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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.
We have taken our video experience and brought it to bear on
tiny little slices of Houston History! We plan to bring you
a new slice every couple of weeks, but meanwhile, invite your friends and keep coming
back for seconds!
Houston Arts and Media has been informed that they are 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 will be an advisory body for the upcoming weekly television series focusing on history from Houston and ten surrounding counties. The show, Postcards from Texas, will debut on KTBU-TV, Houston's Channel 55, after the first of the year. HAM President, Mike Vance, is the show's host and executive producer.
The Road Rally was a HUGE success again! Everyone had such a great time. It is now a twice yearly tradition. The next one is tentative for Sunday, March 1. The Fall rally was won by Team Fee.
Congrats to all the teams who joined us 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 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 "Roughly Quarterly
Newsletter" a read, and then sign up to receive it in your
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Next Meetup - Sat, December 13 at 2pm @ Jax Grill
We invite our volunteers, our interviewees, and anyone else interested
in Houston's history to join us once a month to talk about preservation
projects in Houston, favorite at-risk architecture, trains, bridges,
music and whatever. Jax Grill is at 1613 Shepherd, just south of I-10.
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.
Plus we'll be having another interviewer training session on June 14 at 1pm, right before the monthly meetup. See the paragraph above for location.
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 have recently 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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