Join us online Saturday, July 6, from 2-4pm CDT, for our monthly poetry reading and open mic! Our host Võ Đức Quang will introduce our featured poets: Angélique Jamail, Kimberly Nguyen, Sebastián H. Páramo, Chief Ikenna. And of course, all attendees are welcome to join the open mic portion of the event to read one […]
INSTRUCTOR: Rebecca Spears TIME: Sunday, July 7, 3:00 p.m to 6:00 p.m. CDT PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Sunday, April 28. After Sunday, April 28 : $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship here. LOCATION: Hybrid. […]
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 […]
INSTRUCTOR: Marlena “Zen Ase” Johns TIME: Saturday, July 13,1:00–4:00 p.m. CDT PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Sunday, April 28. After Sunday, April 28: $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship here. LOCATION: Writespace, 1907 Sabine Street, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
