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On Thursday, January 31, 2013, the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston (MOCAH) invites you to celebrate 13 years of youth development social awareness and public art, by joining us at our 2012 “L’Art Nouveau” Masquerade Ball – Peinture a Les Etoiles. This dazzling event will raise awareness of MOCAH’s mission in serving at-risk youth in local communities and further our creative cultural art programming.

This year’s event theme will feature the pairing of influential local celebrities and talented local artists to produce a one of a kind piece of art, which will be live auctioned at the January Gala.

The list of collaboration between Artists and Celebrities include:

Shelby Hodge (Columnist, CultureMap-Houston) and Taft McWhorter

Mayor Annise Parker and Hanh Tran

Michael Garfield (The High-Tech Texan®, Radio Personality) and Allan Rodewald

Peter Remington (Publisher, Houston Magazine) and Katarina Conrad

Connor Barwin (Linebacker, Houston Texans) and Grant Marnier

 MOCAH is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) cultural arts organization with a mission to use art and creativity as tools for social awareness, educational enrichment and community development. Since its inception in 1999, MOCAH has served over 14,900 at-risk underserved Houston youth and our programs have operated in over 40 public schools throughout the city.  MOCAH has invested more than $3MM in community art projects and civic art commissions, providing over 90 professional and emerging artists with employment opportunities.   

The estimated audience of 300 business, civic leaders and patrons of the arts would benefit tremendously from your generosity. We would be most appreciative of a telephone call to let me know of your interest.  We look forward to hearing from you soon.  Thank you for considering this invitation and request.  We would like to meet with you to make a formal presentation about the organization, the event and historical information about the past performance of this function and of the organization.

The Art of Leadership (AoL) is a Spring Break and Summer Camp program that revolves around field trips, guest speakers and hands-on art projects that help middle and high school students recognize the importance of creative expression, innovation, entrepreneurship and civic responsibility.  The purpose of the art-based leadership camp is to enrich, develop, and empower the lives of the young people in and around the Houston area by exposing them to local business/civic leaders, team building exercises and art experiences that reinforce their learning journey.

The first of its kind in the city of Houston, the AoL is the evolution of spring break and summer camps offered by the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston (MOCAH) over the past 8 eight years.  For 2013 MOCAH seeks to refine the camp by providing the students with access and exposure to creative professionals and field trips to the work environments of these professionals.

Join us as we work to empower our youth and beautify Houston by putting the “public” back in to public art.

For more information visit www.mocah.org.

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DISH hopes you will consider adding Stages to your  list of amazing experiences of Houston list. It's fun for the whole family! They even have the "Early Stages" shows for kids! Houston is so blessed to have such a diverse and expansive theatre community and Stages is absolutely part of the crown jewels!

Click HERE for information on Stages!

As you well know if you've read any type of Houston publication lately it's GALA season! Among the list of amazing events and wonderful causes is the American Festval for the Arts 2011 Gala, Sixteen Years - Leading the Way.  It will take place at the Rice Hotel in the historic Crystal Ballroom on April 27th. Of course this event will feature a seated dinner, one of Houston's best silent auction and entertainment featuring students and alumni of AFA's summer and year-round programs. The entire city and beyond is invited to participate in this year's event.

For information or to discuss underwriting or tickets, please call Amanda Kepke Fisher at (713) 522-9699 or email her.

DISH will be there and we look forward to seeing you there!

The AFA Silent Auction

One of the many highlights of the AFA gala is the Silent Auction, including nearly 50 packages of unique items and experiences to bid on during the evening. The AFA Gala Committee is always looking for new additions to feature in the auction and donations are very welcome! Examples include virtually anything: dinners at local restaurants, airline tickets, car rentals, airline miles, artwork, tickets to artistic and sporting events, shopping sprees, gift certificates, professional services, etc.

If you have questions about the auction, please call or email Amanda Fisher.