Thursday, March 02, 2006
Inexpensive way to enjoy downtown Shreveport Fri, Mar 3: outdoor movie presented at Riverview Park by Robinson Film Center, 7 pm
"Movies & Moonbeams," an outdoor cinema program featuring family-friendly films projected on a huge inflatable screen with theater-quality picture and sound, will return Friday, March 3, in downtown Shreveport's Riverview Park with “Back To The Future”. Screening will begin at dark - around 7 p.m, says Clare France. The park is located on the Red River near Sci-Port. The program is meant to provide unique, low-cost entertainment opportunities for area families.
Presented by The Robinson Film Center, SPAR, and Shreveport Green, the program debuted to an audience of more than 400 in November of 2005.
Admission: $1.00.
Concession stand food.
Learn more about at www.moviesandmoonbeams.org
Robinson Film Center: (318) 424-9090
Clementine Hunter: 18 of her works on display at Artspace; gallery talk Sat, mar 4, 2:30
At Artspace this week, activities inspired the Folk Art exhibit:
Thursday, Mar 2
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm & 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Tatting
Tillie Linscomb
And for the children....
Big Loom Weaving
Jane Heggen
$5.00, both activities
Tillie Linscomb, cowgirl, rodeo competitor, and tatting extraordinaire will offer two tatting workshops.
Fri, Mar 3, 6:00 pm - 8:00
"Where the Red Fern Grows"
Filmmaker, Jim McCullough, Jr.
$5.00
Do you know "Where the Red Fern Grows"? Do you know that a Shreveport filmmaker produced this quintessential right of passage film? Come and meet filmmaker Jim McCullough, Jr., who is best known for his work on the family
classic, "Where the Red Fern Grows." He also wrote the "Four Hat Solution" on creative problem solving, "The Heart Attack Myth," and "Why God is Democrat: In Her Own Words."
Sat, Mar 4, 10:30 am - 12:00 noon & 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Hands-On Activity: Pinch Clay Pots with Stuart Orchard
$5.00
Stuart is an Arts in Education Residency Artist in Caddo Schools and through the ArtSmart after school Educational program.
Sat, Mar 4, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
"Gallery Talk: Clementine Hunter Artworks"
Thomas N. Whitehead
Free
Take a stroll through 18 original works by Clementine Hunter with the
region's foremost authority on the life and works of Hunter, Thomas N. Whitehead, co-author, "Clementine Hunter: The African House Murals."
Sat, Mar 4, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
"Folk Art Is..."
Dr. John Vlach
Free
Internationally acclaimed for his work in folk art and architecture, especially African American material culture, John Vlach is a professor of
American Studies and director of the Folklife program at George Washington University. His ten books include Plain Painters: Making Sense of American Folk Art, The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts, By the Work of Their Hands: Studies in Afro-American Folklife, Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery, The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings, and Barns.
Sat, Mar 4, 6:00 pm - Reception
7:00 pm - Honeysuckle Film Fest
$5.00
Bring your family, friends, and kinfolks! Join William (Bill) O. Cook, author; Candy Peavy, Producer; D. J. Harmon, Composer; Richard Folmer,
Narrator; and the cast and crew of the original Shreveport production, Honeysuckle.
Honeysuckle is a filmed version of the live musical production, Honeysuckle, which was staged at Shreveport's Performing Arts Center in 1998. The
production chronicles the dramatized the autobiography of professional dancer, William O. Cook, as "Cotton," a young boy who grew up in rural NW La in the early 1940s. He lived in a plantation setting that had not changed much since the Civil War days. Racial issues and personal
triumph are celebrated through music, dance and hilarity.
Sun, Mar 5, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Sunday Gospel Lunch
Ever Ready Gospel Singers
$25 - Advance Reservations
Peach Tea, Soul Food and soulful Gospel Music by the famous Ever Ready Gospel Singers. This style of music is called Southland Gospel and is distinguished by blended four part harmonies over foot stomping, hand slapping and sometimes a guitar "rapping" in the background. The vocals
flow in an intricate diversity that ranges from hallowed tones to majestic power.
(Advance reservations; $25 for lunch and entertainment.)
Thursday, Mar 2
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm & 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Tatting
Tillie Linscomb
And for the children....
Big Loom Weaving
Jane Heggen
$5.00, both activities
Tillie Linscomb, cowgirl, rodeo competitor, and tatting extraordinaire will offer two tatting workshops.
Fri, Mar 3, 6:00 pm - 8:00
"Where the Red Fern Grows"
Filmmaker, Jim McCullough, Jr.
$5.00
Do you know "Where the Red Fern Grows"? Do you know that a Shreveport filmmaker produced this quintessential right of passage film? Come and meet filmmaker Jim McCullough, Jr., who is best known for his work on the family
classic, "Where the Red Fern Grows." He also wrote the "Four Hat Solution" on creative problem solving, "The Heart Attack Myth," and "Why God is Democrat: In Her Own Words."
Sat, Mar 4, 10:30 am - 12:00 noon & 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Hands-On Activity: Pinch Clay Pots with Stuart Orchard
$5.00
Stuart is an Arts in Education Residency Artist in Caddo Schools and through the ArtSmart after school Educational program.
Sat, Mar 4, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
"Gallery Talk: Clementine Hunter Artworks"
Thomas N. Whitehead
Free
Take a stroll through 18 original works by Clementine Hunter with the
region's foremost authority on the life and works of Hunter, Thomas N. Whitehead, co-author, "Clementine Hunter: The African House Murals."
Sat, Mar 4, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
"Folk Art Is..."
Dr. John Vlach
Free
Internationally acclaimed for his work in folk art and architecture, especially African American material culture, John Vlach is a professor of
American Studies and director of the Folklife program at George Washington University. His ten books include Plain Painters: Making Sense of American Folk Art, The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts, By the Work of Their Hands: Studies in Afro-American Folklife, Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery, The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings, and Barns.
Sat, Mar 4, 6:00 pm - Reception
7:00 pm - Honeysuckle Film Fest
$5.00
Bring your family, friends, and kinfolks! Join William (Bill) O. Cook, author; Candy Peavy, Producer; D. J. Harmon, Composer; Richard Folmer,
Narrator; and the cast and crew of the original Shreveport production, Honeysuckle.
Honeysuckle is a filmed version of the live musical production, Honeysuckle, which was staged at Shreveport's Performing Arts Center in 1998. The
production chronicles the dramatized the autobiography of professional dancer, William O. Cook, as "Cotton," a young boy who grew up in rural NW La in the early 1940s. He lived in a plantation setting that had not changed much since the Civil War days. Racial issues and personal
triumph are celebrated through music, dance and hilarity.
Sun, Mar 5, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Sunday Gospel Lunch
Ever Ready Gospel Singers
$25 - Advance Reservations
Peach Tea, Soul Food and soulful Gospel Music by the famous Ever Ready Gospel Singers. This style of music is called Southland Gospel and is distinguished by blended four part harmonies over foot stomping, hand slapping and sometimes a guitar "rapping" in the background. The vocals
flow in an intricate diversity that ranges from hallowed tones to majestic power.
(Advance reservations; $25 for lunch and entertainment.)
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
EverReady Gospel Singers headline Gospel Brunch at Artspace Sun, Mar 5, 1 to 3 pm
Is there any more rocking example of folk art than that offered by a powerful gospel group? Is there a better way to cleanse the mind than by hand clapping, shouting and testifying along with the voices of gospel music?
"Artspace is hosting a Sunday, March 5th, Gospel Brunch featuring the EverReady Gospel Singers, from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm," says SRAC chef Pam Atchison. "This is a seated brunch, with delicious food, and tickets are $25 each, and I'd like to sell 150 of them," continued Tyler Pecora, Folk Art exhibition agent.
Dress: you can certainly garb with flair for this event.
Info: call Karen or Chammie or Jennifer (673-6500 or 673-6506) to reserve your seats.
"Artspace is hosting a Sunday, March 5th, Gospel Brunch featuring the EverReady Gospel Singers, from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm," says SRAC chef Pam Atchison. "This is a seated brunch, with delicious food, and tickets are $25 each, and I'd like to sell 150 of them," continued Tyler Pecora, Folk Art exhibition agent.
Dress: you can certainly garb with flair for this event.
Info: call Karen or Chammie or Jennifer (673-6500 or 673-6506) to reserve your seats.
Monday, February 27, 2006
Bill Joyce NewYorker cover image on Katrina bumped by the Cheney shooting incident
KATRINARITA GRAS
by
William Joyce
My wife was going to a 12th night party dressed as Hurricane Katrina. Her hair was styled in great swooping whirls. Her dress was a hoop-skirt wrapped in black netting and festooned with dozens of tiny houses, cars and other stormy ephemera.
A friend of mine (whose whereabouts since the hurricanes I was unsure of until I saw her on Christmas Eve) explained that it’s generally accepted that people in New Orleans will burst spontaneously into tears during even the most cursory conversations.
“Any little thing will trigger it,” she said. “I mean you say hello and you’ll get sobs. But everyone knows to just be quiet for a minute and it’ll pass.” Then she added with that cheerful, attractive insolence so common to New Orleanians. “I add 15 minutes of “cryin’ time” to everything. Goin’ the grocery store takes forever. There are more tears than in Tolstoy.”
Like my wife’s dress this line got a laugh. It had to.
It’s glad/sad time down here. Glad you’re alive. Sad about everything else. If you can’t laugh about it, baby you are toast.
There’s been some controversy about having Mardi Gras this year. That it is somehow inappropriate given the scale of the recent tragedy and disaster.
The punch line to that misguided sentiment is that Mardi Gras is a celebration actually devoted to being inappropriate in a community that has courted disaster since the day it was founded.
You don’t build a city on land that sits below sea level and is surrounded by water and not expect to get soggy at some point. It is a geographical crap-shoot well understood by New Orleanians and Mardi Gras is part of their gallant disregard for that particular and unpleasant reality.
It’s one of their ways of laughing at doom.
The history of Mardi Gras is so deep, vast and strange, that it’s difficult to encapsulate. Starting hundreds of years ago with the shepherds of Arcadia and detouring through most of the more interesting cities in history it has always been steeped in sin and redemption.
The Romans. The Greeks. The Catholics. They’ve all put in their two bits of paganism or piety.
But it’s fitting somehow that much of Mardi gras pomp and plumage would evolve from the carnivals of Venice, that other impossible city at odds with time and tide.
And for all this historical pedigree there’s still something very childish about Mardi Gras.
If you are exposed to it as a kid you will never be quite like other people. How could you be?
You’ve watched an entire adult population, your parents, your aunts and uncles, your teachers or your school principles; all your authority figures, suddenly transform into Poseidon, or Mae West or a cross-dressing Santa Claus. Everyday life becomes an overnight Technicolor fever dream. Schools close. The daily schedule is thrown out for a new schedule of parties and parades that become an unending delirium where it’s not inconceivable but in fact highly likely that you might look out the den window at any given moment and see several dozen men and women dressed as Yogi Bear drift nonchalantly by in a papier-mâché galleon.
It’s like somebody knocked over the TV set and cartoons came spilling out.
For those of us who grew up in Louisiana, ”The Wizard of Oz” was like a documentary. Dorothy left Kansas and simply went to Mardi Gras.
Talking trees and wicked witches seemed perfectly normal if you’ve seen your librarian walking down St. Charles dressed in a gorilla suit and a set of woman’s breasts complete with blinking neon nipples.
As a result we tend to grow up with a keen sense of life’s absurdity and a healthy regard for the curative potential of fun.
