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2019
February

12 - 26
 
 FEATURED EVENT



Houstonary 2019:
Cyber Punk City

Friday, February 22
7:00 PM - 00:00 PM

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@ Harrisburg Arts Museum Houston
 
An evening of Art, Film, Musik and Fashion showcases guaranteed to be unforgettable. The ticketed event will provide access to multi-sensory exhibits centered around the creative industry and benefiting a local creative non-profit. Event-goers will have the unique experience to interact with Houston's creative community inside the Harrisburg Art Museum. Houstonary 2019 presents "Cyber Punk" inspired fashion runway showcases, dance performances, short-film screenings, art exhibits, dj's, dancing, VIP Musik Houston hosted lounge, pop-up "Kaleidoshop", musical performances and more...  more details

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NEXTTUES
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19


WIVLA Monthly Meeting
@ Archway Gallery
February 19 // 5:45 PM // Free

SoulCollage® is a process in which you tap into your intuition to create a "deck" of amazing cards, each of which celebrate deep personal meaning. These cards have the ability to transform your life as you allow them to inform you about important decisions or transitions, or simply teach you more about varied aspects of your self...  more details
 



Cade Manning Hayes and Jesús E. Robles, Jr. Dust: Origins
@ Museum of Fine Arts | Brown Auditorium
February 19 // 7:00 PM // Free

The Rice Design Alliance has selected DUST, an architecture studio based in Tucson, AZ, founded by Principals Cade Hayes and Jesús E. Robles, Jr., as the recipient of the Spotlight Award 2019. The Spotlight Award considers architects from around the world within the first 15 years of their professional practice who have demonstrated design excellence and curiosity through their body of work...  more details




Chamber Winds, Wind Ensemble
@ Moores Opera Center
February 19 // 7:30 PM // Free

The Moores School of Music presents a concert by the Chamber Winds and Wind Ensemble...  more details



WED
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20


Do the Hustle: Creating and Sustaining a Commercial Gallery
@ FotoFest
February 20 // 6:30 PM // Free

FotoFest presents a panel discussion with Houston gallerists Jonathan Hopson, Kerry Inman, and Betty Moody, on the business of commercial art galleries. Representing a variety of experience, from long-lasting to brand-new, the three gallery owners will discuss the decisions they've made when starting their galleries, and the techniques they have to keep them going...   more details





The History of Jazz
@ Spring Branch Memorial Library
February 20 // 6:30 PM // Free

In Celebration of African American History Month, HCPL is proud to present Da Camera's " The History of Jazz" at Spring Branch Memorial Branch Library. From ragtime and Dixieland to the blues, swing, and more, "The History of Jazz" traces America's contribution to the world of music as it developed late in the nineteenth century from African-American work songs, hymns, and spirituals...   more details



The Art of Taxes
MATCH
February 20 // 6:30 PM // Free

With the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in December 2017 and the redesign of Form 1040, it's important to be up to date with new information that impacts your tax liability.  Join TALA as we cover new rules and general basics for completing your return. Structured with artists in mind, this seminar is designed to walk you through your tax return, addressing common artist concerns and important IRS regulations pertaining to creative practices...   more details





MARCI'S STAFF PICK


New Monuments for New Cities
Buffalo Bayou Park
February 20 

Houston's Buffalo Bayou has been selected as the inaugural site for New Monuments for New Cities, a collaborative public art project organized by the High Line Network, a coalition of visionary North American industrial reuse projects that are transforming underutilized infrastructure into new urban landscapes and redefining what parks can be. Debuting in Houston on February 20, the public art initiative's theme is meant to stimulate discussion and community discourse on the evolving nature of monuments and ask questions such as "What does it mean to monumentalize a person, an idea or moment in time?" ...   more details



On the Exhale
Rec Room
February 20 - March 9 // Varies // $15-40

In this powerful regional premiere, a mother's life is changed forever with one flick of a finger. Peering down the barrel of a uniquely American crisis, we follow one woman down the rabbit-hole of grief in a riveting 60-minute tour de force starring Amy Bruce. Written by Martin Zimmerman and directed by Stephanie Wittels Wachs...   more details


 

THURS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21


INVERSION Art Opening
@Cloister Gallery
February 21 // 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM // Free

Join artist Jan Golden for the opening reception of INVERSION at the Cloister Gallery. This new body of work explores shapes in nature and architecture (including some familiar locations in Houston) that have been exaggerated, abstracted and distorted through an exciting mix of motion and bold inversion of colors. Exhibition will continue until March 22, 2019... 





