Calendar of Merlex Picks

June 7, 2023
June 8, 2023

  • 7th Annual National Black Film Festival

    June 7, 2023 - June 10, 2023 @ 
    AMC Houston 8, 510 Texas Street, Houston, TX 77002

    The NBFF acts as a bridge to connect industries professionals and those upcoming talent with entertainment, education and empowerment. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/7th-annual-national-black-film-festival-tickets-628696346697?aff=eand

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  • Art, Music and Mocktails - A Texas Artist Happy Hour

    June 8, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    Community Artists' Collective, 4101 San Jacinto Street #Suite 116, Houston, TX 77004

    Support Local Black Artists at this happy hour! Join us for art, music and mocktails + meaningful conversations on fine-art and printmaking. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-music-and-mocktails-a-texas-artist-happy-hour-tickets-644061644717?aff=eand

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  • Pride Happy Hour at the Moody

    June 8, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
    Rice University Moody Center For The Arts, 6100 Main Street, MS-480, Houston, TX 77005, 6100 Main MS-550, Houston, TX 77005, USA

    Pride Happy Hour at the Moody Tickets, Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite

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  • Hope Happy Hour

    June 8, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
    POST Houston, 401 Franklin St, Houston, TX 77201, USA

    Join us for a delightful evening of hope, happiness, and refreshing sips at Hope Happy Hour, hosted by Thrive Juice and See more details

  • A Maroon's Guide to Time and Space

    June 8, 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
    MATCH - Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston, 3400 Main St, Houston, TX 77002, USA

    “This is not a play.”

    The latest new work from Houston writer, actor, and director Candice D’Meza is a multidisciplinary, immersive theatre piece that blends live performance, music, video, and omniscient cosmic forces to travel the future-telling visions and seizure-fever dreams of heroic abolitionist and conductor of the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman.
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June 11, 2023
June 13, 2023

  • Free Line Dancing Lessons

    June 13, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    POST Houston, 401 Franklin St, Houston, TX 77201, USA

    Whose ready to boot scoot and boogy!? We're teaming up with Love Dance HTX to bring you Free Line Dance classes every 2nd Tuesday of the month in our X Atrium. Come on out for a night of fun, bring some friends or come alone and make some new ones. The lessons will…

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June 15, 2023
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June 20, 2023

  • Museums as Systems: Thinking Outside the Bag

    June 20, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
    Virtual

    Free

    This panel aims to spotlight how, through creative ingenuity, development departments play integral roles in ensuring the survival of institutions, art, and artists at every level.

    Access and Accessibility as an Act(ion) of Radical Hospitality, 7:00–8:15 pm EDT   
    This session offers the perspectives and tactics of art workers and…


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June 21, 2023

  • Summer Solstice Morning Observance Performance for Contemplation with Percussion & Voice by Hamid Drake

    June 21, 2023 @ 8:00 am - 9:30 am

    SOLD OUT
    In observance of the longest day of the year, the morning contemplative music experience will feature American jazz drummer and percussionist Hamid Drake.

    Renown percussionist Hamid Drake occupies a singular place in world music. Forging a practice based on a lifetime study of global styles that emerge from…

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  • Museums as Systems: For Future Generations

    June 21, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
    Virtual

    Free

    For Future Generations, 5:30–6:45 pm EDT   
    This panel focuses on “extractivism” as it pertains to belongings from the Global South and the Continent that were stolen from their origins.

    The Question of Love and Community Care, 7:00–8:15 pm EDT   
    Inspired by bell hooks’s book Salvation:…


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  • Summer Solstice Evening Observance: Kaminari Taiko of Houston

    June 21, 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    Rothko Chapel, 3900 Yupon St, Houston, TX 77006, USA


    Outdoor chair or BYO seating on Chapel Plaza and Lawn

    Registration provides a chair on the Plaza first come, first served. If preferred, bring your own chair or blanket to sit on the lawn.


