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Events on Friday, April 22, 2022

Friday, April 22, 2022

Friday, April 22

12:00 PM

exhibition & knowledge-building research lab

Overlapping Territories is an interdisciplinary, experimental space for six artists to engage, discover, and reimagine what it means to be in relationship to the land. Curated by Ashley DeHoyos, this ongoing project begins with a Houston-centered approach as a way of understanding what conversations around land already exist within the city. Artists Liyen Chong , Catherine Davila-Martinez , Angel Lartigue , Matt Manalo , Jenah Maravilla , and Monica Villarreal will create multidisciplinary projects that reflect the breadth of the investigations and interrogations into land-centered politics and the issues attached to particular geographies and histories.Read more

Friday, April 22 at 7:00 PM

7:00 PM

Marina Magalhães

A new dance work by Los-Angeles based choreographer Marina Magalhães, Womb explores themes of darkness, womb space, and the intrinsic relationship between body-spirit-land and represents the first activation of Magalhaes’s nationally award-winning project, Body as a Crossroads , that visualizes the possibilities of dance-making as change-making. The project is created in collaboration with dancers Bianca Medina (New York) and Tatiana Zamir (Los Angeles); and visual artists Anthony Suber (Houston) and Francis Almendárez (Houston).Read more

Friday, April 22 at 8:00 PM

8:00 PM

By Suzan-Lori Parks

Grace is a waitress who lives in a small border town in south Texas with her husband Vet, a border patrol agent. She encourages Vet’s troubled son Buddy to return home and reunite with his father in time for a celebration honoring Vet’s service. What ensues is a battle for power, revenge, and release from past traumas. In The Book of Grace , Pulitzer-prize winning playwright, Suzan-Lori Parks, explodes the American family portrait to expose the borders and fences destroying the American home and by extension, the country.Read more