Buffalo Bayou Partnership

Ecology Walking Tour
2018-05-19 10:30 - 11:30, 2018-06-16 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Chicago) | bird-grasshopper
Time: 10:30 to 11:30 am
Parking: City Lot H
Location: The Water Works at Buffalo Bayou Park (105 Sabine St.)
Enjoy a free walking tour in Buffalo Bayou Park highlighting the landscape and ecology of 19th century Texas that created Houston, as well as the importance of prairies in rebuilding this astonishing and all but vanished ecosystem.
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CANCELED: Ecology Walking Tour
2018-07-21 10:30 - 12:00 | bird-grasshopper
This walking tour has been canceled.

Time: 10:30 to 12:00 pm
Parking: City Lot H
Location: The Water Works at Buffalo Bayou Park (105 Sabine St.)
Enjoy a free walking tour in Buffalo Bayou Park highlighting the landscape and ecology of 19th century Texas that created Houston, as well as the importance of prairies in rebuilding this astonishing and all but vanished ecosystem.

Ecology Walking Tour
2018-09-15 10:30 - 12:00 | bird-grasshopper
Time: 10:30 to 12:00 pm
Parking: City Lot H
Location: The Water Works at Buffalo Bayou Park (105 Sabine St.)
Enjoy a free walking tour in Buffalo Bayou Park highlighting the landscape and ecology of 19th century Texas that created Houston, as well as the importance of prairies in rebuilding this astonishing and all but vanished ecosystem.
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Bayou City Music Series: "Soundtrack of the Gulf" (Rescheduled and new location)
2018-09-23 18:00 - 21:00 | Donate
NEW LOCATION: Please note we have moved Sunday’s event indoors to Emancipation Park Cultural Center (3018 Emancipation Avenue). Thank you!
Sunday, September 23 (Rescheduled from Saturday, September 15)
Market: 6-9pm
Concert: 7-9pm
Emancipation Park Cultural Center (3018 Emancipation Avenue)
Limited capacity
The Bayou City Music Series resumes this fall with free performances at Discovery Green, Emancipation Park and The Water Works in Buffalo Bayou Park. The concert series, made possible by the Kinder Foundation, honors the great jazz, blues and zydeco musicians of Houston and Southeast Texas.
The fall series kicks off with The Soundtrack of the Gulf. The great Port Arthur zydeco accordionist C.J. Chenier—son of the “King of Zydeco” Clifton Chenier—headlines this concert which features opening performances by vocalist Annika Chambers, an Iraq war veteran whose powerful voice blurs lines between jazz and blues, and Archie Bell, former lead singer of Archie Bell & The Drells, whose early funk single “Tighten Up” topped Billboard’s R&B and pop charts in 1968.
This event will include a market featuring local vendors with original products and will be open beginning at 6pm and throughout the concert.
Parking options: Parking available on Tuam and Hutchins streets

Meditation Mondays
2018-10-01 18:30 - 19:00 | bird-grasshopper
Buffalo Bayou Partnership introduces free Mediation Mondays at Buffalo Bayou Park every Monday, from 6:30-7pm, through October and November! Start your week off with intention and focus. Practice mindfulness and meditation in one of the most tranquil green spaces in all of Houston – Meditation Mondays at The Water Works in Buffalo Bayou Park led by Dana Shamas of Bayou Bliss Yoga.
No time to change after work? No problem! Come as you are. No certain attire required to participate.

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2018 KBR Kids Day
2018-10-13 11:00 - 15:00 | Bat Boat Tour
KBR Kids Day is one of Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s (BBP) signature events, with thousands of children and their families in attendance each year. Join us on October 13 for free family fun at the 12th annual KBR Kids Day at Guadalupe Plaza Park. Activity stations will include numerous hands-on activities from over 20 Houston partners, local entertainment and performers, Dia de los Muertos face painters, balloon artists, a rock climbing wall, and so much more! Costumes encouraged!
Additionally, we will also have a birds of prey show and a Halloween Costume Parade.
Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
Guadalupe Plaza Park is located at the corner of Jensen St. and Navigation Blvd.
View photos from KBR Kids Day 2017!

Parking
Free parking located across the street, on the corner of Jensen St. and Navigation Blvd., across from Guadalupe Plaza Park.

