The new Hear Our Houston app is available here!
It makes finding, hearing, and creating tours easy on the go!Thanks to Locacious and Robert Miles Kemp.
suits by Thuy-Linh Cornett and photo by Lillie Monstrum
The Human Tour 2013
Carrie Schneider and Alex Tu are walking the route laid out in 1987 in Michael Galbreth's The Human Tour.
Join us for any or all of ten walks variously scheduled from February 10- March 10, 2013 as we complete the entire route.
Our arrival party is 7pm, Sunday, March 10th, 2013 at Natachee's on Main Street. Join us for a parade, video screening, and ceremony to transfer the suits from functional cover to artifacts of our odyssey.
The Human Tour: An Anthropomorphic
Route Through The City of Houston
1987 - , by Michael Galbreth
The Human Tour 2013
in the Press
Houston Press
-Meredith Deliso
Offcite
-Edward S. Garza
Glasstire
-Regina Agu
KPFT Living Art
-Michael Woodson (Feb 14)
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CARB_LOAD_BRUNCH_LAUNCH
Join us for brunch with Michael Galbreth, originator of The Human Tour in 1987, 11am Natachee's 3622 Main Street
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David Collins graced us with his wide and varied experience as a Latin professor, |
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Walk 5 6am Thursday, February 21
HALF WAY THERE!
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Walk 6
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Sunday we step to the beat of this playlist created for Walk 6 by DJ, ethnomusicologist, and photographer Flash Gordon Parks
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Walk 7
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Cheryl Beckett's UH design classes / grocery and weapon stores / |
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Mid Main Block Party Thursday, March 7, 5-10pm
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Walk 10
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The Human Tour 2013 is funded by Houston Arts Alliance individual artist grant awarded to Carrie Schneider
I recently traveled to New York to check out Big Onion walking tours,
meet with Todd Shalom of Elastic City artist led conceptual walks,
and to work with the developers of Locacious, a walking tour app for iphones.
From Project Row Houses to Lanier Middle School to Meadow Wood Elementary- and describing all imaginable neighborhoods in between- Hear Our Houston is proud have focused this Spring on hosting the work of young writers!
Neighborhood map by Veean
Inprint's workshops at Project Row Houses after school program taught by Ryler Dustin, Bryanda Minix, and Ifeanyichuku Nwosu Okoro II (Res) bring us PRH Grade School Inprint Writing Workshop and PRH Middle School Inprint Writing Workshop.
Writers in the Schools writer in residence Sara Cooper's seventh grade writers bring us Loving the Noise and other Houston Tales, Houses of Herons and other Bayou City Scenes, and From Small and Quiet to Mind-Boggling Wonders.
Writers in the Schools writer in residence Stephanie Hruzek's third grade writers bring us 2012 Time Capsule.
Thank you all for the amazing tours!
Hear Our Houston on Living Art, 90.1 KPFT Houston: Click Here to listen to a live radio mixtape of Hear Our Houston tours featuring Robert Hodge, Raj Mankad, Keith Reynolds, Alex Luster and Daniel Anguilu, Yuna Booyoung, and Lara Appleby.
Carrie Schneider Awarded 2012 Idea Fund Grant
to bring 20 new Hear Our Houston tours to life
Here's what we've been reading and researching lately:
The Situationists and the City: A Reader
edited by Tom McDonough
"From being the site of alienated labor and passive consumption, the city was reformulated as the locus of a potential reciprocity and community, the crucial spacial stake of any project of radical transformation."
You can read an excerpt from Internationale Situationniste #4, published in 1960 here.
The Sole of Houston
by John Nova Lomax
A Houston Press series chronicling John Nova Lomax and David Beebe's long ass treks across our concrete prairies.
Richmond Avenue, Houston's Street of Dreamz
Richmond Avenue, Houston's Street of Dreamz
Francis Alÿs Postcards
Francis Alÿs is one of my favorite artists whose deep obcservation of pedestrians leads to inspiring tricskter acts.
Rebecca Solnit's Wanderlust: A History of Walking
"Walking...is how the body measures itself against the earth...an activity essentially unimproved since the dawn of time...If there is a history of walking, then it too has come to a place where the road falls off, a place where there is no public space and the lanscape is being paved over, where leisure is shrinking and being crushed under the anxiety to produce, where bodies are not in the world but only indoors in cars and buildings..In this context, walking is asubversive detour, the scenic route through a half-abandoned landscape of ideas and experiences."
Cite Magazine: the architecture and design review of Houston is a quarterly
publication that, since 1982, has mixed an appreciation of high design with a shot of
down and dirty civic engagement. Also check out the Rice Design Alliance's OffCite blog.
As part of Carrie Schneider's residency at Project Row Houses, new Hear Our Houston tours will focus on the Third Ward including walks by boxing champ Reverend Ray Martin of Progressive Amateur Boxing Association and his biographer Paris Eley, Deloyd Parker of S.H.A.P.E. Community Center, Brother Kenya, photographer and educator Ray Carrington, and artists Bert Samples, Robert Hodge and Phillip Pyle II.
Culture Map Houston's Joel Luks covers Hear Our Houston:
"Hear Our Houston: Eccentric, 'radical' walking tours look to redefine a car-dependent city"
