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Join us for an enlightening and lively discussion about gender, identity, and sexuality, with three respected and diverse voices from the field: Cymene Howe, Deb Murphy, and Kristian Salinas - presented in conjunction with our current exhibition, Wu Tsang: Moved by the Motion. Cymene Howe is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and core faculty in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Rice University. Professor Howe’s research and publications have focused on gender and sexual rights activism, media interventions and sexual subjectivity in the United States and Latin America. She is the author of "Intimate Activism: Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua" (Duke University Press, 2013) and co-editor of the volume, "21st Century Sexualities: Contemporary Issues in Health, Education, and Rights" (Routledge, 2007). Deb Murphy is the Youth Services Specialist at HATCH YOUTH. Murphy has worked with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT) and questioning youth since May 2002. While with HATCH, Murphy helped build the program into a nationally recognized model for other GLBTQ youth groups. Murphy has served hundreds and hundreds of teenagers through HATCH and thousands of teenagers through the HATCH website. Kristian Salinas, Board President & Artistic Director, Qfest. Salinas served on Qfest’s […]

Winifred a new play by Alva Hascall, with Tek Wilson and Cyrus Moshrefi Winifred features guns, cigarettes, opera, cursing, Nazis, scatology, and an amusing pile of steaming maternal manipulation. A British orphan, given in marriage to Richard Wagner’s homosexual son, Winifred was a friend of Adolph Hitler. She was also director of Wagner’s Festspielhaus Theater and a savior of artists, gypsies, homosexuals and Jews. She is a complex character. This theatrical excerpt explores her status as a heroine and victim of Germany’s revisionist history. This is the first time Winifred will be performed in front of an audience, with a talk back afterwards. Please note: blank gunshots fired and cigarettes smoked during the performance.

DiverseWorks on Wednesdays returns this week with two great events:Screening: Keren Cytter's Rose Garden, 2014 Digital HD video, color/sound 8:57 minA tragic story takes place in a Texan bar. Its drastic course and the lightness of the composition oppose each other contrapuntally. A virtually musical arrangement is formed by the repetitive employment of various elements (theme music, changing atmospheres, rifle shots). The therein presented, almost emotionless, acceptance of death is contrasted by the narrative of a father speaking to his son. Rose Garden explicitly criticizes the bigot mixture of family values, American gun laws, and societal behavioral patterns in general. Rose Garden was shot in Houston and features an all-star Houston cast including Winch Eagleton, Sara Gaston, Chris Hutchison, OTIS IKE, Nick Meriwether, Emily Peacock, John Grmillian, Wayne Gilbert, and Jim Hatchett. Directed by Keren Cytter; Produced by Ivete Lucas; Special Effects by Jack Burn; and Weapons by Pat Henderson. ________________________ Pecha Kucha with Luck of the Draw Artists: June Woest Earl Staley Penny Cerling Frank Sherwood White Eva Maria Lourdes Martinez Rosine Kouamen Hiyme Brummett Kay Sarver Each artist will show images and talk about their work in a fast-paced, fun environment. ________________________ DiverseWorks on Wednesdays is sponsored in part […]

The Houston VIP Poetry Slam Team and friends present an evening of performance poetry. Watch as a closed list of poets stitch together eloquent writing with theatrical exuberance. This nationally ranked group holds the title of the 2nd Ranked Group Poem Performers in the Nation. This year, Houston VIP will host the 2014 Southwest Shootout Regional Poetry Festival. For more info, visit www.Houstonvipslam.com. The Houston VIP Poetry Slam is a program of EXPRESSIONS-EWCOC. Pecha Kucha with Luck of the Draw Participating Artists: Mari Omori, Katie Mulholland, Phillip Pyle, II, Emily Link, Sandy Ewen, Kathy Hall, Michael Guidry, Isela Aguirre, Hillerbrand + Magsamen, Linda Post, and Jon Read

Artist's Talk with Wura-Natasha Ogunji Austin-based artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji will discuss her Idea Fund performance project, one hundred black women, one hundred actions, which is included in Six of one, half a dozen of the other through photo documentation. one hundred black women, one hundred actions premiered April 24, 2010 in Austin, Texas as part of Fusebox Festival. Black women from around the world were asked to submit an action or gesture of power. These movements were then performed by one hundred black women in east Austin along with a simultaneous live outdoor projection in Clarksville, west of downtown. The sites for the performance were chosen due to their significance to the history of Austin and specifically to honor and recognize the history of black people in the city. The project performed movements across borders and geographies to envision a cumulative, collective action translated into a site-specific performance with the weight and critical mass of one hundred black women, thereby invoking shared power and presence.