Friday, September 9, 2011
Please join us for The Magellan School's 2011 Opening Celebration & Benefit Concert. Apertura features an exclusive performance by Austin musical artist ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO and a special showcase from the local arts community. Come meet families from the Magellan community, make lasting friends, and savor the festive atmosphere of a new school year. Heavy hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be served.
The welcome, food, beverages and Artist Showcase begin at 7:00 p.m.
The concert begins at 8:30 p.m. Wear your dancing shoes!
Where:
Private Residence, 1000 East 8th Street, Austin, TX 78701
Schedule:
| 7:00 p.m. | Doors open, raffle tickets available |
| 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. | Showcase and sale by local artists |
| 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. | Hors d'eouvres and beverages served |
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8:30 - 8:35
p.m. |
Marisa Leon:
Welcome Raffle and art purchases end. Raffle winner announced. |
| 8:35 - 10:45 p.m. | Concert with Alejandro Escovedo |
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11:00 p.m. |
Event ends |
| Buy tickets for Apertura 2011: Alejandro and the Arts |
Alejandro Escovedo
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There are songwriters who sing their songs, and then there are songs who sing their writers. Alejandro Escovedo is one with his muse and his music. Over a lifetime spent traversing the bridge between words and melody, he has ranged over an emotional depth that embraces all forms of genre and presentation, a resolute voice that weathers the emotional terrain of our lives, its celebrations and despairs, landmines and blindsides and upheavals and beckoning distractions, in search for ultimate release and the healing truth of honesty. |
Sometimes it takes the form of barely contained rage, the rock of punk amid kneeled feedback; sometimes it caresses and soothes, a whispery harmony riding the air of a nightclub room, removed from amplification, within the audience. His rise has been gradual, a steady incline rather than a quick ascendance, but it has deepened and burnished his music, made it closer to the bone, where it begins to break, deepening his insight and his ability to find that insight in performance. His tireless touring, and dogged determination to place one album after another, has taken him through many musical scenes, remaining the same persona within each, of an artist who doesn’t settle for the easy way out. Biography by Lenny Kaye. Continued on alejandroescovedo.com.
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Members Alejandro Escovedo - Guitar/Vocals David Pulkingham - Guitar/Vocals Bobby Daniel - Bass/Vocals Hector Munoz - Drums/Percussion |
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Featured Artists
View and purchase works from a select group of local fine artists, whose styles include painting, illustration, sculpture and mixed media. Artists will talk about their inspiration and techniques and are graciously donating a portion of sales, which benefits our school library and media center.
 Caroline Wright website |
Caroline Wright graduated from Brown in 2004, with a double major in
Visual Art and Art History. After college, she moved to Paris to
pursue fashion design, and ended up living in an art collective
in an abandoned state building in Belleville with artists from
all over the world. With a crowbar, Wright renovated a studio
out of several secretarial offices that had been locked since
the 80s. Each weekend there was an interminable réunion on such
issues as where the “seat of the administration” should be (the
kitchen). The inhabitants defended their project on a regular
basis to the mayor of Paris, and as the youngest in the group
and the only American, Wright also defended herself while
confronting many cultural differences. Living, working, and
upholding her vision and that of the group imprinted the
possibility of a life supported by and for art-making. In late 2006, Wright returned to Austin to participate in the burgeoning art community in her hometown. She is represented by Martine Chaisson Gallery in New Orleans. Caroline’s work is on view at many Austin venues, including The Austonian, Lambert’s, and East Side Showroom. Featuring paintings. |
 Ryan Saul website |
Surrealist painter, Ryan Saul, uses bright color, texture, and other media to transmute free flowing imaginative representations onto his work. Art has always been on the forefront of Ryan's life and upbringing. Born to master potter Michael Saul in San Antonio, TX. A Texas Christian University (TCU) graduate majoring in Radio, Television, & Film with a minor in Studio Art. Ryan relocated to Maui, Hawaii in 2002 to explore a career in digital film, portrait, architecture, and nature photography. Ryan along with his wife Ashley, and their two kids moved back to Texas in 2008 and now reside near the South Congress area of Austin known as SOCO. Featuring paintings. |
 Valerie Lei Thomson website |
