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SUMMARY:DiverseWorks on Wednesdays
DESCRIPTION:Fig Pudding Performs\norganized by Regina Agu and Sandy Ewen \nFig Pudding will perform a series of original scores written by Regina Agu\, Carol Sandin Cooley\, Megan Easley\, Sandy Ewen\, Gabriel Martinez\, Rebecca Novak\, Rachel Orosco\, Carrie Schneider\, Ronnie Yates\, and Hanna Yoo. \nFig Pudding is the current iteration of an evolving music and performance ensemble that performs improvisation\, graphic scores\, performance pieces\, and occasionally more traditional forms of composition. Sandy Ewen founded the all-female group in 2009 as a way to capitalize on the under-utilized resource of creative women in experimental music. The group has changed its name to a different fruit flavor for every performance. Memorable performances include: the Pawpaw Pomelo show atop the Mekong Plaza on July 4\, 2010\, wherein the band accompanied live fireworks with an amplified vocal performance; the Pina Colada show at NMAS in Austin\, Texas wherein the band collaborated  with video artist Rebecca Carlisle-Healy; the Durian Durian show at the Menil Collection\, which showcased site-specific performance pieces; and the Gooseberry Marmalade show at 14 Pews in Houston wherein the band performed Scratch Orchestra pieces in collaboration with Keith Rowe. The group has a CDr release\, but all the copies have gone missing. The CDr was fondly referred to as the “touchy-feely” album because of the fake fur that was glued on the covers. \nRegina Agu is an interdisciplinary artist and has performed with Fig Pudding since 2012. Agu was born in Houston and raised in transit throughout Africa and Europe. She is a graduate of Cornell University. Agu’s work has been included in exhibitions\, public readings\, and performances at New Museum\, labotanica\, Project Row Houses\, University Museum at Texas Southern University\, Box 13\, and Lawndale Arts Center\, among other venues. She is a 2012 Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant recipient and a 2014 The Idea Fund grantee. Agu is a current member of the DiverseWorks Artist Board. \nSandy Ewen plays electric guitar. Born in Toronto\, Canada in 1985\, Ewen received a Bachelor of Architecture from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008. Since then she has resided in Houston\, TX where she pursues her musical and visual projects and her architecture license. Ewen has performed music throughout North America as a collaborative improviser and member of the Weird Weeds. Lately\, Ewen has been focusing on her visual art\, frequently presenting it alongside experimental music. \nDiverseWorks on Wednesdays is supported in part by Saint Arnold Brewing Company and Topo Chico USA. \n  \n 
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/diverseworks-wednesdays-11/
LOCATION:DiverseWorks\, 4102 Fannin\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States
CATEGORIES:DWOW
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SUMMARY:DiverseWorks on Wednesdays
DESCRIPTION:Radio DWOW organized by Rebecca Novak\nComing to you live from Radio DWOW: a performance of sound compositions for radio\, including John Cage’s Radio Music for 1-8 radios\, that will be simultaneously broadcast and tuned in to. Also on this program\, David Dove will honor Joe McPhee and Arthur Doyle in a solo performance of selections from a significant historical concert of McPhee and Doyle\, curated by Dove for DiverseWorks in 1998. \n\nBaltimore/Houston/Baltimore: Fiona Sergeant and Will Schorre (video); Damon Smith (double bass); Sandy Ewen (guitar and objects); Rebecca Novak (shortwave radio\, amplified autoharp\, morse code key)\nJohn Cage’s Radio Music for 1 – 8 radios\, 1956:  Performed by Austin Cooley\, Sandy Ewen\, Eddie Hawkins. Rebecca Novak\, Carol Ann Sandin\, Shaun Sandor. Damon Smith\nSelections from Joe McPhee/Arthur Doyle concert of January\, 1998: David Dove (trombone). Dedicated to Joe McPhee and Arthur Doyle (June 26\, 1944 – January 25\, 2014)\n\nIn January of 1998\, DiverseWorks presented a concert featuring two major veterans of jazz’s radical avant-garde\, Joe McPhee and Arthur Doyle. The concert was curated by then-artist board member David Dove. In addition to the performance\, McPhee and Doyle gave workshops for the kids in Dove’s improvisation ensemble at MECA. The residency would plant the seed for what would become Pauline Oliveros Foundation Houston (POF Houston)\, founded and directed by Dove. POF Houston would eventually become Nameless Sound. To celebrate this history and remember this event\, Dove will perform selections from that evening in honor of Joe McPhee and Arthur Doyle (who passed away on January 25 of this year). \nIMAGE: David Jordan. Montage of four professional US omnidirectional base station antennas
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/diverseworks-wednesdays-10/
LOCATION:DiverseWorks\, 4102 Fannin\, Suite 200\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States
CATEGORIES:DWOW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140205T200000
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SUMMARY:DiverseWorks on Wednesdays
DESCRIPTION:A conversation about sound\, philosophy\, and underground music\nThis open conversation moderated by Associate Curator Rachel Cook brings together a variety of individual voices for a discussion about sound\, perceptions of how we see and hear\, and the influence of underground music. \nPanelists: Lucas Gorham\, Jawwaad Taylor\, Fat Tony\, and Casey O’Callaghan
