The Opera House-Events Past 2007

Events Past 2007

Saturday 12/29
Mutating Meltdown, Golden Triangles, Cari & Jason (from Belaire & Voxtrot)
7pm@ The Opera House

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goldentriangles cai&jason

cari&jason liz

leah sam&co.

Saturday 12/15
The Opera House Holiday Fundraiser Carnival Love Party
w/ performances by Pataphysics, The Carnys, & The Bill Jefferys
7pm @ The Opera House
$5 suggested donation

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This is our first fundraiser party ever in our 2 years of operation. The Opera House was gonna close-up for good back in October due to financial fiascos. Now, thanks to Liz Gomez (our new arts co-ordinator!) we've decided to keep on going, but we still cannot survive without your support! We are the only shop/artspace in Austin - a place where you can buy and sell old and new one-of-a-kind things, plus see and participate in art, live performance, and crafts all under one roof. Where else can you see a noise band and buy socks at the same time, or go to a clothing swap, learn how to repair your pants, get a sequin leotard, sell your handmade dress, or go home with a cd made of all your favorite '45s. We have practically given you everything for free and well, it's about time some of that good karma started comming back to us.

So, please come to our Holday Carnival Love Fundraiser Party! You will be dazzled by our friends The Bill Jefferys, The Carnys, & Pataphysics. Plus try your luck at a Cakewalk and Coloring Contest! Also, become a co-operative member by joining our Rent Club and recieve special benefits! Or sign up to become a volunteer! Plus get a new Opera House handmade t-shirt or sweatshirt. Hope to see you there and pssss..pass it on...

Friday 12/7
Paintings by Mary W. Andrus
opening reception 7-10pm
W/ performances by The Gregoreze + Teddy & Marge
@The Opera House

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Local painter Mary Andrus creates images like a flash in time, representing life through memories, dreams, or a snippet of thought. An element of destruction or danger plays the catalyst in many of her works like a twirling tornado or a snake ready to pounce. There is a rustic quality to her pictures, something country or Texan though, sometimes blurred by soft tones. Mary's work will be on view through the month of December. Come celebrate the opening reception with live music by an operatic singing group, The Gregoreze, plus that old timey favorite duo, Teddy & Marge.

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Thursday 12/6
Campcamp presents: Feminist! Video! Art! - a Book Woman benefit show
8-11pm @The Opera House
$10 suggested donation

This First Thursday in December Campcamp presents : "Feminist! Video! Art!"!! A night in a room with videos, pillows, candles, flannel denim combinations, beverages, and a POPCORN potluck - All at The Opera House! And its true what you heard! We on this night will gather and hoard a collection of donated funds destined to SAVE BOOK WOMAN!!!

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sauce smores

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Saturday 12/1
Noise Show: Aunts Analog, Paul Baker, Yatagarusu, Kosmodrome, & Voyant
7pm @The Opera House

Friday 10/12
The Costume Show
opening reception 7-10pm
w/performances by Jeanne Stern as Rolla Bollena & others TBA
@The Opera House

**Date changed, flyer image has the old date! The text is the correct information!!

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Calling all artists, costumers, and anyone who has made their own costume. The Opera House is hosting an open participation costume art show for the month of October. Whole ensembles to individual accessories accepted with the option to sell for Halloween! The deadline for submissions is Monday, October 8th . Please contact to confirm entry in the show and for more info. Mail-in entries also accepted.

The opening reception party on October 12th includes an informal fashion show + performances by Jeanne Stern as "Rolla Bollena" & That Damned Band!

Friday 9/14
Noise Show: Aunt's Analog, Dromez, Iron Kite, Jerri Siggnfelds Atropheed Sac, Pigs In The Ground
8:30pm, donations accepted
@The Opera House

Local noise bands along with Pigs in The Ground from S.F. play at The Opera House for a night of ear wrenching bliss. Bands will be playing short sets.

Thursday 9/13
Clothing Swap!
7pm (sharp!)
@The Opera House

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It's time to dig through that closet again and find some old clothes to trade! Bring it all over to The Opera House and add to the piles of fun. It'll be swapping madness as you uncover plenty of new-to-you duds to take home. Free & co-ed!

Friday 9/7
The World We Love: photographs by Erica Nix, Fernando Flores, & Amanda Jones
opening reception 7-10pm
w/ performances by Slow Dogs and Children + Puff Puff
@ The Opera House

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"The World We Love", the very broad theme and title of the photography show at the Opera House this September, is meant to refocus our thoughts on the emotional motivations for image-making. Through the color work of Austin artists Erica Nix, Fernando Flores, and Amanda Jones we experience a spectrum of spatial realities: serene emptiness, singular potency, and chaotic saturation. A range of technical styles is also represented, from crisp digital, to blurry double-exposures. There will be many small pieces, priced affordably, so come with your collector’s eye ready, or to find that perfect gift.

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Thursday 8/23
Bike-in Movie & Concert
Screening of Adaptation + live performance by Teddy & Marge
$3 suggested donation
8pm @The Opera House

Bike to the Opera House for an outdoor movie screening and pre-performance by Teddy & Marge. So, bring blankets or chairs to sit on! The feature film will be Adaptation starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep. Funds will be used to send two high school activists to the Student/Farmworker Alliance Encuentro in Immokalee, Florida at the end of August. The SFA is a youth-comprised, national network organizing to support the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.

This was an experimental night of sound made by women. The Cave was turned into a big jam out recording studio and outside was a lounge party with videos projected and a shadow puppetry. Al sorts of amazing talented people crawled out for this event. It was so inspiring!

