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FRESH ARTS IS
FUNDED BY:
Amegy Bank of Texas
The Brown Foundation, Inc.
Evelyn M. Davies Foundation
Fairbanks Foundation Houston Arts Alliance
The Houston Endowment, Inc. Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts Nightingale Code Foundation Silver Eagle Distributors Texas Commission on the Arts
Wells Fargo
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Hey there, friends! Every week at newsletter time, we are reminded how truly incredible Houston's arts and cultural scene is. This week, we're particularly excited about our Cultured Cocktails with Arts+Culture Magazine, from which the proceeds will be generously donated to the new Fresh Arts as a wedding gift. We hope you can join us in a celebratory toast!
Have questions about the Spacetaker + Fresh Arts Coalition merger? Visit our Merger FAQ page and updates on our blog.
Check out our recommended events below and enjoy. Cheers to #houarts!
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Interested in volunteering during the 2012 Houston Art Car Parade Weekend? Head to Whole Foods Montrose and sign up for a number of different, exciting activities! Come ready to shop too, as WF will be donating 5% of all sales made from their Houston-area stores on 4/18 to the Orange Show. More info here
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Fresh Arts (Spacetaker+Fresh Arts Coalition) hosts photographer & textile designer Jaime Leigh Collier (current exhibiting artist) and multidisciplinary artist John Pluecker at our Artist SPEAKeasy in April. They will share creative presentations about their work in an informal atmosphere followed by a question and answer session where the audience can glean further insight into the artist, the artist's aesthetic and creative process. More info here.
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 Join the new Fresh Arts (Spacetaker + Fresh Arts Coalition) at Boheme Cafe & Wine Bar and bring your friends to raise a glass to support your local arts community. This week's beneficiary is Arts+Culture Magazine! A+C will be donating its Cultured Cocktail proceeds as a wedding gift to the newly married Fresh Arts Coalition and Spacetaker, now known as "Fresh Arts". More info here.
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Wade Wilson Art is pleased to announce Paradoxe Poétique, an exhibition of paintings and photography representing the work of two young French artists, Jean-Baptiste Lyonnet and Antoine Grospiron-Jaccoux. The exhibition offers the Houston arts community a rare opportunity to sample the young French contemporary art scene. This is the first exhibition in the United States for both artists. More info here
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 Current Fresh Arts (Spacetaker + Fresh Arts Coalition) exhibiting artist Jaime Leigh Collier hosts an artside panel discussion on Breast Cancer Awareness and how it relates to her current body of work. More info here
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The Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts at Rice University presents the fourth installment of their Emergency Room exhibition series with the installation of new work by Houston-based artist Emily Link. On view through May 13th. More info here
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TBH Center presents the first professional theatre production of their Adult Theatre Educational Program, ExpressArte. "Historias de amor y humor" ("Stories of Love and Humor) is a play directed and adapted by Carlos Jesus Garcia with light parodies by Venezuelan writer Aquiles Nazoa. More info here
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Hootenanny (n) -
1. A celebratory event
2. A gathering of singers
3. Southern slang for party
4. The Catastrophic Theatre's chicken-fried, countrified, crazy night of hillbillies, hooch, hollerin' and hilarity! More info here
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Head to Caroline Collective this Friday for Not Another Damn Fairytale Ending!, an exhibition of photography and video from a dozen up an coming female artists, including: Laura Bennett, Brittney Connelly, Jeanette Degollado, Shannon Duncan, Vanessa Godden, Daniela Hernandez, Gisela Parker, Emily Peacock, Britt Ragsdale, Melissa Tran, Tala Vahabzadeh, and Sapphire Williams. More info here
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Saturday, April 21 - May 19, Various Showtimes
Superfudge
Life in the Hatcher household makes 12 year old Peter feel like running away sometimes - especially as the unstoppable Farley Drexler Hatcher, AKA "Fudge", gets older and becomes more of a pain! Main Street Theater's Theater for Youth presents this family friendly play based on the book by Judy Blume. More info here
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Saturday, April 21 - May 13, Various Showtimes
Richard III
Main Street Theater presents this co-production of William Shakespeare's Richard III, the villain everyone loves to hate, with the Prague Shakespeare Festival. More info here
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$20 General Admission/$10 Student
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra's season finale features Grammy-nominated conductor, Alistair Willis, and the world premiere of a new piece by Anthony Brandt called "Maternity" with Lebretto by David Eagleman, sung by Karol Bennett. More info here |
Miller Outdoor Theatre presents" Bella Gaia (Beautiful Earth): A Poetic Vision of Earth from Space," a 'Living Atlas' multimedia journey of our world that expresses the deeply moving beauty of planet Earth as seen through the eyes of astronauts by successfully simulating space flight. A collaboration with NASA, Bella Gaia is an immersive theater experience. More info here
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The 2011/2012 Inprint Margarett Brown Root Reading Series presents an evening with former U.S. Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin, author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning collection The Shadow of Sirius. The reading is followed by an on-stage interview, book sale and signing. More info here
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Taking inspiration from Caryl Churchill and Sarah Kane, Greg Hundemer wrote this acerbic, fast-paced dialogue with a riveting plot-line that will keep you at the edge of your seat. Directed by Philip Hays and staged at Studio 10 for the final reading in the Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company's FRESH INK Reading Series. More info here
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S.O.S. is the annual Spring Open Studio event for Winter Street Studios and Spring Street Studios located in the First Ward Arts District. More than100 local artists will open their studio doors to share art, inspiration and personal stories with art enthusiasts. Shop for a new piece of art to fill an empty space in your home or office or just enjoy an evening out with friends discovering what's hot, hip and artsy. More info here.
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 Sailors abandoned in a storm, austerity measures, generals executed, protests and riots, a Spartan army ravaging the countryside, Apollo selling temples to the highest bidder, Greek debt worth 159% of GDP, and skimming-off-the-top, tax-avoiding politicians. Who can possibly save Athens? A dead poet. This presentation of The Frogs is an adaptation by Dr. John Harvey of the UH Honors College and directed by Aaron Landsman (Artist-in-Residence at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts). More info here
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$5 Spacetaker/Fresh Arts members/$15 non-members
So you're an individual artist or a part of a new arts group that isn't a 501c3 non-profit. Where do you find grants that you're eligible for? How do you raise money for your creative projects? This workshop will cover identifying grant opportunities, funding through fiscal sponsorship, crowdfunding, individual contributions, and institutional support, and offer examples of how other local artists have successfully raised money for their projects. More info here
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