Photo by the muy talented Sarah Jane Semrad

La-La-La Reunion time!

The mission of La Reunion is to inspire, renew, and sustain artists and community through education, outreach, and residencies.

La Reunion is a Texas not-for-profit organization founded in 2006 to establish an artist residency program in Dallas. Our future home will be located on 35 wooded acres in west Oak Cliff, seven miles from downtown Dallas. We will provide housing and studio space to traditional and new media artists, and our intimate gallery / installation / performance space called ‘the living room’ will be open to the public. Artists on the local, national, and international levels will be encouraged to apply for residencies ranging from one week to one year.

April is La Reunion month!

Saturday, April 14, 11am to 5pm – Scriptwriting for Graphic Novels workshop
Ever want to know the finer points of writing a comic book? How about how to deal with that script once turned over to an illustrator? How do these same issues affect playwrights and screenwriters? Join us for a workshop covering these ideas and more. Register now!
The MAC

Saturday, April 21, 10:30am to 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

Sunday, April 22, 11am to 5pm
Oak Cliff Earth Day
Help make Oak Cliff’s celebration of Earth Day one of the largest in the State of Texas with over 150 state and local environmental, conservation, and wildlife groups; garden clubs; “green” businesses; city departments and state agencies; cycling, running, and hiking clubs; schools; and arts groups.
Lake Cliff Park

Saturday, April 28 7pm to midnight
La Reunion’s First Birthday party
Texclectic Paul Slavens, breakdancers from the DiverseSoulz dance troupe, Dallas Latin All-Stars (featuring alumni from the Booker T. Washington Latin Jazz Ensemble and the UNT One O’Clock Lab Band) and more. Free salsa dance lessons and free chips and salsa from Crosby Café & Catering. Door prizes from Green Living, MAKE, From The Ends of The Earth, Pandemonium, and Petropolitan. Only $10!
Sons of Hermann Hall

“Fugue 12″ by Paul Slavens

Midnight to 1:30am – After the Sons party, shuttle over for a late-night tour of Fast Forward (backwards) at the Dallas Museum of Art, led by Susan Cuellar, a longtime docent and mom to president of the LRTX board, Catherine Cuellar. $15 includes transportation and museum admission for the DMA Late Night regular activities, payable at the Sons event.

Sunday, 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

“Drinking On The Job” - The Happy Bullets