Rachel Simmons: book signing and discussion

09-30-2010 - 09-30-2010

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Blue Willow Bookshop

http://www.bluewillowbookshop.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp

Admission: <p>This is a ticketed event that will be held at St Agnes Academy Each ticket of $15 will admit a parent-daughter pair to the event, which includes one copy of The Curse of the Good Girl If you would like to include another daughter at the event, the charge is an additional $5</p> <p>To obtain tickets, please contact us at (281) 497 8675, or stop by the shop</p>

(281) 497-8675

Start Time(s): <p>7:00pm</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Blue Willow Bookshop presents Rachel Simmons, Thursday, September 30 at 7pm, at St. Agnes Academy, 9000 Bellaire Boulevard. Join Rachel Simmons (Odd Girl Out, The Curse of the Good Girl) for a fun, interactive back-to-school workshop on getting the most out of friendships and staying true to yourself.

You and your daughter (ages 8 & up) do not want to miss this opportunity to see Rachel live!

With laughter & honesty, Rachel will teach the girls powerful strategies to express themselves with authenticity and confidence, deal with friend drama effectively and make healthy decisions in relationships. Adults will learn tools to support girls on their journey. Bring lots of questions and stay for the book signing of Rachel's newest book release in paperback: The Curse of the Good Girl.

Rachel Simmons is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, and The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence. As an educator and coach, Rachel works internationally to develop strategies to address bullying and empower girls.

After graduating from Vassar College, Rachel won a Rhodes Scholarship from New York in 1998. She attended Oxford University, where she began her study of female aggression.

The co-founder of the Girls Leadership Institute, Rachel currently serves as a consultant to schools and organizations around the world. She has worked as a classroom teacher at Miss Hall’s School in Massachusetts and the Roedean School in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Rachel was the host of the recent PBS television special, “A Girl’s Life,” and writes an advice blog for girls at TeenVogue.com.

Rachel has appeared on Oprah, is a frequent contributor to the Today Show, and appears regularly in the national media. Odd Girl Out was adapted into a highly acclaimed Lifetime television movie. Rachel lives in western Massachusetts with her West Highland Terrier, Rosie, who is currently taking private workshops with Rachel to learn how to stop bullying other dogs.

NOTE:  This is a ticketed event that will be held at St. Agnes Academy. Each ticket of $15 will admit a parent-daughter pair to the event, which includes one copy of The Curse of the Good Girl. If you would like to include another daughter at the event, the charge is an additional $5.

To obtain tickets, please contact us at (281) 497 8675, or stop by the shop.

Scott Westerfeld: book signing and discussion

10-12-2010 - 10-12-2010

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Blue Willow Bookshop

http://www.bluewillowbookshop.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp

Blue Willow Bookshop - 14532 Memorial Drive Houston TX 77079

Admission: <p>The event is free and open to the public</p> <p><i>Blue Willow Bookshop is proud to be the Houston stop for many wonderful authors We work hard to make each event enlightening and entertaining <br /> <br /> All Blue Willow Bookshop presentations are free of charge <br /> </i></p> <p><i>If you would like to go through the signing line and meet the author for book personalization, you must purchase the author's current book from Blue Willow Bookshop</i></p>

(281) 497-8675

Start Time(s): <p>5:00pm</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Blue Willow Bookshop presents Scott Westerfeld, Tuesday, October 12 at 5pm. We're delighted to welcome Scott Westerfeld, author of the Uglies series. He will be at Blue Willow to discuss and sign his newest YA steampunk novel, Behemoth.

The behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British navy. It can swallow enemy battleships with one bite. The Darwinists will need it, now that they are at war with the Clanker Powers.

Deryn is a girl posing as a boy in the British Air Service, and Alek is the heir to an empire posing as a commoner. Finally together aboard the airship Leviathan, they hope to bring the war to a halt. But when disaster strikes the Leviathan's peacekeeping mission, they find themselves alone and hunted in enemy territory.

Alek and Deryn will need great skill, new allies, and brave hearts to face what's ahead.

The Author Writes:

Scott Westerfeld is me. I’m the author of five science fiction novels for adults. I’ve also been an occasional ghost writer, which is like driving someone else’s car really, really fast for lots of money. (I could tell you what famous authors I ghost-wrote for, but then I’d have to kill you.) In my artsy days, I wrote music for artsy downtown New York dancers, some of which sounds like this.

I have written three sets of books for young adults. The first is called Midnighters, a tale of five teenagers born on the stroke of midnight, for whom time freezes every night, revealing a dark and terrible hidden world. All three books are out now.

