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FREE Tax Help & Preparation For People Who Use American Sign Language
BakerRipley and the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities are partnering again to provide FREE ASL interpreting tax preparation services! BakerRipley, with the help of Nightingale Interpreting Services, is offering tax preparation and completion services to deaf individuals. Tax services provided by BakerRipley, the Mayor's Office, and Nightingale Interpreting services include tax preparation and completion, …
BIORYTHM: Music and the Body
What is it about music that moves us; that inspires us; that connects us? That’s precisely what the newest traveling exhibition at the John P. McGovern Museum of Health and Medical Science, BIORHYTHM: Music and the Body will explore when it opens officially on January 13, 2018. Through a series of one-of-a-kind interactive installations, visitors …
The Permanent Voyage
Art of the World Gallery – Houston’s leading gallery of modern and contemporary art – is pleased to present The Permanent Voyage, an exhibition of over 40 paintings by master painter Cristóbal Toral. This will be Toral's first exhibition ever in Texas. The Permanent Voyage will open Friday, March 23 and run through Saturday, May …
Annual School of Art Student Exhibition
Opening Reception: Friday, April 27 at 6 p.m. Exhibition on view through Saturday, May 12 The Annual School of Art Student Exhibition features work by first- and second-year graduates and juniors and seniors from the School’s five studio art programs. Artwork executed over the past year in graphic design, interdisciplinary practices and emerging forms, painting, …
Spring 2018 Interfaith Environmental Stewardship Event
People of all faiths, or no faith at all, are invited to care for our shared environment during Earth Month. We will water and mulch around trees in the new arboretum to prepare for its grand opening at the Willow Waterhole Conservation Reserve. All ages are welcome. Tools/supplies will be provided. Meet at The Gathering …
Poetry and Music: Exile and Return
Poetry and Music: Exile and Return Sarah Rothenberg, piano and poet Adam Zagajewski Matchbox 2 Presented in collaboration with Inprint. Adam Zagajewski is Poland’s most famous living poet, winner of the Kurt Tucholsky Prize, a Prix de la Liberté, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2010, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born …
Jumper Maybach: The Pride Collection: INTROSPECTION
Jumper Maybach: The Pride Collection: INTROSPECTION
LGBT artist and philanthropist Jumper Maybach is set to unveil a timely and important new series of works celebrating PRIDE 2018. The series titled The Pride Collection: INTROSPECTION will be on exhibition and available for acquisition beginning June 1 at his gallery in Houston, Texas as well as online for those who are unable to …
Filling in the Gaps: Historical Research in Creative Writing
Filling in the Gaps: Historical Research in Creative Writing
Creative writers of all genres are invited to learn how historical (or other) research can enhance creative writing—or bog it down with information. Houston writer and award-winning teacher Claire Fuqua Anderson shares strategies and pitfalls of incorporating research into creative work in a three-hour workshop, followed by a reading from her novel in progress set …