Along the Gulfshore Calendar

Art

Naples Museum of Art. Continuing through May 2: Agnes Denes: Projects for Public Space; through May 9, Clement Greenberg: A Critic's Collection, including works by Jackson Pollock, Jules Olitski and many others. You can also still see Changing Hands-Art without Reservation: Contemporary Native American Art from the Southwest through July 31. Staging Reality: Photography from the West Collection at SEI offers very different photographs from James Casebere and Todd Hido, May 15 through July 31. Opening May 22 to run through July 31: Ansel Adams and Edwin Land: Art, Science and Invention: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, featuring black-and-white prints and photo-murals of the American landscape. Information: 597-1900.

Von Liebig Art Center. Purvis Young: Selections from the Rubell Family Collection of Contemporary Art continues displaying paintings and drawings by the Miami artist through May 8. Also through May 8: the Jade Riedel Scholarship Juried Exhibition, featuring Collier County's high-school students and freshman and sophomore college students. Coming up May 22 to run through July 3: Made in Florida: The Contemp-orary Landscape, highlighting works by artists including James Couper, Spence Guerin, Jake Fernandez and Sean Sexton; and The Wednesday Studio, featuring paintings by a group of Naples Art Association members who've met weekly for the past 18 years to paint (including Lory Crouch, Margaret Diephouse, Margaret Holton, Ruth James and Nancy Silver). Reception 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. May 21. Infor-mation: 262-6517.

Davis/Keil fine art. Continuing through May 29: Spring Flowers, showcasing the work of Sharon Ryan, Rocio Rodriquez, Paul Guay and others. Information: 775-3200.

Art League of Marco Island. On view May 2-Sept. 30: A Multitude of Art, the members' juried summer show. Information: 394-4221.

Aboriginals: Art of the First Person. The Stone Speaks, a show devoted to new Zuñi, Navajo, Cochiti and other tribal fetish carvings, is on view May 3-29 at the Sanibel gallery. Also showing: carvings by Eskimo and Inuit people in walrus ivory, baleen, whalebone and soapstone. Information: 395-2200.

Gallery Victoria. Artescape Naples 2004 presents paintings by finalists in the yearly preliminary competition, starting with a reception at 5:30 p.m. May 7 and continuing through May 25. Information: 649-4300.

Cape Coral Arts Studio. May's Bouquets, a themed exhibit centering on the floral world, runs May 7-June 4, with an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. May 14. Infor-mation: 574-0802.

Art League of Bonita Springs Center for the Arts. A Student Showcase exhibition opens with a reception at 5:30 p.m. May 7 and continues through May 27, highlighting the work of area high school students. Information: 495-8989.

Marianne Friedland Gallery. Summer Splendor, an exhibition of representational and abstract paintings and works on paper by American artists that celebrate spring, opens May 17, to run through May 28. Artists include Esteban Vicente, Russell Drisch and Wolf Kahn. Information: 262-3484.

Benefits

NAMI Walk. This signature event of the Collier chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill raises money to improve the mental-health system. Walkers will meet at 7:45 a.m. on May 1 at Cambier Park in Naples. Information: 434-6726 or 213-7113.

Golden Apple Celebration. A dessert buffet and a live broadcast on WINK-TV highlight this event to benefit the Collier County Educational Foundation, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. May 4 at the Phil. Tickets are $1,000 per couple; call 643-4755.

Project HELP Crisis Center Chocolate Extravaganza. Beyond chocolate concoctions from area chefs, the evening promises hors d'oeuvres, wine, champagne, live and silent auctions and music, beginning at 7 p.m. May 8 at Longstreth Goldberg Gallery; tickets $100 each. Call 649-1404 or 649-5660.

Eden Florida Alive in the World Benefit. A highlight of this evening to assist Southwest Florida children and adults with autism is the Ben Taylor Band, performing May 15 at the Sugden Community Theatre. (He's the son of James Taylor and Carly Simon, in case you didn't know.) Reception at 6 p.m. with silent-auction items; post-concert coffee and desserts. Tickets $150; call 263-7990.

Children

Magic Carpet Series. The Phil once more offers its ensembles performing 45-minute programs and answering questions for children and their adult escorts, at 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. May 8, 15 and 22 in the Daniels Pavilion. Information: 597-1900.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The Phil presents the Kennedy Center's production of the Twain classic, in a new, abridged musical adaptation, at 9:45 and 11:45 a.m. May 10 in Hayes Hall. Information: 597-1900.

Are You Ready, My Sister? The Underground Railway Theater tells the story of Harriet Tubman, through the use of puppets, music and audience participation. At 9:45 and 11:45 a.m. May 11 and 12 in Hayes Hall. Information: 597-1900.

