Glow-in-the-Dark Yoga on Saturday evening

 

Light up your weekend with a fun flow-in-the-dark yoga experience. Chelsea Smith from City Yoga will lead an all level Vinyasa class set to your favorite pop hits in Dallas’ favorite outdoor venue.

Ticket includes:

· 60-minute yoga class by City Yoga

· Tote bag full of healthy products

· Beyond Meat plant-based burger

· Glow bracelets

· Discounted parking ($5 if purchased in advance)

Tickets are $30 in advance and $35 at the door. Doors open at 8PM.

https://www.attpac.org/on-sale/2020/glow-flow/

All proceeds benefit the Center’s education and community engagement programs. These programs allow the Center to provide students, families, and lifelong learners with opportunities to experience the performing arts.

Class size is limited so that all participants can practice safe social distancing. Please bring your own mat and towel. Masks are required at all times except during class.

St Jude Walk/Run - Sept 21 in Dallas

This September during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital^® is inspiring hundreds of thousands of people across the nation to unite behind a shared goal of ending childhood cancer.

Throughout September, St. Jude supporters from coast to coast will join St. Jude Walk/Run events taking place in 63 communities. Supporters can also register for the St. Jude Walk/Run Virtual Event to walk, run and fundraise for the kids of St. Jude. Funds raised through events like these help ensure families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food—because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.

The Dallas event will take place September 21 at AT&T Performing Arts Center - Sammons Park.

Sign up to walk or volunteer here. 

In addition to events taking place nationwide, more than 30 national partners are supporting St. Jude through various Childhood Cancer Awareness Month activities in September. Partners include Kmart, Chili's® Bar & Grill, Pier 1, Amazon, Shaw Floors, CBS Sports, Touchdowns Against Cancer, CARS, Varsity Brands, Window World, Paypal, Lancôme, Jewelers for Children, Cox Automotive, Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse, ARS Rescue Rooter, Texas de Brazil,Nora Fleming, Publishers Clearing House, Pollo Campero, Nurse Mates, My Salon Suite, Coton Colors, Bimbo USA, Blo Blow Dry Bar, Winston Flowers, Sears, Ocean Spray, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, SAINT, Lamps Plus and New Balance.

After supporting St. Jude for nearly 20 years, Target returns as this year's National Series Sponsor for the St. Jude Walk/Run. Nearly two dozen corporations and organizations joined the St. Jude Walk/Run as National Team Partners, including Greystar, Window World, Lancôme, Chili's, Domino's, Tri Delta, DXL Group, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Gamma Rho, Delta Sigma Theta,New York & Company, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, Brooks Brothers, Phi Delta Chi, Lambda Theta Alpha, Iota Phi Theta, Amazon, American Airlines, Trane, H&R Block and Kmart/Sears.

Individuals can also join the cause by donating to participants or volunteering at one of the events. Learn more at stjude.org/together or register for one of the St. Jude Walk/Run events by visitingstjude.org/walkrun.

Reliant Lights Up Your Holidays Tonight

Reliant is lighting up a new holiday tradition at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, so bring your entire family for an evening of holiday magic! This evening, the Center’s campus will be illuminated with 250,000 dazzling LED lights to celebrate the holiday season.

Festivities begin at 5:00 pm with opening remarks and music entertainment, followed by the fireworks show and lighting spectacular at 7:00 pm.

The FREE festival includes the Southwest Airlines Holiday Concert and a live performance by the Relatives. The celebration will also include photos with Santa, holiday crafts for kids, animals from the Dallas Zoo, and a winter wonderland with real snow!

And while you’re there, you can feast on tasty treats at the food trucks, warm up with a cup of coffee or cocoa at Pearl Cup Coffee or enjoy an adult beverage at the Southwest Porch.

The Dallas Opera First Sight Fashion Show and Luncheon

The Dallas Opera, inspired by the incredible success of FIRST NIGHT festivities that mark the opening of each new season, is delighted to introduce an extraordinary spin-off:

The FIRST SIGHT Fashion Show and Luncheon

featuring the work of five outstanding and internationally renowned Dallasbased designers with their breathtaking interpretations of the operas that will take centerstage next season in addition to sumptuous fashions by ESCADA, an international brand synonymous with the highest quality and luxury.

This celebration of great opera and fabulous fashion will take place on Thursday, October 24, 2013 in the acclaimed Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, presented by J.P. Morgan. The pre-show reception beginning at 10:00 a.m. will set the mood for the fun that follows as the Shannon and Ted Skokos Stage is transformed into a glamorous highfashion runway to showcase the imagination and talent of five of fashion’s most creative designers:

ELIZABETH ANYAA

MICHAEL FAIRCLOTH

ABI FERRIN

KHANH NGUYEN

and NICOLAS VILLALBA

The fabulous fashion show will be capped by a sit-down luncheon at 11:45 a.m. in the C. Vincent Prothro Lobby, artfully prepared by Puck Catering.

