Woodlands Academy Hosts Free Fine Arts Evening May 19

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An evening to enjoy student drawing, painting, ceramics and photography exhibits, along with Spring Concert performances by the schools choirs and orchestra following the music departments outstanding achievements at the recent WorldStrides OnStage Heritage Festival in the nations capital, is in store at Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Hearts annual Fine Arts Evening. This end-of-the-year celebration of the arts, which is open to the public free of charge, takes place Thursday, May 19, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the all-girls college-prep high school, 760 E. Westleigh Road, Lake Forest. The evening begins with a reception for the artists at 6 p.m. and features the Spring Concert at 7 p.m. The concert, in the Chapel of the Sacred Heart, will feature the music performed by the Microscope and Kaleidoscope choirs and Symphonic Orchestra at the District of Columbia competition April 15-18, plus more. The orchestra will be joined by a guest soloist, organist Tim Mikolay from Sacred Heart Schools on Sheridan Road in Chicago, performing the 1st and 3rd movements from the Organ Concerto No. 1 in C-Major by Franz Xaver Brixi. For more information about Fine Arts Evening visit www.woodlandsacademy.org. or call 847-234-4300.  Founded in 1858, Woodlands Academy is an independent Catholic college preparatory day and boarding high school for young women. Its part of a worldwide network of Sacred Heart Schools that spans the United States and 40 other countries. A nonprofit, Woodlands Academys identity is rooted in Saint Madeleine Sophie Barats desire to inspire young hearts and minds to excel, to lead lives of integrity and to serve. For more information about Woodlands Academy, please visit www.woodlandsacademy.org