Film

Fort Myers Beach Film Festival. Continuing to show new films through May 2; call 765-0919, ext. 131, or go to www.fmbeach.org for the latest schedule.

Miscellaneous

The Great Dock Canoe Race. The 28th annual costumed festival/ race takes place May 8 at The Dock at Crayton Cove. This year it benefits the Naples Girls Softball Little League. Race starts at 11 a.m.; call 261-4191 for more information.

Evening on Fifth. Music, art and open doors, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. May 13 along downtown Naples' main street. Also this month: the Mother's Day Weekend Festival & Sale, May 15 and 16. Information: 435-3742.

Asia Fest 2004. A Japanese taiko drum group, a Chinese lion dance, martial arts demonstrations and more, presented from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 15 at the Community School of Naples. Presented by the National Association of Asian American Professionals to benefit its Florida College Scholarship Fund and Step by Step Early Childhood Education and Therapy Center; $5 admission. Information: 404-5836.

Music

Naples Philharmonic Classical Series. Maestro Christopher Seaman delivers his last appearance as music director with a program featuring Britain's Best Music, including works from Elgar and Vaughan Williams, at 8 p.m. May 1 at the Phil. Information: 597-1900.

Southwest Florida Symphony. The symphony and its 100-voice chorus presents Brahms in 100 Voices, featuring the composer's German Requiem, at 8 p.m. May 1 at Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall. Information: 418-1500.

Naples Philharmonic Pops Series. It's time for Patriotic Pops with guest conductor Keith Brion, soprano Cynthia Watters, baritone Daniel Narducci, and the Philharmonic Center Chorale and Philharmonic Youth Chorale, at 8 p.m. May 6-8 at the Phil. Expect Stars and Stripes, George M. Cohan and other rousing tunes. Information: 597-1900.

Stained Glass Series. The Southwest Florida Symphony Choruses bring stories of childhood to life in Fables, Fancies & Street Urchins, at 4 p.m. May 9 at the First Christian Church on McGregor Boulevard. Information: 418-1500.

Huey Lewis & The News. The Grammy-winning rockers pop up for a performance at 8 p.m. May 17 at the Phil. Information: 597-1900.

Naples Philharmonic Chamber Series. The NPO's String Quartet presents Sophisticated Strings, works by Prokofiev, Brahms and William Grant Still, at 8 p.m. May 19 at the Phil. NPO ensembles also offer Contrasts at 8 p.m. May 26, with works by Randall Thompson, Ronald Caviani and Beethoven (Septet Op. 20) on the program. Information: 597-1900.

Naples Philharmonic Family Fare. Listen for excerpts from E.T., Romeo and Juliet and the Skaters' Waltz, among others, in these family-friendly concerts at 3 and 7 p.m. May 23 at the Phil. Information: 597-1900.

Naples Philharmonic Casual Classics. Clotilde Otranto leads the musicians and James Cochran in ChoralFest, including works from Respighi and Menotti, at 8 p.m. May 15 at the Phil. Also this month: Festival of Forms with violist Jessie Greenbaum and music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Mahler and Liszt, at 8 p.m. May 29. Information: 597-1900.

Sports

Imagine-a-Cure Charity Golf Tournament. For the benefit of the American Cancer Society, at 8:30 a.m. May 15 at the Miromar Lakes Beach & Golf Club: Information: 514-1788.

Theater

Much Ado about Nothing. The Cultural Park Theatre Company in Cape Coral ends its run of the Shakespeare comedy May 2. Information: 772-5862.

All My Sons. Arthur Miller's early classic about a family devastated by war and deception. Onstage through May 8 in a Naples Players' production at Sugden Community Theatre. Information: 263-7990.

Deathtrap. One of those perfect murder mysteries onstage through May 16 at Florida Repertory Theatre. Information: 332-4488.

Once upon a Mattress. The musical comedy about a not-so-delicate princess, her Prince Charming, and the would-be mother-in-law who devises a test for her, onstage through May 29 at the Naples Dinner Theatre. Information: 514-STAR (7827).

The Music Man. The perennial Meredith Willson hit about a small town in Iowa and the man who shakes it up, through June 5 at the Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre. Information: 278-4422.

Durang, Durang! An evening of one-act comedies by sharp-tongued Christopher Durang, May 14-30 in a Cultural Park Theatre production. Information: 772-5862.

The Odd Couple. The female version of the Neil Simon comedy classic, which means Olive and Florence are the battling roommates. Onstage May 14-Aug. 14 at the Old Schoolhouse Theater. Information: 472-6862.

The Amorous Ambassador. An imperturbable English butler, a sealed-off embassy, and a romantic rendezvous or two are the stuff of this farce by Florida playwright Michael Parker, onstage May 28-June 5 in a Charlotte Players production. Information: 255-1022.