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🎤🔥 7 DAYS AWAY! heART&SOUL VOL. 146 IS CALLING YOU HOME! ❤️✨

For 17 YEARS, heART&SOUL has been more than an open mic. It's been a gathering space where ART, CULTURE, LOVE, and COMMUNITY collide to create something beautiful!

To every artist who has graced our stage, every audience member who has shown up, every hand that has clapped, every voice that has cheered, and every soul that has helped build this experience over the years...WE SEE YOU, WE LOVE YOU, AND WE THANK YOU!❤️

And to those who have NEVER experienced heART&SOUL… CONSIDER THIS YOUR PERSONAL INVITATION! 🫶🏾

Come experience the magic of live artistry, authentic expression, beautiful people, and the kind of COMMUNITY JOY that reminds us why gathering together matters!

📅 Friday, October 23, 2026
📍 The DeLUXE Theater | 3303 Lyons Ave., Houston
✨ VIP Experience: 6:30 PM
🚪 Doors: 7:30 PM | 🎤 Show: 8 PM

🎟️ $20 General Admission | $30 VIP
Contribute to the mic and secure your spot at the link in the bio.

🎙️ ARTISTS, WANT TO HIT THE STAGE?
Text "SOUL146" to (833)451-1939 to receive your Open Mic sign-up link!

Come as you are. Bring somebody you love. Let's make some more memories together!

#heARTandSOUL #TRUTHProjectHTX #HoustonArts #CommunityJoy #HoustonOpenMic

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🏆 QUEER VOICES NYC 2026 WINNERS 🏆

Year four brought the heat, and these filmmakers left it all on the screen. Huge congratulations to our award winners! Your stories moved us, challenged us, and reminded us why queer cinema matters.

🎭 Best Performance
Final Frame — Alejandro Alba
Dir. Andrew + Adrian Nuño

🎬 Best Narrative Short
River Mamma
Dir. Arun K. Vir

📽️ Best Documentary Short
Southern Son Shine
Dir. Kevin Anderson

🎞️ Best Feature
All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White
Dir. Babatunde Apalowo

⚖️ Jury Award
Bobo in Bliss
Dir. Vivian Ip

🗽 Best New York Production
Fighting Spaces
Dir. Patricio Matos

👏🏾 Audience Award
Sonder — Dir. Thuthuka Sibisi
Dry January — Dir. C.J. Arellano

🌱 Best Youth Film
Heartworms
Dir. Finch

To every filmmaker who shared their work with us this year, thank you for trusting Queer Voices with your vision. The future of queer cinema is bright, and it’s in your hands 🏳️‍🌈✨

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Where ART meets SOUL, creativity finds its voice, and COMMUNITY takes center stage! ❤️

Join us for another unforgettable night celebrating the power of spoken word, music, movement, visual art, and unapologetic self-expression! Whether you're stepping up to the mic or showing love from the audience, there's a place for YOU!

📅 Friday, October 23, 2026
📍 The DeLUXE Theater | 3303 Lyons Ave., Houston, TX

✨ VIP Experience: 6:30 PM
🚪 Doors Open: 7:30 PM
🎤 Experience Begins: 8:00 PM

🎙️ ARTISTS, READY TO HIT THE STAGE?
Text SOUL146 to 833-451-1939 to join the Open Mic sign-up list and receive your registration link!

🎟️ General Admission $20 | VIP $30
Contribution: Link in bio.

Come for the ART. Stay for the SOUL. Leave with COMMUNITY! ❤️

#heARTandSOUL #TRUTHProjectHTX #HoustonArts #HoustonOpenMic #BlackQueerArt

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🚨🏆🎬 WE JUST GOT THE NEWS!!! SOUTHERN SON SHINE IS A WINNER!!! 🏆🎬🚨

We are OVERWHELMED with JOY to announce that our short documentary, Southern Son Shine, has won the JURY AWARD FOR BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY at the 2026 Out On Film: Atlanta’s LGBTQ Film Festival! 🌟

To witness a narrative so often silenced, stigmatized, and overlooked...the lived experiences of Black queer men living with HIV...being AMPLIFIED, CELEBRATED, and LIFTED in this way brings so much JOY to our heART! ❤️

A HUGE thank you to Out on Film, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, and the Gilead COMPASS Initiative for believing in and investing in the power of this storytelling!

