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Events in April, 2022

April 2022

Overlapping Territories

DiverseWorks

Overlapping Territories

exhibition & knowledge-building research lab

Overlapping Territories is an interdisciplinary, experimental space for six artists to engage, discover, and reimagine what it means to be in relationship to the land. Curated by Ashley DeHoyos, this ongoing project begins with a Houston-centered approach as a way of understanding what conversations around land already exist within the city. Artists Liyen Chong, Catherine Davila-Martinez, Angel Lartigue, Matt Manalo, Jenah Maravilla, and Monica Villarreal will create multidisciplinary projects that reflect the breadth of the investigations and interrogations into land-centered politics and the issues attached to particular geographies and histories.Read more

Still Life With Avalanche

Aperio

Still Life With Avalanche

Electrifying American ensemble works Featuring guest composer & guitar virtuoso D.J. Sparr Works by Mazzoli, Snider, Lanman, Pärt, & Sparr

STILL LIFE WITH AVALANCHE
Electrifying American ensemble works with guest composer & electric guitar virtuoso D.J. Sparr.
Works by Mazzoli, Snider, Lanman, Pärt, & Sparr.  

The spirit of punk rock, heavy metal, and classical chamber music combine to explosive effect on Aperio’s next program, Still Life With Avalanche, featuring recent works by American composers D.J. Sparr, Missy Mazzoli, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Anthony Joseph Lanman.Read more

The Book of Grace

Grace is a waitress who lives in a small border town in south Texas with her husband Vet, a border patrol agent. She encourages Vet’s troubled son Buddy to return home and reunite with his father in time for a celebration honoring Vet’s service. What ensues is a battle for power, revenge, and release from past traumas. In The Book of Grace, Pulitzer-prize winning playwright, Suzan-Lori Parks, explodes the American family portrait to expose the borders and fences destroying the American home and by extension, the country. Read more

Spinning Tales

ROCO’s Unchambered series winds up with “Spinning Tales”, highlighting the percussion family, live from the MATCH and also livestreamed at ROCO.org, Facebook, YouTube, and A440.live. Featuring and curated by ROCO percussionists Matthew McClung, Christina Carroll, and Craig Hauschildt, the program will present music by composers such as Quinn Mason, Steve Reich, Keiko Abe, and more, and will take the audience on a journey through a wide variety of percussive instruments, including an interactive Q&A.Read more

Houston Underwater Film Festival

The Houston Underwater Film Festival (HUFF) aims to promote underwater filmmaking and appreciation of the beauty and diversity of all things underwater as well as encouraging the art of underwater videography. Underwater videographers from around the world have submitted entries in five categories: Short Video, Environmental, Art House Flicks, Made in Texas, and Feature Length. The top three films in each category, as selected by audience vote, will be announced at the Awards Banquet on Sunday, April 3 at 5 pm in the Gallery at MATCH. All are welcome to attend. The HUFF is sponsored by the Houston Underwater Photographic Society (HUPS).Read more

ACROSS, a special film premiere

Maybe God Presents

ACROSS, a special film premiere

When headlines cross borders and strangers become neighbors

Join the producers of the Maybe God Podcast (rated Top 100 Spirituality Podcasts by Apple with listeners in 40+ countries) for a special Houston premiere of their first documentary short film, followed by Q&A. The official 2022 selection of two international film festivals, ACROSS is the story of a Honduran mother and daughter seeking asylum in the U.S. and the Midwestern evangelicals who were shaken by their presence. ACROSS is the result of a two-year collaboration between producers, camera crews, editors and a music composer with decades of experience working for prestigious television and film companies (Oprah Winfrey, Pixar, CBS News, NBC News, PBS).Read more

Mirages

Juxtapose Arts Collective

Mirages

Things Aren’t Always As They Appear! La Bayadère’s Kingdom of Shades and Mixed Rep

In Juxtapose Arts Collective’s production MIRAGES you will be reminded that Things Aren’t Always As They Appear!

We open with La Bayadere’s mystifying Kingdom of Shades and close out the evening with a thought provoking Mixed Repertoire of music and dance.

You won’t want to miss this one of a kind performance!Read more

Legendary L. Shankar

Master violinist/vocalist/composer L. Shankar is renowned for soulful performance of Indian classical music, both Hindustani and Carnatic. In the 1970s Shankar, with John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain, and Vikku Vinayakram, co-founded the legendary Indo-Jazz group SHAKTI. In the 1980s, he introduced a ten-string double violin capable of covering the orchestra’s string section from violin to double bass. Shankar is accompanied on Tabla by Abhijit Banerjee- a pioneer of cross-genre collaborations, and on Mridangam and Kanjira by Dr. Rohan Krishnamurthy- a leading voice of cross-cultural music in the South Asian diaspora.Read more

Mind the Gap

Dance Source Houston

Mind the Gap

An evening of danceworks by local choreographers Kendahl Bermudez, Lindsay Cortner, Joshua De Alba, Karen Imas, Amanda Monteith, Neha Pendse, and Jose Zamora

Dance Source Houston presents the 19th edition of Mind The Gap, a showcase series featuring danceworks by local choreographers. The program includes works by Kendahl Bermudez, Lindsay Cortner, Joshua De Alba, Karen Imas, Amanda Monteith, Neha Pendse, and Jose Zamora. The evening will feature performances from a range of genres including contemporary, dance theater, Kathak, and more. Read more

