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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.
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.
In order to keep producing things like the HAM Slices, our meetups and Houston History Road Rally and the upcoming books and documentary projects, the game and other educational gems outlined on this site, we must have your support. Please click on the Support link on the top navigation bar and join HAM today.
Houston Arts and Media is the recipient of a grant from Houston Endowment, Inc. The grant will go toward administrative costs and toward funding our HAM Slices educational web-based history videos. It is a terrrific step forward for our Houston History Initiative.
Houston Arts and Media is an advisory body for the new weekly television series focusing on history from Houston and twelve surrounding counties. The show, Postcards from Texas, appears on KTBU-TV, Houston's Channel 55, every Sunday at 4pm. HAM President, Mike Vance, is the show's host and executive producer. Board member, Michael Daleo, is director of Photography.
The Road Rally been a success every time! The next one is slated for Sunday afternoon, May 2, 2010 as part of Houston's Historic Preservation Month.
So get your teams lined up for great fun and a little Houston education. The flyer will give you an idea of what it's all about. See more here.
Houston Arts and Media is fortunate to receive support from several of Houston most generous and respected foundations. The latest is a grant from the Brown Foundation to support research and layout work on our book project, Historic Schools of Harris County. 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.
Please give our latest Newsletter a read, and then sign up to receive it in your
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Next Meetup - February 20, 2010 at 11:30am
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. This month's location is Becker's Books at 7405 Westview. Please park on the side street to the east. We will hear from Jim Bevill, author of The Paper Republic, a great new book on money and the Texas Revolution. 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.
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. Keep coming back for more!
Houston
Neighborhood Series - A series of more than 20 volumes, each
focusing on the neighborhood history of a particular area of Houston.
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.
We are signed up with GoodSearch, a Yahoo-powered search
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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