Public Program

REGISTER Amidst a global pandemic and a national reckoning with racism, mental health experts are expecting this year to have a devastating impact on communities of color. Disparities have been illuminated, and Black families are facing an increasing variety of challenges related to income, social injustice and access to quality health care. For this reason, The Black Man Project - filmmaker Brian Ellison, anthropologist Marlon Hall, and sculptor Anthony Suber - is hosting a global conversation focused on the Black male experience in contemporary society. The virtual event aims to reach 3,000 people from around the world to honor the importance of seeking mental health support. Attendees will be connected to Brian, Marlon, and Anthony for a virtual dinner and discussion hosted on the platform Civic Dinners which is designed to create powerful conversations that inspire positive social change. The Black Man Project - L to R: Marlon Hall, Brian Ellison, Anthony Suber. Photo: LeChell Rush Honorat unMASKulinity: A Virtual Salon - Third Ward Edition is made possible by the DiverseWorks Project Freeway Fellowship which provides support for Houston-area artists to create socially-engaged or community-based artistic practices within their own neighborhoods. Support for the Project Freeway Fellowship comes from the Texas Commission on the Arts, City of Houston through […]

Register The closer we get to something physically and spiritually the better we can understand it, what it has done for us, and what it has done to us. Starting from the Gray Street bridge with that in mind, this walking tour will slow us down along the edge of the fast lane and follow State Highway 288 from its origins to its impacts to its future. We will walk along this massive and dominating piece of infrastructure, weave through neighborhoods that have been dissected because of it, and see how the communities have grown around it. We will feel its physicality while communing with its peculiar history and deeply consider its function and impact on the city and our lives. The tour is 2 ½ hours long and will start and end at the intersection of St. Emmanuel & Gray St. (street parking is available in the area). Masks are mandatory, and comfortable walking shoes and highly visible clothing is advised – this is a walking tour along a freeway, all on city-provided sidewalks, but nonetheless, due to the presence of cars and some poor and rather inconsiderate planning decisions, the danger is inherent. Water and snacks from Crumbville will be provided. This walking tour is part […]

REGISTRATION LIVESTREAM ON YOUTUBE Join DiverseWorks and Open Dance Project for a virtual roundtable discussion on the intersecting themes of power, sexuality, and climate change explored in ODP’s new immersive dance, All the Devils are Here: A Tempest in the Galapagos. This discussion is part of a series of public programs that engage audiences with ODP’s research and creative process in the lead up to the premiere of All the Devils are Here in May 2021. Annie Arnoult, Open Dance Project Artist Director, will be joined by GUEST SPEAKERS Rachel Afi Quinn, Assistant Professor, Comparative Cultural Studies and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of Houston Lina Dib, Multidisciplinary Artist Ryan McGettigan, Scenic Designer, Open Dance Project MODERATED BY Niki Kasumi Clements, Assistant Professor of Religion and Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities, Rice University This free roundtable discussion will be hosted on Zoom and live-streamed on DW's YouTube channel. Registration is required to receive the Zoom link and login information. This event is supported in part by the National Performance Network, Cullen Trust for Performing Arts, City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, Texas Commission on the Arts, Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston Endowment, and the John Steven Kellett Foundation. Rachel Afi Quinn is Assistant […]

Join Aurora Picture Show, DiverseWorks, and Project Row Houses on February 9 at 7 pm for a glimpse of some of the Houston area's most exciting upcoming creative projects! This free virtual event features presentations by this year's The Idea Fund grantees. Now in its 14th year, The Idea Fund supports Houston-area artists, curators, and collaboratives whose projects exemplify unconventional, interventionist, conceptual, entrepreneurial, participatory, or guerrilla artistic practices. To register for this Zoom online presentation, please click here. This regranting program is funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, administered by a partnership of DiverseWorks, Project Row Houses, and Aurora Picture Show, and projects are selected by a panel of arts professionals and a past Idea Fund grant recipient. Round 14 jurors were Roya Amirsoleymani, Leslie Moody Castro, and Harrison Guy. For more information, please visit theideafund.org. 2021 Round 14 Grantees Qais Assali – Two Sides of The Same Coin Banke Awopetu – Summon Gregory Michael Carter – Machine To Retrieve Reparations Sol Diaz – The Place I Know Matthew Flores & Ángel Lartigue – Forensic Excavation Yu-Ru Huang – The Human Behind the Object Hueston Collective: Aisen Caro Chacin, Violette Bule, Felicia Chapman, Maria Macias, Lindsay […]

MORNING EXORCISE: dancing ecologies with jas lin, organized by Antonious-Tín Bui register Saturday, March 27, 1 pm MORNING as in awakening– to our senses, our surroundings, our agency EXORCISE as in ritual– for purging the body of habitual, socialized choreographies Grounded in the principles and elements of emergent strategy, “dancing ecologies” is a collective journey through breath, guided meditation, biomimicry movement experiments, and group reflections. According to adrienne maree brown, “emergent strategy is how we intentionally change in ways that grow our capacity to embody the just and liberated worlds we long for.” What are the competencies and capacities we need to expand in a time of repeating crises? What new speeds of moving do we need to cultivate attention, depth, and trust? What can we learn from the biologically indeterminate shape of fungal networks? How can we inhabit the body in a way that honors our interdependence, that re-members what Joanna Macy calls the “ecological self which recognizes that the world is its body”? This movement workshop is open to all who are in the practice of shaping change towards life & liberation for all becomings. MORNING EXORCISE seeks to inspire the wholeness of all bodies, recognizing the body […]