Thank you for your interest in promoting and nurturing arts and culture in the Allen community. The member organizations of the Allen Arts Alliance have many exciting events planned for this month.  We hope that you will be pleased to see what we have to offer right here in Allen.  Please forward this message to others who may share your interest in growing the arts and culture of Allen.

The Allen Arts Alliance is pleased to present the Watters Creek Fine Arts Festival.

May 11, 12, & 13 at
Watters Creek at Montgomery Farm

Festival Hours:
Friday 4 pm to Sundown
Saturday 10 am to Sundown
Sunday 10 am to 6 pm

• Gallery quality arts and krafts
• Interactive activities for kids
• Live Music and Entertainment
• Free admission and Parking

Please come and celebrate Mother's Day with us as we present approximately 60 artist booths, make-and-take art activities for kids, live music and entertainment including performances by Allen's Community Theatre, and the Allen High School Jazz Band.

If you are interested in helping at the art festival contact us at office@allenartsalliance.org or sign up online to help man the information booth. 

Monday May 28, 7:00 pm
The Amphitheatre of Joe Farmer Recreation Center

This concert, designed to reflect the true meaning of Memorial Day, is free to the public, encourages the attendance of families, and honors and remembers those who fight for our freedom.  Programming favorites include the Armed Forces Salute, The Stars and Stripes Forever, and other patriotic selections.  The evening will conclude with Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, complete with fireworks.

1940 Census
May 17, 2:00 pm

For anyone researching demographics on ancestors or wanting to establish country of origin of early family members, census records tell a valuable story. Thus, both hobbyist and professional genealogists have reason to celebrate the recent release of the 1940 U.S. Census.

 

After being sealed for 72 years as required by law, the 1940 Census was made public on April 2 of this year. Meg Hacker, Director of Operations for the Southwest Region of National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), will give a thorough background on the 1940 Census as well as how it differs from other census years at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, May 17, at the Allen Public Library.  

 

Sponsored by Bach to Books and the Allen Seniors Genealogy Club, this program is free

  

Yellow Rose of Texas

May 17, 7:00 pm 

 

This legendary western classic will be featured 7 pm, Thursday, May 17, Allen Public Library 300 N. Allen Dr., free.

 

Starring Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Trigger and Brown Jug Reynolds, Trigger gets his share of show time even though a great deal of the film is on a showboat. Songs by the Sons of the Pioneer include "Down Mexico Way," "Show Boat," "Take It Easy," "Timber", "Down in the Old Town Hall," and of course, the title song. This film contains the excitement of a western and entertainment of a musical.

 

 

Modern Mexican Painting

Black Cat by Castillo Oil on canvas. 17 1/8 x14 1/8in. Collection of Andrés Blaisten. Reproduced with the kind permission of Fundación Andrés Blaisten

 

This summer, visitors to the Meadows Museum in Dallas will have the opportunity to experience one of the greatest collections of modern Mexican art in the world. Mexican Modern Painting from the Andrés Blaisten Collection will feature a selection of eighty paintings from this esteemed set.

 

Meadows Museum outreach docent Aleta McGhee will discuss the exhibit and provide a slide presentation at 7:30 pm, Thursday, May 10, at the Allen Public Library. Sponsored by Bach to Books, this program is free.

 

 

Military Heroes Film Series during May

 

"The Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949), 7 pm, Tuesday, May 1, starring John Wayne, John Agar and Adele Mara, a dramatization of the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima.

 

"Twelve O'Clock High" (1949), 7 pm, Tuesday, May 8, winner of two Oscars, starring Gregory Peck, High Marlowe and Gary Merrill, a hard-as-nails general takes over a bomber pilot unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape. 

 

"The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957), 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 15, winner of 7 Oscars, starring William Holden, Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins. After settling his differences with a Japanese POW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors, while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.

 

"The Guns of Navarone" (1961), 7 pm, Tuesday, May 22, winner of Oscar for Best Effects, Special Effects, starring David Niven, Anthony Quinn and Gregory Peck, a British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.

 

The Great Escape" (1963), 7 pm, Tuesday, May 29, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Charles Bronson, Allied POWs plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

For more information about library programs call 214-509-4911