events and recreation
  boat tours
  canoe and kayak trips
  regatta
  anything that floats
planting on the parkway
dragon boat festival
history hikes
family nights
trash bash

   Visit Buffalo Bayou's newest park,

   The Sabine to Bagby Promenade!

   More information here.

  Find out what's happening along Houston's

  Buffalo Bayou in our calendar, Doings Down

  on The Bayou (pdf).

 

Upcoming Events



38th Annual Buffalo Bayou Regatta
Saturday, March 13, 2010

9am – Race Begins at San Felipe and Voss

11am-2pm – Finish line festivities at downtown’s Sesquicentennial Park

The Buffalo Bayou Partnership, a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing Houston’s historic waterway, invites all paddlers to join in the fun on Saturday, March 13 at the 38th annual Buffalo Bayou Regatta, Texas largest canoe and kayak race.

 

Whether you are entering competitively, or paddling for pleasure, we encourage you to participate in the 15-mile USCA-sanctioned race along the scenic Buffalo Bayou.

Start – 9am
7700 San Felipe (just west of Voss Street)


Finish – 11am-2pm – Finish line festivities
Downtown’s Sesquicentennial Park (Preston and Bagby streets, adjacent to the Wortham Theater)

Free live music, awards ceremony, a chance to cheer on the racers as they cross the finish line - food and drinks will be available for sale

>> Click here for online individual registration

>>Click here for Sponsorship Opportunities

>> Rules and Regulations

>> Canoe and Kayak Rental Vendors


>> Individual Registration (printed form) (PDF form)

For Regatta volunteer opportunities, please email Jessalyn Ballard at jballard@buffalobayou.org or 713.752.0314 ext. 4

For questions about this year’s Regatta, please contact Trudi Smith at tsmith@buffalobayou.org or 713.752.0314 ext. 3.

 

Breakfast and Birding on the Bayou, led by Glenn Olsen.

Sunday, March 21, 8:00am-12noon

20 person maximum

Leaving from Sabine Street boat launch

$55 per person (reservations required)

For more info or to reserve your spot call Trudi Smith at

713-752-0314 ext 3 or tsmith@buffalobayou.org

 

Past EVENTS:

 

SAVE THE DATE!

 

Thursday, November 5, 2009

On Downtown’s Historic Sabine Street Bridge

Buffalo Bayou Ball:  A Grassroots Gathering

Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s annual fundraising event

 

7 p.m.     Cocktails

8 p.m.     Dinner

Invitation to the Buffalo Bayou Ball-A Grassroots Gathering

Special thanks to our Buffalo Bayou Ball sponsors (as of invitation printing date)

 

Celebrating:     The Transformation of Houston’s Most Significant

                            Natural Resource … Buffalo Bayou

 

Honoring:           Local Landscape Visionaries

                            Guy Hagstette

                            Kevin Shanley

                            Johnny Steele

                            Charles Tapley

                            Click here honoree bios

 

Co-Chairing:      Local Landscape Leaders

                            Sis and Hasty Johnson

                            Mimi Lloyd

                            Leslye and David Weaver

 

For information and underwriting opportunities, please contact
Trudi Smith at (713) 752-0314, ext. 3 or tsmith@buffalobayou.org

 

Click here for ticket and table sponsor opportunities

 

Join Buffalo Bayou Partnership and the Houston Dynamo for a summer special soccer game on Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.! For every $15 ticket purchased on-line for this Houston Dynamo vs. Seattle Sounders game, $5 will go to Buffalo Bayou Partnership. What could be better than cheering for Houston’s orange Dynamo and helping to clean and green Buffalo Bayou at the same time?

 

 

 

 

To purchase tickets, please visit www.houstondynamo.com/bayou and then follow these instructions:

Password: BBAYOU09

  • Click on "Find Seats" link
  • Enter password in the Special Offer Code Box
  • Create an account on the right side of the page by entering your email address then clicking "Sign Up"
  • Enter Account information then click "Continue"
  • Check the agreement box and proceed to getting your tickets
  • Print your tickets

 

Houston Wilderness Nature Challenge

This summer, Houston Wilderness is inviting all wildlife adventurers to participate its Nature Challenge, where participants will discover parks, forests, historic sites, and recreation areas across the region while participating in fun activities and challenges – all for a chance to win cool prizes!

The participating 15 sites, which include Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s Tapley Tributary, will have a mission for each team to accomplish.

Map for Mission Possible Pick-up Location (pdf)

Mission Possible Mission (pdf)

Mission Possible Mission in Spanish (pdf)

Native and Invasive Species Fact Sheets (pdf)

For more information about the Nature Challenge, rules, and the complete list of missions, please visit:

http://essmextension.tamu.edu/naturechallenge/index.htm

 

But hurry! You must complete all 15 missions by August 8 for an awards celebration.

