SPECIAL EVENTS

The Mitchell Center, in partnership with artist-in-residence Marc Bamuthi Joseph, the Living Word Project and Youth Speaks, Inc., will host Life Is Living: Houston, a hip-hop-based environmental justice festival. Focused primarily on Houston's Third Ward neighborhood, the festival further connects University of Houston with its surrounding community and celebrates the extraordinary people who sustain the cultural life in and around the Third Ward.

Life Is Living is a national campaign that generates partnerships between diverse and underserved communities, green action agencies, local community groups, urban environmental activists, and the contemporary arts world. Life is Living encompasses a series of six-hour inter-disciplinary, intergenerational, eco-equity festivals in neglected parks in underserved neighborhoods around the country.

Life Is Living: Houston is part of the Mitchell Center’s multi-year residency with performer, poet, and choreographer Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Local organizing partners include Aerosol Warfare, The Awakenings Movement, Bush Cares Project, CKC StART Street & Urban Arts, Community Artist Collective, The Dawn Project/TLC2, DiverseWorks, Houston Green Scene, GreeniRecycling, Houston Museum of African American Culture, Houston Area Women’s Center, the Last Organic Outpost, Meta-Four Houston, Museum of Cultural Arts Houston, New Living, Project Row Houses, Houston Community College, S.H.A.P.E. Community Center, 3 Sisters in the Spirit Theatre Ministry, S.P.A.C.E. Solar Powered Adaptable Containers for Everyone, SPAMMO, Studio Enertia, Tour de Hood, Ecotone, Urban Harvest, USGBC EP: United States Green Building Council Emerging Professionals, Youth Advocates, Workshop Houston and various programs at the University of Houston including the School of Theatre & Dance, Community Learning Agricultural Sustainability Program, Metropolitan Volunteer Program and the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture.

LOCATION: Emancipation Park (corner of Dowling and Elgin Streets)
ADMISSION: Free