior. Student rush tickets, if available 30 minutes before each performance: $8 with I.D. Tickets go on sale April 17.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Wear your Arts Fest on Walnut Street sticker and receive $2 off the price of admission on Saturday night at the VCTheatre. Celebrate all the arts in downtown Springfield!

&lt;br&gt;Call 417-831-8001 for Tickets (out-of-town 888-452-0930)
www.VCTheatre.com
</description>
    <end-date type="date">2007-05-05</end-date>
    <end-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T22:00:00-06:00</end-time>
    <group-id type="integer">25</group-id>
    <id type="integer">372</id>
    <location>Vandivort Center Theatre</location>
    <name>Sexual Perversity in Chicago</name>
    <start-date type="date">2007-05-05</start-date>
    <start-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T19:30:00-06:00</start-time>
    <update-at type="datetime"></update-at>
    <user-id type="integer">1</user-id>
  </event>
  <event>
    <created-at type="datetime">2007-04-05T15:07:52-05:00</created-at>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;SIDEKICK SKETCH COMEDY PRESENTS: HIGH SCHOOL DREAMS A New Comedy About the Hardships of High School&lt;p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;High School Dreams is the most ambitious undertaking yet for SIDEKICK Sketch Comedy. The show is set up more like a play than your average sketch revue. It follows the journey of five characters through all of the most important parts of high school, from the first day to the senior prom.&lt;p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The show will run at The Skinny Improv Comedy Theatre (301 Park Central East) May 3 at 8 and 10 p.m., and May 4-5 at 10 and 11:30 p.m.. Tickets are $5, or free on May 4 and 5 with the purchase of a Skinny Improv Main Stage show.&lt;p&gt;



&lt;p&gt;For more information, please contact The Skinny Improv at 417/831-LAFF, or e-mail Jeff Jenkins at info@theskinnyimprov.com.&lt;p&gt;
</description>
    <end-date type="date">2007-05-05</end-date>
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    <group-id type="integer">25</group-id>
    <id type="integer">381</id>
    <location>Skinny Improv Comedy Theatre</location>
    <name>Skinny Improv Sidekick Sketch Comedy</name>
    <start-date type="date">2007-05-05</start-date>
    <start-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T22:00:00-06:00</start-time>
    <update-at type="datetime"></update-at>
    <user-id type="integer">1</user-id>
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  <event>
    <created-at type="datetime">2006-12-22T11:26:21-06:00</created-at>
    <description>Every May for the past 27 years, the Springfield Regional Arts Council has sponsored Artsfest, a celebration of springtime, food, fun, and the performing and visual arts. The fine art and contemporary craft fair is the cornerstone of Artsfest. 

Traditionally, 30,000-35,000 people attend Artsfest 
from Springfield and the surrounding region. 

Artsfest is located on Walnut Street in Springfield, 
MO, amidst historic houses and tree-lined sidwalks. 

Show Dates &amp; Times For Artsfest 2007
Saturday, May 5, 2007, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm 
Sunday, May 6, 2007, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm 

You may print out a Call For Artists Application below or fill out the application online. Also, you may pay for your application and booth fee online at our store.</description>
    <end-date type="date">2007-05-06</end-date>
    <end-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T17:00:00-06:00</end-time>
    <group-id type="integer">25</group-id>
    <id type="integer">169</id>
    <location>Walnut Street</location>
    <name>Artsfest</name>
    <start-date type="date">2007-05-05</start-date>
    <start-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T10:00:00-06:00</start-time>
    <update-at type="datetime"></update-at>
    <user-id type="integer">1</user-id>
  </event>
  <event>
    <created-at type="datetime">2007-04-24T11:04:14-05:00</created-at>
    <description>&lt;br/&gt;Opening Friday, May 5, 2007, with a reception for the artists from 5-7 p.m., will be "Regional Color", at Waverly House Gifts and Gallery upstairs gallery.  This juried show will include 27 regional artists in a variety of media including pottery, oil, watercolor, stained glass, turned wood and fiber art.  This show will continue through June 23, 2007.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;  Waverly House is located at 2031 S. Waverly.  For more information call 882-3445.&lt;br/&gt;
</description>
    <end-date type="date">2007-04-24</end-date>
    <end-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T00:00:00-06:00</end-time>
    <group-id type="integer">25</group-id>
    <id type="integer">425</id>
    <location>Waverly House Gifts and Gallery</location>
    <name>Regional Color</name>
    <start-date type="date">2007-05-05</start-date>
    <start-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T17:00:00-06:00</start-time>
    <update-at type="datetime"></update-at>
    <user-id type="integer">1</user-id>
  </event>
  <event>
    <created-at type="datetime">2007-04-26T09:34:16-05:00</created-at>
    <description>&lt;br/&gt;"An Evening at Artsfest" with Springfield Symphony, Springfield Ballet, and Springfield Regional Opera.&lt;br/&gt;

