Alex Bentley

Since 1992 April has been Stress Awareness Month, a month dedicated to raising awareness of the causes of stress and impact it has on our lives. It’s also dedicated to removing any stigma and shame around mental health issues as a whole.

Fans will get to experience the Nickelodeon animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender in a whole new way when the tour Avatar: The Last Airbender In Concert comes to Bass Concert Hall on Friday, September 20.

The annual Southwest Black Art Show features fine art by nearly 20 artists of African and African American descent. It will showcase original works, including paintings, drawings, printmaking, photography, sculptures, fine art jewelry, mixed media, and more.

+Erba is an interactive show with two dancers who create, with children, an imaginary city. The ‘architect’ dancer observes the landscape and draws the city with houses and streets. The other dancer loves the earth, the insects and draws grass and trees. The two characters move in an empty scene where projections on two large aligned screens evoke a room of wonder.

With this past winter in Dallas-Fort Worth barely happening at all, spring got an early start in the area. But mid-April is typically when spring festival season kicks into high gear, and we're here again to let you know about all of the best options.

Fans will get to experience this Nickelodeon animated series in a whole new way when the tour Avatar: The Last Airbender In Concert comes to Bass Concert Hall on Thursday, September 19.

"A Friendly Game of Basketball" is a solo exhibition by 2023/2024 Artist Studio Program participant Tay Butler. The multi-media exhibition presents Butler’s research of and art engagement with basketball’s racial history and contemporary anti-Black issues. Through various media - including installation, painting, drawing, photography, collage, music, and performance - Butler creates a multi-sensory environment which mirrors basketball’s pre-, post-, and in-game play.

This weekend around Fort Worth gets off to a fast start with competing (or complementary?) art festivals in downtown Fort Worth, as well as a huge gymnastics competition. Other choices over the next four days include three local theater productions, screenings of an acclaimed film, a symphony concert, two country concerts, a car-focused festival, a dance production, and more.

Almost every event on the list this weekend around Dallas will have another one complementing it. There will be performances by three comedians, two local theater productions, two concerts, and two dance performances, one of which will take place alongside a symphony concert. The one outlier will be the return of a long-running film festival.

The recent filmography of writer/director Guy Ritchie defies any kind of logic. He helmed the live-action remake of Aladdin in 2019, followed by a return to action with the trifecta of The Gentlemen, Wrath of Man, and Operation Fortune: Ruse du Guerre. Then, out of nowhere, he delivered a compelling war movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal with The Covenant.