WEST SPRINGFIELD - Tim Janis, world renowned composer and pianist, will perform a benefit concert for the West Springfield Arts Council at the First Congregational Church, Park Street, on Aug. 28 at 7 p.m.

RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada, has offered medals and awards to twelve Canadians(i) for extraordinary achievement in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.

ASHEVILLE - In a ceremony Aug. 3, at the Philadelphia Buyers Market of American Craft, Grovewood Gallery was awarded the '2008 Top Craft Retailer of the Year.'

FRANKFORT . When University of Kentucky Opera Theatre director Everett McCorvey was readying the Our Lincoln program for the stage of the Singletary Center for the Arts in February, he called it a .Kennedy Center Honors.-style production. Next Februar

PLAINFIELD -- Plainfield School District has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association that combines the areas of library and art with the current curriculum.