Public Program

A PROJECT FREEWAY FELLOWSHIP PROJECT Letters & Lives is a multigenerational writing workshop series and conversation space centering the experiences of current and past residents of Kashmere Gardens, Trinity/Houston Gardens, and Fifth Ward. Join DiverseWorks and Project Freeway Fellow Willow Curry for the Letters & Lives kick-off event on Sunday, October 27 at 3 pm, featuring spoken word poet Outspoken Bean. All Letters & Lives workshops are hosted at Mystic Lyon, 5017 Lyons Ave, Houston, TX  77020, on Sundays, 3 - 5 pm from October 27 - January 19.  Workshops are free to attend and community members are encouraged to participate in one or more sessions.

CO-PRESENTED WITH THE HOUSTON CINEMA ARTS FESTIVAL Internationally renowned digital installation artist, Kelly Richardson, will discuss her past and recent work, including her future planetary landscape works, Orion Tide and Mariner 9. A leader in working with digital technologies to create hyper-real, highly charged environments, the artist will present clips of some of her best-known works and conduct a Q&A moderated by DiverseWorks Executive Director Xandra Eden. This free event is presented by DiverseWorks and the Houston Cinema Arts Society on Sunday, November 17, 12 pm, at MATCH as part of the 2019 Houston Cinema Arts Festival (Nov . 14 - 18). Seating is limited, advance online registration is requested. Click here for the full 2019 Houston Cinema Arts Festival schedule. ABOUT KELLY RICHARDSON Kelly Richardson’s recent exhibitions include Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland; the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; the Natural History Museum, Vienna; and a major survey at the Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo. Her work was selected for the Beijing, Busan, Canadian, Gwangju and Montréal biennales, and major moving image exhibitions including the The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington,  DC), Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance Film […]

DiverseWorks seeks participants for These Are My Papers, a writing for performance workshop open to artists and/or cultural workers, dreamers and peleoneras, those trans to gender and/or genre who want to explore the fluidity of time, borders and space and the insurgent possibilities of writing as a refusal to go undocumented. Facilitated by theatre artist Virginia Grise, this writing for performance workshop series with a focus on creative practice and process will be held monthly from January to April 2020 and will culminate in a public performance. DOWNLOAD A PDF OF THE CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS Grise has taught writing for performance at the university level, as a public school teacher, in community centers, women’s prisons and in the juvenile correction system. In addition to plays, her body of work includes multimedia performance, dance theater, performance installations, guerilla theater, site-specific interventions, and community gatherings. These Are My Papers is a companion piece to rasgos asiaticos, a site-specific performance and installation that will take place at Silos at Sawyer Yards in Spring 2020. The work examines migration and displacement and the historic confluence of China, Mexico, and the United States. WRITING WORKSHOP DETAILS: Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 PM at MATCH, 3400 Main Street, Houston, […]

Since October 2019, Project Freeway Fellow Willow Curry has been leading Letters & Lives, a weekly creative writing workshop and conversation series about place and memory hosted by Mystic Lyon in Fifth Ward.  All are invited to join on Sunday, January 26 for a reception and culminating celebration where participants will share the work they have created over the past few months - refreshments will be served and all ages welcome!

IMPORTANT NOTICE: The Project Freeway 2020 Fellowship Launch & 2019 Fellows Presentation scheduled for March 18 has been canceled, with a new date TBA. NOTE: The online application portal for the 2020 Fellowships will still open on March 18. Join DiverseWorks staff and 2019 Project Freeway Fellows Matt Manalo and Willow Curry for the launch of the 2020 Project Freeway Fellowship! Learn what this six-month program is all about and how you too can propose a creative community project for your neighborhood in Fall 2020.