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Thursday, July 2
Class
Lecture
Meeting
Seminar
Workshop
Summer Art Classes and Workshops Registration
When: Thursday July 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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)
Art Exhibition
Art Opening
Special Event
The Armadillo
When: Thursday July 2 at 12:00pm
Where: Discovery Green
1500 McKinney (Map)
Price: Free!
Link: Official Site
Presenters: DiverseWorks
(713) 223-8346
Discovery Green
(713) 400-7336
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Description:
Side Street Projects will embark on a 6,500 mile cross-country road trip from Pasadena, CA to Boston, MA and back to retrieve The Armadillo — an actual FEMA trailer deployed after Hurricane Katrina that students and faculty from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) transformed into a mobile, sustainable community garden and composting station as part of the MIT FEMA Trailer Project, founded and directed by MIT Visual Arts Program instructor and artist Jae Rhim Lee.
"Thi ... (read more)
Call for Entries
Special Event
Extended :: Parallel Universes: The Art of Quantum Physics Call for Entries
When: Thursday July 2 at 12:00pm
Where: Spacetaker
2101 Winter Street (Map)
Price: Free!
Link: Official Site
Presenter: SPACETAKER
(713) 868-1839
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Description:
A Conspiracy of Space, Time and Art
Artist Call for Entries
Spacetaker and Winter Street Studios announces a call for entries for the upcoming exhibition:
Parallel Universes – The Art of Quantum Physics - A Conspiracy of Space, Time & Art
Parallel Universes – the Art of Quantum Physics is conceived to allow artists to collaborate with each other, explore and create effects of art worlds. The nature of another reality is often mysterious, known only by its effect on our ... (read more)
TV/Radio
GenerAsian Radio
When: Thursday July 2 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.
Yogi & Alx (read more)
Fundraiser
Special Event
Cultured Cocktails with FrenetiCore
When: Thursday July 2 at 5:00pm
Where: Boheme Cafe & Wine Bar
307 Fairview St
Price: Free!
Presenters: SPACETAKER
(713) 868-1839
FrenetiCore
(713) 449-8375
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 FrenetiCore
FrenetiCore is devoted to exploring the frontier spaces where separate approaches to creativity meet in new and interesting ways. Our performances attempt to combine music, dance, filmmaking, and digital design in a manner that explores modes of interaction a ... (read more)
Art Exhibition
Lecture
Special Event
Gallery Talk: North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection
When: Thursday July 2 at 7:00pm
Where: Museum of Fine Arts Houston
1001 Bissonnet Street (Map)
Price: Free!
Link: Official Site
Presenter: Museum Of Fine Arts Houston
(713) 639-7365
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Description:
This 45-minute gallery talk begins in the lobby of the Law Building.
North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection celebrates the museum´s major Latin American art acquisitions since 2001, with more than 80 works in every medium, ranging in date from the 1920s to the present. North Looks South is organized around unexpected juxtapositions between artists and works from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, the United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Featured ... (read more)
Musical
Theater
The Wiz @ The Ensemble Theatre
When: Thursday July 2 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
Thom Pain (based on nothing) by Will Eno
When: Thursday July 2 at 8:00pm
Where: Diverseworks
1117 East Fwy (Map)
Price: $15
Link: Official Site
Presenter: Nova Arts Project
(832) 545-8778
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Description:
Nova Arts Project Presents Houston Premiere of NYC Off-Broadway Hit!
Nova Arts Project, the Houston theatre company dedicated to re-creating classics and inspiring new works in a fearlessly theatrical way, continues its fourth season with the Houston Premiere of Will Eno’s one-man play Thom Pain (based on nothing).
Running June 18-July 4 at DiverseWorks, Thom Pain (based on nothing) features Houston actor Seán Patrick Judge as the title character. Last seen as Jim Lehrer in Ca ... (read more)
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