Post-Holiday, Pre-Plot
The decorations are coming down (for some anyway), and the new year’s resolutions are already on shaky ground. Nonprofit staff are groaning back to life and your regularly scheduled programming is sure to follow. While the year is just getting started, there’s no reason to pace yourself. Dig deep, dive in, and explore the creative culture of the city.
Cool Movies This Week | Times Below
River Oaks Theatre | 2009 W Gray St
Hausu (a weird and cool Japanese horror classic) - Wednesday @ 9:30 PM and Thursday @ 7:30 PM
Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch’s Venice Biennial prize winner) - Plenty of days and times just check!
The Shining (duh) - Saturday @ 9:30
Monday, 01/05
Drag Night at the River Oaks | 9:00 PM
River Oaks Theatre | 2009 W Gray St
Start your week off with Rachel Bitchface, host of this intimate drag experience alongside Keymiyah Dupree and Dessie Love Blake. These shows are 18+ only and give you a close-up and personal experience with the performers.
Tuesday, 01/06
SUITS: THE CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN | 7:00 PM
River Oaks Theatre | 2009 W Gray St
Ready for a Houston arts throwback? Arthouse Houston is hosting a screening of SUITS: THE CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN, a film documenting the ART GUYS on their performance art road trip across the nation in suits by designer Todd Oldham on which they had sold advertising space to 56 companies.
Better yet? The event is also a benefit for the Orange Show! The dress code is suit and tie, so dress your best and grab your tickets now.
Wednesday, 01/07
Take a chill pill
Thursday, 01/08
Closing Reception: Where We Find Ourselves | 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Houston Freedmen’s Town Visitor Center | 1204 Victor St
Take your last opportunity to check out the exhibition Where We Find Ourselves by Satchel Lee at the Freedmen’s Town Visitor Center. Take the opportunity to grab a beverage and look through a show that explores memory, place, and Black perception through the lens of Houston’s historic Freedmen’s Town.
Friday, 01/09
Golden Eighties | 7:00 PM
MFAH - Brown Auditorium Theater in the Law Building | 1001 Bissonnet St
It’s like Chopping Mall but a musical! Golden Eighties is by feminist filmmaker Chantal Akerman and shows store employees as they navigate the usual mall drama of breakups and misunderstandings. There’ll also be an introduction by Sarah Rothenberg, artistic director of DACAMERA.
Saturday, 01/10
Opening: norMAL and unreMARKable | 6:00 PM
Throughline Collective | 3909 Main St
Celebrate the opening of norMAL and unreMARKable, an exhibition featuring new works by artists Heather L. Johnson and Henry G. Sanchez. The exhibition looks to the space between the unusual and exceptional to explore how comfort narratives conspire to make the unremarkable more foreboding.
Sunday, 01/11
Curator Talk: Kelly Montana on Lines of Resolution | 3:00 PM
Menil Drawing Institute | 1412 W Main St
Lines of Resolution: Drawing at the Advent of Television and Video is an elaborate and thorough exploration of drawing and video, and you can dive a little deeper with co-curator Kelly Montana as she speaks on select works from the show.
Get prepped by reading our review of the exhibition by Paul Middendorf.