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/diverseworks-wednesdays-9/
LOCATION:DiverseWorks\, 4102 Fannin\, Suite 200\, Houston\, 77004
CATEGORIES:DWOW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140129T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140129T200000
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CREATED:20140122T053309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140129T223229Z
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SUMMARY:DiverseWorks on Wednesdays
DESCRIPTION:An evening of experimental music organized by Damon Smith \n1. Fig Compote plays “Menil Piece 2 for Anthony Braxton & Jeff Koons”\n2. Robert Pearson on solo keyboards\n3. Trio: Sandy Ewen (guitar\, objects); Damon Smith (double bass); Rebecca Novak (radios)
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/diverseworks-wednesdays-8/
LOCATION:DiverseWorks\, 4102 Fannin\, Suite 200\, Houston\, 77004
CATEGORIES:DWOW
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SUMMARY:DiverseWorks on Wednesdays
DESCRIPTION:Screening of Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson’s Sound Designs for Future Films \n \nPerformance: Critical Mass\nA suite of solos performed on a stage of lights developed by artist Ronny Quevedo\nPerformers: Stephen Araujo\, Lisa E. Harris\, Autumn Knight and Jesus Romero \nSound Design for Future Films inverts the hierarchy and workflow of typical film production\, starting with a two-and-a-half minute sound design for a scene in a film that doesn’t exist. Dubbin and Davidson began with the narrative aural details necessary to construct a scene\, sounds that describe activities within an environment\, sounds that are not dialogue or music. These sounds are drawn from sound libraries and are composed to propose an oblique-narrative. \nThe sound design serves as the primary source material in a collaboration with other artists. They gave this scene to 20 different artists to create the image component. Each artist was given complete control concerning their visual contribution\, Dubbin and Davidson only asked that the audio remain unaltered. \n  \n 
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/diverseworks-wednesdays-7/
LOCATION:DiverseWorks\, 4102 Fannin\, Suite 200\, Houston\, 77004
CATEGORIES:DWOW
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SUMMARY:DiverseWorks on Wednesdays
DESCRIPTION:Performances in conjunction with the exhibition SonicWorks: \nThe Drone Bros + Robert Hodge presents a Beauty Box Pop-Up Show with Outspoken Bean and The Aspiring Me \nDrone Bros are a sonic performance art group. They create temporary\, performance-based sound sculptures that bring together elements of experimental and pop music. \nGiven that music and sound have a physiological affect on the human body\, the Drone Bros use droning notes in an attempt to affect the body and mind of the listener/observer. By hearing the same frequency over an extended period of time\, the human mind and body can experience different states of awareness\, therefore the sound sculpture is a visceral and concrete way to engage people into different states of awareness. \nThe Drone Bros seek to continue and develop the long-standing and arguably ancient tradition of drone music through the appropriation of pop music. Taking elements from their  own experiences as musicians\, they use guitars\, synthesizers\, talkbox\, drum machines\, and other electronic devices\, while taking musical influence from rock\, blues\, funk and rap music. \nRobert Hodge is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores themes of memory and commemoration. Born in Houston\, Texas and raised in the City’s Third Ward district\, the artist studied visual art at the Pratt Institute in New York and the Atlanta College of Art before returning to Houston. Hodge has exhibited his work in numerous national and international institutions including Project Row Houses in Houston\, the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, the Contemporary Arts Museum\, Houston\, the New Gallery of Modern Art in Charlotte\, North Carolina\, Coma Art Space in Los Angeles and the Contemporary Museum of East Africa in Nairobi\, Kenya. Named amongst the Houston Press’ 100 Most Creative People in 2011\, the artist has also received grants from the Houston Arts Alliance and The Idea Fund. Hodge currently lives and works in Houston. \nThe Beauty Box is an outdoor public installation illuminating a particular time in an average Third Ward home prior to integration. The project transformed an abandoned portion of a building into an installation and gallery space where artist talks\, round table discussions\, performances and other public events are held. \n 
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/diverseworks-wednesdays-6/
LOCATION:DiverseWorks\, 4102 Fannin\, Houston\, 77004
CATEGORIES:DWOW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20131218T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20131218T200000
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SUMMARY:DiverseWorks on Wednesdays Holiday Party
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for eggnog\, cookies\, brats\, and beer\nMeet old and new friends while you are here!\nLeave with a dog\, a smile\, and good cheer\nWith hope and joy for an exciting New Year! \n\nPet adoptions by Barrio Dogs (please bring a donation of dry dog food to benefit Barrio Dogs)\nBalloon dog levitation races\nHerbal tarot readings by artist Lisa E. Harris\nCraft beer from Saint Arnold Brewing Company\nPrizes for best holiday sweaters\, a book swap\, and more!
