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...to Houston Arts and Media - where local writers, film makers, and
media a
rtists 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 awarded a Community Building Grant from
the United Way of Greater Houston. This grant will be used to supp-ort
Phase II of the Neighbor to Neighbor Oral History Project. We will be
going into the community to build up our volunteer interviewers, and
to identify interview subjects. We're looking to gather 100 active interviewers
and to collect 750 hours of audio interviews. If you are interested
in helping out, email us here.
Read more about it here.
The Road Rally was such a HUGE success! Everyone had such a great time, it is definitely now a twice yearly event. The next one is set for Saturday, November 8. The Spring rally was won by Team Houstonist.
Congrats to all the teams who joined us for great fun and a little Houston education. The flyer for the last one will give you an idea of what it's all about. See more here
And check back for more about our downtown bicycle version early evening on Sunday, August 24 for the Happy Birthday Houston! Celebration.
Please give our latest "Roughly Quarterly
Newsletter" a read, and then sign up to receive it in your
email.
Sign up here
for our mailing list.
Next Meetup - Sat, June, 14 at 2pm @ Mojo
Risin Coffeehouse
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.
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.
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Learn how to make
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support!
New this month:
Next month:
- The Career Library in production - with your help!
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