The Yes Men Fix The World
Cinema ArtsFestival Houston
Co-presented by DiverseWorks
Saturday, November 13, 7pm at Rice Media Center
Sunday, November 15, 1pm at Angelika Film Center

Winner of the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, The Yes Men Fix the World is a screwball true story about the ...satirical activist team the Yes Men. Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno's theatrical performances take place on unusual stages. Dressed in thrift-store suits, posing as top executives of corporations they consider criminal, the Yes Men lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate targets in outrageous, yet strangely plausible ways. They do everything they can to wake up their audiences, at the conferences and through the media coverage of their pranks, to the danger of letting greed run our world.

Watch the Official Movie Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW35PKEVYMw

Here is what people are saying...

"Great fun! It takes some nerve, not to mention diabolical intelligence... to pull off the elaborate pranks devised by the Yes Men." - New York Times

"Outrageously entertaining....This movie is glorious testimony to the moral power of satire." - New York Magazine

"A hilarious movie.... Even if you don't agree with the Yes Men's political agenda, you'll get a big kick out of this movie." - New York Post

"It shines with pure wit and originality." - Newsweek

Comedic vigilante justice. Media-saavy pie-to-the-face." - USA Today

"One of the funniest movies I've ever seen, and two of the ballsiest guys I've ever met. Thank God for the Yes Men." - Morgan Spurlock, director of Supersize Me

"Hilarious, therapeutic, inspiring. The Yes Men are geniuses." - Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo

For more information on the Cinema Arts Festival Houston or to purchase tickets, go to...http://cinemaarts.bside.com/2009/films/theyesmenfixtheworld_cinemaarts2009
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Join DiverseWorks for the opening of Third Ward is My Harlem. Houston artist Tierney Malone transforms the DiverseWorks Main Gallery into a massive multi-media installation with his latest work. Drawing from his own Southern roots and experiences, Malone reframes American and creates non-linear narratives full of stoic... nostalgia and sophistication that speaks to the experiences of much more than just one man.

Event information:
Tierney Malone: Third Ward is My Harlem
Nov. 7 - Dec. 19, 2009
Opening Reception: Sat., Nov. 7, 6-8pm
DiverseWorks Main Gallery
Commissioned by DiverseWorks

Also, flickerlounge presents Jonas Mekas and his newest film, LITHUANIA AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR. Forces of time, memory, change, and human will collide in Mekas’s new film. The work’s title refers to the historical time when the world watched as Mekas’s home country of Lithuania fought for independence from the stronghold of Soviet rule. With a video camera, Mekas recorded newscasts that played daily in 1991 on his television set at home. Footage includes reports of the Soviet Union’s use of ‘aggressive actions’ that called for Lithuania to back down, freedom demonstrations, interviews and statements made by top politicians, journalists, and analysts including Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis, Deputy Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and United States President George H.W. Bush among others, as well as moving portraits of the Lithuanian people who were directly affected by the conflict. Mekas’s account, reported by news outlets in the United States, also reveals the shaping and shifting of political, economic, and social relations between Eastern Europe and the West at the time.

Event Information:
Jonas Mekas: LITHUANIA AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR
Co-presentation with Aurora Picture Show
Nov. 7 - Dec. 19, 2009
Opening Reception: Sat., Nov. 7, 6-8pm

Don't forget, it's free admission! Open to the Public!
Directions to DiverseWorks...
http://www.diverseworks.org/index.php?pgid=11Read More

Ain Gordon, a recipient of such honors as the Obie Award, NYFA Playwriting Fellow and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, presents the world premiere of his new work A Disaster Begins, a fictional account of a lone woman Muriel Halstead (played by Tony nominated actress Veanne Cox) and her unbreakable... bond with the devastating Galveston hurricane that decimated the Texas island in 1900, taking the lives of 6,000 in a single night. She appears with little more than a glass and pitcher of water to tell her tale of the storm, and unravels with it the shocking truth behind her experiences of presidential corruption, pubescent despair, patriotic fervor, pre-marital passion, and otherwise unfortunate fits of writer's block. For more information or to purchase tickets, click HERE!Read More

Join us for the DiverseWorks season kick off as we celebrate the opening of Now That I'm by myself," she says, "I'm not by myself, which is good" in the Main Gallery and I found myself an innovator in the flickerlounge. Plus, we will have lots of other surprises too!

Now That I'm by myself," she says, "I'm not by mysel...f, which is good"
Sept. 11-Oct. 24, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 11, 6-8pm

Rachel Cook brings together Brian Bress, Wynne Greenwood, Laurel Nakadate and Yuki Okumura, all of which take isolated private experiences from within studio, within the empty landscape, within the feeling behind the gut, within the fantasy of an alien inside your head, and bring them into the public realm through video, photography, sculptural cutouts, and even drawings.