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/diverseworks-wednesdays-holiday-party/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:DWOW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20131211T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20131211T200000
DTSTAMP:20131205T232202Z
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SUMMARY:DiverseWorks on Wednesdays
DESCRIPTION:The Idea Fund: Presentations by 2014 Jurors \nYona Backer\, Founding Partner\, Third Streaming\, New York City \nAndrew Suggs\, Executive Director\, Vox Populi\, Philadelphia \nNathaniel Donnett\, Houston-based artist and a The Idea Fund 2011 Recipient \nEach juror will give a short presentation about their current work\, followed by a q&a with the audience. \nThe Idea Fund provides 10 cash awards of $4\,000 ($3\,500 initial grant plus $500 seed money for future projects) to Texas-based\, artist-generated\, or artist-centered projects that exemplify the unconventional\, interventionist\, conceptual\, entrepreneurial\, participatory\, or guerrilla artistic practices that occur outside of the traditional frameworks of support. \nThe Idea Fund is administered through a partnership of DiverseWorks\, Aurora Picture Show\, and Project Row Houses and funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/diverseworks-wednesdays-5/
LOCATION:DiverseWorks\, 4102 Fannin\, Houston\, 77004
CATEGORIES:DWOW
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20131120T200000
DTSTAMP:20131115T030637Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20131115T030637Z
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SUMMARY:DiverseWorks on Wednesdays
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Artist Board member Aaron Parazette \nPop-Up Exhibition of works by University of Houston Senior Painting students: Logan Asher\, Peter Broz\, Quindeel Butt\, Gloria Castro\, Natasha Crea\, Nabila Dababhoy\, Sandra de la Rosa\, Leah Esparza\, Melinda Frydrych\, Darwin Itzep\, Katie Lamascus\, Jordan McGroary\, Laura McManus\, Nancy Oberer\, Javier Pulido\, James Radcliffe\, Alex Rosas\, Cat Salinas\, Charlene Scott\, Matt Tabor\, Nohelia Vargas\, and Mary Wemple
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/diverseworks-wednesdays-3/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:DWOW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20131113T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20131113T200000
DTSTAMP:20131108T021458Z
CREATED:20131105T003320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131108T021458Z
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SUMMARY:DiverseWorks on Wednesdays
DESCRIPTION:11.13.13 DWOW: Dance\, Disaster\, and Show and Tell\, hosted by Artist Board members Lydia Hance\, Hélène Schlumberger\, and Carrie Schneider \nThis DWOW mash-up includes:\nDANCE\nA screening of Lydia Hance’s dance films Framing Bodies: LOVE ME\, There’s a Height Limit\, and Quiver \nDISASTER REENACTMENTS\nArtist Elizabeth Eicher’s Disaster Reenactment is a series of events wherein the audience is invited to reenact scenes\, moments\, actions\, or tableaus based on footage from major picture disaster films (think Volcano\, Armageddon\, The Towering Inferno\, etc.). Eicher selects clips from these films and coordinates the reenactments\, leaving the audience to make directorial decisions about how to portray the events. Participants gain a renewed sense of agency by embodying the boundaries and roles enacted within the disaster narrative. \nSHOW AND TELL\nCome prepared to present a 3-minutes max Show and Tell on any object of your choosing. Be on time to participate\, because sign-ups start at 6 pm. The audience will vote on finalists\, who will compete in a lightning round and take home a special prize! \nDWOW is sponsored in part by Saint Arnold Brewing Company and Topo Chico USA.