To our incredible GIANTS/Storytellers, Dr. Andre Rosario and Dr. Ralston Lockett, Director of Photography Jay Clark, and the entire Slate50 team....THANK YOU for breathing life into this vision!

Overwhelmed. Grateful. And goodness, IT FEELS GOOD! 🥹❤️

Our stories matter. Our lives matter. And our light continues to SHINE!

LOVE Y'ALL! ✨

#SouthernSonShine #OutOnFilm2026 #BlackQueerStories #HIVStigmaEndsWithUs #TRUTHProjectHTX

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What a night it was!

One week ago, nearly 600 of you came out Wild & Untamed for the 2026 Out for Good Gala, and we’re still smiling. The looks on the rainbow carpet, @manilaluzon and @trinitythetuck bringing the house down, a rainbow tiger coming to life on canvas, and a dance floor that didn’t quit until the after party wrapped. 🎶

Most of all, we’re still feeling the love from a community that came together and turned a celebration of queer joy into $568k+ for life-saving care. 💜

The photos are in! Swipe through some of our favorite moments, then visit our website for the full gallery. 📸

Thank you, Houston. Same time next year? 😉

Photos by: @closeyoureyesphoto , @raulismaelchaidez , Rebecca Salas, @nora.dayton , and @daltondehartphotographicfound

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Today, our Founder/CEO @iamkevindapree had the honor of facilitating a Gender Expression & Pronoun training for community partners, @alleytheatre along with @marninathequeen ,Co-Excutive Director of @pwn_usa . They laughed, they engaged, and they co-created a learning environment where everyone was seen and heard!
Thanks again Alley Theater for the invitation!

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✨ TRANSFORMATIVE TUESDAY: THE PRACTICE OF REST ✨

What if rest became something we practiced—not something we had to earn?
Join The T.R.U.T.H. Project and Carla Sue for Jazz & Journaling: The Practice of Rest, an intimate evening blending jazz, guided journaling, creative art-making, and conversation designed to help us slow down, reflect, and restore. 🎷📓✨

📅 Tuesday, October 13 | 7–8:30 PM
📍 KIN Wellness HTX | 2602 Isabella St., Suite E
🌿 Guided by Carla Sue
Pay What You Can l Registration is required: Link is in the bio

Come as you are. Bring your journal, your creativity, and your willingness to make a little more room for rest.

This wellness offering is supported by lululemon.
#TRUTHProjectHTX #HoustonWellness #BlackWellness #RestIsResistance #JazzAndJournaling #WellnessWednesday

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This Saturday, make space to slow down, reconnect, and create. 🌿
Join The T.R.U.T.H. Project for The Sacred Mark, part of our Art of Healing creative wellness series, supported by lululemon. Guided by Dr. Kathleen Funk, this two-hour experience brings together meditation, breathwork, qigong, intuitive art, and reflection to explore our connections to spirit, ancestry, community, and self.
✨ No art experience required.
✨ Come exactly as you are, and give yourself permission to explore.

📅 Saturday, October 10 | 11 AM–1 PM
📍 Rothko Chapel Admin Building
1410 B Sul Ross St. | Houston, TX 77006
🎟️ FREE | Registration required, Link i the bio

Sometimes wellness looks like stillness. Sometimes it looks like movement. Sometimes it begins with making a mark.
#TheSacredMark #ArtOfHealing #TRUTHProjectHTX #CreativeWellness #HealingThroughArt #HoustonWellness

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🎬✨ EXCITING NEWS...OUR SECOND AWARD!

