Houston Young People for the Arts

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Catastrophic Theatre

invite you to an evening of

Hunter Gatherers

by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
directed by Jason Nodler

with post-performance reception with the cast* feat. light bites and cash bar

Thursday, July 15, 2010
8 pm
at DiverseWorks, 1117 E. Frwy

Tickets are Pay-What-You-Can and may be purchased here. Please choose the performance on July 15.

The general public is welcome to purchase tickets; however, only members are invited to the post-performance reception.

Not a member and you’d like to join? E-mail heather@downtownhouston.org.

Friday, August 7 | 8 pm - 10 pm | Film Screening: Honoring Merce Cunningham + Robert Rauschenberg. 

Free, outdoor event will present newly-available filmed performances of Merce Cunningham Dance Company dancing the works Split Sides (2003) and Interscape (2000).  In a working relationship of almost two decades, Cunningham and Rauschenberg—together, and separately—continually renewed themselves as artists. Pioneers, their work stretched the definitions of painting, or dance. Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross.  www.menil.org.  Sponsored by Society for the Performing Arts, www.spahouston.org.

Now Through August 29.  The Tamarie Cooper Show: Journey to the Center of My Brain (in 3D!).  Cooper’s new show takes the audience on a journey to the center of her brain  (enter at your own risk!).  Singing neurotransmitters, brainfarts, raging hormones, Tamarie’s inner child, id, and super-ego are just some of the characters featured in this journey of self-discovery, science-style! In this world premiere musical extravaganza, Tamarie plays herself and she shares the stage with Catastrophic favorites Kyle Sturdivant as her Self-Control, Walt Zipprian as Dopamine, Noel Bowers as a blues-singing brainfart as well as Daniel Adame, Julie Boneau, Jeremy Carlson, Sara Jo Dunstan, Rebecca Randall Feit, DeWitt Gravink, Christian Holmes, Sean Patrick Judge, Richard Lyders, and Karina Pal-Montano Bowers. Tickets: to The Tamarie Cooper Show: Journey To The Center Of My Brain (In 3D!) are PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN.  Suggested ticket price is $25 but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.  For tickets, call the Stages Repertory box office at 713-527-8243 or visit www.stagestheatre.com. www.catastrophictheatre.com.  3201 Allen Parkway.

Through August 15 | 8 pm | Last Easter presented by Mildred’s Umbrella Theater.  Regional premiere of play by Bryony Lavery.  June has a terrible secret. Gash has an outrageous plan. Leah is open to possibilities. And Joy is drinking to forget. When June’s best friends unravel her mystery, they whisk her from London to Lourdes where she is thoroughly dunked in the reputedly healing waters.  The four friends’ lunatic pilgrimage is filled with laughing, singing, a drag act and several bottles of good red wine. Last Easter is a funny, moving, and provocative play about the true nature of friendship. Tickets: $10 general admission; Mondays are Pay-As-You-Like.  Gremillion Art Gallery, 2501 Sunset. www.mildredsumbrella.com.

Saturday & Sunday, August 8 & 9 |  Free Press Summer Fest.  40+ national and local musical performers, visual arts and more.  Confirmed to headline are Broken Social Scene, Of Montreal, Explosions in the Sky, The Sword, Devin the Dude, Octopus Project, Young Mammals, The Watermarks, The Small Sounds, The Manichean and more. 2 stages, dozens of local artist booths, craft beer garden and a misting tent to keep you even cooler.  Portion of proceeds benefit Project Row Houses.  Tickets $7/day.  www.freepresssummerfest.com.
 
Through August 8 | Disgruntled Developments at Anya Tish Gallery.  A three person show curated by Houston based artist and critic Garland Fielder, bringing together three emerging artists whose work explores the conspiring yet complex nature between urban dissatisfaction and current events. The international dialogue between the richly layered multi-media works by Indian-American, New York based Baseera Khan, the homegrown graffiti and publicly sprawled works of Chicago based Jeff Mueller, and the locally sourced assemblages of abandoned Hurricane Ike signage by Houston artist Kevin Curry, produce an excitingly global and visual frenzy of fantastical and political sensibilities. Together they question the fundamental need for the personal versus the homogenized public, alongside a desire for Constructivist aesthetics over consumerist pathologies.  Free.  4411 Montrose Blvd.  www.anyatishgallery.com. 

Through August 8 | Kelli Vance: What You Do To Me.  “As Michael Duncan, curator of the Texas Biennial (which featured a solo show of Vance’s work in 2009), has noted ‘In her astounding, larger-than-life figurative paintings, Houston artist Kelli Vance puts us front and center at the scene of the crime. Evoking a kind of repulsed fascination, the meticulously crafted works depict weird sex acts, revenge, humiliation, and physical collapse in crystalline photorealist detail. Vance’s investigations focus on injured female parties - but don’t call them victims. Their expressions of complacency, ecstasy, contemplation, and titillation complicate any easy sense of morality.’” Free.  McClain Gallery, 2242 Richmond.  www.mcclaingallery.com.

Through August 11 | Henrique Oliveira: Tapumes.  Oliveira uses tapumes, which in Portuguese can mean “fencing,” “boarding,” or “enclosure,” as a title for many of his large-scale installations. The term makes reference to the temporary wooden construction fences seen throughout the city of São Paulo where Oliveira lives. It also refers to the weathered wood Oliveira uses as the primary material in his installations.  Oliveira’s installations, which he refers to as “tridimensionals,” have evolved into massive, spatial constructions that combine painting, architecture, and sculpture. www.ricegallery.org.

Through August 15 | Freebird at Hello-Lucky.  Works by Elaine Bradford, Rene Cruz, Jay Giroux, Lisa Marie Godfrey, Frances Trotter and Christine West.  Free.  1025 Studewood. www.hello-lucky.com.  

Just a few of our picks for the weekend!  Read the rest (and for the next week and a half in our free newsletter HERE!)

Also, don’t miss our next event on Thursday, August 20!  More details here. 

Thursday, July 30 | 6-8 pm | Ballet Barre, Young Professionals for Houston Ballet Kick-Off Party.  Cocktails and light bites at Belvedere, sponsored by Houston magazine.  Join by July 30th and receive one FREE general admission to Nutcracker Market.  All attendees will be entered to win two Nutcracker Market Preview Party tickets (value $300).  Belvedere, 1131 Uptown Park Blvd. #1.  www.houstonballet.org/balletbarre.