June is the end of the regular session of the Texas legislature, budget time for the City of Houston, and the month of Pride and Juneteenth.
June 1 The T.R.U.T.H. Project presents the 5th Annual And Through Their Eyes Grow Thorns Art Exhibition: Joy Found Us, an exploration of storytelling through a Queer Lens of Color
June 1 Juneteenth Houston Pop Up Festival
June 3 Houston City Council meeting – their last meeting before they vote on the City budget.
June 4 Houston City Council meeting – they will vote on the City budget.
June 3-9 virtual Global Premiere of Eternal Song: Ancestral Wisdom for Collective Healing
June 5 Houston City Council Resilience Committee Meeting
June 6 Baker Ripley Pride Paint
June 6-27 MFAH screening a lot of Jazz related films
June 7 Acres Homes Chamber Farmers Market
June 7 Sankofa Emancipation Project Juneteenth Photo Session
June 7 Karaoke Pride
June 7, 14, 21, 28 and 19 Juneteenth Tea Cakes and Tours
June 7, 14, 21, 28 and 19 From Plantation to Emancipation – The Freedom Experience”
June 7-8 Symposium: Town Meeting 1978-2028 A weekend of Panels, Workshops, Manifestos, Arts and Community exploring Houston’s LGBTQ history and visioning our shared queer future.
June 8 virtual Study of Deepa Iyer’s Social Change Network (6 sessions)
June 8 Fade to Black Arts Festival Community Day and Kickoff Ceremony at the Hobby Center
June 8-15 Houston Fade to Black Fest
June 10 Master Class with Phylicia Rashad – M.A.T.C.H. Fade to Black Festival
June 10 and 12 Virtual Community Meetings to discuss the Draft Action Plan for Disaster Recovery – 2024 Derecho and Hurricane Beryl
June 11 S.H.A.P.E Center Community Meeting
June 11 Whitelisted – Alley Theater – Fade to Black Festival
June 12 MFAH Solange Knowles film Monuments Are Here
June 12 Houser Academy: Houston Apartment Inspection Ordinance
June 13-14 HTX Students Leadership and Advocacy Public Ed Summit 2025
June 13 F.I.E.L Chant Down the Walls Peaceful Protest @ Core Civic, 15850 Export Plaza Dr, Houston, 77032
June 14 Indivisible Houston No Kings protest
June 14 Indivisible Katy Kick Out the Clowns Protest in Katy
June 14 Fade to Black Arts Festival: Theater, Music, Poetry & Film. Hip Hop Talk Back Honoring K-Rino
June 14 Kindred Stories AUTHOR TALK: Plus Size Player with Danielle Allen SOLD OUT
June 14 Wheeler Avenue Baptist Juneteenth Feeding the Homeless
June 14 Juneteenth Musical Tribute to the Late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee
June 14 Eldorado Ballroom: Paper in My Shoe
June 14 Freedom and the Sun: A Night of Solidarity from Houston to Palestine
June 14 Galveston Juneteenth Mini-Lecture: Lost Restaurants of Galveston’s African American Community
June 14 Galveston 5th Annual BLVD Juneteenth(SideWalk) Poetry Show
June 14 Galveston Acting and Drawing Workshop with Tanner Ellis
June 14 Galveston Island Juneteenth Festival & Celebration
June 14 Sly Lives
June 15 Ebony Opera Guild Juneteenth Concert From the Middle Passage to Black Lives Matter: The Journey to Freedom Continues…
June 15 Galveston Symphony 3rd Annual Juneteenth Celebration Concert: “Voices Unbound”
June 15 Houston Pride Grand Marshall Reception
June 17 virtual Know Your Rights Training (for community leaders/immigration)
June 17 Houston Grand Opera A Voice Within, by Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton
June 17 Galveston The Underground Railroad and Living History With the Buffalo Soldiers
June 17 virtual Kinder Institute State of Housing in Houston
June 18 HCC Juneteenth 1865-2025: Kinfolk and Family
June 19 Juneteenth Kickback with The Mahogany Project
June 19 Galveston’s Reedy Chapel AME’s Historic Re-enactment March & Annual Juneteenth Family Fun Day – Block Party
June 19 Galveston The Official Juneteenth Return
June 19 Galveston Juneteenth 160: Freedom, Fireworks & Family
June 19 Galveston Juneteenth Parade and Picnic
June 19 Sugar Land 95 Historical Marker Dedication and Unveiling
June 20 Rothko Chapel Summer Solstice concert Nameless Sound
June 20 Monica Roberts event about the price of trans visibility at Heritage Society of Houston
June 20 Galveston Bryan Museum lecture: Juneteenth is a Celebration, Emancipation is Freedom
June 21 Center for the Healing of Racism 31st annual Juneteenth BBQ and Ally Award celebration.
