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UH EVENTS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – OCT.
16 – 29, 2006
MONDAY, Oct. 16
Barron’s Restaurant
Barron’s restaurant is managed and staffed by University
of Houston Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel Restaurant and Management
students who present soups, salads and sandwiches weekdays during
the lunch hour. 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., Monday – Friday,
Barron’s Restaurant, Hilton University of Houston Hotel,
Entrance 1 off Calhoun. 713-743-2558. Menu: www.hrm.uh.edu/?PageID=150
Industrial Design Exhibit
“Designing Domesticity: Industrial Design for Modern Living,
1930-1950” is the latest exhibit in the Gerald. D. Hines
College of Architecture galleries. The exhibit showcases products
by the most famous designers of the mid-20th century era and includes
everything from the streamlined appliances of the 1930s to the
Space-age devices and modern furniture of the 1950s. The exhibit
will be on display through Oct. 28. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday
– Friday. College of Architecture galleries, 4200 Elgin,
Entrance 18. Free. 713-743-2400. www.arch.uh.edu.
Chamber Music Guest Master Class
The Moores School of Music in cooperation with Houston Friends
of Music presents a Chamber Music Master Class with acclaimed
guest members of the Vienna Piano Trio. 1 p.m., Oct. 16. Dudley
Recital Hall, Entrance 16 off Cullen Blvd. Free. 713-743-3313,
www.uh.edu/music.
TUESDAY, Oct 17
Blaffer Gallery – ‘A
Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad’
Blaffer Gallery’s latest exhibition featuring works by 11
African artists working in Europe and the United States. Works
in painting, photography, sculpture and video highlight the exhibit,
which runs through Nov. 11. Blaffer Gallery, 120 Fine Arts Building,
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Entrance 16 off Cullen
Blvd. Gallery hours, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday – Friday;
1 - 5 p.m. Saturday; closed Sunday and Monday. Free. 713-743-9528.
www.blaffergallery.org.
Film Series: ‘The Battle
of Algiers’
The UH Department of Modern and Classical Languages Fall Film
series continues with the conflicts in the Middle East featuring
the 1965 film, “The Battle of Algiers.” 2:30 p.m.,
Oct. 17. World Cultures and Literatures Seminar Room, 444 Agnes
Arnold Hall, Entrance 14 off Cullen Blvd. 713-743-0900. langlab@mail.uh.edu.
Faculty Recital: ‘American
Contemporary Music’
The Moores School of Music faculty members present works by Glinka,
Reinecke and Hurlstone. 7:30 p.m., Oct. 17. Dudley Recital Hall,
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Entrance 16 off Cullen
Blvd. $10 general admission, $5 students/seniors. 713-743-3313,
www.uh.edu/music.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 18
TV Taping: ‘The After Party’
Take a tour of Houston’s PBS station, KUHT-TV, and then
attend the taping of the weekly show “The After Party”
with Ernie Manouse. Get a behind-the-scenes look at how television
shows are made and win door prizes. 1 – 3 p.m., Oct. 18.
KUHT-TV, 4343 Elgin. 713-748-8888, www.houstonpbs.org.
THURSDAY, Oct. 19
Inprint Studio Series
Inprint, in association with DiverseWorks and the University of
Houston’s Creative Writing Program, brings authors in the
literary arts for readings. Novelist Farnoosh Moshiri will read
from her works “Against Gravity” and “The Bathhouse.”
6 p.m., Oct. 19. Honors College, M. D. Anderson Library, Entrance
1 off Calhoun. 713-521-2026. www.inprint-inc.org
FRIDAY, Oct. 20
Seminar: ‘Peering Into the
Subduction Thrust Seismogenic Zone at the Nankai Trough, Southwestern
Japan’
The University of Houston Geosciences Dept. welcomes Nathan L.
Bangs from the University of Texas as he presents his lecture,
“Peering Into the Subduction Thrust Seismogenic Zone at
the Nankai Trough, Southwestern Japan.” 3 p.m., Room 634,
Science and Research Bldg. Entrance 14 off Cullen Blvd. Free.
713-743-3399.
Opera: ‘Street Scene’
“Street Scene,” based on Elmer Rice’s Pulitzer
Prize winning play shows a gritty, realistic glimpse into the
working class in New York City circa the early 1930s. Adapted
for opera by Kurt Weill. 7:30 p.m., Oct. 20, 21, 23; 2 p.m., Oct.
