Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts

3351 Cullen Blvd.

Houston, TX 77204

When Discovery Green opened downtown, a piece sponsored by the Mitchell Center and composed by Stephen Montague of London, “Horn Concerto,” was performed by deftly honking Art Cars. This is ...

Apr 15 12:00 PM

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts presents CounterCurrent 2018

The fifth annual CounterCurrent is a city-wide festival of performance, installation, and ideas occupying a range of unexpected sites in Houston. The festival will be comprised of cutting-edge contemporary and ...

Sep 19 7:00 PM

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts presents 2017 Mitchell Artist Lecture featuring The Yes Men

Join the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts for the 2017 Mitchell Artist Lecture, a landmark public program that annually features major figures in the world ...

May 1 7:00 PM

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts presents Bassem Youssef: The Joke is Mightier Than the Sword

Egyptian surgeon-turned-satirist Bassem Youssef, dubbed the “Jon Stewart of the Arab World,” will speak at this special event. Youssef was the host of the political satire TV show AlBernameg, the ...

May 2 3:00 PM

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts presents The Power of Political Satire: A Conversation with Bassem Youssef and Jòn ...

The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and UH School of Theatre & Dance present a conversation with renowned political satirists Bassem Youssef and Jòn Gnarr. Egyptian surgeon-turned-satirist Youssef ...

CounterCurrent 2017

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4.17.17  |  11:15 am

Film and television star Lili Taylor performs artist Suzanne Bocanegra’s memoir-lecture about farm life across the road from Texas ...

Apr 23 12:00 PM

2017 CounterCurrent Festival presents Camp Pause

Little is known about why Palestinian camps are put where they are - or about the trajectories of their communities. Reflecting on ideas of refuge and the sea that connects them ...

Dec 8 6:00 PM

University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts presents Unsilent Night

The University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, in collaboration with Buffalo Bayou Partnership, will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the holiday favorite, Unsilent Night, the annual ...

Oct 6 7:00 PM

The University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts presents Mitchell Artist Lecture featuring Tania Bruguera

The University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts brings back the Mitchell Artist Lecture, a landmark public program that annually features major figures in the world of ...

Dec 10 6:00 PM

University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts presents Unsilent Night

The University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, in collaboration with Buffalo Bayou Partnership, presents Unsilent Night, a free interactive holiday event. New York composer Phil Kline ...