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We the People: A Celebration of the Arts and Our Community

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Saturday, August 21, 2010 6-9pm

$10 Suggested Donation

Performance Art, Music, Dance, Spoken Word, Visual Art

Join DiverseWorks for a fundraiser to help raise money for Q-Roc’s The Bull-Jean Stories, a multi-media adaption based on the works of Sharon Bridgforth.

For more information on Q-Roc and The Bull-Jean stories, click HERE.

he(ART) & SOUL, Eskay Entertainment, and Amuse Bouche would like to invite you to be a sponsor or a vendor at the event. If you are interested, you must submit your request by August 14 for the sake of space and availability. Each vendor will have …

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Aurora Picture Show: Fragments

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August 13, 2010
7pm
Tickets: $7
Aurora & DiverseWorks Members Free (RSVP Please)

Filmmaker Darrin Martin in Attendance

For once we encourage you to bring your cell phones to a screening so that you can participate in an evening of new video performance as well as solo and collaborative video works from Darrin Martin.  Failed utopias, technologic euphoria, roll-playing workshops, hearing loss, the nature of sound, and other actualities often inaccessible to the naked eye are playfully addressed in this presentation of by Darrin Martin. Fantasty and delusion through a language of disjoined architectural ruins and sculptural remains …

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Catastrophic Theatre: Hunter Gatherers

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June 25-July 17, 2010
8pm

Wrtitten by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Directed by Jason Nodler

The Catastrophic Theatre is pleased to announce the return of Hunter Gatherers, the hit comedy that sold out Stages last season and won the first ever “Best Public Dick” award from the Houston Press.

The Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award winner finds Pam and Richard hosting their best friends, Wendy and Tom, for an annual get-together. An animal sacrifice kicks off the evening, followed by a little more sex, violence, deception, wrestling and dancing than at previous parties.  The line between …

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Blind Auction at DiverseWorks

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Check out some of the artwork featured in the Blind Auction!

David Aylesworth

Cara Barer

William Betts
David A. Brown

Dixie Friend Gay Ryan Geiger Bryan Kuntz

Lillian Warren Jeffrey Wheeler Charles Wiese Hilary Wilder …

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Artists Donating to Luck of the Draw 9: The Musical!

Special Thanks to the following artists for donating to Luck of the Draw 9: The Musical! We would not be able to have this event without your generous support!

Chris Akin
Dominic Allen
Sterling Allen
Melissa Alley
Andis Applewhite
Rabe’a Ballin
Jean Barber
Jeremy Barnett
Debra Barrera
Maggi Battalino
Blakely Bering
Charles Beronio
Bonnie Blue
Alex Booker
Melissa Borrell
Adam Brackman
Eli Sebastian Brumbaugh
Alex Buchanan
Lanre Buraimoh
Adam Burkett
Scott Calhoun
Andrea Canalito
Aisen Caro Chacin
Doug …

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Luck of the Draw 9: The Musical!

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The 2010 DiverseWorks Summer Auction
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
6:30pm

Need directions to DiverseWorks? Click HERE.

Great art that will make your heart sing-created by locally and nationally known artists, some of whom have exhibited at DiverseWorks ArtSpace over the past several years-available at affordable prices. It’s not a song and dance-it’s DiverseWorks highly anticipated summer auction, Luck of the Draw 9: The Musical!

Co-chairs: J. Douglas Parker & Karen Niemeier

Host Committee: Fernando Aramburo, Tara Conley, Michael Coppens, Shauna Curtis, Monica Danna, Trevor Eade & Stephen Hill, Jeremy Keas, Marshal & …

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Luck of the Draw 9: The Musical! Video Contest

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Entries due by 6pm on Monday, June 7, 2010

DiverseWorks is gleeful over the theme of its annual art auction: Luck of the Draw 9: The Musical! to celebrate we’re having a music-inspired video contest for our friends, family, and well, the whole world. The prize is (2) free admission tickets valued at $50 to Luck of the Draw 9 art auction on June 16 at DiverseWorks, (2) vintage Luck of the Draw 8 t-shirts designed by Roberto Cervantes and Ben Johnston; and (2) DiverseWorks tote bags. You’ll be rockin’ DW if you are the winner.

Here are the rules: …

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Glee Watch Party!

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Lucky’s Pub, 801 St. Emanuel Street at Rusk, Houston, TX, 77003
7:30pm
Free Admission

Sing along and shake your groove thing with DiverseWorks at the GleeWatch Party on Tuesday, May 25 at 7:30 PM at Lucky’s Pub.  We can get down-right gleeful and silly in Lucky’s private party room watching and singing to our favorite show to set the stage for the Luck of the Draw 9: The Musical! art auction at DiverseWorks on June 16.  LOTD9 Co-Chairs J. Douglas Parker and Karen Niemeier urge you to grab a friend and join the madness at Lucky’s Pub, 801 Emanuel Street …

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Vault 6°: Blau & Baptism

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May 13-15, 20-22, 2010
8pm

Two amazing dance companies in one night! Amy Ell/ Vault’s Blau and Toni Valle/ 6 °‘s Baptism come together to create one unforgettable night of dance.  Many saw the promise at the works-in-progress showings at last year’s Big Range Dance Festival, and now you have the chance to catch the full production-flying bodies, trapeze, water and incredible dance.

If you would like more information or to purchase tickets, click HERE or call 713.409.2838.

flickerlounge – Short films by Dara Greenwald

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flickerlounge: Short films by Dara Greenwald
Co-presented by Aurora Picture Show
April 30-June 5, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, April 30, 2010, 6-8pm

Dara Greenwald is a media artist and researcher. Dara has participated in collaborative cultural production for many years including the Pink Bloque, Ladyfest Midwest Chicago, Version Fest, Pilot TV, United Victorian Workers, Spectres of Liberty and other groupings that resist being named. She recently co-curated (with Josh MacPhee) a large-scale research project about the history of social movements entitled Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now.  Her experimental videos have screened widely …

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