

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Past Does Not Need You, But It Borrows Yours Mouth
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 17 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join DiverseWorks on March 17 &amp; 18 for The Past Does Not Need You, But It Borrows Your Mouth, a multidisciplinary exhibition of newly commissioned work by Hong Hong.

Featuring a four-channel video installation, sculpture, and live performance, the project engages movement, language, and history to explore Angel Island through nonlinear storytelling and embodied research.

This work expands Hong Hong’s ongoing research into Angel Island Immigration Station, a detention center that incarcerated Chinese immigrants from 1910 to 1940 under the Chinese Exclusion Act. Through shifting text, embodied gesture, and spatial arrangement, the artist invites viewers to move between layered narratives and unresolved configurations of meaning.

Reserve your tickets and learn more at https://diverseworks.org/event/hong-hong-the-past-does-not-need-you-but-it-borrows-your-mouth/

Open Installation: March 17 &amp; 18, 12 – 5 PM. Free admission. No tickets required.

Live Performances: March 17 &amp; 18, 7:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM. Pay-what-you-wish, $25 suggested. Tickets required.

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DATES &amp; TIMES (MORE DETAIL)

OPEN INSTALLATION
Tuesday, March 17 - Wednesday, March 18
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Free Admission

LIVE PERFORMANCES
Tuesday, March 17
*6:30 PM - Doors Open
7:30 PM - Performance

Wednesday, March 18
*6:30 PM - Doors Open
7:30 PM - Performance

TICKETS:
Pay-What-You-Can
$25 Suggested

PLEASE NOTE:
*Ticket holders are encouraged to arrive at 6:30 PM to experience the video installation before the start of the performance.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/houston/the-past-does-not-need-you-but-it-borrows-yours-mouth/200029795429907
- **Event Categories**: exhibitions, art, storytelling
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 24

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://matchouston.org/events/2026/past-does-not-need-you-it-borrows-your-mouth?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=houston-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Houston
- **state**: TX
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United States, Texas 77002
- **lat**: 29.74037
- **long**: -95.37872
- **full address**: 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United States, Texas 77002

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: DiverseWorks (https://allevents.in/org/diverseworks/554302)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 17 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United States, Texas 77002
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** DiverseWorks
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** exhibitions, art, storytelling
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about The Past Does Not Need You, But It Borrows Yours Mouth ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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