Valerie Lei Thomson’s sensitive art captures ephemeral moments. In her paintings, fine art jewelry, photography or rare works in clay, she seems to find ways to illuminate an essence. Considered an “intuitive painter” since childhood, Valerie celebrates nature in much of her work, even when only hinting at the intimate connection we share with the natural world. She has lived and created in San Francisco, New York and Florida, before moving back to Texas, her birthplace, in 1983. Her work is always personal. When viewing a small or large work, whether intricate or simple in form, there is always a sense that you stand before a genuine labor of love. Featuring jewelry. |
 Michael Yates website |
Michael Yates Designer and woodworker Michael Yates was born in Austin and raised on the rural North shore of Lake Travis. As part of his electrical engineering and language studies at A&M, he took a job opportunity in Kyoto in 1999, where he had the opportunity to engage some of the finest woodwork in the world on a daily basis. It was here that his relationship with woodworking truly began, and after working in the engineering field back in the states for 3 years and completing a handful of woodworking projects, he left his job in 2003 to pursue his passion for woodworking and start Michael Yates Design, a custom design and woodworking business. A self taught designer and woodworker, he continues to study his craft and lectures for the Japan America Society on the topics of Japanese woodworking, design, and architectural history. Featuring furniture. |
 Lydia Fiedler website |
My name is Lydia Fiedler and I've been an artist since childhood. I have been papercrafting for more than 20 years, and I produce some sort of art every day. I work in papercrafting also, as the Community Manager of Splitcoaststampers.com, and I teach courses in Social Media for artists at local universities and conservatories and for art guilds. I blog at www.understandblue.blogspot.com and have articles and artwork published in numerous papercrafting publications. Featuring papercrafting. |
A Special Drawing
Purchase $10 raffle tickets before the event to win:
Mini Rock 'n Roll:
- Signed Alejandro Escovedo CDs
- Signed children's guitar
- Two guitar lessons with Austin musician and instructor, Tony Redman
- Signed Eric Carle lithograph
Date Night:
- TWO 3-day passes to Austin City Limits Festival, Sept. 16-18, 2011
- Two tickets to Sergio Mendes at the Paramount, includes parking & wine, 11/2/11 8 p.m.
- Romantic 1-night stay at any Omni Hotel & Resort within the US & Canada*
- 60-minute Signature Mokara Massage at the Omni*
All monies from the raffle benefit our school library and media center.
* hotel expires 12/31/11, massage expires 11/2/11
About Magellan
Founded
in 2009, The Magellan International School is an independent,
not-for-profit, school in Austin, Texas, offering Pre-Primary through
4th Grade classes for the 2011-2012 academic year, and adding a class
each subsequent year. The school prepares children to become engaged
Global Citizens of the 21st Century who can meet the challenges and
opportunities facing the world. The School features an International
Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme curriculum within the context of
an Spanish immersion program. Mandarin instruction begins in 3rd grade.
The Magellan International School is accredited by the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools and is currently designated as a
candidate school for the IB Primary Years Programme. For more
information visit
www.magellanschool.org.*Only schools authorized by the International Baccalaureate (IB) as IB World Schools can offer any of its three academic programmes: the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP), the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP), or the IB Diploma Programme. Candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted. For further information about the IB and its programmes, visit http://www.ibo.org.
Giving opportunities at this event and online.
"Say Yes to the Dress!"
Langford Market
September 7th, 6-8 p.m.
249 West 2nd Street
Austin, TX 78701-4158
(512) 482-8500
Wine and snacks provided
15% of all sales go back to MISPA.
Come out and enjoy an evening with other MIS moms while shopping for an outfit for Apertura or any occasion. Or pick up a pair of earrings or a new necklace to freshen up a favorite outfit. Purchases this evening help support MIS. Very reasonably priced items for all budgets and purchase not required to attend!
Thank you to our sponsors:
Larry and Paige Warshaw
Marcos and Theresa Canchola
Hey Cupcake!
BHurdle Photography
Modern Urban Realty
Our Volunteers
Planning and producing such a special and unique event takes a great deal of time, energy, resources and creativity. Thank you to our generous volunteers, musicians and artists, who have made this all possible.
Co-Chairs
Michelle Cherry
Monica Paredes
Production & Donations
Theresa Canchola
Teri Terrazas-Graham
Aruni Gunasegaram
Ely Hobbick
Mita Patel
Laura Walterman
Paige Warshaw
Julie Williamson
Artists & Communications
Marie Morris
Monica Paredes
Jennifer Taylor,
graphic designer: flyer
Joe Felner, Ricoh USA
printing: flyer