WordCamp Miami in 2010 brought together more than 200 people from South Florida and across the United States, forming a group of WordPress-loving bloggers and developers. For 2011, the event promises to be bigger and better. With more than 20 speakers, intense session tracks, and parties/activities, it again will be a top tech conference for developers and the “average Joe” in South Florida. For ticket prices and registration, visit http://wordcampmia.com. The event will be held Saturday, March 5 from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the School of Communication. Registration begins at 8 a.m.

Frost Opera Theater presents Benjamin Britten’s comic opera Albert Herring on March 3, 4, 5, and 6 at Gusman Concert Hall. Albert Herring is one of Britten’s most witty scores, rife with musical quotes and strikingly Mozartean in its musical characterizations and its mix of pathos and humor.

The residents of a sleepy English village are aghast to learn that unsullied young women are nowhere to be found. Without a suitable candidate to be queen of the village’s May Day festival, timid Albert is crowned “King of the May.” A night of carousing ensues, leaving the town elders scandalized and his friends impressed. Contemporaries of Britten speculated that Albert was a satirical self-portrait of the composer himself.

Frost Opera Theater will by joined by members of the Frost Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alan Johnson. Dean Southern stages the production, and the set design is the result of a second collaboration between Frost Opera Theater and the University of Miami School of Architecture. Simone Meeks’s design was chosen from among the students enrolled in a fall 2010 course, led by François Lejeune, with the objective of designing a set for the current production. Read the full story

Sponsored by the Miller School of Medicine and the Cleveland Clinic in conjunction with the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement, Perioperative Medicine Summit 2011 will be held March 3-5 at the Eden Roc Renaissance, Miami Beach. The summit will help clinicians who are actively engaged in perioperative medical care to incorporate the latest findings from clinical research and recommendations from evidence-based guidelines into their practices so that they can improve the quality and safety of their medical care. Evidence-based lectures will be supplemented by clinical cases, and an audience response system will be used for exchange of information among faculty and attendees. In addition, clinical and lab research, innovations, and clinical vignettes related to perioperative medicine will be selected for presentation. The event is targeted towards internists, hospitalists, family practitioners, anesthesiologists, physician assistants, certified nurse anesthetists, nurse practitioners, and allied health professionals engaged in management of the perioperative patient. To register, please visit www.cme.med.miami.edu.