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May 2019
TSW Monthly Meeting
Come join us for our monthly meeting every 3rd Wednesday of the month. See a scene from our upcoming show or a workshop from an up and coming director, learn about the latest TSW news, and hang out with your TSW friends. We can't wait to see you!
Find out more »August 2019
SPRY Montrose Diner
For seniors age 60+ and accompanying caregivers/partners. Montrose Diner Days begins at 9am every Monday, Wednesday & Friday with social and light recreational activities, followed by a freshly prepared lunch served at noon. There is no charge to seniors, however, participation requires a brief registration. For more information, please call 713-529-0037 x222 and leave your name and preferred contact method.
Find out more »OutLater
Weekly - Mondays OUT LATER is a gay men’s discussion group for men who are living life after coming out later -- focusing on life issues of parenting, divorce, family, dating, relationships, and other issues of concern to group participants. Mondays, 7:30-9:00, at Montrose Counseling Center, Room 103 email: [email protected]
Find out more »Lgbtq+ Veteran Women & Non-Binary Folks: Community Support Space
Grace After Fire is teaming up with LHI Houston to create a space of support to Houston's LGBTQ+ women and non-binary veterans. In this monthly meeting, we will provide food, community, and friendship. We welcome all LGBTQ+ and non-binary veterans to attend. The space is people of color (POC), queer, and trans centered/affirming, non-judgmental, and inclusive of all relationship dynamics.
Find out more »Murderous Crossing
The year is 1923 and audience members are passengers on board the HMS Victoria as it crosses the English Channel. The famous Inspector Clurrot has tracked down a homicidal mastermind hiding out on board. Meanwhile, the ship is the vessel of matrimony for the Contessa Follette and John D. Rothchild - a marriage encouraged through financial need and murderous greed. But not everything is as it seems, and it turns out that the English Channel isn't the only thing being…
Find out more »TC Energy Theater District Open House
Open the stage curtains and kick off the fall performing arts season with the TC Energy Theater District Open House on Aug. 25, 2019 from 12 – 5 p.m. Staged with fun for the whole family, this annual free event offers everything from ballet classes for beginners to lessons in elaborate stage makeup techniques. Theater District Open House is also the largest day of discounted sales for individual and season tickets from Houston’s eight world-renowned performing arts organizations, making it…
Find out more »Positive Understanding of Sex, Sensuality & Yourself (PUSSY) Workshop Series
We'll be having a monthly Positive Understanding of Sex, Sensuality & Yourself (PUSSY) workshop series focusing on sex positivity and reducing shame! We'll be playing with sex toys, making awkward jokes, and discussing the very real ways in which sex relates to race, class, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, culture, and feminism.
Find out more »September 2019
The Soiree Happy Hour with The Diana Foundation
Members and friends of The Diana Foundation meet on the first Wednesday of every month for a very jazzy happy hour event. Everyone is welcome to attend. Happy hour specials are available for everyone. Amazing food is available to guests. Special thanks to The CHOCOLATE BAR www.theoriginalchocolatebar.com and David Alcorta Catering for sponsoring this fabulous event. We look forward to seeing you on a regular basis -- first Wednesday of the month here at F Bar Houston from 5:30 p.m.…
Find out more »April Strahan Art Open Studio
Please stop by and visit my Open Art Studio from 12-5 on the Second Saturday of every month to see a wide variety of paintings! Open Studio is a chance for me to meet and visit with art lovers and for them to get to see what I’ve been working on lately. I have lots of different paintings, from small to super-sized, all at very reasonable prices. My primary goal is to make original art accessible to everyone, so stop…
Find out more »Blanket Bingo at Market Square Park
Every third Thursday from May to October, bring your blankets and lawn chairs to the park for a family-friendly evening of fun led by announcer John Mills-McCoin, music from A Fistful of Soul and prizes. Admission is $10 (cash only) and includes one bingo packet (approximately nine games); additional games and daubers can be purchased for $1 each. All proceeds benefit Market Square Park and Buffalo Bayou Partnership. Tickets will go on sale at 6 p.m., and the first round…
Find out more »2019 Fur Ball
Rescued Pets Movement is excited to celebrate over 37,000 lives saved at their annual Fur Ball. This year's event theme, "It Takes a Village," highlights the need for strong collaboration to rehabilitate, rescue, and transport pets to safety. The event will take place at House of Blues on Thursday, September 19, 2019. Sponsorship and ticket opportunities are available, and proceeds from the gala will benefit the life-saving work of RPM. The event will honor Julie and Brook Brookshire who, through…
