This weekend brings an finish to this 12 months’s Houston Livestock Present and Rodeo. It’s one final probability to attempt your luck within the carnival, eat cotton sweet bacon, and put in your most interesting Western put on.
Away from the NRG complicated, lots of musical occasions will likely be happening this weekend, from the return of Daryl Corridor to a salute to Dave Brubeck to Musica Tra Amici saying goodbye. This weekend additionally affords an RV present, a plant sale, a wine and tapas gala, and a celebration of comedian artwork.
Thursday, March 20
The Final RV Present
The Final RV Present options the newest makes and fashions of latest RVs. Present attendees can try greater than 200 fully-staged RVs in all lessons, from compact, light-weight tent trailers to truck campers, journey trailers, fifth wheels, toy haulers, Class-A motorhomes, and extra. Attendees may play a professional from the American Corn Gap League and win prizes, experience a mechanical bull, and pose for pictures with kangaroos and child lemurs. Midday (10 am Friday-Sunday).
Moody Heart for the Arts presents Moody Challenge Wall – Christopher Sperandio: “Comics With out Borders” opening reception
Moody Heart for the Arts will have fun the student-curated and artist-led Moody Challenge Wall set up, “Comics With out Borders.” Opening in coordination with the multi-day occasion Comics Sans Frontières, company can see how Rice college students co-curated a collection of authentic comedian artwork sourced from the archive of American comedian e-book artist Jack Katz, not too long ago donated to Rice College. Pulitzer Prize-winning comedian artist Artwork Spiegelman will maintain a public dialog afterwards. 5 pm.
Rad Day 2025
Rad, the Nineteen Eighties cult basic that enormously influenced BMX tradition, is returning to theaters for a one-night-only occasion, on the day of its 1986 authentic launch. Whereas the movie wasn’t a field workplace success upon its authentic launch, it has turn out to be an iconic touchstone for followers. Now, it’s taking on 700 screens throughout North America. Together with the movie, you’ll additionally get the world premiere of A Rad Documentary, which chronicles the making of the movie and its influence. 7 pm.
Friday, March 21
4th Wall Theatre Firm Fête: fifteenth Season Announcement Celebration
4th Wall Theatre Firm will current their inaugural Fête celebration, a gala dinner saying their upcoming season. The celebration will likely be impressed by their spring 2025 manufacturing of Hamlet, a stripped-down re-imagining of Shakespeare’s basic for a contemporary viewers. The occasion will function a cocktail hour adopted by a royal feast from the Aaron Bludorn-lead culinary crew. There may also be leisure, an public sale, and a raffle. 6:30 pm.
Ensemble Theatre presents Flex
Flex is a robust play about swagger, dedication and sticking collectively. It’s 1997 and the WNBA is altering the sport. Each participant on Plainnole’s Girl Practice basketball crew now desires of going professional — however first, they’ll should navigate the pressures of being younger, gifted, Black, and feminine in rural Arkansas. Candrice Jones’ play a few highschool basketball crew explores the fierce power of younger Black ladies within the South and what it means to be a part of a crew. By means of Sunday, April 13. 7:30 pm (2 & 7 pm Saturday; 3 pm Sunday).
Houston Symphony presents “Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody & The Little Mermaid”
Based mostly on a catchy little tune by Paganini, Rachmaninoff’s diabolically troublesome Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini blends explosive piano feats with melodies that soften the center. And music director Juraj Valčuha leads music sprinkled in fairy story magic: swim by way of the wonders of Liadov’s Enchanted Lake, then dive underneath the ocean with Zemlinsky’s lavishly romantic The Mermaid, primarily based on Hans Christian Andersen’s “Little Mermaid” story. Pianist Kirill Gerstein will likely be featured within the live performance. 7:30 pm (2 pm Sunday).
Voice of Brubeck: Themes and Explorations
Voice of Brubeck: Themes and Explorations will embody main orchestral and vocal works of jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck. It’s going to function jazz artist Chris Brubeck, together with The Moores College of Music Symphony Orchestra, soloists Simone Gundy (The Voice) and Horace Alexander Younger, and the Paul English Quartet. The live performance contains a few of Brubeck’s sacred vocal music, a number of of his jazz masterpieces, and a five-movement orchestral tour-de-force, Theme and Explorations, commissioned by Andre Previn. 7:30 pm.