    Outdoor chair or BYO seating on Chapel Plaza and Lawn

    Registration provides a chair on the Plaza first…

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June 23, 2023

  • Jazz on Film - Texas Tenor: The Illinois Jacquet Story

    June 23, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
    Caroline Wiess Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX 77005

    https://www.mfah.org/calendar/texas-tenor-the-illinois-jacquet-story/202306231900#tickets

    Born in Louisiana and raised in Houston, saxophonist Illinois Jacquet first came to prominence when his solo on Lionel Hampton’s 1942 recording of “Flying Home” innovated the sound of jazz tenor and ushered in rhythm and blues. Filmed in…


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  • Summer Symphony Nights Presented By Truist Produced By Houston Symphony

    June 23, 2023 @ 8:30 pm - 10:30 pm
    Miller Outdoor Theatre, 6000 Hermann Park Dr, Houston, TX 77030, USA

    https://www.facebook.com/events/551472973715039/551472983715038/
     

    This performance will not be livestreamed.
    The Houston Symphony is Miller’s oldest performing partner with performances beginning in 1941. Lewis Brown, a Chicago transplant, wrote to the Houston Post critic Hubert Roussell advocating outdoor symphony concerts. N.D. Naman funded…

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June 24, 2023

  • Summer Community Celebration

    June 24, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 5216 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, TX 77006

    Spend a summer afternoon indoors and explore CAMH’s current exhibitions through a variety of hands-on activities at the Museum! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/summer-community-celebration-tickets-648310312597?aff=eand

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  • Jazz on Film - Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

    June 24, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX 77005, USA

    https://www.mfah.org/calendar/max-roach-the-drum-also-waltzes/202306241900

    This new documentary is a profound and expansive portrait of legendary jazz drummer, composer, bandleader, and activist Max Roach. The Drum Also Waltzes traces the musical innovations, personal struggles, and reinventions…


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  • Summer Symphony Nights Presented By Truist Produced By Houston Symphony

    June 24, 2023 @ 8:30 pm - 10:30 pm
    Miller Outdoor Theatre, 6000 Hermann Park Dr, Houston, TX 77030, USA

    https://www.facebook.com/events/551472973715039/551472983715038/
     

    This performance will not be livestreamed.
    The Houston Symphony is Miller’s oldest performing partner with performances beginning in 1941. Lewis Brown, a Chicago transplant, wrote to the Houston Post critic Hubert Roussell advocating outdoor symphony concerts. N.D. Naman funded the first…

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June 29, 2023

  • One Houston One Book: Ibi Zoboi and Dr. Yusef Salaam in Houston!

    June 29, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
    Vinson Neighborhood Library, Located inside H. Clarke Multi-Service Center, 3810 W Fuqua St, Houston, TX 77045, USA

    https://calendar.houstonlibrary.org/event/10616081
     

    "Punching the Air" was co-written by award-winning novelist Ibi Zoboi and Dr. Yusef Salaam, a prison reform activist, poet and one of the Exonerated Five. It is a timely heartachingly powerful free verse novel. Through its shatteringly succinct lyricism, Amal's story is…


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  • Film Screening - RRR

    June 29, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    Caroline Wiess Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX 77005

    https://www.mfah.org/calendar/rrr/202306291800#tickets

    “RRR is putting Tollywood cinema on the world map—in the most epic and unforgettable way possible.” —premiumbeat.com


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  • Performance | Houston Jazz Collective

    June 29, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
    Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 5216 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX 77006

    Visit the Museum for a specially curated jazz concert inspired by the exhibition, Ming Smith: Feeling the Future. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/performance-houston-jazz-collective-tickets-619326330727?aff=eand

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June 30, 2023
July 1, 2023

  • Summer Symphony Nights Presented By Truist Produced By Houston Symphony

    July 1, 2023 @ 8:30 pm - 10:30 pm
    Miller Outdoor Theatre, 6000 Hermann Park Dr, Houston, TX 77030, USA

    https://www.facebook.com/events/551472973715039/551472983715038/
     

    This performance will not be livestreamed.
    The Houston Symphony is Miller’s oldest performing partner with performances beginning in 1941. Lewis Brown, a Chicago transplant, wrote to the Houston Post critic Hubert Roussell advocating outdoor symphony concerts. N.D. Naman funded the first…

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July 6, 2023

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