Revolution of Our Times

Hong Kong Democracy Council (HKDC) and TX4HK

Revolution of Our Times

A film by Hongkongers | U.S. Nationwide Screening

For the first time, the Cannes-premiered, award-winning film “Revolution of Our Times” is coming to Texas. Banned in Hong Kong, the documentary looks into the human stories behind the 2019 protests in Hong Kong, one of the biggest social movements in recent China. Whether from Hong Kong or not, you are guaranteed a powerful experience. “We saw it, we loved it... we decided it was important to screen it,” said Director Thierry Frémaux regarding its debut at Cannes. Join us at this meaningful screening, which also includes a panel discussion and merch sales featuring works by Hong Kong artists. Read more

The Interpreters

Inspire Film Festival

The Interpreters

You’ve seen the headlines. Now hear their stories.

The Inspire Film Festival is proud to present the award-winning documentary, The Interpreters, a poignant but tense portrayal of a very human and high stakes side of war’s aftermath.  Hear the courageous stories of Afghan and Iraqi interpreters who risked their lives aiding American troops – but then became the people we left behind.  Join us along with our partners at Combined Arms for the screening of this important film followed by a Q&A with interpreters who have resettled in Houston. Read more

heART&SOUL Vol. 117: He Loves Her

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heART&SOUL Vol. 117: He Loves Her

an art-infused open mic in tribute to Nina Simone & James Baldwin

An Art-infused Open Mic in tribute to Nina Simone & James Baldwin!

7:30 PM - 8:00 PM... THE MIXER 

Experience the sound of DJ LoQi spinning the hottest Neo Soul, R&B music that will stimulate your mind, body, and soul as you arrive for your heART&SOUL experience.

8:00 PM... THE EXPERIENCE

 "He Loves Her"
This experience will feature an open mic of artists who will grace the mic to share stories about their journey and experiences in tribute to Nina Simone and James Baldwin. This mic will leave the audience inspired and covered with ashes; this mic will bring the heat.

SPOKEN WORD + MOVEMENT + SONG + VISUAL ART = Where the ARTS merge!Read more

Womb, a project of Body as a Crossroads

A new dance work by Los-Angeles based choreographer Marina Magalhães, Womb explores themes of darkness, womb space, and the intrinsic relationship between body-spirit-land and represents the first activation of Magalhaes’s nationally award-winning project, Body as a Crossroads, that visualizes the possibilities of dance-making as change-making. The project is created in collaboration with dancers Bianca Medina (New York) and Tatiana Zamir (Los Angeles); and visual artists Anthony Suber (Houston) and Francis Almendárez (Houston).Read more

Macbeth

Creative Movement Practices

Macbeth

Written by William Shakespeare Directed by Sarah Sneesby

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes..." (Act 4, Scene 1 Macbeth). Set in a re-imagined 11th Century Scotland right after an unsuccessful uprising against King Duncan, our titular character, Macbeth, finds herself in the company of three spirits who prophesy that she shall be King hereafter. Will she allow fate to take its course in its own due time, or will she act on the visions and force it into reality? A fictional retelling of historical events, Shakespeare’s Macbeth weaves a tale of witchcraft, regicide, and the punishment of death with no legacy.Read more

School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play

School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play is a contemporary play written by Jocelyn Bioh. The production focuses on Paulina, the reigning queen bee at Ghana’s most exclusive boarding school in 1986, who has her sights set on the Miss Global Universe pageant. But the arrival of Ericka, a new student with undeniable talent and beauty, captures the attention of the pageant recruiter—and Paulina’s hive-minded friends. This buoyant and biting comedy explores the universal similarities (and glaring differences) facing teenage girls across the globe.Read more

Musiqa's 20th Anniversary Double Feature

Musiqa’s 20th Anniversary Double Feature presents works by the composers who have led Musiqa throughout the years, along with Musiqa Miniatures – a series of short pieces originally commissioned to celebrate our 10th anniversary – and the live premiere of Stars by Trevor Weston, a gorgeous new work celebrating the poetry of Robert Hayden, commissioned with support from Chamber Music America and featuring Musiqa resident artist Karol Bennett. Read more

Felizmente Tona

Basta de sentirte triste, poco atractiva porque tus curvas ya no son las mismas de cuando tenías 20 años. Llegó el momento de entregarte a tus años y abrazarlos completamente para sentirte perfecta tal y como eres: una mujer hermosa, valiente, inteligente, guerrera, llena de virtudes y por supuesto de defectos, como cualquier terrenal, con la diferencia, de que ahora estás consciente de ellos, los trabajas e intentas ser un mejor ser humano todos los días.

Y es que cuando las “tonas” nos entonamos, sabemos que todo es posible, solo que a veces nos hace falta ese empujoncito que nos lleva a reconciliarnos con nosotras mismas para entender que si nos equivocamos o no, estamos en el momento justo, en el tiempo perfecto, para rectificar y volver a intentarlo.
 
“FelizmenteTonas”, el monólogo presentado por la periodista y empresaria colombiana, Lizzette Díaz, autora del libro “Felizmente 40tona”, quien después de cinco años de este lanzamiento, decidió enfrentar un nuevo reto, esta vez sobre las tablas, con este monólogo introspectivo, reflexivo, pero sobre todo, profundamente divertido.Read more