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SUMMARY:Art & Activism: An Evening with Peter Sellars
DESCRIPTION:The arts play an important connecting role in society in ways that other sectors cannot. Artists can move through a variety of environments using music\, performance\, visual arts and other media to address difficult topics\, challenge cultural stigmas\, bring diverse people together\, and provoke new ways of thinking that can lead to powerful social and political changes. In a time of censorship\, political bullying\, and polarization between people\, where do the arts stand today\, locally and nationally? What is the role of the arts as commentator and catalyst for social justice? And what is the responsibility of cultural institutions and patrons for preserving the arts as a voice for the public? \nIn partnership with Houston Grand Opera and in conjunction with their initiative Seeking the Human Spirit\,  join the Rothko Chapel for a conversation exploring arts and activism in society today from the perspectives of the artist\, cultural institution and funder. \nThe conversation participants include Peter Sellars\, renowned opera and theater director and professor at UCLA; Debbie McNulty\, Director of Mayor Turner’s Office of Cultural Affairs; and Patrick Summers\, Artistic and Music Director of Houston Grand Opera; moderated by the Rothko Chapel’s Executive Director David Leslie. \nAbout the program participants: \nPeter Sellars has gained international renown for his groundbreaking and transformative interpretations of artistic masterpieces and for collaborative projects with an extraordinary range of creative artists. He has staged operas at the Canadian Opera Company\, Dutch National Opera\, English National Opera\, Lyric Opera of Chicago\, Opéra National de Paris\, and the Salzburg Festival\, among others. Recent projects include an acclaimed production of La Clemenza di Tito at the 2017 Salzburg Festival\, a concert staging of The Cunning Little Vixen with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra\, and the premiere of the latest John Adams/Peter Sellars collaboration\, Girls of the Golden West\, at San Francisco Opera. Sellars has led several major arts festivals\, including the 1990 and 1993 Los Angeles Festivals and the 2002 Adelaide Arts Festival. In 2006 he was Artistic Director of New Crowned Hope\, a festival in Vienna for which he invited artists from diverse cultural backgrounds to create new work in the fields of music\, theater\, dance\, film\, the visual arts and architecture for the celebration of Mozart’s 250th birth anniversary. \nHe is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA\, a resident curator of the Telluride Film Festival\, and was a Mentor for the Rolex Arts Initiative. Sellars is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship\, the Erasmus Prize for contributions to European culture\, the Gish Prize\, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2014 he was awarded the prestigious Polar Music Prize and named Artist of the Year by Musical America. \nDebbie McNulty served as Lead Consultant for the City of Houston’s Arts and Cultural Plan before being appointed Director of the Houston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs in 2015. Her extensive experience includes work in philanthropy\, public-private partnerships\, community-based organizations and the arts. She was a program officer with Houston Endowment Inc. from 2008 to 2014\, working primarily in the areas of arts and culture and community and economic development. From 2004 to 2008\, McNulty was Executive Director of Art League Houston\, a nonprofit art school and gallery\, coordinating the development and construction of their expanded facility. From 2000 to 2004\, she served as Director of the Civic Art and Design Program at the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County (now Houston Arts Alliance)\, having worked with the program from its inception in 1994 and throughout the effort that resulted in the adoption the Houston percent-for-art ordinance in 1999. \nPatrick Summers was named artistic and music director of HGO in 2011 after having served as the company’s music director since 1998. He has conducted more than 60 operas at HGO and has been responsible for many important artistic advances\, including the development of the HGO Orchestra. Some highlights of his work at HGO include conducting the company’s first-ever complete cycle of Wagner’s Ring and its first performances of the Verdi Requiem; collaborating on the world premieres of André Previn’s Brief Encounter\, Christopher Theofanidis’s The Refuge\, Jake Heggie’s It’s a Wonderful Life\, The End of the Affair\, and Three Decembers\, Carlisle Floyd’s Cold Sassy Tree and Prince of Players\, and Tod Machover’s Resurrection; leading the American premiere of Weinberg’s Holocaust opera The Passenger\, both at HGO and on tour to the Lincoln Festival; and nurturing the careers of such artists as Christine Goerke\, Ailyn Pérez\, Joyce DiDonato\, Ana María Martínez\, Ryan McKinny\, Tamara Wilson\, Albina Shagimuratova\, Anthony Roth Costanzo\, Norman Reinhardt\, Jamie Barton\, and Dimitri Pittas. Maestro Summers is principal guest conductor for San Francisco Opera\, where he was honored in 2015 with the company’s highest honor\, the San Francisco Opera Medal. His work with SFO includes collaborating with André Previn on the 1998 world premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire and conducting several of the performances\, and conducting Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick\, which was recorded and telecast on PBS’s Great Performances. \n  \nPay What You Can\, suggested contribution $20 \nREGISTER BELOW\nIf you are having trouble registering with the form below or are using a Safari browser\, please register here.\nPlease contact us if you do not receive a confirmation email.
