ReelAbilities Houston Presents ReelFilm “Left Alone Rhapsody”

River Oaks Theatre 2009 West Gray St, Houston, TX, United States

Join ReelAbilities Houston for a screening of ReelFilm “Left Alone Rhapsody.” At 25, Leonard Bernstein’s protégé, John Bayless, debuted at Carnegie Hall, launching a 30-year-long recording career as a solo pianist, composer, and improviser. At 54, after a left-brain stroke immobilized his right side, John is determined to reinvent himself as a one-handed musician and […]

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ReelAbilities Houston Presents ReelFilm Mental Health Night featuring “Mind/Game”

River Oaks Theatre 2009 West Gray St, Houston, TX, United States

Join ReelAbilities Houston for a screening of ReelFilm “Mind/Game” on the festival’s Mental Health Night. Billed as the “female Michael Jordan,” basketball phenom Chamique Holdsclaw led Tennessee to three successive championships and became a WNBA number-one pick, Rookie of the Year and All-Star. But her hidden struggle with mental illness led to personal setbacks and […]

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ReelAbilities Houston Presents ReelFilms “To My Father” and “Dear Ani”

River Oaks Theatre 2009 West Gray St, Houston, TX, United States

Join ReelAbilities Houston for screening of two short ReelFilms “To My Father” and “Dear Ani.” In March 2022, Troy Kotsur became the first Deaf man to win the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for CODA. During his emotional acceptance speech, Troy paid tribute to his dad, his “hero.” “To My Father” is the story of […]

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A Voice in the Wilderness

Lambert Hall 1703 Heights Blvd, Houston, TX, United States

Join the Axiom Quartet and University of Houston professor Howard Pollack (author of award-winning biographies of George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Samuel Barber) for A Voice in the Wilderness, a lecture-performance exploring the life and work of the important Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch (1880-1959). Best remembered today for his masterpiece for cello and orchestra, Schelomo, […]

$35.00