Sound Healing Meditation
2026-04-26 10:00 - 10:45, 2026-05-03 10:00 - 10:45, 2026-05-16 10:00 - 10:45, 2026-05-17 10:00 - 10:45, 2026-05-23 10:00 - 10:45, 2026-05-24 10:00 - 10:45, 2026-05-30 10:00 - 10:45, 2026-05-31 10:00 - 10:45 (America/Chicago) and 7 more dates | BUFFALO BAYOU PARK CISTERN, 105 Sabine Street, Houston, TX, 77007, United States
Step into a deeper stillness inside the spacious and tranquil Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern.
Offered in collaboration with UNIONisCREATION™, this meditation and sound experience invites guests into a space of resonance, restoration, and inner alignment. Through gentle vibrations of singing bowls, wind chimes, and a gong, along with guided awareness, participants are supported in reconnecting body and mind.
This series is more than meditation – it is a practice of listening, feeling, and returning to center within one of Houston’s most iconic, immersive spaces. Each session unfolds as a shared moment of reflection, connection, and sound-guided stillness.
Guests should bring their own cushions or mats. No food or drinks are allowed inside the Cistern.
Cost: $20
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Undercurrents with Nick Flynn: Poetry Reading and Cistern Visit
2026-04-30 18:30 - 19:30 | THE WATER WORKS, 105 Sabine Street, Houston, TX, 77007, United States
Experience an evening of poetry and immersive art with acclaimed writer Nick Flynn, presented in conjunction with Undercurrents by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. The program begins with a reading on the terrace above the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, followed by a guided tour of the installation—offering a unique opportunity to experience the artwork alongside the poet’s words.
Stay tuned – more readings to come.
Cost
$20
Duration
6:30-7:30 PM / 1 hour
Location
The reading begins on the Wortham Insurance Terrace above the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern. (105-B Sabine St)

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About Nick Flynn
Nick Flynn teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. His most recent book is Low (Graywolf, 2023). His book Stay (Ze Books, 2020) chronicles his work with other artists (filmmakers, visual artists, musicians, etc) over the past twenty-five years. His bestselling memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton, 2004) was made into a film starring Robert DeNiro (Focus Features, 2012) and has been translated into fifteen languages.

Sunset Poetry with Undercurrents: Aris Kian
2026-06-04 18:30 - 19:30 | THE WATER WORKS, 105 Sabine Street, Houston, TX, 77007, United States
Enjoy an evening of poetry and immersive art, presented in conjunction with Undercurrents by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern. The night begins with a poetry reading by one of the acclaimed writers who contributed to the installation and drinks and light bites on the terrace. Then, descend into the Cistern for a unique opportunity to experience Undercurrents with the writers.
Cost
$15
Duration
6:30-7:30 PM / 1 hour
Location
The reading begins on the Wortham Insurance Terrace above the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern. (105-B Sabine St)

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About Aris Kian
Aris Kian (she/her) is a Houston enthusiast and student of abolition. Her poems are published with Button Poetry, West Branch, Obsidian Lit, and elsewhere. As an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow, she received her MFA from the University of Houston. Her team Smoke Slam coached by Ebony Stewart ranked #1 at the 2025 Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam and #1 at the 2024 Southern Fried Poetry Slam. She previously served as the 2023-2025 Houston Poet Laureate and was chosen as a 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow.

Sunset Poetry with Undercurrents: Martha Serpas
2026-09-17 18:30 - 19:30 | THE WATER WORKS, 105 Sabine Street, Houston, TX, 77007, United States
Enjoy an evening of poetry and immersive art, presented in conjunction with Undercurrents by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern. The night begins with a poetry reading by one of the acclaimed writers who contributed to the installation and drinks and light bites on the terrace. Then, descend into the Cistern for a unique opportunity to experience Undercurrents with the writers.
Cost
$15
Duration
6:30-7:30 PM / 1 hour
Location
The reading begins on the Wortham Insurance Terrace above the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern. (105-B Sabine St)

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About Martha Serpas
Martha Serpas, a native of Galliano, Louisiana, produced the documentary Veins in the Gulf, which addresses the state’s land loss and coastal erosion crisis. Her four volumes of poetry include Côte Blanche, The Dirty Side of the Storm, The Diener, and Double Effect. Her poems appear in anthologies focused on ecological, religious, formal, or Southern poetry. A graduate of Yale Divinity School, she has worked as a hospital chaplain, most recently as part of a psilocybin trial for patients at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. At the Tilman J. Fertitta College of Medicine, she co-directs the Scripts program, an initiative to bring creative writers and medical students together around literature and medicine. She teaches poetry writing, consciousness studies, theology, and ecopoetry in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.

Sunset Poetry with Undercurrents: Roberto Tejada
2026-10-22 18:30 - 19:30 | THE WATER WORKS, 105 Sabine Street, Houston, TX, 77007, United States
Enjoy an evening of poetry and immersive art, presented in conjunction with Undercurrents by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern. The night begins with a poetry reading by one of the acclaimed writers who contributed to the installation and drinks and light bites on the terrace. Then, descend into the Cistern for a unique opportunity to experience Undercurrents with the writers.
Cost
$15
Duration
6:30-7:30 PM / 1 hour
Location
The reading begins on the Wortham Insurance Terrace above the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern. (105-B Sabine St)

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About Roberto Tejada
Roberto Tejada is the author of poetry collections that include Mirrors for Gold (Krupskaya, 2006), Exposition Park (Wesleyan, 2010), Why the Assembly Disbanded (Fordham, 2022), and Carbonate of Copper (Fordham, 2025), longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. His writings on art and media history include National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment (Minnesota, 2009), his work on the groundbreaking Mexican American artist Celia Alvarez Muñoz (UCLA/CSRC; Minnesota, 2009) and essay collections on Latin American and Latinx art and culture Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness (Noemi, 2019), and the forthcoming Along the Diagonal: Art / Essays / América (Fordham, 2026). Awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Poetry (2021) he is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston where he teaches Creative Writing and Art History.
