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14 Pews

14 Pews is a nonprofit microcinema, which is passionate about enriching lives through the positive, transformational power of the visual arts.
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14 Pews is a mission-driven 501[c]3 nonprofit microcinema, which is passionate about enriching lives through the positive, transformational power of the visual arts. It was founded in 2010 by Houston filmmaker, Cressandra Thibodeaux. It is housed in a 1924 wooden church which was converted into an art house. The first 14 Pews event was in September 2010. In March 2011, 14 Pews received its nonprof

it status and is currently a member of the Houston Arts Alliance. Our programs encourage dialogue after each cultural event because we want to hear from all the voices of Houston.

14 Pews is also available as a rental venue for parties concerts, or private film screenings! In addition to the theater, we also have a gorgeous 'backyard' that's perfect for your next outdoor event!

14 Pews first began its Artist-in-Residency Program in 2011 to promote & encourage artists by giving them full use of the theater to create new works for an entire year. 14 Pews provides the space; a stipend from the box office income, & marketing. Since 2011, 14 Pews has supported, & promoted 11 talented artists. From 2011-2014 14 Pews has had 4 gifted artists in residence. The 2011 artist-in-residence, performance artist Emily Sloan, created 4 site-specific performances. In 2012, visual artist & electronic musician Sandy Ewen, created 3 concerts & 2 art shows. In 2013, it was playwright Elizabeth Keel, who created a full-length site-specific play, performed 2 one-acts, & had a reading of her novel. In 2014, we had Two Star Symphony (8 musicians & composers), who created a live original score to the classic film, "Girl Shy" & several original musical works. In June 2012, 14 Pews launched its summer Film Academy to at-risk students who were economically disadvantaged at Reagan High School. The goal of the Film Academy is to keep unsupervised "latch-key" students engaged in positive and creative activities that would be beneficial to the students and their community. Cressandra Thibodeaux plus 11 guest lecturers taught the 3-week workshop. The class culminated in a Student Film Festival, which was opened to the general public. Since 2010, 14 Pews has:
-- Screened over 400 Independent films, documentaries, narrative, experimental and short films.

-- Created, curated, & hosted many film festivals: "It Gets Better" Film Festival, 14 Pews Film Academy Film Festival, H-Town Multicultural Film Festival, The Bayou City Music & Film Festival, Bayou City Food & Film Festival.

-- Created a weekly German Film Series co-sponsored with the German Consulate and The Goethe-Institut. We look forward to serving our community for many more years to come.

07/01/2024

Thank you for the folks who showed up on my Zoom presentation tonight, I really enjoyed the relax feel and great suggestions -- I realized I forgot to show a lot of my drone photography - so I'll start posting more --

06/30/2024

Hello from Isle de Jean Charles, LA! I hope you're all doing well and enjoying the start of summer. I'd like to invite you to my Zoom presentation for my latest photo series, "DOUBLE TAKE." The presentation will be held online tomorrow, Sunday, June 30th, at 7 PM.

During this event, I will also share details about my ongoing long-term project, "NATIVE CLIMATE SURVIVORS," which will be showcased at the Wetlands Museum in June 2026. This visual arts project focuses on a Native group of climate refugees from Isle de Jean Charles, LA, who were relocated by the government to Gray, LA, a small town near Thibodaux.

Tomorrow's online event is free and open to the public. This cultural event is funded in part by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance. I am also excited to announce I have been made an Ambassador of Fujifilm starting in mid-August. As an Ambassador, I will continue to be photographing my Climate Refugee series and my Tribal Elders series in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. I hope to see you tomorrow via Zoom!
The link is below:

Cressandra Thibodeaux is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Cressandra Thibodeaux's Double Take Series
Time: Jun 30, 2024 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
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Thank you for your support!
Sincerely,
Cressandra Thibodeaux
www.cressandra.com

06/29/2024

Hello from Isle de Jean Charles, LA! I hope you're all doing well and enjoying the start of summer. I'd like to invite you to my Zoom presentation for my latest photo series, "DOUBLE TAKE." The presentation will be held online tomorrow, Sunday, June 30th, at 7 PM.

During this event, I will also share details about my ongoing long-term project, "NATIVE CLIMATE SURVIVORS," which will be showcased at the Wetlands Museum in June 2026. This visual arts project focuses on a Native group of climate refugees from Isle de Jean Charles, LA, who were relocated by the government to Gray, LA, a small town near Thibodaux.

