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This round’s theme: I was looking for a job and then I found a job and Heaven knows I’m miserable now.The selected winner will receive $100!
Welcome to Slinging Ink, a war of words in which you are invited to submit your own writing about a given theme.
This round’s theme:
I was looking for a job and then I found a job and Heaven knows I’m miserable now. The selected winner will receive $100!
We are looking not only for creative writing, but also short forms like memories, reports, notes, letters, lesson plans, proposals, complaints and confessions. …
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Thursday-Saturday, October 20-22, 2011
7:30pm
Co-commissioned by DiverseWorks with South Dallas Cultural Center and National Performance Network
Performed by Q-Roc Ragsdale
Based on Sharon Bridforth’s book the bull-jean stories
Directed by H.J. Steward
Q-Roc explores multiple perspectives of womanhood in the co-commissioned adaptation of Sharon Bridgforth’s book the bull-jean stories. By weaving filmed stories and documentary interviews with live performance and visual art from Houston artist Lovie Olivia, Dallas-based Q-Roc navigates the world of southern, working class, male-identified lesbians resonating across age, race, location and time.
the bull-jean stories:a multimedia adaptation is a National …
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Thursday-Saturday, September 29-October 1, 2011
8pm
Choreography by Amy Ell
Performed by Vault
Amy Ell’s new dance company Vault returns to DiverseWorks with a new work that proves how she’s taking aerial dance to new levels. Her last work was described as “gorgeous, lush and introspective,” and you should expect even more from the new work ConTornTion accompanied by a reprise of Continuum.
VAULT is Amy Ell’s newest dance endeavor. With her masterful cohorts, she explores multifaceted movement encompassing the entire performance space. The results challenge convention and gravity alike, capturing a delicate sense of timelessness and freedom. …
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Thursday-Saturday, September 15-17, 2011
7:30pm
Co-presented with Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Choreographer Jack Ferver in collaboration with visual artist Marc Swanson creates a meditative and visceral performance following a man’s journey from rural upbringings to a furious adulthood set in an urban landscape in his latest work, Two Alike. Ferver acts as the emotive flesh and voice inside Swanson’s eerie and raw sculptures. This performance is in collaboration with the ongoing solo show of Swanson’s work at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
This performance is in collaboration with Marc Swanson’s ongoing solo exhibiton, Perspectives 175: Marc …
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Saturday, August 27, 2011
Doors Open: 8pm
Starts: 9pm
Tickets: $10 minimum donation
Summer is almost over and DiverseWorks is having one last party before we begin the craziness of the Fall Arts Season in Houston. Friends of DiverseWorks- Jana Hunter, Wild Moccasins, sIngs, The Wiggins, and DJ Brett Koshkin are coming together to have a kick ass music showcase at DiverseWorks. Stop by, hang out, enjoy a tasty beverage, indulge in delicious bites from The Modular Food Truck and enter to win some of the exciting raffle packages (see below) that night.
Proceeds …
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Please join us Thursday, June 30 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX 77005 and help Houston’s only youth development and performance poetry program send a slam squad to Brave New Voices in San Francisco. Come Thursday to hear some of the young people who will represent Houston; be dazzled by the metaphoric masterpieces; and share in the passion as we wish them well on their journey to the international youth slam poetry festival in July. …
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Presented in partnership with Box13 ArtSpace and Red White Yellow
Curated by Jorge Rojas
Full stream of the collected works that make up Low Lives 3 will be projected within the gallery at Box13 ArtSpace
April 29, 7-10pm
April 30, 2-5pm
Low Lives 3 will be recorded and archived. It will be available for viewing during Box13 ArtSpace Gallery Hours.
April 29-May 21, 2011
DiverseWorks ArtSpace in partnership with Box13 ArtSpace are pleased to present a special co-presentation of Low Lives 3, an international exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted over the …
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April 28, 2011 9:30PM April 29, 2011 at 7:30PM and 9:30PM April 30, 2011 at 7:30PM
April 28, 2011 9:30PM
April 29, 2011 at 7:30PM and 9:30PM
April 30, 2011 at 7:30PM
DiverseWorks presents one of the largest multi-disciplinary surveys of contemporary Native American Artists that Houston has seen. Work in the main gallery, flickerlounge and the theater features the work of nearly 50 contemporary Native American artists from nineteen tribal nations across the United States. This survey offers audiences multiple views of displacement from indigenous perspectives and encourages dialogue and critical commentary on …
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A special music-only performance featuring the musicians of The Thank-you Bar, BLACKFISH features multi-instrumentalist composer James Everest (Minneapolis, MN) and improviser/composer Joel Pickard (Portland, OR) who perform live improvised duets in a series of surround-sound installation concerts that accompany live performances of The Thank-you Bar. …
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February 11-26, 2011 8pm Written by Richard Foreman Directed by Greg Dean & Troy SchulzeLadies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen — attention, please!Hotel Fuck!HOTEL FUCK!This play is for mature audiences.
February 11-26, 2011
8pm
Written by Richard Foreman
Directed by Greg Dean & Troy Schulze
Opening Night $50
All other tickets, Pay What You Want!
The Catastrophic Theatre is pleased to announce the Houston premiere of Richard Foreman’s Paradise Hotel: a frank, experimental play about the nature of physical and emotional satisfaction and the bipolar nature of American sexuality.
The play is set in a …
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