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46th Annual National Polka Festival
Ennis
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Friday, 05/25/2012 thru Sunday, 05/27/2012
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Where: Downtown Ennis, 3 Czech dance halls
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Phone: 972-878-4748
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The National Polka Festival, celebrating Ennis’ Czech heritage, is held annually every Memorial Day weekend. This festival features arts and crafts, great Czech food, over 13 live polka bands, horseshoe tournament, polkafest 5K and 10K and 1 mile fun run, King and Queen dance contest, giant parade, and much more! The festival is held downtown Ennis and at the three participating air-conditioned Czech halls. http://www.nationalpolkafestival.com
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Farmers Branch Liberty Fest
Farmers Branch
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Friday, 05/25/2012 thru Saturday, 05/26/2012
Liberty Fest is a patriotic tribute to our country and the men and women who serve her. This free family event features an Outdoor Expo with kayaking and rock climbing, a Car, Truck and Motorcycle Show, Liberty KidZone with a gaming truck, petting zoo and interactive games, a military display and field of flags, and free concerts by legendary Styx and 90’s rock icons Gin Blossoms. Free tickets available beginning April 2. Parking $10 after 4 pm. http://www.fblibertyfest.com
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Memorial Day Sale
Allen
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Friday, 05/25/2012 thru Monday, 05/28/2012
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Where: Allen Premium Outlets
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Phone: 972-678-7000
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Don’t miss the annual Memorial Day Weekend Sale taking place at Allen Premium Outlets®. Enjoy fabulous savings on top of already low outlet prices. Featuring 100 stores including Adidas, BCBG Max Azria, Calvin Klein, Gap Outlet, Juicy Couture, True Religion and many more. Visit the website Sales & Events page for a sample of in-store promotions http://www.premiumoutlets.com/allen
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CityArts Festival
Dallas
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Friday, 05/25/2012 thru Sunday, 05/27/2012
Come out Memorial Day weekend for three days of art-browsing, museum-visiting, water-dancing, music-playing, chef-cooking, wine-sipping, craft-making family fun.
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Dallas International Festival
Dallas
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Saturday, 05/26/2012
FREE Family Event. Celebrate Global DFW in the Dallas Arts District. Event will be help along Flora Street from Peral to Routh.
10:00AM – 7:00PM
The event will feature three global stages of music and dance, an international food court and marketplace, passport to international Dallas, interactive activities and Parade of Nations. Email president@dfwinternational or see website. http://www.dfwinternational.org
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Journeys Backyard Barbeque Tour
Grapevine
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Saturday, 05/26/2012
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Where: Grapevine Mills Mall
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Phone: 214-513-8994
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Journeys Backyard Barbeque Tour to rock Greater DFW with top XGames & Music Stars Free action sports & music fest national tour to hit area.
The best athletes in action sports, and the best new music artists will combine for a lifestyle event like no other as the Journeys Backyard Barbeque brings its national tour to the greater DFW area on Saturday, May 26 outside Grapevine Mills (3000 Grapevine Mills Parkway, Grapevine 76051). This free interactive event will hit 12 select cities, featuring live music performances and appearances by top action sports athletes. International pros, X Games legends, and the Metal Mulisha will fly through the air in gravity-defying demonstrations of the best of Skateboard, Freestyle Motocross and Wakeboard in a 60,000 square-foot “action sports playground” of ramps and jumps.
The tour’s mobile music stage will rock with top national bands, including P.O.D., in free live concerts throughout the day, paired with the best local alternative music artists competing in the “Converse Battle of the Bands” for cash prizes.Fans can also enjoy autograph sessions with athletes and bands, and free sponsor giveaways. Admission is FREE and open to all ages. Event hours are: Noon-7:00 p.m. For updated information visit: www.journeysbbq.com, or call 214-513-8994.
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GROSSOLOGY: THE (IMPOLITE) SCIENCE OF THE HUMAN BODY
Fort Worth
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Saturday, 02/18/2012 thru Monday, 09/03/2012
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Where: Fort Worth Museum of Science & History
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Sometimes it’s stinky; sometimes it’s crusty; and sometimes it’s slimy. Explore why your body produces mushy, oozy, crusty, scaly and stinky gunk at Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body during its appearance at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. Based on the best-selling book Grossology, this exhibition uses sophisticated animatronics and imaginative exhibits to tell you the good, the bad and the downright ugly about runny noses, body odor and much more. Grossology will drip, ooze and slime at the Museum beginning February 18, 2012.
