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May Features


Stitched: A Contemporary Look at Photography and Textiles

Online class meets two Saturdays:
May 1st & 8th, 12 - 2 pm

Houston Center for Photography

$125

First Saturdays Sip & Stroll

Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 11 AM CDT – 6 PM

19th Street Between Yale St & Shephard Houston, TX 77008

Free


Heights Kids Day of Music

May 1, 10AM and noon

Sawyer Yards, 1502 Sawyer, 77007

$10 per car

Hip Hop Vintage Flea Market at Houston Graffiti Building

May 2, 12 to 5pm

2011 Leeland Street, 77003

Free

Wanderlust Market HTX

May 2, 2021 | 12 to 4:00 pm

HTX Sports Creek, 2619 Polk Street, 77003

Free

Contemplation & Sound: Islamic Tradition

May 5, 12:00 pm

Online Event from the Rothko Chapel and the Minaret Foundation

Free with suggested contributions $5-10​​​​

Art at Noon | Natalie Dupêcher

Discussion of the exhibition Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves

May 7, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Free

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 5216 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77006

partie de la tête - A Benefit for Lawndale’s Exhibitions and Artist Studio Program

May 6, 6:30 – 10 pm

Lawndale Arts, 4912 Main Street, 77002

$500 - $1000

Outdoor Music: Stop, Look and Listen! Family Concert

May 8, 3–4 p.m.

Menil Collection, 1533 Sul Ross Street, 77006

Free, bring your own picnic blankets or lawn chairs

May 9, 5:30 pm - 7pm

5:30 p.m.: Talk with Sarah Rothenberg, Artistic Director, DACAMERA
6:15 p.m.: Performance by DACAMERA Young Artists

The Water Works, 105 Sabine Street, 77007

Free, registration required

Mother’s Day Comedy Show! Featuring: Comedian Nanette Lee

Sun, May 9, 2021, 7:30 PM

Rockefellers Houston, 3620 Washington Ave, 77007

$10 - $40

Silent Movie Comedy Night w/ Ben Model: HOT WATER

May 10, ONE NIGHT ONLY, Livestream at 6:30 p.m.

Presented by MFAH Films

Free

Turtle Racing

May 13, 2021 | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am

Little Woodrow’s, 2306 Brazos St, 77006

Free

May 14 & 15, 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm

The Orange Show Monument, 2402 Munger Street, 77023

$40

HGO Presents: Marian’s Song

May 14 and 15 at 8 pm

Miller Outdoor Theater, Live on Stage and Online, 6000 Hermann Park Drive, 77030

Free, Order tickets Online on May 7

New Filmmakers and Videographers: BYO Beamer at the Menil

May 15, 8:30 - 10:30

Presented by the Menil Collection and Aurora Picture Show, 1533 Sul Ross Street, 77006

Free, Outdoor Event

Third Saturday at Silver Street Studios

May 15, 12 pm to 5 pm

2000 Edwards Street, 77007

Free

Braeswood Place Home Tour

May 15

Benefits Mark Twain Elementary School

7500 Braes Blvd, 77025

The Houston Cinema Arts Society (HCAS) & the Houston Latino Film Festival (HLFF) Present: The Infiltrators

May 20, 7 pm

Virtual Screening

$12.00

MFAH Films Presents: There is No Evil (Sheytan Vojud Nadarad)

Opens May 21

MFAH Virtual Cinema

$8

Family Magic & Comedy for All Ages with Carter Blackburn

May 29, 2 pm

The Houston Improv, 7620 Katy Freeway, 77024

$20 for a table for 2

 

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