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Critics Picks: April 11, 2008

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Charlie Beatenbo, gospel, 7 p.m. today, Cross Way Baptist Church, 4491 Pine Ridge Road, Fort Myers. Free. (239) 470-1702 or www.crosswaybaptistchurch.org.

Savannah birding foray with Steve Carbol, 6:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Conservancy of SW Florida, 1450 Merrihue Drive, Naples. $60 members and $75 others. Reservations required. 403-4236.

“Great American Song Book,” songs by Gershwin, Porter, Arlen and Rogers performed by the Naples Orchestra and Chorus, 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Golden Gate High School, 2925 Magnolia Pond Drive, Naples. Donation. 775-8460 or 455-1912

“Blast!,” 35 brass, percussion and visual performers in an explosion of music and theater, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday; 8 p.m. April 18-19; 2 p.m. April 19 and 1 and 6:30 p.m. April 20, Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, 13350 Edison Parkway, Fort Myers. $56, $41, $31 and $21. (239) 481-4849.

“Florida Shipwrecks,” David Southall, Collier County Museum curator of education, presents stories of 25 famous ships that sank in Florida’s waters, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Naples Regional Library, 650 Central Ave., Naples. Free. Registration required. 262-6853.

Square dancing, 1-4 p.m. Wednesdays, Corkscrew Woodlands, 21600 Corkscrew Woodlands Blvd., Estero. Free. 560-2572.

Virginia Ironside will be signing her book “No! I Don’t Want to Join a Book Club,” 7 p.m. Wednesday, Borders Books, 10600 U.S. 41 N., Naples. Free. 596-7199.

“Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle,” a film starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Matthew Broderick and Campbell Scott about the famed lunch scene at the Algonquin Hotel’s Round Table, 2 p.m. Thursday, Naples Branch, 650 Central Ave., Naples. Free. 262-6853.

Sibelius and Schumann: “Homage to Spring,” with Jorge Mester conducting and violinist Giora Schmidt, 8 p.m. Thursday and April 18-19 and 2 p.m. April 20, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, 5833 Pelican Bay Blvd., Naples. $57, adults; $23, students, 8 p.m.; $48, adults; $20, students, 2 p.m. 597-1900.

“Curiouser and Curiouser: What a Wonder is this World!,” work of documentary photographer Brynn Bruijn through April 27, von Liebig Art Center, 858 Park St., Naples. Free. 262-6517.

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