Friday, 8/3
Strange Language: drawings and colorings by Jennifer Arnold
opening reception 7-10pm
w/live music by Doctor Pod & Brother machine
@The Opera House
*runs through end of August.

This show is illustration in the raw - using conventional mediums such as pens, pencils, oil pastels, and crayons. In her work you'll find bits of humor squished against the mundane with wierd cartoon faces and unconventional lines. Doctor Pod will be playing along with Brother Machine (Jeff Britt & Logan Comby).

Saturday 7/7
Cyber-Geisha Qi: A Sci-Fi Fashion Spectacular!
starts @ 7pm
w/a runway show, Rubber Robot, and a video dj!
@The Opera House

Come to The Opera House for a night of fashions from another planet! Sharing the catwalk will be Cyber-Chic Fashion and Geisha worn by some of the sexiest alien creatures around town. Even come dressed up in your best Sci-fi garb! We'll party the night away with blips and bleeps from another dimension...

Friday, 7/6
Art Show : art by Jessica Russell's
opening reception 7pm-10pm
@ The Opera House
with performances by Silver Pines, Super Cougar, & more!

Don't miss this amazing show! On view at The Opera House through the month of July will be Jessica Russell’s new 2D and 3D works using embroidery, collage, found objects, and a variety of natural materials. This collection will include drawings from plant and animal guides, wax and soft sculptures, and investigations in color and cloth. Come to the opening reception and see live music by Silver Pines, Super Cougar (aka 100 ft whale claw), and others.

Tuesday 7/3
Experiments in film projection and sound w/ Lori Surfer, Eric Ragsdale, and a duo from NC. This was a spontanious event due to a rain-out over at the Spunky Monkey Ranch. Hooray for The Opera House who came to the rescue! It was an amazing night that will not soon be forgotten.

Hazel, Unfortunate Fitness, The Big Slowdown, Yatagarasu(from Houston), Aunt's Analog, Dromez, Ferveur Noire, and Hello!

Friday 6/1 (on view through 6/30)
Twitter Box: Spatial Illusions Of All Kinds - the art of Jeanne Stern
Opening reception 7-10pm
w/ performances by Joe Egnot, Silky Shoemaker, & more.
@ The Opera House

Discover the moving microcosmos that is the animated world of Jeanne Stern. In this collection of work spatial illusions of all kinds will be explored including, Jeanne's miniature film sets, layered paper spaces, moving dioramas, still image sequences, and formostly the screening of her brand new paper-puppetry films. Come to the opening and see this once in a lifetime combination of "twitter boxes", "mechanical ballets", and "hanging gardens" alongside Joe Egnot playing Philip Glass on accordion and performance art by Silky Shoemaker.

Jeanne's work has previously been shown at the SXSW Film Festival, Dallas PBS, the National Lampoon Comedy Network, and the Dallas Video Festival. Her recent film Les Malaventures de Zut-Alors also receivedthe award for best cinematography at Cinematexas. Among other talents, for fun Jeanne likes to play accordion while balancing on a rolla-bolla.

Friday 5/18
Rock Show: Daniel Francis Doyle will be playing with 2 bands from Atlanta, Georgia, The Club Of Rome & Eiliyas.

Friday 5/11
TINY BRIGADES art show
7pm
w/ performances by The Unfortunate Mistress & 2BZOK
@The Opera House
*show will run from 5/11- 5/25

Friday 4/13
TAKE THAT! - paintings and illustrations by Lance McMahan
opening reception 7-10pm
w/ musical entertaining by Amanda Jones, Connie Ball, &
Teddy and Marge
*show runs 'til May 6th
@The Opera House

Take That! a show of paintings and illustrations by Lance McMahan, one of the creators of L_M_N_L gallery and a regular contributer to Proper-Gander arts newspaper. Lance’s artwork reveals the crude self and pettiness of people in their true nature “like when your granny farts”.

Spring is here at last and it's time to spiff up your wardrobe. Out with the old and in with the new-to-you! Dig through your closet and bring some old favorites to trade...

-It was incredible! and there is tons of leftovers in The Cave that I am giving away for FREE!

Wednesday 3/14 - Friday 3/16
SXSW Music Festival week with tons of music happening at The Opera House! 3 days, 17 bands.......all FREE......and in the afternoon...... some pictures below...

3/2 - 3/31
Flyaway Island: A Giant Carried Me Away
New paintings by Sarah Lantz
Friday, 3/2 opening reception 7-10pm
w/Heroine Music
@The Opera House

Iconography of the world's myths is reinterpreted by Sarah Lantz in her newest series of paintings. She has a way of combining prescribed methods with industrial materials to evoke a dislocated nostalgia. Showing will be traditional works on canvas, painted books, stencil portraiture, along with other surprises.

Friday 2/9
The DIORAMA Show
7pm
w/ Snaggle Tooth Puppet Theatre
& video puppetry by Matthew Rodriguez and Jeanne Stern
@The Opera House

Thursday 1/18
'45 Listening Party
w/Lori Surfer's secret micro movies
@The Opera House
8pm

It's a party, lounging required. Bring your favorite 7" record (or go out and find one at the thrift store). We will listen to them all and try to burn everything onto a mix CD to take home. Plus micro movies with Lori!

The '45 party cds are ready and it's a double cd set! Come get your free copy at the store if you were at the party. Otherwise, the cd set is available for $4. If sold out, copies can be made upon request.