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The one event you absolutely cannot miss this summer is the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Music Festival celebrating Tchaikovsky’s 150th birthday. Pinches Zuckerman will act as principal festival conductor, so you know this is big. The month-long event, June 26-July 21, will Include orchestra end chamber performances, solo recitals, films, and lectures. Call 954-1700 for specific performances and dates.

A TREW STORY

PROFILE Mark Trew is a very curiousfellow. For the past 20 years this British-born photographer has allowed hiscuriosity to take him around the world,capturing it with his lens. After a brief tourof his Deep Ellum studio/gallery, you knowhis days were productive. Photos areeverywhere-stacked on tables, leaningagainst wails; some framed, others waitingto be. But Trew’s gallery isn’t for his ownnarcissistic pleasure. It exists so otherphotographers will have a place to displaytheir work. His Dallas space is also affiliatedwith a gallery in London, a connection thatallows him access to European photographersand gives local talent the opportunity toexhibit both here and abroad. Trew says hisonly real theme is one of internationalawareness. He’s moved by photographywith a global point of view-he wants you tobe, too. -Anne Warren

A Multicultural Awakening at Theatre 3

THEATER With a seven-day festival in June, Theatre 3 reaffirms its belief that theater can do more than entertain. It can enlighten, stimulate, and even act as a balm to salve the often painful realities of the American minority experience.

“Voices Unsilenced: A Multicultural Awakening” began three years ago “out of a need for ethnic actors to showcase their talents and perform works that are written by, for, and about them ” says Cheryle Washington, project coordinator for the festival. “Historically there is no better forum than theater for impacting on all levels-socially, emotionally, and politically.”

This year’s festival will feature 12 “mini” plays written by minority students and playwrights and two major one-act plays. It will also include dance, poetry, and film, including a screening of the USA Film Festival winner Hannah and the Dog Ghost, based on an African-American folk tale.

“Voices Unsilenced” runs June 1-4 and 8-10 at Theatre 3.871-2933. -Rosalyn Story

Juneteenth’s 125th Anniversary

CULTURE When the ads broke for June’s Starplex concerts, Benson & Hedges was once again sponsoring blues on Juneteenth, just like last year. But this year, the South Dallas Cultural Center won’t be a part of it.

Juneteenth, the day celebrating the military emancipation of slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865, has been freed from cigarette advertising. “I’m not interested in seeing kids advertised to about cigarettes and alcohol anyway,” says center director Leslie Leach, who acknowledges that it was Benson & Hedges’ idea not to participate after company execs heard children’s events would be included in the June 17th program.

The center’s monthly jazz concert, usually scheduled from 4-6 p.m. on the fourth Sunday of each month, will now be part of the festivities at Fair Park’s 125th anniversary of emancipation celebration on June 16 and 17. Blues artist R.L. Griffin will perform at 1 p.m. and a program from the historical group Black Dallas Remembered and three center-sponsored practicum groups performing African drumming, dancing, and choral singing will be featured.

Also during June, the center will exhibit the works of artists who have shown there since its inception in 1986 in an exhibit titled Kinfolks, under the curatorship of local artist Jean Lacy, whose work is shown below.

Juneteenth at Fair Park, June 16 & 17. Kinfolks at the South Dallas Cultural Center, 3400 S. Fitzhugh. 426-1806.

-Michael Pellecchia

THE NEW APPENDAGE Recently seen attached to an astonishing number of Dallasites: the personal, portable telephone. We find it a frightening development. Is this the new technological umbilical cord for a neurotic society afraid of being out of touch? What next? Surgical phone implants? Babies born with dial tones?

PLASMAWHA?

Take your basic Plasmatron. Throw in a few heated gas molecules. Nuke ’em with 50,000 volts of electricity, and voilà- Plasmatography. It’s a new art form and it’s on view at Flip’s Wine Bar & Trattoria until June 16. {Don’t try this at home.)

Camping Naturally

THE NAKED CITY A few years back we rustled up the courage to visit the Bluebonnet nudist camp near Decatur for a look-see. And, sure enough, there they were. Nekkid people, whole families of them. All ages. All sexes. Doing all kinds of family-oriented stuff. Badminton. Crafts. Softball. Swimming. Now that the weather is warm enough, this is a vacation option you may want to consider. Or, maybe not.

But first of all, what has to be said up front is, after you’ve seen one you haven’t seen them alt, not by a long shot-but after you’ve seen about 40 or 50 of both genders, in all shapes and sizes, you will quickly grow tired of looking at them. And when you do, an interesting dynamic kicks in. It’s, well, kind of natural.