And there is no fun quite like a Mardi Gras parade. Its epic silliness can be very seductive. It is one of the marvels of modern man that the quest for giving or catching cheap plastic beads can lead people of every temperament to engage in behavior that is singularly, perhaps historically ridiculous.
Not that I’m a pillar of normalcy but I do pay taxes and manage to mingle in polite society occasionally, yet I once led an organization, called the Mystik Knights of Mondrians Chicken. In homage to the great painter we rode in a giant cube shaped chicken, wore costumes the color of yolks and threw egg shaped beads, while white helium balloons were periodically released from a hole in the chicken’s ass.
After three years with this same float we were told by the parades organizers that we would have to change our design. The Novelty of our cubist chicken had apparently worn off. It just wasn’t weird enough anymore.
There are people, ordinary both feet on the ground people who, during Mardi Gras sport titles like The Lord of Misrule or the Abbot of Unreason.
It’s all so perfectly foolish. And essential.
It fills some vast human need to, however briefly, be something else, a satyr, a god, or anything deliciously forbidden. You simply don a mask and give in to enchantment, desire or foolhardy joy.
This year’s Mardi Gras will be the most surreal of all. Never has the gaiety confronted so grim a reality. The walls of rubble, the vanished neighborhoods, and the memory of the city from before the storm haunt every street.
But Mardi Gras has had troubled times before. One newspaper wrote in 1851, “The carnival embraced a great multitude and a variety of oddities. But alas! The world grows everyday more practical, less sportive and imaginative. Mardi Gras with its laughter-moving tomfooleries must content itself with the sneering hard realities of the present age.”
The streets of the city are in black and white now. Like Dorothy’s Kansas. A thin coat of grayish dust covers entire neighborhoods since the flood.
Maybe this will make the traditional green, purple and gold colors shine out even brighter.
New Orleans is a “let’s face the music and dance” town. It always has been. Try as they might, the sneering hard realities cannot keep it down.
But it’ll be harder to catch the beads this year. Those spontaneous tears will make it tough to see.
William Joyce
by
William Joyce
My wife was going to a 12th night party dressed as Hurricane Katrina. Her hair was styled in great swooping whirls. Her dress was a hoop-skirt wrapped in black netting and festooned with dozens of tiny houses, cars and other stormy ephemera.
A friend of mine (whose whereabouts since the hurricanes I was unsure of until I saw her on Christmas Eve) explained that it’s generally accepted that people in New Orleans will burst spontaneously into tears during even the most cursory conversations.
“Any little thing will trigger it,” she said. “I mean you say hello and you’ll get sobs. But everyone knows to just be quiet for a minute and it’ll pass.” Then she added with that cheerful, attractive insolence so common to New Orleanians. “I add 15 minutes of “cryin’ time” to everything. Goin’ the grocery store takes forever. There are more tears than in Tolstoy.”
Like my wife’s dress this line got a laugh. It had to.
It’s glad/sad time down here. Glad you’re alive. Sad about everything else. If you can’t laugh about it, baby you are toast.
There’s been some controversy about having Mardi Gras this year. That it is somehow inappropriate given the scale of the recent tragedy and disaster.
The punch line to that misguided sentiment is that Mardi Gras is a celebration actually devoted to being inappropriate in a community that has courted disaster since the day it was founded.
You don’t build a city on land that sits below sea level and is surrounded by water and not expect to get soggy at some point. It is a geographical crap-shoot well understood by New Orleanians and Mardi Gras is part of their gallant disregard for that particular and unpleasant reality.
It’s one of their ways of laughing at doom.
The history of Mardi Gras is so deep, vast and strange, that it’s difficult to encapsulate. Starting hundreds of years ago with the shepherds of Arcadia and detouring through most of the more interesting cities in history it has always been steeped in sin and redemption.
The Romans. The Greeks. The Catholics. They’ve all put in their two bits of paganism or piety.
But it’s fitting somehow that much of Mardi gras pomp and plumage would evolve from the carnivals of Venice, that other impossible city at odds with time and tide.
And for all this historical pedigree there’s still something very childish about Mardi Gras.
If you are exposed to it as a kid you will never be quite like other people. How could you be?
You’ve watched an entire adult population, your parents, your aunts and uncles, your teachers or your school principles; all your authority figures, suddenly transform into Poseidon, or Mae West or a cross-dressing Santa Claus. Everyday life becomes an overnight Technicolor fever dream. Schools close. The daily schedule is thrown out for a new schedule of parties and parades that become an unending delirium where it’s not inconceivable but in fact highly likely that you might look out the den window at any given moment and see several dozen men and women dressed as Yogi Bear drift nonchalantly by in a papier-mâché galleon.
It’s like somebody knocked over the TV set and cartoons came spilling out.
For those of us who grew up in Louisiana, ”The Wizard of Oz” was like a documentary. Dorothy left Kansas and simply went to Mardi Gras.
Talking trees and wicked witches seemed perfectly normal if you’ve seen your librarian walking down St. Charles dressed in a gorilla suit and a set of woman’s breasts complete with blinking neon nipples.
As a result we tend to grow up with a keen sense of life’s absurdity and a healthy regard for the curative potential of fun.
And there is no fun quite like a Mardi Gras parade. Its epic silliness can be very seductive. It is one of the marvels of modern man that the quest for giving or catching cheap plastic beads can lead people of every temperament to engage in behavior that is singularly, perhaps historically ridiculous.
Not that I’m a pillar of normalcy but I do pay taxes and manage to mingle in polite society occasionally, yet I once led an organization, called the Mystik Knights of Mondrians Chicken. In homage to the great painter we rode in a giant cube shaped chicken, wore costumes the color of yolks and threw egg shaped beads, while white helium balloons were periodically released from a hole in the chicken’s ass.
After three years with this same float we were told by the parades organizers that we would have to change our design. The Novelty of our cubist chicken had apparently worn off. It just wasn’t weird enough anymore.
There are people, ordinary both feet on the ground people who, during Mardi Gras sport titles like The Lord of Misrule or the Abbot of Unreason.
It’s all so perfectly foolish. And essential.
It fills some vast human need to, however briefly, be something else, a satyr, a god, or anything deliciously forbidden. You simply don a mask and give in to enchantment, desire or foolhardy joy.
This year’s Mardi Gras will be the most surreal of all. Never has the gaiety confronted so grim a reality. The walls of rubble, the vanished neighborhoods, and the memory of the city from before the storm haunt every street.
But Mardi Gras has had troubled times before. One newspaper wrote in 1851, “The carnival embraced a great multitude and a variety of oddities. But alas! The world grows everyday more practical, less sportive and imaginative. Mardi Gras with its laughter-moving tomfooleries must content itself with the sneering hard realities of the present age.”
The streets of the city are in black and white now. Like Dorothy’s Kansas. A thin coat of grayish dust covers entire neighborhoods since the flood.
Maybe this will make the traditional green, purple and gold colors shine out even brighter.
New Orleans is a “let’s face the music and dance” town. It always has been. Try as they might, the sneering hard realities cannot keep it down.
But it’ll be harder to catch the beads this year. Those spontaneous tears will make it tough to see.
William Joyce
Friday, February 24, 2006
Parade umbrella workshop and second lining with Robert Trudeau at Artspace Sat, Feb 25, 10:30 to noon
Decorating umbrellas and dancing to the Mardi Gras mambo - including the Cajun and Zydeco jigs as well as second line - is the agenda when kids, parents and grandparents meet at Artspace Saturday morning between 10:30 and noon. Their host is yours truly, Robert Trudeau, author of How To Mardi Gras, a guide to Louisiana's Carnival celebration.
Expect to hear Crescent City and cajun lore and get a global perpective on Carnival. Be ready to glue and staple decorations on your parade umbrella (any sort will do).
$5 / Join us at any point in the morning!
Artspace: 673-6535.
Expect to hear Crescent City and cajun lore and get a global perpective on Carnival. Be ready to glue and staple decorations on your parade umbrella (any sort will do).
$5 / Join us at any point in the morning!
Artspace: 673-6535.
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Forgotten Shreveport: coming to Artspace March 16 via the photos of Mike Rosebery and Charles Goldthwaite
These two camera-toting fellows are recent arrivals to Shreveport. So they've had a ball adventuring in the sort of places routinely ignored by long-time residents and the less than intrepid. They've brought back canny, stimulating photos.
Forgotten & abandoned Shreveport:
Artspace, March 16 - Ap 27
See more at mikerosebery.blogspot.com
Forgotten & abandoned Shreveport:
Artspace, March 16 - Ap 27
See more at mikerosebery.blogspot.com
Caddo Magnet High School archives growing , alumni association to be organized Fr, March 3, 6 pm, at CMHS Performing Arts Center
"I'm gathering objects and documents for the Caddo Magnet High archives," says Sue Borne, chair for the Friends of Magnet endeavor in Alumni and Archives.
"Also, the Friends of Magnet / PTSA members are hosting a reception for all CMHS grads Fr, Mar 3, at 6 pm, in the PAC foyer. This is an effort to get former students together and encourage them to organize an alumni association." The event takes place before the performance of the spring play presented by the Caddo Magnet Players; it is The Importance of Being Earnest and stars Amy Updegraff and Tyler Davis, says drama teacher Betty Walker.
"Please ask them to bring any memorabilia with which they're willing to part. Pictures, programs and yearbooks are most welcome. And please let any and all grads know about this event," says Mrs. Borne.
More info: Lynn Yancey at lynny@sport.rr.com or Sue Borne at smborne@bellsouth.net.
The photo does not feature alum. Here are some of the best orchestra players at CMHS this year, which means they are the best in the state of Louisiana. Left to right, bottom row first: Abbie Pool, Ann Schaumburg, Christina Lake, Ann Payne and Adam McFarland. Stephen Clark, William Hock, Edward Charity, Salil Joshi and Rachel Zavecz.
"Also, the Friends of Magnet / PTSA members are hosting a reception for all CMHS grads Fr, Mar 3, at 6 pm, in the PAC foyer. This is an effort to get former students together and encourage them to organize an alumni association." The event takes place before the performance of the spring play presented by the Caddo Magnet Players; it is The Importance of Being Earnest and stars Amy Updegraff and Tyler Davis, says drama teacher Betty Walker.
"Please ask them to bring any memorabilia with which they're willing to part. Pictures, programs and yearbooks are most welcome. And please let any and all grads know about this event," says Mrs. Borne.
More info: Lynn Yancey at lynny@sport.rr.com or Sue Borne at smborne@bellsouth.net.
The photo does not feature alum. Here are some of the best orchestra players at CMHS this year, which means they are the best in the state of Louisiana. Left to right, bottom row first: Abbie Pool, Ann Schaumburg, Christina Lake, Ann Payne and Adam McFarland. Stephen Clark, William Hock, Edward Charity, Salil Joshi and Rachel Zavecz.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Goodbye, New Orleans: author Mike Tidwell speaks in Shreveport Wed, Feb 22, 7 pm, Convention Center Ballroom
Mike Tidwell, author of Bayou Farewell: The Rich and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast, will speak in the ballroom of Shreveport Convention Center at 7 pm, Wed, Feb 22.
The event is a Shreveport Bar Association fundraiser to bring awareness to the plight of Louisiana's disappearing coast.
Shreveport Bar Association for tickets: (318) 222-3643.
Background: Goodbye, New Orleans; It's time we stopped pretending and the proactive siteKatrinanomore.com.
The event is a Shreveport Bar Association fundraiser to bring awareness to the plight of Louisiana's disappearing coast.
Shreveport Bar Association for tickets: (318) 222-3643.
