Irving Arts Center September-October Calendar
Performances, exhibitions and family activities at IAC during September and October 2019.
Performances, exhibitions and family activities at IAC during September and October 2019.
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SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER<br />
IACHAPPENINGS<br />
<strong>Irving</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Center</strong><br />
3333 N. MacArthur Blvd.<br />
<strong>Irving</strong>, TX 75062<br />
Smithsonian Affiliate<br />
Taj Express:<br />
A BOLLYWOOD<br />
MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA<br />
ArcAttack! Engineering<br />
SEPTEMBER 27<br />
9:30 AND 11:30 AM<br />
Part rock concert and part science<br />
experiment, the crew of ArcAttack use<br />
their high tech wizardry to generate an<br />
electrifying performance featuring the<br />
original singing Tesla coils. In this<br />
engaging show, audience members will<br />
have the opportunity to help the<br />
ArcAttack band fix their broken down<br />
instruments.<br />
Taj Express: A Bollywood<br />
Musical Extravaganza<br />
OCTOBER 18 • 7:30 PM<br />
Experience a fusion of film, dance and<br />
music in a spectacular celebration of<br />
India’s Bollywood culture. Choreographed<br />
by one of Bollywood’s top young<br />
choreographers, Vaibhavi Merchant and<br />
directed by Shruti Merchant.<br />
TICKETS: <strong>Irving</strong><strong>Arts</strong><strong>Center</strong>.com<br />
Box Office: 972-252-ARTS<br />
<strong>Irving</strong>arts<br />
<strong>Irving</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Center</strong>.com<br />
3333 N. MacArthur Blvd.<br />
<strong>Irving</strong>, TX, 75062<br />
Open 7 days a week • Free parking<br />
Smithsonian<br />
© <strong>Irving</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Center</strong> 2019
IN IN THE GTHE A L LA ET RIES E RS @ IA I A C<br />
Enter the public and private<br />
worlds of Billie Holliday,<br />
through the poignant, beautiful<br />
photographs of Jerry Dantzic.<br />
SOME ILLUSTRATOR: PICTURES<br />
BY MELISSA SWEET<br />
<strong>September</strong> 7 - January 26<br />
Dupree Lobby<br />
Melissa Sweet is an American illustrator and<br />
writer of children’s books. She has won several<br />
awards for her illustrations, most notably a<br />
Caldecott Honor in 2009 for A River of Words:<br />
The Story of William Carlos Williams and in 2015<br />
for The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus.<br />
ARCATTACK! ENGINEERING / SEPT 27 MS. MATURE IRVING PAGEANT 2019 / OCT 4 THE KINGDOM CHOIR / OCT 11 TAJ EXPRESS: THE BOLLYWOOD MUSICAL REVUE<br />
OCT 18<br />
<strong>September</strong><br />
<strong>September</strong> 8<br />
CLASSICAL BOLLYWOOD:<br />
A FUNDRAISER EVENT, RADHA<br />
KRISHNA TEMPLE & JKYOG<br />
1:45 PM<br />
<strong>September</strong> 13<br />
GULZAR IN CONCERT<br />
Presented by the Kindness<br />
Abroad Foundation<br />
6:30 PM<br />
<strong>September</strong> 13-28<br />
THE ROYAL DILEMMA<br />
Mainstage<br />
(In Partnership with Think India)<br />
<strong>September</strong> 18<br />
AN EVENING WITH<br />
NEWT GINGRICH<br />
Presented by American<br />
Private Radio and 660<br />
The Answer<br />
7:00 PM<br />
<strong>September</strong> 21<br />
A PATH OF HOPE AND COURAGE<br />
ART EXPO<br />
Benefits the <strong>Irving</strong> Family Advocacy <strong>Center</strong><br />
1-5 PM<br />
<strong>September</strong> 27<br />
ARCATTACK!<br />
ENGINEERING<br />
Presented by<br />
<strong>Irving</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Center</strong><br />
9:30 AM and 11:30 AM<br />
<strong>September</strong> 14-November 17<br />
<strong>September</strong> 28<br />
Main Gallery DOUBLE TROUBLE<br />
Presented by NGM<br />
This exhibition features vivid and intimate photographic portraits of<br />
Entertainment<br />
one of the 20th century’s most iconic, significant artists:<br />
8 PM<br />
the consummate jazz and blues singer Billie Holiday.<br />
An Evening With Author/Archivist <strong>September</strong> Grayson 29 Dantzic -<br />
Behind The Scenes of Jerry<br />