Find out more »Murder by the Book Presents When America Fell Silent Book Signing by Houston On-Air Radio Personality Freddy Cruz
Murder by the Book in the Rice Village/University Place area will host Houston on-air radio personality and author Freddy Cruz for a book signing and discussion. Freddy Cruz is a Houston author and on-air radio personality who recently published his first novel titled When America Fell Silent. Cruz’s novel, a fictional dystopian political thriller, is about retired Navy SEAL Hayden Randall who will do anything to defend his country and restore the nation’s freedom. Randall’s ex-girlfriend and current First Daughter…
Find out more »NINTH-ANNUAL TEXAS TRIBUNE FESTIVAL
The Festival will be held September 26-28 in downtown Austin, Texas, and will feature insightful panel discussions, debates, keynote addresses and community conversations all centered on and around politics and public policy, in Texas and nationally. For the second year, the Festival will also welcome attendees to Open Congress, the popular free programming woven into the event. More information can be found at festival.texastribune.org. The 2019 Festival, which will fall on the heels of the 86th Legislative Session and come…
Find out more »Tragedy, A Tragedy
"It's the worst world in the world here tonight, Frank." Reporting live on an unfolding crisis, Frank in the Studio is aided by his team of field: John in the Field, Constance at the Home, and Michael, the Legal Adviser. As the impending event approaches and chaos builds, the broadcasters reveal themselves to be all too human. In an era during which many have come to question the veracity of the news media, Catastrophic favorite Will Eno hilariously transcends fact-and-fiction…
Find out more »October 2019
Fatima Bhutto: New Kings of the World
The new global popular culture is a benign version of the challenge on multiple fronts—economic, political, military, diplomatic—to the ideas and norms that the West has tried to impose on the rest of the world. Bhutto's book is an important dispatch from a new order that is taking form before our eyes. It isn't just globalization, as a broad concept, that has generated the radical changes in popular culture. The new popular culture meets a strong need that American culture…
Find out more »Hay House U Live! Houston
Hay House is thrilled to host our Hay House Live! Event in Houston, TX which will take place the weekend of October 5-6, 2019. Join us as Hay House’s favorite authors come together to give day long, intensive workshops. This is your opportunity to spend a day (or two!) with your favorite speakers, hear their stories, ask questions, dive deep into their teachings, and come away invigorated, refreshed, and renewed, ready to apply the teachings to your lives. And, it’s…
Find out more »2019 Bayou City Art Festival Downtown
The Art Colony Association, Inc. (ACA) will celebrate 48 years of art for all and giving back to local nonprofits as it spotlights 300 artists, representing 19 different disciplines, at Bayou City Art Festival in Downtown Houston. Houston’s largest art festival will transform the streets of Downtown into artistic avenues bursting with colors and culture. As one of the top fine art festivals in the country, the weekend event will provide patrons with the opportunity to personally meet artists, view…
Find out more »November 2019
Baby Screams Miracle
"The weather has been bad since the beginning of time." With BABY SCREAMS MIRACLE, The Catastrophic Theatre introduces Houston audiences to one of the most exciting young playwrights in American Theatre, Clare Barron. A catastrophic storm engulfs the home of a small, religious family. An estranged daughter blows in with the storm and between falling trees and flying trampolines, the family clings to prayer and forgiveness. Called "a genuinely fragile, complex piece of work," (Time Out New York) BABY SCREAMS…
Find out more »February 2020
The Book of Grace
"Sometimes the Alien is right in your own home. Sometimes right in your own blood. And you've got to build a wall around it." Grace is a waitress who lives in a small border town in south Texas with her husband Vet, a border patrol agent. She encourages Vet's troubled son Buddy to return home and reunite with his father in time for a celebration honoring Vet's service. What ensues is a battle for power, revenge, and release from past…
Find out more »June 2020
Tamarie 20/20
After a 2019 hiatus, Tamarie and her merry band of misfits are back again with an all-new, ridiculous, riotous musical! Escape the summer heat with Tamarie as she dives deep into TAMARIE 20/20. So what the hell is the title about? Is it a riff on a long running investigative television news show? A political campaign slogan? The unlikely results of Tamarie's most recent eye exam? Yes! Tamarie's seeing things and she wants YOU to be a witness. Visions of…
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