Join us for our 4th bi-monthly-ish Artist Salon dreamed up and organized by a working group that formed at the June 2025 symposium “Town Meeting 1978-2028”.

Dinner Provided

Free (as always)

Registration Required

The following note is from francine j harris, one of the members of the working group:

“Hey Folks,

As part of the Town Meeting 2028 preparation and community building, we would like to start organizing bimonthly artist salons. As a poet, such evenings hold a special place in my heart, as they have been the source of much artistic intimacy over the years among my peers, colleagues and friends in the various places I've lived. It is a source of inspiration and accountability and a way to stay tuned in to the processes and production of your artistic peers, not just the end product of readings, shows and exhibits, but in the actual throws.

Essentially, the artist's salon is a small, hosted gathering where attendees share a brief sample of their current work or production. It's not a crit session or a workshop, though you are welcome to invite discussion if that feels right for you. Your share might be an excerpt of a poem or essay and talking about the research or sharing photographs of a current studio project and discussing some of the strides and challenges. It might be an unrelated audio experiment or a film clip. It's really sort of open for interpretation, but is meant to be inspiring and insightful into your current practice and the excitements that keep you working. Ideally, the presentation should be brief - say 10 minutes or so and you might invite discussion/question or simply choose to share and move on to the next artist. These salons were made famous by Gertrude Stein and the artists and writers in her Parisian circle like Picasso, Hemingway, Braque and Matisse. The idea then was that they might be 'educational,' but of course they took on all sorts of lives of their own.

Come visit our Project Wall “I remember this one time . . . “ at the Moody Center for the Arts during their Pride Happy Hour. We will have an oral history booth running if you would like to share a queer Houston story for inclusion in the project.

Check out the Moody’s website for more about their Pride Happy Hour (music and drinks and more art!)

We will be sharing a selection of works by queer Houston artists engaging with queer history at the Houston Pride History Tent during Houston Pride. Rendezvous will have a table alongside many of Houston’s great community and institutional LGBTQIA+ archives.

QUEER ARTISTS EXPLORING THE ARCHIVES:

Ian Gerson

Lovie Olivia

Ruth Robbins

Randy Tibbits

Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin

The Festival charges admission to the festival grounds

Join us for our bi-monthly-ish community planning meeting for Town Meeting 2028. This month we will focus on the Houston Queer Agenda and ways that it can be incorporated into Houston’s arts institutions and our Town Meeting programming

Dinner Provided

Free (as always)

Registration Required

Our February Bi-Monthly-ish community planning meeting for Town Meeting 2028 was held at the Montrose Center during the Greater Houston LGBTQIA+ Community Summit.

Our December Bi-Monthly-ish Community Planning Meeting for Town Meeting 2028 was hosted by DiverseWorks and featured a presentation from Anandrea Molina, Executive Director of OLTT.