STARTING NEXT week, the Harvard Festival of the Arts will follow a new kind of schedule of cultural events in and around the University, Hopping, skipping, jumping, dancing, singing, acting and celebrating from May 1 through May 14, the Arts Festival will tease all decision-making mechanisms with a perplexing variety of choices. As Festival coordinators and instigatiors said back in cold December, "anything can happen." And just about everything will.

YEOMEN OF THE GUARD presented by Harvard Gilbert & Sullivan Players: conductor Gerald Moshell, director Jim Burt, Agassiz Theatre April 28-29, May 3-6 8:30 PM & April 30 2:00 PM call 495-4700 for tickets.

THE FANTASTICKS by Schmidt and Jones: director Lindsay Anderson, Freshman Union Lounge April 28-30 7:30 PM $1.50 tickets at the door.

HARVARD RADCLIFFE ORCHESTRA works by Strauss, Milhaud, and Stravinsky: conductor James Yannatos, Loeb Mainstage May 1 8:00 PM $1.50

INFORMAL CHAMBER GROUP CONCERTS: Loeb West Lobby May 1, 4, 9, 11 4:30 PM FREE no tickets needed.

STUDENT FILM EXHIBITION: Loeb Experimental Theatre May 1 call 864-2630 for times. FREE, no tickets needed.

MODERN DANCE PRESENTATION "pure movement" pieces choreographer Eudgnie Doyle, Loeb Experimental Theatre May 2 7:30 PM FREE*

COLLEGIUM MUSICUM madrigals and chansons of the XV-XX Century: director F. John Adams Loeb Mainstage May 2 8:00 PM $1.50

PERFORMANCE SEMINAR CHAMBER CONCERTS: Leon Kirchner and students of Music 180, Loeb Mainstage May 3 and 10 8:00 PM $1.50

THE IMAGINARY INVALID by Moliere: Harvard Dramatic Club, director Liz Coe, Loeb Mainstage May 4-6, 12-13 8:00 PM $2.25 and May 11 1:30 FREE*

RABELAIS by Jean-Louis Barrault: Eliot House Drama Society, director Laurence Bergreen, Eliot House courtyard, in a tent May 4-6, 11-13 8:00 PM $1.50 (beer will be served)

ROSENCRANTZ AND GILDENSTERN ARE DEAD by Tom Stoppard: Harvard Dramatic Club director Arthur Lasky, Loeb Experimental Theatre May 4-6 7:30 PM FREE*

SAVED by Edward Bond: Dunster Drama Society, director John Greenwood, Dunster House Dining Hall May 4-6, 12-14 8:00 PM $1.50 tickets at the door

JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS by Mort Shuman and Eric Blau: director Guy Rochman, music director Tom Johnson, Mather House Dining Hall May 4-7 house open 8:30 PM curtain 9:00 PM $2.50 (including wine and fruits of the season) call 495-4384 for tickets

THE HARVARD CABARET from Currier House at Radcliffe: Loeb West Lobby May 4-7, 10, 12 after the performances in the theatres 50c cover