Community Mural Painting Event - Saturday, September 20

From the manager of arts and events services in Mansfield:

Mansfield is in the process of creating our first community mural along the pond branch trail (in historic downtown). We have a community painting day on Saturday September, 20th from 7am-7pm. We have had a great response to our sign-up for the date, but we especially need more skilled artists to help with some of the finer detail work and shading to ensure the mural comes out as beautifully as the design intends. We also still have spots with little to no skill required for painting and some non-painting jobs as well. We have multiple shifts throughout the day, so you can pick one or several. We will also provide a meal ticket worth $10 for all volunteers who pre-register for a spot (we'll have a food truck on-site from 10-2).

TALA Arts Legal Line - June 3, 2025

Copyright Protections to Sustain the Creative Community

TALA and the Art of Taxes

Copyright Diversity Initiative

Copyright Information and Registration Seminar

The Art of Christmas Giving Gallery Show at The Upstairs Gallery

Steve Mims is an Austin filmmaker whose work has been shown by the Dallas Video Association for many years. He made a new short film about the power grid in Texas called Disaster by Design. Click the image above for more information about the documentary.

Steve will be at the showing on October 20, and hopefully with one of the interviewees who appears in the film. The film will be at 7:15 p.m. at the Studio Movie Grill on Spring Valley. The film is short, but there should be a good discussion afterwards.

Two Performances by Timeless Concerts of Music of Dance!

Music of Dance will have its first performance on Saturday, September 24 in Ft. Worth at the Holt Hickman Center in the Belltower Chapel on Wichita Street.

Timeless Concerts will perform the music of dances through the ages, from the menuet, to waltzes and tangos from composers as diverse as Rossini of Italy, Shostakovich of Russia, Ravel of France, plus Piazzolla and Villoldo of Argentina. They will be accompanied by professional dancers James Gonzales and Lydia Cabrera, from the Arthur Murray School of Dance, Ft Worth, on a couple of special selections. Their vocalists will sing beautiful songs of Mexico, Italy and musicals. As usual, Erik Barnes will provide post-concert music on the piano and take your requests. BYOB is accepted at this location. Timeless Concerts will provide complimentary wine by the glass, soft drinks, and a few snack items including Pixie Popcorn. There is table seating for up to 11, or private tables for 2.

The Music of Dance will be performed again by Timeless Concerts on Saturday October 1 in Arlington at Show Me the Monet art gallery on south Cooper in Gracie Lane. Enjoy the same music that was performed the previous week, but in a small intimate setting surrounded by beautiful art in the Show Me The Monet gallery of fine art. Seating will be recital style rather than table seating with only 50 unassigned seats available. (Unfortunately there is no room for the dancers in this setting.) Complimentary wine by the glass and soft drinks will be provided.

Concert performers: violinist LeeAnne Chenoweth, pianist Heejung Kang, violist Tim Angel, cellist Oliver Schlaffer, soprano Sabrina Romero-Wilson, and tenor Sergio Cepeda.

Tickets and info on the Timeless Concerts website.

2022 Fall Gallery Night at The Upstairs Gallery in Downtown Arlington

Watercolor Classes at Sparks Studio in Downtown Arlington

Get Cool and Enjoy the Disney Art From Private Collections Exhibit at the Arlington Museum of Art in Downtown Arlington

Meet the Artists of The Black Experience Art Exhibit at the Reception on July 2, 2022

Get Out of the Heat and Check Out the Upstairs Gallery and Two Other Galleries on Abram Street in Arlington

TALA Present "Monetizing Your Music" a Two Part Webinar Series

July 2022 Adult Art Classes at Sparks Studio of Creative Arts in Downtown Arlington

July 2022 Art Classes

Evening in France! Musical Entertainment by Timeless Concerts

Enjoy the beautiful music of composers Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, popular songs of France by Hubert Giraud and more. In the 1920's and 30s, Ravel was internationally regarded as Frances' greatest living composer, and Claude Monet was considered one of the greatest artists of that time. Music by Ravel has been featured in movies such as The Dark Knight Rises, Mozart in the Jungle, and 10.

Timeless Concerts will perform several of Ravel's chamber music works, including arrangements of "Valse Nobles" and "Le Tombeau de Couperin." Their tenor, Sergio Cepeda, and soprano, Sabrina Romero-Wilson, will sing art songs and arias of various French composers of the classical and impressionist era as well as more contemporary gems. Their instrumentalists are violinist LeeAnne Chenoweth, violist Tim Angel, cellist Oliver Schlaffer, pianist Heejung Kang.

