SUNDAY, Jan. 7, 7 p.m.

Lecture: ‘Play it as it Lays’
Presenter: Joan Didion, award-winning essayist, novelist, and screenwriter. Didion is the author of the 2005 National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking. The reading is sponsored by UH’s Creative Writing Program and Inprint Inc. At the Cullen Theater, Wortham Center, 501 Texas Avenue. $20 general admission.
For more information: 713-521-2026.
www.inprint-inc.org/Didion.htm

SATURDAY, Jan. 20 - SATURDAY, March 31

Blaffer Gallery Exhibition: One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now
This exhibition features new paintings, sculptures, installations and video works by seventeen emerging Asian American artists born in the late 1960s and 1970s. The title is drawn from a 1978 Blondie hit. While indicative of the visible influence of popular culture on these artists’ work, it also hints at the cultural duality informing each artist’s existence and the degree to which this duality may or may not inform their practice.
www.class.uh.edu/blaffer/exhibitions

THURSDAY, Jan. 25 - MONDAY, Jan. 29

Opera: 'Cosi Fan Tutte'
Love the one you're with. The battle of the sexes was never so bittersweet as in Mozart's delightful, timeless comedy. At the Moores Opera House. Performances January 25, 27, 28 and 29 at 7:30 p.m.
www.music.uh.edu/events/schedule_opera.html

FRIDAY, Feb. 9

24th Annual International Piano Festival
Abbey Simon Recital, and Olga Kern and Enrique Graf. 7:30 p.m. at the Moores School of Music Opera House.
www.uh.edu/music

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