22. Edythe Bates Old Theater, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for
the Arts, Entrance 16 off Cullen Blvd. $15 reserved seating, $10
students/seniors. 713-743-3313, www.uh.edu/music.
SATURDAY, Oct. 21
Blaffer Gallery: ‘Studio
Saturday: cARToghraphy’
Join Blaffer Gallery staff members for their annual family day
and art making workshop: “Studio Saturday: cARTography.
1 – 4 p.m., Oct. 21. Blaffer Gallery, 120 Fine Arts Building,
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Entrance 16 off Cullen
Blvd. 713-743-9528. www.blaffergallery.org.
Exhibition and Silent Auction
The University of Houston Friends of Women’s Studies presents
an exhibition and silent auction titled “Hats Off to Her
– Story!; Celebrating Ten Years of Women’s Archive
and Research Center, Hats Off to Our Pioneering Mothers! They
Paved the Way.” 8 p.m. – Midnight, Oct. 21. Elizabeth
D. Rockwell Pavilion, M. D. Anderson Library, Entrance 1 off Calhoun.
$100 general admission, $35 students. 713-743-3773.
TUESDAY, Oct. 24
Film Series: ‘The Dupes’
The UH Department of Modern and Classical Languages Spring Film
series continues with the conflicts in the Middle East and the
film “The Dupes.” 2:30 p.m., Oct. 25. World Cultures
and Literatures Seminar Room, 444 Agnes Arnold Hall, Entrance
14 off Cullen Blvd. 713-743-0900. langlab@mail.uh.edu.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 25
TV Taping: ‘The After Party’
Take a tour of Houston’s PBS station, KUHT-TV, and then
attend the taping of the weekly show “The After Party”
with Ernie Manouse. Get a behind-the-scenes look at how television
shows are made and win door prizes. 1 – 3 p.m., Oct. 25.
KUHT-TV, 4343 Elgin. 713-748-8888, www.houstonpbs.org.
Lecture: ‘Group Decision
Making in Honey Bee Swarms’
The University of Houston Graduate Department of Biology and Biochemistry
welcomes Dr. Thomas D. Seeley from Cornell University. He will
lecture on “Group Decision Making in Honey Bee Swarms.”
4 p.m., Oct. 25. Room 130, Science and Research Bldg., Entrance
14 off Cullen Blvd. Free.
713-743-2626.
Faculty Recital: ‘Happy Birthday
Mozart’
The Moores School of Music faculty members Andrzej Grabiec on
violin and Timothy Hester on the Maene fortepiano present “Happy
Birthday Mozart” as they perform the six Mozart “Kurfurstin”
sonatas. 7:30 p.m., Oct. 25. Dudley Recital Hall, Cynthia Woods
Mitchell Center for the Arts, Entrance 16 off Cullen Blvd. $10
general admission, $5 students/seniors. 713-743-3313, www.uh.edu/music.
THURSDAY, Oct. 26
Reading Series: Inprint Brown Reading
Series
The Inprint Brown Reading Series, co-sponsored by Inprint and
the University of Houston, continues its 26th season with National
Book Award winning nature writer Barry Lopez, fiction writer Antonya
Nelson and writer/editor Debra Gawrtney. 7:30 p.m., Oct. 26. Brown
Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet. Free.
713-521-2026 or www.inprint-inc.org
FRIDAY, Oct. 27
Ballet
The Moores School of Music Ballet Orchestra with guest artists
from the Houston Ballet II perform in concert with selections
by the Beatles and John Adams. 7:30 p.m., Oct. 27. Cynthia Woods
Mitchell Center for the Arts, Entrance 16 off Cullen Blvd. $15
reserved seating, $10 students/seniors.
713-743-3313, www.uh.edu/music.
Theater: ‘The Woolgatherer’
The University of Houston School of Theatre’s Student Productions
class presents ‘The Woolgatherer,’ William Mastrosimone’s
dark comedy about two very different people who find comfort in
each other’s individuality. 8 p.m., Oct. 27, 28, 29, 30.
Jose Quintero Lab Theatre, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the
Arts, Entrance 16 off Cullen Blvd. Free. 713-743-3313, www.uh.edu/music.
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