The Taipei DanceWorks Ensemble celebration will take place at Shelton Auditorium on May 14.

Moms and Virtuosity, at Indiana History Center Basile Theater on May 11th will include a performance by Stefan Milenkovich.

1. "Street and Elite: The Sartorialist's View of the Economics of Style"

7 p.m. May 8, Indianapolis Museum of Art, $8 (public), 4000 Michigan Road, www.imamuseum.org

It may come as a surprise that a Hoosier made it onto Time magazine's list of 100 most influential design innovators. Indy native Scott Schuman (right) toiled for 15 years in the fashion industry, but catapulted himself to international renown with his fashionably democratic blog, http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com. Schuman posts magazine-quality photos of everyday people with distinctive senses of style. He returns home to discuss "the economics of style."

2. Moms and Virtuosity

2:30 p.m. May 11, Indiana History Center Basile Theater, 450 W. Ohio St., $10-$20, (317) 637-4574.

Every four years Indy becomes the center of the violin universe as host of the International Violin Competition. While you're rosining your bow in anticipation of 2010, enjoy a performance by 1994 silver medalist Stefan Milenkovich. At 10, Milenkovich played for Ronald Reagan in the White House and Mikhail Gorbachev in the Kremlin. He's since won almost as many awards for his humanitarian activities as for his musicianship. Guests are Violin Virtuosi of Indiana University. Be sure to treat Mom to brunch before the concert.

3. Taipei DanceWorks Ensemble celebration

7 p.m. May 14, Shelton Auditorium, 1000 W. 42nd St., free, www.taaindy.org

How can you not love a group that says of itself: "We express Taiwanese culture through tap dance." The ensemble's flamboyant pieces integrate Chinese martial arts and acrobatics, contemporary and traditional Taiwanese music, and the aboriginal war dances of the Polynesian groups that lived on the island before the coming of the Chinese. Join the troupe as it celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Taipei-Indianapolis sister city partnership.

4. Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

11 a.m. May 8, 8 p.m. May 9 and 10, Hilbert Circle Theatre, 45 Monument Circle. $20-$63, (317) 639-4300, www.indianapolissymphony.com

It will almost be all Scandinavians all the time with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra this weekend.. The ISO will feature Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg's popular Piano Concerto on a program also including "Finlandia," by Jan Sibelius, and Danish composer Carl Nielsen's Sixth Symphony. The soloist in the Grieg will be Garrick Ohlsson, who has collaborated with the orchestra during a 25-year span.

5. Allotropy

5 to 11 p.m. May 9 and 10, T-Square Building, 1315 Shelby St., $7-$10, primarycolours.org

Allotropy (pronounced "ul-LAH-truh-pe") is the phenomenon of an element existing in two or more physical forms. It's also the name of a large-scale juried art/music event, held by the nonprofit arts organization Primary Colours. Every year, the show is in a different "under used" building, which the artists help fix up. "It helps break down that stereotype of what an art show is," said Dane Sauer, Primary Colours' board president. "It's not a bunch of people in black turtlenecks with their noses in the air."