I found myself an innovator
Sept. 11 - Oct. 24, 2009
Opening Reception Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, 6 - 8pm
In partnership with Aurora Picture Show

In this installment of flickerlounge, a selection of films and video art works will feature artists from the upcoming panel Je me laver, Je regarde moi-même as well as other artists who use themselves as subjects in their work.

Hope to see ya there!
♥ DiverseWorks
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Join us for the DiverseWorks season kick off as we celebrate the opening of Now That I'm by myself," she says, "I'm not by myself, which is good" in the Main Gallery and I found myself an innovator in the flickerlounge. Plus, we will have lots of other surprises too!

Now That I'm by myself," she says, "I'm not by mysel...f, which is good"
Sept. 11-Oct. 24, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 11, 6-8pm

Rachel Cook brings together Brian Bress, Wynne Greenwood, Laurel Nakadate and Yuki Okumura, all of which take isolated private experiences from within studio, within the empty landscape, within the feeling behind the gut, within the fantasy of an alien inside your head, and bring them into the public realm through video, photography, sculptural cutouts, and even drawings.

I found myself an innovator
Sept. 11 - Oct. 24, 2009
Opening Reception Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, 6 - 8pm
In partnership with Aurora Picture Show

In this installment of flickerlounge, a selection of films and video art works will feature artists from the upcoming panel Je me laver, Je regarde moi-même as well as other artists who use themselves as subjects in their work.

Hope to see ya there!
♥ DiverseWorks
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Luck of the Draw 8: When Art Attacks!
The 2009 DiverseWorks Summer Auction
July 1, 2009

Don't miss one of the hottest parties of the summer! Over 200 works by artists all over the world will be on display in the Main Gallery and up for auction. Plus, we are adding a blind auction this year featuring 10 mid-size artworks....


Co-Chairs: J. Douglas Parker & Karen Niemeier


Auction Host Committee: Catherine Anspon, David A. Brown, Roberto Cervantes, Rachel Cook, Michael Coppens, Shauna Curtis, Christa Forster, Mandy Graessle, Jenna Jackson, Ben Johnston, Alton LaDay, Lan Norwood, Jess Rogers, Kim Stoilis, Heather Wagner, Bryan Vezey, Josh Zulu, Tina Zulu

MC: Houston comedian Nancy Ford

Sponsors: Fritz Lanham & Kellye Sanford, Jason Roth Fuller, Hal & Marjana Roach, Bob & Lillian Warren, Chuy Terrazas, Real Estate Investments, Boyar & Miller, Zulu Creative, EMG Images, RCBJ Design Studio, Whole Foods

For a list of participating artists in Luck of the Draw 8, click HERE

Blind Auction Artists: Lucinda Cobley, Grayson Coffee, Ryan Geiger, Carol Gerhardt, Ben Johnston & Roberto Cervantes, Tierney Malone, Lori Nix, Jon Read, Gabriela Trzebinski, Wendy Wagner.


Food sponsored by Catering by Culinaire

Beer sponsored by Real Ale Brewing Co.

Drinks sponsored by Dripping Springs Vodka

Papercity Magazine is the media sponsor!

Advance art chance tickets or general admission tickets are available online or by contacting DeeDee Bott or Tracey Morton at (713)223-8346

CLICK HERE TO BUY YOUR TICKETS TODAY!

Event Information:
Luck of the Draw 8: When Art Attacks!
DiverseWorks
July 1, 2009
6:30 Cocktails & Blind Auction
7:00 Luck of the Draw BeginsRead More

May 1- June 13, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, May 1, 2009, 6-8pm
DiverseWorks Main Gallery
Organized by the Austin Museum of Art
Co-Curated by Diane Barber, Eva Buttacavoli, Bill Fitzgibbons and Dennis Kois

DiverseWorks’ Co-director Diane Barber joined forces with Eva Buttacavoli (Austin Museum of Art), Bill FitzGibbons (...Blue Star Contemporary Art Center) and Dennis Kois (the Grace Museum) to select artists for New Art in Austin: 20 to Watch, the third in a triennial exhibition showcasing emerging Central Texas artists whose work stretches the boundaries of contemporary art. The resulting colorful and energetic multimedia exhibition comes to the DiverseWorks Main Gallery featuring a diverse line-up of emerging Texas visual artists who are in the forefront of their fields. Artists include: Yoon Cho, Meggie Chou, Ali Fitzgerald, Alyson Fox, Buster Graybill, Jules Buck Jones, Baseera Khan, Andrew Long, Kurt Mueller, Jen Hirt, Scott Webel, Jill Pangallo, Scott Proctor, Matthew Rodriguez, Shawn Smith, Xochi Solis, Sarah Sudhoff, Raymond Uhlir, Stephanie Wagner, Rebecca Ward and Eric Zimmerman.

The exhibition, catalogue, and tour our presented by Wentwood Capital Advisors. Read More