Public Program

A PARTICIPATORY CRAFT EVENT WITH THE WRITER OF RASGOS ASIÁTICOS This hands-on craft-making activity invites you to contribute to the making of DiverseWorks' newest project rasgos asiáticos. The author Virginia Grise will be on hand to teach you how to make specialty piñata lanterns that will become part of the site-specific installation at the SITE Gallery Train Shed at Sawyer Yards. rasgos asiáticos emerges from an exploration of the histories and intersections of Mexican and Chinese culture, a confluence mirrored in the crafted lanterns. We will have drinks and snacks and if you can, please bring a bag of oranges, tangerines, and/or grapefruit as an offering to also be used in the installation! This activity takes place in the SITE Gallery Train Shed (next to the Silos) at Sawyer Yards, on Saturday, November 13 from 12 - 3 pm, during the 2nd Saturday Market. More info about rasgos asiáticos...

View of the Rio Grande River from the Boquillas Canyon Trail, near Big Bend National Park along the US/Mexico Border. REGISTER The Overlapping Territories Symposium is a program of Overlapping Territories: A Knowledge-Building Research Lab, on view April 1 - April 23. Organized by DiverseWorks Curator, Ashley DeHoyos, the symposium centers on topics such as Indigeneity, settler-colonialism, and migration. Advance registration is required. All events are at MATCH, 3400 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002. DOWNLOAD THE OT SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM (PDF) Schedule  Friday, April 22, 5:30 - 6:30 PM Welcome Happy Hour & Overlapping Territories Exhibition Tour with Curator Ashley DeHoyos Optional (requires a separate ticket): Friday, April 22, 7 PM Womb, a project of Body as a Crossroads A new dance work by Los-Angeles based choreographer Marina Magalhães Saturday, April 23 9 AM WELCOME & LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ASHLEY DEHOYOS, Curator, DiverseWorks 9:30 AM KEYNOTE ADDRESS NIKESHA BREEZE, interdisciplinary artist (Santa Fe, NM) Working from a Global African Diasporic, Afro-Centric and Afro-Futurist perspective, Nikesha Breeze’s interdisciplinary work reimagines the possibility of healing intergenerational traumatic inheritance through the intersection of art and ritual. 11 AM WHY DOES LAND MATTER? CAROLINA ARANIBAR-FERNANDEZ, visual artist (Phoenix, AZ); JENELLE ESPARZA, interdisciplinary artist, (San Antonio, TX); MATT MANALO, visual artist (Houston, TX). […]

REGISTER TO PLAY The Third Ward Monopoly Club (TWMC) started in 2012 and sought to organize and develop a group of tournament-level Monopoly players. TWMC met weekly at the Eldorado Ballroom and featured numerous artists and community members of Houston’s Third Ward. The weekly meetings worked as a way for fellowship and the spawning of ideas and collaborations across the city. This year, TWMC celebrates its 10th year with a week-long tournament. Art League Houston, DiverseWorks, and Project Row Houses will each host a night of Monopoly, featuring five games and one winner. These three winners will then compete at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston for the championship game. Monday, June 13 6–8 PM Art League Houston 1953 Montrose Boulevard. Houston, Texas 77006 Tuesday, June 14 7–9 PM Diverseworks @ MATCH 3400 Main Street Houston, Texas 77002 Wednesday, June 15 6–8 PM Project Row Houses 2521 Holman Street Houston, Texas 77004 Thursday, June 16 6–8 PM Contemporary Arts Museum Houston 5216 Montrose Boulevard. Houston, Texas 77006

SCREENING Free Admission (Suggested Donation of $10) - Tickets Required GET TICKETS DiverseWorks presents a screening of The Exquisite Moving Corpse. The Surrealist “Exquisite Corpse” was a French café parlor game. The Exquisite Moving Corpse is more of an artist chain letter. Sixty artists participated over a two-year period, beginning in March 2020. Each invited artist made a one-minute video in response to the last frame of the previous minute. Most of the footage was shot, shared, and edited while participating artists worked in quarantine. Artists Chip Lord, Jack Massing, and Sean Miller made the first three minutes and then handed it off to an evolving list of artists whom they invited – a jump into the unknown!    Artists include:  Mel Chin, Mark Dion, Kara Hearn, Hillerbrand+Magsamen, Nina Katchadourian, Kristin Lucas, Mary Mattingly, Tony Oursler, Phillip Pyle II, William Wegman....and more! WHEN & WHERE: Thursday, June 30, 2022 MATCH - Matchbox 4 3400 Main St, Houston, TX  77002 Doors and Drinks: 7 pm Screening: 7:30 pm Artist Discussion: 8:35 pm - 9 pm  

Join DiverseWorks at Basket Books & Art on Wednesday, November 16 at 6 pm for a special event celebrating the publication of The City We Make Together: City Council Meeting's Primer for Participation by Mallory Catlett and Aaron Landsman. Former DiverseWorks Artistic Director Sixto Wagan and DW Deputy Director Jennifer Gardner will be in conversation with Landsman and Catlett, joining us via Zoom. Please RSVP to DiverseWorks by November 15 at [email protected]. Seating is limited. November 2022 marks 10 years since DiverseWorks co-commissioned and presented City Council Meeting, a participatory theater project about empathy, democracy, and power created by Catlett and Landsman along with Jim Findlay. The City We Make Together, published this year by the University of Iowa Press, traces the evolution of the performance of City Council Meeting in cities across the country. From the publisher: "The City We Make Together looks at how we make art with communities, how we perform power and who gets to play which roles, and how we might use creativity and rigorous inquiry to look at our structures of democracy anew." WHEN & WHERE Wednesday, November 16, 6 pm Basket Books & Art 115 Hyde Park Blvd. Houston, TX  77006 Read Nancy Wozny's review of The City We […]