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...to Houston Arts and Media - where local writers, film makers, and
media artists bring knowledge, education and local history to life.
Learn more about
Houston Arts and Media here.
Get them while they're hot. Our HAM Slices of Houston History have proven so popular that we now have them available on a wonderful, searchable DVD. You can still find them via the window on this page, but now with your membership to HAM, you can own them in higher resolution, too. The Volume One DVD has 20 tasty slices of history. Learn more here.
Houston Arts and Media is very excited to present our first Houston History Book Fair & Symposium. The event will be held on Saturday, November 13, 2010 at the Heights Church of Christ, itself a 1924 City of Houston Landmark. Hours will be from 10 to 4 with a different author speaking in the church library on the half hour. Many of the top books on Houston's past will be available. The church is located at 16th and Heights Blvd. Hear about local history from the people who tell the stories.
In order to keep producing things like the HAM Slices, our book and documentary projects, our Houston trivis game, our meetups, the Houston History Road Rally and the other educational gems outlined on this site, we must have your support. We cannot do it without you. Please click on the Support link on the top navigation bar and join HAM today.
Houston Arts and Media was the production partner for Postcards from Texas, a weekly television series focusing on history from Houston and surrounding counties. We are pleased that the show is the 2009 recipient of the Texas Historical Commission's Excellence in Media Award. The show also won the Texas Society Daughters of the American Revolution 2009-2010 Media Award which is presented to one winner statewide.
Houston Arts and Media is fortunate to receive support from several of Houston's most generous and respected foundations. The latest is a grant from Houston Endowment, Inc to support our 2010 History Initiative. Please check the contributors page to learn more about who has donated. Please don't forget that your support is needed to bring these great educational projects to fruition.
We recently spoke to an HISD History Teachers Summit about the various projects we have going here at HAM. They will soon be using our HAM Slices to teach students about local history and as a model for student made history video, as well. We are making similar efforts with other area school districts.
Please give our latest Newsletter a read, and then sign up to receive it in your
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Next Meetup - TBA
We invite our volunteers and anyone else interested
in Houston's history to join us once a month to explore preservation
projects in Houston, at-risk architecture, trains, bridges,
music and whatever. Following our visit we will have lunch nearby.
Sign up here
to be notified about our meetups.
We've posted several clips of interviews here
as MP3 files. If you think you'd like to interview people, or if you
know you want to but are afraid to start, it might help to listen to
these 5-10 minute samples of a wide range of interviews. Transcripts
of these samples are also available and were generously donated by Adept
Word Management.
Periodically we'll be having interviewer training sessions, or we can meet with you in smaller groups to get you going on something that is fun and rewarding for all.
Learn more on becoming a
volunteer interviewer here.
Houston: A Nation's Capitol - A documentary about the rough and tumble city of 1837 and 1838
Bayou City Noir - An exhibit of the crime beat photos taken by Marvin Zindler in the early 1950s
Neighbor to Neighbor Oral History
Project - A citywide effort to gather stories of Houston's neighborhoods
as remembered by their long-time residents.
HAM Slices - A tiny little video slice
of Houston History. Support HAM so we can create more!
Houston
Neighborhood Series - This series begins with a two-volume work on Historic Schools of Harris County.
What's
Your HQ? - An educational and entertaining trivia game about
Houston.
Stand Up Story - A history of Houston comedy
The Career
Library - A library of DVDs to share career ideas with young
adults.
Learn more about
our completed, on-going and future projects here.
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tool that donates a small amount each time you use the engine. To support
us with this tool, go to http://www.goodsearch.com,
and type in Houston Arts and Media into the "Who do you search
for?" field. Couldn't be simpler! Make it your default search engine
and help us rake in those extra pennies.
Paypal has made it easy for you to support Houston Arts and Media, a
501(c)(3) tax-deductible organization.
Learn how to make
a tax-deductible contribution here.
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