• HOLLANDIA BOTANICAL GARDENS (HGB) holds its annual Spring Bulb Festival at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 19, and 11 a.m. Sunday, April 20. The event will offer music, informational sessions and the opportunity to purchase summer and spring bulbs for planting. Call (937) 322-3122 for more information. Wittenberg's Just Eve, women's a cappella group, WittFREE and the Chinese Dragon Dancers are scheduled to perform. The site is along the bike path at Warder and Water Streets, and official parking is on the lot of the Kissell Center on Warder near N. Limestone Street. HBG will provide passenger trailer shuttle service to and from the garden site. For persons with mobility concerns, golf cart transportation will be provided from the entrance to the festival area and back.
• THE SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA will present "Overture to L'Italiana in Algeri," Symphony No. 4, op. 90 in A Major at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 3, Clark State Performing Arts Center. The orchestra will be joined by the Symphony Chorale. Admission charged.
• THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART presents "Edna Boies Hopkins: Woodblock Prints: Strong in Character, Colorful in Expression," an exhibition of approximately 60 works of Hopkins, a printmaker in the early modernist time, through June 1. Admission is $5 for non-members.
• THE CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY presents a new exhibit "School Days: The Story of Clark County Public Education," through Tuesday, Dec. 30. The exhibit traces the evolution of public education in the county through artifacts and photographs. Call (937) 324-0657 for more information.
• THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART hosts the "Ohio Art League Spring Juried Exhibition" at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, April 26, bringing the new in art work in the state by the Ohio Art League, reknown for its cutting edge art. Admission is $5 for non-members.
• THE CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY hosts an open mic poetry read at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 26 featuring Conrad Balliett, professor emeritus of English, host of Conrad’s Corner on WYSO in honor of National Poetry Month. Call (937) 328-6903 for more information.