Performance Schedule:
11am: Birds of Prey Show presented by Friends of Brazoria Wildlife Refuges
11:40am: Break Free Hip-Hop School
12:05pm: Sunrise International Dance Company
12:20pm: Vietnamese Martial Art
12:30pm: Costume Parade
12:45pm: Houston Grand Opera – Sing! Move! Play!
1:15pm: Anjali Center for Performing Arts
1:45pm: Compania Folklorica Alegria Mexicana
2:15pm: Birds of Prey Show presented by Friends of Brazoria Wildlife Refuges

Additional Activities
1-3pm: Say hello to Texans TORO as he joins in the festivities throughout the park
1-1:50pm: TBH presents “Bocón,” one of the 18-19 season of plays for the program EducaTeatro “Calavera con Calavera,” a Día de los Muertos play produced by Teatro Índigo (on the Talento Bilingue de Houston stage, indoors)
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Emerge: Fluvial Tapestries from Hurricane Harvey Opening Reception
2018-10-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Monthly Volunteer Day
Join us for an opening reception of “Emerge: Fluvial Tapestries from Hurricane Harvey” on Friday, October 26.
Fluvial Tapestries is an art installation exhibiting and interpreting the natural effects of Hurricane Harvey on Buffalo Bayou in the form of sculptural objects, video, and explanatory illustrations. The work is an artistic and scientific collaboration between artist Kate Kendall, geologist Jerry Kendall, and their communities.
Fluvial Tapestries presents a natural narrative of Hurricane Harvey in relation to Buffalo Bayou’s water levels and the sediment deposits left after the storm.
When: Friday, October 26 from 6-8pm
Where: Sunset Coffee Building (1019 Commerce Street)
Buffalo Bayou is an ever-evolving fundamental feature of Houston. It has and always will change and adapt to its surroundings. The exhibition Emerge: Fluvial Tapestries presents a natural narrative of Hurricane Harvey in relation to Buffalo Bayou’s water levels and the sediment deposits left after the storm.
From October 2017 to June 2018, a team of artists and geologists working with Buffalo Bayou Partnership and the University of Houston Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences collected 12 sand peels from sediment deposits left by Harvey in Buffalo Bayou Park. A sand peel is a geologic science tool used to capture and read sediment deposit patterns. These natural sand tapestries are a record of Buffalo Bayou’s reactions to Hurricane Harvey. The layers tell the story of flooding, adjustment, and recovery from the storm.
The exhibition will be on view from October 26 through November 6, 2018 at Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s Sunset Coffee Building (weekdays from 9am-5pm and weekends from 12-4pm).
This project is funded in part by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.

Recycled Bottle LED Labyrinth
Also on view Friday October 26, 2018, join public artist/labyrinth builder Reginald Adams as he creates a unique LED light labyrinth using discarded plastic water bottles that have been pulled from Buffalo Bayou.

The labyrinth, an ancient pathway to prayer and meditation, has a single circuitous path that winds its way into the center. The person walking it uses the same path to return from the center, as the entrance then becomes the exit. The path is in full view, which allows a person to be quiet and focus internally.
The labyrinth project helps bring awareness to the need for recycling in order to keep our waterways clean and free of debris and trash.
As you walk the path of the labyrinth we hope that you will focus on ways in which you can help keep our bayous and water systems clean and healthy for future generations.

#RunBuffaloBayou: East
2019-06-01 07:45 - 09:30 | Cistern
Lace up your running shoes and explore the East End of Houston on foot with Buffalo Bayou Partnership and the Houston Maritime Museum! This 4-mile run led by Matthew Doyen of the Houston Maritime Museum and Saurabh Chagule of the #RunBuffaloBayou Running Group will be an all-levels group run where we will make intermittent stops to learn about historical sites in the East End.
Our last stop on the run will be La Familia Meat Market to grab some authentic East End breakfast tacos!
All runners will get free admission on June 1 to the Houston Maritime Museum. We will meet at 7:45am and leave promptly at 8am.SCAN0032

Birding with the Bats
2019-09-27 19:30 - 21:00 | Public Art
Join Alisa Kline, a Texas Master Naturalist, for an evening of birding along Buffalo Bayou at Waugh Drive Bridge where a colony of more than 250,000 Mexican free-tailed bats resides. Find out which birds and other critters are attracted to the bats during their nightly emergence. We cannot guarantee hawks will be on the job, but make sure to bring your binoculars. It will be hard to catch the action without them!
Meet at the Waugh Bridge Bat Colony Observation Deck (Allen Parkway at Waugh Drive).
This program is part of Houston Bird Week.

