76°
F Cloudy »
HOUSTON WEATHER
May 18
AM Clouds/PM Sun
High: 90°
Low: 70°
May 19
AM Clouds/PM Sun
High: 88°
Low: 72°
May 20
AM Clouds/PM Sun
High: 88°
Low: 73°
More Houston Weather » 
 

Shop. Save. Book Now.

hotels

attractions

 
 

Upcoming Events

Spamalot
May 14 – 26, 2013
Back by popular demand, Monty Python’s Spamalot is the outrageous musical comedy lovingly ripped off from…
Read More  »

Comicpalooza 2013
May 24 – 26, 2013
Comicpalooza is a three-day sci-fi and fantasy extravaganza in Downtown Houston. Join celebrities such as Kris…
Read More  »

Free Press Summer Fest
June 01 – 02, 2013
The Free Press Summer Fest is an annual two-day music festival held at Buffalo Bayou's Eleanor Tinsley Park. The…
Read More  »
search events

Ask Veronica –

Ask Veronica Test

Need to know where to go and what to do in Houston? Give a tip, post a comment or ask Veronica. Ask Veronica! » submitQuestion

Getting Around Houston
train thumbnail

Once you're in Houston, getting around town is half the fun. It’s easy to cruise, stroll and ride your way through our sites. more »

SAVE with CityPASS
CityPASS Booklet Cover 90x60

Save 46% off admission to Houston's 5 best attractions, plus skip lines. More »

 

 Email »  Share »  Print » PDF

Houston Events Calendar

Get the most out of your time in Houston with events and attractions organized around specific themes and interests. To use the calendar to find specific events for you, search by category, date range, location or keyword search. Area hotels have designed packages with you in mind - explore events and make your reservations today.

If you would like to be listed, click here to Submit Your Event »


 

RSS
Event Search
Customize your search by using the fields below:
Expand Map
Search Results
Showing 1-25 of 32
<< < > >>

Signature

Categories:
Attractions Kid-friendly Outdoor Activities
Map It

Dinosaurs! at the Houston Zoo

  • May 03, 2012 to October 28, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: Houston Zoo
  • Address: 1513 North MacGregor, Houston, TX 77030
  • Location: Houston Zoo
  • Visit Website

Come face to face with the massive, fearsome creatures this summer. This year the Houston Zoo is featuring almost twice as many dinosaurs and highlighting species that were once found in Texas, with ...

Categories:
Museum Exhibitions
Map It

HMNS Paleo Hall Opens

The Houston Museum of Natural Science's innovative new Paleontology Hall, packed with prehistoric beasts, will not have displays of ancient skeletons in a row as visitors are accustomed to viewing....

Categories:
Live Music Theaters & Performing Arts
Map It

Texas Music Festival

  • June 04, 2012 to July 01, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: University of Houston Moores Opera House
  • Address: 4800 Calhoun Blvd., Houston, TX 77004
  • Visit Website

The Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival was founded in 1990 to provide young professional musicians with a challenging musical environment in which to develop skills in orchestral, chamber...

Categories:
Attractions Kid-friendly Museum Exhibitions
Map It

Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition

Experience Titanic 100 Years Later On April 15, 1912, Titanic, the world's largest ship, sank after colliding with an iceberg, claiming more than 1,500 lives and shaking the world's confidence in th...

Categories:
Museum Exhibitions
Map It

Warriors, Tombs, and Temples: China’s Enduring Legacy

Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor, declared one of the top 10 museum exhibitions by Time Magazine, set attendance records during its stint in the U.S., including a blockb...

On-Going Events

Categories:
Attractions Museum Exhibitions
Map It

Bodies Revealed

  • March 09, 2012 to September 07, 2012 (Recurring every week day)
  • Location: Moody Gardens
  • Address: Seven Hope Blvd., Galveston, TX 77554
  • Location: Moody Gardens
  • Visit Website

Be among the first to explore the inner workings of the human body at the Bodies Revealed Exhibit. This fascinating exhibit is unlike anything seen at Moody Gardens before, with real and carefully pr...

