Things to do in Houston this weekend! Please double check any events before you set out, as many things are being rescheduled due to the forecast this weekend.

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🧧 🧨LUNAR NEW YEAR EVENTS🧨 🧧

THURSDAY – Lunar New Year @ Heart @ 10PM

FRIDAY & SUNDAY – Year of the Rabbit WonderWeek @ Children's Museum of Houston Celebrate the Chinese New Year at the Museum with fun and festive activities for the whole family! Make your way over to the nightclub for its Lunar New Year celebration featuring beats by DJs, Phon and Loopy, Lion Dance performances, and more.

SATURDAY

2023 Lunar New Year Festival @ Chinese Community Center Houston Join Chinese Community Center for a FREE full-day, family-friendly outdoor event featuring a wide variety of cultural and family activities, vendors, LNY merchandise, delicious food, and exciting performances to welcome in the Year of the Rabbit!

Lion Dance @ Ginger Kale at Hermann Park @ 11AM

2023 Pearland Lunar New Year Festival @ Pearland Junior High West @ 2PM

Lunar New Year Market @ MKT @ 12PM Come get lucky with FREE Red Envelopes, Lion Dancers, and a Drum Show at M-K-T's Lunar New Year Market

SUNDAY

Lion Dances @ Kim Son Bellaire / Jefferson / Sugarland Houston's legendary Vietnamese restaurant celebrates with big shows featuring lion dances.

Lunar New Year at Solstice @ Discovery Green @ 5PM The Lunar New Year at Solstice will feature performances by Dance of Asian America, Aurelia Sky, Flower Basket Dance, and more as well as food vendors, and additional activities for the whole family at Discovery Green.

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Regular events:

ALL WEEKEND:

All weekend – Festival of films from Iran @ MFAH This landmark edition includes a timely focus on the experiences of women in Iran. All films are presented in Farsi(Persian) with English subtitles. Festival ticket $10.

All weekend – Jesus Christ Superstar @ Houston Broadway Appealing to both theater audiences and concert music fans, this production pays tribute to the historic 1971 Billboard Album of the Year while creating a modern, theatrical world that is uniquely fresh and inspiring.

All weekend – Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky Concert @ Houston Symphony The concert features Tchaikovsky's beloved Piano Concerto No. 1, as well as Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring – a provocative, intoxicating, electrifying experience unlike anything else. *Tickets bought for Saturday show include access to a special afterparty with Symphony's musicians and DJ.

Ongoing – Alberto Giacometti Exhibition @ MFAH An ensemble of 60 masterpieces highlight legendary sculptor's Alberto Giacometti’s most important creative achievements. Tickets include general admission.

Ongoing – Golden Worlds Exhibition @ MFAH Showcasing the diversity and brilliance of ancient Colombian cultures, through figurative ceramics, ceremonial and ritual items, feather works, textiles, metal works, and historical documents, Golden Worlds invites visitors into a cultural dialogue that spans both space and time.

Ongoing – Philip Guston Now Exhibition @ MFAH Philip Guston never stopped questioning the place of the artist in society. His paintings resonate with a profound humanism, defined equally by themes that touch on what he called the “brutality of the world” and the profound commitment he made to the joy of painting.

Ongoing – Jennifer Steinkamp: The Seasons Exhibition @ MFAH Jennifer Steinkamp has transformed the landscape of contemporary art with her profoundly beautiful light-based installations that celebrate the ebb and flow of the natural world.

Ongoing – Wall Drawing Series: Mel Bochner @ Menil Drawing Institute The Menil Drawing Institute is proud to work with artist Mel Bochner on the fourth installment of the museum’s ephemeral wall drawing series. Continuously succeeding to blend traditional compositional devices with Abstract Expressionism, Bochner stands out as a one-of-a-kind artist whose art strives to make us more attentive to the unspoken codes that underpin our engagement with the world.

Ongoing – Walter De Maria: Boxes for Meaningless Work Exhibition @ Menil Highlighting De Maria’s varied and innovative approaches to media and scale, the exhibition includes a large group of conceptual drawings and photography, sculpture related to the development of the artist’s innovative land art projects of the 1970s, as well as examples of his sound and film work.

Ongoing – Robert Motherwell Exhibition @ Menil Drawing Institute Renowned for his contributions to Abstract Expressionism, Robert Motherwell is a multifaceted and innovative artist, whose decades-long career has made him one of America's greatest artists.

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THURSDAY – JANUARY 19

Ongoing – Happy Hour @ MFAH @ 5PM Meet your friends at the MFAH for the best night of the week. Explore the campus, visit the galleries, and get a drink at the bar. General admission is free.

Meiji-Era Japanese Art Lecture @ MFAH @ 6:30PM This talk explores the importance of the Japanese Meiji Empire(1868–1912) in a global context. The conversation highlights new acquisitions in the MFAH collection of Asian art.

Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore @ The Heights Theater @ 8PM

FRIDAY – JANUARY 20

Bill Dawes @ The Secret Group @ 10PM An evening of Standup Comedy with Bill Dawes as seen on Comedy Central, Netflix, Showtime & more!

Soda Stereo Tribute Band @ Warehouse Live @ 8PM

KPop Night @ House of Blues @ 7PM

Wild Child @ The Heights Theater @ 8PM

SATURDAY – JANUARY 21

'Chess of the Wind' Screening @ MFAH @ 7PM Banned and then lost for decades, Chess of the Wind is one of the most singular works of Iran’s prerevolution New Wave. Presented by world-renowned actress Shohreh Aghdashloo.

Ongoing – Saturday Stargazing @ George Observatory in Needville

Unspeakable LIVE @ Toyota Center @ 5PM Unspeakable's Nathan, James and Gabe bring their YouTube Channels to life with games, guest appearances and chances to win cool prizes during the one-night only hybrid mega event.

Kerryn Feehan @ The Secret Group @ 8PM A night of Stand Up Comedy with Kerryn Feehan as seen on Comedy Central, TruTV & TLC!

A Backspace Coloring Book @ White Oak Music Hall @ 6:30PM

Prince and Lenny Kravitz Tribute Night @ Warehouse Live @ 6:30PM

IDONTKNOWJEFFEREY @ Warehouse Live @ 8PM

Taylor Swift Party @ House of Blues @ 8PM

SUNDAY – JANUARY 22

Children's Texas Art Festival @ MFAH Bayou Bend @ 1PM The Children’s Texas Art Festival celebrates art—created by and for children—that helps forge a connection to Texas and American heritage. Admission is free.

'The Apple Day' Screening @ MFAH @ 2PM With almost documentary realism, The Apple Day succeeds in magically transforming a very particular story into one with universal symbolism.

'Holy Spider' Screening @ MFAH @ 5PM Shortlisted for the Oscars and adored at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, the movie tells a story of a journalist investigating serial killings of sex workers by the Spider Killer.