Background: Goodbye, New Orleans; It's time we stopped pretending and the proactive siteKatrinanomore.com.
Monday, February 20, 2006
The curves of life in wood, as guided by master carver Zack Woodard / Artspace, Th, Feb 23
Adult wood carving owes its name more to safety and skill than to subject matter, says Artspace folk art exhibit manager Tyler Pecora.
On Thursday, February 23, from 6:00 pm -8:00 pm, Zack Woodard, President of the North Louisiana Woodcarvers Association, will further define these terms in his adult woodcarving workshop. He
will demonstrate the skill necessary to create a sculpture from a single block of wood.
Woodard has been artfully whittling for more than twenty-five years. He is known for his carved faces, human forms, birds of prey, fish, animals and stylized pieces. Woodard's works are on exhibit and are available for sale in the giftspace at artspace.
Also featured on February 23 is a workshop for young human beings. They will work with artist Jerry Davenport to create whirligigs. A whirligig is an object that spins or whirls, or has at least one member (general sense) that spins or whirls. See the recently-mounted whirligigs atop the street poles outside artspace.
Both activities are being offered for a $5 fee, which includes all materials.
Shreveport Regional Arts Council,
673-6500, or artspace at 673-6535.
On Thursday, February 23, from 6:00 pm -8:00 pm, Zack Woodard, President of the North Louisiana Woodcarvers Association, will further define these terms in his adult woodcarving workshop. He
will demonstrate the skill necessary to create a sculpture from a single block of wood.
Woodard has been artfully whittling for more than twenty-five years. He is known for his carved faces, human forms, birds of prey, fish, animals and stylized pieces. Woodard's works are on exhibit and are available for sale in the giftspace at artspace.
Also featured on February 23 is a workshop for young human beings. They will work with artist Jerry Davenport to create whirligigs. A whirligig is an object that spins or whirls, or has at least one member (general sense) that spins or whirls. See the recently-mounted whirligigs atop the street poles outside artspace.
Both activities are being offered for a $5 fee, which includes all materials.
Shreveport Regional Arts Council,
673-6500, or artspace at 673-6535.
Dillner, Gayle & Johnson: Shreveport Opera tweaks their marketing image to effective results
" I love the marketing this year. It really did wonders for our production of Faust. We had the youngest audience that we'd ever had," says season coordinator Jennifer Gallagher.
Credit for the Red Accent series goes to photographer Neil Johnson and creative director John Gayle at Gremillion & Pou, says Gallagher. Eric Dillner is Shreveport Opera's general & artistic director.
Say hello and get tickets to the Feb 24 fundraiser by calling Jennifer M. Gallagher, Season Coordinator, at
Shreveport Opera
212 Texas St., Suite 101
Shreveport, LA 71101
phone: 318.227.9503
www.shreveopera.org
Credit for the Red Accent series goes to photographer Neil Johnson and creative director John Gayle at Gremillion & Pou, says Gallagher. Eric Dillner is Shreveport Opera's general & artistic director.
Say hello and get tickets to the Feb 24 fundraiser by calling Jennifer M. Gallagher, Season Coordinator, at
Shreveport Opera
212 Texas St., Suite 101
Shreveport, LA 71101
phone: 318.227.9503
www.shreveopera.org
Friday, February 17, 2006
The Tailor of E. Kings Hwy at MLP: adept cast brings elan to first production
Tailor of E Kings Hwy: Sarah Smith, Phillip Brooks, Tim Broderick, Courtney Gaston
Originally uploaded by trudeau.
At Marjorie Lyons Playhouse Phillip Brooks oy-veys across the stage, providing a Jewish father foil for one and all. Jeni Loer and Courtney Gaston are charming and capable as the adult women. Sarah Smith brings a light-up-the-stage smile and voice as the daughter. And Tim Broderick's laser gaze and stentorian voice supplies edge.
Director Walter Schoen has made a lovely chicken broth from the dramatis personnae. Kallenberg's work in progress is a pleasant surprise.
See it Feb. 16 - 18 at 8 pm. Box office: 869-5242. See more at http://www.centenary.edu/playhouse.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
The 11th Hour is the theme for the Krewe of Highland Parade 2006, Shreveport; parade rolls Sun, Feb 26
The Krewe of Highland is one of Shreveport's grassroots successes of the turn of this century. Unlike the parades hosted by the Geminians and Centaurians, the Highlanders are low-key, funky (see Float Entries, below) and full of satirical arrows. This is the rare parade where beads are returned to the floats as the parade is in progress. Physicians, rednecks (did I say that?) and the less well-endowed join forces to party through a checkered, if vital, neighborhood.
Here's the Krewe of Highland dope for 06:
BAL MASQUE XI: Friday, February 24, 7:30 p.m., Randle T. Moore Center, 3101 Fairfield Avenue. Tickets ($35.00 for Krewe members, $45.00 for non-Krewe members) available at Columbia Café, Northwest corner of Kings and Creswell, 425-3862. Music: the RnB dance band Powerhouse. Dress—masque, with formal attire or costume. Breakfast after the bal at Columbia Café, $15.
Parade X1: Sunday, February 26, 2:00 p.m., beginning at Kings Highway and Creswell Avenue. The parade will roll north along Creswell Avenue to Herndon Street, then east to Highland Avenue, then south along Highland to Olive Street, then east on Olive to Centenary Boulevard, then south on Centenary across Kings Highway to Gladstone Boulevard, then west on Gladstone to end at Creswell. The Carnival de Columbia takes place at Columbia Park immediately after the parade. Shimmy to music by award-winning group Dirtfoot.
Royalty: King XI: Trey Baucum; Queen XI: Kathleen Clark; Captain XI: Mary Brownfield; Grand Marshal XI: Sherry Allen; Duke and Duchess of Dalzell: Harvey Dillahunty, Linda Sinitiere.
To enter a Float: Call Chuck Reid, 869-4897, 518-6042. Entry fees:
* floats rented from other Krewes ($150 for large, $100 for medium and $50 for band floats)
* Motorized floats $45
* Automobiles $15
* Motorcycles-Mowers-Go-Carts-Fourwheelers $10
* Walkers & Bicyclists $5.
Send check with float name, address and contact person and phone number to Krewe of Highland, 810 Wilkinson Street, Shreveport, LA 71104. There will be a FLOAT MEETING for drivers at the Highland Center, 520 Olive Street, Board Room #1, Tuesday, February 21, 6:00 p.m.
Floats begin staging at 10:00 a.m. at Byrd High and Gladstone Street on parade day. At least one member of your float must be a member of the Krewe of Highland!
TO JOIN THE KREWE OF HIGHLAND: Annual membership rates: Individual, $10; Family, Club or Organization, $25; Sponsors $250. Make checks payable to Krewe of Highland, 810 Wilkinson Street, Shreveport, LA 71104.
More Information - Chuck Reid, Parade Chairman, 869-4897, 518-6042; or Cyndie Reid, Bal Chairman, 869-4897, 272-0166. Thanks to Robert Marak of the Highland Area Partnership for the story.
Here's the Krewe of Highland dope for 06:
BAL MASQUE XI: Friday, February 24, 7:30 p.m., Randle T. Moore Center, 3101 Fairfield Avenue. Tickets ($35.00 for Krewe members, $45.00 for non-Krewe members) available at Columbia Café, Northwest corner of Kings and Creswell, 425-3862. Music: the RnB dance band Powerhouse. Dress—masque, with formal attire or costume. Breakfast after the bal at Columbia Café, $15.
Parade X1: Sunday, February 26, 2:00 p.m., beginning at Kings Highway and Creswell Avenue. The parade will roll north along Creswell Avenue to Herndon Street, then east to Highland Avenue, then south along Highland to Olive Street, then east on Olive to Centenary Boulevard, then south on Centenary across Kings Highway to Gladstone Boulevard, then west on Gladstone to end at Creswell. The Carnival de Columbia takes place at Columbia Park immediately after the parade. Shimmy to music by award-winning group Dirtfoot.
Royalty: King XI: Trey Baucum; Queen XI: Kathleen Clark; Captain XI: Mary Brownfield; Grand Marshal XI: Sherry Allen; Duke and Duchess of Dalzell: Harvey Dillahunty, Linda Sinitiere.
To enter a Float: Call Chuck Reid, 869-4897, 518-6042. Entry fees:
* floats rented from other Krewes ($150 for large, $100 for medium and $50 for band floats)
* Motorized floats $45
* Automobiles $15
* Motorcycles-Mowers-Go-Carts-Fourwheelers $10
* Walkers & Bicyclists $5.
Send check with float name, address and contact person and phone number to Krewe of Highland, 810 Wilkinson Street, Shreveport, LA 71104. There will be a FLOAT MEETING for drivers at the Highland Center, 520 Olive Street, Board Room #1, Tuesday, February 21, 6:00 p.m.
Floats begin staging at 10:00 a.m. at Byrd High and Gladstone Street on parade day. At least one member of your float must be a member of the Krewe of Highland!
TO JOIN THE KREWE OF HIGHLAND: Annual membership rates: Individual, $10; Family, Club or Organization, $25; Sponsors $250. Make checks payable to Krewe of Highland, 810 Wilkinson Street, Shreveport, LA 71104.
More Information - Chuck Reid, Parade Chairman, 869-4897, 518-6042; or Cyndie Reid, Bal Chairman, 869-4897, 272-0166. Thanks to Robert Marak of the Highland Area Partnership for the story.
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Mystic India, IMAX film, at SciPort this weekend only, Feb 18-19
Mystic India: an Incredible Journey of Inspiration, a big-screen film showing a land of many mysteries and fascinations, and shot in more than 100 locations, will show one weekend only at Sci-Port Discovery Center’s three story IMAX Dome Theatre on Saturday, February 18, and Sunday, February 19, 2006, says Eric Gipson.
Presented in partnership with The Multicultural Center of the South, the film reveals India’s ancient civilization, incredible architecture, colorful festivals, and fascinating peoples and landscapes. The new release from Giant Screen Films will be presented as a two-for-one double feature with the following schedule:
Saturday, February 18
Mystic India/Top Speed 10:30 am
Mystic India/Lewis & Clark 12:30 pm
Mystic India/Dolphins 2:30 pm
Sunday, February 19
Mystic India/Lewis & Clark 2 pm
Mystic India/Space Station 4 pm
Traditional Indian folk and classical dancers will perform in the IMAX Dome Theatre during the intermissions of each double feature.
IMAX Ticket prices for the February 18-19 Mystic India double feature are:
$ 8.50 General Admission
$ 7.00 Children (3-12), Seniors and Military
$ 6.00 Groups 15+
Presented in partnership with The Multicultural Center of the South, the film reveals India’s ancient civilization, incredible architecture, colorful festivals, and fascinating peoples and landscapes. The new release from Giant Screen Films will be presented as a two-for-one double feature with the following schedule:
Saturday, February 18
Mystic India/Top Speed 10:30 am
Mystic India/Lewis & Clark 12:30 pm
Mystic India/Dolphins 2:30 pm
Sunday, February 19
Mystic India/Lewis & Clark 2 pm
Mystic India/Space Station 4 pm
Traditional Indian folk and classical dancers will perform in the IMAX Dome Theatre during the intermissions of each double feature.
IMAX Ticket prices for the February 18-19 Mystic India double feature are:
$ 8.50 General Admission
$ 7.00 Children (3-12), Seniors and Military
$ 6.00 Groups 15+
Chris Alexander, multi-divertiti artist, and friends on Sat, Feb 25th, Java Junction, Shreveport
Techno, rap, rock, jazz: trying to confuse the coffeehouse set, perhaps? Edgy ducks pooting in a turbulent pond?
