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The Culver City High School Academy of Visual and Performing Arts will present its Spring Music Concert on Friday evening at 7 in the Robert Frost Auditorium, 4401 Elenda St.

Since we celebrated Memorial Day yesterday, I thought about people in my family who had served in the military, in particular, my brother's service in the Marines during the Vietnam War.

[Editor’s Note: In tribute to Sunday afternoon’s spectacular annular solar eclipse over Los Angeles, the poet laureate of Culver City composed this poem that she read to her poetry group yesterday morning. Dr. Hoult notes that the profession of her husband Charley was misidentified in Monday’s followup story. He is a rocket scientist/aerospace engineer.]

[Editor’s Note: The film teacher in Culver City High School’s Academy of Visual and Performing Arts provides the background to tomorrow night’s Chimera Film Screening and Live Music show, which is reported nearby in Community Update.]

The Convert, written by Danai Gurira and directed by Emily Mann, is a play at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, Culver City, about the British colonization of Africa. The story revolves around a young African girl named Jekasai, played by Pascale Armand, and her journey learning the Christian religion and straying away from her own culture.

The Culver City Middle School and Panther Partners will present an exciting and full weekend of Comedy Improvisation shows.

“Are We There Yet?” is the spring offering from the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts DZDP Dance Company at Culver City High School, opened last night at the Robert Frost Auditorium on campus.

It’s the best time of the year for the AVPA Art’s five high school interns at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: touring season. Emily Wood, Edna Vogel, Marilyn Liu, Michelle Bac and Azalie Welsh have all been working on designing their own interactive tours for the past few months, focusing on an special exhibition of surrealist art created by women artists from Mexico and the United States.

The Culver City Historical Society will feature the history, music, songs and stories from MGM’s Broadway Melody musical movies produced between 1929 and 1944 at its general meeting on Wednesday evening at 7 in the Multipurpose Room at the Vets Auditorium, 4117 Overland Ave.

Culver City High School’s Academy of Visual and Performing Arts presents one of its most ambitious productions this week, Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.