Public Program

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 […]

Register Join artists Lovie Olivia & Preetika Rajgariah in conversation with DiverseWorks Curator Ashley DeHoyos as part of Texas Talks Art. Texas Talks Art is a multi-institutional initiative intended to both introduce the work of artists across the state of Texas to a wider audience and to foster collaboration between local non-profit arts organizations. Taking the form of virtual 30-minute lunchtime talks, the series features 50 Texas artists and artist collectives in conversation with 50 Texas curators beginning in January 2021 and continuing throughout the year. Texas Talks Art is built on a belief in the need to work collectively to support the remarkable and diverse community of artists living and working in Texas. The series features an intergenerational roster of artists working across mediums and at differing points in their careers. Texas Talks Art encourages dialogue between arts professionals and emphasizes the broad range of concerns and questions that animate Texas-based artists. Each free, virtual talk will take place on a Tuesday at 12 p.m. CST and will be recorded and archived. For a list of upcoming programs and more information, please visit texastalksart.org. Join the conversation using #txtalksart on socials.

Join curator Ashley Dehoyos for a roundtable conversation with the artists in Visionary Futures and a look back at the works created by Antonius Bui, Chandrika, Lovie Olivia, Preetika Rajgariah, S Rodriguez, and Y2K. SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2 PM (zoom) Register Visionary Futures builds upon Curator Ashley DeHoyos’ past projects Collective Presence and Bayou City Be All and highlights how queer, non-binary communities are at the forefront of cultural and social change. For Visionary Futures, DeHoyos asked these artists to engage in a series of conversations on speculative futures leading to the creation of new works that consider and further develop ideas of queer, LGBTQIA+, and BIPOC futurism. Prompts were designed to begin to unravel notions of survival and consider how and who do we create for and why? The project provides an opportunity for each artist to consider new paradigms for cultural exchange and the legacies that they seek to leave behind at the intersections of art, technology, and spirituality.