ANGELA'S STAFF PICK


Queer(ing) the Wheel
@ Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
February 21 // 6:00 PM //  Free

This site-specific performance pays homage to the late Playhouse Theater (housed in the building next door to HCCC), one of the largest theaters-in-the-round in the nation in the early 1950s. On February 21st, the 68th anniversary of the Playhouse's opening night, Bui and Huynh will transform HCCC's parking lot into a temporary space in which audience members and performers will interact through "vehicles-in-the-round," arranged to explore the personal narratives of each artist...  more details




ReelMusic
@ White Oak Music Hall
February 21 // 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM  // Registration Required

ReelAbilities Film & Arts Festival culminates with ReelMusic, a night of jazz, rock and more, where accomplished musicians with disabilities join the ReelMusic house band on stage. House Band: Andrew Lienhard (keys), David Craig (bass), Daleton Lee (drums), Kelly Dean (saxophone)...  more details





REYES'S STAFF PICK


DiverseWorks presents COLLECTIVE PRESENCE
@ DiverseWorks
February 21 // 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM  // Free

Collective Presence is a hub for creative and cultural activity to address topics related to social, political, and environmental issues of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Through a series of micro-residencies, workshops, and community discussions, invited artists will join DiverseWorks from February 21 - April 14, 2019, to create new work on site and in conversation with each other. Rabéa Ballin (Houston), Rafa Esparza (Los Angeles), Joshua Rios (Chicago) and Awilda Rodríguez Lora (San Juan, Puerto Rico) will each be at DiverseWorks for 10-day micro-residencies... 



Experimental Action
@ Rockefellers Houston
February 21 // 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM // See Website

The festival features a collection of groundbreaking International and non local performance artists along with Houston-based performance artists. Each of the three nights is hosted at a different Houston venue and consists of a series of engaging, participatory and experimental performance art works... 


 



JESSICA'S STAFF PICK


Texas Children's Hospital presents Trolls for Family Movie Night
@ Levy Park 
February 22 // 6:30 PM // Free

Come on over to Levy Park for Family Movie Night hosted by Texas Children's Hospital to watch DreamWorks computer animated musical film, Trolls. Wear your brightest colors and hair-raising hair styles just like your favorite Trolls. No outside furniture is allowed, but blankets or park chairs can be used...  





Reel Forces
@ MATCH
February 22 // 7:00 PM // Pay-What-You-Can

Kick-off Oscars weekend with an evening of the meta, the miniscule, and the far-reaching as Musiqa celebrates experimental film and live music. "Reel Forces" examines the traces of humanity, memory, and conflict through "Beyond Zero: 1914-1918," a moving and mesmerizing film of rare WWI archival footage by auteur-director Bill Morrison, and scored for string quartet by Aleksandra Vrebalov...  more details



22nd Annual Jazz Festival
Moores Opera Center
February 22 // 7:30 PM // Varies

The Moores School of Music presents the 22nd Annual Moores School Jazz Festival, an adjudicated event that features middle school and high school jazz ensembles from around the state of Texas. The festival kicks off on Friday, February 22, 2019 as part of our Fridays at Moores series and will include performances by the award-winning Moores School of Music Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Noe Marmolejo...  more details










Lynne Sachs: Tip of My Tongue
@ Aurora Picture Show
February 22 // 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM // See Website

Presented as part of Aurora's ongoing "Powerful Vulnerable" series, filmmaker Lynne Sachs will be here to present the Houston premiere of her latest film, Tip of My Tongue. To celebrate her 50th birthday, Sachs invited 12 fellow New Yorkers born across several continents in the 1960s to spend a weekend with her making a movie.. more details





DARAL'S STAFF PICK


Cafe Con Leche- Open Mic Poetry & Potluck
@ Absolem's Midtown Mojo Manufacturers
February 22 // 8:00 PM // Free

Cafe Con Leche is an open mic poetry and potluck intended to provide a safe space for people of color to express their minds & emotions, talents & more. We invite people of all colors to attend, build understanding and for all to develop a sense of community and cultivate friendships...  more details





La Sylphide
@ Univeristy of Houston Clear Lake
February 22 - 24 // Varies // $25-$35

The most recent of the enduring classical story ballets to enter Bay Area Houston Ballet & Theatre's repertory, La Sylphide is filled with beauty and romantic love. This is one of the world's oldest surviving ballets, and a treasure!  Restaged for BAHBT by Artistic Director Nelson Madrigal and Associate Artistic Director Natalie Zundel, this production is the ultimate romantic masterpiece...  more details






A Flea in Her Ear
@ University of Houston
February 22 - March 3 // Varies // Varies

Madame Chandebise has everything an upper-class woman could want - until her husband suddenly loses all interest in her. Suspicion puts "a flea in her ear," and she must test his fidelity in Paris's most notorious love hotel. Classic farce from the all-time master!...  more details



 

SAT
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23



Black Writers' Support Group
@ MassMutual Texas Gulf Coast Midtown Houston Office
February 23 // 11:00 PM // Free

