Public Program

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.

DiverseWorks is proud to partner with Common Field – the national network of experimental, independent, visual arts organizations and organizers – for its FREE Online Convening from April 23–May 3, 2020. Originally scheduled to take place in Houston in late April, the Convening has been reimagined to take place online in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The Common Field Convening is a national, itinerant gathering where 500+ arts organizers share resources, ideas, and methods for artist-led, artist-run and artist-centered spaces, projects, and practices. DiverseWorks has worked closely alongside an extensive network of other Houston-based partners over the past year to shape its goals, program, and commissions.  A full program lineup, complete with registration information for each session, is available at CommonField.org. Registration for this year’s online Convening is open and free, and Common Field is committed to ensuring that its programs are accessible to and inclusive of all. All times listed are Central Daylight Time (CDT) to honor the original Convening site.  About the 2020 Common Field Convening Free online Convening programs explore progressive strategies for racial, economic and environmental justice in the arts, as well as stronger and more accessible infrastructures for community building and creative practice. Participants are […]

Join DiverseWorks staff and 2019 Project Freeway Fellows Matt Manalo and Willow Curry for an online info session about the 2020 Project Freeway Fellowship. Learn what this program is all about and how you too can propose a creative community project for your neighborhood. Matt and Willow will share their experiences as the inaugural Project Freeway Fellows, and DW Program Assistant Maya Nicole White and Executive Director Xandra Eden will provide answers to your questions about the program and the application process. Online Info Session  Thursday, May 21, 3 pm CT Click here to register (the Zoom meeting will also be live-streamed to Facebook, and made available for viewing after the event) 2020 Project Freeway Application Portal Deadline: Monday, June 1, 2020 Click here for guidelines and to apply The Project Freeway Fellowship Program provides support for Houston-area artists and creative individuals to create socially-engaged or community-based artistic practices within their own neighborhoods. The Project Freeway Fellowship was developed in response to the rapid growth and diversification of the city of Houston and DiverseWorks’ desire to support innovative artists’ projects that engage all Houstonians, especially in neighborhoods outside of the city center.