Would someone please write a review of one of these cross-over collisions?
Hats off to Chris Alexander for both performing, co-producing and making the splendiferous posters.See and hear more at his www.myspace.com/chrisstmarvinalexander site.
Would someone please write a review of one of these cross-over collisions?
Hats off to Chris Alexander for both performing, co-producing and making the splendiferous posters.See and hear more at his www.myspace.com/chrisstmarvinalexander site.
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Dorothy Kristin Hanna and Sondra Fraleigh present EastWest Somatics Workshop March 13 - 17
EastWest Somatics Workshop: Expression & Myth,
Excavating Body Memories and Possible Selves
March 13-17, 2006
Arodasi Dance Center
Shreveport, Louisiana
Dorothy Kristin Hanna and Sondra Fraleigh, instructors.
Workshops meet Monday - Friday from 10am to 5pm. Tuition is $792.
Course content includes imagery and myth, guided
movement practice, core movement patterning, experiential anatomy, somatic yoga, hands-on movement therapy, intuitive dance.
Plus, Sondra Fraleigh is an expert at Butoh.
Info: dorothykh@earthlink.net or Eastwest@frontiernet.net
Illustration: Katura Kan Butoh Performance at the Art Institute of Chicago
Excavating Body Memories and Possible Selves
March 13-17, 2006
Arodasi Dance Center
Shreveport, Louisiana
Dorothy Kristin Hanna and Sondra Fraleigh, instructors.
Workshops meet Monday - Friday from 10am to 5pm. Tuition is $792.
Course content includes imagery and myth, guided
movement practice, core movement patterning, experiential anatomy, somatic yoga, hands-on movement therapy, intuitive dance.
Plus, Sondra Fraleigh is an expert at Butoh.
Info: dorothykh@earthlink.net or Eastwest@frontiernet.net
Illustration: Katura Kan Butoh Performance at the Art Institute of Chicago
Houma, Louisiana's, Dax Riggs & Tessie Brunet, aka Deadboy & the Elephantmen, have a buzz
Of the duo Deadboy and the Elephantmen the New Yorker says "The two hail from Louisiana, and their spooky blues rock is pure swamp gothic, with Riggs singing like a ghostly David Bowie."
Enjoy their snaky Louisiana story (they're based in Houma) as crafted by their record company at FatPossum.com.
There are a trio of mp3's at deadboyandtheelephantmen.com so you can see the kind of indie effort that gets the bacon today.
Which probably will remind everyone of the celestial randomness of the entertainment biz.
Enjoy their snaky Louisiana story (they're based in Houma) as crafted by their record company at FatPossum.com.
There are a trio of mp3's at deadboyandtheelephantmen.com so you can see the kind of indie effort that gets the bacon today.
Which probably will remind everyone of the celestial randomness of the entertainment biz.
See Patrick Long's folk art documentary, All Rendered Truth; see ArtSpace calendar of Folk Art Funktivities
Cool reminders from SRAC's calendar:
Saturday, February 18
8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Black Heritage Festival Celebration
Join SRAC for a festive day in Vivian at the Black Heritage Festival
Celebration or enjoy a Folk Film Fest at artspace. The Shreveport Federal Credit Union, SRAC and the Black History Parade Association of Vivian are co-producing the 2006 Black Heritage Festival Celebration in Vivian, Louisiana. The festival includes an 8:00 am community breakfast at Vivian Elementary/Middle School and a M.C. "5-cents" Jones Art Exhibit and Auction from 9:30 am-11:00 am at the Vivian Library.
10:30 am-12 noon and 2:00 pm-3:30 pm at artspace
Whirligigs
Jerry Davenport
$5.00
Make - and take - a whimsical whirligig in a children's workshop that
commemorates the festivity of Folk Art with veteran Art-in-Education artist,
photographer, and ArtSmart Resident Artist, Jerry Davenport.
1:00 pm
All Rendered Truth
Free
Screening of All Rendered Truth, a feature-length documentary by Shreveport
natives Patrick Long and Scott Blackwell that traces and showcases the lives
and artistic environments of self-taught Southern Folk Artists.
Thursday, February 23
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Woodcarving
Zack L. Woodard
And...for the Children
Whirligigs
Jerry Davenport
$5.00 covers both activities
Learn how to carve a block of wood into a piece of art. Zack L. Woodard,
President of the North Louisiana Woodcarvers Association has made a life of
woodworking for over twenty-five years, beginning with his first carved
realistic duck. Woodard is known for his unique carved faces, human forms,
birds of prey, songbirds, fish, animals, stylized pieces, and birdhouses.
Carved works by Woodard are available for sale in the giftspace at artspace.
While the adults use the sharp tools, Jerry Davenport will teach the younger
folks to make - and take - a whimsical whirligig commemorating the festivity
of Folk Art.
Friday, February 24
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
"Fiddlin' Friday"
Bill Kirkpatrick & Mary Grimsley
$5.00
Listen to "old timey" tunes with new twists performed by fiddlers Bill Kirkpatrick and Mary Grimsley who are consistent award winners in the Louisiana State Fiddling Championship. Bill Kirkpatrick was born in 1928 and is a longtime resident of Shreveport, where his working hobby is being a member of the "Louisiana Hayride String Band." They play old time country music breakdowns and waltzes, western swing, and Cajun music. Mary has received a number of first place awards, including the Louisiana State Championship. She has played venues from the Louisiana Folklife Festival to the New Orleans Jazz Festival. Mary learned to play by ear growing up in a family where her mother played piano, her father played bass, and both grandfathers played fiddle. She often played with her husband, the late Tex Grimsley, fiddler and fiddle maker.
The rendering of Artspace above is by photographer Mike Rosebery. He writes "Charles Goldthwaite and I will have a photo show here in March 16-April 27, 2006." See more of Rosebery's excellent work at MikeRosebery's PhotoBlog.

Slava Veder's “Burst of Joy,” 1974: part of the Pulitzer Prize Photos traveling exhibit at Louisiana State Exhibit Museum
"I spent a couple of hours yesterday with the just-up Pulitzer Prize Photo exhibit at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum and wanted to encourage anyone with an interest in either history or photography not to miss this extraordinary event," says Neil Johnson.
"This is no boring dusty traveling exhibit. The Museum has transformed the round middle part of the museum into a venue to put on this huge exhibit. The large prints and beautifully written stories behind each image cover the dioramas and other glass cabinets. In other words, they have created a massive expanse of temporary wall space to show this exhibit making it unlike any other local exhibit in memory."
"The exhibit presents every award winner from 1942 through 2004; there are so MANY icons of photography on there, along with their dramatic stories: the flag-raising at Iwo Jima, the shooting of Oswald in Dallas, the napalmed running girl in Viet Nam, the firefighter cradling the burned child after the Oklahoma City bombing, the flames of the World Trade Center towers. But there are so many, many more that stop you and move you and stay with you long afterwards, right up to the most recent powerful image of the American soldier with his Iraqi prisoner. World-changing, heart-changing, mind-boggling, awe-inspiring. Give yourself at least two hours to see it. It is virtually impossible to breeze through it."
"On a personal note: The Pulitzer Prizes for Photography, as per the rules set forth by Joseph Pulitzer, go only to newspaper photographers. Magazine photographers (a large number of legendary shooters and their legendary iconic images) are left out even though they are out there putting their careers and even lives on the line for the exact same reasons as the newspaper photographers. So many have died doing their jobs. Hopefully, as newspapers continue to change along with the rest of the news media in this digital age, the prize will evolve and eventually go to any news photographer for their still images that record and reveal deep truths about this confusing fast-paced world."
"The photo exhibit is up through May 1 at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum at the Fairgrounds on Greenwood Road. It is $5 per visit unless you go on the first Sunday of March or April when it is free, but the fee is well worth the visit. The Museum spent $50,000 to mount it and is to be highly commended. After several years of touring, the curator came down from New York and said this is the best mounting of the exhibit she has experienced. It is scheduled to continue touring the world until 2009. We are not "lucky" to get it. The Museum worked long and hard to get it. The Museum and the Friends of the Museum have given a great gift to this community."
Neil Johnson
Neil Johnson Photography
www.njphoto.com
"This is no boring dusty traveling exhibit. The Museum has transformed the round middle part of the museum into a venue to put on this huge exhibit. The large prints and beautifully written stories behind each image cover the dioramas and other glass cabinets. In other words, they have created a massive expanse of temporary wall space to show this exhibit making it unlike any other local exhibit in memory."
"The exhibit presents every award winner from 1942 through 2004; there are so MANY icons of photography on there, along with their dramatic stories: the flag-raising at Iwo Jima, the shooting of Oswald in Dallas, the napalmed running girl in Viet Nam, the firefighter cradling the burned child after the Oklahoma City bombing, the flames of the World Trade Center towers. But there are so many, many more that stop you and move you and stay with you long afterwards, right up to the most recent powerful image of the American soldier with his Iraqi prisoner. World-changing, heart-changing, mind-boggling, awe-inspiring. Give yourself at least two hours to see it. It is virtually impossible to breeze through it."
"On a personal note: The Pulitzer Prizes for Photography, as per the rules set forth by Joseph Pulitzer, go only to newspaper photographers. Magazine photographers (a large number of legendary shooters and their legendary iconic images) are left out even though they are out there putting their careers and even lives on the line for the exact same reasons as the newspaper photographers. So many have died doing their jobs. Hopefully, as newspapers continue to change along with the rest of the news media in this digital age, the prize will evolve and eventually go to any news photographer for their still images that record and reveal deep truths about this confusing fast-paced world."
"The photo exhibit is up through May 1 at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum at the Fairgrounds on Greenwood Road. It is $5 per visit unless you go on the first Sunday of March or April when it is free, but the fee is well worth the visit. The Museum spent $50,000 to mount it and is to be highly commended. After several years of touring, the curator came down from New York and said this is the best mounting of the exhibit she has experienced. It is scheduled to continue touring the world until 2009. We are not "lucky" to get it. The Museum worked long and hard to get it. The Museum and the Friends of the Museum have given a great gift to this community."
Neil Johnson
Neil Johnson Photography
www.njphoto.com
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Fairfield Studios Home Concerts an island of urbanity; singer-songwriter Annie Gallup, hippie poetry songstress, performed this week
Twisting her meter and rhyme in songs and schtick, Annie Gallup charmed an audience of some 75 at Fairfield Studios this week. She was accompanied by bassist Sean Kelly, who thumped and bowed his bass and sang harmony.
Baby boomers dominated the audience - after all, a Wed night at 7 pm - but all ages were represented. Supper, included in the $15 ticket, was comfort food on a buffet table. Filling if uninteresting.
Dana McCommon, engineer and architect of FFS, has developed the long, narrow room aside the studio as a foyer and art gallery. There painter Tony Reans and portraitist Talbot Hopkins exhibited their work.
All in all, Fairfield Studios was a pleasant surprise for many friends who came to view art by Hopkins - my wife - and Reans. Many said, "It's not easy to find." In a world of giant signs this is a quiet storefront adjacent to Harrison Paint across from the State Building (Jordan near Fairfield).
The Home Concerts are sweet but It's hard to know whether the performers are going to suit you. I offer 2 suggestions:
1) listen to the performers' music samples. A Google search will quickly take you to their mp3 pages.
2) if you want something a bit different and uptown, go regardless of research. The Home Concert series performers are part of a national circuit and they've all won their spurs.