Explains FIRST SIGHT & FIRST NIGHT Chair, Lynn Mock: “The overwhelming public interest in the fashion element of FIRST NIGHT prompted us to expand our vision to match the creativity of an iconic brand, ESCADA, as well as these five incredible designers. By giving them the spotlight, exclusively, in this very special event, we hope to excite and engage our patrons while giving art and fashion their due. It’s a perfect extension of the FIRST NIGHT celebrations.”

Following their unveiling at FIRST SIGHT, these one-of-a-kind creations inspired by the operas and theme of the 2013-2014 “By Love Transformed Season” will lend an additional air of excitement to the red carpet on Opening Night. Several fashion-savvy style leaders are lending their expertise to the Dallas Opera’s inaugural FIRST SIGHT, including Event Architect Jeffrey Horn FPLtd. and Event Designer Larry Leathers. 3 “There is nothing more glamorous and elegant than our talented designer creations, with ESCADA fashion; all showcased inside the beautiful Winspear Opera House,” says Fashion Show Producer Rhonda Sargent Chambers.

Table sales packages are now available for FIRST SIGHT & FIRST NIGHT that offer additional invitations to exclusive patron parties and events. Individual seats will be made available at a later time (subject to availability).

For more information or to reserve your table now, please contact Dallas Opera Special Events Manager Tracy Mott at tracy.mott@dallasopera.org or by calling 214.443.1063.

TACA Gives Out Record $1.3M in Grants to North Texas PAOs in 2013

Ken Travis, past TACA board chairman and TravisWolff chairman of the board; Andy Teller, 2012 TACA board chairman and RBC Wealth Management; Becky Young, executive director and president of TACA; Nancy Carlson, 2013 TACA board chairwoman; Christopher Vo, special guest speaker, dancer, graduate of Booker T. Washington School for the Performing Arts and Juilliard School; Norm Bagwell, Bank of Texas chairman and CEO and presenting sponsor of the TACA Grant Awards.

Dallas' premier umbrella arts organization TACA, The Arts Community Alliance, had a banner year fundraising in 2012, allowing the organization to distribute $1.3 million to diverse and deserving North Texas performing arts organizations. Of that amount, $1.2 million was distributed on January 28 at the TACA Grant Awards Presentation, presented by Bank of Texas, at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre. Hosting the event was the AT&T Performing Arts Center. The additional $100,000 will be distributed later this year in June as part of the TACA Donna Wilhelm Family New Works Fund.

"Bravo to all those who supported TACA, who attended one of our events, who support the performing arts by attending a play, a performance, a musical and more," said Nancy Carlson, Chair of TACA's Board of Directors.

In 2013, TACA's grants awarded will help support more than 5,073 performances that approximately 1.4 million people will attend. Ranging from $5,000 to $110,000, TACA grants are being awarded to a varied group of North Texas' performing arts organizations, from the very large and established to the newly emerging.

New organizations being funded this year are AT&T Performing Arts Center, Bruce Wood Dance Project, Lone Star Circus Arts Center, Nasher Sculpture Center, New Philharmonic Orchestra of Irving, and Plano Symphony Orchestra.

2013 TACA Grant Award Recipients:

$5,000

New Philharmonic Orchestra of Irving

One Thirty Productions Matinee Series

$7,500

Plano Symphony Orchestra

Sammons Center for the Arts

$8,000

Irving Chorale

Lone Star Wind Orchestra

Teatro Dallas

$10,000

AT&T Performing Arts Center

Dallas Bach Society

Dallas Museum of Art

Lone Star Circus Arts Center

Meadows School of the Arts, SMU
Nasher Sculpture Center

Uptown Players

Voices of Change

$12,000

Cara Mia Theatre Company

Chamber Music International

Echo Theatre

Orchestra of New Spain

Turtle Creek Chorale

$15,000

African American Repertory Theater

$17,500

Bruce Wood Dance Project

Second Thought Theatre

$20,500

Orpheus Chamber Singers

$25,000

Fine Arts Chamber Players

$27,500

Undermain Theatre

$32,000

Children's Chorus of Greater Dallas

$34,000

Junior Players

$35,000

Dallas Wind Symphony

Shakespeare Dallas

Theatre Three, Inc.

$40,000

Kitchen Dog Theater

Lyric Stage

TITAS

WaterTower Theatre

$42,000

Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra

$60,000

Texas Ballet Theater

$70,000

Dallas Black Dance Theatre

$75,000

Dallas Children's Theater

$100,000

Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Dallas Theater Center

$110,000

Dallas Opera

A special thanks to the sponsors and supporters, especially ALON USA, Communities Foundation of Texas, Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, Diane and Harold Brierley, Nancy and Clint Carlson, Ann and Lee Hobson, Lexus, RBC Wealth Management, RBMM, Peggy and Carl Sewell, Sewell Automotive Companies.

AT&T Performing Arts Center Opening This Week!

For a complete list of free events that will take place this Sunday, including a free performance of Beethoven's 9th from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jaap van Zweden and a Fire Works Show, check out www.kimberlyschlegelwhitman.blogspot.com