Unsilent Night
2019-12-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Buffalo Bayou East
Join Buffalo Bayou Partnership and the University of Houston-Downtown for Unsilent Night! Experience this festive and interactive holiday event in the great outdoors. Unsilent Night is a sound sculpture created when many individuals simultaneously play one of four music tracks by composer Phil Kline. The procession will be leaving from UHD down to the trails along Buffalo Bayou around 7pm.

Prior to the procession, enjoy hot chocolate and Bayou Blend coffee from Katz Coffee, local brew from Saint Arnold Brewing Company and holiday cookies. Invite family and friends for holiday cheer with Santa and Mrs. Claus, kids crafts and music with Atascocita High School Forte Choir. This event is free, but please RSVP.

Schedule:

6pm: Check-in and festive holiday reception on the UHD Terrace

7pm: Procession departs from UHD (1 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002)

8pm: After Party at The Cottonmouth Club with drink specials! (108 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002)

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Turntable Tuesdays
2021-09-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-10-12 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-11-09 19:00 - 21:00 | bird-grasshopper
Every second Tuesday in September, October and November is Turntable Tuesday at The Water Works in Buffalo Bayou Park! Join Gracie Chávez + Ilya Janos of Bombón, The ARE, and Josh Zulu as they spin themed music on the bayou. The Long Drink Company will also be on hand providing samples for attendees 21 and over.

Turntable Tuesdays is presented in collaboration with Time No Longer, the film and sound installation in the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, on view through December 12.

“Two For” Turntable Tuesday! Purchase a ticket to view Time No Longer during the event and get a ticket for free! BOGO ticket offer is valid for the following dates and times: 10/12 and 11/9 at 7pm, 7:30pm, 8pm and 8:30pm.

Turntable Tuesday is sponsored by

Generous support for Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s Fall/Winter 2021 Programs provided by Vivian L. Smith Foundation. BBP is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.
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Bugstock
2021-09-25 16:00 - 21:00 | FullSizeRender-2
Join Buffalo Bayou Partnership for Bugstock at Yolanda Black Navarro Buffalo Bend Nature Park on September 25. Enjoy an evening of bug-inspired activities, music, and plant giveaways.
The event will also feature the Love Motel for Insects, an interactive sculpture by Brandon Ballengée (pictured below) created during the artist’s residency with the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.

Generous support for Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s Fall/Winter 2021 Programs provided by Vivian L. Smith Foundation. BBP is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.
Bugstock is hosted in conjunction with the High Line’s Insectageddon, a day-long festival featuring site-specific programming at sites throughout the world.
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Jazzy Sundays in the Park (Buffalo Bayou Park)
2021-11-14 16:00 - 18:00, 2021-11-28 16:00 - 18:00 | bird-grasshopper
Jazzy Sundays in the Park include free performances at Emancipation Park (September), Discovery Green (October) and The Water Works in Buffalo Bayou Park (November). The concert series, made possible by the Kinder Foundation, celebrates the legacy and evolution of jazz in Houston.
Feel free to bring your own picnic, blanket, and lawn chairs. Food and drinks will be available for purchase. Order a picnic basket from A Bayou City Picnic by Friday at noon, and they’ll donate 12.5% back to Buffalo Bayou Partnership!

Past:
Sunday, November 7, 2021:
Headliner: David Caceres
Opener: Horace Grigsby

Sunday, November 14, 2021:
Headliner: Jewel Brown
Opener: RADS Krusaders

Upcoming:
Sunday, November 28, 2021:
Headliner: Crystal Thomas
Opener: Eastside Kings Featuring Orange Jefferson
Free Registration

CANCELED: Jazzy Sundays in the Park (Buffalo Bayou Park)
2021-11-21 16:00 - 18:00 | bird-grasshopper
Due to inclement weather, this event is canceled. We hope to see you for the final Jazzy Sunday on November 28!