We are deeply grateful to share that our short documentary, Southern Son Shine, has received its second award, recognized for its impact at the 3rd Annual @blackindiefilmmakers Film Festival🏆

Southern Son Shine centers the voices of Black queer men living and thriving with HIV in the South, using storytelling to challenge stigma, affirm possibility, and deepen conversations around HIV prevention, care, and wellness.

We are honored that this film continues to travel, educate, and make space for HIV narratives rooted not only in survival, but in humanity and joy.

Our deepest gratitude to @emorycenters the @beourcompass and @gileadhivus for investing in purposeful storytelling and believing in the power of our stories.

And we’re just getting started. ☀️🎥

#SouthernSonShine #HIVStorytelling #BlackQueerStories #BlackFilmmakers #HIVAwareness #TRUTHProjectHTX

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🎬✨ TWO TEXAS CITIES. ONE SATURDAY. ONE INTENTIONAL STORY.

Another amazing weekend for our award-winning short documentary, Southern Son Shine! This Saturday, October 3, the film screens in Houston AND San Antonio!

Southern Son Shine centers Black gay men living and thriving with HIV...amplifying joy, resilience, healing, and the power of telling our own stories.

📍 HOUSTON | 2:45 PM
Black Indie Filmmakers Association Houston Film Festival
Community Collective for Houston
12401 S. Post Oak Rd. | Houston, TX 77045
Secure ticket in bio.

💛 Houston family: Some of our storytellers and members of the film’s creative/directing team will be IN ATTENDANCE! Come experience the film and share space with us.

📍 SAN ANTONIO | 3:00 PM
San Antonio International Black Film Festival
Carver Community Cultural Center
226 N. Hackberry St. | San Antonio, TX 78202
Secure ticket in bio.

San Antonio family, come support us!

Houston ➡️ San Antonio. We’re honored to continue carrying this Southern Son Shine narrative forward. 🎥✨

#SouthernSonShine #BlackQueerStories #HIVStorytelling #TRUTHProjectHTX

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MEET OUR MODERATOR: KEVIN D. ANDERSON

Some conversations require more than a microphone. They require someone who knows how to hold space, ask the right questions, and make room for people to be heard.

For Purple Thursday: Break the Silence, we’re proud to welcome Kevin D. Anderson (he/him) as moderator of our community conversation.

Kevin is a cultural strategist, documentarian, wellness advocate, and Founder/CEO of The T.R.U.T.H. Project, Inc., a healing justice nonprofit centering the mental, emotional, and sexual health of Queer Communities of Color through art, storytelling, and collective care.

With more than 20 years of public health and nonprofit leadership, Kevin has built a career creating culturally affirming spaces where wellness, creativity, and community intersect. He is also the creator of heART&SOUL, an award-winning documentarian, a 2024 Pride Houston Male Identifying Grand Marshal, and a 2026 Rothko Chapel Saint Óscar Romero Award Honoree.

On Thursday, October 22, Kevin will guide a community conversation centered on breaking the silence, listening without judgment, and creating space for voices and experiences that too often go unheard.

Doors open at 6:00 PM.
Community Conversation begins at 6:30 PM.
📍 PLAY Nightlife | 2409 Grant St., Houston

Come ready to listen. Come ready to talk. Come ready to break the silence.

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The conversations we usually keep behind closed doors? We’re bringing them to the table.

Break the Silence is about having the conversations our community doesn’t always make room for — openly, honestly and without pretending the difficult parts don’t exist.

Join us at Play Nightlife for a live conversation with four panelists willing to go there, moderated by Kevin Anderson. @iamkevindapree

And this isn’t a conversation we want you to only listen to. Bring your questions. Bring your perspective. Be part of it.

📅 Thursday, October 22 | 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Play Nightlife | 2409 Grant St., Ste. D, Houston
🎤 Moderated by Kevin Anderson

RSVP through the link in our bio.

What’s one conversation you think our community needs to stop avoiding?

#BreakTheSilence #PrideHouston365 #HoustonLGBTQ #HoustonEvents

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