Arts around town Nov. 8 through 15

Chamber group presents Bartok

Vashon Chamber Music will present an evening of music by composers Bela Bartok, Maurice Ravel and Astor Piazzolla at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Kay White Hall.

Seattle Symphony’s first violinist Mikhail Shmidt, clarinetist Laura de Luca and pianist Oana Rusu Tomai will perform Bartok’s “Contrasts,” a 1938 composition scored for clarinet-violin-piano trio and based on Hungarian and Romanian dance melodies, as well as compositions by Ravel and Piazolla.

Tickets are available at Vashon Center for the Arts and vashoncenterforthearts.org.

Art History Talks haute couture

Vashon Center for the Arts’ Art History Talk series will present a lecture on fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14, at the Kay White Hall.

In the beginning of her career, Schiaparelli was an outlier in the Parisian fashion world. As a woman, an Italian immigrant and someone who did not even sew, she relied on brilliant innovation and a flamboyant personality to keep her designs in the public eye. Her friendship with the Surrealists enabled her to inject high art into haute couture.

Tickets are available at Vashon Center for the Arts and vashoncenterforthearts.org.

Classic story brought to VCA stage

VCA Musical Theatre will present the classic Louisa May Alcott story “Little Women” at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Kay White Hall.

Published in 1869, the semi-biographical novel, now a play, focuses on the four March sisters — Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth — who live at home in Massachusetts, while their father is serving as a Union Army chaplain.

The 16-member cast features actors in grades six through 12, and the play is directed by Marita Ericksen and Chris Dawson.

Tickets are available at Vashon Center for the Arts and vashoncenterforthearts.org.