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IU Auditorium plays host to \nAnnual Taste of Asia\nThe Asian American Association will present the annual Taste of Asia Friday. The event is divided into two parts -- a talent show featuring performances by numerous student and community groups and the tasting of Asian cuisine from various restaurants in Bloomington. Doors open at 4:30 p.m.; the program begins at 5:30 p.m. The location is yet to be announced as of press time. For more information, e-mail aaa@indiana.edu.\nApplications for Greer Foundation Fellowships in creative writing, ceramics available\nArtists 21 years of age may apply for a $750 fellowship to be awarded by the Bloomington Area Arts Council on behalf of the Jason Sheppard Greer and Lucy Kim Greer Foundation for the Arts, Inc. Four fellowships will be givenin 2005, two in creative writing and two in ceramics. The application deadline is June 30. For more information, call the BAAC at 334-3100.\nAfrican American Choral Ensemble \nto hold spring concert\nThe African American Choral Ensemble's spring concert "Extending the Tradition: Forging New Paths" will take place at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. More than 80 people sing in the ensemble and deliver a broad repertoire of spirituals, fold forms, traditional and contemporary gospel music and formally composed works by African American artists. For more information, call 323-3020. \nBloomington Area Arts Council \npresents 'Arcadia'\nCourtney Giddings and the Bloomington Area Arts Council will present the drama "Arcadia" written by playwright Tom Stoppard, co-author of the Academy Award-winning screenplay of "Shakespeare in Love" and author of many well-known plays such as "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead." The play juxtaposes a brilliant 13-year-old girl in 1809 accompanied by her philandering tutor and her unassailable mother with a modern-day historical treasure hunt led by mathematicians and literary scholars in the same room of the same house.\n"Arcadia" takes the stage at 8 p.m. April 22-23, 28-30 and at 2 p.m. April 24 in the John Waldron Arts Center Auditorium, 122 S. Walnut St. For more information call 334-3100.\nAcclaimed sarod player comes to IU\nWorld-acclaimed sarod player Amjad Ali Khan will be performing in concert at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Whittenberger Auditorium of the Indiana Memorial Union. He will be accompanied by his sons, Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash, both on sarod, and Vineet Vyas on tabla. This highly sought-after performer is being brought to IU by the Indiana University India Studies Program with assistance from the Association for India's Development and the Indiana University Student Association. For more information call 855-5798\nPolish Studies Center presents reading from Piotr Sommer, 'Continued'\nPiotr Sommer will present a poetry reading at 6 p.m. tonight at the Lilly Library Lounge. The reading will feature works from his latest collection titled "Continued." He has been described as the great poet of "everyday loneliness." Sommer uses language and a deadpan manner to examine irony and subtle "intermeanings." A reception and book signing will follow the reading. The Lilly Library is located at 1200 E. Seventh St. For more information, call the Polish Studies Center at 855-1507.