Aurora Picture Show 16mm Filmmaking Workshop

Aurora Picture Show

06.08.13

In this workshop students will learn to manipulate the surface of the film using a variety of direct filmmaking techniques: Painting, scratching and masking in order to create an experimental film

Dance from the Heart Workshop: Indian Gypsy Fusion

05.12.13

A sensual dance resembling the movement of a cobra will be the focus of this Dance from the Heart workshop with guest artist Patsy Doane Bucki. The workshop will focus on the dance of Kalbelia

Cultural treasure hunt

More than salsa: Concert series sets the record straight on Houston's Latino community

By Joel Luks

03.23.13 | 11:36 am

Salsa music isn't any more Latin than Taco Bells' Gorditas or Chalupas. Salsa is as Latin as Coca-Cola is American, meaning, they embrace traces of their respective lifeways without being a ...

Sacred to Profane: Spring 2013 Writers Workshops

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

03.23.13 - 05.18.13

The Spring 2013 MFAH Writers Workshops, led by celebrated author and poet Van G. Garrett and an MFAH Educator, take a cross-cultural and cross-temporal look at works in the museum's galleries o

Picasso's Studio: Hands-On Workshops

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

03.16.13 - 05.11.13

Together with the workshop leader and an MFAH educator, you will see and talk about a few works of art by Picasso in the exhibition Picasso Black and White, and then enter the studio at the MFAH Gl

Houston Arts Alliance's Folklife + Traditional Arts Program presents "¡UNO, DOS, TRES!: The Many Musics of Houston's Latino Community"

03.23.13 - 05.18.13

"Uno! Dos! Tres!: The Many Musics of Houston's Latino Community," presented in collaboration with Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts (MECA), Talento Bilingüe

Calendar Closeup

Your weekly guide to Houston: Five (plus) don't-miss events — with free Valentine's Day tips

By Joel Luks

02.05.13 | 12:14 pm

Smell that? Nope, it isn't the intoxicating aroma of Houston. Love's in the air. Valentine's Day is just around the corner. If you don't take care of business and make appropria ...

Digital Poetry Workshop: "Muse and the Fuse"

Aurora Picture Show

02.09.13

In honor of St. Valentine, participants in this hands-on multimedia workshop will marry text and film, writing and animating poems about love and life — or maybe shoehorns and refrigerators.

CultureMap Video Exclusive

Robert Wuhl spills his funniest secrets, opening up on new show, his UH love and screwball satire

By Joel Luks

01.29.13 | 7:24 am

Consider the many roles actor, comedian and writer Robert Wuhl has performed over his successful career. In Tim Burton's 1989 Batman, in the television series Arli$$, alongside Kevin Costn ...

MFAH onboard

Center offers controversial iPhone photography class, raising questions of what is art

By Joel Luks

01.23.13 | 12:27 pm

It used to be that to delve in photography meant having to invest in pricey equipment while mastering of all sorts of scientific terms and processes. Understanding cameras, lenses, focal length, fi ...