Sam Byrd

The Houston Chamber Choir is taking listeners from the Lone Star State to the Golden State with California Gold this weekend. The program includes works by Eric Whitacre, Morten Lauridsen, John Cage and the choir’s first performance of Mass by Igor Stravinsky. The concert takes place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at South Main Baptist Church.

It’s time for the Houston Art Car Parade – the largest gathering of the funkiest and spunkiest automobiles ever to grace this planet. The multiday event takes place later this week with the crowning event rolling through downtown Houston on April 13 at 2 p.m. at Sam Houston Park, 1000 Bagby.

The Houston Chamber Choir will take a look at a very phenomenon many people have experienced: departing their religion. Mass in Exile is a deeply moving new work for chorus and orchestra by composer Mark Buller and librettist Leah Lax and will be performed Saturday.

The sky-high thrills and jaw-dropping skills of Cirque du Soliel have returned to Houston with Corteo, running now through March 3 at Toyota Center.

Slime is making a resurgence in Houston with the Sloomoo Institute, a destination that celebrates joy through sensory play with a mission to embrace the power of satisfaction via vivid color, the sense of scent, tactile compounds and captivating visuals and sounds.