MEET<br />
Dantzic:<br />
ME ON THE<br />
Billie<br />
MEADOWS<br />
Holiday At Sugar Hill<br />
Presented by Kathak Rhythms<br />
Reception: 6:30 PM • Lecture: 7:30 PM • Book Signing: 8:30 PM<br />
4 PM<br />
Grayson Dantzic will share behind-the-scenes anecdotes and images<br />
from his 20 year process of developing his recent book, “Jerry Dantzic:<br />
<strong>September</strong> 14 Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill.” Dantzic's publication of his late father's work<br />
BALLET FOLKLORICO serves MAYAHUEL<br />
as the inspiration and companion book for “Billie Holiday At Sugar<br />
presented by Dallas-Mexico Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic.” This major Smithsonian Institution's<br />
Casa Guanajuato Traveling Exhibition Service [SITES] exhibition has the honor and<br />
7:30 PM<br />
distinction of launching its four year tour at <strong>Irving</strong> Art <strong>Center</strong> in<br />
<strong>September</strong> 2019.<br />
<strong>October</strong><br />
<strong>October</strong> The Right 4Word - Roget and His Thesaurus,<br />
Melissa Sweet<br />
MS. MATURE IRVING PAGEANT 2019<br />
5 PM<br />
<strong>October</strong> 5<br />
MOXIE MISCHIEF AERIAL ARTS 2019<br />
1:30 PM and 5 PM<br />
<strong>October</strong> 5<br />
PECOS RIVER BRASS<br />
Entertainment Series of <strong>Irving</strong><br />
7:30 PM<br />
Sandhya Tandar, Rahul Vyas<br />
<strong>October</strong> 11<br />
THE TRADITIONAL KINGDOM CHOIR &<br />
Presented CONTEMPORARY by <strong>Irving</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Center</strong> INDIAN ART<br />
7:30 <strong>September</strong> PM 14 – November 10<br />
Focus Gallery<br />
<strong>October</strong> Co-curated 12 by Deepa Koshaley and Linda<br />
THE Shotwell, MICHAEL this exhibition WALKER showcases North<br />
PROJECT-SMOOTH Texas artists working JAZZ in both traditional and<br />
<strong>Irving</strong> contemporary Black <strong>Arts</strong> methods, Council inspired by the<br />
7:30 culture, PM themes and imagery of India.<br />
<strong>October</strong> 12<br />
YOUSOF HAKEMY CONCERT<br />
8 PM<br />
<strong>October</strong> 13<br />
MUSIC AND MYTHOLOGY<br />
New Philharmonic Orchestra of <strong>Irving</strong><br />
3:30 PM<br />
Jawbone Canyon Looking West,<br />
Sparky Campanella<br />
Rhythm, Madhu Priya<br />
A National <strong>Center</strong> for Children’s Illustrated<br />
Literature (NCCIL) traveling exhibition.<br />
<strong>October</strong> 18<br />
TAJ EXPRESS: A BOLLYWOOD<br />
MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA<br />
Presented by <strong>Irving</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Center</strong><br />
7:30 PM<br />
<strong>October</strong> 19<br />
LAS COLINAS<br />
SYMPHONY<br />
ORCHESTRA<br />
SARA<br />
DANESHPOUR,<br />
PIANO<br />
Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra<br />
7:30 PM<br />
Toad on a Wet Sprocket, Steve Danner<br />
2019 IAA TRAVELING ANIMAL<br />
<strong>October</strong> 20<br />
ART EXHIBIT<br />
ISB CELEBRATE WITH MUSIC<br />
<strong>October</strong><br />
<strong>Irving</strong> Symphonic<br />
5 - January<br />
Band<br />
12<br />
Courtyard<br />
3 PM<br />
Gallery<br />
Featuring award-winning artwork and other<br />
curated selections by area artists from <strong>Irving</strong><br />
<strong>October</strong> 20<br />
Art Association’s annual Animal Art<br />
TAP PERFORMANCE BY RHYTHMIC<br />
Competition & Exhibition.<br />
SOULS TAP COMPANY<br />
12:30 PM and 3:30 PM<br />
HORIZONS: SPARKY CAMPANELLA<br />
<strong>October</strong> 26<br />
<strong>September</strong> 14 – November 10<br />
ISO OPENING NIGHT<br />
Carpenter Lobby<br />
WITH DANIEL EMMETT<br />
Los Angeles-based photographer Sparky Campanella’s<br />
<strong>Irving</strong> Symphony Orchestra<br />
large-scale landscapes are an evocative take on the<br />
7:30 PM<br />
ever-shifting complementarity of civilization and nature.<br />
His horizon series breaks rank with many other<br />
contemporary landscape photographers by taking two<br />
elements that are often portrayed at odds – the man-made<br />
