HOUSTON WEATHER
Spamalot
May 14 – 26, 2013
Comicpalooza 2013
May 24 – 26, 2013
Free Press Summer Fest
June 01 – 02, 2013
Need to know where to go and what to do in Houston? Give a tip, post a comment or ask Veronica. Ask Veronica! » submitQuestion
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 46% off admission to Houston's 5 best attractions, plus skip lines. More »
Email »
Share »
Print »
PDFHouston 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
Signature
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 ...
Summer Chills 2012: Agatha Christie's Black Coffee
- July 06, 2012 to August 05, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Alley Theatre
- Address: 615 Texas Avenue, Houston, TX 77002
- Location: Alley Theatre
- Visit Website
In Agatha Christie's Black Coffee, the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot cunningly absorbs clues to solve the murder of Sir Claude Amory, an eccentric inventor of a new weapons formula. ...
Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition
- March 16, 2012 to September 03, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Houston Museum of Natural Science
- Address: One Hermann Circle Drive, Houston, TX 77030
- Location: Houston Museum of Natural Science
- Visit Website
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...
Warriors, Tombs, and Temples: China’s Enduring Legacy
- March 30, 2012 to September 03, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Houston Museum of Natural Science
- Address: 5555 Hermann Park Drive, Houston, TX 77030
- Location: Houston Museum of Natural Science
- Visit Website
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
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
- July 19, 2012 to July 21, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: HITS Theatre
- Address: 311 W. 18th Street, Houston, TX 77008
- Visit Website
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee focuses on the lives of six quirky adolescents, overseen by three equally odd grown-ups, as they compete for victory in the spelling championship of a lifet...
35th Annual Reliant Park World Series of Dog Shows
- July 18, 2012 to July 22, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Reliant Center
- Address: One Reliant Park, Houston, TX 77054
- Location: Reliant Park
- Visit Website
Celebrating 35 years, the Reliant Park World Series of Dog Shows brings together hundreds of dogs to compete in events such as conformation and obedience. The lively performance events, exhibition...
Alvin Baltrop: Dreams Into Glass
- July 20, 2012 to October 21, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
- Address: 5216 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX 77006
- Location: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
- Visit Website
Alvin Baltrop: Dreams Into Glass, is the first major solo museum survey of work by this African-American photographer. Born in the Bronx, New York, in 1948, Baltrop died from cancer in 2004 at a Manh...
Art exhibition: FunkMotor
- July 14, 2012 to August 18, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Peveto
- Address: 2627 Colquitt, Houston, TX 77098
- Visit Website
FunkMotor, an exhibition curated by Andy Grotfeldt, brings together a network of four artists who originated from the Houston area and whose interrelated histories have produced shared, cooperative a...
Art exhibition: The Big Show
- July 13, 2012 to August 11, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Lawndale Art Center
- Address: 4912 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002
- Location: Lawndale Art Center
- Visit Website
The Big Show is Lawndale Art Center's annual open-call, juried exhibition. It has been an important venue through which emerging and under-represented Houston area artists gain exposure since the sho...
ArtHouston: "Systematic Motion" by Trey Egan
- July 14, 2012 to August 11, 2012 (Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday)
- Address: 3508 Lake Street, Houston, TX 77098
- Location: McMurtrey Gallery
- Visit Website
As part of the citywide ArtHouston event, McMurtrey Gallery is pleased to introduce a new contemporary Texas painter Trey Egan. An MFA graduate student at The University of North Texas, Trey Egan ...
ArtHouston: Justin Garcia and Winston Lee Mascarehnas
- July 12, 2012 to August 18, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Address: 4411 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, TX 77006
- Location: Wade Wilson Art
- Visit Website
Wade Wilson Art is proud to announce a joint exhibition featuring new and recent works by Justin Garcia and Winston Lee Mascarenhas. Both artists explore the translucent and the illuminated, along...
Bands on the Sand: 3rd Language
- July 20, 2012
- Location: Moody Gardens
- Address: Seven Hope Blvd., Galveston, TX 77554
- Location: Moody Gardens
- Visit Website
Grab your flip flops and head over to Galveston for fireworks and live music on the sand at Moody Gardens' Palm beach! Jam to 3rd Language! Some of the region's favorite bands will perform at...
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...
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...
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...
Christmas in July
- July 02, 2012 to July 31, 2012 (Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday)
- Location: Russian Cultural Center "Our Texas"
- Address: 2337 Bissonnet, Houston, TX 77005
- Location: Russian Cultural Center "Our Texas"
- Visit Website
Russian Cultural Center “Our Texas” Christmas in July offers a chance to get Christmas presents right now. We offer souvenirs and gifts for all occasions: - Beautiful icons, paintings ...
-1-ghcvb.jpg "Contemporary Asian Art: Texas Connections - Image")
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 ...
Donovan Johnson's Piano In The Gulf Tour; With Richard Carr
- July 20, 2012
- Location: The Houston Piano Company
- Address: 1600 W 13th St., Houston, TX 77008
Two of the midwests best known New Age pianists, Donovan Johnson and Richard Carr, hit the road this July and head for the deep south to entertain audiences there. Together they have created a sh...
Drum Corps International Houston
- July 20, 2012
- Location: Berry Center
- Address: 8877 Barker Cypress, Houston, TX 77433
- Location: Berry Center
- Visit Website
Move to the beat of top notch bands and delight in performances featuring spellbinding visual formations and stunning choreography set to musical arrangements that may incorporate a variety of m...
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York
- June 26, 2012 to September 10, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Address: 1001 Bissonnet, Houston, TX 77005
- Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Visit Website
Renowned in his lifetime for his elegant designs and superior craftsmanship, Duncan Phyfe (1770–1854) remains to this day America’s most famous cabinetmaker. In the early 1800s, furniture...
Exhibition: Romance of Daily Life by Elena Vasilyeva
- July 20, 2012 to September 28, 2012 (Recurring every week day)
- Address: 2337 Bissonnet, Houston, TX 77005
- Location: Russian Cultural Center "Our Texas"
- Visit Website
Elena Vasilyeva is a member of the Alliance of Ukrainian Artists, living in Kharhiv, Ukraine. Vasilyeva has always been attracted by decorative art and its richness of techniques, non-typical ways...
Fever Festival
- July 20, 2012 to July 22, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Warehouse on Harrisburg
- Address: 7629 Harrisburg, Houston, TX 77012
- Visit Website
Local Houston contemporary artists hosting a three-day event. Art + Music + Fashion. We are having a silent art auction for the American Cancer Society Friday July 20 from 6-9. Artists are encourag...
Fried Ice Cream Performs Live at Sullivan's Ringside Lounge
- July 20, 2012
- Location: Sullivan's Steakhouse
- Address: 4608 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77027
- Location: Sullivan's Steakhouse
- Visit Website
Ringside boasts an array of tasty libations and bar bites to enjoy while grooving to many of Houston’s favorite bands. Note: We do our best to ensure all information is accurate. However, 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...
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...
4 Houston Center 1331 Lamar St., Suite 700 · phone: 713-437-5200 · Toll Free: 800-4-HOUSTON (800-446-8786)
· Houston · Austin · Dallas · Chicago · New York · Washington, DC · Mexico City, Mexico · Hanover, Germany · Caracas, Venezuela · Bejing, China · Toronto, Canada
