Stop, Look and Listen! | Menil Neighborhood Community Day
Event details
- Saturday, April 6 | 1 PM to 5PM
- DACAMERA drum workshop at 2:00 PM
DACAMERA Stop, Look and Listen! at 3:00 PM - The Menil Collection
- 1533 Sul Ross St, Houston TX 77006
Join DACAMERA and The Menil Collection for museum’s annual Neighborhood Community Day.
Enjoy an afternoon of art, music, poetry, and family activities in celebration of the museum’s vibrant neighborhood. Participating organizations include DACAMERA, Houston Center for Photography, Inprint, The Menil Collection, Plant It Forward, Rothko Chapel, Watercolor Art Society, and Writers in the Schools (WITS).
2 PM: African drumming workshop led by percussionist and music educator Sam Dinkins III
3 PM: Stop, Look and Listen! concert with jazz pianist and DACAMERA Young Artist Brooke Wyatt and her trio
Check out the Menil’s web site for the complete schedule including artist workshops include paper-folding with Joan Son and Pysanky egg painting with Nestor Topchy.
Recommended Concerts
A Little Day Music: Celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month
- Wednesday | April 3 | 12:00 pm | FREE
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Matthew Aucoin and Peter Sellars “Music for New Bodies”
- Saturday | April 20 | 8:00 PM
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For Unsilent Spring, a major new work and exciting first collaboration between the brilliant young composer Matthew Aucoin and legendary director Peter Sellars, a 360-degree portrait of the moment we are living in, a piece that brings together questions of environmental responsibility, scientific progress and the ethics of humanity’s questionable quest to surpass the human.
Kurt Elling Quartet featuring Danilo Pérez
- Friday | May 10 | 8:00 PM
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Renowned for his singular combination of robust swing and poetic insight, two-time Grammy winner Kurt Elling has secured his place among the world’s foremost jazz vocalists.
