ISSUE Magazine – May 2016
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Listen To Your Mother
Storytelling event set for April 29-30 The third annual Southeast Texas “Listen to Your Mother” show has selected local writers to share their personal stories on stage April 29 and 30, at the Betty Greenberg Center for Performing Arts. “Our production of Listen To Your Mother will feature heartfelt, hilarious, and inspirational live readings from
Around & About
The Beaumont Art League will host its 3D, Classic Nude and Portrait show, May 7 through May 21. Winners will be announced at the opening reception, May 13, 7 pm to 9 pm. A maximum of three entries per artist will be accepted per artist. Entry fee for BAL members is $10 per entry; non-members
21st-century archetypes
Printmaker Abelman’s project spans media Last December, printmaker Maurice Abelman asked me to put on a swimsuit and be covered with wheatpaste, plastic and paper to try out an idea he had about applying collaged trademarks and brands to the human form. The process took hours and I nearly froze upstairs at The Art Studio.
Maypole Festival set for May 7
The Moon and Stars Committee, a volunteer of friends to the Beaumont Council of Garden Clubs, has announced their 2016 Beaumont Maypole Festival. The second-annual festival will be held at the Beaumont Botanical Gardens May 7. “The Maypole was constructed in memory of Paula “Torchy” Salter to honor the loving, giving spirit she was and
Ad Hoc to present ‘Rooster’ play
Ad Hoc Beaumont will present “Year of the Rooster,” a mythical black comedy about love, underdogs and cockfighting, May 20 through June 4. Gil is a loser. He works at McDonald’s, lives with his ailing mother, and hasn’t had a girlfriend since…ever. But that’s all about to change. He’s been secretly training (and drugging) a rooster
Edwards takes top honors at TASIMJAE, earns solo show
TASIMJAE 2016, The Art Studio, Inc. Members Jurored Art Exhibition, showed 68 accepted works out of a field of 106 submitted entries, April 7. “It’s great to see the progress of artists you have known and seen over the years. It’s exciting to see what they’ve done and where their art is going,’ Greg Busceme,
High Street Gallery to host Fontenot’s ‘I Have Lived’
The High Street Gallery will host an exhibition of oil paintings by Elizabeth Fontenot, beginning 7-10 p.m., May 13. Fontenot is a native of Beaumont. She holds a BFA from Louisiana State University and an MFA from Lamar University. The artist currently works in Beaumont, and focuses on painting and printmaking media. The exhibition is
In Pursuit of Liberty, Poetry & Sex
‘William N. Copley: The World According to CPLY’ at Menil “My life is a quest for the ridiculous image. The visual pun is the golden nugget that we seek.” — William N. Copley A little boy is standing in a room – a typical bourgeois interior, with checkered blue and brown carpeting, cushy furniture and large
Hollywood acting coach to conduct workshops
BEAUMONT — Hollywood-based acting coach and author Chambers Stevens will return to Beaumont at the end of April for small-group intensive acting workshops, April 25-27, for adults and older teens. He will also teach a Disney 101 workshop for children and pre-teens and a 21st-Century Acting workshop for adults and teens on April 30. The