3) Ring or email Dana at FairfieldStudios.com (220-0400) and ask for a quick rundown. Or call host Alan Dyson. They will be happy to say Hello and answer questions.
Next concert: a return show by the winning singer John Smith, March 21.
Baby boomers dominated the audience - after all, a Wed night at 7 pm - but all ages were represented. Supper, included in the $15 ticket, was comfort food on a buffet table. Filling if uninteresting.
Dana McCommon, engineer and architect of FFS, has developed the long, narrow room aside the studio as a foyer and art gallery. There painter Tony Reans and portraitist Talbot Hopkins exhibited their work.
All in all, Fairfield Studios was a pleasant surprise for many friends who came to view art by Hopkins - my wife - and Reans. Many said, "It's not easy to find." In a world of giant signs this is a quiet storefront adjacent to Harrison Paint across from the State Building (Jordan near Fairfield).
The Home Concerts are sweet but It's hard to know whether the performers are going to suit you. I offer 2 suggestions:
1) listen to the performers' music samples. A Google search will quickly take you to their mp3 pages.
2) if you want something a bit different and uptown, go regardless of research. The Home Concert series performers are part of a national circuit and they've all won their spurs.
3) Ring or email Dana at FairfieldStudios.com (220-0400) and ask for a quick rundown. Or call host Alan Dyson. They will be happy to say Hello and answer questions.
Next concert: a return show by the winning singer John Smith, March 21.
Come to Shreveport's Artspace for the Folk Art Is exhibit; consume chicken fried art and funktivities Feb to April
Howard Finster! Guided by voices and inspired by a wordy God, the untutored painter Howard Finster printed inspirational encomiums around all the charmingly blocky images he drew. He covered his environment - house, yard, homemade museum, etc - with paintings and detailed commentary.
In the process this late fanatic became America's folk art darling. See Finster's work and more at artspace, 710 Texas St, downtown Shreveport. The Folk Art exhibit, Feb thru March, is fascinating.
In the process this late fanatic became America's folk art darling. See Finster's work and more at artspace, 710 Texas St, downtown Shreveport. The Folk Art exhibit, Feb thru March, is fascinating.
Monday, February 06, 2006
Artquotes.net features Shreveport painter Bill Gingles / See his work online and at Montessori Art Auction, Mar 18
In artquotes.net this week Shreveport-based artist Bill Gingles is given quite a dose of respect:
"This month's fine artist profile is of the United States abstract artist painting in an expressionist style. His artist interview and contemporary paintings are now online."
Gingles: "At its core, my work is about the duality of existence: positive/negative, male/female, physical/spiritual and the dynamics that occur when they converge or mix like the spirituality of sex or the effects of time on people and things."
While his sales tend to be in Houston and New Orleans, many locals have pieces by Gingles because of the Montessori Art Auctions. He will again have pieces for sale at this year's Montessori benefit, he says.
Here's the book on the annual auction: "The Montessori School for Shreveport 33nd Annual Art Exhibition and Silent Auction will be held on Saturday, March 18th, and Sunday, March 19th, at the Shreveport Convention Hall. The theme this year is "Go Wild for the Child."
This event is the school's largest fundraiser. The money raised helps keep tuition within the reach of the average family in the Shreveport-Bossier area. Tickets can be purchased for $15 per person."
See more at MSShreveport.org. And there's a visual feast awaiting you at billgingles.net.
"This month's fine artist profile is of the United States abstract artist painting in an expressionist style. His artist interview and contemporary paintings are now online."
Gingles: "At its core, my work is about the duality of existence: positive/negative, male/female, physical/spiritual and the dynamics that occur when they converge or mix like the spirituality of sex or the effects of time on people and things."
While his sales tend to be in Houston and New Orleans, many locals have pieces by Gingles because of the Montessori Art Auctions. He will again have pieces for sale at this year's Montessori benefit, he says.
Here's the book on the annual auction: "The Montessori School for Shreveport 33nd Annual Art Exhibition and Silent Auction will be held on Saturday, March 18th, and Sunday, March 19th, at the Shreveport Convention Hall. The theme this year is "Go Wild for the Child."
This event is the school's largest fundraiser. The money raised helps keep tuition within the reach of the average family in the Shreveport-Bossier area. Tickets can be purchased for $15 per person."
See more at MSShreveport.org. And there's a visual feast awaiting you at billgingles.net.
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Houston's long-lived independent record store, Cactus, closes its Montrose doors
Story from the Sara Cress Houston Chron music blog, Handstamp:
Cactus Music and Video closing
Cactus' manager Quinn Bishop announced today that Cactus Music and Video is closing on March 31, 2006.
Not only is this depressing news for those music fans who feel at home at Cactus, it will also hurt local artists trying to sell their CDs. Every band I know will rattle off all of the Web sites where a person can buy its CDs and always adds, "and, of course, Cactus." Many of them also champion Bishop as a person who cares about Houston music.
There will still be all the other places where you can buy your CDs (if you still buy CDs, that is) but no other place matches, for me, the leisurely, funky atmosphere of Cactus. And no other music store in town hosts in-store performances with well-known touring artists. It will most certainly be missed.
Do you think Cactus' closing will have any effect on Houston music? Will you happily just go to Soundwaves instead? Or do you no longer visit music stores at all? Discuss in the comments.
Handstamp music blog
Cactus Music and Video closing
Cactus' manager Quinn Bishop announced today that Cactus Music and Video is closing on March 31, 2006.
Not only is this depressing news for those music fans who feel at home at Cactus, it will also hurt local artists trying to sell their CDs. Every band I know will rattle off all of the Web sites where a person can buy its CDs and always adds, "and, of course, Cactus." Many of them also champion Bishop as a person who cares about Houston music.
There will still be all the other places where you can buy your CDs (if you still buy CDs, that is) but no other place matches, for me, the leisurely, funky atmosphere of Cactus. And no other music store in town hosts in-store performances with well-known touring artists. It will most certainly be missed.
Do you think Cactus' closing will have any effect on Houston music? Will you happily just go to Soundwaves instead? Or do you no longer visit music stores at all? Discuss in the comments.
Handstamp music blog
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
KSCL Battle of the Bands postponed due to rain; will try again Fri, Feb 10, 4 to 9 pm, Centenary College amphitheater
The Big Positive are 4 local lads who went whaling from Barataria Bay and came back with a silver harpoon and a papal petroglyph. And 33 plaice. Runes up and down their arms. Sea chanteys. Empty bottle o rum.
These sailors can sing, too.
They've been added to KSCL's Melee of the Musicians Friday night. That's at the Shell, the classic amphitheater behind Meadows Museum. About 9 pm, which is the end of the evening's show.
These sailors can sing, too.
They've been added to KSCL's Melee of the Musicians Friday night. That's at the Shell, the classic amphitheater behind Meadows Museum. About 9 pm, which is the end of the evening's show.
What, you don't have a myspace.com site? You kidding?
Trudeau's back on myspace.com. Please find my alternative self at myspace.com/roberttrudeau.
Soon, I'll open a myspace page for Triage music and podcasts. New sketches are coming, too. BTW, who's your favorite local wit or band with a myspace site?
Soon, I'll open a myspace page for Triage music and podcasts. New sketches are coming, too. BTW, who's your favorite local wit or band with a myspace site?
Painter Mary Louise Porter at Turner Art Center gallery, Centenary College
An exhibit by Louisiana artist Mary Louise Porter will be on display at Centenary's Turner Art Center gallery through Friday, Feb. 17, says Bruce Allen.
Porter's vivid, contemporary landscapes and three-dimensional media have been exhibited nationwide. She also paints walking canes in custom themes, having been inspired to give personality to her mother's "ugly, brown cane." Examples of her artwork can be found at www.artcanes.com.
Having received a BFA and MFA in painting from Louisiana State University, Porter now teaches a survey of the arts course for Louisiana Virtual School as well as studio classes for Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts.
More info: Bruce Allen, exhibit coordinator, at 318-869-5260 or ballen@centenary.edu.
Porter's vivid, contemporary landscapes and three-dimensional media have been exhibited nationwide. She also paints walking canes in custom themes, having been inspired to give personality to her mother's "ugly, brown cane." Examples of her artwork can be found at www.artcanes.com.
Having received a BFA and MFA in painting from Louisiana State University, Porter now teaches a survey of the arts course for Louisiana Virtual School as well as studio classes for Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts.
More info: Bruce Allen, exhibit coordinator, at 318-869-5260 or ballen@centenary.edu.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
KSCL Battle of the Bands, Fri, Feb 3, Centenary College, 4 pm to 9 pm
Battle of the Bands: is there a more primal experience? Feral musicians howling at the moon over caterwauling soundscapes atop a pounding tropical pulse. Anyway, I hope it's something like that because I'm one of the judges this year.
This one's held in the amphitheater at Centenary College with everyone's tongue in cheeks, I believe. May the swankiest band win.
4:10 Riptied
4:35 Alicia Liddell
5:00 Hoodlum Circus
5:25 Heath Forbes
5:50 Missoni Lanza
6:15 Infinite Division
6:40 Chris Alexander
7:05 Dale Cooper
7:30 Tuesday's Debut
7:55 Siddhartha
8:20 Brosius
8:45 Lumenz
9:00 Tally and announce winners
Kindly send all complaints to
Sara Hebert
Station Manager
KSCL 91.3 FM
((318)869-5421)
This one's held in the amphitheater at Centenary College with everyone's tongue in cheeks, I believe. May the swankiest band win.
4:10 Riptied
4:35 Alicia Liddell
5:00 Hoodlum Circus
5:25 Heath Forbes
5:50 Missoni Lanza
6:15 Infinite Division
6:40 Chris Alexander
7:05 Dale Cooper
7:30 Tuesday's Debut
7:55 Siddhartha
8:20 Brosius
8:45 Lumenz
9:00 Tally and announce winners
Kindly send all complaints to
Sara Hebert
Station Manager
KSCL 91.3 FM
((318)869-5421)
Wizard of Oz ballet a collaboration between Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet & Shreveport Symphony Orchestra; Fr, Mar 10, Sat, Mar 11, Civic Theater
The Wizard of Oz, a new ballet in the classical tradition, will be presented by the Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet on Friday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m., at Shreveport’s Civic Theater.
There will be an original symphonic score composed by the Shreveport Symphony’s concertmaster Kermit Poling. The Symphony will accompany both performances of the ballet, says SMB's Susan Gross.
Guesting in the role of the Wicked Witch will be Jacob Sparso of Ballet Oklahoma. Original sets have been created by David Steen and Don Hooper. Principal costumes are by Michael Jones, also of Ballet Oklahoma.
Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet Junior and Senior Company dancers will be supplemented by a cast of local children, bringing the total cast to almost 100. Emily Camden and Brittanye Dutton will alternate in the role of Dorothy.
Tickets range from $10 to $30. For further information, call the Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet office between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. weekdays: 459-1457. For tickets the week of the show, call the Civic Theater box office, 673-5108, or visit the box office in person 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
There will be an original symphonic score composed by the Shreveport Symphony’s concertmaster Kermit Poling. The Symphony will accompany both performances of the ballet, says SMB's Susan Gross.
Guesting in the role of the Wicked Witch will be Jacob Sparso of Ballet Oklahoma. Original sets have been created by David Steen and Don Hooper. Principal costumes are by Michael Jones, also of Ballet Oklahoma.
Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet Junior and Senior Company dancers will be supplemented by a cast of local children, bringing the total cast to almost 100. Emily Camden and Brittanye Dutton will alternate in the role of Dorothy.
