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Happy Wednesday, Houston Arts lovers! Ready to check out something new? Start TONIGHT at HYPA's Culture Collision, where you can drink and mingle with us and several other awesome visual and performing arts groups in Houston. Then you have some art openings, theater openings, film screenings, and more to keep you fueled throughout the weekend.
Fun news! Fresh Arts is now on Google+! If any of you do the Google+ thing, follow us here. Don't worry, we're still doing the Facebook & Twitter thing too...
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Join Houston Young People for the Arts for a one-of-a-kind happy hour uniting Houston Urbanites with the performing and visual arts. If you're looking to get more involved with the Houston arts scene, this is the place to do it! Complimentary drinks, light bites & valet, music by DJ Derek Jones, plus the chance to win prizes from our participating arts organizations! Fresh Arts will be there! Come visit us! RSVP Required. More info here
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Join Fresh Arts at Boheme Cafe & Wine Bar and bring your friends to raise a glass to support your local arts community. A portion of this week's drink proceeds will benefit DANMAR Academy for Performing Arts! More info here
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Houston is home to refugee communities from around the world. All refugees bring with them distinctive traditions from their countries and cultures of origin. Weaving Home focuses on the weaving traditions practiced by women from the Karenni ethnic community who now live in Houston. This exhibition is presented by the Houston Arts Alliance Folklife + Traditional Arts Program. On view through July 6th. More info here
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Main Street Theater presents this play in which nine year old Winnie Barnstairs observes the whirlwind at her motherīs workplace - a foul-tempered, TV personality, his baby-talking mistress, his vindictive wife, and his hungover friend - and finds herself with more than enough fodder for her homework, an essay entitled "My Wonderful Day." More info here
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$10 or FREE for 14 Pews members
Presented by 14 Pews, The Strange Demise of Jim Crow is a multi-level story of urban power and change: student demonstrators vs. segregationists; the white power structure's fear of integration vs. their greater fear of violence, embarrassing national publicity and financial losses; secret deal-making vs. freedom of the press. More info here
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$Pay-What-You-Can (Suggested Price $20)
Catastrophic Theatre presents a sort of Our Town for our times. American Falls asks ancient, unanswerable questions: What is it to live? What becomes of the child on the mysterious road to adulthood? What is it like to grow old? What does it mean to die? More info here
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The Emotional Life of a Spy
Art League Houston presents The Emotional Life of a Spy, an installation by Houston-based artist Sasha Dela, featuring a unique selection of found and handmade sculpture and video, inspired by the acclaimed 1935 Alfred Hitchcock spy thriller, The 39 Steps. More info here
SNAP
SNAP:THIRTY ARTISTS CELEBRATE THIRTY YEARS is The Society of Northern Alberta Print Artists' (SNAP) thirtieth anniversary exhibition. To celebrate this milestone, SNAP has invited thirty artists from Canada, the U.S.A. and Europe to create and produce an edition of hand-pulled prints. These chosen artists represent a rich history of SNAP, from one of the original founders (Marc Siegner) to artists who have supported and contributed to SNAP programming over the years. More info here
Tu Eres O No Tu Eres Mi Baby (Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby)
Tu Eres O No Tu Eres Mi Baby (Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby) is a series of text-based carved paintings by San Antonio artist Ricky Armendariz, which combine themes of narco-pop-culture, with romantic-style landscape painting from the 1800's. More info here
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Held at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and Lawndale Art Center, Empty Bowls Houston is a unique lunch event and fundraiser that brings together the arts and crafts community to fight hunger in our area and benefits the Houston Food Bank. For a minimum donation, guests enjoy a simple lunch and select a bowl from hundreds of one-of-a-kind; hand-crafted bowls donated by Houston area ceramicists and craft artists. More info here
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In 1965 six French New Wave directors took a Paris neighborhood and concocted a short sketch around it. The results sometimes favor character and story, and sometimes local flavor, but almost all are engaging in their own right. Claimed to be one of the strongest and most entertaining anthology films to emerge from the 1960s. More info here
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$5 Spacetaker/Fresh Arts members/$15 non-members
Professional artists must be able to write clearly and persuasively about their work. Yet too many see writing as a frustrating, anxiety provoking, or simply baffling. Tacey A. Rosolowski, Ph.D. will demystify writing by breaking it down into distinct skills and inspire workshop participants by showing how their writing can grow along with their art practice. This workshop is geared toward individual artists of all disciplines. REGISTER HERE
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Manuel Puig, weaves a sharply provocative tale of love, victimization, fantasy, and friendship that develops between two strikingly different men who share an Argentinean prison cell. In collaboration with Unhinged Productions, TBH Center presents this play, adapted by Puig from his own novel, El beso de la mujer araņa written in 1976. More info here
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Screening of SWAMP Sponsored Project LIVE OAK TREES, a short musical film of the song from Leah White & The Magic Mirrors Album, "Houston: Our Roots Are Strong" celebrating Houstonīs 175th Birthday. This local award-winning band drives around Houston performing on the back of a flat-bed truck. On the way, they encounter Houston celebrities, families and special landmarks. Produced and directed by ZenFilmīs W. Ross Wells. More info here
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Houston's Google marketing team hosts this free workshop on Google's suite of free products for Nonprofits. Learn about the benefits of the Google For Nonprofits Program (which includes free advertising, free or discounted Google Apps, premium branding on YouTube Channel, and more) and how Google+ can help your cause online. This session is free but please RSVP in advance. CLICK HERE to RSVP.
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$FREE and open to all disciplines
Mark your calendars for the inaugural Houston Art Resource Fair, an intensive day of professional development for individual artists and organizations. Featured speakers include Thomass Cott (Director of Marketing, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre), Emily Gray (Program Director of Insurance, Fractured Atlas) and other special guests and speakers to be announced. Attend sessions focusing on fundraising, marketing and health care; meet other industry professionals and foster collaboration within the arts community; and connect with vendors and organizations that serve the arts in Houston. More info here
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