The Grand Ol’ Christmas Show is a tribute to the original, traditional, one hundred-percent red-blooded, two-fisted, all-American old-fashioned Christmas Show. A spectacle of familiar Christmas tunes and classic comedy, the show is presented in the format of a live radio broadcast from 1225 AM N-O-E-L Radio. An original variety show produced by Will Hearn, The Grand Ol’ Christmas Show features Americana band Blue Water Highway, along with a traditional big band, gospel choir, and the best singers and entertainers in Texas. The Grand Ol’ Christmas Show hearkens back to a simpler era and will leave you with a feeling you haven't felt in a long time.

This performance is a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity of Southern Brazoria County, a 501(c)(3) charitable organizations.

Santasaurus will be bringing dinogifts and having supper at Brazosport Museum of Natural Science. Please join him for Dinodogs and Brontosaurus chips!

$10 - Child of BMNS member
$5 - Adult BMNS Member
$15 - Child (non-member)
$10 - Adult (non-member)

An adult must accompany children for the duration of the event.

Holiday Concert featuring
Brazosport Community Chorus
BSO will perform Christmas favorites, including:
Tintinabulations - Pulwar
The Polar Express - Silvestri/Brubaker
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring - Bach/Luck
Around the World at Christmastime - Chase
March of the Toys from Babes in Toyland - Herbert/Langley
Sleigh Ride - Anderson

Brazosport Community Chorus will join the orchestra to perform Franz Schubert’s Mass No. 2 in G Major, as well as several selected Christmas Carols by John Rutter.

Classic Christmas full dome show celebrating the customs
of Christmas and exploring the question, “If the star of Bethlehem
was a natural phenomenon, what might it have been?” Wonderful
for the entire family and includes a beautiful tour of the winter circle
of constellations. Night sky tour and full dome show.

Tuesday, December 4, 11, 18
Friday, December 28
Adults: $5
Student: $3

Twelve Heads Are Better Than One: Three Days of Focused Peer Critiquing

Ron Rozelle offers up-close and personal perusals and critiques of story or memoir ideas and several pages of first draft manuscripts. The workshop promises to be great fun for beginners as well as serious writers. You will go away with an abundance of ideas and new useful ways to plan effectively and write clearly and well.
Educators looking for ways to improve students’ planning and writing, and new ways to have them look deeper into reading assignments will benefit and receive inservice credit from their districts.
Bring what you are working on (no major profanity, politics, or proselytizing please), or just show up to listen and learn.

Bring double-spaced, 12 pt. font, typed pages on first day for critiquing. Space is limited. Ages 18+

Jan. 4 & 5, 2019 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Jan. 6, 2019 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
$175 (non-members) $150 (BFAC members)

Live Narrated interactive show – What will you find in one of Hubble’s deepest views of our universe yet?

$5 - Adult
$3 - Child

The Brazosport Archaeological Society invites YOU to join us in our study of the prehistory and history of the lower Brazos River region. The Society was created to stimulate an active interest in the discovery, conservation, and salvage of archaeological sites, and the recording and preservation of archaeological remains using scientific procedures.

Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at Brazosport Museum of Natural Science, located in The Center for the Arts & Sciences.
Meeting time: 7:30 P.M.

Enter the lobby from the East side of the building (down the walkway from the BASF Planetarium).

Pianist Gayle Martin Henry will perform Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16 by Edvard Grieg. She achieved international prominence as the sole American laureate of the sixth International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow. Notable appearances include Houston Symphony, Moscow Radio Philharmonic, Maracaibo Symphony, Denver Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, among many others.
She has toured throughout South America including an engagement at
Teatro Colón with Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Argentina.

This concert will also feature a performance of the winning piece from the Brazosport Symphony Orchestra Composition Competition and will showcase several of the soloists within the orchestra. The concert will close with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol.

Gayle Martin Henry’s appearance is made possible by a generous donation from Forrest and Carole Mobley.

Jazz and classical saxman, Jeff Kashiwa has nine solo CD’s and appearances with The Rippingtons and The Sax Pack. He joins Brazosport Symphony Orchestra in Nelson Riddle arrangements of Gershwin’s Someone to Watch Over Me Johnny Mercer’s Too Marvelous for Words and Temptation from the Charlie Parker songbook.

As promised, this is an INTERACTIVE! concert.

We will open with Bernstein’s Overture to Candide and Mozart’s Oboe Concerto with principal Annette Garrett alongside Jeff on a Unique Electronic Wind Instrument After a quick lesson, volunteers from the audience will be chosen to conduct BSO.

A Young Melody Composer contest launches in local schools this fall, with the melodies of 2 winners to be combined by local composer and conducted by the winners and Mr. Casey. The audience joins in on the finale to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.

From storms that would swallow Earth raging on Jupiter to the icy realms of comets, this show uses the revolutionary discoveries of space missions to give a three-dimensional journey through the worlds of our outer solar system.

This presentation is narrated by Star Trek's John Billingsley.

The finale of the BSO’s season will feature the finalists from the Whit Phillips Young Artist Competition. In addition to performing solos, these students will also have an opportunity to perform on the second half of the concert with the orchestra. This portion of the concert will feature music with a space theme including: Jupiter and Mars from The Planets by Holst, Space Oddity (Bowie/Charvat), and a Star Wars Medley (Williams).