Jazzy Sundays in the Park include free performances at Emancipation Park (September), Discovery Green (October) and The Water Works in Buffalo Bayou Park (November). The concert series, made possible by the Kinder Foundation, celebrates the legacy and evolution of jazz in Houston.
Feel free to bring your own picnic, blanket, and lawn chairs. Food and drinks will be available for purchase. Order a picnic basket from A Bayou City Picnic by Friday at noon, and they’ll donate 12.5% back to Buffalo Bayou Partnership!

CANCELED:
Sunday, November 21, 2021:
Headliner: The Peterson Brothers
Opener: Keesha Pratt

UPCOMING:
Sunday, November 28, 2021:
Headliner: Crystal Thomas
Opener: Eastside Kings Featuring Orange Jefferson

Night Light
2022-04-02 19:30 - 22:00 | TX
Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP) and Aurora Picture Show present Night Light, an evening of free video art along a ¾ mile stretch of Buffalo Bayou East trails. Houston artists Julia Barbosa-Landois, Marcelese Cooper, and Input/Output have been commissioned to create new, site-specific, media art works for a landing, an understructure of a bridge, and decommissioned gravel silos along the waterfront. These works, along with music and community food trucks and vendors, will be connected by paved pathways for walking and biking. Join us any time between 7:30 and 10pm for this festive, uniquely Houston experience!
Registration is encouraged, but not required.
Interested in volunteering? View shifts and fill out the form here.

Parking:
Parking is located on Canal St., east of Jensen Dr. There is also street parking along Bayou Parkview/Kennedy Dr. to Middle St. View the parking map here.

Night Light locations:
Trail entrances are located 333 S. Jensen Dr. or 700 N. Live Oak St.

Night Light is generously supported by the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation. Buffalo Bayou Partnership is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.

Free Registration

Piano in the Park
2022-04-03 16:00 - 18:00, 2022-04-10 16:00 - 18:00, 2022-05-01 16:00 - 18:00, 2022-05-08 16:00 - 18:00 | bird-grasshopper
Join Buffalo Bayou Partnership for a melodious afternoon! Multitalented pianist, Ben Chavez, brings his musical gifts to Buffalo Bayou with Piano in the Park, a series of Sunday “piano bar” performances at The Water Works.
Bring a picnic and let Ben serenade you with your favorite songs he will be taking requests! This event is free, but we’d love to know you’re coming. Register on our website. Ben Chavez is an accomplished piano/vocal entertainer and Broadway actor who returned to Houston this past year. Ben has recently performed with the Radio City Rockettes and in several national tours of Broadway productions.

in honor of Mother’s Day, BBP is offering a special perk: make a tax-deductible donation of $150 or more by Friday, May 6th and receive reserved seating and complimentary bubbly beverage (sparkling wine or water) for mom at Piano in the Park. Learn more about “Music for Mom” here.
Free Registration

Healing and Wellness Talk and Walk
2022-05-04 17:30 - 20:00 | bird-grasshopper
In conjunction with Mental Awareness Month, join Karena Dawn, co-founder of fitness company, Tone It Up, for a reading and book signing. Dawn’s new memoir, The Big Silence: A Daughter’s Memoir of Mental Illness and Healing, shares the story of her journey from hopelessness to healing. The reading will be followed by a Wellness Walk in Buffalo Bayou Park led by Laura Conley of Urban Paths.

