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Talento Bilingüe de Houston
Raíces de mi Corazon
Dec. 3, 2009 - Feb. 26, 2010
Paintings by Official 2008 Latin Grammy Artist Lizbeth Ortiz.
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Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP)
SWAMP/FOTOFEST 2010 - OPEN CALL FOR SHORT FILMS!
Dec. 11, 2009 - Mar. 2, 2010
In cooperation with the 13th biennial photography festival FOTOFEST2010, Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP) is extending a challenge to Texas filmmakers to produce a short film exploring the possibilities and challenges of 21st century life with an open call for submissions of short films (10 minutes max) on the theme of "The American Dream 2010: Visions of 21st Century Life in the USA and in all the Americas, from North to South," inspired by FotoFest´s focus on Contemporary U.S. Photography.
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Stages Repertory Theatre
A PICASSO by Jeffrey Hatcher
Jan. 27 - Feb. 21, 2010
SHOWDATES & TIMES
Wednesdays & Thursdays 7:30PM
Fridays & Saturdays 8:00PM
Sundays 3:00PM
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Opera in the Heights
Un Ballo In Maschera
Jan. 28 - Feb. 6, 2010
Ballo in Maschera [A Masked Ball] - love and politics - they cannot mix. Despite good intentions, this ill-fated combination can only spell a bad ending. One of Verdi´s greatest masterpieces.
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The University of Houston Center for Choreography
Framing Dance with Travesty Dance Group
Feb. 2 - 4, 2010
TDG performs their multi-media educational show as part of the Discovery Series at the Hobby Center
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Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts
Artist Presentation: Amy Patton, "Oil"
Feb. 2, 2010 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Amy Patton discusses her Mitchell Center residency, during which she is developing the new filmed theatre work Oil.
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Talento Bilingüe de Houston
BOCON Written by Lisa Loomer, Directed by Angeles Romero
Feb. 4 - 14, 2010
Come see the magical story of a boy who flees a repressive military regime in Central America for the U.S. Along his journey up North he teams up with an unusual traveling companion, La Llorona, the legendary "Weeping Woman" of Latin American mythology. Through their magical friendship, Miguel finds his voice and the courage to cross the border to a new life. Miguel´s story is relevant to immigrants across the world and anyone who is learning to find his or her own voice.
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Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston
Artist´s Talk with Jon Pylypchuk
Feb. 4, 2010 6:30 PM
Admission is FREE!
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Aurora Picture Show
Because the Night
Feb. 6, 2010 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Mayhem, sex, battles, romance, war, dreams, and abstract works that evoke the poetics of night. Inspired by Patti Smith´s recording "Because the Night," Catherine Forster of LiveBox has curated a program of short works that reflect the many facets of human behavior and habitats of the night. Artists featured in the program include: Caleb Engstrom, Fabienne Gautier, Paulo Fernandez, Christina McPhee, Midori Sakuraï, Pierre St-Jacques, and Michael Szpakowski.
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Aurora Picture Show
Video Salon: Playing on the Edge of Real with Catherine Forster
Feb. 7, 2010 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
A free Video Salon with filmmaker and curator Catherine Forster of Chicago´s Livebox.
Catherine Forster is a filmmaker, artist, curator, and educator based in the Chicago area. Her artwork explores themes of identity, social development, and the impact of mediation on relationships and the environment. Fortster is also the founder and director of a non-profit nomadic new media art space, the LiveBox Gallery. Showing exampes of her own artwork, she will discuss the impact of mediation, of society´s need to "package" everyting, even the ethereal, like our relationship to nature.
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Dominic Walsh Dance Theater
Romeo & Juliet
Feb. 11 - 14, 2010
Dominic Walsh Dance Theater and Mercury Baroque will once again team up for the ultimate performing arts mash up—Romeo & Juliet.
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Main Street Theater
Anansi the Spider and the Middle Passage
Feb. 12 - 14, 2010
Anansi the Spider springs to life for an action-packed, light-hearted adventure!
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DiverseWorks
Sō Percussion - Imaginary City
Feb. 12 - 13, 2010
DiverseWorks presents Imaginary City, the newest work by Brooklyn´s Sō Percussion and collaboration with filmmaker Jenise Treuting that captures the sounds and images of several cities including Houston.
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Main Street Theater
Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business
Feb. 13 - Mar. 27, 2010
She´s back! You won´t want to miss seeing the havoc that ensues when Junie B. and friends team up for wild adventures!
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Main Street Theater
Machinal / A Number
Feb. 13 - Mar. 14, 2010
What circumstances might drive a seemingly harmless stenographer to commit murder? What are the emotional repercussions of human cloning? MST presents two extraordinary plays in one sensational evening of theater.
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Talento Bilingüe de Houston
Target Literacy through Poetry and Hip Hop Dancing with HAVIKORO
Feb. 13, 2010 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Put on your dancing shoes and bring your family to our Poetry through Hip-Hop Workshop inspired by HAVIKORO, an international, Houston based Hip-Hop dancing crew!
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ROCO: River Oaks Chamber Orchestra
ROCO´s Conductorless! Concert
Feb. 13 - 14, 2010
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (ROCO) will perform its annual Conductorless! Concert on Valentine´s weekend, February 13-14, 2010, and welcomes internationally acclaimed piano soloist, Simone Dinnerstein, and dynamic Chinese composer, Chen Yi.