and the natural – and offering them as harmonious.<br />
FREE DROP-IN GALLERY TOURS<br />
GALLERY HOURS:<br />
are offered Thursday @ 6:30 PM<br />
9 AM – 5 PM Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday<br />
BILLIE HOLIDAY AT SUGAR HILL: PHOTOGRAPHS BY JERRY DANTZIC<br />
and Sunday @ 2:30 PM.<br />
9 AM – 8 PM Thursday<br />
is an exhibition organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling<br />
(No tours scheduled 9/1 & 9/5)<br />
10 AM – 5 PM Saturday<br />
Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Jerry Dantzic Archives.<br />
1 – 5 PM Sunday<br />
All photographs FOR © A 2018 FULL Jerry Dantzic LISTING / Jerry Dantzic Archives. OF EVENTS All rights reserved. AND TO BUY TICKETS: <strong>Irving</strong><strong>Arts</strong><strong>Center</strong>.com • Box Office: Open 972-252-ARTS<br />
7 days a week • Free parking<br />
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IN GALLERIES In IN the THE THEATERS @ IAC<br />
Enter the public and private<br />
worlds of Billie Holliday,<br />
through the poignant, beautiful<br />
photographs of Jerry Dantzic.<br />
SOME ILLUSTRATOR: PICTURES<br />
BY MELISSA SWEET<br />
<strong>September</strong> 7 - January 26<br />
Dupree Lobby<br />
Melissa Sweet is an American illustrator and<br />
writer of children’s books. She has won several<br />
awards for her illustrations, most notably a<br />
Caldecott Honor in 2009 for A River of Words:<br />
The Story of William Carlos Williams and in 2015<br />
for The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus.<br />
<strong>September</strong><br />
<strong>September</strong> 8<br />
CLASSICAL BOLLYWOOD:<br />
A FUNDRAISER EVENT, RADHA<br />
KRISHNA TEMPLE & JKYOG<br />
1:45 PM<br />
<strong>September</strong> 13<br />
GULZAR IN CONCERT<br />
Presented by the Kindness<br />
Abroad Foundation<br />
6:30 PM<br />
<strong>September</strong> 13-28<br />
THE ROYAL DILEMMA<br />
Mainstage<br />
(In Partnership with Think India)<br />
<strong>September</strong> 18<br />
AN EVENING WITH<br />
NEWT GINGRICH<br />
Presented by American<br />
Private Radio and 660<br />
The Answer<br />
7:00 PM<br />
<strong>September</strong> 14-November 17<br />
Main Gallery<br />
<strong>September</strong> 21<br />
A PATH OF HOPE AND COURAGE<br />
ART EXPO<br />
Benefits the <strong>Irving</strong> Family Advocacy <strong>Center</strong><br />
1-5 PM<br />
<strong>September</strong> 27<br />
ARCATTACK!<br />
ENGINEERING<br />
Presented by<br />
<strong>Irving</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Center</strong><br />
9:30 AM and 11:30 AM<br />
<strong>September</strong> 28<br />
DOUBLE TROUBLE<br />
Presented by NGM<br />
This exhibition features vivid and intimate photographic portraits of<br />
Entertainment<br />
one of the 20th century’s most iconic, significant artists:<br />
8 PM<br />
the consummate jazz and blues singer Billie Holiday.<br />
An Evening With Author/Archivist <strong>September</strong> Grayson 29 Dantzic -<br />
Behind The Scenes of Jerry<br />
MEET<br />
Dantzic:<br />
ME ON THE<br />
Billie<br />
MEADOWS<br />
Holiday At Sugar Hill<br />
Presented by Kathak Rhythms<br />
Reception: 6:30 PM • Lecture: 7:30 PM • Book Signing: 8:30 PM<br />
4 PM<br />
Grayson Dantzic will share behind-the-scenes anecdotes and images<br />
from his 20 year process of developing his recent book, “Jerry Dantzic:<br />
<strong>September</strong> 14 Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill.” Dantzic's publication of his late father's work<br />
BALLET FOLKLORICO serves MAYAHUEL<br />
as the inspiration and companion book for “Billie Holiday At Sugar<br />
presented by Dallas-Mexico Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic.” This major Smithsonian Institution's<br />
Casa Guanajuato Traveling Exhibition Service [SITES] exhibition has the honor and<br />
7:30 PM<br />
distinction of launching its four year tour at <strong>Irving</strong> Art <strong>Center</strong> in<br />
<strong>September</strong> 2019.<br />
<strong>October</strong><br />
<strong>October</strong> The Right 4Word - Roget and His Thesaurus,<br />
Melissa Sweet<br />
