CATEGORY	Showgrounds at SHRP
EVENT	Cross Canadian Ragweed
WEBSITE	www.theshowgrounds.com
BEGIN	7/18/2009
END	7/18/2009
LOCATION	Showgrounds at Sam Houston Race Park
NOTES	Inspired by Mike McClure's self-penned Great Divide songs, the band quickly grew out of its Merle Haggard and classic rock covers and began focusing on Canada's uncommonly honest and straight-forward originals.
PHONE	800.211.3381

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Pioneers of Contemporary Glass
WEBSITE	www.mfah.org
BEGIN	3/7/2009
END	7/26/2009
LOCATION	Museum of Fine Arts, 1001 Bissonnet
NOTES	As highly regarded figures in the studio-glass community, Dallas-based collectors Barbara and Dennis DuBois have traveled the globe to find extraordinary glass objects by international artists. In their pursuit of definitive examples, the DuBois´ have assembled a collection of some 300 sculptural works that demonstrate a wide range of techniques, aesthetics, and forms.
PHONE	713.639.7300

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Start with Art, Learn for Life: The MFAH and TAEA Celebrate Youth Art Month
WEBSITE	www.mfah.org
BEGIN	6/1/2009
END	8/2/2009
LOCATION	Museum of Fine Arts, 1001 Bissonnet
NOTES	Youth Art Month is a nationwide initiative started in 1961 to recognize the importance of art in the school curriculum. In Texas, Youth Art Month is organized by the Texas Art Education Association (TAEA). This annual celebration advocates for art education by promoting the essential role the visual arts play in the development of creative-thinking skills.
PHONE	713.639.7300

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Contemporary Conversations: John Chamberlain, American Tableau
WEBSITE	www.menil.org
BEGIN	3/19/2009
END	8/2/2009
LOCATION	Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross
NOTES	The third in The Menil Collection series, “Contemporary Conversations,” which highlights work by living artists in the collection. The series aims to work with the artist to focus on a specific aspect or time period of their production. American Tableau will present a single large-scale sculpture as a room-size installation accompanied by rare examples of the artist’s drawings.
PHONE	713.525.9400

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Facing Mars
WEBSITE	www.thehealthmuseum.org
BEGIN	5/30/2009
END	9/7/2009
LOCATION	Health Musuem, 1515 Hermann Drive
NOTES	Blast off to space! Join us this May at The Health Museum for the U.S. premiere of Facing Mars. Discover the challenges of space travel and the effect it has on your body. Dare to test your stomach on the spinning chair and find out what it feels like to walk on Mars. Get an up-close view of Martian meteorites and fan up a dust storm! See if you can endure the challenges of Mars.
PHONE	713.521.1515

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988 - 2008
WEBSITE	www.mfah.org
BEGIN	5/9/2009
END	9/13/2009
LOCATION	Museum of Fine Arts, 1001 Bissonnet
NOTES	Houston-based Amy Blakemore takes photographs in order to explore the ways in which memory both records and transforms visual information. Employing the camera as subjective tool, Blakemore has compared the activity of photography to the process of gathering broken bits and lost objects discovered serendipitously during long walks.
PHONE	713.639.7300

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Ways of Seeing: The Photography of Ishimoto Yasuhiro
WEBSITE	www.mfah.org
BEGIN	6/1/2009
END	9/13/2009
LOCATION	Museum of Fine Arts, 1001 Bissonnet
NOTES	Trained by Harry Callahan at the "New Bauhaus" in Chicago, Ishimoto (born 1921) is widely acknowledged as the most influential Japanese photographer of his generation in the development of postwar Japanese photography.
PHONE	713.639.7300

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection
WEBSITE	www.mfah.org
BEGIN	6/1/2009
END	9/27/2009
LOCATION	Museum of Fine Arts, 1001 Bissonnet
NOTES	North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection celebrates the museum´s major Latin American art acquisitions since 2001, with more than 80 works in every medium, ranging in date from the 1920s to the present.
PHONE	713.639.7300

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Painting the Cosmos: Science and the Art of Frederic Edwin Church
WEBSITE	www.mfah.org
BEGIN	6/1/2009
END	9/27/2009
LOCATION	Museum of Fine Arts, 1001 Bissonnet
NOTES	This installation features Cotopaxi (1855), which depicts the volcano of that name. Central to Church´s conception for this project was his deep appreciation for and understanding of scientific knowledge.
PHONE	713.639.7300

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston
WEBSITE	www.camh.org
BEGIN	5/9/2009
END	10/4/2009
LOCATION	Contemporary Arts Museum, 5216 Montrose
NOTES	Free from the land-use and zoning ordinances that shape other large American cities by separating residential, commercial, and industrial areas, Houston allows a mixed-use approach where disparate architectures and functions blend. In this often chaotic, jarring urban topography, many Houston artists have been able to carve out spaces and opportunities for themselves.
PHONE	713.284.8250

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Drawings on Site: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
WEBSITE	www.menil.org
BEGIN	5/9/2009
END	10/11/2009
LOCATION	Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross
NOTES	Showcasing drawings for public monuments proposed over the past thirty years by American artists Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) and Coosje van Bruggen (1942-2009), Drawings On Site: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen includes more than a dozen drawings from the artists’ private collection. As an innovator of American Pop Art in the mid 1960s.
PHONE	713.525.9400

CATEGORY	Stages Theatre
EVENT	Stages Theatre - The Andrews Brothers
WEBSITE	www.stagestheatre.com
BEGIN	7/15/2009
END	10/11/2009
LOCATION	Stages Theatre, 3201 Allen Parkway
NOTES	It's 1943 in the South Pacific, and tonight the Andrews Sisters headline the big USO show. But when a flu outbreak quarantines the girls, stagehands Max, Lawrence and Patrick, along with pin-up girl Peggy Jones, cook up the perfect way to wow the troops and save the day--all it will take is three wigs and a lot of makeup!
PHONE	713.527.0123

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor
WEBSITE	www.hmns.org
BEGIN	5/22/2009
END	10/18/2009
LOCATION	Museum of Natural Science, 1 Hermann Circle Drive
NOTES	The Houston Museum of Natural Science is excited to present one of the greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century, the tomb complex of China's First Emperor, Shi Huangdi, features thousands of terra cotta warriors that were intended to protect him throughout eternity. Since their discovery, the terra cotta army has been termed the Eighth Wonder of the Ancient World.
PHONE	713.639.IMAX