Tickets range from $10 to $30. For further information, call the Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet office between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. weekdays: 459-1457. For tickets the week of the show, call the Civic Theater box office, 673-5108, or visit the box office in person 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday, January 30, 2006
Arctic Monkeys: "scrappy and brilliant group from Yorkshire that is currently awash in hyperbolic praise"
NY Times hype, freshly spied, can deliver a sort of carbonatical intoxication to folks like me. Re the Arctic Monkeys are hot!
But the hypemachine has its balancing wheel today. It's the online mp3 and, of course, it reveals a nice kachunk of the real story.
This week the NYTimes cleverly pumps up the Arctic Monkeys hysteria. Here's the article and here's the Arctic Monkeys myspace.com site, with 4 of their Yorkshire-inflected teen puddings.
But the hypemachine has its balancing wheel today. It's the online mp3 and, of course, it reveals a nice kachunk of the real story.
This week the NYTimes cleverly pumps up the Arctic Monkeys hysteria. Here's the article and here's the Arctic Monkeys myspace.com site, with 4 of their Yorkshire-inflected teen puddings.
Louisiana Dance Theater's annual gambol at the Strand was in abeyance of SRAC funds
"Due to the cutbacks in SRAC's budget we weren't sure whether we were going to be able to put on this show at the Strand Theater," Carol Anglin told the audience at La. Dance Alive! on Jan 20.
Happily, the money was allocated and Anglin's La Dance Theater group took the stage. They shared the evening with Randy Allen's Impulse Dance Theater of the La School for Math, Sci & the Arts and with the scintillating Orchesis Dance Company of Grambling University.
Also contributing two solo numbers was nationally-known Shreveport dancer Michael Phillips. A member of La Dance Theater who didn't dance with the ensemble because of conflicts with lacrosse and fencing, Phillips danced to Billy Joel's Summer, Highland Falls and, later in the show, to Dean Martin's Aint That a Kick in the Head.
While each troupe presented dance that was well-rehearsed and pleasing to the eye, Phillips and the large Orchesis Dance Company were at a riveting level of expertise.
More info at Carol Anglin Dancenter: 318-861-3006.
Happily, the money was allocated and Anglin's La Dance Theater group took the stage. They shared the evening with Randy Allen's Impulse Dance Theater of the La School for Math, Sci & the Arts and with the scintillating Orchesis Dance Company of Grambling University.
Also contributing two solo numbers was nationally-known Shreveport dancer Michael Phillips. A member of La Dance Theater who didn't dance with the ensemble because of conflicts with lacrosse and fencing, Phillips danced to Billy Joel's Summer, Highland Falls and, later in the show, to Dean Martin's Aint That a Kick in the Head.
While each troupe presented dance that was well-rehearsed and pleasing to the eye, Phillips and the large Orchesis Dance Company were at a riveting level of expertise.
More info at Carol Anglin Dancenter: 318-861-3006.
Wine and cheese in Marshall, TX, with artist Dennis O Bryant and model Karen Partee, Sat, Feb 4, 6 pm
Wine and cheese in Marshall, TX, with artist Dennis O Bryant, Sat, Feb 4, 6 pm
Originally uploaded by trudeau.
It's O Bryant's way of thanking Partee for her inspiration in 4 paintings. They were recently exhibited at Bistineau Gallery and featured in the Times.
RSVP: 903-578-0319 or deno707@sbcglobal.net
Annie Gallup at Fairfield Studios in a Home Concert Wed, Feb 8, 7 pm, $15
Along with music by Annie Gallup and bassist Sean Kelly, the Wed, Feb 8, Home Concert groovers will be able to enjoy an art exhibit in the Fairfield Studios lobby. Paintings by Tony Reans and prints and photos by Talbot Hopkins will be on view. The Reans and Hopkins show will additionally have a reception at Fairfield Studios, corner of Fairfield and Jordan, on Fri, Feb 10, 5 to 8 pm.
FF Studios host Dana McCommon: 220-0400.
Annie Gallup show: 7 pm / $15, with supper.
FF Studios host Dana McCommon: 220-0400.
Annie Gallup show: 7 pm / $15, with supper.
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Computers in the classroom: "Today's tech-savvy students are stuck in text-dominated schools"
"Today's tech-savvy students are stuck in text-dominated schools," says research in a report entitled Listening to Student Voices - on Technology. It arrived via Ednews@email.admail.net.
My students at Caddo Magnet High are encouraged to bring their laptops to school and use them during social studies class. They can take notes, research relevant material, make instantaneous contributions to class and email me their essays.
There are 2 desktop computers in my room and students are encouraged to use them for any academic purpose during class. Students also use the units under my purview before and after school and at lunch. They check the class web site for assignments and notes, download material for class activities, download and edit videos, crop photos, and check email.
Thus I try to foster a a sense of cooperative inquiry in academic activities - using the tools of the business and academic world.
Students who stray from appropriate and academic sites are banned from the privilage for a week or longer.
At the end of each semester my students must present a brief digital individual portfolio composed of images of samples of:
academic papers, activities in which they participated and photos of themselves and friends.
The classroom digital cameras are available from me upon appropriate request. They go into circulation several times a day. I also check out the *teacher videocam" to students when needed. Also, I have a friend who gives away refurbished computers to families in need; several of my students have gained from his generosity.
Thanks to a program called Louisiana InTech I spent 56 hours in intensive workshop sessions designed to help me guide students in the use of digital tools. Thanks to fluent and generous teacher Mike Rabourn of the Caddo tech team, the sessions were very helpful. Another fellow teacher who's been inspiring and generous with his time and expertise - wireless in my classroom, for instance - is William Bill Knox.
My students at Caddo Magnet High are encouraged to bring their laptops to school and use them during social studies class. They can take notes, research relevant material, make instantaneous contributions to class and email me their essays.
There are 2 desktop computers in my room and students are encouraged to use them for any academic purpose during class. Students also use the units under my purview before and after school and at lunch. They check the class web site for assignments and notes, download material for class activities, download and edit videos, crop photos, and check email.
Thus I try to foster a a sense of cooperative inquiry in academic activities - using the tools of the business and academic world.
Students who stray from appropriate and academic sites are banned from the privilage for a week or longer.
At the end of each semester my students must present a brief digital individual portfolio composed of images of samples of:
academic papers, activities in which they participated and photos of themselves and friends.
The classroom digital cameras are available from me upon appropriate request. They go into circulation several times a day. I also check out the *teacher videocam" to students when needed. Also, I have a friend who gives away refurbished computers to families in need; several of my students have gained from his generosity.
Thanks to a program called Louisiana InTech I spent 56 hours in intensive workshop sessions designed to help me guide students in the use of digital tools. Thanks to fluent and generous teacher Mike Rabourn of the Caddo tech team, the sessions were very helpful. Another fellow teacher who's been inspiring and generous with his time and expertise - wireless in my classroom, for instance - is William Bill Knox.
Friday, January 27, 2006
Java Junction's partisizers arrive Saturday, Jan 28, 8 pm
One of the more elaborate posters in recent memory, this baroque piece says, I think, that Chris Jay will not rest while there is anything left in this town to synthesize or integratize.
A vivid, succinct poster saves 20 to 30 minutes of a blogger's life
Hats off to Alex Kent and Alan English of the Times and Don Echols of Gypsy Mountain, who sent us this piece. Bon chance, mes amis.
Monday, January 16, 2006
In Dallas, at the tony islet called the Nasher Sculpture Center, next door to the DMA
The Women of Giacometti is the road show (Jan 14 - Ap 9) at the Nasher Sculpture Center, downtown Dallas.
It's a low-key display - who can tell the difference between the women and the men in Giacometti's gaunt figures? But the Nasher is a spacious venue and I felt like I was walking round inside the magnified movement of an enormous watch, and the Giacometti's were the pivots.
The best part of the exhibit was downstairs, where we were able to see the Swiss sculptor's entrancing early work and view a film - well, part of it - on his life. He was a charming man and worked in some charmingly funky ateliers in Geneva.
The sculptures that kept drawing me back for an additional taste were gaunties about 3 cm tall.
The Nasher's steel-studded garden was easily the greenest spot in parched Dallas. The theme is not monumental coolness, as in the Dallas Museum of Art's concrete-and-water sculpture garden. At the Nasher it's mortality and vanity. We all look like damned sculptures when we're wandering among the witty and frozen but expectant figures of this collection.
See the Talbot Hopkins photo of the Richard Serra steel for an idea of the Nasher's grand view.
It's a low-key display - who can tell the difference between the women and the men in Giacometti's gaunt figures? But the Nasher is a spacious venue and I felt like I was walking round inside the magnified movement of an enormous watch, and the Giacometti's were the pivots.
The best part of the exhibit was downstairs, where we were able to see the Swiss sculptor's entrancing early work and view a film - well, part of it - on his life. He was a charming man and worked in some charmingly funky ateliers in Geneva.
The sculptures that kept drawing me back for an additional taste were gaunties about 3 cm tall.
The Nasher's steel-studded garden was easily the greenest spot in parched Dallas. The theme is not monumental coolness, as in the Dallas Museum of Art's concrete-and-water sculpture garden. At the Nasher it's mortality and vanity. We all look like damned sculptures when we're wandering among the witty and frozen but expectant figures of this collection.
See the Talbot Hopkins photo of the Richard Serra steel for an idea of the Nasher's grand view.
Friday, January 13, 2006
The Reshaping of Shreveport Blog
For the past year I've run Shreveport Blog as an internet news post for the arts. It has been a serious and consuming hobby. Today I've reconsidered that pathway. The flow of selected and jazzified press releases was an experiment in new media, and I can see that its usefulness to the community was limited.
No matter; I enjoyed the endeavor and have developed new friends by the experience.
Now I want to focus on you. Shreveport Blog is a model. Your arts organization, your personal art flow or your business ought to communicate with clients and friends via a similar format. You can have your own version of it very cheaply, and for a reasonable fee I will set you up and make sure you are comfortable updating, when needed, this sort of flexible comunications satellite.
Photography is also a service for you to consider. Page back over the year of posts on SptBlog and decide whether you'd like to hire me to cover your event or start-up situation.
Video documentary work is a growth area for me. And I continue to be a creator of soundtracks. Arts-minded projects in video and music will consume much of my time in the near future.
Shreveport Blog will certainly continue to exist, but from today it changes directions. What's recommendable in arts & entertainment this weekend you may find in other media outlets.
The reshaping begins with a still life by artist Talbot Hopkins. Please see her web site, TalbotHopkinsArt.blogspot.com, and consider having your own such easy-to-manage info center.
No matter; I enjoyed the endeavor and have developed new friends by the experience.
Now I want to focus on you. Shreveport Blog is a model. Your arts organization, your personal art flow or your business ought to communicate with clients and friends via a similar format. You can have your own version of it very cheaply, and for a reasonable fee I will set you up and make sure you are comfortable updating, when needed, this sort of flexible comunications satellite.
Photography is also a service for you to consider. Page back over the year of posts on SptBlog and decide whether you'd like to hire me to cover your event or start-up situation.
Video documentary work is a growth area for me. And I continue to be a creator of soundtracks. Arts-minded projects in video and music will consume much of my time in the near future.
Shreveport Blog will certainly continue to exist, but from today it changes directions. What's recommendable in arts & entertainment this weekend you may find in other media outlets.
The reshaping begins with a still life by artist Talbot Hopkins. Please see her web site, TalbotHopkinsArt.blogspot.com, and consider having your own such easy-to-manage info center.
