Send announcements or events, which are open to the public at no or minimal cost, to The Loudoun Connection, 7913 Westpark Drive, McLean, VA 22102 or e-mail <a href="mailto:loudoun@connectionnewspapers.com">loudoun@connectionnewspapers.com</a>. Deadline is Friday, two weeks before the event. Photos/artwork encouraged.
An exhibition of quilts made by members of the CountrySide Quilt Guild is on display at the Loudoun County Government Center’s Gallery One, Government Center, first floor, 1 Harrison St. S.E., Leesburg. Ten quilters are participating in the exhibit, which showcases more than a dozen quilts. The quilts can be viewed through the month of February during regular business hours, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday.
The production "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress" will run Feb. 20-March 1, at the Waddel Theater, 1000 Harry Byrd Highway, Sterling. Shows are Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m. and Sundays, at 7 p.m. Admission: $15 adults, $10 students and seniors.
Applications for the Excellence in the Arts Awards competition are due by Feb. 20. Actual submissions of work for the visual arts, digital arts and literary arts categories are due no later than March 7 and auditions for the performing arts, including drama, dance, instrumental, piano and voice will be held March 7 at Galilee United Methodist Church, 45425 Winding Road, Sterling. Visit www.loudounarts.org/eita or call the Arts Council office at 703-777-7838.
Master Singers of Virginia present Winter: In the Snows of England and France, including works by Francis Poulenc, Benjamin Britten, Gerald Finzi, William Walton, C.V. Stanford, and Gustav Holst, Saturday, Feb. 21, 8 p.m., Our Savior’s Way Lutheran Church, 43115 Waxpool Road, Ashburn. Cost: $15 adults and $12 students and seniors, 65-plus, in advance; $17 adults and $14 students and seniors at the door. Call 703-655-7809.
The Loudoun Symphony and Loudoun Ballet Company present
Pirates and Princesses, Saturday, Feb. 21, 4 p.m., Loudoun County High School, 415 Dry Mill Road S.W., Leesburg. Free admission. Snow date Feb. 28 at Stone Bridge High School. Children are invited to wear a costume. Free. Call 540-454-6981.
Monotype and relief prints by Heather Self will be on exhibit from Feb. 23-March 27 in the Waddell Art Gallery at the Loudoun Campus of Northern Virginia Community College, 1000 Harry Flood Byrd Highway, Sterling. A gallery talk and reception will be held Feb. 25, at 12 p.m.
The Sterling Playmakers will present their next play, the musical "Puss In Boots," a play for children by Vera Morris, Feb. 27 and 28 and March 1, 7 and 8. Evening performances on Fridays and Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., matinees on Saturday s and Sundays, 3 p.m.
Works by Conor Backman of Purcellville will be on display in an exhibit titled Variances, through Feb. 28, at Gallery 222, 222 S. King St., Leesburg.
Franklin Park Arts Center, 36441 Blueridge View Lane, Purcellville, presents the 10th annual Youth Art Show Sunday, through Feb. 28. Students will display their talent in all media and certificates and ribbons will be presented. The opening reception will be Sunday, Feb. 8, 1 p.m. Call Barbara Sample at 540-338-7973 or visit www.franklinparkartscenter.org.
The Artists’ Undertaking Gallery presents Bright and Bold, an exhibit of watercolors by Jack Dyer of Springfield and fused glass by David Barnes of Sterling. The exhibit runs through March 2, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. daily at 309 Mill St., Occoquan. Call 703-494-0584 or visit www.theartistsundertaking.com.
Neorealist Sherry Zvares Sanábria’s paintings from the series, "Unforgotten: Slave Quarters and Other African American Sites" will be on display through March 23, at George Washington University Virginia Campus, Building 2, 44983 Knoll Square, Ashburn. Complimenting the Sanábria exhibit, Honoring and Commemorating Black Leadership is a selection of the artwork chosen or commissioned by the U.S. Postal Service, will be on display through March 23.
Paintings by Loudoun artists Maggie Siner and Kurt Schwarz are on display at Washington Dulles International Airport through March 31.
The exhibit, coordinated by Gallery 222 and the Washington Metropolitan Airport Authority, is the sixth in the program’s rotating series of displays. The paintings are installed in the area beyond the security checkpoints in the Main Terminal on the Arrivals Level.