Public Program

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 […]

Image courtesy of Stacey Allen Visit DiverseWorks.org from June 16-19 for a screening of Stacey Allen's Aesthetic Inheritances in celebration of Juneteenth. Allen created Aesthetic Inheritances in collaboration with cultural preservationist and photographer Danielle Mason and filmmaker Keda Sharber and the project was created in part, on the site of the Barrett family home at Barrett Station, a Freedmen's Settlement established in 1875 in Northeast Harris County. Aesthetic Inheritances is presented by DiverseWorks as part of the 2022-23 Project Freeway Fellowship Program.