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Creative Writing Short Films

UncategorizedBy HSPVA Friends June 25, 2026

Check out these short films by Kinder HSPVA Creative Writing students! Gifts to HSPVA Friends provide adjunct faculty who teach screenwriting and filmmaking, as well as cameras, audio equipment, and editing software. “Ruby, Bee, and the Big Blue Sea” by Christine Novelero ’26 https://hspvafriends.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ruby-Bee.mp4 “Good Intentions” by Ana Alonso ’26 https://hspvafriends.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Good-Intentions.mp4 “Hey, Mom” by Valeria Orozco ’26 https://hspvafriends.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Valeria-Orozcos-Lumiere-Film-_Hey-mom_.mp4

Encore 50: Celebration & Performances at Miller Outdoor Theatre

UncategorizedBy HSPVA Friends January 28, 2022

Part I: Party in the Park Part II: Celebration & Performances Part III: After-Party Celebration & Performances Miller Outdoor Theatre // 6000 Hermann Park Drive 8:15pm Free to the public Kinder HSPVA’s Encore 50 invites audiences of all ages to join the party as Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts celebrates fifty…

Encore 50: Toast to the Next 50 Years

UncategorizedBy HSPVA Friends January 28, 2022

Part I: Party in the ParkPart II: Celebration & Performances Part III: A Toast to the Next 50 Years After-Party: A Toast to the Next 50 Years Axelrad Beer Garden // 1517 Alabama Street 10:00pm – Midnight $75/person; Advanced registration required. CHAIRED BY FARELL MARBLESTONE DIAMOND (VOCAL ’93), MATTHEW JAMISON (THEATRE ’10), & CHIARRA ELAYDA…

Encore 50: Party in the Park Fundraising Event

UncategorizedBy HSPVA Friends January 26, 2022

Part I: Party in the Park Part II: Celebration & PerformancesPart III: After-Party Party in the Park Lott Hall in Hermann Park // 6201 Hermann Park Drive 6:00-7:30pm $500 – $50,000 CHAIRED BY PATRICIA BONNER, BOB EURY, & KAREN OSTRUM GEORGE COMMUNITY HONOREES: PHOEBE & BOBBY TUDOR CORPORATE HONOREE: BROOKFIELD PROPERTIES All proceeds benefit current…

Fifty Years of Excellence: Elissa R. Sloan (Visual Art ’03)

UncategorizedBy HSPVA Friends January 20, 2022

Elissa R. Sloan (Visual Art ’03) is the author of 2020’s The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes, “a page-turning peek inside the glamour and brutality of life as a pop star.” Elissa didn’t always plan to be a writer — she studied dark-room photography at HSPVA! She began the project that became her first book in…

Fifty Years of HSPVA Memories

50th Anniversary, Alumni News, UncategorizedBy HSPVA Friends September 20, 2021

During the summer of 2021, our intern Alexa Halim (Dance ’21) interviewed four former and current faculty members of Kinder HSPVA who had either taught with or attended each of the school’s three campuses to learn as much as she could about the last fifty years of HSPVA. The 2021-2022 school year marks the 50th…

3 Things to Know About 2020 Distinguished Alum Will Boone (’01)

Alumni News, UncategorizedBy hspvaadmin January 8, 2020

2020 is the first year HSPVA Friends will honor not one but TWO Distinguished Alumni — siblings Rhoda Boone Lane (Visual Arts ’97) and Will Boone (Visual Arts ’01) — at the 14th Annual Encore Luncheon! For table and ticket purchases at our event honoring Will and his sister Rhoda, visit us here. 1. Houston is a huge part of…

December Alumni Spotlights

Alumni News, UncategorizedBy hspvaadmin December 13, 2019

Chandler Foreman (Instrumental ’15, pictured above) was crowned Miss Texas back in July, and next week, she’ll compete in Miss America 2.0. She is using her reign to advance social service projects near and dear to her heart, including leadership education. Learn more about her projects here, and be sure to cheer her on at the competition, which you…

HSPVA Friends’ Holiday Performance Guide

Alumni News, UncategorizedBy hspvaadmin November 27, 2019

Each year, Houston’s diverse arts community offers family fun for every holiday tradition, and Kinder HSPVA students and alumni are involved in many of them! To help spread their cheer, we compiled a 2019 Holiday Performance Guide. And, of course, December is packed with events in our own Kinder HSPVA 2019-2020 Season! The 100th Annual Reliant…

A New HSPVA Logo for a New Era

School News, UncategorizedBy hspvaadmin June 12, 2018

Drumroll, please! In preparation for the upcoming school year, we are proud to introduce HSPVA’s new logo! Why the new look? With the long-awaited new campus set to open in January 2019, the move presented the perfect opportunity for a refresh! HSPVA’s brand has been going strong for almost half a century. We all know…

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