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Breath(e) Toward Climate and Social Justice
2025-01-24 - 2025-05-10 | Rice University Moody Center for the Arts, 6100 Main Street, Houston, 77005
The Moody Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the groundbreaking exhibition Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, currently on view at the Hammer Museum at UCLA, will be presented in its Houston galleries from January 24 to May 10, 2025. This timely exhibition considers art practices that address the climate crisis and its inevitable intersection with issues of equity and social justice. The Moody’s iteration of Breath(e) will feature a selection of local and international artists, as well as new and modified works responding directly to Houston and the Gulf Coast. Exhibiting artists are Brandon Ballengée, Mel Chin, Tiffany Chung, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Michael Joo, Xin Liu, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Yoshitomo Nara, Roxy Paine, Garnett Puett, Sandy Rodriguez, Sarah Rosalena, Clarissa Tossin, and Jin-me Yoon.

OutLater
2025-04-14 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Houston, United States
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: outlater.group@outlook.com

Frozen Section by Lisa D'Amour
2025-04-17 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-04-18 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-04-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Midtown Arts and Theatre Center Houston (MATCH), 3400 Main Street, Houston, TX, 77002, United States
The Catastrophic Theatre presents the World Premiere of
FROZEN SECTION
by Lisa D’Amour
Directed by Jason Nodler
A post-apocalyptic comedy with a side of existential dread
“Welcome to Tyler’s, where a stranger is just a friend waiting to happen.“
Come meet the idiosyncratic, delightfully panicked community who works and shops at Tyler’s, a grocery store at the edge of the world. The Baker knits in the breakroom, while the Butcher laments a time gone by. In the cold air pouring from an open freezer case, The Wife and Mother dreams of a life she failed to live. By the dumpster in the alley, the cashier communes with the coyote, vaping and laughing, baring bellies and swapping secrets. Tenderness resides here.
Do you, dear theatergoer, currently find yourself disoriented, disassociated, confused as to where to find “reality?” Do you yearn for less screen time, better dreams, and a fresh head of lettuce plucked from the ground? Then these are your people, this is your theatre.
In FROZEN SECTION, an intentional community of shoppers and workers reckons with the recent arrival of a trickster coyote and supports their youngest, Sage, as they prepare to move on to a new city, a new life.
FROZEN SECTION stars Catastrophic core artists Noel Bowers, Raymond Compton, Jovan Jackson, Rebecca Randall, Jeanne Harris, Jeff Miller, T Lavois Thiebaud, Clarity Welch, and Abraham Zeus Zapata.
The production team includes Jason Nodler (director), Ryan McGettigan (set), Hudson Davis (lighting), Leah Smith (costumes), Shawn St. John (sound), Charlie Scott (assistant director), and Scout Sustala (stage manager).
***About Lisa D’Amour***
Lisa D’Amour is a playwright, interdisciplinary artist, and one half of the OBIE-Award winning performance duo PearlDamour. She was a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize in Drama (her play Detroit) and received four Tony Award nominations (Airline Highway). Her plays have been produced on Broadway and at theatres across the country, including Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, Manhattan Theater Club (all in NYC), Steppenwolf (Chicago), The Wilma Theater (Philadelphia), Woolly Mammoth Theater (Washington D.C.). Lisa lives in New Orleans, and she is the Distinguished Lecturer in Playwriting at the School of Theater and Dance at the University of Houston.

DACAMERA and The Menil Collection present: A Salon with Guest Artist Cécile McLorin Salvant
2025-04-17 19:30 - 21:30 | The Menil Collection, 1533 Sul Ross St, Houston, 77006
Spanning genres and mediums, Cécile McLorin Salvant’s artistic practice has few boundaries. In addition to her music, McLorin Salvant is known for her large-scale textile drawings. In April, at the invitation of DACAMERA and The Menil Collection, McLorin Salvant will be in residence at the museum, with a particular focus on the exhibition of work by abstract painter Joe Overstreet. Join McLorin Salvant, DACAMERA Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg and The Menil Collection’s Associate Curator of Modern Art Natalie Dupêcher for this art and music salon of conversation and informal performance.

DACAMERA Presents Meta4 Quartet
2025-04-17 19:30 - 21:30 | The Menil Collection, 1533 Sul Ross St, Houston, 77006
Meta4 returns to DACAMERA with a dynamic program of vivid musical contrasts. DACAMERA’s dear friend, the great Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023), is remembered with a performance of her second quartet, Terra Memoria; composed “for those departed,” the work is deeply moving in its hypnotic exploration of memory, loss and transformation. In 2013, DACAMERA presented the world premiere of Sombre, a new chamber work by Saariaho inspired by the Rothko Chapel.

Bach Society Houston presents Holy Week Concerts: Bach's Palm Sunday Cantata and Erickson’s St. John Passion
2025-04-18 15:00 - 16:30 | Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2353 Rice Boulevard, Houston, 77005, United States
Bach Society Houston presents the profound beauty of sacred music with two Holy Week performances at Christ the King Lutheran Church. On Palm Sunday, April 13 at 3 PM, begin your Holy Week journey with Bach’s joyful and rarely performed “Himmelskönig, sei willkommen (BWV 182),” one of his earliest sacred works composed for the occasion. Return on Good Friday, April 18 at 3 PM for a moving performance of the St. John Passion, featuring the Bach Society Houston Orchestra and Choir with Christ the King Choir, including new music by Artistic Director Rick Erickson and a contemporary English translation.

3rd Saturdays Open Studios at Silver Street Studios
2025-04-19 12:00 - 17:00 | Silver Street Studios, 2000 Edwards St., Houston, TX, 77007, United States
Silver Street Studios has open studio days every 2nd and 3rd Saturdays from 12-5pm. Come meet local artists, spend the day enjoying the art gallery exhibitions, and spent some time shopping for jewelry, glasswork, paintings, sculpture, photography and more. The event is free, family friendly, convenient and free parking, and right in the Washington Arts District. Part of the Sawyer Yards Complex, at 2000 Edwards Street.

New Art / New Music 2025
2025-04-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Rice University Moody Center for the Arts, 6100 Main Street, Houston, 77005
Experience musical responses to the Moody’s current exhibition Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice composed and performed by Shepherd School of Music students. Organized by Rice students Jaylin Vinson and Victor Cui, a series of original compositions will be played in the galleries, followed by a reception.