If you a writer (or wishful writer) and need some support, please consider attending BWSG! We are welcoming and supportive. You will have the resources and guidance to get you from your wild thoughts to a final draft. The organizer of the event, Nnenna Umelloh, is a published author herself. She understands the challenges that come with writing and finishing a piece you can be proud of. She, as well as other participants in the support group, will welcome you with open arms and no judgment. We're here to support one another...   more details







The Caribbean and its Contrast
@ Tatiana Escallon Art Studio
February 23 // 1:30 PM - 6:00 PM // Free

For this special occasion I will unveil a new body of work inspired in my recent trip to the historic walled city of Cartagena de Indias in Colombia. The series The Caribbean and its Contrast is a continuity of my work and language in the exploration of the contrast that fulfill our lives represented this time with lines,forms and colors found in the Caribbean....   more details





Da Camera of Houston: Stop, Look and Listen! Family Concert
@ Menil Collection
February 23 // 3:00 PM // Free

Stop, Look and Listen! is a series of free chamber music and jazz concerts presented in one of Houston's most inspiring and stimulating environments, the world-renowned Menil Collection. These museum concerts feature unconventional, interactive concert formats and fun, adventurous musical selections. The programs are often designed to celebrate specific art works on display in the museum...   more details




Solo & Group Exhibition
@ Gray Contemporary
February 23 // 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM // Free

In the Main Gallery is a solo exhibition titled Pistachio, which consists of new works by Jamey Hart who is currently working on his MFA in painting at the University of Houston. Hart's work in this exhibition exists as objects, while through formal concerns lingers into the questions of painting. In the Second Gallery is a group exhibition featuring four artists, Steve Riedell, Suzanna Scott, Molly Thomson, and Derrick Velasquez...   more details





MICAH'S STAFF PICK


The Dream Scholarship Art Show
@ Bisong Art Gallery
February 23 // 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM // Free

This production will feature paintings by Lauren Luna, showcase themed art by local artists, available for purchase via silent auction.  The winning bids will be split between the artist, and the scholarship where the proceeds will benefit student(s) of color who will be entering a Fine Arts program within a higher learning institution, where their numbers are grossly under represented....   more details





BOX 13 ArtSpace: Outer Terrains
@ Box13 ArtSpace
February 23 // 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM // Free

"Outer Terrains" presents a sensory experience of the sights and sounds of the U.S./Mexico borderscape. The exhibiting artists, engaging their relationship with the Texas border landscape, reveal what's beyond the mirage from Texas' blistering sun by shining light on the complex issues of where they call home. Nabil Gonzalez uses historical printmaking processes as she negotiates the past/present with unsolved, disturbing murders and disappearance of women surrounding El Paso, TX and Juarez, Mexico for the last 13 years... more details  more details



Spring Fling
Rice University | Moody Center for the Arts
February 23 // 7:00 PM // Free

Please join us for a public celebration featuring live music by Hearts of Animals and creative food and drink. The entire building will be open in celebration of the Moody's spring exhibition program, focusing on ecology and the environment. Like the Moody's exhibits, the party will be free and open to the public. Don't miss it - it should be a memorable night!...   more details



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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24


Artist Talk: Beijing Dance Theater's Wang Yuanyuan
@Asia Society Texas Center
Febrauary 24 // 2:00 AM // Free

Immerse yourself in the world of classical Chinese dance and ballet through a lecture by Beijing Dance Theater choreographer Wang Yuanyuan at Asia Society Texas Center, following SPA's presentation of Hamlet at Jones Hall on Friday, February 22. Society for the Performing Arts' inaugural Choreographer Discussion Series highlights the creative process and careers of some of the greatest choreographers and artistic minds of contemporary dance...  more details





Axelrad ART Market
Axelrad
February 24 // 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM 

Join SHOP LOCAL Market at Axelrad Beer Garden every last Sunday of the month for their Axelrad Art Market for some Sunday Funday shopping!...  more details



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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25

Movie Night - Pretty Woman w/ Oskar Blues & Cigar City
@ Axelrad
February 11 // 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM // Free

Movie starts at sundown. Admission is ALWAYS FREE! We have a specialty winter cocktail menu, tons of heaters, fire pits, and blankets for everyone too! (We welcome families and all ages until 9pm on Mondays, but promptly at 9pm/at the end of the movie, we become 21+)...  more details



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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26

Artist Lecture: Soledad Salamé
@ UH | Fine Art Building
February 12 // 1:00 PM // Free

The UH School of Art presents a talk by artist Soledad Salamé whose work focuses onthe connection between art, science, nature and technology. - A native of Santiago, Chile, Soledad Salamé is the founder and director of Sol Print Studios in Baltimore, Maryland where she lives and works...   more details




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