Tomorrow's online event is free and open to the public. This cultural event is funded in part by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance. I am also excited to announce that due to this new series, I have been made an Ambassador of Fujifilm starting in mid-August. I will be photographing my Climate Refugee series and my Tribal Elders series in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. I hope to see you tomorrow via Zoom!

The link is below:

Cressandra Thibodeaux is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Cressandra Thibodeaux's Double Take Series
Time: Jun 30, 2024 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86980004296?pwd=VIfJJZVcn38sfZKK6AVFLViZWzpAHS.1

Meeting ID: 869 8000 4296
Passcode: 600091

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Thank you for your support!

Sincerely,

Cressandra Thibodeaux
www.cressandra.com

05/30/2024

Thanks so much to everyone who showed up last night - It warmed my heart! I am extremely grateful for all the support I've received at my time at 800 Aurora Street. It's such a sacred space. Thank you!!!

05/29/2024

TONIGHT @ 7PM @ 14 Pews. I am having my Photography Presentation - DOUBLE-TAKE, plus 2 short documentary screenings. The photo presentation as like double exposure portraits of my mother. The two documentaries are on Houston artists: Jesse Lott and also Nestor Topchy. Hope to see you here. The photo presentation starts at 7pm, followed by a screening of the two art documentaries. FREE BEER served up cold by my mom, Marilyn - And it will be at 14 Pews located at 800 Aurora Street. Houston TX 77009

I had to reschedule my Photography Presentation of double exposure portraits of my mother and screening of my two documentaries. The NEW date is May 29th @ 7PM @ 14 Pews. Hope to see you here. It will be a photo presentation starting at 7pm, followed by a screening of the two art documentaries. FREE BEER!!! And it will be at 14 Pews located at 800 Aurora Street. Houston TX 77009

05/22/2024

05/20/2024

Houston Center of Photography sold me these frames, and now I do not need them and don't wanna pay to store them. I have enough art in storage! Let me know if you'd like to buy all these frames for $300 or Best Offer - please just Private Message me

here are the sizes we have, in inches:

37 3/4 x 44 1/2 (6)
37 3/4 x 51 1/2 (1)
27 3/4 x 27 3/4 (2)
27 3/4 x 31 3/4 (2)

05/20/2024

Still no power. I'm hoping by Friday..?

05/17/2024

City of Houston Activates Cooling Centers
Certain community centers, multi-service centers available for people to take refuge from the heat

The City of Houston is providing resources for refuge from extreme heat after widespread power outages and damages from Thursday night’s severe storms. The cooling centers will be open Friday, May 17, 2024, between 2 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Anyone without air-conditioning can seek relief at any of the following city locations designated as cooling centers. Those needing transportation to a designated cooling center can contact 3-1-1 to request a free ride.

Cooling Center Operations for Friday, May 17
2 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Kingwood Community Center, 4102 Rustic Woods Drive, Kingwood, TX. 77345
Stude Park Community Center, 1031 Stude Street, Houston, TX. 77007

3 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Acres Homes Multi Service Center, 6719 West Montgomery Road, Houston, TX. 77091
Sunnyside Multi Service Center, 4410 Reed Rd., Houston, TX 77051
Metropolitan Multi Service Center, 1475 W Gray St, Houston, TX 77019

The Houston Health Department encourages everyone to take extra precautions to protect themselves from heat-related illness and death. High-risk groups, such as adults ages 55 and older, children under the age of 4, and people with chronic illness or either overweight or on certain medications should stay inside air-conditioned buildings between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m., the hottest part of the day.

To find the nearest cooling center location or an air-conditioned city facility, people can contact 3-1-1 for more information. 3-1-1 offers an app and an online portal on their website.

05/09/2024

It's been bittersweet but I sold 800 Aurora Street, the home of 14 Pews and went out for celebratory drinks with my friend Alfred Cervantes, the Houston Film Commissioner who is the one who suggested I purchase 800 Aurora Street in the first place. It's been a great 14 years in this venue. The new owner, who is a creative spirit and a friend is allowing me to still have 14 Pews events in the venue for the next two years -- so I'm very grateful for that.

04/13/2024

I'm thrilled to be offered a solo photography show at the Wetlands Museum in Thibodaux, Louisiana - please help me raise the money to create a museum worthy show. I'm raising 15k to cover printing costs and 3 more photography & video trips to the Isle de Jean Charles, Schriever and Thibodaux, Louisiana. Check out all the fundraising perks! And through a combination of photography and some videography, my project aims to highlight the experiences and histories of both the individuals who migrated to the New Isle and those who chose to remain on Isle de Jean Charles.

