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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. And watch our Promo.
The HAM Slices of Volume 2 are here, funded by a grant from Houston Endowment, Inc.. We will be posting them here over the next several months, but the Volume 2 DVD of the Slices have arrived. It's time for more history. Get all 20 new Slices now and support HAM. Learn how here.
Our annual road rally events are always very popular. The next edition will be on Sunday, May 6, 2012. Start getting your teams together now and mark those claendars. As always, nobody leaves empty-handed. Details are here.
In order to keep producing things like the HAM Slices, our book and documentary projects, the Houston History Road Rally and Book Fair and the other educational gems outlined on this site, we must have your support. Please join, renew or upgrade your membership during this drive for 2012. We cannot do it without you. Please click on the Support link on the top navigation bar and join HAM today.
HAM is putting grant money to work on three big documentary projects: The Birth of Texas Series, Home Front: Texas in WWII and our film about Houston Music in the 1960s. Shooting is underway in all three cases. We are looking for interview subjects and historic photos for both Home Front and the Music doc. We will also be scheduling fundraising activities over the next year. Learn more here then join in to make these fun films sing.
Get our award winning video while they're hot. Our latest feature length doc is called Houston: A Nation's Capitol. The DVDs are available for this platinum award winner at the 2011 WorldFest. Learn more about this video about the humble beginnings of Texas' largest city right here. View the trailer here.
Houston Arts and Media has won a Platinum REMI Award from WorldFest Houston International Film Festival for 2011 for Houston: A Nation's Capitol. This comes on the heels of two awards we received as the production partner for Postcards from Texas, a weekly television series focusing on history from Houston and surrounding counties. We were 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.
Our second annual Houston History Book Fair & Symposium is over.The third one will be Saturday, November 10, 2012, and it's never to early to mark your calendar. Come join us since this will be even bigger and better than before. We will have dozens of history authors speaking, and admission for the public is free. Come meet those who document our past.
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 The Brown Foundation, Inc to support our Birth of Texas Series. 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.
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Next Meetup - Saturday, February 18
11:15am at the Art Car Museum,
140 Heights Blvd
We invite our volunteers and anyone else interested
in Houston's history to join us 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.
The Birth of Texas Series - Eight documentaries that tell the story of Texas from 1820 through statehood in 1845
Houston Music History Series - Our latest undertaking combines terrific tunes with social changes.
HAM Slices - A tiny little video slice
of Houston Area History. Support HAM so we can create more!
Home Front: Texas in WWII - Military and industrial activity, combined with social upheaval during the war years changed Texas forever.
Neighbor to Neighbor Oral History
Project - A citywide effort to gather stories of Houston's neighborhoods
as remembered by their long-time residents.
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
Learn more about
our completed, on-going and future projects here.
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501(c)(3) tax-deductible organization.
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