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SUMMARY:Houston Green Film Series: Before the Flood
DESCRIPTION:If you could know the truth about the threat of climate change — would you want to know? Before the Flood\, presented by National Geographic\, features Leonardo DiCaprio on a journey as a United Nations Messenger of Peace\, traveling to five continents and the Arctic to witness climate change firsthand. He goes on expeditions with scientists uncovering the reality of climate change and meets with political leaders fighting against inaction. He also discovers a calculated disinformation campaign orchestrated by powerful special interests working to confuse the public about the urgency of the growing climate crisis. With unprecedented access to thought leaders around the world\, DiCaprio searches for hope in a rising tide of catastrophic news. March 21\, 2018\, at Rice Media Center. 6:30 PM conversation\, networking\, and a light meal; 7:00 PM screening. Free to the public\, though donations are kindly appreciated. Learn more on the Facebook event page.\n\n \nThe Houston Green Film Series was launched in 2010 by a coalition of non-profit\, grassroots\, environmental organizations. The purpose of this coalition is to bring awareness to the environmental crisis through the visual arts by presenting films with an environmental focus to the Houston community. In addition to showing an environmental film\, a panel of experts is invited to lead a proactive discussion with the audience about the topic at hand.\n\n \nThe founding organizations are the US Green Building Council Emerging Professionals\, Air Alliance Houston\, Transition Houston\, the Rice University Environmental Club and Houston Tomorrow. In 2013\, the Green Building Resource Center joined the coalition. In 2017\, the Citizens’ Environmental Coalition (@cechouston) joined the leadership team of the Houston Green Film Series.
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LOCATION:Rice Media Center\, Rice University Entrance #8 University and Stockton\, Houston\, 77005
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SUMMARY:Pax Christi Texas 2018 State Conference
DESCRIPTION:  \nPaul K. Chappell   Army Captain\, Peace Activist\, Writer: b. 1980 \n  \n  \n“When people in a democracy are not educated in the art of living — to strengthen their conscience\, compassion\, and ability to question and think critically — they can be easily manipulated by fear and propaganda.  A democracy is only as wise as its citizens\, and a democracy of ignorant citizens can be as dangerous as a dictatorship.” \n  \nBiography \nPaul K. Chappell is the son of a Korean mother and a half African American and half Caucasian father whose thirty years of military service included combat duty in Korea and Vietnam. Following in his father´s military footsteps\, Chappell graduated from West Point in 2002 and served as a captain in Iraq. \nWhile on active duty\, Chappell wrote two books\, Will War Ever End?:  A Soldier’s Vision of Peace for the 21st Century and The End of War: How Waging Peace Can Save Humanity\, Our Planet\, and Our Future. He is also the author of Peaceful Revolution: How We Can Create the Future Needed for Humanity’s Survival (February\, 2012). \nAfter leaving active duty in November 2009\, he began serving as the Peace Leadership Director for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Santa Barbara\, CA.  He speaks throughout the country to colleges\, high schools\, veterans groups\, churches\, and activist organizations. \nChappell´s books offer compelling insights on how we might end war.  Based on his personal experience\, military training\, and research into human nature and the myths that perpetuate war\, Chappell avoids blaming any particular political group; his ideas have found traction with liberals\, conservatives\, veterans\, and civilians. \nIt’s too simple to say that Chappell is a soldier turned peace leader.  Growing up in a violent household in Alabama\, his character was forged by violence\, rage\, and racism.  Chappell´s struggle with war and peace began when he was four and his shell-shocked father started beating him.  Chappell grew up believing that humans are by nature violent and that war is inevitable.  As a cadet at West Point\, he learned that neither of these is true.  And as a soldier in Iraq\, he decided to dedicate his life to helping others understand why. \nChappell believes that peace activists should be highly trained in the art of waging peace\, just as soldiers are highly trained for war.  He offers “peace leadership training” that educates and empowers students and people of all ages to create positive change\, and he believes – like Gandhi\, Martin Luther King Jr.\, and James Lawson – that many of the warrior ideals are vital for a nonviolent campaign to be effective. T hese warrior ideals include courage\, discipline\, determination\, resilience\, strategic thinking\, selflessness\, teamwork\, and working for the common good rather than personal glory. \nNobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu said of Chappell’s second book\, “Captain Paul K. Chappell has given us a crucial look at war and peace from the unique perspective of a soldier\, and his new ideas show us why world peace is both necessary and possible in the 21st century.  The End of War can help people everywhere understand why war must end\, and how together we can end it.” \nDespite the many problems occurring around us\, Chappell believes that the 21st century is an exciting and hopeful era when a new “peaceful revolution” has the potential to reduce war and injustice around the world.  He says\, “The peaceful revolution is a revolution of mind\, heart\, and spirit.  But it is also a scientific revolution… The peaceful revolution will create a paradigm shift that changes how we see war\, peace\, our responsibility to the planet\, our kinship with each other\, and what it means to be human. \nPaul K. Chappell
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