Categories:
Theaters & Performing Arts
Map It

Celebrity Mystery Theater

  • February 04, 2012 to November 10, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: Actor's Gem Productions
  • Address: 901 W. Commerce St., Houston, 77002
  • Visit Website

Imagine yourself enjoying dinner socializing with friends, having a few drinks ....when suddenly a murder is committed. Let the wacky antics of two famous detectives, never seen together before any w...

Categories:
Museum Exhibitions
Map It

Cells: The Universe Inside Us

  • January 28, 2012 to August 26, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: The Health Museum
  • Address: 1515 Hermann Drive, Houston, TX 77004
  • Location: The Health Museum
  • Visit Website

Cells is a traveling exhibit from the Maryland Science Center. This interactive exhibit explores the complexity of the human body at the cellular level. The human body is made up of millions of ce...

Categories:
Galleries/Photography
Map It

Contemporary Asian Art: Texas Connections

  • May 04, 2012 to September 16, 2012 (Every Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday)
  • Location: Asia Society Texas Center
  • Address: 1370 Southmore Boulevard, Houston, TX 77004
  • Location: Asia Society Texas Center
  • Visit Website

"Contemporary Asian Art: Texas Connections," one of the Texas Center's compelling inaugural exhibitions, showcases work by Asian and Asian American artists who have lived in Texas or whose ...

Categories:
Museum Exhibitions
Map It

Creme de la Creme Watercolor Artists Exhibition & Silent Auction

  • June 05, 2012 to July 05, 2012 (Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday)
  • Location: Watercolor Art Society-Houston
  • Address: 1601 W. Alabama, Houston, TX 77006
  • Location: Watercolor Art Society-Houston

The Water Color Art Society of Houston is pleased to announce their Signature Members Show in June. This is a special exhibition of paintings from the artists at WAS-H who have earned the designatio...

Categories:
Theaters & Performing Arts
Map It

Driving Miss Daisy

  • June 15, 2012 to July 01, 2012
  • Location: Pasadena Little Theater
  • Address: 4318 Allen Genoa Rd., Pasadena, TX 77504
  • Visit Website

By Alfred Uhry Directed by Julie Owen A warm-hearted story of the unlikely relationship between an aging, crotchety, white Southern lady, and a black man in the deep south in 1948. Note: We do ...

Categories:
Galleries/Photography Live Music

Exhibition Opening: Stephen Kwok | "Walled Garden"

  • May 21, 2012 to June 22, 2012 (Recurring every week day)
  • Location: Spacetaker Gallery at Fresh Arts
  • Address: 2101 Winter Street, B-11, Houston, TX 77007
  • Visit Website

Fresh Arts (Spacetaker + Fresh Arts Coalition) presents Walled Garden, a solo site-responsive installation-based exhibition by Stephen Kwok in its Spacetaker Gallery. Creating work straddling the b...

Categories:
Outdoor Activities Tours
Map It

Galveston Ghost Tours: Haunted Silk Stocking Historic District

  • September 07, 2011 to December 22, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: Ghost Tours Texas.com
  • Address: 911 24th St., Galveston, TX 77550
  • Visit Website

Step through the shadows, gather your courage and discover the chilling and ghastly tales of murder, revenge, passion, heartache and breath-taking history! This exciting Ghost Tour in Galveston takes...

Categories:
Miscellaneous Outdoor Activities Tours
Map It

Ghost Tour Haunted Heights

  • September 17, 2011 to December 23, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: Ghost Tours Texas.com
  • Address: 3911 W. 19th Street, Houston, 77008
  • Visit Website

Haunted Heights Ghost Tour takes you on a 90 minute fascinating walking tour through the historic and haunted Heights district featuring the spirits "living" within the fine Victorian homes...

