Escher art
ORLANDO, FLA.
Aug. 13-Oct. 30
The Orlando Museum of Art adds a musical component to enhance the viewing of ''M.C. Escher: Rhythm of Illusion." The prolific Dutch artist (1898-1972), known as the ''Master of Symmetry," played with perspective, patterns, and visual illusion, creating 480 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings, and more than 2,000 drawings and sketches. For the traveling exhibit, the Portland Art Museum in Oregon selected 180 prints and drawings from the 1920s to 1960s and organized them in six themes. For Orlando, composer Stella Sung, a music professor at the University of Central Florida, and sound designer David Wallace adapted computer and digital technology to weave a soundscape that Sung calls ''immersive ambience."
2416 North Mills Ave. 407-896-4231. www.omart.org.
Folk festival
BANGOR
Aug. 26-28
Building on its success as the three-year host city for the National Folk Festival in 2002-04, Bangor is staging its own version of the crowd-pleasing event. Following the other festival's model, Bangor's American Folk Festival delivers three free days of national and international entertainment on five waterfront stages. Sophia Bilides (Greek), Paul Dahlin and Äkta Spelmän (Swedish-American fiddlers), Don Vappie and the Creole Jazz Serenaders, El Espiritu del Flamenco, Git-Hoan Dancers (Tsimshian dance from British Columbia and Alaska), Bettye LaVette (R&B), and the Polka Family Band are among more than 20 performers. The festival also includes ethnic foods, children's activities, storytelling, and a crafts marketplace. As for the National Folk Festival, in October it starts a new three-year residency in Richmond.
Various locations. 207-992-2630. www.americanfolkfestival.com.
Lewis & Clark
GREAT FALLS, MONT.
Ongoing
The Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center is a happening place. Open year-round, it adds seasonal lectures, performances, walks, and exhibits to celebrate the explorers' 1803-06 expedition. ''A Private's Life" (Aug. 12) and ''Wildlife Discovery" (Aug. 19) are the topics in ''Evening Lawn Chair" talks on Fridays (through Sept. 2). ''Indian Voices" changes themes each Saturday evening (through Sept. 3), among them ''Salish History and Culture" (Aug. 13), ''The Forgotten Tribe" (Aug. 20), and ''Native Flute" (Sept. 3). The River Camp (through Sept. 3) has daily walks and demonstrations of expedition skills. The Visitors Center features two exhibits, ''Landscapes Preserved for History" (through next June) and ''From Artifacts to Art." ''Artifacts" combines 40 period objects and weaponry collected by Peyton Clark, a great-great-great-grandson of Captain William Clark, and Michael Haynes's modern paintings of the intreprid explorers (through Oct. 30).
4201 Giant Springs Road. 406-727-8733. www.fs.fed.us/r1/lewisclark/lcic.
Auto racing
museum
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
Ongoing
The Winston Cup Museum fills the gap for NASCAR fans who want more than just the roar of the race circuit. The longtime dream of businessman Will Spencer became reality in May after a six-month makeover of a former auto dealership. Spencer, owner of JKS Motorsports and provider of signage for Winston Cup/NASCAR races since 1971, is an avid collector of race cars and memorabilia. The museum centerpiece is a three-wall mural depicting the circuit's history and the 33-year sponsorship by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Permanent displays of helmets, posters, uniforms, and trophies focus on a trio of famous races: the Winston Million, Winston No Bull 5, and The Winston. As for vehicles, the museum rotates cars from Spencer's collection and other sources, among them
1355 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. 336-724-4557. www.winstoncupmuseum.com.
Historic cemetery
PHILADELPHIA
Ongoing
The Friends of Laurel Hill breathe new life into the city's 1836 landmark cemetery with walks and other programs to preserve and restore the 95-acre site. A National Historic Landmark, Laurel Hill is the nation's second-oldest garden cemetery, opening five years after Mount Auburn in Watertown and Cambridge. Like Mount Auburn, Laurel Hill is rich in history, sculpture, and architecture in a hillside setting overlooking the Schuylkill River. It was neglected in the last century until the nonprofit Friends group was founded in 1977 and rekindled interest in restoring the final resting place of the city's industrialists, political figures, artists, soldiers, and other notables. Upcoming walks include ''Philadelphia's Industrial Magnates" (Aug. 14), ''Dead White Republicans" (Sept. 11), and Halloween tours (Oct. 28-30). The Friends also revived the ''Gravediggers' Ball," a black-tie dinner-dance benefit held in a heated tent on the grounds (Oct. 22).
3822 Ridge Ave. 215-228-8200. www.forever-care.com.
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