The First TFAA Volunteer gathering was held this past Sunday at the French Consul’s residence.
We had a great show of support. Over 20 volunteers shared their enthusiasm for the many opportunities we have lined up ahead including a unique jazz concert that will be held at the Eldorado Ballroom on November 16th.
Wow! what a turn out TFAA’s booth had at last week-end’s Fine Art Fair! Thank you to all those who stopped by our booth and showed so much interest in our projects.
And a special thank you to all those who signed up to volunteer for our various openings and to those who expressed an interest in sponsoring some of our upcoming events and projects. We can’t wait to meet you and get you involved with us.
In the meantime, stay tuned to our events by liking us on facebook and checking in on our website. We have many exciting events lined up for the fall and we want you there!
From Saturday Oct. 5 to Thursday Oct. 17, 2013, discover Zineb Sedira for the first time in the United-States, at the Blaffer Art Museum. (For more information about Zineb Sedira, visit her personal website here)
A public reception will be held on October 4, 2013, from 6-9pm
Location: Blaffer Art Museum The University of Houston,
4800 Calhoun Road, Houston, Texas 77004
She presents Lighthouse in the Sea of Time, a series of video installations and photographs documenting the artist’s journeys to two lighthouses in Algeria: Cap Caxine just outside the capital city of Algiers and Cap Sigli in the more remote Berber region of Algeria called Kabylia. Built and maintained by France when Algeria was a colonial outpost, the buildings transferred to Algerian control following the Algerian War for Independence (1954-62).
Lighthouse in the Sea of Time frames the quiet poetics of watching, guarding, and taking care that envelop the lighthouses as historical sites. Through an interview with a lighthouse keeper and careful attention to visitor logbooks and technical equipment in the lighthouse archives, Sedira demonstrates the subtle ways that monumental historical struggles continue to resonate in the present moment.
(For more info, visit the Blaffer Art Museum website HERE)
Menus Plaisirs kicks off the Ars Lyrica Houston 2013-2014 Season of Discoveries.
Where? at the Hobby Center’s Zilkha Hall.
When? September 22, 2013 at 6 pm.
Use the promotional code FRENCH reserved for TFAA members and GET 15% OFF on your ticket!
This fanciful look at the musical pleasures of European ancien régime focuses on the music of the French Baroque master Marc-Antoine Charpentier and features tenors Eduardo Tercero and Aaron Sheehan and baritone John Buffett.
A pre-concert lecture on Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s theatrical music will be given by Professor John Powell of the University of Tulsa at 5:15 pm. Inspired by the French court’s “Cabinet of Royal Pleasures,” this fun-loving program offers exquisite though rarely heard works from the musical world of Louis XIV, showcasing the various sides of Louis’ musical entertainments, from the chapel to the chamber and the theater. The program also includes some music by non-French composers, since Louis’ court was the model for virtually all other important monarchs during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Use the promotional code FRENCH reserved for TFAA members and GET 15% OFF on your ticket!
To buy your tickets, click HERE
Next September 19-22, the Houston Fine Art Fair will take place at the George R. Brown Convention Center (Houston, TX 77010), and guess who is going to be there? TFAA, of course! Come & meet us on our booth!
TFAA also has a special gift for you! Get FREE VIP & DAY PASSES for the HFAF by clicking on the links below.
DAY PASS gives you access to:
Any 1 day of the fair September 20-22
Show schedule
Friday Sep 20, 11am-7pm
Saturday Sep 21, 11am-7pm
Sunday Sep 22, 11-6pm
The VIP PASS gives you access to:
The Opening Preview on Thursday September 19, 7:30-9pm benefiting Houston Business Volunteers for the Arts Program of the Houston Arts Alliance. Entry into the coveted VIP Lounge (except for private events), access to all discussion/panels held at the fair and admission to additional VIP events.
Show schedule
Thursday Sep 19, 7:30-9pm
Friday Sep 20, 11am-7pm
Saturday Sep 21, 11am-7pm
Sunday Sep 22, 11-6pm
Thursday September 19, 6-7:30pm – Houston is Inspired Sneak Preview hosted by Houston Arts Alliance.
Information:
Date: Thursday, August 8 & Saturday, August 10 at 8pm.
Location: Joyce Theater in New-York
Tickets: between $10 & $39 and can be purchased by calling 212-248-0800 or on Joyce.org
Next August 8th, Dominic Walsh’s dance company from Houston, TX is coming back to New-York with a new show inspired by the tragic life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor.
Camille Claudel, muse and wife of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, she today inspires Dominic Walsh. Dominic Walsh, main dancer and director of the Dominic Walsh Theater in Houston, TX, is fascinated by the artist’s movements and how she passes on anxiety. He has been dreaming about creating an abstract dance show based on both Rodin and Claudel’s lives. This is how the show was born, honoring the French artist’s life. Camille Claudel will be played by Danielle Brown.
For more info about Dominic Walsh Dance Theater, please visit their website dwdt.org
The French filmmaker Jacques Rivette, who turned 85 earlier this year, will be highlighted next weekend and the week after at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Indeed, two of his most beautiful movies (including Le Pont du Nord that has never been released in the US), will be showed at The MFAH.
Several shows will be available to the public (Ticket purchase available here: Rivette X2) :
Le Pont du Nord (in French with English subtitles)
Saturday, July 13th at 7 p.m. | Sunday, July 14th at 5 p.m.
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Celine and Julie Go Boating (in French with English subtitles)
Friday, July 19th at 6 p.m.
Saturday, July 20th at 6 p.pm.
Sunday, July 21st at 4 p.m.
The vocal stars of tomorrow delight audiences in Offenbach’s spoof on the cultural melting pot that is Paris. High-jinks and Can-Cans assure a memorable evening at the theater.
Ticket required for the covered seated area.
Free tickets are available (4 per person over age 16 while they last) at the Miller Outdoor Theater box office the day of the performance between the hours of 10:30am-1pm. (If tickets remain at 1pm, the box office will re-open one hour before show time to distribute the remaining tickets.)
As always, open seating on the hill.
Have a great time!
Miller Outdoor Theater’s website : milleroutdoortheatre.com
For the second year, the French-American Vocal Academy (FAVA) is launching its festival Opera Without Fences at Elgin, TX (next to Austin).
PROGRAM:
3pm : Beginning with an Art Contest among all Bastrop County Middle Schools and High Schools. 60 pieces of artwork will be exhibited on Main Street and the public will vote to select the winning school.
5:30pm : EMS & EHS choirs performance.
6:30pm : Meyer’s Smokehouse and Southside Market will satisfy the palates of guests with a plethora of famed Elgin sausage at Depot Square.
8pm : the Franco-American Vocal Academy opera singers along with a chamber orchestra will perform “La Vie Parisienne” by Jacques Offenbach, at the FAVA studio on Depot Square in downtown Elgin.
For more info about the FAVA, visit their website www.favaopera.org
Rodolfo (Scott Quinn), a poet, and Mimì (Natalya Romaniw) meet by chance in his atelier and fall immediately in love. They weather break-ups and inevitable reunions, but their love proves fragile as the light of a single candle when they confront the realities of bohemian life.
Ticket: required for the covered seated area (available at the Theater box office between 10:30am-1pm). Free on the hill
For more information, visit the Miller Outdoor Theater website: milleroutdoortheatre.com
