a whole lot is happening this week. also got excited and added some little notes to the calendar, hince all the parenthesis. but most exciting of all, my long distance bf is coming back to houston for the weekend. i’m very VERY excited about that + all the things we’ll get to go out and do this saturday/sunday. go enjoy houston, i’ll see you out there.

monday november 18, 2013

• barbara karkabi living archives series: women of theatre (its an all about women in houston thing) . rockwell pavillion – M.D. Anderson library 4800 calhoun rd (UofH). 11:30am . $10
• united states bartender’s guild monthly meeting . liberty station . 3pm . RSPV
• november radical crafts . ESSC . 7:30pm . FREE

tuesday november 19, 2013

• free show: dresses . cactus music . 4-5pm . FREE music + beer
• fishy foods art car caravan: welcome to houston party . radical eats 507 westheimer . 4-7pm . FREE
• free show: somebody’s darling/ blackfoot gypsies . cactus music . 5:30 – 6:30pm . FREE muisc + beer
• i recycled . i voted. what’s next? a collabor… united way of texas gulf coast 50 waugh . 6 – 8:30pm . FREE
• rockstar explosion: a fundraiser benefitting lone star explosion 2014 . notsuoh . 8pm . $5-7
• tuesday night hang out . discovery green . 8-11pm . FREE
• bootown presents grown-up story time: season seven . rudyards . 9pm . $5

wednesday november 20, 2013

• sketching in the galleries at rienzi . 1:30pm . rienzi 1406 kirby . FREE
• houston green film series: within reach . rice media center . 6:30 – 9:15pm . $donation (chris and i are going to this. its going to be one big HAUS party)

thursday november 21, 2013

• hope stone kids ensemble presents: through the door, mon ami . open door installation 400 heights blvd (on the heights blvd grassy “boulevard”) (people dancing in public during rush hour) . 5pm . FREE
• asher gallery holiday soiree and trunk show . houston center for contemporary craft . 5:30pm . FREE
• bikehouston monthly happy hour . onion creek . 6-8pm . FREE
• houston interfaith thanksgiving service . rothko chapel . 7pm . FREE
• lecture: new research into the “come and take it” cannon (this is the society’s monthly meeting, but they LOVE having new guests) . university of st. thomas anderson hall ? . 7pm . FREE

friday november 22, 2013

• art opening +  reception: see food . houston center for photography . 6pm . FREE
• art opening + reception . lawndale art center . 6pm . FREE
• fire and ice carnival . discovery green . 6pm . FREE
• free show: kitten . cactus music . 6-7pm . FREE music + beer
• aurora picture show hosts BYOB (bring your own beamer) (this looks SO cool) . menil . 7:30pm . FREE

saturday november 23, 2013

• 21st annual art crawl houston . mother dog studios 712 walnut st. + 180 nearby participating artists/galleries/ studios . 10am . FREE
• via colori street painting festival . houston city hall 900 smith st . 10am . FREE
• fresh arts’ 8th annual winter holiday art market . winter st studios . 11am . FREE (go to this, but don’t spend all your money – because i’ll be at the houston pop-shop in a few weeks)
• houston re-market: noveber . 4302 harrisburg . 11am – 4pm . FREE
• melissa walter’s jewlery trunk show (love this girl’s art i wear one of her rings everyday + i wear one of her rings everyday!!!) . MFAH gift shop . 11-3pm . FREE
• “q for a cause II” benefiting housing for houston’s heroes . cottonwood bar .12noon . FREE
• art opening + reception + performances + special events (one of those…) . blaffer art museum at UofH . 12:30pm . FREE
• free show: willy collins . cactus music . 1-2pm . FREE music + beer
• in memory of JFK discussion with kaaran thomas . houston public library downtown . 2pm . FREE
• free show: the uranium savages with will callery . cactus music . 3-4pm . FREE music + beer
• art opening + reception: the texas watercolor tradition . willeam reaves fin art 2313 brun st . 5pm . FREE
• asher gallery holiday soiree and trunk show . houston center for contemporary craft . 5:30pm . FREE
• film screening: reality bites . the orange show .7pm . $15 in advance
• art opening + reception . el rincon social . 7pm . FREE
• first annual bootown bash “an evening of all things weird and wonderful” . the barn 2201 preston st . 8pm . $25 in advance

sunday november 24, 2013

• Via colori street painting festival . houston city hall 900 smith st . 10am . FREE
• Fresh arts’ 8th annual winter holiday art market . winter st studios . 11am . FREE (so, once again, you might as well go to this but you still have to come see me at the houston-pop-shop the weekend after thanksgiving!)
• melissa walter’s jewlery trunk show (love this girl’s art + i wear one of her rings everyday!!!) . MFAH gift shop . 1-4 pm . FREE

on going this week:

• mildred’s umbrella theatre company presents: carnival ’round the central figure
• catastrophic theatre presents: marie and bruce (pay-what-you-can!!!)
• the texas renaissance festival
• ice skating at discovery green (starting saturday)