June 21 Galveston: A Juneteenth Conversation: With the Family of George Floyd
June 21 Proudly Ever After: Celebrating 10 Years of Marriage Equality
June 21 Houston Pride Band at M.A.T.C.H.
June 21 Voices of Houston Rock My Soul
June 21 Juneteenth Bus Tour (Houston)
June 21 Know Your Rights and Citizenship Preparation at Fort Bend Literacy Council 10am-noon 12530 Emily Court, Sugar Land, TX
June 21 Galveston Juneteenth Mini-Lecture: Notable African Americans of Galveston
June 21 Galveston Juneteenth Red Carpet Meet & Greet
June 21 Galveston Juneteenth Stage Play “Baby Boy”
June 24 Galveston’s Courville Stadium & The Prairie View Interscholastic League
June 24 6 week STEM Learning Lab at Emancipation Park
June 25 Rock The Runway® 2025 | Official Pride Fashion Show
June 26 Harris County Jail Teach-in by Communities, Not Cages
June 26-27 Ballet Trocadero
June 27 Eden® 2025 | Official Pride Girl+ Party
June 27 Underground Pride Houston ’25
June 27 Houston Trans Pride
June 28 Pride 365 Houston Parade
June 28 Emancipation Park Small on Purpose Market
June 28 Kindred Stories Author Talk: Chichi and Didi Love Their Names with Peace and Ndidi Amadi (children’s book)
June 28 ACLU Advocacy Summit at DeLuxe Theater
June 28 Pride on the Plaza 11:00-5:00 MarMo Plaza 2121 Market Street, Galveston
June 28 Buffalo Soldiers National Museum Immigration Realities in Houston: An Intersectional Conversation
June 28 Galveston Juneteenth Mini-Lecture: Reedy Chapel’s Juneteenth Association
June 28 City of Houston Disaster Preparedness Workshop
June 29 7th Annual Pride Houston Brunch benefitting the Montrose Center
July multiple dates Weaving Waters
July 1-19 FotoFest Magic of Life exhibit
July 1-20 The Shape of Home Auction – Project Row Houses
July 1-July27 Ensemble Theater The Tap Dance Kid
July 1-August 16 Sonya Clark We Are Each Other at HMAAC
July 1 – August 22 Off the Wall: Karyn Olivier
July 2 Re-Storying the Story of Sunnyside
July 2 City of Houston Disaster Preparedness Workshop
July 4 virtual The Constitution in 90 Days
July 5 Wicked (movie) at Miller Outdoor Theater
July 5 DJ Screw Day
July 5 Crooklyn Cookout at Deluxe Theater
July 6 Hope Beyond Apartheid at First UU
July 8 Houston City Council Budget and Fiscal Affairs Subcommitee meeting
July 8 Kindred Stories Author Talk Love Spells Trouble with Nia Davenport
July 10 virtual Climate Justice, Human Rights and Migration 5 part training session
July 11-13 The W.O.M.E.N Play at Deluxe Theater
July 12 Emancipation Park Juneteenth in July
July 16 virtual Kinder Institute Shifting Demographics in Early Childhood Education
July 16 virtual TERC (Texas Election Reform Coalition) Pre-Special Session call
July 19 Houston SAFE Summer Peace Pop-up
July 19 Moody Center for the Arts Summer Jam
July 19 Rocky Horror Picture Show at River Oaks Theater
July 21 Houston City Council Public Safety Committee Meeting
July 21 Houston City Council Resilience Committee and Government Operations Committee combined meeting
July 21 Opening day of the Special Legislative Session of the Texas Legislature
July 22 Galveston Foundation Conversations: The Underground Railroad South to Mexico
August 2 – Sept 21 Floyd Newsome Summer Row Houses at Project Row House
August 10 Cleopatra Live Taping at the Deluxe Theater
August 16 Miller Outdoor Theater Summer Mixtape
August 22 With Malice Towards None at Miller Outdoor Theater – Ebony Opera Guild, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton and Apollo Chamber (live and virtual)
August 22-24 Houston Mariachi Festival at Society for the Performing Arts
October 10-November 2 Mud Row at Stages
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