Many spiritual traditions emphasize the importance of bringing our awareness to the present moment, and provide us with tools and techniques that help to do just that. Join us as we inspect how this and other aspects of spirituality are integral not only to the...
This music workshop with PK-5th grade students focuses on hands-on music-making and teamwork. All students will have a chance to make music and express emotion.
Are you longing to cultivate self-compassion and let go of perfectionism? Are you ready to let go of what other people think and embrace authenticity? Are you interested in discovering practices for developing gratitude and joy? Join us for a 1-Day Daring Greatly™...
Are you longing to cultivate self-compassion and let go of perfectionism? Are you ready to let go of what other people think and embrace authenticity? Are you interested in discovering practices for developing gratitude and joy? Join us for a 1-Day Daring Greatly™...
Introduced by Maureen Herzog and Dave Walker, Foundation for Independent Media Arts Three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure in 1930s Mississippi. Loosely based on Homer’s Odyssey, this “Movies Houstonians Love” presentation follows Ulysses Everett McGill...
GRAMMY-nominated early music organization Ars Lyrica Houston presents a quintessentially Baroque program called Fugal Games on Saturday, January 13th at 4pm in Duncan Recital Hall at Rice University. Five expert early music instrumentalists join for the artful and...
Session 2 – Join fiber artist Sarita Westrup to create a beautiful and functional twined basket-in-the round in this intensive one-day workshop. Participants will learn how to weave with round reeds, beginning with a star base, and create a spiral to form the walls...
DACAMERA Young Artists present a concert inspired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s exhibition “Rembrandt to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the Armand Hammer Collection,” on view now through January 21. Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Passacaglia Clara...
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a presentation from Dr. Ruth J. Simmons on her upbringing in Jim Crow-era Texas and how that affected her career in academia. A Distinguished Presidential Fellow at Rice University and Senior Adviser to the President of Harvard...
Jewish resistance during the Holocaust is still understood mostly in terms of rare armed group activities in the Nazi occupied East, for example ghetto uprisings or partisan activities. This new research is based on a broader definition and countless hitherto untapped...
The Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc. – Willie Lee Gay H-Town Chapter will host a day of presentations and discussions focused on plantation tourism, how enslaved people are depicted at sites, plantation preservation, and how plantation records...
Join Holocaust Museum Houston and the Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest for a special screening of the film “Finding Light” by Paul Michael Bloodgood. Illuminated through the story of Holocaust survivor Naomi Warren, “Finding Light”...
On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by Soviet troops. In 2005, the UN General Assembly designated January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Museum admission is free on this day every year so that all may come remember the six million...
Meet Megan Hoyt who will read her book, Bartali’s Bicycle, at Holocaust Museum Houston’s Boniuk Library and other area libraries for Holocaust Remembrance Week. This program is brought to you by a partnership with Holocaust Museum Houston’s Boniuk Library, Bay City...
A central theme of “The Kinsey Collection” exhibition is the Myth of Absence – that contributions made by African Americans in industry, art, science and politics have been omitted from history books. Hear how the Kinseys use their exhibit to dispel this...
While the Museum is closed on Mondays, our galleries will be open on Martin Luther King Jr. Day with free admission presented by H-E-B. On this annual commemoration, we remember and honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his leadership.
Considered one of the most comprehensive surveys of African American history and culture outside the Smithsonian Institution, The Kinsey Collection features the shared treasures amassed by Shirley and Bernard Kinsey during their five decades of marriage. Learn how...
After a mother (Ando Sakura) discovers that a teacher’s bullying is behind her young son’s sudden strange behavior, she storms into his school demanding an explanation. Continually left without satisfactory answers—and with an increasingly distressed child—she...
Session 1 – Join fiber artist Sarita Westrup to create a beautiful and functional twined basket-in-the round in this intensive one-day workshop. Participants will learn how to weave with round reeds, beginning with a star base, and create a spiral to form the walls...
“The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection” celebrates the achievements and contributions of Black Americans from 1595 to present day. Considered one of the most comprehensive surveys of African American history and culture outside the...
