Pelican View Productions

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.

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.

Capture a moment in time at the Houston Center for Photography, where you'll find evolving exhibits by emerging and established photographers and plenty of spur-of-the-moment workshops to brush up on your photography skills. As a small visual artists organization, their gallery features some of the finest works of contemporary photography. They also offer over 300 photography classes and workshops year-round. Varying in competency levels, these classes are all taught by esteemed photographers and lecturers, including some of the masters of the medium.