Fine folk art to be on display

Toni Brou’s newest whimsical fine folk art assemblages will be on display through May 15 at Downtown Catering and Carry-out, 805 Vt.

“May Our Tears Be Turned into Dancing” is the title of this show that features the artist’s small- to medium-scale work as well as some of her larger lighted pieces.

Show hours are 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Theater group to have auditions

Leavenworth Players Group, a professional theater troupe based in Leavenworth, is having auditions for its summer season.

The auditions are 1 p.m. Saturday at the Leavenworth Public Library at 417 Spruce. The plays to be presented this summer are “Murder At Fort Leavenworth or The General Is Generally Dead” and “Murder At The Theatre or When Good Murders Happen To Bad Actors.”

The shows will be presented in rotating repertory. Auditions will consist of cold readings; no monologues will be heard. Please bring a headshot and resume.

For more information, call Greg Marino at (913) 758-0805 or (913) 682-2598.

Penn State professor to speak at Hall Center

Deb Clarke, a professor at Penn State University, will give a talk titled “‘My Mother the Car’: Automotive Maternity and American Culture” at 4 p.m. April 14 in the Hall Center for the Humanities conference room.

Her talk is free and open to the public.

Beginning with the 1960s TV show “My Mother the Car,” Clarke examines fictional works that demonstrate how the automobile age has transformed maternity.

“My Mother the Car” is a segment of Clarke’s current project, “Women on Wheels: Automobility and American Women’s Fiction.”