BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//East End Houston - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://eastendhouston.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for East End Houston REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240421T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240421T100000 DTSTAMP:20260614T033437 CREATED:20240420T230656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240421T145123Z UID:217259-1713693600-1713693600@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:'Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette' DESCRIPTION:Asia Society Texas is pleased to present Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette\, the organization’s first public art installation. This collaboration between Cuban American artist Rafael Domenech and Vietnamese American artist Tomas Vu assumes the form of a dynamic outdoor pavilion with two stages\, occupying AST’s 13\,000-square-foot lot at the intersection of Oakdale and Caroline Streets in the heart of Houston’s Museum District. Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette is commissioned in partnership with the University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.\nDescribed by the artists as a form of “urban acupuncture\,” Heat Silhouette is a physical structure designed to welcome the spontaneous circulation of people\, energy\, and events. The outdoor pavilion takes cues from college campuses\, popular culture\, and experimental magazines. Made of wood\, aluminum framing\, and laser-cut construction mesh — the very materials used to build the city of Houston — the pavilion becomes an extension of the museum and a public programming space. The title itself references the most omnipresent weather condition of Houston the summer’s intense heat\, a heat so palpable that it feels as if it occupies actual space\, creating a silhouette or edge.\nFor the artists\, the pavilion resists merely being a form of architecture. Instead\, the pavilion physically operates as an experimental magazine\, referencing the graphic processes seen in radical publications from the 1960s and 1970s like Kontexts\, an important catalyst of avant-garde poetry. Readers do not flip Heat Silhouette’s pages; instead\, they become viewers that are invited to walk in\, around\, and through the publication. Laser-cut texts appropriated from popular science-fiction films\, poetry\, and other sources intermingle to form multiple layers and viewpoints that shift with the sunlight. Heat Silhouette is a space of active production filled with theater-like compartments — a site where text\, image\, and pattern coalesce into a kind of urban camouflage. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/rafael-domenech-and-tomas-vu-heat-silhouette-32/ LOCATION:Asia Society Texas Center\, 1370 Southmore Blvd.\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/event-featured-rafael-domenech-and-tomas-vu-heat-silhouette-1697751613-ZVcLnx.tmp_-Tp18AU.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Asia Society Texas Center":MAILTO:txcenter@asiasociety.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240421T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240421T180000 DTSTAMP:20260614T033437 CREATED:20240420T230657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240421T222347Z UID:217263-1713697200-1713722400@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow DESCRIPTION:Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow is the artist’s first solo museum presentation in the United States. Across an installation\, a video\, and a series of commissioned sculptures\, Erlanger continues her decade-long disruption of the “semiotics of suburbia.” In her practice\, Erlanger thinks of the home as a greater ecosystem containing not only houses but also their surrounding infrastructures and interior architectures.\nAt Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)\, massive illuminated planet sculptures map the suburban landscape\, positioning the development of home as an environmental force in itself. These new works explore “speculative memory”—how progress can only be understood through hindsight—and what this psychic limitation implies for the artist. Viewers will then move to new diorama sculptures that play on an institutional language of presentation\, positioning the enclosed scenes as already-past. Here\, Erlanger proposes both impossible architectures and terrestrial forms created using strategies of model-making. These works are each marked by changes in season\, emphasizing receding memories of a once-diverse climate.\nThe exhibition culminates in a sitcom set\, riffing on the psychology of interiors as well as acting as a platform to watch Erlanger’s new short film Appliance. The film dovetails recent research into the history and cultural significance of domestic technologies\, such as the shower or washing machine\, with a specific focus on how their operations have been considered interchangeably with human bodily functions. In our age of “polycrisis\,” wherein multiple seismic events occur simultaneously\, If Today Were Tomorrow provides a framework for thinking about the porousness of interior and exterior\, self and non-self\, body and home.\nOlivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Hatje Cantz containing newly commissioned texts about the artist’s practice\, as well as contributions focusing on the interplay between architecture\, psychology\, and science fiction.\nSupport\nMajor support for Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.\nContemporary Arts Museum of Houston is funded in part by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/olivia-erlanger-if-today-were-tomorrow-2/ LOCATION:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)\, 5216 Montrose \, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Kids + Families,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2-v6a8279-hdr-1ypjHv.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)":MAILTO:info@camh.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240421T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240421T180000 DTSTAMP:20260614T033437 CREATED:20240421T000653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240421T222347Z UID:217265-1713697200-1713722400@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Critical Geography – FotoFest Biennial 2024 DESCRIPTION:The FotoFest Biennial 2024 central exhibition\, “Critical Geography”\, reexamines traditional Western and historical understandings of geography while expanding these investigations to new realms. Borrowing its name from the subdiscipline of geography that questions and challenges power structures\, inequality\, and the dominant ideologies shaping physical space\, Critical Geography explores how space\, place\, and communities are influenced by social\, economic\, ecological\, and political forces. By critically analyzing these dynamics\, the works in the exhibition provoke conversations around social justice\, environmental sustainability\, and transformative change.\n“Our intent is that the 2024 Biennial\, featuring both existing and newly commissioned works from local and international artists\, will allow viewers to engage in important dialogues around the social dimensions of space and our shared planet\,” says Steven Evans\, Executive Director of FotoFest. “We look forward to once again celebrating Houston’s vibrant art and photo community while embracing these new perspectives around place-making\, the image\, and geography.”\n“Critical Geography” features a diverse range of image-based practices\, representing artists from photographers and storytellers whose works shed light on systemic oppression\, violence\, and urgent environmental concerns to image-makers who appropriate mapping\, social media\, and technology in order to explore inequality in colonial and post-colonial contexts. The exhibition highlights a range of unorthodox strategies employed to construct new narratives around place and community while imagining alternative organizations of social space. The Biennial exhibition includes several site-specific works and new commissions by FotoFest. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/critical-geography-fotofest-biennial-2024-17/ LOCATION:FotoFest at Silver Street Studios\, 2000 Edwards Street (Silver Street Studios Building C\, Suite 2)\, Houston\, TX\, 77007\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ff24_critical-geography-eEVgkP.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="FotoFest International":MAILTO:info@fotofest.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240421T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240421T190000 DTSTAMP:20260614T033437 CREATED:20240421T000654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240421T233710Z UID:217266-1713697200-1713726000@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Janet Sobel: All-Over DESCRIPTION:The Menil Collection will open “Janet Sobel: All-Over” on February 23\, 2024\, featuring some thirty paintings and drawings made by artist Janet Sobel (1893–1968). This exhibition\, the first to focus on Sobel’s highly accomplished and influential abstract paintings\, will explore the artist’s work as one of the first to pioneer a new approach to modern abstraction known as “all-over” painting. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/janet-sobel-all-over-21/ LOCATION:The Menil Collection\, 1533 Sul Ross Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/janet-sobel-untitled-ca.-1946-48_small-frrejz.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Menil Collection":MAILTO:info@menil.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240421T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240421T190000 DTSTAMP:20260614T033437 CREATED:20240421T000654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240421T233711Z UID:217267-1713697200-1713726000@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Ruth Asawa Through Line DESCRIPTION:Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s lifelong drawing practice. The exhibition presents drawings\, collages\, & sketchbooks alongside stamped prints\, paperfolds\, & more\, showing the breadth of Asawa’s innovative practice. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/ruth-asawa-through-line-14/ LOCATION:The Menil Drawing Institute\, 1412 W. Main St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/untitled-bmc.128-study-in-repeated-vertical-angular-lines-triangles-ca.-1948-49-78NvfT.