Archive for November, 2008
Houston art events for Saturday & Sunday, November 22 & 23
Saturday, November 22
Via Colori Street Painting Festival | 10a-6p | Free | Allen Pkwy @ Bagby | http://www.houstonviacolori.com/
Enter a world of color and creativity on the streets of downtown Houston when The Center for Hearing and Speech (CHS) celebrates its third annual Via Colori, a Street Painting Festival. The festival will showcase more than 175 artists who will create original masterpieces on the street in a pastel medium. From creation to completion, festival-goers will be able to watch as artists turn asphalt into art. Food, beverages, entertainment and children’s activities will round out this spectacular fall weekend.
DiverseWorks: Jonah Bokaer: The Invention of Minus One | 8 pm | $15 | www.diverseworks.org
Making its regional debut, Jonah Bokaer’s Invention of Minus One infuses technology into an exhibition that propels dance and motion-capture techniques into new realms of innovation. While with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Bokaer began using state-of-the-art digital software to develop new movement vocabularies and performance possibilities. Collaborators include Michael Cole (video), Isaac Mizrahi (costumes), Christian Marklay (sound). The program also includes False Start, Bokaer’s technology-influenced solo homage to Jasper Johns’ renowned painting.
Sunday, November 23
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A Baroque Experience
Tonight, Thursday, November 20, 6 to 9 pm
Mingle with Mercury Baroque musicians, enjoy a short chamber music concert and browse fine art. This event will be the perfect beginning to this season of thanks and celebration. Light bites and cocktails will be served. 10% of any sale of artwork will benefit Mercury Baroque.
Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc., 2501 Sunset Blvd, complimentary valet
http://www.mercurybaroque.org/
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Artful things to do Wednesday
Please join me, HYPA and others in congratulating the 2009 Ovation Awards winners. Last year, Kathleen and I were winners of this award thanks to HYPA and everything it has allowed us to do and it really is a great way to say thank you to those that make it happen in Houston’s young philanthropic community.
Elizabeth Abraham, Anneliese Davis, Nicole Laurent, Jennifer LeGrand and Pamela Ulmer
Calling all Houston musicians
Network with the city’s most creative minds
Tuesday, November 18 - Houston MusicMakers Mixer
6 to 8 pm at Poison Girl, 1641 Westheimer
A free event that is open to people in the music industry and hosted by Texas Recording Academy Board Members including David G. Acosta (CPA to the stars), Ricky Anderson (entertainment attorney), Connie Mims (NSAI and DMI songwriter), Heather Wagner (JuiceConsulting LLC) and Chris Gray (Houston Press Music Editor).