e-culture: Fall events, Yellowstone, KTRU, Dia de los Muertos
October 2, 2000

Here are some cultural and travel-related events in and around Houston. Please try to support some of these events.


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Travel Presentation Tomorrow

Tuesday, October 3, 7:00pm
I will show slides of Yellowstone, the Black Hills and the Badlands, and Steve Cruser, from REI, will present climbing in the Grand Tetons, while Michael Williams takes us canoeing in the Boundary Waters.

Set your VCR to record the presidential debates and drop by the Alumni Center to meet some fellow travelers.

The Houston Alumni Organization will offer the free travel presentations on the first Tuesday of each month in the Alumni Center at 7:00pm. In addition to the regional travel presentations, we will see exciting international destinations.

Future Topics:
Tuesday, November 7 -- Colonial Cities of Mexico
Tuesday, December 5 -- Santa Fe and the Southwest
Tuesday, January 9 -- New Orleans and the Deltaland
Tuesday, February 6 -- Copper Canyon/Chiricahua Mountains
Tuesday, March 6 -- Canyonlands of the Colorado Plateau
Tuesday, April 3 -- Pacific Coast/Yosemite/Crater Lake

For more information and updates:
http://www.houstonculture.org/travel/pres.html


REI presentations continue on Monday nights at 7:00pm:
http://www.rei.com/storelocator/houston/

Here are a few upcoming REI events:
Monday, October 2 TONIGHT! -- Climbing Kilamanjaro
Monday, October 16 -- Intro to Mountaineering


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Upcoming Events

Houston Grand Taiko Festival
featuring Taiko Dojo, from San Francisco, and Kaminari Taiko, from Houston.
7:30pm, Friday and Saturday, October 6 and 7
Miller Outdoor Theatre in Hermann Park

Notes from the Underground
Exhibition features three women artists who produce non-traditional work, i.e. comics, zines, stickers, etc.
Opens Friday, October 6, 6 - 8pm and continues through October 21 at Diverseworks
http://www.diverseworks.org

"Come and Take It" Days
October 6 -8
Downtown Gonzales
E-mail: info@gonzalestexas.org

Ballet Gran Folklorico de Mexico
October 10
Bay City
979-245-2727

Cajun Catfish Festival
October 13 - 15
Downtown Conroe

Vegetarian Chili Cookoff
October 15
Splashtown USA, Spring
713-880-1055

Asian American Festival
Performances begin at Noon
Friday and Saturday, October 20 and 21
Miller Outdoor Theatre in Hermann Park

Will Rogers Follies
October 20 - 22
Grand 1984 Opera House, Galveston
409-765-1894

Intertribal Powwow
October 21
East Side Park, Hearne
979-828-4977

Czhilispiel
Chili cookoff, biergarten, parade, arts and crafts
October 27 - 29
Downtown Flatonia
361-865-3920

Dia de los Muertos
October 30 - November 5
Children's Museum, San Antonio
210-212-4453


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From the Desk of Dave Dove

MECA Improvisation Program Presents...

"Me and Paul" with Eugene Chadbourne and Paul Lovens

Saturday October 7, 2000 8pm
MECA Auditorium, 1900 Kane in historic Sixth Ward
For Information Call 713-666-5555 or 713-802-9370
$8

This is a rare opportunity to see and hear one of the innovative pioneers of European Free Improvisation. Paul Lovens is a virtuoso of free drumming... a master of tone, texture, sound, silence, and spontaneity. He is a highly unique stylist who has played with most of the major figures in Free Jazz and Free Improvisation. Lovens is the ultimate free drummer. He is a highly interactive player who has an uncanny skill for propelling the music without forcing an explicit beat.

Eugene Chadbourne is a strange phenomena of American music. He is a guitar master who has created the genre of "Avant-Garde Country and Western Bebop", a banjo player who rocks out on Bach Preludes, an intense free jazzer who has been known to surprise collaborators by unexpectedly turning a freeform jam into a song. His solos on electric rakes, shoelaces, and venetian blinds are legendary. Among Chadbourne's long list of collaborators are John Zorn, Camper Van Beethoven, Shockabilly, Frank Lowe, Carla Bley, Tiny Tim, Jimmy Carl Black (Frank Zappa's Drummer), Han Bennink, Violent Femmes, Susan Alcorn, Derek Baily, and his daughter Molly.

Intensity... Spontaneity... Humor... Musicality... Creativity...

Don't miss it!


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Seasonal Traditions

Dia de los Muertos
November 1 and 2
http://www.houstonculture.org/cr/diade.html


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Special Shows on KTRU, 91.7fm

The World Music Show airs Mondays from 7 - 9pm, followed by Americana, 9 - 10pm.
http://www.houstonculture.org/world/music.html

Other KTRU [ http://www.ktru.org ] programs:
http://www.houstonculture.org/world/shows.html


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Volunteers

We just completed some important budgeting and are beginning to plan some events for the Spring. Your help is greatly needed. And, we are creating several new sections for our on-line resources, including Around H-town (eclectic arts and culture in Houston) and Virtual Folk Art (an on line gallery of trinkets and collectibles). As always, we are looking for volunteers, contributing writers, artists, patrons and journalists.

http://www.houstonculture.org/resources/goalstodo.html


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E-culture mailings

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Thanks,
Mark



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M A R K   L A C Y / mark@cultural-crossroads.com

The Houston Institute for Culture
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Regional and historical perspectives
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Travel planning and information
http://www.houstonculture.org/terra/terra.html

Upcoming travel presentations
http://www.houstonculture.org/travel/index.html