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/diverseworks-wednesdays-2/
LOCATION:DiverseWorks
CATEGORIES:DWOW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20131009T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20131009T200000
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SUMMARY:DWOW: QuAC and Houston Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:QuAC: A Screening and Discussion with Sixto Wagan and Chuck Jackson \nQuAC: Queer Artist Collective performed many times on DiverseWorks’ stage. QuAC was a multi-ethnic performance group of twenty-something men and women charged to “fearlessly be themselves.” Growing out of New York’s Gay and Lesbian Community Center’s Youth Enrichment series and Mary Ellen Strom’s School’s Out — The Naming Project\, QuAC acted as a community building endeavor for not only the artists themselves\, but for DiverseWorks as an organization. QuAC brought a diverse group of individuals from the LGBT community together in order to build self-esteem and and encourage self-reflection through the process of creative writing\, movement\, and video. \nHouston Poetry Fest Satellite Readings by Brother Said\, Savannah Blue\, and Equality \nThe Houston Poetry Fest has been celebrating the crafted word in Houston since 1985. The main event will be held at the University of Houston-Downtown on October 11-13 and will include readings by guest poets and juried winners of the Fest’s popular anthology competition as well as a new feature: Saturday morning workshops on writing poetry and getting published by several top Houston poets and writers. Workshops will be held at the Hardy & Nance Studios at 902 Hardy Street. \nFor many years\, the Fest has included the off-site event Poetry Out of Bounds in Clear Lake. However\, this year HPF is presenting a series of Satellite Readings at popular poetry venues around town\, to represent Houston’s dynamic Spoken Word community. Each reading will be hosted by a recognized poetry organization to introduce new audiences to Houston’s rich and growing poetry scene. \nSponsored in part by Saint Arnold Brewing Company
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/dwow-quac-houston-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:DiverseWorks\, 4102 Fannin Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States
CATEGORIES:DWOW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130925T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130925T200000
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SUMMARY:DWOW: Homelessness in Houston
DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion on the current state of homelessness in Houston with artist Ben DeSoto\, SEARCH Homeless Services Executive Director Thao Costis\, Nick Cooper of Food Not Bombs\, Dr. Pamela Berger of the Houston Food Bank.
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/dwow-homelessness-in-houston/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:DWOW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130918T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130918T200000
DTSTAMP:20140328T225250Z
CREATED:20130509T014424Z
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SUMMARY:DWOW: Karen Finley
DESCRIPTION:Artist Karen Finley will give a dramatic reading of four selected excerpts from “We Keep Our Victims Ready”\, first performed at DiverseWorks over two evenings in October 1989. About the oppressed in contemporary America\, “We Keep Our Victims Ready” is a confrontational and powerful work of art that Finley has reframed in the context of current social and political issues: war\, reproductive rights\, freedom of expression\, and identity. \nFinley’s reading will be followed by a discussion and Q & A moderated by DiverseWorks Assistant Curator Rachel Cook and UH Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Jessica Santone. This event is free. \nKaren Finley is a New York-based artist whose raw and transgressive performances have long provoked controversy and debate. Finley was one of four artists whose NEA grant applications were vetoed due to content considered “indecent.” Finley and the other three artists sued for reinstatement and won the case in 1993 in the ninth circuit court in Los Angeles. In May 2013\, Finley’s performance and installation\, Sext Me if You Can\, was presented as part of NEA 4 in Residence at the New Museum in New York. For this interactive performance installation\, Finley created a limited edition of paintings inspired by “sexts” that she received from participating patrons. Other current projects include “Unicorn in Red” (an ongoing series of performances in which Finley receives automatic messages from those departed and turns those messages into artworks)\, and Open Heart (a public memorial for children killed during the Holocaust created in collaboration with survivors\, children\, and locals). Finley is a professor at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in the department of Art and Public Policy. \nPresented in partnership with the University of Houston’s School of Art and Visiting Assistant Professor Jessica Santone.
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/dwow-diverseworks-on-wednesdays-2/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:DWOW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130911T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130911T200000
DTSTAMP:20130904T031908Z
CREATED:20130509T005920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130904T031908Z
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SUMMARY:DWOW (DiverseWorks On Wednesdays)
DESCRIPTION:Words for Peace\na collaboration with Voices Breaking Boundaries\nVoices Breaking Boundaries organized the inaugural Words for Peace event on Sunday\, September 22\, 2002 at DiverseWorks\, in response to the increasingly frightening political climate in the U.S. following the September 11\, 2001 attacks.  The event featured spoken word\, dance\, and music and included live telephone readings by 1997 Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy\, Jewish poet Irena Klepfisz\, Palestinian American poet Naomi Shihab Nye and award-winning journalist Ahmed Rashid.  It was curated by Troy Gooden\, Chuck Jackson\, Rich Levy\, Sehba Sarwar\, Oskar Sonnen\, Sandra Tarlin\, and Michael Woodson. \nThis year\, DiverseWorks will revisit Words for Peace on September 11\, 2013 in a collaboration with Voices Breaking Boundaries’ Sehba Sarwar.
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/dwow-diverseworks-on-wednesdays/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:DWOW
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