Saturday, March 22
Houston Arboretum presents Spring Plant Sale
Customers can improve their backyard with Texas native crops throughout Houston Arboretum & Nature Heart’s Spring Plant Sale. The 2-day sale options perennial and annual wildflowers, grasses, shrubs, and bushes, good for attracting butterflies, bees, and different pollinators whereas serving to to preserve water, scale back mowing, defend the soil, and lower your expenses on fertilizer and pesticides. Plant portions could also be restricted, and the plant checklist is topic to vary primarily based on availability. Proceeds profit the Arboretum’s conservation and training efforts. 9 am.
Houston Meals Financial institution presents Empty Bowls Houston
As a part of a grassroots effort by artists and craftspeople in cities and cities throughout the nation to feed the hungry, Empty Bowls Houston is carried out domestically by Houston-area ceramists and artists working in varied media, the Houston Heart for Modern Craft, and the Houston Meals Financial institution. Attendees have the chance to pick a bowl from hundreds of hand-crafted bowls, donated by Houston-area ceramists and craft artists, and receiving a easy lunch. Pottery, woodturning demonstrations, and reside music will likely be featured on the occasion. 10 am.
Chef Tristen Epps presents Pardon My French
As a part of the preparations for Buboy, a tasting menu restaurant impressed by the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, chef Tristen Epps will host a pop-up at downtown steakhouse Guard & Grace. The one-night-only meal will discover the affect of French delicacies on cultures all over the world. Epps, a contestant on the present season of High Chef, will serve dishes equivalent to Texas wagyu steak frites, foie gras pate, and ricotta dumplings with native greens and truffle. 6 and eight:30 pm.
Patrons for Bellaire Parks presents fifteenth Annual Wine & Tapas Gala
Patrons for Bellaire Parks’ fifteenth Annual Wine and Tapas Gala will function the theme of “Magic within the Park.” Bellaire Civic Heart will likely be remodeled right into a magician’s playground with leisure together with a silent public sale, a wine pull, liquor toss sport, and a magic present. Meals from many favourite native institutions will likely be served tapas-style, in order that company can pattern many alternative dishes. The occasion, devoted to elevating funds for a renewal of Evergreen Park, will honor native musician Ezra Charles. 7 pm.
Daryl Corridor in live performance
Is anybody else nonetheless torn up that Corridor & Oates is not any extra? It appears the pair that had been as soon as the most well-liked pop duo of all time aren’t even on talking phrases. Which means we’ll most likely by no means get them on the identical stage singing “Personal Eyes” or “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do).” Properly, Corridor will likely be right here this weekend, in help of his 2024 solo album, D, performing each outdated and new tunes. He’ll be joined by particular visitor Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze. 8 pm.
Sunday, March 23
Predominant Avenue Theater presents Memoriam
Within the close to future, Memoriam Inc. buys and sells reminiscences, digitizing them for mass-viewership. Now Rachel, a purchaser for Memoriam, goes after crucial and most private reminiscence acquisition she has ever sought: the reminiscences of the final Holocaust survivor on earth — who occurs to be her personal grandmother. Memoriam, making its world premiere, is a robust, painful, loving story of household and what reminiscences imply, who owns them, and what we owe to future generations. By means of Saturday, April 19. 3 pm.
Lady Tones, with The Velveteers, in live performance
Lady Tones, of planet Earth, are a high-energy rock duo delivered to life by two sisters named Kenzie and Laila. Each classically skilled musicians, Kenzie transitioned from cello to guitar and Laila from piano to drums in an effort to affect sentient beings from this galaxy to the subsequent. Already in 2025, Lady Tones made their solution to Europe to as soon as once more help Cage The Elephant out on the highway. They’re now again in North America for a string of exhibits with The Velveteers, together with Sunday evening’s present in Houston. 7 pm.
Musica Tra Amici presents Eric’s Farewell
Eric Halen, along with a small group of pals and the tireless help of his household, realized a dream that appeared nearly not possible: creating a brand new chamber music sequence in Houston. Over 11 seasons, their dream has flourished right into a Houston establishment and now, as Halen takes his well-deserved retirement from the Houston Symphony, he’s taking a triumphant final flip at Musica Tra Amici in a typical program exploring each the works we all know and love and a few that we are going to fall in love with. 7 pm.