&lt;br/&gt;This is a free event.&lt;br/&gt;</description>
    <end-date type="date">2007-04-26</end-date>
    <end-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T10:00:00-06:00</end-time>
    <group-id type="integer">25</group-id>
    <id type="integer">429</id>
    <location>Jordan Valley Park</location>
    <name>An Evening at Artsfest</name>
    <start-date type="date">2007-05-05</start-date>
    <start-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T19:30:00-06:00</start-time>
    <update-at type="datetime"></update-at>
    <user-id type="integer">1</user-id>
  </event>
  <event>
    <created-at type="datetime">2007-02-06T14:56:30-06:00</created-at>
    <description>Hosted by the Missouri State College of Arts and Letters</description>
    <end-date type="date"></end-date>
    <end-time type="datetime"></end-time>
    <group-id type="integer">25</group-id>
    <id type="integer">233</id>
    <location>Jaunita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts</location>
    <name>President's Concert</name>
    <start-date type="date">2007-05-06</start-date>
    <start-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T16:00:00-06:00</start-time>
    <update-at type="datetime"></update-at>
    <user-id type="integer">1</user-id>
  </event>
  <event>
    <created-at type="datetime">2007-04-13T10:54:34-05:00</created-at>
    <description>Springfield Little Theatre&#8217;s The Taffetas - Excerpts featuring Donna Cook, Leah Hamilton, Micha Owens and Erica Spyres


&lt;br&gt;Free Lunch Time Concert Series May 16 - July 25, 2007&lt;br&gt;
12:15 - 12:45 P.M.&lt;br&gt;
Founders Park on Water Street between Jefferson and Boonville Avenues&lt;br&gt;
Presented by An Arts Patronage Initiative/Community Foundation of the Ozarks/Springfield-Greene County Park Board&lt;br&gt;
For more information (417) 865-0450
</description>
    <end-date type="date">2007-05-09</end-date>
    <end-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T12:00:00-06:00</end-time>
    <group-id type="integer">25</group-id>
    <id type="integer">395</id>
    <location>Founders Park on Water Street</location>
    <name>Wednesday Noon in Founders Park</name>
    <start-date type="date">2007-05-09</start-date>
    <start-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T12:15:00-06:00</start-time>
    <update-at type="datetime"></update-at>
    <user-id type="integer">1</user-id>
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  <event>
    <created-at type="datetime">2007-03-27T11:53:41-05:00</created-at>
    <description>&lt;br/&gt;The Springfield Regional Arts Council is pleased to invite all area writers to the newly-formed Creamery Red Ink Writing Workshop to help nurture creative literary projects in SW Missouri.  As part of the Arts Council's outreach program, the weekly workshops are free to the public and designed to instill a love of writing and reading as well as to encourage and support participants in their writing projects.  Discussions will take place on techniques of prose composition (plot structure and character development), syntax, diction, theory and all aspects of the art of writing fiction and non-fiction.  Workshop attendance is limited to 25 participants.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;  Call Sandra CH Smith (Arts Council director) at 417-862-2787 for information and to "enroll".  The Creamery is located at 411 N. Sherman Parkway in downtown Springfield.&lt;br/&gt;  </description>
    <end-date type="date">2007-05-10</end-date>
    <end-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T20:00:00-06:00</end-time>
    <group-id type="integer">25</group-id>
    <id type="integer">353</id>
    <location>The Creamery Arts Center</location>
    <name>Creamery Red Ink Writing Workshop</name>
    <start-date type="date">2007-05-10</start-date>
    <start-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T19:00:00-06:00</start-time>
    <update-at type="datetime"></update-at>
    <user-id type="integer">1</user-id>
  </event>
  <event>
    <created-at type="datetime">2007-04-04T11:21:49-05:00</created-at>
    <description>&lt;br/&gt;Return to the 1970s with David Mamet&#8217;s eternal battle of men and women.  SEXUAL PERVERSITY is an abrasive but honest look at the state of sex in the minds of adults during the post-collegiate and early career building years. Mamet, as in all of his plays, shows honest humanity in tangible, easily-believed characters. The language is obscene &amp; perverse but horrifically true-to-life and natural. This play contains adult language.&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Performances are May 4-5, 10-12 and 17-19 at 7:30 PM. May 4 preview: all seats $10. Friday &amp; Saturday evenings: $16 adult, $14 student and senior; Thursday evenings: $14 adult, $12 student and senior. Student rush tickets, if available 30 minutes before each performance: $8 with I.D. Tickets go on sale April 17.&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Call 417-831-8001 for Tickets (out-of-town 888-452-0930)&lt;br/&gt;
www.VCTheatre.com&lt;br/&gt;
</description>
    <end-date type="date">2007-05-10</end-date>
    <end-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T22:00:00-06:00</end-time>
    <group-id type="integer">25</group-id>
    <id type="integer">373</id>
    <location>Vandivort Center Theatre</location>
    <name>Sexual Perversity in Chicago</name>
    <start-date type="date">2007-05-10</start-date>
    <start-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T19:30:00-06:00</start-time>
    <update-at type="datetime"></update-at>
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  <event>
    <created-at type="datetime">2007-03-12T16:11:51-05:00</created-at>
    <description>By Rick Lewis

