monday april 7, 2014:

• dang dang. couldn’t find anything worthwhile for tonight

tuesday april 8, 2014:

• “surls on kirby” dedication ceremony . west ave // corner of westheimer and kirby . 10:15am . FREE
• film screening: the ghosts in our machine (looks like an animals rights kind of movie) . south texas college of law houston 1303 san jacinto . 6:30pm . FREE
• movie night: wings of desire . between the bayous 1230 houston ave . 7pm . FREE

wednesday april 9, 2014:

• movie screening: so i married an axe murderer . market square park . 8pm . FREE
• multimedia live performance art . aurora picture show 2442 bartlett . 6:30pm // 8:30pm . FREE + reservation

thursday april 10, 2014:

• art opening + talk + celebration . rice gallery . 5-7pm . FREE
• houston zoo hosts “pongos helping pongos: orangutan art silent acution . houston zoo . 6pm . $10 minimum donation
• JAM concert: trumpet summit + mike wheeler trio . discovery green . 6:30pm . FREE
• improv comedy: structure presents “the monoscene” . station theatre 1230 houston ave . 8:30pm . $6

friday april 11, 2014:

• visual arts alliance pop up fundraiser . 9am – 9pm . next wall gallery 1717 michigan st . FREE
• “the martiki: a montrose art party” . art league . 6pm . FREE
• art opening + reception . community artist’s collective 1413 holman . 6pm . FREE
• movie screening: lovers of hate . 14 pews 800 aurora st . 7-9pm . $tickets$
• rothko chapel concert: mark rothko: a musical response . rothko chalep . 7pm . $10 suggested donation . (look kyle – it’s a piano thing!!!)

saturday april 12, 2014:

• rice design alliance’s 4th annual “anything that floats” . sesquicentennial park 400 texas st . 8pm . $35 to enter but FREE to watch
• yoga. discovery green . 9am . FREE
• earth day festival . discovery green . morning – afternoon . FREE (saw a little after yoga this morning, looked like lots of free stuff)
• architecture center houston walking tour: rice university . meet at rice university front lawn lovett hall building 46 . 10am . $10
• rice village flea . 5504 morningside . 11am . FREE
• houston makerspace grand opening !!! . 100 hutcheson st . 12noon – 6pm . FREE
• skill set: fierce fibers – not your mom’s macrame . CAMH . 2pm . $20 (just bought a rsvp/ ticket for this!)
• solidarity houston open house . ACT houston 2805 wichita . 2pm . FREE
• houston roller derby 3rd bout . bayou music center 520 texas ave . 6-10:30pm . $tickets$
• movie screening: love & air sex houston: one night only . 14 pews 800 aurora st . 7-9pm . $tickets$
• movie screening: wall-e . discovery green . 8:30pm . FREE
• art opening + reception + live performance . diverse works .  9pm . FREE
• michael jackson party . 2212 dorington . 9:30pm . FREE

sunday april 13, 2014:

• pop shop mini market . pavement clothing (old taxi taxi) 1657 westheimer . 12noon . FREE + free beer
• la colmena: narratives of domestic work in houston . blaffer art museum UofH . 4-7pm .  FREE

on going events this week:

• most of the weird // cool art things this week are part of the “counter current festival” . don’t know about it, but it pretty much sounds like the most avant-garde but neat-o thing.
• counter current festival workshops at blaffer gallery
• japan festival . hermann park . saturday // sunday 10am . FREE (makenzie, do you have any “cosplay” stuff maybe like your crazy tights and pink wig, if you enter and win the contest you win free airfare to japan!)
• houston food not bombs . downtown public library . monday 8pm // wednesday 8pm // friday 8pm // sunday 7pm . FREE
• i love you, you’re perfect, now change (a play) . music box theatre . $35+ (rachel, it’s the play you were in one time, so i thought of you!)
• [the invisible city] “location-based-storytelling” . april 9 – 13 . all around town . FREE . (don’t really understand this, but it’s described as a real life “chose your own adventure gamebook” kind of thing. it involves GPS and has secret locations. might be cool.)
• public art installation “vein of sky” . hermann park . april 9 – 13 . FREE