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Sunday, May 11
Project
Special Event
The Iris Project
When: Sunday May 11 at 10:00am
Where:
Price: Free!
Link: Official Site
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Description:
The Iris project is launching its world tour of “Listen up” a post-modern, pluralist, material appropriation, relational aesthetic, sound graffiti installation. This revolutionary approach to expanding the conversation between highbrow art theory and sound graffiti-landscape painting will take over Houston in the Downtown Houston, Montrose, Medical Center and Museum District area and activate it throughout the month of May with hundreds of recorded sound buttons installed at public an ...
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Art Exhibition
Special Event
form, color, illumination: Suzan Frecon painting
When: Sunday May 11 at 11:00am
Where: Menil Collection
1515 Sul Ross (Map)
Price: Free!
Link: Official Site
Presenter: Menil Collection
(713) 525-9400
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Description:
Organized by The Menil Collection, form, color, illumination: Suzan Frecon painting presents a selection of approximately 10 oil paintings and 30 watercolors dating from the late 1990s to 2006 by the abstract American painter Suzan Frecon (b. 1941), who has long been overlooked by museums in the United States. Her works on canvas and paper offer a reinvigorating perspective to the influential history of large-scale abstract painting.
Through the sensitive, assiduous arrangement of color, for ... (read more)
Art Exhibition
Special Event
Max Neuhaus: Circumscription Drawings
When: Sunday May 11 at 11:00am
Where: Menil Collection
1515 Sul Ross (Map)
Price: Free!
Link: Official Site
Presenter: Menil Collection
(713) 525-9400
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Description:
Max Neuhaus, a pioneer in the use of sound in contemporary art, coined the term “sound installation” to describe his practice based on the creation of unique sounds for specific locations. As opposed to the temporal experience of hearing a piece of music, his work uses sound as a continuous material to engage our perception of the physical space around us. Using the invisible medium of sound alone, Neuhaus alters the way we both see and experience the world. He has said, “We each ...
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Film/Cinema
Pompeii Documentary: In The Shadow of Vesuvius
When: Sunday May 11 at 12:30pm
Where: Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Brown Auditorium
Price: $7
Link: Official Site
Presenter: Museum Of Fine Arts Houston Films
(713) 639-7365
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Description:
Since the days of the Roman Empire, Italy´s Mount Vesuvius has erupted more than 50 times, devastating whole cities and towns. In A.D. 79 the volcano destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, burying people alive as they ran to escape its fury. Lost and forgotten for more than 1,600 years, the once-thriving trade center of Pompeii has been successfully uncovered by archaeologists. At Herculaneum, human skeletons were found in a fatal embrace. Although Vesuvius is sleeping now, this active volcan ...
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Concert
Special Event
Discovery Green--Sundays in the Park
When: Sunday May 11 at 1:00pm
Where: Discovery Green at Anheuser-Busch Stage
1500 McKinney
Price: Free!
Presenter: Discovery Green
(713) 400-7336
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Description:
Sundays in the Park
Discovery Green Entertainment Series:
Relax in the park -- with great music, your favorite Sunday paper, activities for kids and dogs, garden tours and even Sunday Spa Tapas - available from the Four Seasons Hotel. (read more)
Theater
Ashes to Africa
When: Sunday May 11 at 3:00pm
Where: Ensemble Theatre
3535 Main
Price: $18
Link: Official Site
Presenter: Ensemble Theatre
(713) 520-0055
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Description:
Marta Henderson has the awesome task of fulfilling her grandmother’s dying wish to be cremated and have her remains sprinkled over Africa. This ignites an internal explosion of family struggle. Filled with love and humor that lends to the powerful African American family dynamic.
Performances:
Thursdays 7:30pm, Fridays 8 pm, Saturdays 2pm and 8 pm, Sundays 3 pm
Tickets start at $18 (read more)
Concert
Duelling Divas
When: Sunday May 11 at 5:00pm
Where: Hobby Center | Zilkha Hall
800 Bagby (Map)
Price: $25
Link: Official Site
Presenter: Ars Lyrica Houston
(713) 622-7443
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Description:
Ars Lyrica’s season finale consists of two grand singing contests by Bach and Handel. These artful musical duels—Baroque equivalents to American Idol—are full of spectacular vocal and instrumental fireworks. See if you can tell to whom the composers give the prize!
Featuring:
Handel Il duello amoroso
Bach The Dispute between Phoebus and Pan
Performers:
Melissa Givens, soprano
Gerrod Pagenkopf, countertenor
Randolph Lacy, tenor
Zachary Wilder, tenor
Brian Shircliffe, ... (read more)
Film/Cinema
Knowledge Is the Beginning
When: Sunday May 11 at 7:00pm
Where: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Brown Auditorium
Price: $7
Link: Official Site
Presenter: Museum Of Fine Arts Houston Films
(713) 639-7365
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Description:
Knowledge Is the Beginning follows the development of a seemingly impossible idea that was the vision of late Palestinian intellectual Edward Said and noted orchestra conductor Daniel Barenboim, a native of Argentina who has long resided in Israel. Their concept, to bring young musical prodigies from Israel and the Arab world together to play music and transcend cultural barriers by learning about each other as people, led to the establishment of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. The film prese ...
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Festival
Film/Cinema
VBB Presents Palestine Film Fest
When: Sunday May 11 at 7:00pm
Where: various
Price: $7
Link: Official Site
Presenter: Voices Breaking Boundaries
(713) 524-7821
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Description:
The second annual Houston Palestine Film Festival brings an honest and independent view of Palestine and its diaspora's society, culture, and political travails through the art of film. This group of groundbreaking cinematic texts rise above the degrading stereotypes or reductively politicized depictions that are so familiar to Houstonians. A major goal of the Festival is to directly expose our local community to the perspective of artists as a first step toward circumventing the many gover ...
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Special Event
Third Lois Alba Aria Competition
When: Sunday May 11 at 7:00pm
Where: Houston Community College’s HEINEN THEATER
3517 Austin Street
Price: $25
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Description:
As a former student and professional singer, now published author and vocal coach of the ‘Bel Canto’ singing technique, Lois Alba became aware of the many challenges that confront aspiring singers who search for opportunities to be heard and to advance in a singing career. Her goal is to provide singers with the opportunity to be heard in anenthusiastic public arena as well as by a panel of music professionals who can offer their expert advise and direction. Contestants will also have ...
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Dance Performance
Madame Butterfly
When: Sunday May 11 at 8:00pm
Where: Miller Outdoor Theater
100 Concert Drive
Price: Free!
Link: Official Site
Presenters: Houston Ballet
(713) 523-6300
Miller Outdoor Theatre
(713) 284-8352
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Description:
A classical ballet adaptation, set to Puccini’s magnificent score, of the memorable love story of the beautiful geisha Cio-Cio San and American Lt. Pinkerton.
Produced by Houston Ballet (read more)
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