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December 3-5, 9-12, 16-19, 2009
8pm
The long awaited follow up to Daniel Johnston’s Speeding Motorcycle chronicles the artist’s early years in Austin
In 2006 Catastrophic artistic director Jason Nodler created Speeding Motorcycle, a hit musical drawing from cult phenomenon Daniel Johnston’s words and music, which received praise from The New York Times, American Theatre and No Depression magazine. It premiered at Infernal Bridegroom Productions in Houston and received a second production at Austin’s Zachary Scott Theatre Center.
“One play wasn’t enough,” according to Nodler. “Daniel is so prolific and his body of work is so remarkable I feel like I could …
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Cinema ArtsFestival Houston
Co-presented by DiverseWorks
Saturday, November 13, 7pm at Rice Media Center
Sunday, November 15, 1pm at Angelika Film Center
Winner of the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, The Yes Men Fix the World is a screwball true story about the satirical activist team the Yes Men. Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno’s theatrical performances take place on unusual stages. Dressed in thrift-store suits, posing as top executives of corporations they consider criminal, the Yes Men lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate targets in outrageous, yet strangely plausible ways. They …
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Co-presentation of Aurora Picture Show
November 7-December 19, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 7, 6-8pm
Flickerlounge presents Jonas Mekas and his newest film, LITHUANIA AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR. Forces of time, memory, change, and human will collide in Mekas’s new film. The work’s title refers to the historical time when the world watched as Mekas’s home country of Lithuania fought for independence from the stronghold of Soviet rule. With a video camera, Mekas recorded newscasts that played daily in 1991 on his television set at home. Footage includes reports of the Soviet Union’s use of ‘aggressive actions’ …
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Nov. 7 – Dec. 19, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009, 6 – 8pm
Commissioned by DiverseWorks
Live Music Performances
Saturday, November 21, 2009 – Hourly, 11am-2pm
A Conversation with Tierney Malone & David McGee
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 – 6:30pm
Houston artist Tierney Malone transforms the DiverseWorks Main Gallery into a massive multi-media installation with his latest work, Third Ward is My Harlem. Drawing from his own Southern roots and experiences, Malone reframes American and creates non-linear narratives full of stoic nostalgia and sophistication that speaks to the experiences of much …
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Karyn Olivier
In collaboration with Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Moores School of Music and CBS Outdoor
October 26 – November 22, 2009
Launch Party at DiverseWorks – October 26, 2009, 6-8pm
The Mitchell Center presents a bold new project from artist-in-residence Karyn Olivier. Using 13 billboards along the city’s downtown freeways, Olivier will replace the usual advertisements with images of the urban landscape that would be visible if the billboard did not exist – the sky, trees, and buildings obstructed by the ads will now be “revealed.”
Join us at DiverseWorks for the official launch of Inbound: …
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Oct. 16 & 17, 2009, 8pm (SATURDAY IS SOLD OUT!)
LIMITED SEATING IS AVAILABLE FOR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16th
TICKETS ONLY AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR!
Co-commissioned by DiverseWorks with Performance Space 122 (New York) and NPN DiverseWorks Theater
DiverseWorks is thrilled to debut the world premiere of Heaven, an extraordinary collaboration between Minneapolis-based choreographer Morgan Thorson, the band, LOW (Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker), lighting designer Lenore Doxsee and visual and costume designer Emmet Ramstad. Thorson researched all manners of ecstatic transformation in religious forms, rituals and methodologies. Heaven works to create sublime revelations for all—audience members, dancers, believers, non-believers, dance enthusiasts …
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Thursday, October 15, 2009, 6:30pm
Spacetaker
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) invites you to a Resource Seminar for Artists at Spacetaker. The seminar will cover NYFA’s programs and services relevant to Houston-based filmmakers and artists across disciplines. Attendees will also receive helpful tips for applying to grants, residencies and other opportunities.
The New York Foundation for the Arts’ mission is to empower artists at critical stages in their creative lives.
Members of NYFA’s staff will provide a 90-minute seminar, with a 30-minute Q&A afterward, on Thursday, October 15th at 6:30pm at Spacetaker. Each of New York Foundation …
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Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Tues., Oct. 13, 2009, 6-8pm
Free Admission
Join DiverseWorks at Culture Collision. One stop shopping for young professionals arts groups in Houston at the beautiful Bayou Bend gardens. Check out what Houston arts scene has to offer at this happy hour where culture and cocktails collide. Make sure to stop by the DiverseWorks table and enter our contest “Now that I’m by Myself… I’m in a Video by Myself Contest” inspired by our current exhibition“Now that I’m by myself,” she says, “I’m not by myself, which is good.” We will …
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Je me laver, Je regarde moi-même
Panel Discussion
Saturday, October 10, 11 am – 1 pm
An informal discussion with local and regional artists about the “use of the self” in their video/performance work. Participants include Robert Boland, Erick Michaud, Jenny Schlief, among others. Audience participation is welcomed.
October 1 -3, 2009, 8pm
Performance will be in the DiverseWorks Theater
Co-commissioned by DiverseWorks with Pick Up Performance Co(S.) and National Performance Network
Ain Gordon, a recipient of such honors as the Obie Award, NYFA Playwriting Fellow and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, presents the world premiere of his new work A Disaster Begins, a fictional account of a lone woman Muriel Halstead (played by Tony nominated actress Veanne Cox) and her unbreakable bond with the devastating Galveston hurricane that decimated the Texas island in 1900, taking the lives of 6,000 in a single …
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