My other trilogy is Uglies, set in a future where cosmetic surgery is compulsory when you turn 16, making everyone beautiful. Of course, there are some people who want to keep their own faces . . . but they’re not allowed. All three books—Uglies, Pretties and Specials—are out now. A companion novel to the trilogy, Extras, will be out in October 2007.

My third set of books is three stand-alone novels from Razorbill, all set in contemporary New York. The first is So Yesterday, about a cool hunter who runs afoul of a plot to end consumerism. The second is called Peeps, a "vampire" novel. The third is The Last Days, set in the same world as Peeps, which is also out now. I’ve also written a few short stories that you can find online for free, but be warned that all of them contain dirty words.

I was born in Texas, and split my time between New York City and Sydney, Australia. (I have more frequent flyer miles than you do.) You can read many personal details of my life on my blog. And consult the Scott fact sheet here.

Jon Scieszka: book signing and discussion

10-14-2010 - 10-14-2010

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Blue Willow Bookshop

http://www.bluewillowbookshop.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp

Blue Willow Bookshop - 14532 Memorial Drive Houston TX 77079

Admission: <p>The event is free and open to the public</p> <p><i>Blue Willow Bookshop is proud to be the Houston stop for many wonderful authors We work hard to make each event enlightening and entertaining <br /> <br /> All Blue Willow Bookshop presentations are free of charge <br /> </i></p> <p><i>If you would like to go through the signing line and meet the author for book personalization, you must purchase the author's current book from Blue Willow Bookshop</i></p>

(281) 497-8675

Start Time(s): <p>5:00pm</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Blue Willow Bookshop presents Jon Scieszka, Thursday, October 14 at  5:00pm. All Hail the Ambassador Emeritus! Jon Scieszka returns to discuss his newest middle grade novel, Spaceheadz..

Michael K. just started fifth grade at a new school. As if that wasn't hard enough, the kids he seems to have made friends with apparently aren't kids at all. They are aliens. Real aliens who have invaded our planet in the form of school children and a hamster. They have a mission to complete: to convince 3,140,001 kids to BE SPHDZ.

But with a hamster as their leader, "kids" who talk like walking advertisements, and Michael K as their first convert, will the SPHDZ be able to keep their cover and pull off their assignment?

Jon Scieszka was born in Flint, Michigan on September 8, 1954. It was a Wednesday. Right around lunchtime. He is the second-oldest, and nicest, of six Scieszka boys. No girls. His mother, Shirley, worked as a registered nurse. His dad, Louis, was an elementary school principal at Freeman Elementary. His dad's parents, Michael and Anna, came to America from Poland. "Scieszka" is a word in Polish. It means "path." Jon ScisezkaJon went to Culver Military Academy for high school. He had some spectacular teachers there, and became Lieutenant Scieszka.

Jon thought about being a doctor and studied both Science and English at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. He graduated in 1976, lived in Detroit, then moved to Brooklyn, NY to write instead. He earned his MFA in Fiction from Columbia University in New York in 1980, then painted apartments.

Not knowing what he was getting into, Jon applied for a teaching job at an elementary school called The Day School in New York City. He started as a 1st grade Assistant Teacher, graduated to teaching 2nd grade, taught 3rd and 4th grade Math, 5th grade History, and then some 6th, 7th and 8th grade.

Jon ScisezkaTeaching school, Jon re-discovered how smart kids are, and found the best audience for the weird and funny stories he had always liked to read and write. He took a year off from teaching to write stories for kids. He sent these stories around to many publishers, and got rejected by all of them. He kept painting apartments and writing stories.

Through his wife Jeri, who was working in NY as a magazine art director, he met a funny guy named Lane Smith. Lane was painting illustrations for magazine articles, and working on his first children's book. Jon gave Lane his story—
A. Wolf's Tale. Lane loved it. Lane drew a few illustrations for the story and took it to show many publishers. He got rejected by all of them. "Too dark," they said. "Too sophisticated," they said. "Don't ever come back her, okay?" they said.

Jon and Lane liked A. Wolf's Tale. They kept showing it around. They kept getting rejected. Finally, Regina Hayes, an editor at Viking Books said she thought the story and the illustrations were funny. She said she would publish the book. And she did, in 1989, with the title changed to: The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!.

Jon Scisezka3 Pigs! has now sold over 3 million copies and has been translated into 14 different languages. Over the last 19 years, Jon and Lane have worked together on 8 picture books and 8 Time Warps. Lane's wife Molly Leach has designed all of their picture books.