Take a “Tour du Nose” to explore 10 nasal features, including how your snoot acts as an air filter, a smell sensor and a mucus producer. Play the pinball game “Gas Attack” by scoring off bumpers dressed up as food items that cause gas. Mimic the build up of acid indigestion by causing the “Burp Machine” to release a giant belch. Explore the role of the kidney in a virtual reality experience in “Urine: The Game.” Take a ride on the GI slide, climb a large-scale replica of human skin, and discover other mysterious ways your body’s biology does what it needs to do to keep you healthy.
Grossology is based on the award-winning book, Grossology, by author Sylvia Branzei. As a teacher, writer, curriculum designer and microbiologist, Branzei explains the concept of Grossology as a learning tool. “This is science in disguise,” she says. “If we teach students in their own words, they’ll understand better and actually learn something.” http://www.fwmsh.org
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Planet Shark: Predator or Prey
Dallas
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Thursday, 11/03/2011 thru Sunday, 09/16/2012
Massive exhibit to feature full-size models including an 18-foot Great White, fossils dating back 380 million years, ginormous jaws, thousands of teeth, interactive displays, Jaws® movie memorabilia and more, plus Sharks IMAX® film for the ultimate out-of-water shark experience
Featuring explanations and examinations of almost every aspect of the shark, from evolution and biology to popular culture and the fin trade, this massive traveling exhibition will guide visitors through the murky myths and fascinating facts that have surrounded sharks for centuries. To expand the experience, the popular IMAX® film SHARKS, presented by Jean-Michel Cousteau, also will open November 3 giving museum goers a chance to take a virtual journey underwater with the ocean’s oldest predator. As a special opportunity, the Museum of Nature & Science will offer the Twin Fin value package, which includes admission to the Planet Shark exhibit and SHARKS IMAX® film at discounted rates.
Created by Grande Exhibitions of Australia and spanning 12,000 square feet and five galleries, Planet Shark: Predator or Prey will feature displays of full-scale specimen models including an 18-foot Great White, row-after-row of rare fossils dating as far back as 380 million years, thousands of teeth and mega-sized jaws. Fascinating interview footage from shark attack survivors, images and other archives will be on view, plus movie memorabilia including original posters, props, dive cages and more from the 1975 classic Jaws.
“Planet Shark will offer an awe-inspiring look into the fascinating world of sharks and their aquatic environment,” said Steve Hinkley, director of education for the Museum of Nature & Science. “These mysterious, primitive creatures have a great deal to teach us – why we fear them, ways in which we are like them, and how we can help preserve their biome for future generations of shark admirers. Through hands-on interactive stations, incredible images and even a real preserved specimen, this huge exhibit will get visitors of all ages excited about seeing sharks in the safest place possible – on land.”
One of nature’s oldest and most feared creatures, the shark is also one of the most misunderstood. Fishing pressure and media misrepresentation have put many species of this magnificent animal under serious threat of total extinction. Planet Shark: Predator or Prey is a great educational step to help preserve these necessary apex predators. http://natureandscience.org
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Age of Impressionism: Great Paintings from the Clark
Fort Worth
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Sunday, 03/25/2012 thru Sunday, 06/17/2012
The Kimbell Art Museum is the sole American venue for this first-ever international touring exhibition of the renowned Impressionist collection of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The 73 paintings in the exhibition include 21 Renoirs and six Monets, along with works by Degas, Manet, Pissarro, Sisley, Morisot, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, and other prominent French painters of the period. Among them are some of the most familiar masterpieces of the Impressionist era. http://www.kimbellart.org
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Animal Feedings
Arlington
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Tuesday, 01/17/2012 thru Friday, 12/28/2012
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Where: River Legacy Living Science Center
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Phone: 817-860-6752
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Free – On going, 4PM Fridays
703 NW Green Oaks Boulevard
Watch the snakes and turtles being fed. Stay for Questions and answers http://www.riverlegacy.org
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Animal Super Heros
McKinney
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Monday, 01/09/2012 thru Monday, 06/04/2012
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Where: Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary
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Phone: 972-562-5566
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9AM – 5PM. Heard Wildlife Museum and Animal Sancuary, 1 Nature Place, McKinney, TX 75069 . CLOSED MONDAYS
Admission tickets can be purchassed on line or at Museum.
They glide, they climb, they slither and scamper! Meet the animals of the Heard. Learn their stories; see the drama of their lives and what has led each and every one of them to adopt the alter-ego they use in public. Uncover their superpower and the radical adaptation behind it. Expose the identity of the villain in their lives and which weakness that villain would use against them!
