Join Nameless sound at the Historic Eldorado Ballroom and experience Jazz Legend, Alvin Fielder, live in concert.
Friday, January 20, 2012, 8pm
Eldorado Ballroom
2310 Elgin Street
Houston, TX 77004
$13 General, $10 Students
Everyone under 18 gets in for free
Visit http://namelesssound.org for more info.
Sunday Nov. 20, 2011, 7pm
The Ensemble Theatre 3535 Main, Houston, TX 77002 $20 at the door (includes Q&A and reception) “Have you ever loved someone who hit the road and just went the other way?”
A New Opera Film by Lisa E. Harris about a young girl wondering what is really goin’ on in the hood as she searches Third Ward Texas for her lost dog. With live musical narration, this new opera film touches on current urban issues such as gentrification, the effects of new trains on an area, and abduction.
November 4-5, 8pm
Doors open for installationviewing at 7:30pm
LOCATION: Wortham Theatre, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts,
University of Houston, Entrance 16 off Cullen Blvd
ADMISSION: $20 general admission, $15 UH faculty and staff, $10 students
Click here for tickets.
red, black & GREEN: a blues (rbG:b) is a full-length, multimedia performance work designed to jumpstart a conversation about environmental justice, social ecology and collective responsibility in the climate change era. The poetry and performance in rbG:b puts forward the idea that valuing your own life, and the life of your community, is the first step to valuing planet Earth. Combining dance, text and visuals in a new mode of kinetic performance, rbG:b combines the talents of University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center Artist in Residence, Marc Bamuthi Joseph;
Photo by Chuy Benitez 2009
Project Row Houses’ Staff and Community would like to wish you Happy Holidays and a great New Year! Thank you for your support during 2011. Our offices will be closed from December 23rd at 2pm through January 2nd. However, the Art Houses will be open regular hours, Wednesday through Sunday, 12 – 5 pm. Please note that the Art Houses will be closed on Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Our PRH Children’s Kwanzaa Celebration will take place on Thursday, December 29th, 2:00 – 4:00 pm at Eldorado Ballroom, 2310 Elgin. For more information, please call 713.526.7662.
For more information about Kwanzaa Celebrations around the city, visit the SHAPE Community Center webpage.
Date: November 19, 2011
Tour Time: 10am – 12pm
Location: Meet at PRH, 2521 Holman Street
Admission: Free, RSVP required call 713.526.7662 or email Cheryl Flores
Lunch Time: 12:30pm
Location: Eldorado Ballroom, 2310 Elgin
Admission: $10, RSVP required 713.526.7662 or email Cheryl Flores
Ray Carrington, photographer known for his innovative Arts Education program at Yates High School, Eye on the Third Ward, leads a walking tour focused on community spaces that are the result of creative thinking and grassroots leadership. The tour will be followed by a lunch at the Eldorado Ballroom featuring cultural leaders within the Third Ward who will serve as conversationalists.
This program is presented as part of a series of programs called Communograph: Mapping Community Through Creative Action, offered in conjunction with Communograph, an original project by artist Ashley Hunt commissioned by PRH. This series is curated by Bree Edwards (MC) and Ashley Clemmer Hoffman (PRH).
Thu., January 12, 2012
6:00pm
Hosted by artist Regina Agu
“Communograph House” 2505 Holman
This discussion with Michelle Barnes and Jack…ie Miller of the Community Artists’ Collective http://thecollective.org/ will be about entrepreneurship in Third Ward and will focus on topics such as the history of entrepreneurship in Third Ward, the current challenges and opportunities, the links between entrepreneurship and sustainable/healthy communities, and the transfer of knowledge to the new generation of entrepreneurs.
Sidewalk Talks are a neighborhood conversation series taking place in front of the Communog…raph House twice a month, organized by the collaborating artists of the Communograph project and members of the surrounding community during Round 35.
The collaborating artists of the Communograph project include: Regina Agu, Lisa Harris, Journey Allen, Michael Kahlil Taylor, Rebecca Novak, and Ifeanyi “Res” Okoro II; each of whom helped to author the exhibition in the Communograph House, a research-based exhibition that includes each of their artworks. The Sidewalk Talks serve as a way to extend each artist’s research out onto the streets of the community, giving a platform to issues of critical importance to the Third Ward.
Communograph is a multi-platform art project, conceived and initiated by Ashley Hunt and organized in collaboration with residents of Houston’s Third Ward community, Project Row Houses, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, and students and faculty of the University of Houston’s School of Art.
For more information visit: www.communograph.com
Thu., December 1, 2011
6:00pm
Hosted by artist Michael K. Taylor
2521 Holman
A multimedia site specific 3rd Ward poetry reading with open mic and performance, including selected poems from Taylor’s project. The event will be followed by an intergenerational discussion about collective history and knowledge preservation through narratives.
Learn more about the Communograph project on our website, or visit www.communograph.com