98% of the Isle de Jean Charles Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw's tribal land is under water. | Check out 'Natives Affected By Climate Change' on Indiegogo.

03/26/2024

Hope to see you all at my art opening this Thursday night at Sabine Street Studios in Houston, Texas — the reception is from 6-8pm. This is part of Fotofest —

03/21/2024

we're so grateful to have been a part of the film screening circuit of the amazing documentary, Uprooted at 14 Pews - https://www.razomforukraine.org/uprooted-how-razom-and-the-kyiv-independent-brought-stories-of-abducted-ukrainian-children-to-american-cities/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=uprooted_screenings&utm_term=OH&mc_cid=dae3bae428&mc_eid=3729795457&fbclid=IwAR0riVjSmHYb2vCWWZfYDktC3_1eLnE64mstZqXACKnEPb6e-zuMdqWyDFw

In an effort to bring awareness to U.S. audiences about Russian war crimes against the youngest and most vulnerable Ukrainians, Razom recently collaborated with The Kyiv Independent, a leading English-language media outlet in Ukraine. The partnership produced a series of screenings and panel discuss...

03/05/2024

I’m selling my beloved Home in Houston where I run 14 Pews. If you know anyone who might be interested please send them this link. My goal is to get an apartment in Houston and downsize —

https://www.har.com/homedetail/800-aurora-st-houston-tx-77009/7956512?cid=TSANAIS #

For Sale: 800 Aurora St, Houston, TX 77009 ∙ $829,000 ∙ 0.14 Acres Lot ∙ 2,589 Sqft, 4 beds, 2 full and 1 half baths, Single-Family ∙ View more.

02/02/2024

Hey ALL - 14 Pews is now renting the back of church which is a 4 bedroom, 2/5 bath home -- here it is on Airbnb -

Houston Heights Sanctuary to call your own.

01/12/2024

Because I’ve been interviewing lots of students, teachers, parents and librarians on a project I’m working on about the TEA takeover of our HISD schools, and most of the people I’ve interviewed are Mexicans, I’ve decided to program at 14 Pews mostly Spanish speaking films for the beginning of this year. I've listed this month's screenings below -Please help us get out the word --

Thank you so much!

Happy new year,
Cressandra Thibodeaux

Film: THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL
Location: 14 Pews located at 800 Aurora Street Houston, TX 77009
Screening: January 17th @ 7PM
Edmundo Nobile (Enrique Rambal) invites friends over for an opulent dinner party. While the guests enjoy their food, the servants disappear one by one. Cost: $11 online & $15 at the door.
Buy tickets link: https://14pews.org/pages/home.asp

Film: CANOA: A SHAMEFUL MEMORY
Location: 14 Pews located at 800 Aurora Street Houston, TX 77009
Screening: January 18th @ 7PM
A priest in a small town creates a lynch mob when he accuses visiting students of being communist agitators on the run from the army in Mexico City. Cost: $11 online & $15 at the door.
Buy tickets link: https://14pews.org/pages/home.asp

Film: WITHNAIL AND I
Location: 14 Pews located at 800 Aurora Street Houston, TX 77009
Screening: January 19th @ 7PM
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood (Paul McGann) and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail (Richard E. Grant) -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty (Richard Griffiths), they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain. Cost: $11 online & $15 at the door.
Buy tickets link: https://14pews.org/pages/home.asp

Film: VIRIDIANA
Location: 14 Pews located at 800 Aurora Street Houston, TX 77009
Screening: January 20th @ 7PM
A novice nun is instructed to spend some time at the mansion of her reclusive uncle, her last living relative and main financial support. The uncle attempts to r**e her, tries to convince her to live with him, and then commits su***de. Cost: $11 online & $15 at the door.
Buy tickets link: https://14pews.org/pages/home.asp

Film: THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE
Location: 14 Pews located at 800 Aurora Street Houston, TX 77009
Screening: January 25th @ 7PM
In an allegory of life after Gen. Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, life in a remote village in the 1940s is calm and uneventful. Two little girls see a "Frankenstein" movie, and one of them starts wandering the countryside in search of this kind creature. Cost: $11 online & $15 at the door.
Buy tickets link: https://14pews.org/pages/home.asp