Up in the sky, look: It’s a bird. It’s a bat! Wait, it’s “Pippin” the Flying Squirrel ready to lead you into high-flying adventures as part of the Animal Superheroes exhibit. http://www.heardmuseum.org/
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Cowtown Opry
Fort Worth
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Sunday, 02/12/2012 thru Sunday, 12/23/2012
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Where: Live Stock Exchange Building
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Phone: 817-366-9675
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Free – Sunday at 2pm on the steps of the historic Livestock Exchange Bldg., located at 131 East Exchange Ave., in the Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District. Verify schedules and times at the above web site.
Cowtown Opry is dedicated to promoting and performing Texas heritage music. http://www.cowtownopry.org
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Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial
Fort Worth
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Monday, 05/21/2012 thru Sunday, 05/27/2012
The Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial is a golf tournament in Fort Worth, Texas. It is commonly known as the Colonial Golf Tournament. The new name came from a 6-year sponsorship contract that Crowne Plaza signed with the tournament. Prior to that Bank of America had been the title sponsor of the tournament. The Colonial has been played since 1946. It is well known, even to casual golf fans, because of the distinctive red plaid jacket that is awarded to the winner.
The Colonial is an invitational golf tournament, which means that all of the players who participate are invited to play. It has been played on luxurious Colonial Country Club for many years, and is one of the few tournaments that did not changes courses over its history. Colonial is a par 70 course that measures just over 7,000 yards in length. The tournament is a normal stroke play event, with the winner being the player who cards the lowest score over 72 holes. They do play a playoff if more than one player is tied after 72 holes.
The Colonial Golf Tournament has a long and distinguished list of champions. Winners of the Colonial include: Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Billy Casper, Lee Trevino, Ben Crenshaw, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson and Phil Mickleson. In fact Hogan, Casper and Crenshaw were some of the multiple time winners of this distinguished tournament. So buy your Colonial Golf Tournament tickets today and get out to see this great golf event!
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Dale Chihuly Exhibit
Dallas
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Saturday, 05/05/2012 thru Monday, 11/05/2012
Renowned artist, Dale Chihuly, brings his dramatic sculptures and installations to the Dallas Arboretum May 5 – Nov. 5, 2012. The award-winning, 66-acre garden will display Chihuly’s transformative contemporary glass sculptures and installations.
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Encountering Space
Dallas
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Saturday, 09/25/2010 thru Friday, 08/31/2012
Encountering Space presents works of art from the Museum collections and asks visitors to consider how space is used to invite engagement, raise questions, and create meaning. As viewers begin to encounter works of art this way, they are no longer passive observers but active participants. http://www.dallasmuseumofart.org
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Evenings on Oak Street
Roanoke
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Thursday, 03/08/2012 thru Thursday, 10/25/2012
FREE concerts @ Austin Street Plaza, 221 N. Oak Street, every 2nd and 4th Thursday during the season. Check above website for list of performances and to verify schedule.
Evenings on Oak Street is a free concert series located at Austin Street Plaza in historic downtown Roanoke. The beautiful new Plaza area includes a covered stage, landscaped green space, picnic area, restrooms and parking area. Come join us for a relaxing Evening on Oak Street. Bring your friends and neighbors, grab a blanket, chairs and a cooler and enjoy a picnic, or enjoy dinner before or after the concert in the Unique Dining Capital of Texas. http://www.roanoketexas.com
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Fabled Journeys in Asian Art: South and Southeast Asia
Dallas
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Saturday, 01/01/2011 thru Sunday, 08/05/2012
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First Monday Trade
Weatherford
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Saturday, 02/04/2012 thru Saturday, 12/01/2012
Corner of Santa Fe Drive & 180 Hwy S @ the 200 Block of Santa Fe Drive
First Monday Trade Days is an open air market that is held the weekend before the first Monday of each month. There are over 500 vendor spaces for visitors to enjoy shopping for unique gifts food crafts antiques and more. First Monday Trade Days is a time honored tradition. One of the oldest flea markets in Texas. It dates back to the turn of the 20th century. http://www.ci.weatherford.tx.us
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For Love of Russell
Fort Worth
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Saturday, 10/22/2011 thru Saturday, 10/13/2012
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Where: Sid Richardson Museum, 309 Main St.
