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We have a great opportunity to win two awards totaling $105,000 for La Reunion, but it will require everyone's help for the next thirty days. We are enlisting your support in an exciting awards program presented by ReZoom.com, entitled A Better World. In total, ReZoom.com is awarding over $200,000 to more than 20 charitable organizations. We are already nominated for the Regional Awards. Regional award winners will each receive a $5,000, and then we will qualify for the $100,000 National Award!Please go to http://www.rezoom.com/ every day between March 1 and March 31 and cast a vote for us.Your participation is easy!
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With your help we have a great chance to win a regional award. If this happens, we will notify you and let you know when the National period begins.We can show the country just how active our supporters are! Please forward this letter to your email lists of friends and family. Just think, for every 100 of you that send this message to 10 friends, who then send it to 10 friends - we will receive 10,000 votes...a day!! With your help - we can do it.
Monday, March 05, 2007
Saturday, March 03, 2007
april calendar of events. something for everyone.
April 3, 6:30PM-8:00PM – Kick-off dinner at Tin Star. 20% of dinner sales benefit La Reunion.
Uptown Tin Star
2626 Howell Street, #100
Dallas, Texas 75204
214-999-0059
April 14, 11AM-5PM – Scriptwriting for Graphic Novels at the MAC. Ever want to know the finer points of writing a comic book? How to deal with that script once it’s turned over to an illustrator? How do these same collaborative issues affect playwrights and screen writers? $20 in advance or $25 at the door – includes lunch. Email sarah@LaReunionTX.org
McKinney Avenue Contemporary
3120 McKinney Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75204
214-953-1212
April 21, 10:30AM-2:30PM – How Important Are We: Dallas Fort Worth: the next New York City? DADA presents two panel discussions for the public on how curators, directors and art critics answer this question. La Reunion is a community partner is this presentation. Admission will be $30 for two panels or $20 for one panel. (Students with IDs may enter at $10 per panel). Proceeds will benefit the Edith Baker Art Scholarship Fund. Lunch will be available for sale at the site. Call 214-943-1099 to register and reserve a lunch.
Latino Cultural Center
2600 Live Oak (at Good-Latimer)
Dallas, Texas 75204
April 22, 11AM-5PM – Oak Cliff Earth Day in Lake Cliff Park. Join state and local environmental, conservation, and wildlife groups, garden clubs, "green" businesses, city departments, state agencies, cycling, running, and hiking clubs, schools, and arts groups. Help make Oak Cliff's celebration of Earth Day (April 22nd) one of the largest in the State of Texas. www.oakcliffearthday.com FREE
Lake Cliff Park
Zang at Colorado Boulevards
Dallas, Texas 75203
April 28, 6PM-11PM – La Reunion Birthday Party at Sons of Hermann Hall.
Confirmations thus far include organic fair trade coffee and chips & salsa from Crosby Café & Catering, door prizes from MAKE, Pandemonium, Green Living, and From the Ends of the Earth, Paul Slavens' Texclectic Unsemble (a rock/improv hybrid), jazz by the John Holiday Band, and the Booker T. Washington Latin Jazz Ensemble. Break dancers, mariachis, and dance lessons in the works. More details coming! $10 admission. For $15 more, shuttle to the DMA for a special late-night tour... keep reading!
Sons of Hermann Hall
3414 Elm Street
Dallas, Texas 75226
214-747-4422
April 29, 12AM-1:30AM – After the Sons party, shuttle over for a late-night tour of Fast Forward (backwards) at the DMA, led by Susan Cuellar, a longtime docent and mom to president of the LRTX board, Catherine Cuellar. $15 (includes museum admission for the DMA Late-Night regular activities. payable at the Sons event.)
April 29, 1PM – La Reunion lecture at the DMA in the Orientation Theatre. Rose-Mary Rumbley leads a discussion of the lasting cultural impact this French colony has had on the formation of Dallas. Free with regular museum admission.
Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street
Dallas, Texas 75201
214-954-0234
The original La Reunion colonists arrived in Dallas from Europe in 1855 on April 22, which is now celebrated as Earth Day. This April the newly-formed La Reunion TX celebrates its first anniversary in Oak Cliff. Thanks for making it a great year - hopefully the first of many!
Uptown Tin Star
2626 Howell Street, #100
Dallas, Texas 75204
214-999-0059
April 14, 11AM-5PM – Scriptwriting for Graphic Novels at the MAC. Ever want to know the finer points of writing a comic book? How to deal with that script once it’s turned over to an illustrator? How do these same collaborative issues affect playwrights and screen writers? $20 in advance or $25 at the door – includes lunch. Email sarah@LaReunionTX.org
McKinney Avenue Contemporary
3120 McKinney Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75204
214-953-1212
April 21, 10:30AM-2:30PM – How Important Are We: Dallas Fort Worth: the next New York City? DADA presents two panel discussions for the public on how curators, directors and art critics answer this question. La Reunion is a community partner is this presentation. Admission will be $30 for two panels or $20 for one panel. (Students with IDs may enter at $10 per panel). Proceeds will benefit the Edith Baker Art Scholarship Fund. Lunch will be available for sale at the site. Call 214-943-1099 to register and reserve a lunch.
Latino Cultural Center
2600 Live Oak (at Good-Latimer)
Dallas, Texas 75204
April 22, 11AM-5PM – Oak Cliff Earth Day in Lake Cliff Park. Join state and local environmental, conservation, and wildlife groups, garden clubs, "green" businesses, city departments, state agencies, cycling, running, and hiking clubs, schools, and arts groups. Help make Oak Cliff's celebration of Earth Day (April 22nd) one of the largest in the State of Texas. www.oakcliffearthday.com FREE
Lake Cliff Park
Zang at Colorado Boulevards
Dallas, Texas 75203
April 28, 6PM-11PM – La Reunion Birthday Party at Sons of Hermann Hall.
Confirmations thus far include organic fair trade coffee and chips & salsa from Crosby Café & Catering, door prizes from MAKE, Pandemonium, Green Living, and From the Ends of the Earth, Paul Slavens' Texclectic Unsemble (a rock/improv hybrid), jazz by the John Holiday Band, and the Booker T. Washington Latin Jazz Ensemble. Break dancers, mariachis, and dance lessons in the works. More details coming! $10 admission. For $15 more, shuttle to the DMA for a special late-night tour... keep reading!
Sons of Hermann Hall
3414 Elm Street
Dallas, Texas 75226
214-747-4422
April 29, 12AM-1:30AM – After the Sons party, shuttle over for a late-night tour of Fast Forward (backwards) at the DMA, led by Susan Cuellar, a longtime docent and mom to president of the LRTX board, Catherine Cuellar. $15 (includes museum admission for the DMA Late-Night regular activities. payable at the Sons event.)
April 29, 1PM – La Reunion lecture at the DMA in the Orientation Theatre. Rose-Mary Rumbley leads a discussion of the lasting cultural impact this French colony has had on the formation of Dallas. Free with regular museum admission.
Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street
Dallas, Texas 75201
214-954-0234
The original La Reunion colonists arrived in Dallas from Europe in 1855 on April 22, which is now celebrated as Earth Day. This April the newly-formed La Reunion TX celebrates its first anniversary in Oak Cliff. Thanks for making it a great year - hopefully the first of many!
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