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Event Series Gabriel Lester: Odeon

Gabriel Lester: Odeon

Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston 4173 Elgin St The University of Houston, Fine Arts Building, Houston, TX, United States

The Blaffer Art Museum is proud to present the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of preeminent European artist Gabriel Lester, who has gained an international standing for his art, performance, and film as well as his dynamic public art installations. Across his now decades-long career, Lester has developed a captivating cinematic lens […]

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Event Series Cian Dayrit: Liberties Were Taken

Cian Dayrit: Liberties Were Taken

Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston 4173 Elgin St The University of Houston, Fine Arts Building, Houston, TX, United States

The phrase “counter-cartographies” describes Manila-based artist Cian Dayrit interdisciplinary practice of transforming historic maps into portraits of contemporary social conditions. Employing counter- cartography as an approach, Dayrit charts histories of imperialism, industrialization, and systems of subjugation that shape geographical boundaries and cultural narratives around the world. In Summer 2024, Blaffer will present Dayrit’s first solo […]

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Event Series Cian Dayrit: Liberties Were Taken

Cian Dayrit: Liberties Were Taken

Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston 4173 Elgin St The University of Houston, Fine Arts Building, Houston, TX, United States

The Blaffer Art Museum is proud to present Liberties Were Taken the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of works by Manila-based artist Cian Dayrit. Known globally for cartographic artworks, Dayrit investigates notions of power and identity represented and reproduced in monuments, museums, and maps. The exhibition brings together site-specific installations, embroidered textiles, […]

Free
Event Series Facing Survival | David Kassan

Facing Survival | David Kassan

Holocaust Museum Houston 5401 Caroline St., Houston, TX, United States

This compelling and transformative exhibition features the masterful paintings and drawings of acclaimed artist David Kassan, capturing the poignant stories and portraits of Holocaust survivors. "Facing Survival" stands as a profound testament to the enduring power of art in narrating the untold stories of resilience and survival. Through the evocative paintings and sketches meticulously crafted […]

Free – $22
Event Series HITS Theatre presents James and the Giant Peach JR.

HITS Theatre presents James and the Giant Peach JR.

HITS Theatre 311 W. 18th Street, Houston, TX, United States

HITS Theatre presents James and the Giant Peach JR. Starring Students in Grades 3-6 Session 1 Saturday, July 20th at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, July 21st at 2:00 pm Session 2 Saturday, August 3rd at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, August 4th at 2:00 p.m. Words and Music by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul Book by Timothy Allen […]

Event Series The Color Purple

The Color Purple

MATCH Houston (Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston) 3400 Main St., Houston, TX, United States

The Garden Theatre and The Sankofa Collective have joined forces to bring the beautiful story of The Color Purple to the stage. This musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel spotlights Celie, a downtrodden young woman whose personal awakening over the course of 35 years forms the arc of this epic story. With a […]

$25 – $35
Event Series Melville & Hawthorne (world premiere)

Melville & Hawthorne (world premiere)

MATCH Houston (Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston) 3400 Main St., Houston, TX, United States

Thunderclap Productions presents the world premiere of Adi Teodoru's MELVILLE & HAWTHORNE, directed by Andrew Ruthven. In this latest play in our award-winning John Steven Kellett Memorial Series of LGBTQ+ works, Teodoru chronicles the growing feelings between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne, as Melville wrote MOBY DICK (which he dedicated to Hawthorne). The play is […]

Curator Talk: Michelle White on Alice Neel

The Menil Collection 1533 Sul Ross Street, Houston, TX, United States

Michelle White, Senior Curator, discusses a new acquisition by renowned American painter Alice Neel (1900–1984); the 1977 portrait of the New York-based artist and activist Faith Ringgold (1930–2024) which is on view in the Portraits of Women from the Collection installation.

Free
Event Series The Woman in Black

The Woman in Black

Main Street Theater - Rice Village 2540 Times Blvd. , Houston, TX, United States

By Stephen Mallatratt and Susan Hill “It was nine-thirty on a Christmas Eve…” Arthur Kipps is obsessed with a curse he believes has been cast over him and his family by the specter of a “Woman in Black,” for it is believed that anyone who sees her will die. He hires a skeptical young actor […]

$39 – $59

August Wilson in the Park

Emancipation Park 3018 Emancipation Ave, Houston, TX, United States

Welcome to August Wilson in the Park! Join us for a day filled with live performances of the legendary playwright's works at Emancipation Park. Experience August Wilson's timeless works set against the vibrant backdrop of Houston's Third Ward at Emancipation Park! This community event will feature food trucks, DJ, vendors, and a back to school […]

Free
Event Series The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki)

The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki)

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

Directed by Kon Ichikawa (Japan, 1983, 140 min., in Japanese with English subtitles, 35mm) Sundays, July 28 & August 4, 5:00 p.m. (B) Adapted from the 1948 literary classic by Junichiro Tanizaki, The Makioka Sisters follows the lives of four siblings who have taken on their family’s kimono manufacturing business, in the years leading up […]

$7 – $9
Event Series The Color Purple

The Color Purple

MATCH Houston (Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston) 3400 Main St., Houston, TX, United States

The Garden Theatre and The Sankofa Collective have joined forces to bring the beautiful story of The Color Purple to the stage. This musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel spotlights Celie, a downtrodden young woman whose personal awakening over the course of 35 years forms the arc of this epic story. With a […]

$25 – $35