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Phone: 888-332-6554
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On every second Saturday at 1:00 p.m., a tour of the collection is scheduled, followed by “For Love of Russell,” an 18-minute, original live performance by a docent dressed as Nancy Cooper Russell, wife of Charles M. Russell, recalling colorful stories from the artist’s lifetime (1864-1926). On every fourth Saturday at 1:00 p.m., trained docents lead tours of the collection. Admission and tours are free. http://www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org
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Fort Worth Opera Festival
Fort Worth
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Saturday, 05/12/2012 thru Sunday, 06/03/2012
Each spring, the Fort Worth Opera Festival showcases some of the best productions in the nation. http://www.fwopera.org
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Glenn Ligon: America
Fort Worth
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Sunday, 02/12/2012 thru Sunday, 06/03/2012
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Where: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
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Phone: 817-738-9215
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Glenn Ligon: AMERICA is the first comprehensive, mid-career retrospective of Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), widely regarded as one of the most important and influential American artists to have emerged in the past two decades. Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and curator Scott Rothkopf, in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition surveys 25 years of Ligon’s work, from his student days until the present. The exhibition features roughly 100 works, including paintings, prints, photography, drawings, and sculptural installations, as well as the artist’s recent, striking neon reliefs. The retrospective also debuts previously unexhibited early works, which shed light on Ligon’s artistic origins, and for the first time reconstitutes major series within his work, such as the seminal Door paintings that launched his career. http://www.themodern.org
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Scarborough Renaissance Festival
Waxahachie
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Saturday, 04/07/2012 thru Monday, 05/28/2012
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Where: I-35E South, Exit 399 A
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Phone: 972-938-3247
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16th Century themed festival with 10 entertainment stages, hundreds of performers, full combat jousting, falconery, music, and artisan demonstrations. Saturdays & Sundays and Memorial Day.
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SCHOLASTIC’S THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS™ KICKS UP A STORM
Dallas
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Saturday, 04/28/2012 thru Sunday, 09/09/2012
SCHOLASTIC’S THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS™ KICKS UP A STORM
April 28 – September 9, 2012
MNS Science Building (1318 S. 2nd Ave.)
Opens April 28! Buckle up and get ready for a wild weather ride! Scholastic’s The Magic School Bus™ Kicks Up a Storm is a fun, interactive look at weather that kids will never forget. This bilingual, hands-on traveling exhibit is based on the best-selling Scholastics books and popular television show. Kids will actually get to climb around The Magic School Bus™ and visit Mrs. Frizzle’s classroom. They’ll experience Weather Observatory and go inside the Walkerville Weather Center.
Through three interactive environments, visitors can explore the water cycle and its relation to weather and how influences from air, heat, water and land combine to affect the atmosphere. April 28 – September 9, 2012
MNS Science Building (1318 S. 2nd Ave.)
Opens April 28! Buckle up and get ready for a wild weather ride! Scholastic’s The Magic School Bus™ Kicks Up a Storm is a fun, interactive look at weather that kids will never forget. This bilingual, hands-on traveling exhibit is based on the best-selling Scholastics books and popular television show. Kids will actually get to climb around The Magic School Bus™ and visit Mrs. Frizzle’s classroom. They’ll experience Weather Observatory and go inside the Walkerville Weather Center.
Through three interactive environments, visitors can explore the water cycle and its relation to weather and how influences from air, heat, water and land combine to affect the atmosphere. http://www.natureandscience.org
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Story Time
Grand Prairie
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Tuesday, 01/24/2012 thru Tuesday, 12/18/2012
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Where: Bowles Branch Library
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Phone: 972-237-7540
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FREE @ 11:00AM – On going most Tuesdays. Verify times and titles at above phone number or website.
