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Thursday, July 9
Class
Lecture
Meeting
Seminar
Workshop
Summer Art Classes and Workshops Registration
When: Thursday July 9 at 8:00am
Where: Art League Houston
1953 Montrose Boulevard (Map)
Price: Free!
Link: Official Site
Presenter: Art League of Houston
(713) 523-9530
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Description:
Art League Houston registration for summer 2009 classes and workshops starts now! Check out the class schedule at: http://artleaguehouston.org/artclasses.html
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Art Exhibition
Fundraiser
Special Event
The 2009 Annual ALH Healing Art Summer Sale and Benefit!
When: Thursday July 9 at 9:00am
Where: Art League Houston
1953 Montrose Boulevard (Map)
Price: Free!
Link: Official Site
Presenter: Art League of Houston
(713) 523-9530
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Description:
Friday, June 26, 2009
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Art League Houston
1953 Montrose Boulevard
Houston, Texas 77006
FREE TO EVERYONE!
All proceeds benefit the Healing Art program and its participating students.
Art League Houston is pleased to announce its annual Healing Art Summer Sale and Benefit taking place on Friday, June 26, 2009 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. The event includes an art exhibition and sale, with proceeds benefiting the Healing Art program and its participating artists.
Now i ... (read more)
TV/Radio
The New Capital - Thursday: 10:00 - 11:00 AM
When: Thursday July 9 at 10:00am
Where: KPFT STUDIO
(Map)
Price: Free!
Link: Official Site
Presenter: KPFT Studio 90.1
(713) 526-4000
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Description:
New Capital (The) - Thursday: 10:00 - 11:00 AM.
Economics, Politics, and New Ideas to change our world.
Leo Gold
The New Capital ShowTM with Leo Gold is progressive talk radio with a mission. The New Capital Show covers politics, environment, economics, business, science, religion, and philosophy.
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Installation Art
visit the Dan Flavin Installation at Richmond Hall
When: Thursday July 9 at 11:00am
Where: Dan Flavin Installation at Richmond Hall
1500 Richmond Avenue
Price: Free!
Link: Official Site
Presenter: Menil Collection Richmond Hall
(713) 525-9400
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Description:
11 a.m.–7 p.m. Wednesday–Sunday
In 1990 Dominique de Menil approached the Minimalist sculptor Dan Flavin to create a permanent, site-specific installation at Richmond Hall, then an annex exhibition space. Just two days before his death in November 1996 Flavin completed the design for the space. The artist’s studio completed the work.
Built in 1930 as a Weingarten's grocery store, Richmond Hall housed a series of bars, including, in its last incarnation, Van’s Stamp ... (read more)
Workshop
Continuum Movement: Renewing Our Fluid Nature
When: Thursday July 9 at 1:00pm
Where: The Jung Center
5200 Montrose (Map)
Price: $30
Link: Official Site
Presenter: Jung Educational Center of Houston
(713) 524-8253
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Description:
Students must attend the first class to attend the second in each two day sequence.
Awaken your awareness of the fluid nature of body and mind. Emilie Conrad, the founder of Continuum Movement states, "All living processes owe their lineage to the movement of water." Continuum reconnects us to that lineage through sequences of breath, sound, and movement.
Through breath, we develop and enhance our capacity to experience present moment awareness. Sound assists the release of habi ... (read more)
TV/Radio
GenerAsian Radio
When: Thursday July 9 at 3:00pm
Where: KPFT 90.1 Pacifica Radio
Price: Free!
Link: Official Site
Presenter: KPFT Studio 90.1
(713) 526-4000
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Description:
Thursday 3:00 -5:00 PM.
World Music - Especially South Asian Fusion.
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Fundraiser
Special Event
Cultured Cocktails with SWAMP
When: Thursday July 9 at 5:00pm
Where: Boheme Cafe & Wine Bar
307 Fairview St
Price: Free!
Presenters: Southwest Alternate Media Project
(713) 522-8592
SPACETAKER
(713) 868-1839
Boheme Cafe & Wine Bar
(713) 529-1099
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Description:
Celebrate our local art scene each Thursday with Spacetaker and Boheme! Join us at Boheme from 5-10PM, when a portion of the proceeds benefits a new local non profit arts organization each week!
This week learn more about
Southwest Alternate Media Project
MISSION STATEMENT
The Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP) promotes the creation and appreciation of film, video and new media as art forms of a multicultural community.
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Art Opening
Interconnectivity
When: Thursday July 9 at 6:00pm
Where: Space 125 Gallery
3201 Allen Parkway, Ste. 250 (Map)
Price: Free!
