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AvantGarden

Helios is: Arts. Music. People. Culture. Community

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For more info about upcoming events please visit avantgardenhouston.com

Happiest Hour: Tuesday-Friday 5 to 8PM
$5 pitchers of Shiner $3 mixed drinks.Helios @ AvantGarden (Helios is a 501c-3 arts and culture organization) presents:
Every Monday 10PM: The Sideshow Tramps (aka the medicine show)

Every Tuesday 8PM Belly Dancing. A different troop dances each Tuesday.

10 PM: Music and Performance Open Mic. All local talent welcome.
Every Wednesday: 8PM: Live jazz with Taka Moro, MannySalazar and Wayne Houle.

10PM: Beautiful Wednesdays featuring local singer songwriters downstairs. and Seth Jones with diverse local remixers upstairs.

Thursdays: 8PM Live flamenco music and dancing.

Thursdays: 10PM upstairs: Live music. 10PM downstairs: Fan Club playing goth, brittish invasion, mod, punk, early rock&roll.

Every Sunday upstairs: 10 PM Helios Tango. A true argentine style Milonga. Come and dance or just watch this beautiful and sensual dance form.

I'd like to meet:


Music:

Special this month: Thursday 19:
Friday 6th:
Downstairs:
Dj Saba

Upstairs: Runaway Sun, live music

Saturday 7: Magnetic. Live music.

Friday 13: Friday the 13th party with Chase Hamblin and guests
Saturday 14:Avant Disco with Ceeplus bad knives and friends
Friday 20: Upstairs: Rossano Samorano Jazz ensamble
Downstairs: Arthur Yoria.
Saturday 21: Kitchen. House / Hip Hop event.
Sunday 22: 2PM: Dr Scketchy. Live drawing and burlesque. All artists welcome.
6PM: The Starving Poets present: Free Flow Sundays.

Friday 27: The Rebel Crew House Party. Hip Hop, Spoken Word, Latin jazz, AfroCuban Jazz, reggae.

Saturday 28: Benefit Event: Music Makes Change. To benefit Brazos Abiertos, a non profits organization geared towards helping empower youth on the issues of HIV in the Yucatan.

Movies:

We sceen films every Sunday @ 8;00PM E-mail us to find out what's playing.

Books:


Mausoleum Poets Society:
From different schools of poetry to the most original creations, every Wednesday poets share their minds and souls, making this Houston's most uninhibited and diverse Open Poetry Reading. Created in 1996, this is also Houston's longest weekly poet gathering.

Heroes:

Nestor Topchy, Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Benedetti, Fellini, Tarkovsky, Bergman, Myazaky, Carl G Jung, Ken Wilber, Siddhartha, Jesus, Mother Theresa, Ghandi, all the Dalai Lamas, Ravi Shankar and many other great humans and their accomplishments.

My Blog

New York Times. (Best places to visit in Houston 2005)

You can't argue with an art space that serves liquor and puts on both rock shows and oil wrestling. Helios (411 Westheimer Road, 713-526-4648) is host to everything from jazz to bluegrass, various per...
Posted by AvantGarden on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:23:00 PST

Best Bar Decor/Atmosphere (2006)

"Best of Houston ® 2006Best Bar Atmosphere/DecorHeliosDETAILS411 WestheimerHouston713-526-4648www.heliosrising.orgThe people at Helios have always maintained that the joint is an art space, not a bar,...
Posted by AvantGarden on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:21:00 PST

Best club for local artists (2004)

Best Club for Local ArtistsPublished: September 23, 2004Helios Hands down, Helios is the best club for local artists, and by "artists" here we mean every kind: musicians, painters, poets, dancers, DJs...
Posted by AvantGarden on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:19:00 PST

Best of Houston 2003

"Whether you pick blues on a six-string or spin dance records on the decks, Helios will give you a place to perform. The rambling converted three-story house on lower Westheimer has a total of three p...
Posted by AvantGarden on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:16:00 PST

City Search 2003

Get it straight: This is an art space, not a bar. An extension of the creative ingenuity of owner and artist Mariana Lemesoff (she and local artists built the upstairs bar and patio from scrap metal)...
Posted by AvantGarden on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:14:00 PST

Living in Harmony (2002)

Living in HarmonyGlobal Groove's Wednesday-night jam puts the hump back in hump dayBy John Nova Lomax Published: May 9, 2002Wednesday night on Lower Westheimer is a tale of two types of erotica. At He...
Posted by AvantGarden on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:54:00 PST

Best of Houston 2002

Best Open-Mike NightHeliosPublished: September 26, 2002 If all you want is a few minutes in front of a working microphone, this odd little venue has nearly cornered the market on the open-mike night....
Posted by AvantGarden on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:15:00 PST

What we think of Helios

Thursday, August 31, 2006 The Medicine Show would like to pause and reflect on the last four years. We started as just Scott, Geoff, and Craig playing an open mic night. That night we met another un...
Posted by AvantGarden on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:24:00 PST

The frightning Truth

Actually, Helios was abducted by aliens. Illegal ones from outer space. I was coming home very late and I saw the whole building and all the employees vanish then get replaced by an exact replica! If...
Posted by AvantGarden on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:17:00 PST