The 10th annual Slick Rock Student Film Festival – Central California’s largest student film competition – is scheduled for Saturday, May 18 at the Fox Theatre in downtown Visalia. This year, the festival received 192 films, representing the work of over 380 students. The high school films receiving a “Premiere Cut” designation will be screened at the theater beginning at 9:00 a.m. Saturday morning. A screening schedule will available at www.SlickRockFestival.org on Thursday, May 16. At 5:30 p.m., students who played a central role in producing "Premiere Cut" films (along with their advisors) are eligible to participate in the Limo/Red Carpet Walk. The awards ceremony will begin at 7:00 p.m.

Porterville College’s Cultural Historical Awareness Program (C.H.A.P.) will host it's final event of the school year featuring professor and author, Anthony Barcellos from 7-8 p.m. May 3 in the Porterville College Theater.

The talk is titled "Land of Milk and Money" and details the story of the Francisco family, Portuguese immigrants from the Azores who settled on a Central Valley Dairy Farm.

Barcellos teaches math at American River College in Sacramento and lives in Davis, California. He is a native of the Central Valley in California, having grown up on his grandfather's dairy farm in Porterville, Tulare County.

His first language is Portuguese. 'Land of Milk and Money' is his first novel about his Portuguese American family in Tulare County.

The Tulare County Office of Education’s Theatre Company will present its spring performance recital entitled "Britain on Broadway" April 25-27. The production will feature selections for classic musicals set in England, including Mary Poppins, Jekyll & Hyde, Oliver!, Sweeney Todd, Monty Python’s Spamalot, My Fair Lady and The Secret Garden.

Theatre Company vocal coach and production director Charlotte Garcia reports that she scripted the selections from the beloved British musicals, “so that the many different characters’ stories intertwine or connect to one another by location, subject matter or a common character.”