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Visit Buffalo Bayou's newest park,
The Sabine to Bagby Promenade!
Find out what's happening along Houston's
Buffalo Bayou in our calendar, Doings Down
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Upcoming Events
11am-2pm – Finish line festivities at downtown’s Sesquicentennial Park
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
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 >> Canoe and Kayak Rental Vendors
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
Co-Chairing: Local Landscape Leaders Sis and Hasty Johnson Mimi Lloyd Leslye and David Weaver
For information and underwriting opportunities, please contact
Click here for ticket and table sponsor opportunities
To purchase tickets, please visit www.houstondynamo.com/bayou and then follow these instructions: Password: BBAYOU09
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.
Friday, July 31, 7:30-9:30pm
Saturday, June 6, 10am-2pm
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. 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.
Saturday, March 28, Noon Artist’s Talk with the CLUI Blaffer Gallery at University of Houston 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
For additional in formation, e-mail Trudi Smith at
__________________________________ The Center for Land Use Interpretation For press release, read more here
Texas Oil: Landscape of an Industry The exhibition and related events are presented by the
January 2009
January 17-March 29 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
Brown Bag Gallery Tour Blaffer Gallery at University of Houston 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. Pontoon Boat Tour www.buffalobayou.org $25 per person ($15 for students) 18 person capacity Saturday, February 28, *6-8pm (screening at 6:30pm)
*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 $25 per person ($15 for students) 18 person capacity Wednesday, March 11, 6pm Blaffer Gallery at University of Houston An evening of dialogue about the CLUI’s research.
Saturday, March 21, 9am-8pm 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
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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? 
