Nancy Newberry, Mum
The Dishman Art Museum is hosting MUM: Nancy Newberry, right, through Nov. 9.
Today, the homecoming mum ritual has expanded to include elaborate local customs that vary from school to school. Award-winning fine art photographer Nancy Newberry captures this phenomenon in the context of current teenage cultural traditions and rites of passage attached to the uniquely Texas custom of the homecoming mum.
Native Texan Newberry’s focus on the ritual may at first appear lighthearted, but themes of self-representation and the dynamics of current teenage social landscape are apparent through her process and unexpected juxtapositions of the subjects photographed in their own private world.
Newberry’s masterful photographic skills combined with a unique sensitivity to the subject have gained much deserved international attention.
The Dishman is located at 1030 East Lavaca St. on the Lamar University campus.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday. Admission is free.
For details, visit www.lamar.edu/dishman, or call 409-880-8959.
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Port Arthur Little Theater is currently presenting let the Right One In.
The play is described as an enchanting, brutal vampire myth and coming-of-age love story, adapted from the best-selling novel and award-winning film. Directed by Jeff Courts.
Show dates are Oct. 26 and 27, Nov. 2 and 3, at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $20 and are available online at palt.org or by calling 409-727-PALT
Oskar is a bullied lonely teenage boy living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town when a spate of sinister killings rock the neighborhood. Eli is the young girl who has just moved in next door. She doesn’t go to school and never leaves the flat by day. Sensing in each other a kindred spirit, the two become devoted friends. What Oskar doesn’t know is that Eli has been a teenager for a very long time.
This is the first event of the theater’s partnership with Max Bowl Port Arthur, located at 3500 Regional Drive.
This is a special event and is not included in season membership packages.
PALT is located at 4701 Jimmy Johnson Blvd. in Port Arthur.