Texas Women’s Empowerment Foundation presents Beats & Beets Garden Party

TWEF Empowerment Center 8333 Sweetwater Lane, Houston, TX, United States

The Texas Women’s Empowerment Foundation (TWEF) presents Beats & Beets Garden Party, a lively garden party in the city featuring gardening demos, Spring planting, STEM education, networking, pop-up shops, and music from a live DJ. The green-thumb gardening event will also feature food samples from Yoyo’s Hot Dog, Soulfitgrill, and Bee Fit Food along with …

Free

Zadok Jewelers Barks & Bling Adoption Drive benefiting Friends for Life

Zadok Jewelers 1801 Post Oak Blvd, Houston

Zadok Jewelers will be hosting the Barks & Bling Adoption Drive on Saturday, April 27 from 10 AM to 2 PM. Join us at Zadok Jewelers for a day for the dogs! Bring your pup or come to adopt your new best friend at the Barks & Bling Adoption Drive. Browse paw-fect jewels from Heather …

Free of charge

Symphony Orchestra

UH Moores Opera House 3271 Cullen Boulevard, Houston, TX, United States

Franz Anton Krager, conductor Myles Nardinger, conductor Alejandro Basulto, conductor Timothy Hester, piano The Moores School of Music presents a concert by the Symphony Orchestra, featuring Barber's Piano Concerto, Op. 38.

$10 – $15

The Ecological Crisis & The Response of Faith

Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church 2353 Rice Blvd., Houston, TX, United States

What is our present ecological crisis? What specific issues are central? Lisa Brenskelle will examine the science that explains the present state of our world and the major environmental issues we face. She will then consider how our faith both informs and enables our response to this crisis. Lisa holds a PhD in engineering, and …

Free

How Water Conservation Will Save the Dry Day & What You Can Do to Help

online United Kingdom, London

Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church in Houston invites you to a monthly environmental education web meeting series whose theme in 2019 is environmental issues and what you can do. In April, Robert Mace, professor of practice at U.T. - Austin, Department of Geography, will speak on water issues in Texas. Water Scarcity has been …

Free

Percussion Ensemble II

UH Moores Opera House 3271 Cullen Boulevard, Houston, TX, United States

Alec Warren, director The Moores School of Music presents a performance by the Percussion Ensemble II, featuring works by Ridley, Sejourne, Becker and Trevino.

$10 – $15

Lambda NextGen Houston- April 2019 Happy Hour

Next up on the group’s monthly pub crawl is a trip to FM Kitchen and Bar. So you can hang out with all the next generation’s movers and shakers and have yourself a nice cold drink and a tasty snack. Try the chili. It’s a bowl of rich, tomatoey goodness. https://www.facebook.com/events/549939265505259/

2019 Tapestry Gala

The Post Oak Hotel 1600 West Loop South, Houston

Interfaith Ministries of Greater Houston (IM) will celebrate 50 years of dialogue, collaboration and service at its annual Tapestry Gala on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. at The Post Oak Hotel at Uptown Houston. For more than 50 years, IM has united people of diverse backgrounds to serve the Greater Houston area. IM …

Da Camera presents “Ashberyana: A Musical Celebration of Poet John Ashbery”

The Menil Collection 1533 Sul Ross St, Houston

Da Camera of Houston joins forces with renowned American composers and musicians for “Ashberyana: A Musical Celebration of Poet John Ashbery," a concert that celebrates Ashbery's legacy with works that reflect his playfulness, wit and humor. John Ashbery (1927–2017), recognized as one of the greatest 20th-century American poets, developed close ties to Da Camera and …

$60

A Celebration of Pianist Nancy Weems

UH Moores Opera House 3271 Cullen Boulevard, Houston, TX, United States

Join us as we celebrate the career of our esteemed Madison Professor of Music Nancy Weems. After serving on the Moores School of Music faculty for four decades, Weems is retiring at the end of the spring 2019 semester. Enjoy performances by her UH colleagues and students as we say "thank you" to an outstanding …

Free

Art of the World Gallery Presents Carole A. Feuerman Between the Drops

Art of the World Gallery 2201 Westheimer Rd, Houston

Art of the World Gallery is pleased to present Between the Drops , an exhibition of work by acclaimed New York artist Carole A. Feuerman . New works will be on view made especially for this exhibition. Between the Drops will be on view from March 22 through May 18, 2019. Between the Drops is …

Free

2019 Fulfilling Families Luncheon

Houston Country Club 1 Potomac Dr, Houston, TX, United States

For more than 42 years, Arms Wide Adoption Services, formerly Spaulding for Children, has provided foster care, adoption, post adoption, and post permanency services, all at no cost, to children in the Texas foster care system and their adoptive families. Since its inception in 1977, Arms Wide Adoption Services has placed more than 2,100 children …

Mid Main First Thursday Benefits BikeHouston

Mid Main 3500 - 3700 Main St., Houston, United States

This FREE music, art, and food block party takes place in the 3500-3700 blocks of Main Street in the heart of Midtown Houston! Texas GOLD Sprint'em returns to the Art Garden... enjoy good tunes, great peeps and get your wheels ready to race for prizes and bragging rights! $5 suggested donations for entry in the …

