Calendar of Houston Events
If you're planning a trip to the area, find out what's happening with our Houston Events Calendar. You'll find festivals, sporting events, museum exhibits, outdoor events and more with this complete Houston calendar. Houston events offer something for everyone.
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Lucy’s Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia Houston Museum of Natural Science |
August 31, 2007 to September 1, 2008 | ||
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Lucy’s Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia World Premiere, Herzstein Hall Aug. 31, 2007 – April 20, 2008 |
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Galapagos 3D IMAX Houston Museum of Natural Science |
January 9, 2008 to May 29, 2008 | ||
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Remote Galapagos Islands. Amazing Wildlife. A trip of a lifetime. |
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Making the Unfamiliar Familiar: A Program for High School Students Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
January 19, 2008 to June 29, 2008 | ||
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Twenty students who participated in an ongoing education program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to learn more about art, artists, and the museum, are now featured artists themselves. The students made a series of visits to the museum during the 2006-2007 academic year during which they created prints and drawings that are presented in Making the Unfamiliar Familiar: A Program for High School Students. |
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Eye on Third Ward: Jack Yates High School Photography Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
February 10, 2008 to May 26, 2008 | ||
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Eye on Third Ward, the annual exhibition of photographs by students from Jack Yates High School to express the distinctive identity of Houston’s historic Third Ward., this year for the first time includes photographs from the teens’ personal lives. |
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Jesse H. Jones: City Builder and Public Servant Heritage Society, The |
February 12, 2008 to May 25, 2008 | ||
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The exhibition, organized by Wallace Saage, documents Mr. Jones’s unique roles in local and national affairs. |
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How Artists Draw Menil Collection, The |
February 15, 2008 to May 18, 2008 | ||
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How Artists Draw: Toward the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center will present a selection of The Menil Collection’s most significant drawings in combination with exceptional works on paper from private collections. |
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Escaping Their Boundaries: The Children of Theresienstadt Holocaust Museum Houston |
February 21, 2008 to August 31, 2008 | ||
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The ability of children of the Holocaust to confront harsh realities and transcend their physical boundaries through creative expression will be the focus of a new exhibition. |
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Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
March 2, 2008 to June 22, 2008 | ||
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On August 24, 79 A.D. the world´s most famous volcano, Vesuvius, erupted with pyroclastic fury, burying the city of Pompeii in a mountain of hardened ash. The exhibition consists of 500 objects, generally excavated in the last decade, from three famous and wealthy sites. They include marble statues, wall frescoes, gold jewelry, silver dinner service and household items, bronze household items, coins, and body casts and skeletons of inhabitants who were unable to escape. |
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form, color, illuminations: Suzan Frecon painting Menil Collection, The |
March 7, 2008 to May 11, 2008 | ||
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The Menil Collection presents "form, color, illuminations: Suzan Frecon painting," a selection of 10 oil paintings and 20 watercolors dating from 2000 to 2006 by the American abstract painter Suzan Frecon. Although Frecon uses an ancient medium, her works on canvas and paper offer a reinvigorating perspective to the long history of large-scale abstract painting. www.menil.org |
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Core Program Anniversary Year Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
March 7, 2008 to June 30, 2008 | ||
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This spring, two exhibitions, a commemorative publication, and a benefit gala will cap the 2007-08 anniversary year of the Core Program at the Glassell School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. |
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