 


Bat Boat Tour with Wine and Cheese SOLD OUT!

Friday, July 31, 7:30-9:30pm
Led by Houston Birder, Glenn Olsen

Depart from Allen's Landing
$55 per person
(reservations required - limited seating)

Join Glenn Olsen, for a bat tour in style! In addition to watching the Waugh Bridge bat colony emerge at dusk, Glenn will share his environmental knowledge and identify the various wildlife and plants that call Houston's waterway home, as well as explain Buffalo Bayou's role and our city's ecological system.

For reservations, contact Trudi Smith at tsmith@buffalobayou.org or 713.752.0314 ext. 3.

 

Saturday, June 6, 10am-2pm
KBR Kids Day on Buffalo Bayou
Downtown’s Sabine Promenade
FREE

 

 


Sunday, May 31, 9am-noon
Birding and Learning about
Buffalo
Bend Nature Park

(Harris County Precinct 2 Park)
2300 S/Sgt Macario Garcia (at Avenue W)
(link to map)
$20 per person
(reservations are recommended)

Keep Buffalo Bayou wild!  Join birder and Houston Audubon Society member Glenn Olsen as he highlights the variety of birds at Buffalo Bend Nature Park in the East End along Buffalo Bayou.

In addition to exploring and identifying flora and fauna in this area, Scott Barnes, BBP’s Director of Conservation, will discuss what will be developed on this 10-acre site, known as Buffalo Bend Nature Park.  Scott will take you on a virtual walking tour of what to expect when the park is completed.  Central to the park’s design will be a system of three wetlands, linked by a meandering tributary, prairie and natural estuarine inlet.

Light beverages and refreshments will be provided.

For reservations, please call Trudi Smith at 713.752.0314 ext. 3 or e-mail tsmith@buffalobayou.org.

 

 

 

Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP) and Houston’s leading arts institutions announce Confluence Points of View on Buffalo Bayou, a multi-year contemporary art project that will introduce innovative public art within the environs of Houston’s historic waterway.  A series of talks to be held March-April kicks-off the initiative with artists:

Matthew Coolidge/The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Mark Dion, Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler, and Pedro Reyes.

The Artists Talks will introduce the selected artists past works and their proposals for Buffalo Bayou.  All artists have conducted site visits, presented preliminary ideas, and are in the research and development stage of their projects. 

Matthew Coolidge, The Center for Land Use Interpretation

Saturday, March 21, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Downstream:  A Center for Land use Interpretation Tour of Houston’s Water and Oil

Departs from Allen’s Landing (Commerce at Main)

CLUI founder/director Matthew Coolidge leads this custom-designed boat tour from downtown Houston to the San Jacinto Monument

$75 per person ($50 for students); includes lunch

Reservations:  713-752-0314, ext. 3

Mark Dion

Thursday, April 2, 7 p.m.

Freed Auditorium

Glassell School of Art, 5101 Montrose

Free Admission

 

Pedro Reyes

Tuesday, April 14, 6:30 p.m.

American General Conference Room

Messanine level – Audrey Jones Beck Building

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 5601 Main Street

Free Admission

Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Brichler

Thursday, April 16, 7 p.m.

Freed Auditorium

Glassell School of Art, 5101 Montrose

Free Admission

Click here for additional information

Confluence:  Points of View on Buffalo Bayou, a contemporary art project of Buffalo Bayou Partnership, introduces innovative public art within the environs of Houston’s historic waterway. In collaboration with the city’s leading arts institutions, Confluence is inviting regional, national and international artists to create temporary and permanent public artworks, integrated programming and special events in response to Buffalo Bayou’s history, environment and present-day use.

Confluence is funded in part by grants from the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance, and presented in collaboration with Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston; Consulate General of Mexico; Core Residency Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; The Latin Maecenas of the Latin American art department of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Menil Collection; and University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts. Continental Airlines is the official airline of Confluence.

 

Saturday, March 28, Noon

Artist’s Talk with the CLUI

Blaffer Gallery at University of Houston
www.blaffergallery.org

Matthew Coolidge will discuss the CLUI’s exhibition and programming in Houston.