Jon's books have won a whole mess of awards, and sold over 11 million copies all around the world.

Jon is now working on a giant pre-school publishing program called Trucktown. It's a world where all of the characters are trucks. And all of the trucks act like real preschoolers—loud and crazy and wild and funny.

Jon still lives in Brooklyn with his wife Jeri. They have two children: a daughter Casey, and son Jake.

Authors in Architecture: Bracket: Architecture, Environment, Digital Culture, issue #1: on farming

10-21-2010 - 10-21-2010

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American Institute of Architects (AIA Houston)

http://www.aiahouston.org

Architecture Center Houston (ArCH) - 315 Capitol, Suite 120 Houston TX 77002

Admission: <p>This series is free and open to the public <br /> &nbsp;</p>

(713) 520-0155

Start Time(s): <p>6:00pm - 8:00pm</p> <p>6pm&ndash; Authors&rsquo; Presentations<br /> 7pm &ndash; Reception and Book Signing</p>

Architecture Center Houston and the Houston Public Library are pleased to announce Authors in Architecture: Bracket: Architecture, Environment, Digital Culture, issue #1: on farming, Thursday October 21, at the Architecture Center Houston (ArCH), 315 Capitol, Suite 120, Houston, TX. 6pm Authors' Presentations. 7pm Reception and Book signing.

Bracket: Architecture, Environment, Digital Culture, issue #1: on farming -
Bracket is a new book series that highlights emerging critical issues at the juncture of architecture, environment, and digital culture. Seeking new voices and design talent, Bracket is structured around an open call for entries. Conceived as an almanac, the series looks at emerging themes that are shaping the built environment in radically significant, yet often unexpected ways.

The series will chart the emergence of this current design generation. A generation raised when the internet was commonplace, when environmental issues reached a critical 'inconvenient truth,' and when the cultural capital of architecture was in need of new vision. The Bracket series will address the complex impacts of globalization on architecture, landscape, and urbanism. Bracket 1 is titled “On Farming” and looks at the capacity for architecture to address ideas and issues of productive landscapes and urbanisms. Once merely understood in terms of agriculture, today information, energy, labour, and landscape, among others, can be farmed. Farming harnesses the efficiency of collectivity and community.

Whether cultivating land, harvesting resources, extracting energy or delegating labor, farming reveals the interdependencies of our globalized world. Simultaneously, farming represents the local gesture, the productive landscape, and the alternative economy. The processes of farming are mutable, parametric, and efficient. Farming is the modification of infrastructure, urbanisms, architectures, and landscapes toward a privileging of production.

The issue collects original design projects, installations, and essays which interrogate new typologies, forms, and formats of the built environment. With almost 40 design proposals and 12 essays, “On Farming” collects emerging designers and thinkers internationally.

Edited by Mason White & Maya Przybylski.

Bracket: issue #1 on farming presented Texas Contributors Neeraj Bhatia, Jason Sowell, and Ned Dodington.

Neeraj Bhatia received his Masters of Architecture + Urban Design from MIT. He has worked for Eisenman Architects, Coop Himmelblau, Bruce Mau Design, OMA, ORG and Lateral Office and has taught at the University of Waterloo, the University of Toronto, and was most recently awarded the 2010-2011 Wortham Teaching Fellowship at Rice University. His research has been published in Volume/Archis, Thresholds, Footprint, and Yale Perspecta. He is co-editor of 'Arium: Weather + Architecture' (with Jürgen Mayer H., Hatje Cantz Publishing, 2009), which examines the relationship of building and weather. In 2008, Neeraj became a co-director of InfraNet Lab, a non-profit research collective probing the spatial byproducts of contemporary resource logistics. The Lab’s research into urban infrastructures will be published in Pamphlet Architecture 30 (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010). Neeraj received the 2010 Lawrence B. Anderson Award to document traditional and contemporary housing in the Canadian Arctic.

