Add some phenomenal live entertainment and unique art gallery experiences to your spring must-do fun at Lone Star College-CyFair this spring. this spring.
The college’s Center for the Arts (CFA) is a vibrant artistic and affordable destination for family outings where amazing and impressively talented actors, vocalists and musicians share their passions.
Free Bosque Gallery Experiences
LSC-CyFair launches this spring exhibition season with guest artist and educator Joshua Duttweiler’s interactive visual conversation and exploration of issues impacting the community in his “Utopia Still Sounds Like a Good Idea” show on display Jan. 29-Feb. 26 in the Bosque Gallery. The visual arts showcase schedule continues March 5-April 16 with “Soft Bloom”, a show featuring Hillaree Hamblin, a teaching artist for 3rd-grade through college students, who considers herself a “soft sculptor” focused on “preserving experience and giving memory a physical form.” The gallery line up concludes with the end-of-the-semester opportunity to view and purchase unique and award-winning student artwork April 23-May 8 that includes an opening reception, awards ceremony and wearable art fashion show.
“Each exhibition’s opening reception is a unique opportunity to meet accomplished featured artists and our impressive art students as well as to discuss their inspired and creative artwork,” said Heather Braman, Bosque Gallery coordinator. “In addition, we offer insightful Library Art Talks to learn more about the guest artists and their creative processes.”
No-cost Fine Arts Showcase
Whether you are a fan of the dramatic, the interpretive or the musical, come immerse yourself in an afternoon break for all things visual and performing arts. Enjoy the brilliance of LSC-CyFair’s talented students of drama, music, art and creative writing in the intimate setting of the Recital Hall. Save the dates - Feb. 27, March 27 and April 24 - for these free monthly 1 p.m. events.
Low-cost Live Theatre and Music Concerts
Another opportunity to appreciate imaginative student talent will be the March 5-7 Short Play Festival held in the Black Box Theatre. Audiences will enjoy three evenings along with Friday and Saturday afternoons with the spring showcase of new works from emerging student playwrights.
The Drama Department will bring a once underground world sport of female boxing to life on the Main Stage Theatre with the performance of “The Sweet Science of Bruising” April 9-18. Come be captivated by LSC-CyFair’s student actors as they tell the story of four women’s unexpected discovery of freedom and power in the boxing ring in Joy Wilkinson’s play set in 1869 and inspired by the history of female boxing in Victorian London.
Exhilarating musical evenings in LSC-CyFair’s Main Stage Theatre and Recital Hall begin March 13 featuring the amazing and uplifting voices of the college’s Chamber Singers and Concert Choir, who will also conclude the CFA visual and performing arts season with an astounding concert May 8 in celebration of America's 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In addition, there will be Opera Workshops April 27 and April 28. Exciting audiences with toe-tapping and moving instrumental performances include the Symphonic Band and Symphony Orchestra May 1, the Jazz Ensemble May 5 and the Percussion Ensemble and Student Composer Recital May 6.
Most drama and music concert event tickets are $10 (parking is free) at LoneStar.edu/boxoffice.
Get the most updated information on the Center for the Arts season, as well as the college’s Society for the Arts (which helps fund program activities and scholarships as well as performance sponsorships), at LoneStar.edu/CFA.