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• The Chopin Society’s free concert series continues with pianist Yi-Yang Chen at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Broward County Main Library, 100 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale, and 3 p.m. Feb. 17 at Granada Presbyterian Church, 950 University Dr., Coral Gables; chopin.org.

•  Sunday Afternoons of Music presents violinist Chee-Yun Kim and pianist Alessio Bax at 4 p.m. Feb. 17 at the University of Miami’s Gusman Concert Hall, 1314 Miller Dr., Coral Gables. Tickets are $35, $30 seniors, $10 students; 305-271-7150, sundaymusicals.org.

Drucker tribute

Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky will sing a program of arias on March 23 in a tribute to veteran concert presenter Judy Drucker at Miami Beach’s New World Center. Announcement of the event included word that performances Drucker had scheduled by tenor Piotr Beczala on April 8 and pianist Vladimir Feltsman on May 5 have been postponed. Tickets to the “Celebration of Judy” are $55 at 305-673-3331.

‘Curator’s Farewell’

The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd., debuts The Curator’s Farewell Exhibition: Cool Stuff from the Morikami Museum’s Collection on Tuesday. The selections by Tom Gregersen, who is stepping down after 35 years, include 18th and 19th century clay dolls and Neolithic ceramics. The exhibit will be on view 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday through May 19. Admission is $13, $12 seniors, $8 students; 561-495-0233, morikami.org.

Galena Mosovich

Visual arts

The Museum of Contemporary Art, 770 NE 125th St., presents two 7 p.m. lectures this month. On Wednesday, Director Bonnie Clearwater discusses “No Success Like Failure: Failure as Subject from Mike Kelley to Cory Arcangel;” admission is $15, $10 for members and North Miami residents. A Feb. 20 talk about the current New York art scene by Art in America online editor Alex Gartenfeld is free with museum admission; 305-893-6211, mocanomi.org.

Fountainhead Studios, 7328 NW Miami Ct., Miami, invites the public to interact with 30 artists from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday at Dialogue 2013; 786-766-1581, fountainheadresidency.com.

Galena Mosovich

Campus theater

•  New World School of the Arts theater dean Patrice Bailey directs college actors in the John Kander-Fred Ebb musical Cabaret at 2 p.m. Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, and 2 p.m. Feb. 17 at the Louise O. Gerrits Theater at New World, 25 NE Second St., Miami. Tickets are $15, $5 students and seniors; 305-237-3135, nwsa.mdc.edu.

•  Edutainment Visions, a student group at Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay campus, presents Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, a theatrical adaptation of former slave Harriet Ann Jacobs’ story, through Feb. 24 at the Mary Ann Wolfe Theatre, 3000 NE 151st St., North Miami. Performances are 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $15, $10 students and seniors; 323-863-6835, incidentsplay@gmail.com.

• Peter Shaffer’s Equus, directed by Kathryn L. Johnston, opens at 7 p.m. Friday in the Studio One Theatre at Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton. The play, which contains nudity and adult subject matter, continues at 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 1 p.m. Saturday-Sunday through Feb. 24. Tickets are $20, $12 students, alumni and FAU personnel; 800-564-9539, fauevents.com.

Christine Dolen

Arts brunch

Citizens Interested in Arts will host a fundraising brunch at 11:30 a.m. Feb. 17 at the Aventura Art & Cultural Center, 3385 NE 188th St., Aventura, featuring performances by some of its 2013 grant recipients. The group has provided funding for 30 arts endeavors including Arts Ballet Theatre, Orchestra Miami, Florida Grand Opera, Summer Shorts and the South Florida Blue Grass Association. Tickets are $50, $75 and $100; 305-932-0580, 305-936-0500.

Compiled by Miami Herald staff. Send news about theater to cdolen@MiamiHerald.com; dance, pop and Latin music to jlevin@MiamiHerald.com; visual arts to jwooldridge@MiamiHerald.com and classical music and jazz to kmartin@MiamiHerald.com. Add events to our calendar at MiamiHerald.com/events.

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