$5

Art at Noon with Annise Parker

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston 5216 Montrose Blvd, Houston, TX, United States

Join the former Houston Mayor for a discussion of the exhibition Stonewall 50 and the state of current LGBTQ issues in our city. This talk is a walk-through the gallery and if there’s anyone who can speak about how gay rights have changed in 50 years, it’s Parker. Expect a big turnout, so hit it …

Self-taught siblings amaze indie music fans, bring blues and funk to Bayou Theater

University of Houston-Clear Lake 2700 Bay Area Blvd, Houston, TX, United States

The very first song Glenn and Alex Peterson learned to play together when they were children was “Amazing Grace.” Alex, who was about 9 at the time, played violin and his then-11-year-old brother played guitar. Almost immediately, they both realized this was “it” for them, and now, the Peterson Brothers have become fixtures on Austin’s …

$13 – $20
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Murder on the Boat of Love

Puffabelly's Old Depot Restaurant 100 Main St., Spring, TX, United States

Old West Melodrama is setting the stage for “Murder on the Boat of Love” by Tony Lou Productions at Puffabelly’s Depot Restaurantin Old Town Spring. Watch as the staff and passengers of the boat of love try to learn if Rico, a man of mystery, is a hit man, critic or talent agent. Producer Jeannine …

$13 – $19

24th Annual Keels & Wheels Concours d’Elegance

Lakewood Yacht Club 2425 E NASA Pkwy, Seabrook, TX 77586, Seabrook, TX, United States

Keels & Wheels Concours d’Elegance is a weekend-long, nationally acclaimed classic car and vintage wooden boat show that takes place each spring at the Lakewood Yacht Club in beautiful Seabrook, Texas. Keels & Wheels welcomes approximately 200 cars and 100 boats, and has raised more than $1.7 million for local charities, while drawing thousands of …

Free – $40

Julep’s 5th Annual Derby Day Party

Julep 1919, Houston, United States

Julep's 5th Annual Kentucky Derby Party is Saturday, May 4 and tickets are on sale now! Enjoy live music from Vinyl Ranch and Manzy Lowry, live auctions for whiskey tastings with door entry, two projectors to view the race, lawn games, a photo booth, Mint Julep Carts, a Botanical Spritz Garden, El Topo Food Truck, …

$15
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In Full Bloom at Jumper Maybach

Jumper Maybach Fine Art 238 W 19th st, Houston, TX, United States

Spring into our opening reception of the "In Full Bloom" exhibit at Jumper Maybach Fine Art on May 4, 2-6pm! Come see the soft side of Jumper Maybach with his florals and soft color palettes; sure to brighten up any space. April showers bring May flowers, but these will be on display from May 4- …

Free

Field Day Houston 2019

Midtown Arts and Theatre Center Houston (MATCH) 3400 Main Street, Houston, TX, United States

New works in progress by six of Houston’s hottest artists will be showcased at Field Day on Saturday, May 4, at 7pm at Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston. This professionally produced evening features a modern dance performance by Adam Castaneda; dance, spoken word, and visual art by Uwazi Zamani; Kalpana Subbarao will perform Kathak, …

$7

Texas One Night Only with David Avocado Wolfe

Deer Lake Lodge & Spa 10500 Deer Lake Lodge Rd, Montgomery, TX

Deer Lake Lodge, a local resort and health spa, is hosting a detox retreat with internationally acclaimed author and raw food advocate, David Avocado Wolfe, Thursday-Sunday, May 2-5, 2019. In addition to its cleansing program, Deer Lake Lodge will also host a “Texas One Night Only with David Avocado Wolfe” presentation on Saturday, May 4, …

Da Camera Gala 2019: Somewhere in Time

Houstonian Hotel, Club and Spa 111 North Post Oak Lane, Houston, TX, United States

Da Camera's 2019 Gala, themed “Somewhere in Time,” will feature a performance by Da Camera Young Artists, a silent auction, a wine pull, a seated dinner developed by chef Robert Del Grande of Cafe Annie and dancing with live music from Klockwork. Robin Angly and Miles Smith, Chairmen Darrin Davis and Mario Gudmundsson, Co-chairmen Honoring …

$500

An Evening of Hats-n-Drag

Neon Boots Dancehall & Saloon 11410 Hempstead Road, Houston, TX, United States

This benefit for the Association for Family and Community Integrity will feature the legendary Dina Jacobs, hat trivia, and, in the evening, a hat contest. There will be 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes for outstanding hats. But VIP ticket holders will be able to borrow a hat from the AFCI hat collection to wear …

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Guest Artist Workshop Performance: Contradiction of the Southern Soul

Quintero Theatre 3351 Cullen Blvd, Houston

Written by Sally Mayes Directed by UH alumnus Brett Cullen Music by Sally Mayes, Tex Arnold, Alex Rybeck and Ethan Fein Orchestration by Cooper Baldwin The School of Theatre & Dance is excited to announce a special guest artist residency and workshop performance with actress, singer and Tony Award nominee Sally Mayes. Growing up in …

$10 – $20
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