MOVING NIGHT.

Last year, Dominic Walsh Dance Theater and Hope Stone Dance premiered The Illumination Project, an extraordinary and powerful World AIDS Day event. On December 1, the companies will present their second annual commemorative performance at DiverseWorks. For the evening, choreographer Paola Georgudis created a work for (clockwise from top) Marcello de sa Martins, Walsh, and Manuel Barra. Proceeds will support the Baylor College of Medicine Pediatric AIDS Initiative and A Caring Safe Place. Click here for more World AIDS Day activities.

Photographed at Houston Ballet Academy by John Conroy

SAY THEIR NAMES.

On November 20, Cheyenne Griffin (pictured) will join the candlelight vigil at City Hall marking Day of Remembrance. For the fifth year, the observance—and many similar events around the world—will memorialize individuals murdered as a result of anti-transgender hate. “We’ve got about 33 names to read this year—so far,” Vanessa Edwards Foster, Houston-based chair of the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition, reported recently. Griffin is active in the group HTGA (Helping TransGenders Anonymous).

Photographed by David Lewis MAJOR PROJECT. Reagan Miller, a senior theater major at High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, is spreading the word about his school’s production of The Laramie Project. The drama, which recounts the aftermath of the Matthew Shepherd murder, still sears five years after brutal killing. “I think it is a beautiful, brave thing that a high school is taking on this piece,” Miller says. Working behind the scenes, Miller is also helping actors prepare the intense monologues for the December 3–9 show.

Photographed at HSPVA by David Lewis

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