This concert will be in the Rose Garden Tea Room in south Arlington on July 9 from 8-11pm. Please note that there will be fewer tickets at the tea room for more comfort for the audience and better acoustics overall. Timeless Concerts will provide complimentary light snacks and soft drinks. Please remember that BYOB is not an option at the tea room; their choice wine for purchase will be available at $8 per class or $20 per bottle.

Thank you for your support and love of beautiful music! Tickets and more info on the Timeless Concerts website.

Dallas Pride Announces Music Festival Entertainment and Rainbow Fireworks at Fair Park

Dynamic Texas talent will provide outstanding entertainment for the Dallas Pride Miller Lite Music Festival on June 4 as part of a weekend of Dallas Pride, taking place June 4-5 in Fair Park.

The Dallas Pride Miller Lite Music Festival is Saturday, June 4, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., in Fair Park. Tickets are $10 for adults (ages 20+) and $5 for teens (ages 13-19). Admission for children 12 and under is free. Tickets are on sale now at dallaspride.org.

The Dallas Pride Miller Lite Music Festival is part of an all-day, family-friendly event at Dallas Pride featuring indoor and outdoor activities, more than 200 vendors, and plenty to eat, see and shop -- a day of fun for all ages. Family Pride Zone, an area designed for families, will feature several bounce houses, face painting and entertainment for the kids in the Automobile Building at Fair Park. The festival also will feature Teen Pride, produced by Real Live Connection to foster a safe environment for LGBTQ+ youth ages 13 to 19 and their friends to enjoy live entertainment from artists and DJs, and other age-appropriate activities. Local animal rescue groups will also be on-site

for guests to meet a possible new furry family member. The festival website contains more information about the event.

Saturday's festivities will conclude with a dazzling rainbow-themed fireworks display over Fair Park. Then, on Sunday, June 5, at 2 p.m., Dallas Pride’s Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade makes its triumphant return in person to celebrate in Fair Park. This kaleidoscope of colorful floats, marchers wearing outrageous costumes, music and more will encircle the Cotton Bowl® to show support for the LGBTQ+ community. Admission is complimentary.

Dallas VideoFest Presents Curated Film Series Featuring KING JUDITH, a Metaphysical Ghost-Story Drama

Dallas VideoFest's Curated Film Series continues with the metaphysical ghost-story drama KING JUDITH, a film by DVF alumni, Richard Bailey. It screens Wednesday, May 18, at 7:00 pm at the Angelika Film Center in Dallas. General admission tickets are $10, order here.

Written and directed by Richard Bailey, KING JUDITH is the story of a detective named Miriam, who investigates the disappearance of three women. The missing women are academics who'd been studying "Lady of the Lake" stories across the American South. The case turns dreamy and strange when Miriam starts having visions of Judith, a powerful ghost of the lake.

Starring Nicole Fancher as Miriam, Rhonda Boutté as Doyenne, Emily Ernst as Judith, Joanna Schellenberg as Sister Woman, and Jenny Ledel as Catherine.


Richard Bailey's Reflections

Origins of the Story:

"I grew up in rural Texas and have always been fascinated by 'Lady of the Lake' stories. The more I've researched these stories, my fondness for them has remained, but I've grown critical about how they've evolved. Once upon a time, the women in folklore who appeared suddenly next to a body of water were fertility figures, immortal women there to ensure the fecundity of the landscape. They walked the shore between water and land and blessed it. Once paganism was supplanted by monotheism, these immortal women and their fertile practices seemed too promiscuous for the new traditions. And now, instead of an immortal woman there to bless the shore, we have a dead woman imprisoned by it. 'Lady of the Lake' stories are now often cautionary tales about a negligent woman who either lost her children or fell in love with the wrong kind of man. The message changed from a celebration of the feminine aspect of god to a message about female propriety. All this being said, the film itself isn't about my research. I'm neither a moralizer nor a sermonizer. I'm one who's drawn to stories. The depiction and understanding of female ghosts or immortals through history is fascinating terrain for a movie plot. This movie is unusual, but it is steeped in the traditions of fun and engaging ghost stories."

Timing of shooting the film: "The cast was attached to the film, and I was in the process of raising money when the pandemic hit. Our budget changed drastically, and so did our methodology regarding how many people could be on set at a given time. I had to do a substantial rewrite. Ultimately, the film was accomplished in two chunks. We shot for about seven days in September 2020 and then another seven days in March 2021. That's all we could manage, and it was enough. We were driven to finish by our shared enthusiasm for this utterly unique ghost story."