Creative

2nd Let’s Play Gaming Expo Kicks Off Saturday in Plano

by | Jun 16, 2016
The event celebrates all things gaming, ranging from the hottest new games to obscure retro classics only the most hardcore fans would recognize.
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festival
Projectors Ready to Roll at Oak Cliff Film Festival
by | Jun 15, 2016
Three Dallas filmmakers will showcase films made with grants from last year's film festival.
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MakerSpace
3 Things We’re Reading: Frisco’s Sci-Tech Discovery Center MakerSpace Opens June 11
by | Jun 3, 2016
Frisco Enterprise reports the Sci-Tech Discovery Center MakerSpace is set to open in Frisco on June 11, sponsored by a $50,000 donation from Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems.
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3 Things We’re Reading: Collin College, Texas Woman’s University Partner on Culinology Degree
by | Jun 2, 2016
Every day Dallas Innovates staffers scour websites looking for the most interesting stories about innovation and creativity.
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art

Dallas-based Nonprofit Takes Art Museum Experience On the Road

by | May 16, 2016
For Love & Art brings the gallery experience to those who can't make it to museums.
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soluna
Grant Enables Dallas Chamber Symphony to Bring Music ‘To the Streets’
by | May 10, 2016
The Dallas Chamber Symphony was recently named one of 64 grant recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts' Our Town program.
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Jacques Laventure
Q&A: ‘Naked Chef’ Jacques Laventure Debuting Wellness Center in Dallas
by | May 9, 2016
Jacques Laventure's newest concept in Dallas packages his expertise in cooking and fitness in what he calls a "one-stop shop" for wellness.
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Markus Reymann: How Art Could Save the Oceans
by | Apr 29, 2016
Can art influence how man affects the climate and the world's oceans. This conservationist believes it can.
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Children

Children’s Garden Designated as Aquatic Science Field Site

by | Apr 13, 2016
The 8-acre garden, which opened at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden in 2013, serves 120,000 children in and around the Dallas area each year. The Texas Aquatic Science curriculum will incorporate the garden’s existing programming.
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XI Marks the Spot for Innovation’s Future
by | Apr 11, 2016
Experience innovation is all about balance. You can’t have too much of one and not enough of the other
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Kids in the Kitchen Serves up Healthy Habits
by | Apr 11, 2016
The program aims at teaching the children about healthy eating and exercise.
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Wheron Doer
Wheron Shows Dallas the Power of Street Art
by | Apr 4, 2016
Will Heron and his team at Wheron are showing people that street art can be a vibrant, colorful addition to the urban scene.
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GALLERY: Dallas Innovates’ Launch Party

by | Mar 31, 2016
On Feb. 25, more than 400 joined us to celebrate Dallas Innovates' launch. It was the same night many of you witnessed the beautiful purple skyline that was a show of support for innovation in the Dallas - Fort Worth region.
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Dallas Theater Center Puts Students in Spotlight
by | Mar 31, 2016
The rigorous theater program, which includes artistic observership, reaches its climax when the students act alongside professionals in a spring semester performance.
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Art for Dumpsters finalist Robert Opal says Dallas is recycling, and even the Pegasus is in on the fun.
Art for Dumpsters Contest Raises Recycling Awareness
by | Mar 23, 2016
Through its Art for Dumpsters contest, the city of Dallas aims to raise awareness of recycling. Artists of all ages submitted dumpster mural designs.
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Roma Boots
Roma Boots Combines Fashion with Philanthropy
by | Mar 21, 2016
It’s due in part to these humble beginnings that Bistrian, founder and CEO of Roma Boots, is driven to help people. He grew up one of 12 siblings in a small town in pre-revolutionary Romania -- and as he puts it, “life was tough.”
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