Writers Remix Series | Juneteenth Friday, June 20, 2025 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
June 20, 2025
Experience modern and contemporary works of art through the written word. In addition to celebrating Juneteenth, this session of the Writers Remix Series focuses on the installation Hidden Histories on Level 3 of the Kinder Building. Local writers recognize Juneteenth by performing original works, all within the Museum galleries.
Make an evening of it and start off at Happy Hour Friday. Sip on a drink and soak in the ambience before the performances begin.
Performing Artists
- David Landry
- Tasiah Iman
- Marie Brown
- C.T.
Plan Your Visit
- This program is included with Museum admission.
- The performances take place in the exhibition gallery on Level 3 of the Kinder Building.
- On Fridays, the Museum is open until 9 p.m. with happy hour from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Arrival Hall on the Lower Level of the Kinder Building.
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About the Artists
David Landry is the co-owner and founder of CLASS Bookstore, a Black-owned, woman-owned, and family-operated indie bookstore based in Houston’s Third Ward. He is a multi-disciplinary collaborator and strives to bring people together.
Tasiah Iman is a vocalist, writer, arranger, and creative director whose work centers on music, community, and self-expression. Iman has performed at venues such as the Eldorado Ballroom and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and serves as an educator with DaCamera, bringing music-based learning to HISD classrooms.
Marie Brown is an author, poet, spoken-word artist, songwriter and former paid spokesperson for Houston Metro-Ride. In 2007, Brown became the first woman to win the National Blue Bonnet Poetry Slam Competition.
C.T. has been on the spoken word scene, believing it to be a great representation of Gulf Coast folklore, for 30 years. He founded a forum that, for a decade, combines dramatists, poets, singers, and musicians; sometimes sharing stories or creating new stories on the spot.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Texas Commission on the Arts; and the Junior League of Houston, Inc.
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.
This MFAH lecture series is endowed by the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation.
This session is presented in partnership with CLASS Bookstore.