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October 20-November 4, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, Oct. 20, 5-7pm
Location: space125gallery, 3201 Allen Parkway
In celebration of the 175th birthday of the City of Houston, space125gallery at the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) will be holding an exhibition, hosted by DiverseWorks ArtSpace and organized with Mark Cervenka and Susan Baker from the University of Houston Downtown, of historical and contemporary art work by Houston painters and photographers. Entitled Portrait of Houston: 1900–2011, the exhibition seeks to give an overview of the artists who have engaged the city of Houston as their subject matter.
Artists featured in Portrait of …
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Thursday, October 13
7:30pm
Join DiverseWorks for DiverseDialogues: A conversation between Houston-based artist Dixie Friend Gay and Irish Poet Jean O’ Brien, winner of the UK 2010 Arvon Poetry Award.
DiverseDialogues is a program that catalyzes cultural conversations between artists of different backgrounds. DiverseWorks’ aim is to facilitate a creative and thoughtful dialogue that will educate and inspire the creation of work, participation and provide a platform to share and exchange a community dialogue.
Wednesday, October 19
6-9pm
Cha Champagne and Wine Bar
810 Waugh Dr., Suite #100
Come toast the fall arts season with Fresh Arts Coalition at Cha Champagne and Wine Bar! Join Fresh Arts Society for your passport to #houarts and receive exclusive discounts on tickets along with other special offers from 25 of Houston´s most dynamic arts organizations! Mix and mingle with Fresh Arts organizations in music, film, art, theater, dance, and more!
Performances by:
Musiqa featuring Chris Becker and Thomas Helton with excerpts from their ´Music for Silent Film´ series
The Matt Willhelm Jazz …
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DiverseWorks is working with artist Carrie Schneider to produce recorded tours called “Hear Our Houston.” We’ve invited some of our notable friends and arts peeps to share insights and experiences of some of Houston’s hidden gems. Houston is a city of great but hidden richness, only truly discovered by experience and word of mouth. Hear Our Houston is excavating some of those hidden gems, preserving our oral history and celebrating our common sense of space.
The Art Guys: Greens Bayou Street
The Art Guys decided …
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October 11, 2011
8pm
Join Houston-based dilettante, estimate revisor, and gadabout, Tex Kerschen, for a reading on “TIDAL ECONOMICS” concerning the subjects of dog worship, skull worship, work, finance, car crashes, baby-making, and finding the bottom.
This event is free to the public.
Tex Kerschen is a recipient of a 2011 Individual Artist Grant Award. This grant is funded by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.
Tex Kerschen is a Houston-based writer. His fiction, essays, and poems have appeared in different journals in different languages in different countries.
From 1998 to 2004 he worked as a …
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October 20-23, 2011
George R. Brown Convention Center
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Excitement is building as Texas Contemporary announces its list of exhibitors, compelling programming and an expanding list of supporters for its inaugural art fair at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center from October 20 – 23, 2011.
“Texas Contemporary will bring a group of the best contemporary art dealers from around the country to exhibit alongside some of the most interesting programs in Texas today,” said artMRKT Productions co-founder and fair director Max Fishko. “What that creates is an exhibition that will showcase what is unique …
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Online voting closes September 14
We need your vote! DiverseWorks ArtSpace has a few opportunities to win Houston Press’ Best of Houston.
Vote for us in the following categories…
Best Art Gallery
Best Contemporary Art Show
As a friendly reminder, here is a list of our exhibitions from last season! Vote for one of the following…
Before (During) After and Understanding Water
September 10 – October 23, 2011
Brent Green: Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then
November 5 -December 19, 2011
Patricia Hernandez: Parody of Light
January 14- February 26, 2011
The North Wind …
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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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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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