OPENING RECEPTION – OVERFLOW RADIO: Šakotayišol Nunuš Constellation

Opening Saturday, October 3, 5-9 PM DiverseWorks Gallery @ MATCH 5 PM Good Medicine Festival | GET TICKETS 7 PM Opening Reception Join DiverseWorks for the opening of Overflow Radio: Šakotayišol Nunuš Constellation on Saturday, October 3, from 5-9 PM. In collaboration with Good Medicine Indigenous Music Festival, the evening will begin with a concert from 5-7 PM, followed by the Overflow Radio: Šakotayišol Nunuš Constellation exhibition opening reception from 7-9 PM. Tickets for the concert are required and pay-what-you-wish. Both events will take place in the exhibition space at DiverseWorks Gallery at MATCH. Light refreshments will be served. Overflow Radio: Šakotayišol Nunuš Constellation was developed in collaboration with Emily Johnson / Catalyst and local Indigenous and Native Heritage artists. The exhibition and related programming continue through October 24. The project includes talks, skill-shares, listening sessions, gatherings, an exhibition, and performances, featuring exhibiting artists Aveda Adara, Chiara “Sunshine” Beaumont, Christie “Chichi” Chafoya, Karen Navarro, Monica Villarreal, and Aryn Ward, with additional participating artists and community partners. In conjunction with Emily Johnson / Catalyst’s world premiere of Overflow Radio in Mni Sóta Makoce (Minneapolis), we will gather in person in Šakotayišol Nunuš or “Bear Creek Town” (Houston) to listen to twelve First Nations and Indigenous authors, poets, and scholars live-broadcasting from their home territories and First Nations over 24 non-consecutive hours from October 9–12. RELATED PROGRAMS OVERFLOW RADIO: Šakotayišol Nunuš Constellation October 3-24, 2026 DiverseWorks Gallery @ MATCH Saturday, October 3, 5 – 9 PM 5 PM Good Medicine Indigenous Music Festival, Pay-What-You-Wish Tickets 7 PM Opening Reception Friday, October 9 – Monday, October 12, 11:30 AM – 6 PM (first transmissions start at 12 PM each day) Listening Sessions, Skill Shares and Panel Discussions RSVP Friday, October 9, 6 PM Performance: Maize by ACT II Free Tickets Saturday, October 17, 6 PM Diverse Discourse Lecture w/Mary V. Bordeaux, Ed.D., Co-Founder & Co-Director, Racing Magpie RSVP Thursdays – Saturdays, 12 – 6 PM Exhibition Hours Press Read Preview – Overflow Radio: Šakotayišol Nunuš Constellation, The Dance Dish (Sep 2026) Read A Guide to Houston Happenings During 2026 Untitled Art Fair, Glasstire (Sep 2026) Read 2026-27 Season Preview: 23 Shows Marked on Our Contributors’ Calendar, Dance Magazine (Sep 2026). Read What Carries Forward: Emily Johnson’s ‘Overflow Radio’ at DiverseWorks, Arts and Culture Texas Magazine (Aug 2026). Read Previewing Exhibitions Coming to the Greater Houston Area in Fall 2026, Glasstire (Aug 2026). Acknowledgements Overflow Radio: Šakotayišol Nunuš Constellation at DiverseWorks is supported in part by grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts and the Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation. Additional support is from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation, The Brown Foundation, Inc., Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts, Houston Endowment, Ruth Foundation for the Arts, Wortham Foundation, and the George & Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation. Overflow Radio is a National Performance Network Creation & Development Fund Project commissioned by Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater (REDCAT) and co-commissioned DiverseWorks, MASS MoCA and University of Minnesota Department of Theatre Arts & Dance, more information at www.npnweb.org. Overflow Radio is developed through creative residencies provided by MASS MoCA, John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater, University of Minnesota’s Imagine Fund with support from the McKnight Foundation, and Danspace Project with support from the New York State DanceForce, a partnership program of the New York State Council on the Arts. Overflow Radio is created with generous support from First Peoples Fund, Howard Gilman Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and The Mellon Foundation. Emily Johnson / Catalyst is fiscally sponsored by Producer Hub.