Jason Sowell is an assistant professor in the Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. His research and design work engage questions of infrastructure and measure. His projects have received several awards and have been exhibited both nationally and internationally; The University of Texas at Austin’s counterMEASURES [co-designed with Nichole Wiedemann] and Cleveland Design Competition 2007 2nd place [co-designed with Hope Hasbrouck]. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Tennessee, and a Master in Landscape Architecture from Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

Ned Dodington received a B.A. in Art History from Carleton College in 2003 and an M.Arch from Rice University in 2009. While at Rice, Ned devoted his graduate career to studying potential points of architectural design intervention in biological systems. His work has been published in Architectural Design Magazine, Texas Architect, Rice Working, and the Columbia University GSAP yearly review, and he has written for The Architectural Society in New York, Manifold Magazine, and the Houstonist. His built installations have been shown in Minnesota and Houston. He has been awarded both the Technos international traveling fellowship in 2002 and the Mitchel Travel Fellowship in 2006. Ned is currently employed at PDR in Houston, Texas and manages two small businesses devoted to fostering creative communities in Houston, Caroline Collective and C2Creative.

Debuting in January 2009, Authors in Architecture is a collaboration between the Houston Public Library Downtown and the Architecture Center Houston (ArCH). Our aim is to create a dialogue between these two cultural centers and their patrons.

This series is free and open to the public.

Tony DiTerlizzi: book signing and discussion

10-19-2010 - 10-19-2010

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Blue Willow Bookshop

http://www.bluewillowbookshop.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp

Blue Willow Bookshop - 14532 Memorial Drive Houston TX 77079

Admission: <p>The event is free and open to the public</p> <p><i>Blue Willow Bookshop is proud to be the Houston stop for many wonderful authors We work hard to make each event enlightening and entertaining <br /> <br /> All Blue Willow Bookshop presentations are free of charge <br /> </i></p> <p><i>If you would like to go through the signing line and meet the author for book personalization, you must purchase the author's current book from Blue Willow Bookshop</i></p>

(281) 497-8675

Start Time(s): <p>5:00pm</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Blue Willow Bookshop presents Tony DiTerlizzi, Tuesday, October 19 at 5pm. We're delighted to welcome author and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi. He will be at Blue Willow to discuss and sign his newest YA novel, The Search for WondLa.

When a marauder destroys the underground sanctuary that Eva Nine was raised in by the robot Muthr, the twelve-year-year-old girl is forced to flee aboveground. Eva Nine is searching for anyone else like her, for she knows that other humans exist, because of an item she treasures—a scrap of cardboard on which is depicted a young girl, an adult, and a robot, with the strange word, "WondLa."

Tony DiTerlizzi honors traditional children's literature in this totally original space age adventure: one that is as complex as an alien planet, but as simple as a child's wish for a place to belong.

Dragons, space monsters, goblins and insects: the characters that inhabit storyteller Tony DiTerlizzi’s world haven’t changed since he was a kid growing up in South Florida.

Born in Los Angeles, California in 1969, DiTerlizzi is the oldest of three siblings raised in an artistically rich household. He started drawing at a very young age including a crayon mural of Winnie-the-Pooh on his freshly painted bedroom walls.

One of his first hand-made books was on his favorite subject; dinosaurs, and was done for a Boy Scout merit badge. Fascinated by nature’s endless designs, Tony made another book, this time on insects, carefully drawn from his own collection.

In 1981, after seeing Jim Henson’s “The Dark Crystal” and playing Dungeons & Dragons, the 12 year-old Tony spent the summer writing and illustrating an entire field guide on fantastic creatures. He would return to this premise many years later as the genesis for “The Spiderwick Chronicles”.

By the time he graduated high school, DiTerlizzi had dreams of becoming a children’s book creator. He attended several art schools including, Florida School of the Arts and the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, receiving his degree in graphic design in 1992.

After graduating, the 23 year-old DiTerlizzi began working freelance for TSR, publisher of Dungeons & Dragons - the game that had inspired him so much as a child. He illustrated many fantastical images of warriors, wizards and monsters over the next 6 years, and also contributed to the collectible card game Magic the Gathering.

A move to New York City in 1996 brought Tony to the center of the publishing world. At last, his dream of writing and illustrating outstanding imaginative books for children could be realized. And he did it at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

In 2000, his first picture book, “Jimmy Zangwow’s Out-of-this-World Moon Pie Adventure” debuted. Inspired by Windsor McKay’s “Little Nemo in Slumberland” and Norman Rockwell, the story of a young space adventurer in search of his favorite snack garnered positive reviews. Kirkus compared Tony’s work to that of David Wiesner and William Joyce. More importantly, children loved the book.

The next year, he followed up with “Ted”, the story of a workaholic single parent trying to find time for his son and his mischievous imaginary friend. Once again, the book was well received, and it won several state awards including the University of Chicago’s Zena Sutherland Book Award.

