Life is Living: Houston

Life is Living: Houston

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 Houstons 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 Houston's Third Ward.

Life Is Living: Houston is part of the Mitchell Centers multi-year residency with performer, poet, and choreographer Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Local organizing partners include Meta-Four Houston, Project Row Houses, Aerosol Warfare, The Awakenings Movement, CKC StART Street & Urban Arts, Community Artists Collective, DiverseWorks, The Last Organic Outpost, the Houston Museum of African American Culture, MOCAH, New Living, S.H.A.P.E. Community Center, 3 Sisters in the Spirit Ministries, SPAMMO, Tour de Hood, Workshop Houston, Houston Green Scene, Urban Harvest, Youth Advocates, and various programs at the University of Houston including the School of Theatre & Dance, C.L.A.S.P., MVP and the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture.

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. Previous cities include Oakland, CA; Harlem, NY; and Chicago, IL.

• Location: Emancipation Park (corner of Dowling and Elgin Streets)
• Price: Free
• Sponsor: Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts
• Contact: Nicole Laurent at nclaurent@uh.edu.