Set in the 1950&#8217;s, four singing sisters from Muncie, Indiana are in a New York theatre making their national television debut.  They sing and dance their way through nearly 40 classic tunes including hits like &#8220;Sh-Boom,&#8221; &#8220;Mister Sandman,&#8221; &#8220;Johnny Angel,&#8221; and &#8220;Where The Boys Are.&#8221;  The Taffetas pays tribute to the sounds of the girl groups of the &#8216;50&#8217;s, The Maguire Sisters, The Fontaine Sisters, and the Chordettes.</description>
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    <group-id type="integer">25</group-id>
    <id type="integer">326</id>
    <location>Springfield Little Theatre, 311 E. Walnut</location>
    <name>The Taffetas</name>
    <start-date type="date">2007-05-11</start-date>
    <start-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T19:30:00-06:00</start-time>
    <update-at type="datetime"></update-at>
    <user-id type="integer">1</user-id>
  </event>
  <event>
    <created-at type="datetime">2007-04-04T11:22:38-05:00</created-at>
    <description>&lt;br/&gt;Return to the 1970s with David Mamet&#8217;s eternal battle of men and women.  SEXUAL PERVERSITY is an abrasive but honest look at the state of sex in the minds of adults during the post-collegiate and early career building years. Mamet, as in all of his plays, shows honest humanity in tangible, easily-believed characters. The language is obscene &amp; perverse but horrifically true-to-life and natural. This play contains adult language.&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Performances are May 4-5, 10-12 and 17-19 at 7:30 PM. May 4 preview: all seats $10. Friday &amp; Saturday evenings: $16 adult, $14 student and senior; Thursday evenings: $14 adult, $12 student and senior. Student rush tickets, if available 30 minutes before each performance: $8 with I.D. Tickets go on sale April 17.&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Call 417-831-8001 for Tickets (out-of-town 888-452-0930)
&lt;br/&gt;www.VCTheatre.com&lt;br/&gt;
</description>
    <end-date type="date">2007-05-11</end-date>
    <end-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T22:00:00-06:00</end-time>
    <group-id type="integer">25</group-id>
    <id type="integer">374</id>
    <location>Vandivort Center Theatre</location>
    <name>Sexual Perversity in Chicago</name>
    <start-date type="date">2007-05-11</start-date>
    <start-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T19:30:00-06:00</start-time>
    <update-at type="datetime"></update-at>
    <user-id type="integer">1</user-id>
  </event>
  <event>
    <created-at type="datetime">2007-05-08T08:10:39-05:00</created-at>
    <description>Sample wine by style and view the photography and mixed media pieces by Lori Radford.</description>
    <end-date type="date">2007-05-11</end-date>
    <end-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T20:00:00-06:00</end-time>
    <group-id type="integer">25</group-id>
    <id type="integer">438</id>
    <location>WineStyles- 1362 E. Republic Road</location>
    <name>WineStyles- Art and Wine Event</name>
    <start-date type="date">2007-05-11</start-date>
    <start-time type="datetime">2000-01-01T17:00:00-06:00</start-time>
    <update-at type="datetime"></update-at>
    <user-id type="integer">1</user-id>
  </event>
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