Revisit the Garden of Eden and re-read this biblical narrative in a richly symbolic way. The biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is foundational to Western culture and has widely influenced our psychology and spirituality, whether we realize it or...
Discover how struggle can be our greatest call to courage and the clearest path to a wholehearted life. The physics of vulnerability is simple: if we are brave enough, often enough, we will fall. Rising Strong™ is a specific process for dealing with the inevitable...
Use classical music to facilitate a connection with your inner resources, and to open creative pathways to dealing with challenging times. Discover a form of self-exploration that uses classical music to facilitate a connection with our inner resources, and to open...
Visit the Museum for a public celebration of the exhibition, Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow, the artist’s first solo museum presentation in the United States. Across an installation, video, and series of commissioned sculptures, the artist continues her...
Deep dive into the exhibition THIS WAY: A Houston Group Show and the legacy and heritage of Houston Freedmen’s Town by learning more about the archives, portraits, and oral histories of Native Fourth Ward residents featured in the exhibition. CAMH’s Drop-In...
Join Contemporary Arts Museum Houston for an afternoon of art-making activities and ACROSS DISCIPLINES: A Teen Performance Showcase at our Spring Break Community Celebration!
Relax and enjoy an evening with Houston Playback Theatre as the true stories of audience members come to life! A story, a thought, or even just a feeling shared by an audience member starts a chain reaction of improvisation among the actors, who bring the story to...
Join us for an introduction to mindfulness meditation and mindful awareness practices, with a view to taking the edge off. This interactive, five-week series provides an introduction to mindfulness meditation and mindful awareness practices, with a view to taking the...
Through simple, gentle movement sequences, we will explore ways to reach out more simply and easily, and maybe even leave being able to reach a bit farther. Extending our arms is an important part of everyday functioning. Reaching high to grab something, reaching out...
How does the psychology and spirituality of the second half of life call us to develop new and sometimes unexpected qualities? Aging with intention is a creative and courageous act, a path to wholeness. It becomes an art form, a poetry, when we allow for inner beauty...
Explore how we can perceive, and welcome, the ghosts living in the bones of our profession, our communities, and our individual lives. Embedded in our ethical codes is an implicit assumption that we can successfully attain a kind of professional purity. If we follow...
Join HCCC during Spring Break week for hands-on making and other activities that encourage visitors ages three and up to explore craft and art making! Although we are normally closed on Mondays, HCCC will be open all week for this event. Each day of the week, from 10...
Create a colorful, three-dimensional character using pipe cleaners inspired by artist JooYoung Choi’s multi-tiered puppet presentation Nova Trekkers and the Vehicle for Change as featured in CAMH’s Six Scenes From Our Future exhibition. CAMH’s Drop-In...
Katrina Moorhead’s (of) Everything Island is an assembly of evocative sculptural objects interacting with one another in the main gallery. Building off Moorhead’s sensitivity to materials’ potential for expansive storytelling, these objects explore places where the...
San Jacinto College Music and Dance proudly present the world premiere of Dancing on Steel, May 3rd & 4th , 2024. Showcasing fun and creative new arrangements of popular musical hits played by the SJC Steel Drum Band, this program will first feature seven new...
Co-presented with Nameless Sound, the Myra Melford Fire and Water Quintet performance will take place in the Menil Collection’s Cy Twombly Gallery, with two performances: 5:30PM and 7:30PM. Seating is limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
Join us for a communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to art and feminism, including gender non-binary artists and activists. We will provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, reference materials from the Menil Library, drinks and snacks, and...
Join Michelle White, Senior Curator, The Menil Collection, for a wide-ranging conversation with curator Helen Molesworth as we celebrate the release of Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing about Art (Phaidon, 2023).
Co-presented by Aurora Picture Show and the Menil Collection, Geometry of Light is a program inspired by the Greek-born artist Chryssa and the exhibition “Chryssa & New York”. This outdoor screening, curated by Salome Kokoladze, features short...
Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s lifelong drawing practice. The exhibition presents drawings, collages, & sketchbooks alongside stamped prints, paperfolds, & more, showing the breadth of Asawa’s innovative...
