Spring and Sprung
Spring has sprung! Open up those windows, purge your house of all the stale winter air, and pull out your jelly sandals! It's time to get outside and absorb that vitamin D. Be it a Bring Your Own Beamer event outside of the Menil or an evening performance along the Bayou, the open air experiences are here and plentiful. A time of the year in South Texas to both simultaneously install that new screen door and full up sandbags to fortify your house from the impending floods guaranteed to bless your neighborhood with an extra 2ft of water. While it is still frowned upon in Houston to engage in the practice of walking to destinations, the option is viable if so inclined to do so. Lather up with your SPF 200 and welcome those sun kisses, it’s time for your weekly Hidden Agenda
Monday, 04/20
They Who Sound | 7:30PM
Lawndale Art Center | 4912 Main St
It's Monday and time for your celebrated local experimental night of performance and sound intervention. They Who Sound will certainly They Who Please.
Cello/Emmanuel Guajardo/Paty Lorena Solórzano&Flower Arrangement
Emmanuel Guajardo (Houston) - double bassPaty Lorena Solórzano (Houston) - movementcello (cello) - cello
Flower Arrangement is:Von Curtis – synthesizer, samples, voiceLaub – banjo, saxophone, keyboard, voiceSindhu Thirumalaisamy – tape, electronics, whistles, voice
Tuesday, 04/21
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Border Tuner | 6PM
Moody Center for the Arts | 6100 Main St
The Moody Center for the Arts presents the book launch and documentary film Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo, by artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. This event will feature words from the curators Kerry Doyle and Edgar Picazo Merino, along with writer Michael Nardone.
GUST 192 | 6PM
The Continental Club | 3714 Main St
That gum you like is going to come back in style AND Grown Up Story Time is Back! Featuring host Andrew Barrett, the evening brings laughter, tears, and deep contemplation as writers and creatives alike present live and on stage stories. Get there early for a good seat and get your tickets now!
Wednesday, 04/22
The Christophers | 6PM
River Oaks Theater | 2009 Gray
The conniving Sallie and Barnaby, children of famous artist Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen), hire Lori Butler (Michaela Coel), a working artist and fan of their father's work, to complete a series of famously unfinished canvases—The Christophers—so they'll have an inheritance when he dies.
In my opinion its actually difficult to find a truly great movie about a painter. The passion and struggle get lost in big name production and poorly portrait mental collapse. The Christophers looks to be a film to break the mold and featuring the great Sir Ian Mckellen. There are four screenings on Wednesday and plenty more throughout the week, so you have no excuse to not go…SO DO IT!
Thursday, 04/23
Art Supporters Match Making Event | 5PM
Project Row Houses | 2310 Elgin St
One thing we can all agree on is supporting the arts! Best part about it is you get to support the arts with Project Row Houses, meet like minded collectors, local organizations, and creative professionals. Let's consider it as a speed dating event meets museum mixer, fun for everyone. This will be a great opportunity to meet like minded arts people and learn more about your local arts programming entities. Bonus, is you get to check out Project Row Houses’s current Round 60!
Friday, 04/24
John Akomfrah, The Hour Of The Dog (still), 2025. Six-channel color video, sound, 50:37 min. Baltimore Museum of Art: Commissioned by the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Menil Collection, Houston. © John Akomfrah, Courtesy Smoking Dogs Films and Lisson Gallery
Reception John Akomfrah: The Hour of the Dog | 6PM
The Menil Collection | 1533 Sul Ross
Yes this is a member event, but all the more reason to get off your rump and become a member. First in to see such amazing exhibitions as John Akomfrah, special talks, screenings, and more. The Hour of the Dog is a 51 minute six channel video installation best viewed from beginning to end. The installation explores the deep history of youth-led Civil Rights–era activism in the South from 1954 to 1963 and the individuals that fought continuously for racial equity through protests, marches, and voter registration efforts.
Menil Society Opening Reception: John Akomfrah: The Hour Of The Dog - Menil
Saturday, 04/25
Green Mountain Earth Day | 12PM - 5PM
Discovery Green | 1500 McKinney St
It’s an Earth Day celebration! The green event is free for all and features community artists and projects including some of our favorite creatives and organizations. Such featured are Magpies and Peacocks fashion show, University of Houston, Downtown art installation, Houston recycled goods artist Glee Ryan and a community art project by puppet-maker Dennis McNett of Wolfbat. The University of Houston-Downtown will feature artwork by students from the Department of Arts and Communication displayed in an open-air gallery, inspired by environmental driven projects
“Discovery Green visitors are invited to participate in mask-making workshops inspiring them to creatively interpret the theme of Our Power, Our Planet. Using recycled materials, these masks will represent endangered animals, plants, ecosystems, natural elements or symbolic representations of the Earth. During the celebration on April 25, participants will wear their masks to join in on a public procession accompanied by 12-foot-tall puppets as part of Reclamation of the Earth created by Wolfbat.”
This is a zero waste event so bring your totebags, your own utensils, and pack in and pack out what you bring or create.
Sunday, 04/26
It's Sunday! Relax, Sleep In, or catch a matinee movie. This is YOUR day!