Bluebonnet is a 66-acre wooded park in a country setting with all the amenities, like a pool, sauna, and volleyball and tennis courts. Manager Arthur Moss says nearly all the 200-plus members are families or couples. Call Bluebonnet for membership information.

Jeff Provence, operations manager at the Pondarosa Ranch near Wills Point, estimates that at least 60 percent of his 600-plus membership are families. A year’s membership here is about $395.

For the full skinny:

Pondarosa Ranch, (214) 873-3311.

Bluebonnet, (817) 627-2313.

-Brad Bailey

Hoops Hysteria: Year IV

SPORTS Hoop-It-Up, the street-basketball phenomenon created by former D Magazine publisher Terry Murphy, returns to the asphalt in Dallas’s West End for its fourth edition, June 22-24, with the championships of the double-elimination tournament set for Sunday afternoon. If you haven’t been keeping tabs on the former Hoop-D-Do (we liked the old name better, naturally), the three-on-three half-court competition has expanded to 21 other US. cities, brought in Pizza Hut and Pepsi as corporate sponsors, and received a commitment from NBC to telecast the 1990 national championship next December at a site and date yet to be determined.

Murphy, who used to outline his concept for hoops hysteria on cocktail napkins at McKinney Avenue eateries, has seen the Dallas event mushroom to nearly 12,000 players attracting weekend crowds estimated at more than 100,000. It’s no coincidence or statistical aberration that while 95 percent of the Hoop-It-Up contestants are men, more than 50 percent of the spectators are not. In fact, next to the GTE Byron Nelson Classic, this is the best people-watching event on the Dallas sports scene. Other Hoop-It-Up bests:

Time to watch: Friday night. You can see the exotics-the slam-dunk contest and the long-distance shoot-out- plus the first-round games of the top 32 men’s teams. You might even catch an evening breeze.

Way to build a team: have four players, not three. Start with a penetrating guard who can break down a defense; add an outside shooter who can bury the jump shot; have a banger inside to rebound and clog up the lane; round out the lineup with a swing man who can both penetrate off the dribble and stick the outside shot.

For more information call 954-0200.

-Russ Pate

Eggers Roll Into Dallas

EGGSHIBITION It would be easy to dismiss Eggs-ibit International 1990 as an arts and crafts show with a touch of camp. It would be easy-but unfair. Yes, there are plenty of eggs masquerading as Cinderella carriages, animals, and even people. But some of them are truly works of art. And if you consider that eggers travel to Dallas from as far away as Australia and that their decorated eggs have been known to sell for hundreds or even thousands of dollars, you have to take them seriously.

“Thirty-five years ago, my mother and I thought we were the only two eggers in the world,” says Jane Crawley. Now she knows better, having brought artists together for 16 years as organizer of the Dallas show, the nation’s biggest.

Crawley expects about 100 artists for this year’s exhibit, from noon to 5 p.m., June 9-10, at the Colony Parke Hotel.

Decorating everything from petite finch eggs to melon-sized ostrich eggs, some artists spend months on their creations, which run the gamut from silly to sublime, tarted-up to truly exquisite. Gilted and bejeweled or elegantly hand-paint-ed in the ancient motifs of a Rus-sian icon or a Navajo rug, the amazingly diverse eggs emerge with little in common beyond avian origin and an appeal that Crawley says always surprises first-time visitors to the show. -Renée J. Kientz

Theater As Big As Texas

GETAWAY It’s off-Broadway… way off-Broadway… but it’s quite a show, anyway. Texas, the big outdoor musical drama by Paul Green, will be packing them in again for its 25th season in Palo Duro Canyon out in West Texas, starting June 13. With a cast of dozens and with a set that is literally as big as all outdoors, Texas is real Texas-sized theater.

The plot is as broad and featureless as the Staked Plains: cattleman versus sodbuster, with a few romantic triangles and some comic relief thrown in. But whatever the story lacks in subtlety, the performance more than makes up for in spectacle. There’s plenty of singing and dancing, some pretty good horsemanship, chases, gunfights, and a hair-raising lightning and thunderstorm scene that should wake up anyone who has somehow managed to sleep through everything else.

The Pioneer Amphitheatre, nestled up against a 600-foot cliff in the canyon bottom, seats 1,700, and the place is full almost every night, so it’s important to phone ahead for tickets. A barbecue is served on the theater grounds just before sunset each evening. Temperatures range from slightly chilly early in the season to just about perfect in July and August. The scenery is unsurpassed, the folks are friendly, and the stars at night are-what else?-big and bright.

Performances at 8:30 nightly, exceptSundays, through August 25. Theamphitheater is located in Palo DuroState Park, ten miles west of Canyon.Tickets are $6-$10 for adults, $3-$10 forchildren under 12. For information call, (806) 655-2181. -Ken Barrow

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