In spring 2008, the CLUI was invited to Houston as the Mitchell Center’s first artist-in-residence. It worked with University of Houston students in the School of Art, College of Architecture and the Creative Writing Program, and it established a field station on the banks of Buffalo Bayou. The field station is on the site of a former junkyard, located near a metal scrap yard at the juncture of the bayou and the Port of Houston Ship Channel, an important nexus for the refining and transportation of oil in America. The CLUI used the confluence of the bayou and the ship channel as a point of departure for research and in the process uncovered curious and wondrous aspects of Houston that are often overlooked, even by those who live in the city. 

 

The CLUI is a research organization based in Culver City, Calif., involved in exploring, examining and understanding land and landscape issues. The CLUI employs a variety of methods to pursue its mission – engaging in research, classification, extrapolation and exhibition. Projects created by the CLUI are presented in the form of informational exhibitions, guided tours and an online database of sites across the country.

37th Annual Buffalo Bayou Regatta
Saturday, March 7, 2009


Texas
’ largest canoe and kayak race


The 15-mile race begins at San Felipe and Voss and
ends in downtown at Sesquicentennial Park
(adjacent to the Wortham Center)

Individual on-line registration will soon be available.

For additional in formation, e-mail Trudi Smith at
tsmith@buffalobayou.org or 713.752.0314 ext. 3

 

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The Center for Land Use Interpretation
Texas Oil: Landscape of an Industry

January 17 – March 29, 2009

For press release, read more here

 

 

 

 

 

 

Texas Oil: Landscape of an Industry
Calendar of Events

The exhibition and related events are presented by the
Mitchell Center and Blaffer Gallery in collaboration with Buffalo Bayou Partnership.

 

January 2009

 

January 17-March 29
Texas Oil: Landscape of an Industry

Blaffer Gallery at University of Houston
www.blaffergallery.org

The first major Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) in the Lone Star state includes photographs and informational texts covering approximately 50 Texas sites that frame the overarching story of how oil has sculpted the state’s terrain.  The exhibition begins with a 12-minute large-screen film with aerial shots of the oil refineries and petrochemical plants around the Ship Channel.

 

February 2009


Wednesday, February 4, noon

Brown Bag Gallery Tour

Blaffer Gallery at University of Houston
www.blaffergallery.org

Lunchtime guided tour of Texas Oil led by Dr. Donald Van Nieuwenhuise from the department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Houston.

Saturday, February 28, 10am-noon

Pontoon Boat Tour

www.buffalobayou.org
This CLUI-guided boat trip will begin at Allen’s Landing and head east for a chance to discover the beautiful “industrialscape” of the East End along Buffalo Bayou.

$25 per person ($15 for students)

18 person capacity
Reservations required – 713.752.0314 ext. 3

Saturday, February 28, *6-8pm (screening at 6:30pm)
Junkyard Drive-In: Texas Oil on Film screening and artist talk with CLUI
723 North Drennan Street
Free
www.buffalobayou.org
The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Buffalo Bayou Partnership and Aurora Picture Show present a drive-in screening of industrial and informational films on the subject of oil, at the site of a former auto junkyard on Buffalo Bayou. Pack your tailgate picnic, or buy dinner from the mobile taco stand, and then tune in your car radio to learn about the industry that makes Texas tick. Local brew provided by St. Arnold’s Brewery.

Junkyard Drive-In is part of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s new public art initiative, Confluence: Points of View on Buffalo Bayou,
a contemporary art project of Buffalo Bayou Partnership that initiates the creation of innovative public art and related programming on, along, and within the environs of Houston’s historic river, the Buffalo Bayou.

 

*5pm – join Bayou Buddies and Houston Young People for the Arts (HYPA) for a special preview reception – click here for details.

 March 2009

Sunday, March 1, 10am-noon

Pontoon Boat Tour

www.buffalobayou.org
This CLUI-guided boat trip will begin at Allen’s Landing and head east for a chance to discover the beautiful “industrialscape” of the East End along Buffalo Bayou.

$25 per person ($15 for students)

18 person capacity
Reservations required – 713.752.0314 ext. 3

Wednesday, March 11, 6pm
Contemporary Salon

Blaffer Gallery at University of Houston
www.blaffergallery.org

An evening of dialogue about the CLUI’s research.

 

Saturday, March 21, 9am-8pm
Downstream: A Center for Land Use Interpretation Tour of Houston’s Water and Oil

Allen’s Landing

www.buffalobayou.org

A custom-designed boat tour from downtown Houston to the San Jacinto Monument that includes encounters with the larger urban and industrial environments surrounding the bayou.  This tour will be led by CLUI’s founder and director Matthew Coolidge.

$75 per person ($50 for students)

50 person capacity

Reservations required – 713.752.0314 ext. 3

Cancellations must take place by March 7

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

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Photos courtesy of Jim Olive (www.stockyard.com) and

Mike Herrera