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Lone Star Performance Explosion
Houston International Performance Art Biennale 2012
Thursday, March 8, 7 – 11pm DiverseWorks
Friday, March 9, 7-11PM AvantGarden
Saturday, March 10 – Notsuoh, 7-11PM
for more information: http://lonestarexplosion.org/
Houston’s cultural art scene is set to EXPLODE. For four days and three nights performance artists from around the world will be in our city for the First International Performance Art Biennale 2012.
Hosted at Diverse Works, Avant Garden and notsuoH the festival will feature international artists Myk Henry from Ireland, Elena Nestorova from Finland, Gim Gwang Cheol from South Korea, Orion …
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Performance and Benefit for DiverseWorks ArtSpace
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
8pm
DiverseWorks is pleased to present John Waters in his one-man show, This Filthy World: Filthier and Dirtier. This one-night-only benefit event replaces DiverseWorks’ traditional spring gala and provides crucial support for our visual and performing arts programming. A cocktail reception with Waters follows the performance.
John Waters’ one-man show is a “vaudeville” act that celebrates the film career and obsessional tastes of the man William Burroughs once called “The Pope of Trash.” Focusing in on Waters’ early negative artistic influences and his fascination with true crime, exploitation …
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
6:30-7:30pm
RSVP: grants@creative-capital.org
Sean Elwood, Director, Artist Programs & Initiatives for Creative Capital, will be present to answer questions regarding the Creative Capital’s current and upcoming grant rounds. Creative Capital supports artists creating adventurous and imaginative work in Visual Arts, Film/Video, Performing Arts, Innovative Literature and Emerging Fields. In 2012, Creative Capital will be considering proposals in Emerging Fields, Innovative Literature and Performing Arts. The online Letter of Inquiry form opens on February 1, 2012 and closes on March 1, 2012.
Far from a traditional funder, Creative Capital is committed to working in long-term partnership …
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Marina Zurkow Necrocracy March 17-April 23, 2012Opening Reception: Friday, March 16, 6 -8PM Marina Zurkow
Necrocracy
March 17-April 23, 2012 Opening Reception:
Friday, March 16, 6 -8PM
Commissioned by DiverseWorks to be part of Fotofest 2012 Necrocracy is an immersive art exhibition exploring nature and petrochemical production that combines video animation, drawings and sculpture by Brooklyn-based artist Marina Zurkow. In the space, the public is invited to explore a labyrinth-like landscape, populated with an array of petroleum-based artworks and a series of new animated video works. A collateral materials lab and an online survey provide space for audiences …
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Audition: Wed, Jan. 25, 6-10 pmBarnevelder Movement Arts Complex, 2201 Preston St., Houston TX 77003Performances: May 19 & 20 Rehearsal residencies: Thu-Mon, March 8-12 and Sat – Fri, May 12-18 Performers selected to participate will be compensated.
Stephan Koplowitz returns to Houston after the grand site-specific dance that opened Rice University’s Humanities building in 2000. He will be working with DiverseWorks to create a site specific work in May of 2012.
Audition: Wed, Jan. 25, 6-10 pm Barnevelder Movement Arts Complex, 2201 Preston St., Houston TX 77003 Performances: May 19 & 20
Rehearsal residencies: Thu-Mon, March 8-12 and Sat …
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This round’s theme: Babysitting for Fun or ProfitDeadline for submissions: March 15, 2012.The selected winner will receive $100! $100!Please send COVER SHEET and RESPONSE TO THEME (in .DOC format) to slingingink@ diverseworks.org by March 15.Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2012.
Welcome to Slinging Ink, a war of words in which you are invited to submit your own writing about a given theme.
This round’s theme:
Babysitting for Fun or Profit
Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2012. The selected winner will receive $100! $100! Stories and more – both true and imagined – from all the points of view of the …
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We are pleased to have Neil Ellis Orts, Wanda Harding, Abby Koenig, Dean Liscum and John Pluecker share their responses to the Fall 2011 theme:
I WAS LOOKING FOR A JOB, AND THEN I FOUND A JOB, AND HEAVEN KNOWS I’M MISERABLE NOW. The artist with the most votes will receive $100.00 cash money. Voting will continue through 11:59 PM CST on January 18, 2012.
Slinging …
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Slinging Ink Online:December 6, 2011 7:30 Big Star Bar, 1005 West 19th St., Houston, TX, 77008I was looking for a job, and then I found a job, and Heaven knows I’m miserable now. December 6, 2011
7:30
Big Star Bar,
1005 West 19th St., 77008 Slinging Ink Online:
VOTE NOW! December 6, 2011
7:30
Big Star Bar, 1005 West 19th St., Houston, TX, 77008
DiverseWorks gathered at Big Star Bar for the first night of a new series called Slinging Ink. Four readers were selected to read their own short-form writing on a single theme:
I was …
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October 20-November 4, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, Oct. 20, 5-7pm
Location: space125gallery, 3201 Allen Parkway
In celebration of the 175th birthday of the City of Houston, space125gallery at the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) will be holding an exhibition, hosted by DiverseWorks ArtSpace and organized with Mark Cervenka and Susan Baker from the University of Houston Downtown, of historical and contemporary art work by Houston painters and photographers. Entitled Portrait of Houston: 1900–2011, the exhibition seeks to give an overview of the artists who have engaged the city of Houston as their subject matter.
Artists featured in Portrait of …
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Thursday, October 13
7:30pm
Join DiverseWorks for DiverseDialogues: A conversation between Houston-based artist Dixie Friend Gay and Irish Poet Jean O’ Brien, winner of the UK 2010 Arvon Poetry Award.
DiverseDialogues is a program that catalyzes cultural conversations between artists of different backgrounds. DiverseWorks’ aim is to facilitate a creative and thoughtful dialogue that will educate and inspire the creation of work, participation and provide a platform to share and exchange a community dialogue.
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