Art: Community centers are not usually associated with striking art, but a chance encounter with vibrant colors at the Sugar Sand Park Community Center challenges that notion. Currently adorning the center’s walls are imaginative works featuring organic shapes and intriguing textures that bring to life what Farida Morris calls her happiest moments. Every color and composition chosen by the Russian-born painter has that purpose in mind: to reflect positive emotions and good energy. The innocence and magic in her pieces is not accidental but very well thought-out. Along with Morris’s work is that of Ben J. Hicks, a South-Florida based environmental photographer whose work was featured in National Geographic this year. Hicks’s most popular image features a loggerhead sea turtle making its way out to sea. The exhibition will run through July 28 and is free of charge. Sugar Sand Park Community Center is located at 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton.
Music: Pianist Marina Radiushina and attorney Mike Eidson debuted their stewardship of the two decades-old Mainly Mozart Festival in Coral Gables last June, and this Sunday, they wrap up their first full season with the same kind of program that marked their arrival: Chamber music accompanied by video program notes and a new ballet. Violinist Susanne Hou and cellist Amit Peled join Radiushina for Rachmaninov’s Trio No. 1 and three movements from Dvorak’s Dumky Trio; Hou will be heard in music by Ravel and Bartok, Peled in pieces by Glazunov, Bloch and Sulkhan Tsintsadze, and Radiushina in two transcriptions of Rachmaninov songs. And the Miami City Ballet’s Adriana Pierce has choreographed a ballet to the Dvorak that will get its world premiere. The finale is set for 4 p.m. Sunday in the Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center in downtown Miami. Tickets are just $20. Call 786-556-1715 or visit www.mainlymozart.com.
Film: In Mumbai, India, there is an amazing human delivery system for lunches sent from housewives to their husbands at work. They are transported by an army of carriers — dabbawalas — who deliver over 130,000 meals daily, rarely making a mistake, even though they are almost all illiterate. But in the charming film The Lunchbox, one woman’s lunch intended for her listless hubby does go astray and lands on the desk of a government bureaucrat who is nearing retirement. The lunch is the conduit from their unexpected connection, as they begin passing notes back and forth by way of the dabbawallas. The Lunchbox is the debut feature for director Ritesh Batra whose assured storytelling and wry humor makes him a filmmaker to keep an eye on. Playing this week at the Mos’Art Theatre in Lake Park.
Theater: Following up on its successful pair of concert musicals last summer, Palm Beach Dramaworks has again enlisted Clive Cholerton to direct a couple of less frequently produced shows, Zorba! (opening this weekend and playing through June 29) and The Most Happy Fella (July 18-27). Zorba! is of course based on the Nikos Kazantzakis novel Zorba the Greek, about a philosophical old peasant and his unlikely friendship with a young American scholar. Adapted by Joseph Stein, who borrowed a few tricks from his mega-hit Fiddler on the Roof, it features an ouzo-soaked score by John Kander and Fred Ebb. Appearing as Zorba will be William Parry, a veteran Broadway and off-Broadway performer, particularly the shows of Stephen Sondheim — Assassins, Passion and Sunday in the Park with George. You can expect Parry to sing better than Anthony Quinn — who toured with the show in the 1980s — but the suspense come when he needs to dance with dramatic abandon. Tickets: $40. Call: (561) 514-4042.