Buffalo Bayou Partnership

Sound Healing Meditation
2025-05-04 10:00 - 10:45, 2025-05-07 18:00 - 18:45, 2025-05-10 10:00 - 10:45, 2025-05-11 10:00 - 10:45, 2025-05-14 18:00 - 18:45, 2025-05-17 10:00 - 10:45, 2025-05-18 10:00 - 10:45, 2025-05-21 18:00 - 18:45 (America/Chicago) and 16 more dates | BUFFALO BAYOU PARK CISTERN, 105 Sabine Street, Houston, TX, 77007, United States
Find your center and practice meditation in the spacious and tranquil Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern. Offered in collaboration with Union is Creation, this meditation series will feature the use of singing bowls and wind chimes to encourage mindfulness and connectivity.
Guests should bring their own cushions or mats. No food or drinks are allowed inside the Cistern.
Cost: $20
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La Experiencia de la Cisterna en Español y English Bilingual
2025-06-07 13:00 - 13:30, 2025-06-21 13:00 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
Great for first time and repeat visitors alike, the Experiential Tour includes an introduction followed by an opportunity to explore the Cistern independently.
Excelente para los visitantes nuevos como para los que repiten, el recorrido experiencial incluye una introducción seguida de la oportunidad de explorar la Cisterna a su propio ritmo.
Tenga en cuenta: No se permiten niños menores de 9 años.
Cost

Individual (9+ yrs old): $15
Military, Seniors, Students: $12

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Underground Sounds: Sarah Grace Graves
2025-06-19 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-20 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-21 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-22 18:00 - 20:00 UTC
Tickets are now SOLD OUT for this Underground Sounds performance. An in-person, first-come, first-served waiting list will begin exactly 30 minutes prior to each performance time.
Join us for Underground Sounds, a unique music series in the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern!
This year, the series features national and international artists presenting compositions inspired by the vast, unique architecture of the Cistern and arranged especially for its extraordinary natural acoustics.

About This Program

Three Names is an adaptation of Vespro, a program Graves presented in Rome in July 2023 atop the Palatine Hill, now reimagined for the cavernous Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern. The work was inspired by her 2022 performance for the Scelsi Foundation, honoring soprano Michiko Hirayama, a longtime collaborator of experimental composer Giacinto Scelsi. Hirayama, who moved to Rome from Japan after World War II, had a remarkable career spanning opera, traditional Japanese music, Roman free improvisation, and Gregorian chant, embodying an extraordinary vocal and stylistic range. This adaptation draws from Hirayama’s fascination with chant and Graves’s personal connections to spirituality and experimental music, exploring vastness, interiority, and harmony between past and future selves.

Cost: $25
Performance Times:

June 19 at 6pm and 7:30pm SOLD OUT
June 20 at 6pm and 7:30pm SOLD OUT
June 21 at 6pm and 7:30pm SOLD OUT
June 22 at 6pm and 7:30pm SOLD OUT

Each performance is 45 minutes.

About the Artist
Sarah Grace Graves is a composer and vocal performer working at the intersection between ritual and recital. From 2020-2022 she studied voice with Nicholas Isherwood while conducting an artistic residency in Paris at the Fondation des États-Unis on interdisciplinary collaboration with voice. Recent projects include Breath Atlas, a musical archipelago of papyrus fragments by Sappho, and Love Letter, a reworking of Monteverdi’s Lettera Amorosa inspired by an unattributed recording from the Scelsi archive. With Eda Er, Graves forms the other half of Sada, a voice/electronics duo charting the storytelling capacities of experimental and improvised music. An alumna of the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship, the Michiko Hirayama Scholarship, Voix Nouvelles Academy of the Royaumont Foundation, and Rice University, she is now a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley.

Tickets & Availability
Ticket release dates for this set of performances are listed above. For release dates for future performances, please check the Underground Sounds page. We recommend marking the ticket release dates and times on your calendar as tickets will sell out quickly.
Waitlist
For any additional guests wishing to attend a sold-out performance, we will be taking an in-person first-come-first-served waiting list beginning exactly 30 minutes before each performance time.
Ticket Refunds
All ticket purchases are final and non-refundable. Your purchase supports the work of Buffalo Bayou Partnership.

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