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Shōgun | Episode 8 “The Abyss of Life”

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

A Director’s Perspective The acclaimed 2024 TV series Shōgun is based on the James Clavell novel of the same name. The MFAH presents Episode 8 “The Abyss of Life,” directed by Houston filmmaker Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, who introduces the screening and participates in a Q&A afterward. (Shōgun was previously adapted into a miniseries in 1980.) Shōgun […]

Free
Event Series Composing Your Life (In Person)

Composing Your Life (In Person)

The Jung Center of Houston 5200 Montrose Blvd, Houston, TX, United States

Discover how to awaken each morning anticipating what you are creating rather than worrying about what you fear. Support yourself through life's rough and unpredictable changes – career, relationships, divorce, and grief. Based on the instructor's book The Pebble and the Canyon: Reflections on Composing Your Life, this workshop will help us discover practical ways […]

$330

Lunch and Learn: 55th Anniversary of Apollo 11 with Tom Moser

The Heritage Society 1100 Bagby, Houston, TX, United States

Learn how we became Space City and details about the moon landing! About the speaker: Tom Moser was born and raised in Houston. He began his career 50 plus year career in the aerospace industry at NASA, where he participated in every U.S. human space flight program from Mercury to the Space Station. He served […]

$10

Talk | Riverside Terrace: Where Today and Tomorrow Collided with Stephen Fox

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) 5216 Montrose, Houston, TX, United States

Join us for a talk with Stephen Fox in conjunction with the exhibition Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow. This talk examines the history of a Houston subdivision, initially developed for a middle-to-upper-middle market of (implicitly: white) Houstonians beginning in 1924. As Houston’s economy recovered from the Great Depression during the mid-1930s, Riverside Terrace became […]

Free

Online Quiet Write-In

Online/Virtual Space

TIME: Friday, July 19, 12:00-1:00 p.m. CST PRICE: Free for members. $5.00 for nonmembers. Become a member here. LOCATION: Online via Zoom Whether you are hard at work revising poems for a chapbook, pantsing your way through the first draft of your novel, or outlining an essay, we made a date to do the work […]

Free – $5

Art in the AM: Art Stroll at Sabine Street Studios

Sabine Street Studios 1907 Sabine Street Studios, Houston, TX, United States

TIME: Saturday, July 20, 10:00–11:30 a.m. CDT LOCATION: Sabine Street Studios, 1907 Sabine Street, Houston, TX 77007 (map) PRICE: Free for members. Become a member here. We're keeping it cool and indoors in July! Sabine Street Studios will have two new curated exhibits for us to explore in the AC! Participants will start at the […]

Free

Drop-In Write-In

Writespace 1907 Sabine Street Ste 125, Houston, TX

TIME: Sunday, July 21, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. CDT PRICE: Free. $10.00 for nonmembers. Become a member here. LOCATION: Hybrid. Writespace, 1907 Sabine Street, #125, Houston, TX 77007 (map). This workshop is also available via Zoom. Setting aside time to write is one of the biggest hurdles we face as writers, especially if we’re writers […]

Free – $10

Architecture Walk: Turner Addition

The Jung Center of Houston 5200 Montrose Blvd, Houston, TX, United States

The story of Turner Addition began in 1871 when Nathaniel P. Turner platted the neighborhood more than two miles outside the Houston city limit, apparently anticipating that the city's growth would soon fill the gap between his subdivision and civilization. As it turned out, development in Turner Addition didn't begin until the late 1910s, when […]

$7 – $10
Event Series Composing Your Life (In Person)

Composing Your Life (In Person)

The Jung Center of Houston 5200 Montrose Blvd, Houston, TX, United States

Discover how to awaken each morning anticipating what you are creating rather than worrying about what you fear. Support yourself through life's rough and unpredictable changes – career, relationships, divorce, and grief. Based on the instructor's book The Pebble and the Canyon: Reflections on Composing Your Life, this workshop will help us discover practical ways […]

$330

The Road Trip Novella: A Road Map for Long Fiction

Online/Virtual Space
Virtual Event Virtual Event

INSTRUCTOR: Patrick Stockwell TIME: Six Tuesdays, July 23, 30, August 6, 13, 20, 27, 6:00–9:00 p.m. CDT PRICE: Early bird price: $210 for members, $240 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Wednesday, July 17. After Wednesday, July 17: $240 for members, $270 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship […]

$210 – $270

Talk To Me: A Generative Workshop on Dialogue

Online/Virtual Space
Virtual Event Virtual Event

INSTRUCTOR: Tanya Aydelott TIME: Saturday, July 27, 1:00–4:00 p.m. CDT PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Sunday, July 21. After Sunday, July 21: $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship here. LOCATION: Online via Zoom LEVEL: All […]

$45 – $70

Writing Poetry: Deepening the Image

Online/Virtual Space
Virtual Event Virtual Event

INSTRUCTOR: Melissa McEver Huckabay TIME: Sunday, July 28, 1:00–4:00 p.m. CDT PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Monday, July 22. After Monday, July 22: $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship here. LOCATION: Online via Zoom LEVEL: […]

$45 – $70