Schedule of events:
5:30pm: Book reading and signing
6:30pm: Wellness Walk

This event is free of charge and in partnership with Urban Paths. Registration is recommended.
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Busy Bees on Buffalo Bayou
2022-06-04 09:00 - 11:00 | FullSizeRender-2
Did you know there are about 35,000 honeybees in a hive? Get up close and watch bees in action through an observatory beehive. Learn the role of bees in a colony, how honey is made, the life span of a bee, and so much more! Robby Robinson, BBP’s Field Operations Manager, who has nearly 50 years of experience beekeeping, will share his knowledge about raising bees along Buffalo Bayou.
Then, we’ll buzz over to another area for some kids crafts fun!
In addition to overseeing BBP’s Clean & Green program, Robby Robinson is 4th generation beekeeper with nearly 50 years of experience in beekeeping.
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Make Music Day Houston: Buffalo Bayou Park
2022-06-21 12:00 - 21:00 | bird-grasshopper
In connection with Make Music Houston, Buffalo Bayou Partnership presents a free musical celebration of summer solstice in Buffalo Bayou Park! From jazz to salsa, the lineup will have something for everyone to enjoy. Feel free to bring blankets and lawn chairs. Picnics are welcome, and food and drink will also be available for purchase throughout the day.
SCHEDULE:
12-1pm: The Jalen Baker Trio, DACAMERA Young Artist Jazz Ensemble-in-Residence
Featuring Jalen Baker, vibraphone; with Nils Aardahl on bass and Gavin Moolchan on drums. The members of the trio are the first emerging Houston-based jazz musicians to join DACAMERA’s Young Artist Program, which seeks to encourage musicians to develop the skills necessary to become passionate, forward-thinking, and community-focused “citizen artists.”
1:30-2:30pm: Jared Chapman
Enjoy Jared’s blues vocals accompanied by his acoustic guitar and drumbeat.
3-4pm: Monarch Chamber Players
Enjoy the classical sounds of the Monarch Chamber Players, a collective of Houston-based professional musicians committed to taking chamber music out of the concert hall and into accessible community spaces.
7-9pm: La Tribu Cubana
Get ready to move to the beat of Cuban salsa music with Charlie Perez and La Tribu Cubana. This trio is one of Houston’s premier Cuban bands, mixing both inspiring traditional Son-Montuno and modern Timba with funky, rhythmic, drum-breaks. Accompanying dancers are part of the ensemble.
First celebrated in 1982, and now observed in more than 1,000 cities, Make Music Day is an international observance open to anyone who wants to take part. Every kind of musician — young and old, amateur and professional, of every musical persuasion — pours onto porches, patios, neighborhoods to share their music with friends, neighbors, and strangers. All of it is free and open to the public. RSVP here.
RSVP for La Tribu Cubana

Free Fitness Class with Propel
2022-07-09 09:00 - 09:45, 2022-07-09 10:00 - 10:30 | Houston, Texas Dog Parks You Furry Buddy Will Love
A variety of free fitness classes in Buffalo Bayou Park with Propel. These classes will take place at the Lawn at Tapley Tributary

Saturday, 7/9: Zumba (9-9:45am) and Taking Up Space! (10-10:30am)
Sunday, 7/10: Body Gratitude Slow Flow (9-9:45am) and Zumba Party (10-10:30am)
Saturday, 7/16: Zumba (9-9:45am) and Embrace the Space! (10-10:30am)
Sunday, 7/17: Dance and Tone (9-9:45am) and Abs for Days! (10-10:30am)
Saturday, 7/23: Building Foundations: Core Strength (9-9:45am) and Soul + Nature (10-10:30am)
Sunday: 7/24: Terry’s HIIT Workout (9-9:45am) and Full Body HIIT (10-10:30am)
Saturday, 7/30: DHF HUSTLE (8:30-9:15am) and Zumba Party (10:15-11am)
Sunday, 7/31: Zumba Party (8:30-9:15am) and Grow Your Flow (10:15-11am)
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Free Fitness Class with Propel
2022-07-09 09:30 - 10:15, 2022-07-09 10:30 - 11:15 | Houston, Texas Dog Parks You Furry Buddy Will Love
A variety of fitness classes in Buffalo Bayou Park with Propel. These classes will take place at the Houston Chronicle Meadow.

Saturday, 7/9: Terry’s HIIT Workout (9:30-10:15am) and DHF HUSTLE (10:30-11:15am)
Sunday, 7/10: Full Body HIIT (9:30-10:15am) and Build Your Foundations (10:30-11am)
Saturday, 7/16: Attack Mode! (9:30-10am) and Barre Sculpt (10:30-11am)
Sunday, 7/17: Abs for Days! (9:30-10am) and DHF HUSTLE (10:30-11am)
Saturday, 7/23: Terry’s HIIT Workout (9:30-10:15am) and Arms & Abs (10:30-11am)
Sunday: 7/24: Abs for Days! (9:30-10:15am) and Energizing Flow (10:30-11am)
Saturday, 7/30: The Body Blitz (9:30-10am) and Zumba Party (10:15-11am)
Sunday, 7/31: HoodFit HIIT (9:30-10am) and Grow Your Flow (10:15-11am)
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