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Unleash your artistic soul and experience The Houston Fringe Festival, a five-day event where performers and companies from around the planet present original work in Houston’s East End. The festival features over 100 companies and individual artists each year, showcasing both emerging and established performing and visual arts. The festival encourages everyone to participate and show their talent to the fluid and enthusiastically supportive audience making it a great platform to unveil a superabundance of talent on many levels. Make this the year you enter a new world of creativity and personal masterpiece ambiance.

Enjoy outdoor entertainment under the stars at the Miller Outdoor Theatre, one of Houston’s culturally diverse and always free outdoor performance venues. Relax in the covered seating area or enjoy a pre-performance picnic on the hillside as you experience the most diverse eight-month season of professional shows that include classical, jazz, and ethnic music, dance, ballet, Shakespeare, musical theatre, classic films, and more.

Visit the Chapel of St. Basil, based at the University of St. Thomas. Designed by renowned architect Phillip Johnson, the chapel includes three functioning bells, a custom-built organ, and an overall style reminiscent of historic European churches. The chapel hosts Mass every day. It seats about 225 people and is lit from the inside by natural light from the dome, a skylight over the altar, and the statue of Our Lady on the east wall and from the asymmetrical glass cross on the west wall.