Link: Official Site
Presenter: Houston Arts Alliance
(713) 527-9330
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Description:
The Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) presents the exhibition Interconnectivity. Featuring the work of Serena Lin Bush, Magsamen + Hillerbrand and Tish Stringer.
Interconnectivity is an exhibition themed around human emotion and is a video portrayal of human connection through the body, conversation and ordinary acts of human interaction. This is the first all video exhibition to take place in space125gallery. The exhibition will be on view through August 14, 2009. Opening reception will take pl ... (read more)
Reading
Special Event
Roll with Shelley Calton and the Derby Girls
When: Thursday July 9 at 6:00pm
Where: Bering & James Gallery
805 Rhode Place #500 (Map)
Price: Free!
Link: Official Site
Presenter: Bering & James Gallery
(713) 529-0351
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Description:
Come celebrate the release of Shelley Calton's book, "Hard Knocks: Rolling with the Derby Girls."
Get a signed copy of the book and a special one-time only print for an introductory price.
Thursday, July 9, 2009, 6 to 9pm. (read more)
Meeting
NOZONE: Houston's Mayoral Forum on Land Use
When: Thursday July 9 at 7:00pm
Where: Rice University School of Architecture
6100 Main Street (Map)
Price: Free!
Link: Official Site
Presenter: Contemporary Arts Museum
(713) 526-3129
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Description:
Houston's mayoral candidates will participate in a discussion on land use, which will be moderated by Mary Ellen Carroll, who recently taught the seminar NOZONE at Rice University's School of Architecture. This event is free and open to the public.
Carroll will pose five questions to the candidates pertaining to land use in the following areas: Legislation and Policy; Education; Transportation; Quality of Life; and Growth. A panel of respondents will then provide comments or raise fu ... (read more)
Reading
Houston Public Library presents An Evening With ReShonda Tate Billingsley
When: Thursday July 9 at 7:00pm
Where: Houston Public Library
500 McKinney (Map)
Price: Free!
Link: Official Site
Presenter: Houston Public Library
(832) 393-1313
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Description:
ReShonda Tate Billingsley is the author of the nonfiction book Help! I've Turned into My Mother and eight adult novels, including My Brother's Keeper, for which she received the prestigious Gold Pen Award for Best New Author from the Black Writer's Alliance and the Nova Lee Nation Award from the Greater Dallas Writing Association. She has also published several teen novels, including Friends 'Til The End and Nothing But Drama. Check out her website at www.reshondatatebillingsley ...
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Musical
Theater
The Wiz @ The Ensemble Theatre
When: Thursday July 9 at 7:30pm
Where: The Ensemble Theatre
3535 Main Street (Map)
Price: $25
Link: Official Site
Presenter: Ensemble Theatre
(713) 520-0055
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Description:
Book by Willam F. Brown
Music and Lyrics by Charlie Smalls
directed by Eileen J. Morris
Welcome to the magical wonderland of Oz where adventure is infused with a musical mixture of Rock, Gospel, and Soul music. Come join Dorothy and her amazing friends — the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the cowardly Lion — as they ease on down the yellow brick road. All of them looking, reaching and searching with all of their hearts for a place called “home.” (read more)
Theater
A. D. Players Announces New Summer Show, Steel Magnolias July 3 through August 30
When: Thursday July 9 at 8:00pm
Where: A.D. Players
2710 W. Alabama (Map)
Price: $27
Link: Official Site
Presenter: A.D. Players
(713) 526-2721
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Description:
Steel Magnolias
By Robert Harling
July 3 through August 30
A. D. Players will present the award-winning play Steel Magnolias as the final show of their 42nd season,
July 3 through August 30. This production replaces the originally scheduled You Can't Take It With You.
This delightful comedy returns to the A. D. Players stage with its story of friendships shared under the dryers and
stylings of a southern beauty shop. It's a play about women to be shared with men who learn that the ... (read more)
Child Friendly
Musical
42nd Street
When: Thursday July 9 at 8:15pm
Where: Miller Outdoor Theatre
100 Concert Dr
Price: Free!
Link: Official Site
Presenters: Theatre Under The Stars
(713) 558-2600
Miller Outdoor Theatre
(713) 284-8352
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Description:
A tap-dancing musical extravaganza as only Theatre Under The Stars can produce. With a fun and infectious score featuring songs like "We're In the Money," "Lullaby of Broadway," "Shuffle Off to Buffalo," and "Forty-Second Street," 42nd STREET is destined to have you tapping your toes too! Set in 1933, 42nd STREET captures the spirit of anyone who has ever pursued a dream. This Tony® Award winning musical tells the fairytale story of an aspiring ch ...
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