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Indie, experimental psychedelic aleatory strum and bash from Tungsten74 at minicine? Wed, Jan 11, 8 pm, 836 Texas
Tungsten 74, based in Brooklyn, claims to be amused at being mentioned by the New Yorker as an experimental rock band. See their citation on the tungsten74.com site. They are due at minicine? Wed, Jan 11, says David Nelson.
Opening for Tungsten is ecelectic local band Mosquitosophagus. Recently writer Jennifer Flowers interviewed Mosquito Eric Dean and the band in an article on pop musicians' enjoyment of classical music:
"For Dean, who also enjoys the rhythmic cycles of classical Indian musicians like Ravi Shankar, an appreciation of classical music can be gained with open-mindedness. "I don't know how someone can be a musician and not sample every style. For centuries, (classical music) was all that music was."
Dean, Pete Fetterman and classically trained violinist Destiny Toro recently started the band Mosquitosophagus, which experiments with a 150-year-old cello, a laptop, drums, a guitar, Toro's violin and the soundboard of a piano they found in a trash heap.
So they don't have the whole piano, and nobody knows how to play Fetterman's mother's cello. But Mosquitosophagus believes that as long as something can make noise, it's fair game."
At minicine?, writes Nelson, "Our new space is not really open officially but we could not let this chance pass..... Tungsten 74, on tour, returns to Shreveport... Mosquitosaphagus ReAwakens from a lengthy sleep... Hard hats still required."
Wed, Jan 11
846 Texas Avenue
8PM
$5
Opening for Tungsten is ecelectic local band Mosquitosophagus. Recently writer Jennifer Flowers interviewed Mosquito Eric Dean and the band in an article on pop musicians' enjoyment of classical music:
"For Dean, who also enjoys the rhythmic cycles of classical Indian musicians like Ravi Shankar, an appreciation of classical music can be gained with open-mindedness. "I don't know how someone can be a musician and not sample every style. For centuries, (classical music) was all that music was."
Dean, Pete Fetterman and classically trained violinist Destiny Toro recently started the band Mosquitosophagus, which experiments with a 150-year-old cello, a laptop, drums, a guitar, Toro's violin and the soundboard of a piano they found in a trash heap.
So they don't have the whole piano, and nobody knows how to play Fetterman's mother's cello. But Mosquitosophagus believes that as long as something can make noise, it's fair game."
At minicine?, writes Nelson, "Our new space is not really open officially but we could not let this chance pass..... Tungsten 74, on tour, returns to Shreveport... Mosquitosaphagus ReAwakens from a lengthy sleep... Hard hats still required."
Wed, Jan 11
846 Texas Avenue
8PM
$5
"So you want to be in the movies, honey?" meeting of film types at Bossier Parish Community College Tue, Jan, 10, 7 pm
"Producers, Directors, Actors, Crew, Writers, Agents, Casting Directors and many other people who are making films in this state will be in attendance at the Louisiana Produces meeting Tue, Jan 10., 7 pm," says Wayne Morgan of the Hurd Casting Network.
Everyone with a serious interest in the film industry is invited. The North Louisiana meeting:
Bossier Parish Community College
6220 East Texas Street Building D
Bossier City, LA 71111
For more info call: (318) 424-9090
More info at these sites:
Louisiana Produces / filmind.meetup.com/3/
The HURD Casting Network / filmind.meetup.com/179/
The Robinson Film Center / www.robinsonfilmc enter.org/
Everyone with a serious interest in the film industry is invited. The North Louisiana meeting:
Bossier Parish Community College
6220 East Texas Street Building D
Bossier City, LA 71111
For more info call: (318) 424-9090
More info at these sites:
Louisiana Produces / filmind.meetup.com/3/
The HURD Casting Network / filmind.meetup.com/179/
The Robinson Film Center / www.robinsonfilmc enter.org/
Saturday, January 07, 2006
Movie Sauce Film Festival: Shreveport-based teens initiate an international film exposition; see moviesauce.org
Movie Sauce Film Fest was created in May, '05, by a small group of unusually committed teen filmmakers led by Hunter Carter and Evan Falbaum. Held at Fairfield Studios, Shreveport, the event was mobbed by enthusiastic viewers.
Writes Carter on the moviesauce.org web site: "The Moviesauce Film Festival was created in 2005 by Hunter Carter, Evan Falbaum, and Kemerton Hargrove, as a response to the lack of venues and support for student, experimental, and low-budget films. With these films in mind, Moviesauce was created to provide a physical screening place for filmmakers whose reach would normally be limited to small local releases, or the Internet. As the name (coined by Kemerton Hargrove) implies, Moviesauce is not just about showing the movies, but it is a little something extra. The event is more like a convention than a typical film festival, as there are panels, Q&A sessions, and more. Moviesauce is by the filmmakers, for the filmmakers -- and while many other festivals echo that motto, we think our sense of humor speaks for us. I mean, come on. Moviesauce."
Carter and his partners are back with a second and expanded edition of the event. It is no longer strictly a student competition. It is open to submissions from across the globe. And as students who've operated their own web site and forum for several years, they have an international network of moviemaking peers.
Moviesauce.org says there are four categories in 2006:
Narrative Feature
Documentary
Animation
Narrative
"Each of them has a separate award," writes Carter, "and finally, there is the Awesomesauce award, chosen by the attending audience, and presented on the final day of the festival."
Movie Sauce registration is online this year. The Deadlines:
Earlybird Deadline: Dec 1, 2005
Regular Deadline: Jan 20, 2006
Late Deadline: Mar 15, 2006
Withuotabox Extended Deadline: Mar 27, 2006
Withoutabox.com handles the paper work.
Carter, Falbaum, Hargrove and helpful local peers were at Caddo Magnet High last year. This year they are scattered at various universities. You can follow the continuing saga of these young filmmakers and producers at 2manshows.com.
Writes Carter on the moviesauce.org web site: "The Moviesauce Film Festival was created in 2005 by Hunter Carter, Evan Falbaum, and Kemerton Hargrove, as a response to the lack of venues and support for student, experimental, and low-budget films. With these films in mind, Moviesauce was created to provide a physical screening place for filmmakers whose reach would normally be limited to small local releases, or the Internet. As the name (coined by Kemerton Hargrove) implies, Moviesauce is not just about showing the movies, but it is a little something extra. The event is more like a convention than a typical film festival, as there are panels, Q&A sessions, and more. Moviesauce is by the filmmakers, for the filmmakers -- and while many other festivals echo that motto, we think our sense of humor speaks for us. I mean, come on. Moviesauce."
Carter and his partners are back with a second and expanded edition of the event. It is no longer strictly a student competition. It is open to submissions from across the globe. And as students who've operated their own web site and forum for several years, they have an international network of moviemaking peers.
Moviesauce.org says there are four categories in 2006:
Narrative Feature
Documentary
Animation
Narrative
"Each of them has a separate award," writes Carter, "and finally, there is the Awesomesauce award, chosen by the attending audience, and presented on the final day of the festival."
Movie Sauce registration is online this year. The Deadlines:
Earlybird Deadline: Dec 1, 2005
Regular Deadline: Jan 20, 2006
Late Deadline: Mar 15, 2006
Withuotabox Extended Deadline: Mar 27, 2006
Withoutabox.com handles the paper work.
Carter, Falbaum, Hargrove and helpful local peers were at Caddo Magnet High last year. This year they are scattered at various universities. You can follow the continuing saga of these young filmmakers and producers at 2manshows.com.
Friday, January 06, 2006
Mardi Gras jelly from Pan's Pantry for the opening of Carnival on Twelfth Night, Jan 6
Artist Noma Fowler-Sandlin and husband Chris, until recently manager of Artspace, are having fun in the kitchen. For a limited time they will offer a distinctive sussie to carnival lovers: Mardi Gras jelly. As you can see in the photo, the colors are stratified a la Crescent City.
Email them at panspantry@musebite.com or chat with them at 318-349-1568.
Email them at panspantry@musebite.com or chat with them at 318-349-1568.
Thursday, January 05, 2006
West Edge Artists' Co-op Exec Director: writer and activist Michael Parker
Political activist, critic, essayist and book maven Michael Parker has been named executive director of the newly-organized West Edge Artists' Co-op.
"Michael brings with him years of experience working in the regional arts sector, and is a well-respected member of Shreveport's literary arts community," says Debbie Buchanan Engle, West Edge Arts Co-op founder. "Michael is a full member of the West Edge Artists' Co-op, and will offer rare and used books in his co-op gallery space. He will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the co-op, and will serve on its Board of Directors."
More about Parker from his stimulating website, mptheredrivered.blogspot.com:
"I'm a Shreveport native, returned to the area in August 2004 after 18 years away. I'm blissfully married to a beautiful, brilliant and heroic eighth-grade English teacher, & we have a vivacious five-year-old stand-up comic-in-training who adores Calvin and Hobbes. I'm passionate about politics, books and baseball. Fighting for social justice keeps me young, being a stay-at-homeschooling father keeps me on my toes, and my early retirement keeps me active. Peace, y'all."
The West Edge Artists' Co-op welcomes artists from all disciplines to apply for membership in the group. See the webite at www.westedgeartists.com, or call 318.221.6961.
"Michael brings with him years of experience working in the regional arts sector, and is a well-respected member of Shreveport's literary arts community," says Debbie Buchanan Engle, West Edge Arts Co-op founder. "Michael is a full member of the West Edge Artists' Co-op, and will offer rare and used books in his co-op gallery space. He will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the co-op, and will serve on its Board of Directors."
More about Parker from his stimulating website, mptheredrivered.blogspot.com:
"I'm a Shreveport native, returned to the area in August 2004 after 18 years away. I'm blissfully married to a beautiful, brilliant and heroic eighth-grade English teacher, & we have a vivacious five-year-old stand-up comic-in-training who adores Calvin and Hobbes. I'm passionate about politics, books and baseball. Fighting for social justice keeps me young, being a stay-at-homeschooling father keeps me on my toes, and my early retirement keeps me active. Peace, y'all."
The West Edge Artists' Co-op welcomes artists from all disciplines to apply for membership in the group. See the webite at www.westedgeartists.com, or call 318.221.6961.
Lip Service Trio at Java Junction with friends Fri, Jan 6, 8 to 11 pm, all ages, no smoaking, new liquor license
Sandra Odom, a pixie soul known to some as "Sam," (with plenty of irony) says, "I'm here to let you know that Lip Service Trio is bringing in the New Year at Java Junction .....Friday this time, instead of Saturday. The news is that Java Junction now has its liquor license and will be serving some tasty beers and wine along with their delicious food and coffees.....and no smoke."
Odom, not shy about her venue, waxes on: "I really enjoy the Junction. If you can't make it for our show, make it a point to catch them for breakfast or lunch and check out the other artists playing there. Sarah & Lee are making a nice thing happen there.......along with Stan Rice and a nice, friendly staff. I don't doubt you'll enjoy your visit." The bubbly singer-keyboard player can be reached for more info at 226-0614.
Fri, Jan. 6, 8 to 11 pm.
$5 cover.
865-9313.
Odom, not shy about her venue, waxes on: "I really enjoy the Junction. If you can't make it for our show, make it a point to catch them for breakfast or lunch and check out the other artists playing there. Sarah & Lee are making a nice thing happen there.......along with Stan Rice and a nice, friendly staff. I don't doubt you'll enjoy your visit." The bubbly singer-keyboard player can be reached for more info at 226-0614.
Fri, Jan. 6, 8 to 11 pm.
$5 cover.
865-9313.
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Putting yourself in a position to win a Jag or Mercedes benefits the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra in the SSO's 17th Annual Luxury Raffle
"You've got to believe you're going to be lucky," reminds Fortescue Whittle Hopkins, of Roanoke, Va.
