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FRESH ARTS SCENE
IT’S A NEW START FILLED WITH PROMISE AND POTENTIAL. AND AS FAR AS BEGINNINGS GO, THIS
CROP OF JANUARY EVENTS MATCHES PERFECTLY WITH YOUR NEW YEAR’S OPTIMISM. By Ariel Jones

EAST & WEST TRANSCENDED
Apollo Chamber Players
Sunday, January 11, 6pm | Tuesday, January 13, 7:30pm
East & West Transcended features the richness of Japanese folk music traditions and their relationship to Western musical language. Esteemed
Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu maintained an ever-changing relationship to Japanese folk music and was intrigued by the colorful sound-world
created by French Impressionist composers. In the early 20th century, the art
song genre of France and Germany gave birth to their counterpart in
Japan. Showcasing the program is the world premiere of Splash of
Indigo by composer Marty Regan, a dynamic musical work that explores
the intersections between Japanese folk music and French Impressionism filtered through a distinct American sensibility. Tickets range from $10–$30
for students, seniors and general admission. East & West Transcended will
take place at Christ the King Lutheran Church (Paris Hall), 2353 Rice
Boulevard, Houston, TX 77005. Visit www.apollochamberplayers.org.

INPRINT PRESENTS
KAREN RUSSELL
Inprint Margarett Brown
Reading Series
Monday, January 26, 7:30pm
“Karen Russell is arguably our
greatest fantasist writing serious
fiction today,” declares NPR,
and People magazine writes,
“Karen Russell is a storyteller with
a voice like no other.” Her debut
story collection, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, published
when she was in her twenties, was called “original and astonishing, joyful
and unsettling” in a starred Booklist review. Her novel Swamplandia! was a
finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and selected by The New York Times as
one of the 10 Best Books of 2011. Reading is followed by an on-stage interview, book sale and signing. Tickets are $5 for entry. The reading takes
place at the Cullen Theatre at the Wortham Center, 501 Texas Avenue,
Houston, TX 77002. Visit www.inprinthouston.org.

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“troublewithwords”
FEATURING WORK BY JAMIE DAVIS
Fresh Arts
On view January 30 – March 13 | Opening reception: January 30, 6pm
Fresh Arts presents “troublewithwords,” an autobiographical, visual exploration of
the intersection of language and memory, from artist Jamie Ellen Davis. Consisting
primarily of drawings and prints, these works aim to highlight the interplay between
the purely aesthetic features and the semantic and orthographic elements of written
words, as filtered through the various cognitive and learning disabilities with which
Davis has been diagnosed. “Through the candid affirmations of my learning issues –
and the shame so often experienced as a result – my work becomes simultaneously
self-exploratory and self-revelatory as to how my learning disabilities influence,
color and distort both my own sense of self and the perception of who I am as an
artist.” “troublewithwords” aims to challenge the viewer’s expectations of written language by shifting its focus from the psycho-linguistic to the artistic-pictorial. The public is invited to a free opening reception with the artist beginning at 6pm, on Friday,
January 30, at Fresh Arts, 2101 Winter Street, Studio B11, Houston, TX 77007.
Free parking is available. Visit www.fresharts.org.