Thu., December 1, 2011
6:00pm
Hosted by artist Michael K. Taylor
2521 Holman
A multimedia site specific 3rd Ward poetry reading with open mic and performance, including selected poems from Taylor’s project. The event will be followed by an intergenerational discussion about collective history and knowledge preservation through narratives.
Learn more about the Communograph project on our website, or visit www.communograph.com
Thu., November 17, 2011
6:00pm
Hosted by artist Lisa E. Harris
“Communograph House” 2505 Holman
Dr. Ellis is a natural healer, one of the founders of the raw/health movement that came through our community in the 70′s, along with Sunshine, Erma Harris, Dick Gregory and others. Dr. Ellis is the founder and head therapist at Urban Renewal Clinic, offering holistic healing, hydro colon therapy, and gardening/cooking and lifestyle techniques. She also is one of the few Kalgen water distributors in Houston, offering Alkaline water to the community. She has healed herself of Lupus twice, (she had one recurring bout which she knocked out completely) has healed others of various cancers and diseases. We will be discussing how a raw diet and different holistic practices can sustain the body and correct various health issues.
Learn more about the Communograph project on our website, or visit www.communograph.com.
Project Row Houses’ resident and Public Art Assistant presents mythos.by.bards, a multi-media exhibition consisting of poetry, monologues and photography. Sign language will share and convey the performers “mythos” while each “bard” and listener will bring their own experiences. Everyone will then take away a unique interpretation of the “beats” (stories) equaling “Frame of Reference”.
PRH’s 2011-12 Annual Party has been moved from October 29, 2011 to Saturday, March 3, 2012.
The Annual Spring Party will honor Theola Petteway and Stuart Kensinger at the Eldorado Ballroom.
Time: 7 – 11PM
To purchase or reserve tickets or a table call 713-526-7662 or email cflores@projectrowhouses.org.
8:00 pm Saturday, October 22, 2011
a voices breaking boundaries living room art production
Third Worlds: site-specific installations at residential spaces re-contextualizing socio-economic constructs underpinning relational parallels between the ethno-geographics of Third Ward, a historic afro-western locality in Houston, and the urban conflictual zone of Karachi, a megapolis of colliding communities located at the southern edge of Sindh, Pakistan - Part 1
8:00 pm Saturday, November 5, 2011
At the home of Nusrat Malik, 2418 Elgin, Houston 77004
$ Free
a vbb living room art production
Third Worlds: site-specific installations at residential spaces re-contextualizing socio-economic constructs underpinning relational parallels between the ethno-geographics of Third Ward, a historic afro-western locality in Houston, and the urban conflictual zone of Karachi, a megapolis of colliding communities located at the southern edge of Sindh, Pakistan - Part 2
Featuring: Documentary art of Third Worlds Part 1 by Eric Hester and Yunuen Perez Vertti as well as a panel discussion led by Part 1 on-site artists.
Wednesday, Nov. 16 7pm at Dudley Recital Hall Fine Arts Building, University of Houston, Entrance 16 off Cullen Blvd
Photo credit: Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York / www.feldmangallery.com
Held in conjunction with Communograph: Mapping Community Through Creative Action, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston presents a presentation by Mierle Laderman Ukeles.
Mierle Laderman Ukeles is a New York based artist known for her feminist and service oriented artwork. Her manifesto Maintenance Art—Proposal for an Exhibition, challenged the domestic role of women and proclaimed herself as a “maintenance artist”. Maintenance, for Ukeles, is the realm of human activities that keep things going, such as cooking, cleaning and child-rearing.
Since 1970 Ukeles has been the non-salaried Artist in Residence for New York City’s Sanitation Department, where she builds and orchestrates public projects that explore the social and ecological issues of waste management.
A conversation addressing labor and art will follow Ukeles’ talk, with Zach Moser and Eric Leshinsky of Shrimp Boat Projects, moderated by Jenni Sorkin, Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Houston School of Art.
Click here for more information on Shrimp Boat Projects, and read an overview of Communograph here.