Categories:
Galleries/Photography
Map It

Impressions: Print Group Exhibition for PrintHouston at Wade Wilson Art

  • June 01, 2012 to July 07, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: Wade Wilson Art
  • Address: 4411 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX 77006
  • Location: Wade Wilson Art
  • Visit Website

Artists: Lucinda Cobley, Jill Moser, Ellen Orseck, Althea Murphy-Price, Joelle Verstraeten, Robert Ryman, Mark Williams, Joan Winter, and Nazar Yahya Wade Wilson Art is proud to announce that they...

Categories:
Kid-friendly
Map It

Instructables: Made In Your Mind Exhibit Debut

Made in Your Mind is a new hands-on, do-it-yourself exhibit that strives to instill the importance of problem-solving in kids through a hands-on, step-by-step process based on the concept of the Inst...

Categories:
Attractions Outdoor Activities Tours
Map It

Kemah Ghost Tours: A Haunted Walking Tour of Legend, History and Mysteries

  • January 07, 2012 to November 07, 2013 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: Ghost Tours
  • Address: 603 Bradford Ave., Kemah, 77586
  • Visit Website

Take a journey through time to experience legend, history, and real life supernatural mysteries with Kemah's Ghost Tours. Enjoyable for all...skeptics and believers alike, this is not a haunted ...

Categories:
Festivals Theaters & Performing Arts
Map It

Messina Hof Harvest:

Exciting dinner theater entertainment will be performed by StageCenter actors throughout the evening as guests enjoy winery cuisine prepared by the Vintage House Restaurant, paired with Messina Hof...

Categories:
Museum Exhibitions
Map It

Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini

In celebration of the 10-year anniversaries of the MFAH Latin American art department and MALBA, MFAH permanent collection works went on view at MALBA in fall 2011 and MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamer...

Categories:
Galleries/Photography
Map It

Myke Venable Painting Exhibit

  • May 10, 2012 to July 06, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: Public House
  • Address: 2802 White Oak, Houston, TX 77007
  • Location: Public House
  • Visit Website

Public House Heights will host a reception for local artist Myke Venable. The exhibition of Venable’s work is the first of many full-scale exhibitions planned at the bar. Venable, a Houston...

Categories:
Kid-friendly Outdoor Activities
Map It

Nature Trekkers Summer Camps at Houston’s Arboretum

  • June 04, 2012 to August 10, 2012 (Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday)
  • Location: Houston Arboretum & Nature Center
  • Address: 4501 Woodway, Houston, TX 77024
  • Location: Houston Arboretum & Nature Center
  • Visit Website

Join Houston Arboretum & Nature Center Naturalist teachers for fun-filled week long camps that explore the natural world through active hands-on indoor & outdoor adventures at this 155-acre n...

Categories:
Theaters & Performing Arts
Map It

Noises Off

  • May 25, 2012 to June 24, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: Alley Theatre
  • Address: 615 Texas Avenue, Houston, TX 77002
  • Location: Alley Theatre
  • Visit Website

The funniest of modern comedies, and a farce within a farce, Noises Off takes the clichés of the genre and shakes them up in a wild comic blender into a hilarious melee of compromising situat...

Categories:
Museum Exhibitions
Map It

Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London

This June the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will debut the exhibition Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London, as part of a three-venue national tour in the U.S. An ...

Categories:
Museum Exhibitions
Map It

Returning: the Art of Samuel Bak

Born in what is Lithuania today, Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak's artistic talent stood out at an early age. At nine years, he held is first exhibition in the Vilna Ghetto where he live...

Categories:
Galleries/Photography
Map It

Seasons In Ash - art installation by Damon Thomas

  • May 25, 2012 to August 01, 2012 (Recurring daily)
  • Location: Art League Houston
  • Address: 1953 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, TX 77006
  • Location: Art League Houston
  • Visit Website

Art League Houston presents Seasons In Ash, an outdoor sculpture installation by Houston-based ceramic artist Damon J. Thomas, which explore themes of nature and transformation. The installation f...

Showing 1-25 of 32
<< < > >>