MS. MATURE IRVING PAGEANT 2019<br />
5 PM<br />
<strong>October</strong> 5<br />
MOXIE MISCHIEF AERIAL ARTS 2019<br />
1:30 PM and 5 PM<br />
<strong>October</strong> 5<br />
PECOS RIVER BRASS<br />
Entertainment Series of <strong>Irving</strong><br />
7:30 PM<br />
Sandhya Tandar, Rahul Vyas<br />
<strong>October</strong> 11<br />
THE TRADITIONAL KINGDOM CHOIR &<br />
Presented CONTEMPORARY by <strong>Irving</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Center</strong> INDIAN ART<br />
7:30 <strong>September</strong> PM 14 – November 10<br />
Focus Gallery<br />
<strong>October</strong> Co-curated 12 by Deepa Koshaley and Linda<br />
THE Shotwell, MICHAEL this exhibition WALKER showcases North<br />
PROJECT-SMOOTH Texas artists working JAZZ in both traditional and<br />
<strong>Irving</strong> contemporary Black <strong>Arts</strong> methods, Council inspired by the<br />
7:30 culture, PM themes and imagery of India.<br />
<strong>October</strong> 12<br />
YOUSOF HAKEMY CONCERT<br />
8 PM<br />
Jawbone Canyon Looking West,<br />
Sparky Campanella<br />
Rhythm, Madhu Priya<br />
<strong>October</strong> 13<br />
MUSIC AND MYTHOLOGY<br />
New Philharmonic Orchestra of <strong>Irving</strong><br />
3:30 PM<br />
A National <strong>Center</strong> for Children’s Illustrated<br />
Literature (NCCIL) traveling exhibition.<br />
ARCATTACK! ENGINEERING / SEPT 27 MS. MATURE IRVING PAGEANT 2019 / OCT 4 THE KINGDOM CHOIR / OCT 11 TAJ EXPRESS: A BOLLYWOOD MUSICAL<br />
EXTRAVAGANZA / OCT 18<br />
<strong>October</strong> 18<br />
TAJ EXPRESS: A BOLLYWOOD<br />
MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA<br />
Presented by <strong>Irving</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Center</strong><br />
7:30 PM<br />
<strong>October</strong> 19<br />
LAS COLINAS<br />
SYMPHONY<br />
ORCHESTRA<br />
SARA<br />
DANESHPOUR,<br />
PIANO<br />
Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra<br />
7:30 PM<br />
Toad on a Wet Sprocket, Steve Danner<br />
2019 IAA TRAVELING ANIMAL<br />
<strong>October</strong> 20<br />
ART EXHIBIT<br />
ISB CELEBRATE WITH MUSIC<br />
<strong>October</strong><br />
<strong>Irving</strong> Symphonic<br />
5 - January<br />
Band<br />
12<br />
Courtyard<br />
3 PM<br />
Gallery<br />
Featuring award-winning artwork and other<br />
curated selections by area artists from <strong>Irving</strong><br />
<strong>October</strong> 20<br />
Art Association’s annual Animal Art<br />
TAP PERFORMANCE BY RHYTHMIC<br />
Competition & Exhibition.<br />
SOULS TAP COMPANY<br />
12:30 PM and 3:30 PM<br />
HORIZONS: SPARKY CAMPANELLA<br />
<strong>October</strong> 26<br />
<strong>September</strong> 14 – November 10<br />
ISO OPENING NIGHT<br />
Carpenter Lobby<br />
WITH DANIEL EMMETT<br />
Los Angeles-based photographer Sparky Campanella’s<br />
<strong>Irving</strong> Symphony Orchestra<br />
large-scale landscapes are an evocative take on the<br />
7:30 PM<br />
ever-shifting complementarity of civilization and nature.<br />
His horizon series breaks rank with many other<br />
contemporary landscape photographers by taking two<br />
elements that are often portrayed at odds – the man-made<br />
and the natural – and offering them as harmonious.<br />
FREE DROP-IN GALLERY TOURS<br />
GALLERY HOURS:<br />
are offered Thursday @ 6:30 PM<br />
9 AM – 5 PM Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday<br />
BILLIE HOLIDAY AT SUGAR HILL: PHOTOGRAPHS BY JERRY DANTZIC<br />
is an exhibition organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling<br />
and Sunday @ 2:30 PM.<br />
9 AM – 8 PM Thursday<br />
Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Jerry Dantzic Archives.<br />
(No tours scheduled 9/1 & 9/5)<br />
10 AM – 5 PM Saturday<br />
1 – 5 PM Sunday<br />
All photographs FOR © A 2018 FULL Jerry Dantzic LISTING / Jerry Dantzic Archives. OF EVENTS All rights reserved. AND TO BUY TICKETS: <strong>Irving</strong><strong>Arts</strong><strong>Center</strong>.com • Box Office: Open 972-252-ARTS<br />
7 days a week • Free parking<br />
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Youth & Family<br />
Fun!<br />
Second Sunday Funday<br />
