Archive for February, 2009
Houston arts scene for the weekend
Looking for some inexpensive things to do this weekend? Look below.
Sunday, March 1
12 noon - 5p: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Target Free Sunday. Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul, opens. 1001 Bissonnet. www.mfah.org. Admission is free all day.
2 pm: bobrauschenbergamerica at UH Main Campus. Last day to experience live-action poetry that explores the American landscape in a play that one of our greatest artists, Robert Rauschenberg, might have conceived if he had been a playwright instead of a painter. It’s a delightful collage of people and places and music and dancing, of love stories and picnics and business schemes and shootings and chicken jokes and golfing. A quintessentially American play. “…brashly, unapologetically entertaining” - New York Times. For more info visit http://www.theatredance.uh.edu/. For tickets call 713-743-5645. p.s. HYPA members receive 2 for 1 ticket offer. Check the last newsletter for details.
3p-5p: Spain Colored Orange at Discovery Green. Discovery Green kicks off their new season of programming with the fun Houston band, Spain Colored Orange. A great way to enjoy a leisurely Sunday and the gorgeous Houston weather. 1500 McKinney. Free.
Monday, March 2
7p - Film screening: The Misfits - In honor of Joe Goode’s Maverick Strain, a deconstruction of Arthur Miller’s screenplay for the film The Misfits, Society for the Performing Arts and Brasil are co-presenting a screening of the classic film on Monday, March 2, at 7:00 pm at Brasil, 2604 Dunlavy. Mr. Goode will introduce the film. The Misfits is a 1961 American drama film, written by Arthur Miller, directed by John Huston, and starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, and Eli Wallach. It was the final film appearance for Gable and Monroe. Even though it was not a commercial success at the time of its release, it has later garnered critical respect for its script as well as the leading performances. Free.
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Junkyard Drive-In This Saturday, February 28 w/ Buffalo Bayou Partnership Bayou Buddies + HYPA
Junkyard Drive-In with Houston Young People for the Arts and Bayou Buddies!
When: Saturday, February 28, 5-8 pm (public screening begins at 6:30 pm)
Where: 723 N. Drennan (see directions below)
Cost: FREE for Bayou Buddies + HYPA members or $10; includes Saint Arnold drinks and junkyard snacks by Whole Foods!
Pack your tailgate picnic or buy dinner from the mobile taco stand then tune your car radio to learn about the industry that makes Texas tick at the site of a former auto junkyard on Buffalo Bayou. Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) and Aurora Picture Show present a drive-in screening of industrial and information films on the subject of oil, and is organized in conjunction with Texas Oil: Landscape of an Industry, an exhibition of the Center for Land Use Interpretation on view at Blaffer Gallery through March 29.
Don’t forget blankets, chairs and a groovy car for movie screening following the reception. We will also learn more about Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s art program.
Directions: From I-10 -Head I-10 East (going towards Beaumont), exit Waco and make a right on Waco -Stay on Waco (North York St) until you hit Navigation and make a left on Navigation -Turn left on Drennan Street. Follow the sign to 723 N. Drennan (next to Biodiesel) Only 1 mile east of Ninfa’s on Navigation Attendees will park and view the film from their personal vehicles
Comments are off for this postIt’s all about the heart of art
Houston artist Hanh Tran returns for her 3rd annual Heart of Art exhibition and charity auction tonight, Thursday, February 12 from 6 to 9 pm.
Tonight’s beneficiary is Pink Door, a non-profit organization that offers single, divorced and widowed women cancer survivors the ability to start a new career path after cancer - a whole new life!
Multiple donors have contributed to the silent auction (proceeds benefit Pink Door) including Arbonne, Donald Pliner Shoes, One to One Fitness, Vintage, Houston Ballet, Marfreless, Academy, Truluck’s, Salud! Winery and many more.
It all happens at Roche Bobois, 4810 San Felipe, from 6 to 9 pm. Dripping Springs will be pouring vodka and bites from CPK and others. Visit http://www.hanhtran.org/ for more information on the artist and http://www.pinkdoornonprofit.org/ for information on Pink Door.
p.s. If you aren’t on Twitter yet (btw, you can follow HYPA @houstonarts or me, @heatherpray), then you may not know much about the Twestival going on tonight at Caroline Collective. Today, more than 175 cities will host simultaneous events of Twitterers for music, food, fun and drinks with proceeds going to charity:water. Houston’s goal is $4,000. This year’s inaugural Houston event will feature Houston bands including Blue Funk, Snake Charmers, Wayside Drive and Red Eye Carl and the Pirates. Read more about the bands at Joey Guerra’s HandStamp blog or visit the Twestival site on how you can be a part of the evening!
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It’s Friday, Bring Me Some Champagne
Happy Friday!
Newsletter is coming with some really great offers from River Oaks Chamber Orchestra and Project Divisi and much more! Look for it tomorrow : ) And thanks for your patience!
In the meanwhile, here is an event to check out tonight:
Art Opening, 6 pm to 9 pm - Community Artists’ Collective feat. work of Michael K. Taylor
Enjoy art, music and atmosphere with the artists and live performances by trumpetist Sam Trump, poet Jerome Washington and DJ Flash Gordon Parks.
Michael K. Taylor’s work features abstract interpretations of music & poetry through art. Each drawing, painting or sculpture is inspired by specic songs and by artists such as Monk & Coltrane, The Roots, Kahlil Gibran, Adrian Piper, Portishead, Albert Einstein, Radiohead and others.
Community Artists’ Collective, 1413 Holman @ LaBranch, www.thecollective.org. Free.
Also, before I forget, this is the absolute weekend for two awesome shows.
Opera in the Heights’ Macbeth through February 7, 7:30 pm - Giuseppe Verdi’s stirring opera based on William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Tickets are still available for the show tonight and tomorrow. Tickets $35-$45. www.operaintheheights.org. Lambert Hall, 1703 Heights Blvd.
Click here to read the Houston Press review.
DiverseWorks’ Pat Graney’s House of Mind through February 7, 7:30 pm
Internationally renowned choreographer, Pat Graney, makes a grand return to Houston as she takes over DiverseWorks’ entire building with her latest exhibition and performance House of Mind. In an amalgamation of female memory, collective unconscious, and family and cultural histories, Graney creates an expansive kinesthetic sense of her work that takes the audience on an intense and thought-provoking journey through her past, her mother’s battles with Alzheimer’s and others. Plus, tour the installation - a multi-sensory experience that physically manifests aspects over mind.
Tickets are $15 and seating is extremely limited! Visit www.diverseworks.org to purchase tickets.
Click here to read Houston Chronicle Douglas Britt’s review of House of Mind.
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