Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns
Launch Parties featuring Brave Combo
KERA members receive two-for-one tickets.

Date: Friday, July 11, 2008 (Fort Worth) / Saturday, July 12, 2008 (Dallas)

Time: 9 p.m. (both locations)

Location: J&J Blues Bar, 937 Woodward Street, Fort Worth; Poor David's Pub, 1313 S. Lamar Street, Dallas

Carl Finch and Brave Combo are celebrating the launch of the PBS animated series Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns. The Denton-based band did the music for the show. The program premieres Sunday, July 13 at 6:00 p.m. on KERA-TV 13.

KERA Member Discounts for Tickets to ICT MainStage Performances, Irving
KERA Members receive a 50% discount on tickets.
More information at www.irvingtheatre.org and ticket reservations at 972-252-2787.

• Nine by Arthur Kopit with music and lyric by Maury Yetson (July 25-August 9). Based on Italian director Federico Fellini’s comic masterpiece of biographical filmmaking, 8 ½, Maury Yeston’s sultry and enchanting musical follows the life of the world famous director Guido Contini as he prepares his latest picture and balances the numerous women in his life. Mature themes, recommended for ages 16 and up.

ICT MainStage is a KERA Member Rewards Partner.
 

KERA Member Discount
One free child’s admission to special exhibitions with one paid adult admission at The Kimbell Art Museum

Address: 3333 Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth. 817-332-8451. www.kimbellart.org

The spectacular Kimbell Art Museum is a true Texas treasure. The museum’s special summer exhibition is The Impressionists: Master Paintings from The Art Institute of Chicago (June 26-November 2, 2008)

With your KERA Member Discount, bring a child and experience together 92 of the most celebrated works of the great Impressionist painters. The Art Institute’s Impressionist collection has never before left Chicago in such a large group, and it will only be shown at the Kimbell. Manet, Degas, Monet, Renior, Cezanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, and Toulouse-Lautrec … need we say more? This is an exhibition to remember for years.

The Kimbell Museum of Art is a KERA Member Rewards Partner.

 

KERA Member Screening: The Last Conquistador with filmmaker John J. Valadez

Date:    Thursday, July 10, 2008

Time:     Reception with the filmmaker at 6:30 p.m. with screening at 7:00 p.m.

Location: KERA, 3000 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX

Seating limited to 120.  KERA Members please RSVP at 214-740-9238

When the El Paso City Council commissioned a larger-than-life statue of the Spanish Conquistador Juan de Onate, sculptor John Houser conceived his grandest project yet: the largest bronze equestrian statue in the world. He envisioned a magnificent and long-overdue tribute to the contributions of Hispanic culture and history to the United States.

But as recounted in this new documentary, The Last Conquistador, not all was well as the statue’s dedication approached. El Paso’s city council members and John Houser (who worked 10 years on the sculpture)  saw a grand conception transformed in ways unintended, caught up in a whirlwind of unresolved conflicts between races, classes and historical memories.

KERA Member Movie Screening - Young at Heart

Date: Saturday, July 12, 2008
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell Street (at Camp Bowie Boulevard and University Drive) www.themodern.org

Seating is limited to 30 persons. Please RSVP to Marsha Davis Chism, membership department at KERA 214-740-9295. Remember to state which movie you will be attending. Max two reservations per member.

“An irresistibly joyous, tearful, and, most importantly, musical doc about a band of senior pop singers whose repertoire includes Golden Years, Should I Stay or Should I Go, and Stayin’ Alive.”  - John Anderson, Variety

As Stephen Walker’s documentary begins, a New England senior citizens’ chorus led by their strict musical director is rehearsing their new show, struggling with a discordant Sonic Youth number and giving new meaning to James Brown’s I Got You (I Feel Good). What ultimately emerges is a funny and unexpectedly moving testament to friendship, creative inspiration, and reaching beyond expectations.

Young at Heart is part of The Modern Art Museum’s film series Magnolia at The Modern.

KERA Member Discount
Two-for-one admission to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Address: 411 Elm Street, Dallas. 214-747-6660. www.jfk.org

Show your KERA Member Rewards Card to receive the special two-for-one discount.

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is located on the sixth and seventh floors of an early 20th-century warehouse known in 1963 as the Texas School Book Depository. Opened on Presidents Day 1989, the Museum has since welcomed more than 6 million visitors from around the world—people of all ages seeking information and understanding about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. See the exhibitions Filming Kennedy: Home Movies from Dallas, and John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation.

The Sixth Floor Museum is a KERA Member Rewards Partner.
 

The KERA Member Rewards Card offers you discounts to participating museums and galleries, theater, music, and dance. View the Member Rewards Card list of participating partners.

For information about KERA Member Events, call the Member Services staff at 214-740-9252 (during business hours)