Leap Day! I’m sure all of you will make the most of the extra 24 hours, much like Christopher Columbus did when he used his knowledge of this lunar curiosity to scam indigenous Americans out of their stuff.
I have very clear memories of my elementary school art teacher, Ms. Larson, not because she was wonderful and fostered a life-long love for tempera paint but because she took great delight in calling me “Elizabeth Two-by-four,” an annoying bastardization of my somewhat unusual middle name. Needless to say, I still hold a grudge and I can’t draw a decent stick person to save my life. However, I’m always open to throwing some paint around when it’s all in good fun and no one will heckle me (too much). Painting and Drinking, an event the lovely and talented Laura Kostelny pointed us to on Monday on the DHome blog, sounds like a blast. Mary Fadian, owner of Mary’s Finds, will lead the evening, and she’ll provide all the supplies you might need to make a piece of modern art you won’t be embarrassed to hang on your wall. Just show up with friends and booze.
Otherwise, you can join the folks at the Dallas Architecture Forum for a talk with Jason Roberts, founder of the Better Block Project, co-founder of Art Conspiracy and Bike Friendly Oak Cliff, and founder of the Oak Cliff Transit Authority. Zac did a Q&A with him back in 2009, in which Roberts already sounded like the Tasmanian devil of community organizing. Tonight he’ll talk mostly about Better Block, an intense urban design demonstration that builds out areas in need of redevelopment (Roberts explains it so much better here). And I know. I’m directing you the Magnolia Theatre, again. Sorry. But our own Peter Simek has called Roberts an effective urban advocate, and it’s worth your time to hear what he has to say.
For more to do tonight, go here.
