I love you
You’re my breathing castle
Gentle so gentle
We’ll live forever
Happy Mid-February, Framers! And happy love-celebration from myself and Richard Brautigan, whose poetry I’ve used to put you all in an endorphin-flooded brain state.* The images are mine, and they are potent reminders of the sweetness in my life (but, yes, I will have an overpriced truffle. Thank you so much). I invite you all to look for examples of couples of all kinds with strong connections – breathing, gentle, eternal, castle-building connections. It is a special kind of satisfying, and a reminder of the power of couples, duets, dyads. To slightly misquote an episode of Northern Exposure, one person can have a profound effect, but two people can change the world.
Find a second person. Do something together. Change the world.
Here are some suggestions for doing stuff in twos, threes, two twos, three twos and a one, you get it:
Tuesday February 12, 6:00 PM
Bullet Journal Workshop and Notebook Exchange
Tuesday February 12, 7:00-10:00 PM
Cafe Brasil – 2604 Dunlavy
Frida + Flowers: Galentines Craft and Movie Party
Wednesday February 13, 7:30-9:30 PM
Cafe Brasil – 2604 Dunlavy
BAD LOVE: A Dark Valentine’s Eve Reading and Open Mic
Hosted by Fuente Collective
Thursday February 14, 6:30-7:30 PM
Transitory Sound and Movement Collective presents
Abstraction in the Key of Yellow
Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston – 5216 Montrose
With choreography by Jen Mabus, TSMC member and Frame Dance Educator, this show features improvised music and choreography in the setting of feminist artist Cheryl Donegan’s printed and painted works currently on display the CAMH
Thursday February 14, 7:00-11:00 PM
Axelrad Beergarden – 1517 Alabama
Makeup to Breakup – Axelrad Valentine’s Party
First 50 single souls get Free Bubbly! (Hot Tip: my husband and I hooked up began our courtship at an Ain’t-Got-No-Valentine Valentine’s Day Party. You should go.)
Saturday February 16, 8:00 PM
Kaplan Theater, Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Houston – 5601 S Braeswood
Houston Choreographers X6 with Special Guest Uptown Dance Company
Featuring choreography by Frame Dance Educator Jen Mabus
Sunday February 17, 9:15-10:30 AM
Flatland Gallery – 1709 Westheimer
First the yoga. Then the mimosas. You’ve earned it.
Friday February 22, 7:30 PM
Aurora Picture Show – 2422 Bartlett
Screening of Lynn Sach’s Film Tip of My Tongue
Filmmaker in attendance. Part of the Powerful Vulnerable Series.
Saturday, February 23, 7-10 PM
Cafe Brasil – 2604 Dunlavy
*This quote, while loverly, is from “Once Upon a Valley,” which is not a very romantic poem. For something with legit passion, try “Gee, You’re So Beautiful That It’s Starting to Rain.”
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