Film: MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT
Location: 14 Pews located at 800 Aurora Street Houston, TX 77009
Screening: January 27 @ 7PM
In the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Sergio (Sergio Corrieri), an affluent writer, chooses to stay behind in Cuba while his wife and family escape to neighboring Miami. Cost: $11 online & $15 at the door.
Buy tickets link: https://14pews.org/pages/home.asp

Film: TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN!
Location: 14 Pews located at 800 Aurora Street Houston, TX 77009
Screening: Feb. 2nd @ 7PM
Newly released from a mental institution, Ricky (Antonio Banderas) heads straight for a reunion with the love of his life, B-movie actress Marina (Victoria Abril). The trouble is, Marina doesn't remember him -- or the fling they had during her years as a ju**ie and p**n star. Cost: $11 online & $15 at the door.
Buy tickets link: https://14pews.org/pages/home.asp

Film: BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL
Location: 14 Pews located at 800 Aurora Street Houston, TX 77009
Screening: February 3rd @ 7PM
Glauber Rocha's sophomore feature is a scorched-earth allegory about the blind followers of dead-end ideologies. Somewhere in the Brazilian hinterlands of the 1940s, ranch hand Manoel (Geraldo Del Rey) becomes an outlaw after killing his swindling boss. Cost: $11 online & $15 at the door.
Buy tickets link: https://14pews.org/pages/home.asp

01/10/2024

01/07/2024

My Photography show - BLOOD QUANTUM - the Opening Reception is Friday, January 12th from 6-8pm @ 14 Pews located at 800 Aurora Street, Houston, TX 77009. Hope to see you!

12/29/2023

I'm grateful I got the chance to interview and photograph, Dorcas Hand - co-chair of Students Need Libraries in HISD. I'm still looking for more librarians, teachers and students to photograph and interview - so PM me -- I was once an HISD student, and also a teacher and librarian -- and I'm trying to understand the methods our new HISD's Superintendent of Schools - Mike Miles is utilizing to destroy our schools to possibly then make them into charter schools - since he was the CEO of Third Future Charter Schools. The stories I'm learning are as surreal as when I read the books 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 --

12/23/2023

Enjoyed visiting some Louisiana cemeteries -- Wishing you all a lovely holiday season!

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Friday	6:45pm - 9pm
Saturday	6:45pm - 9pm

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14 Pews is a nonprofit, passionate about enriching lives through the positive, transformational power of the arts, education, and community outreach. It was founded in 2010 by Houston filmmaker, Cressandra Thibodeaux. It is housed in a 1924 wooden church which was converted into an art house. The first 14 Pews event was in September 2010. In March 2011, 14 Pews received its nonprofit status. 14 Pews first began its Artist-in-Residency Program in 2011 to promote and encourage artists by giving them full use of the theater to create new works for an entire year. 14 Pews provides the space; a stipend from the box office income, and marketing. Since 2011, 14 Pews has selected, supported and promoted 11 talented artists. In 2011, our artist-in-residence was Emily Sloan (performance artist), who created 4 site-specific performances. In 2012, it was Sandy Ewen (visual artist and electronic musician), who created 3 concerts and 2 art shows. In 2013, it was Elizabeth Keel (playwright), who created a full-length site-specific play, performed 2 one-acts and had a reading of her novel. In 2014, we had Two Star Symphony (8 musicians and composers), who created a live original score to the classic film, "Girl Shy" and several original musical works. In June 2012, 14 Pews launched its summer Film Academy to at-risk students who were economically disadvantaged at Reagan High School. The goal of the Film Academy is to keep unsupervised "latch-key" students engaged in positive and creative activities that would be beneficial to the students and their community. Cressandra Thibodeaux plus 11 guest lecturers taught the 3-week workshop. The class culminated in a Student Film Festival, which was free and opened to the general public. The types of audiences that 14 Pews programming is reaching is mostly age 45-64, female, married, college graduate, Caucasian, who are middle and upper-middle class. Our programs encourage dialogue after each cultural event because we want to hear from all the voices of Houston. Since 2010, 14 Pews has: -- Screened over 400 Independent films, documentaries, narrative, experimental and short films. -- Created, curated and hosted 5 film festivals: "It Gets Better" Film Festival, 14 Pews Film Academy Film Festival, H-Town Multicultural Film Festival, The Bayou City Music & Film Festival, Bayou City Food & Film Festival. -- Created a weekly German Film Series co-sponsored with the German Consulate and The Goethe-Institut. We are proud to have met and surpassed our goals for our first three years as a non-profit and look forward to serving our community for many more years to come.