1 - 4 PM • Free<br />
Hands-on art-making activities and special<br />
docent led tours of current exhibitions, all<br />
designed for an afternoon of family fun!<br />
<strong>September</strong> 8 – Paint It!<br />
Grab a paintbrush and “go with the flow”<br />
creating some cool, colorful compositions.<br />
<strong>October</strong> 13 – Animals, Animals<br />
Everywhere!<br />
Join us for art-making activities<br />
celebrating creatures great and small,<br />
furry to feathered, wild to cuddly.<br />
JumpstART Stories & Art<br />
1st Thursday of every month<br />
10 AM • Free<br />
Join us for this creative story time that<br />
combines children’s literature and arts<br />
& crafts. For ages 2 and up.<br />
<strong>September</strong> 5 – Jump Into Fall!<br />
Apples, pumpkins, and falling leaves!<br />
Stories and art will celebrate autumn.<br />
<strong>October</strong> 3 – ¡Celebramos!<br />
Hispanic Heritage Month!<br />
Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage<br />
Month with a special bilingual story time<br />
and arts & crafts activities celebrating<br />
Hispanic culture.<br />
HomeschoolER<br />
Happenings:<br />
Inspired Illustrations<br />
<strong>September</strong> 25 • 10 AM – 12 PM<br />
Join us for a new season of<br />
Homeschooler Happenings!<br />
Our first meeting will focus on the<br />
exhibition, Some Illustrator! Pictures by<br />
Melissa Sweet. A tour of the exhibition<br />
will be followed by in depth art<br />
explorations into creating our own<br />
illustrations of inspirational characters<br />
and moments. Leave with your own<br />
handmade book of your creations.<br />
$3 PER STUDENT.<br />
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED<br />
AS SPACE IS LIMITED.<br />
Register online at<br />
www.<strong>Irving</strong><strong>Arts</strong><strong>Center</strong>.com or<br />
call 972.252.2787<br />
<strong>Irving</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Center</strong>’s<br />
SaturdaySchool<br />
2019-2020<br />
Classes meet Saturdays in the <strong>Irving</strong><br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Center</strong>’s ART LAB, 2 - 4 p.m.<br />
for ages 6 -10.<br />
Tuition is $75 per session;<br />
Art Connection members with a Smithsonian<br />
Affiliate/Family and above membership<br />
receive a 10% discount.<br />
Session One<br />
OCT. 12 – NOV. 16, 2019<br />
Animals in Art: A Mixed<br />
Media Safari<br />
Students will create art inspired by animals,<br />
real and imaginary, in a variety of 2D and 3D<br />
media including drawing, painting, collage<br />
and clay. Instructor: Sheila Cunningham<br />
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES<br />
Every Monday starting <strong>September</strong> 16<br />
12- 1:30 PM • Free<br />
Lunch and Learn is an informal adult education program that<br />
meets weekly to discuss art topics that tie into current<br />
exhibitions/visual arts programming at <strong>Irving</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Center</strong><br />
Videos, PowerPoint lectures, peer presentations and guest<br />
speakers are some of the activities offered. Participants are<br />
encouraged to bring their lunch, relax and join the conversation.<br />
GET INVOLVED<br />
IN IRVING<br />
Sept. 10<br />
6-8 PM<br />
Join us for fun and<br />
prizes as over 30<br />
<strong>Irving</strong> non-profits<br />
showcase their<br />
volunteer<br />
opportunities.<br />
Food will be available<br />
for purchase from local<br />
food trucks.<br />
COME JOIN<br />
OUR<br />
GROWING<br />
DOCENT<br />
PROGRAM!<br />
REGISTER EARLY!<br />
CLASS SIZES ARE LIMITED!<br />
Register online at<br />
www.<strong>Irving</strong><strong>Arts</strong><strong>Center</strong>.com<br />
or call 972.252.2787.<br />
Enjoy talking about art, being around art, and learning about different artists?<br />
THEN THIS IS A GREAT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU!<br />
Contact <strong>Arts</strong><strong>Center</strong>Volunteers@cityofirving.org for more info.<br />
School is cool!<br />
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