LIFE DEEP IN THE ART VISIT LUBBOCK
For visiting hours, descriptions, and locations of Lubbock’s museums, galleries, theatres, and cultural landmarks, search by category at
VisitLubbock.org.
Visitors wanting to locate live music events in town should sign up for the “I Love Lubbock music!” on Facebook, a closed group that shares details about more than a dozen events around town daily/nightly.
Performing arts and exhibi- tion schedules, including those of Texas Tech University and its Presidential Lecture Series; Lubbock Christian University; the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra; Ballet Lubbock; Lubbock Moonlight Musicals; Lubbock Community Theatre; Civic Lubbock; and the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center can be searched on the websites of their respective institutions, and on the follow- ing helpful sites:
lubbockonline.com/life/GO!
LubbockInTheLoop.com LubbockFunClub.com
“Texas Rising” by Blessing Hancock and Joe O’Connell was installed in 2014 at Texas Tech University’s West Village Dorm.
For information on exhibitions, classes, studios, and other events at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, call (806) 762-8606 or visit
www.lhuca.org. Download the free First Friday Art Trail mobile app from your favorite app store or visit
ffat.org.
W LUBBOCK: by BARBARA BRANNON L
UBBOCK, TEXAS, as a magnet for the arts? Come on. You won’t find a Guggenheim or a Hermitage or a Palace out here in the windy flatlands, no less a Kennedy Center or a Menil or a Met. But hey, we’re working on it. What Lubbock lacks in Louvres it more than makes up for in the passion of its community for the visual, performing and literary arts, in ways that richly reward the traveler seeking a refreshing break from the Lone Star State’s bigger metro areas. As the Hub City
for commerce and transportation serving a two-hour radius of a million people, Lubbock has evolved over the past four decades into a true hub for arts and artists as well.
Lubbock’s Arts Heritage MOST TEXANS can point to the international influ- ence of Lubbock’s native musical son, Buddy Holly, the pathbreaking rock ’n’ roll guitarist and songwriter who gave us “Peggy Sue” and “Rave On” and “That’ll Be the
Lubbock Arts Festival est Texas hub of the arts
April 16–17, 2016, Lubbock Memorial Civic Center,
1501 Mac Davis Lane, Lubbock, TX 79401 For more info contact the Lubbock Arts Alliance,
lubbockartsfestival.org, (806) 744-ARTS (2787).
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