The Writer’s Road: Selections from the Sam Shepard papers
The Wittliff Collections are home to the major archive of Sam Shepard, one of the world’s most widely produced—and considered one of the greatest living—American playwrights.
The Writer’s Road is the first-ever comprehensive exhibition from this extensive and illuminating archive, and it celebrates the forthcoming book in the Wittliff’s Southwestern Writers Collection Series: Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark. Edited by Texas State faculty member Chad Hammett, Two Prospectors presents selected correspondence and photographs from Shepard’s archive, chronicling the decades-long friendship between Shepard and Dark, who is Shepard’s former father-in-law from his marriage to actress O-Lan Jones. The Writer’s Road exhibition includes Wittliff materials used by filmmaker Treva Wurmfeld to make the documentary, Shepard & Dark, which won the prize for Best Documentary Feature at the 2012 Woodstock Film Festival, among other awards.Together, the exhibition and new book offer fascinating revelations and insights into the private life, working methods, and creative career of this Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, short-story writer, screenwriter, director, musician, and Academy Award-nominated actor.
Polar Bear Splash at Kyle Pool
Get out your bathing suit and be the first to splash in the new year. The Polar Bear Splash takes place at the Kyle Public Pool on New Year’s Day. Light snacks and drinks available. Pool gates will open at 1 p.m. and the splash takes place at 1:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Voice of Aggieland to perform
On Jan. 11, 2014 the Texas A&M Singing Cadets will perform at the Riverbend Centre in Austin. Known as the “Voice of Aggieland,” the Singing Cadets is an all-male chorus that performs approximately 70concerts each year throughout Texas, the United States and internationally. The Austin concert is sponsored by Austin Texas A&M University Mothers’ Club – more affectionately known as the Austin Aggie Moms. Proceeds from the concert are used to fund scholarships for students attending Texas A&M University. The Singing Cadets perform many different types of music: religious, patriotic, Broadway, school songs, etc. The upcoming concert will be held at 7 p.m.