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Aurora Picture Show
It´s Not You; It´s Me
Feb. 14, 2010 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Do candy hearts, chocolate boxes, stuffed animals and roadside roses fill your heart with dread? Declare February 14th free of forced romanticism and join us for a special anti-Valentine´s themed screening composed of short films about the battle scars of relationships. For all those people without Valentine´s plans and their sympathetic malcontents, or even for those couples that reject manipulated corporate holidays, this screening is for you.
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Musiqa
Birth of the Cool
Feb. 18, 2010 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Free Loft Concert
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DiverseWorks
Debutantes Run Wild Gala!
Feb. 19, 2010 7:30 PM - 11:30 PM
What happens when you mix high-society and southern protocol, dash it with Cinderella dreams,
and turn it on its big Texas hairdo? A debutante ball done up DiverseWorks style that´s what! Darling debs feel free to abandon those pearls and white dresses cause prim and proper won´t fly here. And gents, come in tux and tails or a fabulous gown if you prefer, because anything goes at a DW Gala.
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Inprint
Inprint 2010 Poets and Writers Ball
Feb. 20, 2010 6:30 PM
Inprint´s annual fundraiser, the 2010 Poets and Writers Ball, chaired by Eleanor and Dan Gilbane, features National Book Award winning poet Mark Doty as the guest speaker and salon style readings by Houston authors Alexander Parsons, Coert Voorhees, and Gwendolyn Zepeda.
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Mildred´s Umbrella Theater Company
The Flu Season
Feb. 25 - Mar. 13, 2010
Mildred´s Umbrella Theater Company presents a Houston premier, The Flu Season by Will Eno, and directed by Matt Huff.
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Aurora Picture Show
Shadowbox Cinema
Feb. 26, 2010 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Shadowbox Cinema spans the wide-eyed world of indie and underground cinema with animated doses of disillusionment, experimental uppercuts of individualism, surreal excursions, and pulsating stories that may detonate upon contact. The Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) co-curated this handpicked program with recent films never-before-screened by the Ann Arbor Film Festival. All of the films will be strong contenders, but there will be only one champion. The audience decides which film wins a cash prize!
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Dance Houston
FUSE
Feb. 27, 2010
Annual hip hop festival featuring the latest moves and styles from the streets, clubs and television. The biggest hip hop festival in town!
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Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston
Josephine Meckseper and Jon Pylypchuk
Sep. 12, 2009 - Feb. 6, 2010
Now extended through Feb. 6, 2010
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Talento Bilingüe de Houston
Raíces de mi Corazon
Dec. 3, 2009 - Feb. 26, 2010
Paintings by Official 2008 Latin Grammy Artist Lizbeth Ortiz.
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DiverseWorks
The New Normal
Jan. 15 - Feb. 20, 2010
Heightened surveillance, characterized by the spread of public cameras, luggage searches, internet monitoring and wiretapping has become an inescapable global condition that was dubbed "the new normal" after the 9/11 attacks. The New Normal brings together artworks that use private information as raw material and subject matter. Each of the works in the exhibition grants access to the private sphere of the artists themselves, of strangers and of public officials.
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DiverseWorks
Flickerlounge: 35MM
Jan. 15 - Feb. 20, 2010
35mm is a collection of five works that use celluloid as the major structural component. The films produce a cinematic look regardless of the process of digitalization and explore celluloid´s place in the future of avant-garde cinema. In partnership with Aurora Picture Show.
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University Museum at Texas Southern University
Selections from the Permanent Collection
Jan. 29 - Mar. 7, 2010
Works from the permanent collection ranging in media from oil on canvas to African sculpture
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University Museum at Texas Southern University
Reflections of South Africa:Earlie Hudnall, Jr.
Jan. 29 - Mar. 7, 2010
Noted photographer Earlie Hudnall, Jr. chronicles daily life in South Africa.
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The Community Artists Collective
Five-A at The Collective
Feb. 2 - 28, 2010
Museum of Fine Arts annual Five-A exhibition of African-American artists at The Collective
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Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts
Artist Presentation: Amy Patton, "Oil"
Feb. 2, 2010 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Amy Patton discusses her Mitchell Center residency, during which she is developing the new filmed theatre work Oil.
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Aurora Picture Show
Because the Night
Feb. 6, 2010 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Mayhem, sex, battles, romance, war, dreams, and abstract works that evoke the poetics of night. Inspired by Patti Smith´s recording "Because the Night," Catherine Forster of LiveBox has curated a program of short works that reflect the many facets of human behavior and habitats of the night. Artists featured in the program include: Caleb Engstrom, Fabienne Gautier, Paulo Fernandez, Christina McPhee, Midori Sakuraï, Pierre St-Jacques, and Michael Szpakowski.
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Aurora Picture Show
Video Salon: Playing on the Edge of Real with Catherine Forster
Feb. 7, 2010 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
A free Video Salon with filmmaker and curator Catherine Forster of Chicago´s Livebox.
Catherine Forster is a filmmaker, artist, curator, and educator based in the Chicago area. Her artwork explores themes of identity, social development, and the impact of mediation on relationships and the environment. Fortster is also the founder and director of a non-profit nomadic new media art space, the LiveBox Gallery. Showing exampes of her own artwork, she will discuss the impact of mediation, of society´s need to "package" everyting, even the ethereal, like our relationship to nature.
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Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts
Artist Presentation: Scott McCloud
Feb. 9, 2010 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Noted comic writer and graphic artist Scott McCloud will present a public lecture at UH to discuss his critically acclaimed work.
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Musiqa
Birth of the Cool
Feb. 18, 2010 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Free Loft Concert
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