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240421T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240421T143000 DTSTAMP:20260614T033437 CREATED:20240421T012154Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240421T190654Z UID:217278-1713704400-1713709800@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Creativity Book Club (April) DESCRIPTION:Looking for a community of creative souls to connect with? Join us!\nEach month\, we explore books by creative thinkers with the goals of:\n1) diving deep into the creative process\, and\n2) exploring how dance relates to our world\nIt’s important to register in case we need to update readers before the meeting. All are welcome! URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/creativity-book-club-april/ LOCATION:Frame Dance Studio\, 2426 Bartlett St. Ste. D\, Houston\, TX\, 77098 CATEGORIES:Free Events,Literature + Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tango-the-art-history-of-love-sqx43e.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Frame Dance Productions":MAILTO:Lydia.Hance@framedance.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240421T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240421T170000 DTSTAMP:20260614T033437 CREATED:20240421T022148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240421T210753Z UID:217282-1713708000-1713718800@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:ICCC Open House DESCRIPTION:Experience Italy in Houston! Join us for our Open House on Sunday\, April 21 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. and delight in shopping\, games\, giveaways\, live performances\, demo classes\, and more at the historic Milford House. This event is open to all ages and will be free to the public. Whether you’re a longtime supporter of the Italian Cultural & Community Center or you’re new to our organization\, we invite you to explore the best of Italian culture in Houston at our Open House.\nDetails\nDate: Sunday\, April 21\, 2024\nTime: 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.\nLocation: Italian Cultural & Community Center\, 1101 Milford Street\, Houston\, TX 77006\nPrice: Free admission. Registration for our Open House is not required.\nActivities\nThroughout the afternoon\, guests will enjoy complimentary refreshments and have the opportunity to sample and shop from our curated vendors. Guests ages 21 and older can participate in wine samplings from Morales Beverage Group\, Tuttilili Wines & Specialty Foods\, and Vinello. Attendees can also participate in tombola\, a lottery-style board game that originated in Southern Italy\, and in our bocce tournament.\nOur Open House will also feature live operatic performances from Jonatán Reyes\, Edmond Rodriguez\, Collin James\, Gage Campos\, and Kellan Dunlap. Angela Jardina will also perform a selection of popular Italian music from the latter half of the 20th century.\nIf you’re interested in learning Italian but not sure where to start\, we’ll be offering demo language classes during the event\, as well. This will be a great opportunity to meet some of our teachers at La Scuola d’Italiano!\nBe sure to stay tuned via our biweekly e-blasts for more information about the afternoon’s programming and schedule.\nICCC Houston would like to extend sincere thanks to our wonderful sponsors Acqua Panna\, Sanpellegrino\, Gelato Constantino\, Erwing Realty\, De Cecco\, Pomì\, Faramano by David Silva\, Morales Beverage Group\, Vinello\, and TuttiLili Wines & Specialty Foods for making this event possible. This event is also funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.\nWe can’t wait to show you what ICCC is all about at our Open House! URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/iccc-open-house/ LOCATION:Italian Cultural Center – Milford House\, 1101 Milford Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/iccc-open-house-eblast-01-EBpnOj.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Italian Cultural &%3B Community Center":MAILTO:info@iccchouston.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240421T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240421T190000 DTSTAMP:20260614T033437 CREATED:20240421T032203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240421T233711Z UID:217299-1713718800-1713726000@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Jazzy Sundays DESCRIPTION:Buffalo Bayou Partnership is teaming up with Discovery Green and Emancipation Park to bring you Jazzy Sundays\, a series of FREE\, outdoor jazz concerts. The series celebrates the vibrancy and rich tradition of jazz and the incredible Houstonians who preserve the artform. Family-friendly concerts will be held every Sunday in April at The Water Works in Buffalo Bayou Park.\nApril 7: Ghost-Note with Monterey Jazz @ TSU All-Stars\nApril 14: Free Radicals with Hot Box\nApril 21: R&D Lab with Lolade\nApril 28: Chief Adjuah with Sal Capone URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/jazzy-sundays-2/ LOCATION:Buffalo Bayou Park – The Water Works\, 105 Sabine St\, Houston\, TX\, 77007\, United States CATEGORIES:Blues | Jazz,Free Events,Kids + Families,Music,Outdoors ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/bbp_230528_002-jiNYBQ.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Bayou Partnership":MAILTO:kfarber@buffalobayou.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR