Watershed 2026
Save the Date: Watershed 2026
WHEN: Saturday, November 7, 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: The Sunset Coffee Building overlooking Buffalo Bayou, 1019 Commerce St, Houston, 77002
WHAT TO EXPECT: Celebrate with friends and supporters over light bites, including oyster dishes, drinks, and music, as well as our annual wine pull!
WHY: BCWK has protected the waters, wetlands, and communities of the lower Galveston Bay Watershed in greater Houston through bold legal action, community science, and creative, grassroots policy. Support our continued growth!
Sponsorship Levels
Rising Tide | $5,000
Provide leading support for Watershed and help set the evening, and our work, in motion. Includes ten (10) transferable tickets, premier recognition across event materials, a featured sponsor acknowledgment, and recognition during the program.
Deep Current | $2,500
Bring people and purpose together in support of water justice. Includes ten (10) transferable tickets, prominent recognition on event materials and signage, and acknowledgment during the program.
Flow | $1,250
Join the collective current supporting healthier waters and communities. Includes six (6) transferable tickets and recognition on the event webpage, sponsor communications, and event signage.
Ripple | $500
Help create an impact that extends far beyond one evening. Includes four (4) transferable tickets and recognition on the event webpage and shared event signage.
Individual Tickets
Choose the ticket price that best fits your circumstances. Every ticket provides the same event experience. Paying the standard or pay-it-forward rate helps keep Watershed accessible to more members of our community.
- Pay-It-Forward Ticket | $125 (By buying this ticket, you help cover the costs of Community Tickets)
- Standard Ticket | $75
- Community Ticket | $35
Honoring
Lacy M. Johnson
Lacy M. Johnson is the author of four books, including The Past and Possible World: A Field Guide to Restoring Ecosystems, Communities, and Hope, forthcoming from Scribner. Her writing has appeared in The Best American Essays, The Best American Travel Writing, The Best American Science and Nature Writing, The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Orion, Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is the founding director of the Houston Flood Museum, an ongoing work of public remembering that seeks to exhibit the connections between human activities and catastrophic flooding. She is also editor, with the graphic designer Cheryl Beckett, of More City Than Water: A Houston Flood Atlas (University of Texas Press, 2022). She directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at Rice University, where she is the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of Creative Writing.
Bakeyah Nelson, PhD
Bakeyah Nelson, PhD is Senior Advisor for the Funder Collaborative on Oil and Gas, a project of the Rockefeller Family Fund. She founded Community Health Collaborative Consulting to work with community, non-profit and philanthropic partners to move environmental justice, climate justice and health equity forward. Dr. Nelson also served as the inaugural global initiative director for Climate Imperative Foundation, as Executive Director of Air Alliance Houston and in Harris County Public Health’s Office of Policy and Planning. In memory of Benjamin “Big Ben” Broadway
Benjamin “Big Ben” Broadway was a beloved community advocate whose powerful voice and generous spirit strengthened the fight for a safer, more equitable Houston. A lifelong resident of Northeast Houston, Ben became deeply involved in community organizing after Hurricane Harvey, advocating for flood equity, infrastructure justice, accessible emergency planning, and better drainage in neighborhoods too often overlooked by public investment, and his early enthusiasm for green infrastructure helped inspire new possibilities for community-led flood solutions in Northeast Houston. As a leader with the Northeast Action Collective and a member of CEER, WECR, the Southern Water Call, the West Street Recovery board, and BCWK’s Community Research Action Network, he brought lived experience, persistence, and moral clarity into City Hall and other spaces where decisions affecting his community were made. Ben was especially committed to ensuring that accessibility was included in disaster preparedness and public-safety planning. Blind and a wheelchair user, he understood how failing infrastructure and severe weather could limit people’s safety, mobility, and independence. Above all, Ben was driven by his love for his family, his neighbors, and those whose needs and voices are too often disregarded. His courage, kindness, and unwavering belief in community unity continue to inspire everyone who had the privilege of knowing and working alongside him.