Toddlers, preschoolers and their grownups are invited to join us for stories, songs, and crafts. http://www.gptx.org/
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Story Time - Ages 3 to 5
Cedar Hill
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Sunday, 01/22/2012 thru Wednesday, 12/19/2012
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Where: Zula B. Wylie Public Library
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Phone: 972-291-7323
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225 Cedar St, Cedar Hill, TX 75104
FREE – Story time 3 years to 5 years. On going all year. Please verify dates and times at above phone number before attending http://www.cedarhilltx.com
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Story Time and Crafts - 18 months to 3 years
Cedar Hill
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Friday, 01/20/2012 thru Monday, 12/24/2012
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Where: Zula B. Wylie Public Library
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Phone: 972-291-7323
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225 Cedar St, Cedar Hill, TX 75104
FREE – Story time and Crafts for 18 months to 3 years. On going all year. Please verify dates and times at above phone number before attending http://www.cedarhilltx.com/
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Texas Art History Series
McKinney
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Wednesday, 04/04/2012 thru Wednesday, 08/01/2012
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Where: 205 W. Hunt Street
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Phone: 972-569-6909
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The first Wednesday of every month, this lunchtime lecture series with art historian/artist Annie Royer will profile the story of art and artists in Texas at the historic Heard-Craig Houe’s carriage house. http://www.heardcraig.org
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The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection at the Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas
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Friday, 10/30/2009 thru Thursday, 10/30/2014
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Where: Third Floor, Dallas Museum of Art
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Phone: 214-922-1200
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Visit the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection on the Museum’s third floor, which is acclaimed for its many important Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works of art. Twenty-five years ago, the Dallas Museum of Art received a one-of-a-kind gift of more than 1,400 works authorized by Wendy Reves in honor of her late husband, Emery Reves. In addition to Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and modern paintings, it included sculptures, works on paper, and decorative arts objects, all of which are displayed in a recreation of the Reves’s Riviera home, Villa La Pausa. This spectacular bequest transformed the DMA’s collection of late 19th century French art and her donation of European decorative arts founded the institution’s collection in that area. http://www.DallasMuseumofArt.org
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Thursday Twilight Tunes
Denton
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Thursday, 05/03/2012 thru Thursday, 06/28/2012
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Where: Historic Downtown Denton, 110 W. Hickory
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Phone: 940-349-8529
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Thursday nights in May and June are rockin’ at Twilight Tunes – a free concert held on the Denton County Courthouse-on-the-Square lawn. Concerts feature many talented, local bands from Denton and the Dallas/Fort Worth area playing everthing from rock to jazz to country and blues. Bring a blanket or chair, grab a meal to go from any of the downtown eateries and enjoy a relaxing evening of live music. Concerts take place every Thursday in May and June from 6:30 – 8 p.m.. http://www.dentonmainstreet.org
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Twilight Tunes
Denton
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Thursday, 05/03/2012 thru Thursday, 06/28/2012
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Where: Denton Courthouse Square, 110 W. Hickory
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Phone: 940-349-8529
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Local musicians perform every Thursday evening from on the lawn of the Historic Denton County Courthouse on the Square in downtown Denton. (Rain Location TBA) FREE http://www.dentonmainstreet.org
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Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties
Dallas
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Sunday, 03/04/2012 thru Sunday, 05/27/2012
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Where: Dallas Museum of Art
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Phone: 21-922-1200
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Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties is the first wide-ranging examination of American fine art from the end of World War I through the start of the Great Depression. This nationally touring exhibition, featuring more than 130 works of painting, sculpture, and photography by more than sixty-five artists, will demonstrate how American artists of the period embraced a progressive, idealized realism visible in a resurgence of figuration and in highly distilled images of American places and things. Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, Youth and Beauty will include three works from the DMA’s collections.
The 1920s—“The Jazz Age,” “The Roaring Twenties”—was a decade marked by widespread urbanization, industrialization and mechanization, and social phenomena including the postwar collapse of traditional ideals, the rampant materialism of the Calvin Coolidge era, and the collision of rural and urban environments. American life was dramatically transformed, and American artists responded to this dizzying modern world with works that emphatically demonstrate a desire for clarity and wholeness and for the expression of stillness and order.
The thorough integration of painting, sculpture, and photography throughout the exhibition, and the critical attention devoted to a broad array of artists, from such leading figures as Georgia O’Keeffe, Thomas Hart Benton, Alfred Stieglitz, Charles Sheeler, Imogen Cunningham, and Man Ray, to lesser-known artists including Margrethe Mather, George Ault, Aaron Douglas, Elsie Driggs, and Peter Blume, will illuminate common themes and shared characteristics. Works of art in the DMA’s collections featured in Youth and Beauty include Lighthouse Hill by Edward Hopper, Bather with Cigarette by Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Razor by Gerald Murphy.
Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, co-published by the Brooklyn Museum and Skira Rizzoli, featuring essays by the exhibition’s organizing curator, Teresa A. Carbone, the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art and Managing Curator, Arts of the Americas and Europe at the Brooklyn Museum; Dr. Sarah M. Lowe, a leading historian of modernist photography; Dr. Bonnie Costello, Professor of English, Boston University; and Dr. Randall R. Griffey, Curator of American Art, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College. The curator of the Dallas presentation is Dr. Heather MacDonald, The Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of European Art. http://www.dallasmuseumofart.org/View/FutureExhibitions/dma_384640
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