St Cecilia Music Center presents Tenor sax player and composer Joe Lovano with his quartet as part of their jazz series. The concert is on Thursday, January 24 at 7:30 PM at St. Cecilia’s which is located at 24 Ransom in Downtown Grand Rapids. Information on this and other concerts at St. Cecilia is available by calling 459-2224 or on-line at scmsonline.org. .

The Grand Rapids Public Museum is hosting the Ethnic Heritage Festival featuring music, dance, craft demonstrations, food and vendors representing various groups that call West Michigan home. The event will also feature the public premier of the new Planetarium show, "Everbody’s Sky: Star Stories from Around the World." The Ethnic Heritage Festival is Saturday, January 19th at the Public Museum of Grand Rapids. Opening ceremony is at 11:30AM. More information is available by calling 616-456-3977 or at www.grmuseum.org

Calvin College will host the award-winning January Series covering the presidential election, the world's rain forests, medical ethics, the history of black gospel music and more. Presentations take place from 12:30 -1:30 p.m. throughout January 23, in the Fine Arts Center on Calvin's campus. More information is available at www.calvin.edu/january

"Soup's On For All" is the tenth annual benefit for God's Kitchen. There will be soups, breads, desserts and coffees from area restaurants and music on all floors of the B.O.B. Everyone who attends will receive a hand painted ceramic bowl. Soup's On For All will be on Monday, January 28, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at The B.O.B. Tickets are available online at www.soupsonforall.org and at Schuler Books & Music and God’s Kitchen.

Actor’s Theatre will be presenting the play “Going To St. Ives”, a story of two women who have different personal and political views, who discover they are each trying to accomplish the greatest good. Performances will be January 24th through 26th and January 31st through February 2nd. at the Spectrum Theatre at 160 fountain NE, all shows start at 8:00pm Actor's Theatre website is at www.actorstheatregrandrapids.com. The box office phone number is 234-3946.

The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts will be showing the documentary, "Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten". Director Julien Temple draws on both a shared punk history and their close personal friendship, Temple's film is a celebration of Strummer before, during and after The Clash. There will be an opening reception at 7:00 PM on Friday, January 11 featuring food and refreshments followed by a 9:00 PM screening. Information and showtimes are available by calling 454-7000 or on-line at www.uica.org.

The final event in the CMC Spotlight Series will be the Super Happy Old Time Radio Hour. WYCE and the rest of the media center celebrate community radio that is real, live and without commercial interruption. The Super Happy Old Time Radio event will celebrate the days when live radio shows were on stage and on radio simultaneously, featuring vignettes, serials and old style commercials. This show is produced and directed by members of Super Happy Funtime Burlesque with cameo appearances by WYCE programmers. Two productions of The Super Happy Old Time Radio Event will be at Wealthy Theatre, 1130 Wealthy St SE on Saturday, January 19, a 2pm matinee, and an 8pm evening show. The evening performance will be simulcast live on WYCE and Livewire, digital cable channel 916. More information and advanced tickets are available at 459-4788 Ext 130 or on-line at www.grcmc.org.

The Community Media Center is offering a six week course in script writing. Learn script writing format, structure,idea development, and industry perspective. The class is on Tuesday evenings starting January 15th at 1100 Wealthy SE. Information is available at 616-459-4788 Ext 126 or by email at gretchen@grcmc.org.