Indeed, being prepared to win a fun car is a meritorious state. Especially when the luck may emanate from the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra's 17th annual Luxury Raffle benefit.
Serious enticements await those who carpool into this important fund raiser:
Grand Prize: Winner's Choice of 2006 Jaguar X-Type or Mercedes-Benz C230 or Volvo S40 valued at up to $37,500
1st Prize: Shopping Spree at Sid Potts Jewelry. Value: $2,500
2nd Prize: Fresh Cut Flowers Monthly for One Year from Rose Neath Flower Shops - Value: $600
3rd Prize: 52 Weeks of Car Washes at the Auto Mall Car Wash. - Value: $520
Tickets are $100 each. But only 2006 tickets will be sold, at best.
Drawing: Sat, Mar 4, 2006 following the MasterSeries Concert with the Three Phantoms. You need not be present to win.
Will the winner be responsible for all applicable taxes on prizes? Yes. Small price for such luck, right?
Buy tickets online at shreveportsymphony.com or by calling 318-227-8863.
Indeed, being prepared to win a fun car is a meritorious state. Especially when the luck may emanate from the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra's 17th annual Luxury Raffle benefit.
Serious enticements await those who carpool into this important fund raiser:
Grand Prize: Winner's Choice of 2006 Jaguar X-Type or Mercedes-Benz C230 or Volvo S40 valued at up to $37,500
1st Prize: Shopping Spree at Sid Potts Jewelry. Value: $2,500
2nd Prize: Fresh Cut Flowers Monthly for One Year from Rose Neath Flower Shops - Value: $600
3rd Prize: 52 Weeks of Car Washes at the Auto Mall Car Wash. - Value: $520
Tickets are $100 each. But only 2006 tickets will be sold, at best.
Drawing: Sat, Mar 4, 2006 following the MasterSeries Concert with the Three Phantoms. You need not be present to win.
Will the winner be responsible for all applicable taxes on prizes? Yes. Small price for such luck, right?
Buy tickets online at shreveportsymphony.com or by calling 318-227-8863.
Shreveport's newest celebration of the printed word, the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Centenary Blvd at Atkins St.
"The new Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum is located at Centenary Blvd. & Atkins St.," writes Kathy Pliler, S'pt Karpeles director. "This is the former home of the Christian Science Church. We had our Grand Opening in August 2005, right before Katrina hit, so we've gotten off to a slow start. With that behind us, we're looking forward to 2006. Many people over the years have passed by here and wondered what it looks like inside. Now that curiousity can be satisfied!"
"You can check us out at www.karples.com; in the lower right hand corner, click on Shreveport. We are part of the national website and hope to have more local information in the future."
"Would love for you to come by and check us out -- Admission is FREE! Also, spread the word to teachers that we're available for field trips."
"Also, every month we will have a different visual artist exhibited. An art reception will be held the 1st Saturday of every month from 1-3 p.m. -- except for January. The Reception will be held on January 14th and the artist is 'Aerial.' More on this soon," promises the informative and ebullient Mrs. Pliler.
Chat with her at 318-861-7615.
"You can check us out at www.karples.com; in the lower right hand corner, click on Shreveport. We are part of the national website and hope to have more local information in the future."
"Would love for you to come by and check us out -- Admission is FREE! Also, spread the word to teachers that we're available for field trips."
"Also, every month we will have a different visual artist exhibited. An art reception will be held the 1st Saturday of every month from 1-3 p.m. -- except for January. The Reception will be held on January 14th and the artist is 'Aerial.' More on this soon," promises the informative and ebullient Mrs. Pliler.
Chat with her at 318-861-7615.
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
A San Francisco woman looks at the devastation and recovery in New Orleans; 'It's a good time to visit."
A photog who goes by the tag fotogail reports on flickr.com, "We had a great time in new orleans, spending vacation bucks on amazing live music and astonishingly great food in the slightly damaged parts of the town. the french quarter, the garden district, uptown... those places are part of the narrow crescent-shaped area the area the locals are calling "the island" where it didn't flood or only flooded a few feet, briefly. the oldest historical buildings, most restaurants and most hotels are in that high ground area, and quite a few have reopened to their former glory! it's a good time to visit.
whole large neighborhoods -- many dozens of blocks each on perhaps a hundred streets -- are not "on the island," and the smell of mold and sight of debris is stunning.
local residents kept telling us to go out into residential neighborhoods to look at the destruction and tell people how extensive it is, so i will start by passing along this holiday message for the powers that be, posted on what was an affluent modern home near the 17th street canal levee breach."
whole large neighborhoods -- many dozens of blocks each on perhaps a hundred streets -- are not "on the island," and the smell of mold and sight of debris is stunning.
local residents kept telling us to go out into residential neighborhoods to look at the destruction and tell people how extensive it is, so i will start by passing along this holiday message for the powers that be, posted on what was an affluent modern home near the 17th street canal levee breach."
Singers & poets and their friends invited to Shreveport's Java Junction to perform Wed, Jan 4, 7:30 pm with songwritermagiciancomicartist Dan Garner
Java Junction is the cafe across from Centenary College at Alexander St, next door to the almighty temple of hardware and advice called Centenary Hardware (what terrific service!).
Java Junction been through numerous hands in recent years. Most of the renovation schemes have been what I would term simply- to moderately- atrocious. Lee and Susan Bamberg, however, have given the place pleasant colors and furniture. Theirs is the best version yet.
Bamberg's food is delicious. The Chicken Alexander sandwich with home-made pasta I've eaten several times; it's consistently sweet, tender and toothsome.
Along comes a new opportunity to enjoy the room: Dan Garner will set up his traveling poetry and songsters road show in the front room Wed, Jan 4, at 7:30 pm. No telling what you'll hear past the droll, politically satirical and tuneful Garner. But whatever it is, I recommend it.
More info: 865-9313. Performers, please check in with Garner at 934-0000.
Java Junction been through numerous hands in recent years. Most of the renovation schemes have been what I would term simply- to moderately- atrocious. Lee and Susan Bamberg, however, have given the place pleasant colors and furniture. Theirs is the best version yet.
Bamberg's food is delicious. The Chicken Alexander sandwich with home-made pasta I've eaten several times; it's consistently sweet, tender and toothsome.
Along comes a new opportunity to enjoy the room: Dan Garner will set up his traveling poetry and songsters road show in the front room Wed, Jan 4, at 7:30 pm. No telling what you'll hear past the droll, politically satirical and tuneful Garner. But whatever it is, I recommend it.
More info: 865-9313. Performers, please check in with Garner at 934-0000.
La Film Festival gives students a fresh opportunity to grab videocams and shoot stories; deadline Feb. 20
Teachers of English, social studies, science and art, please consider making a video production an option for an upcoming project. If students are clever and hardworking, their video project might be entered in the Louisiana Film Fest.
The LaFF is sponsored by the Robinson Film Center, Shreveport, as well as by Centenary College and Louisiana Public Broadcasting.
The RFC's marketing and education director, Chris L. Jay, says "I’m trying everything I can to get educators involved in motivating their students to create something for the 2006 Louisiana Film festival – Student Division. This year, we’ve got more than $1,000 in cash prizes, an interactive session with filmmaker Sasha Wolf (whose short film “Joe” was nominated for the Palm d’Or at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1997), and an altogether improved fest."
See more at LouisianaFilmFest.org.
The Robinson Film Center: 424-9090.
The LaFF is sponsored by the Robinson Film Center, Shreveport, as well as by Centenary College and Louisiana Public Broadcasting.
The RFC's marketing and education director, Chris L. Jay, says "I’m trying everything I can to get educators involved in motivating their students to create something for the 2006 Louisiana Film festival – Student Division. This year, we’ve got more than $1,000 in cash prizes, an interactive session with filmmaker Sasha Wolf (whose short film “Joe” was nominated for the Palm d’Or at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1997), and an altogether improved fest."
See more at LouisianaFilmFest.org.
The Robinson Film Center: 424-9090.
New Orleans' French Quarter from the 30th floor of the Wyndham: a quilt of blue roofs / photo Jenifer Hill Akers
Jenifer Hill Akers and husband David recently visited the Crescent City and brought back a telling photographic report.
Akers, development director for the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, wrote, "The cityscape was taken from the roof, 30 floors up, of the Wyndham Canal Hotel. It shows the sea of FEMA tarps still on the roofs. That was one reason they asked the residents not to shoot fireworks on New Year's eve. Apparently the tarps are quite flammable."
She brought good news, too. Among the restaurants that have re-opened is the favorite of all the world. "Cafe Du Monde is alive and well. Vive Nouvelle Orleans."
More sobering images from the Akers' photo essay can be seen by following the photo's link to flickr.com.
Akers, development director for the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, wrote, "The cityscape was taken from the roof, 30 floors up, of the Wyndham Canal Hotel. It shows the sea of FEMA tarps still on the roofs. That was one reason they asked the residents not to shoot fireworks on New Year's eve. Apparently the tarps are quite flammable."
She brought good news, too. Among the restaurants that have re-opened is the favorite of all the world. "Cafe Du Monde is alive and well. Vive Nouvelle Orleans."
More sobering images from the Akers' photo essay can be seen by following the photo's link to flickr.com.
Monday, January 02, 2006
2006: Your new challenge and social pleasure might well be the ancient game we call Go ; meetings Tuesdays, 7:00 pm, B & N
Shreveport's ad hoc Go guru, Peter Haas, invites locals to expand their universe via the Go society, which welcomes even youngsters to the gaming board: "Happy New Year to all. Our usual meeting will take place on Tue, Jan. 3, at 7:00 at Barnes & Noble."
"Ring in the New Year with a game of Go. The good people at B&N have set up a display with our new fliers and their Go books right by the cafe. Check it out and tell your friends to take a look."
"Ring in the New Year with a game of Go. The good people at B&N have set up a display with our new fliers and their Go books right by the cafe. Check it out and tell your friends to take a look."
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Pastor Joseph Lindsey with the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra in the People's Concert, Fr, Jan 13, 7:30 pm, Civic Theater
One of downtown Shreveport's best-attended concerts of the year is the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra's People's Concert. Both sides of the city come together to rock and sway with a massive combined choir accompanied by Kermit Poling and the SSO.
Per tradition, radio personality Daddy Ro will serve as narrator of Schwantner's symphonic work, New Morning for the World, which is based upon texts by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Another featured guest artist for the evening is gospel recording artist Paster Joseph Lindsey.
The Symphony will be joined by a massed choir composed of singers from Mt. Canaan Baptist Church, Little Union Baptist Church , Midway Baptist Church and Avenue Baptist Church Choirs, plus the Sanctuary Singers and the Interdenominational Ensemble from ULM under the direction of S. Royce Mosely.
* Fri, Jan 13, 7:30 pm, Shreveport Civic Theater
* Admission taken care of by the Shreveport-Bossier Community Foundation
Per tradition, radio personality Daddy Ro will serve as narrator of Schwantner's symphonic work, New Morning for the World, which is based upon texts by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Another featured guest artist for the evening is gospel recording artist Paster Joseph Lindsey.
The Symphony will be joined by a massed choir composed of singers from Mt. Canaan Baptist Church, Little Union Baptist Church , Midway Baptist Church and Avenue Baptist Church Choirs, plus the Sanctuary Singers and the Interdenominational Ensemble from ULM under the direction of S. Royce Mosely.
* Fri, Jan 13, 7:30 pm, Shreveport Civic Theater
* Admission taken care of by the Shreveport-Bossier Community Foundation
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