Eclectic Speakers

Legendary actress and pro wrestler take center stage in ATTPAC's 2019 speaker series

UPDATE: Karamo Live!, featuring Karamo Brown from Netflix's Queer Eye, has been added to the HearHere series. The event will now be the second in the series, taking place on Thursday, March 28. The beloved social worker turned television-host, now turned author comes to Dallas with the release of his first book, Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing and Hope.

-----

AT&T Performing Arts Center's 2019 speakers series, HearHere, will showcase an especially eclectic lineup of speakers in the coming months.

The biggest name on the bill is legendary actress Jane Fonda. "An Evening with Jane Fonda" will close the season on July 8. Fonda, a two-time Academy Award winner, has starred in Coming Home, The China Syndrome, Nine to Five, On Golden Pond, and, most recently, the Netflix series, Grace and Frankie. She is also a feminist icon who has raised millions of dollars for charities like the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential and Women’s Media Center.

Another big get: domestic doyenne Martha Stewart. The Emmy Award-winning television show host, entrepreneur, and bestselling author will take the stage May 29. Stewart, of course, is a source for many for useful “how-to” information for all aspects of everyday living, including cooking, entertaining, gardening, home renovating, collecting, organizing, crafting, healthy living, holidays, weddings, and pet care.

WWE World Champion John Cena is perhaps the most surprising choice for the series; he will take the stage on April 25. Cena has become as well known for his philanthropic work as he has for his wrestling skills. He is Make-A-Wish’s most requested wish granter of all time, helped raise more than $1.6 million for breast cancer research and awareness, and was the recipient of the U.S. Military's 2016 Legacy of Achievement Award. He's also a budding movie star, recently starring in Ferdinand and Bumblebee.

This series will kick off on March 19 with Serial podcast creators Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder. Serial became an obsession for many when its first season, which delved into the case of accused murderer Adnan Syed, was released in 2014. Subsequent seasons have focused on Bowe Bergdahl, a former POW who had been accused of deserting the military, and the Cleveland, Ohio, court system. Both Koenig and Snyder are National Public Radio veterans, having served as producers on This American Life.

All events will take place at Winspear Opera House. Packages for all four shows are on sale now, ranging from $193-$423. Single tickets for each show will go on sale at a later date.

Tickets may be purchased online at www.attpac.org/hearhere, by telephone at 214-880-0202, or in person at the Winspear Opera House Box Office at 2403 Flora Street. For groups of 10 or more, call 214-978-2879.

Jane Fonda will end the 2019 HearHere series on July 8.

Photo courtesy of AT&T Performing Arts Center

Jane Fonda will end the 2019 HearHere series on July 8.

celebrities

Mural News

Netflix House will debut in Dallas with murals from acclaimed artist

Netflix House

Jeremy Biggers at Netflix House

A long-awaited immersive venue is opening in Dallas, and it will debut with local art on its walls: Netflix House, a year-round exhibit revolving around Netflix shows and movies, will open at Galleria Dallas on December 11, with two murals from award-winning Dallas multi-medium artist Jeremy Biggers.

Netflix House is an immersive dive complete with merchandise store, film house, arcade, and restaurant-bar. When it opens, Dallas will be the second location in the U.S., following Philadelphia, where it debuted in November 2025, also with murals from a local artist.

A graduate of Booker T. Washington High School for Performing and Visual Arts, Biggers is a renowned artist whose murals can be found spashed on walls across Dallas. Many, such as the Selena portrait on the wall outside Top Ten Records at 306 S. Bishop Ave., have become local landmarks.

He's a logical choice, having worked with a number of corporations including Nike, Adidas, the Dallas Mavericks, and IBM, for whom he created the "THINK" mural in their Dallas corporate office. His works have also been exhibited nationally, including a 2024 solo exhibition "be safe out there bro" at Band of Vices, a gallery in Los Angeles.

"Being chosen to be the artist to paint this mural, it would have been a disservice to myself, as well as the art scene in the city, not to try to infuse myself into it," he says.

$\u200bJeremy Biggers at Netflix House$ Jeremy Biggers at Netflix HouseNetflix House

Biggers did two murals featuring his interpretation of Netflix figures including the Squid Game Young-hee doll, characters from KPop Demon Hunters and megahit series Stranger Things, plus Pandy and DJ Catnip, the best friends in the interactive series Gabby’s Dollhouse.

Both murals are intensely colored works that incorporate Biggers' signature motif: a grid of polka dots spread across the image.

One is on the exterior of Netflix House, at the parking entrance, a colorful collage of characters, measuring 38 feet x 50 feet — the tallest mural Biggers has tackled. He painted it with aerosol; it took him two months to complete.
The other is on the interior, on the mall side entrance of Netflix House, measuring 57 feet x 12 feet — a study in moody blacks and blues, with accents of neon-red that give it a 3D effect.

“I'm trying to tell the story of Netflix, and the story of where Netflix has been historically, where Netflix is headed in the future, and then also infusing my own narrative and my own language visually into that story,” he says.

“They could have opened this anywhere, so for Dallas to be one of the very first locations — that’s a testament to us as a market, as consumers of arts and consumers in general," he says.

Jeremy Biggers at Netflix HouseNetflix House

galleries openings