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Reserve your seat for next Wednesday’s panel discussion about how art impacts and often leads the way to social changes. The evening will also feature discussion about the upcoming operas, Dead Man Walking (Fort Worth Opera, May 2009) and Moby Dick (world premiere, Dallas Opera, 2010) and music from Dead Man Walking and other Heggie/Prejean collaborations.

The Women’s Museum will have their 6th Annual Stories from the Top event this Friday, March 27th. This year’s event (is exciting!!!) will feature Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Can we give the Women’s Museum a round of applause? I almost fell out of my chair when I heard the news. There are some women in life that move you, and for me, Clinton has been one of them.

AFI Dallas is around the corner. Literally. From NorthPark to Victory Park to Nasher Sculpture Center, beginning on March 26th through April 2nd AFI will premier films, host events, and feature free panels and lectures. Stay tuned to ILiD – I will be posting events/films as I see them.

One of the things I didn’t attend last year was the lecture series they offered to filmmakers and filmgoers, called Talk/Show. This year, I have listed the complete schedule and plan to attend a couple. The panel discussions are free and open to the public.

Announced Today: Special Event with David Sedaris benefiting the Kay Cattarulla Endowment for the Literary and Performing Arts on Sunday, April 19, 7:30 p.m. The event will be held at the McFarlin Memorial Auditorium, Southern Methodist University, 6405 Boaz Lane, Dallas, Texas 75275. Do not wait to purchase these tickets. There was limited seating when […]

Art Garfunkel is a singer, songwriter, poet, actor, long-distance walker, avid walker and reader. If you just had one question to ask this man, what would it be? And if you didn’t even have to think about that one, take your chance and ask him in person. Garfunkel is making an appearance for NasherSALON’s Lecture series on March 26th, 2009.

Artist Ranjani Shettar will be speaking at the SMU Meadows Museum on March 24, 2009 at 6:30pm. The lecture is presented in conjunction with Shettar’s recent exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Shettar kicked off the 2008-09 FOCUS season in December and featured 5 of her installations…

Elizabeth Gilbert will be speaking at the Charles W. Eisemann Center on Tuesday, February 24 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are still available for $37/each. The Eisemann Center is located at 2351 Performance Drive, Richardson, Texas 75082. Purchase Tickets online or by calling 972.744.4650.

Arts & Letters Live: Artful Musings Series Tuesday, February 10, 2009. 7:30 p.m. General Admission: $32-$37.00 Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood Street, Dallas, TX 75201 From Dallas Museum of Art Alex Ross, the music critic for the New Yorker, received the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for his landmark book […]

30 prominent national art dealers from 12 cities will exhibit paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints and photographs by modern and contemporary artists at the first annual Dallas Art Fair (see complete exhibitor list below). Located at the Fashion Industry Gallery (FIG), in the revitalized downtown Arts District, this event will establish Dallas as one of the […]

I have been coming across some great lecture events recently. The reason why I started this blog is because I would (and still do) spend hours looking for events in Dallas, and I wanted to share them with people like you who want to get out of their house and do/learn/see something! This is an […]