His third picture book, “The Spider and The Fly”, was based on Mary Howitt’s famous 1829 poem. Here, DiTerlizzi exhibited his love of insects and arachnids as he rendered Chaz Addams-esque paintings of the intrepid spider and the guileless fly. The result was a critically acclaimed, New York Times bestseller. It won a Caldecott Honor, an award for high artistic achievement in children’s publishing, in 2003. Tony’s career as a creator of children’s books was on its way.

During a magazine interview on his work for Dungeons & Dragons, DiTerlizzi met up-and-coming writer Holly Black. A fellow fantasy and folklore lover, the two became fast friends and Tony showed her sketches he was working on for a field guide to fantastic creatures. Black began helping him, and the two created the chapter book series “The Spiderwick Chronicles”.

Spiderwick followed the adventures of three New England children who unearth an old John James Audubon-styled field guide to fairies, trolls and goblins. No sooner do they find the tome, they then discover that all of its subjects are real and want the guide. “The Spiderwick Chronicles” were loved by children and adults alike, and was published in over 30 countries, selling over 7 million copies in the US alone.

Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies released a live action adaptation of “The Spiderwick Chronicles” in 2008 starring Freddie Highmore, Mary Louise-Parker and Nick Nolte. The film was well received by critics and the public, remaining in the top 3 at the box office for a number of weeks.

In 2006, Tony took a break from Spiderwick, returning to the picture book format with his nonsense alphabet book, “G is For One Gzonk!” Next, he and Holly continued the Spiderwick saga in the new series, “Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles”. The latest Spiderwick story arc followed a new set of kids dealing with giants, mermaids and nixies in the hot, humid tropics of South Florida.

DiTerlizzi’s passion for crafting more chapter books for young imaginations continued with 2008’s “Kenny and The Dragon”. Inspired by “The Reluctant Dragon”, it tells the story of a young, bookish rabbit who becomes friends with a happy-go-lucky drake. As the two become best friends, the king orders the town dragon-slayer to execute the beast – and it is up to the rabbit, Kenny, to stop him. The book became a New York Times bestseller the week of its release and was nominated for several state book awards.

He followed Kenny by teaming up with his wife, Angela, on a silly series of young picture books, “Adventure of Meno”. Meno, the space elf, and his best friend (a jellyfish named Yamagoo) do not speak in correct grammar and go on ridiculous adventures where they are visited by a variety of guests such as David Hasselhoff and Eddie Vedder.

“Ang and I wanted to create a very young book that made you laugh.” Tony explained. “There are plenty of soft and cute books for toddlers, but we wanted one that caused laughter with both the parent and the child, forging a love of fun books from the onset.”

2010 marks a decade of creating books for children for Tony. “This is what I have always dreamed of doing,” he says. “I keep waiting for my mom to wake me up and it has all just been one middle school-aged escapist dream.”

DiTerlizzi celebrated his ten-years in children’s publishing by returning to aliens and spaceships with his futuristic fairy tale, “The Search for WondLa”. The story follows a 12-year old girl, Eva Nine, who is raised underground by a robot. Eva discovers that she is the only human alive on an alien planet and begins searching for others like her.

Tony works with his wife, Angela, and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with their daughter.

Michael Buckley: book signing and discussion

09-23-2010 - 09-23-2010

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Blue Willow Bookshop

http://www.bluewillowbookshop.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp

Blue Willow Bookshop - 14532 Memorial Drive Houston TX 77079

Admission: <p>The event is free and open to the public</p> <p><i>Blue Willow Bookshop is proud to be the Houston stop for many wonderful authors We work hard to make each event enlightening and entertaining <br /> <br /> All Blue Willow Bookshop presentations are free of charge <br /> </i></p> <p><i>If you would like to go through the signing line and meet the author for book personalization, you must purchase the author's current book from Blue Willow Bookshop</i></p>

(281) 497-8675

Start Time(s): <p>4:30pm</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Blue Willow Bookshop presents Michael Buckley, Thursday, September 23 at 4:30pm. Michael Buckley, author of the Sisters Grimm series, visits Houston to discuss and sign his newest book, Nerds: M is for Mama’s Boy.

NERDS combines all the excitement of international espionage with all the awkwardness of elementary school, and the results are hilarious. A group of unpopular fifth graders run a spy network from inside their school. With the help of cutting-edge science, they transform their nerdy qualities into incredible abilities!

Their enemies? An array of James Bond-style villains, each with an evil plan more diabolical and more ridiculous than the last.

In the second installment of Buckley's series, the Nerds make their return and this time, the group must fight a villain so unlikely, he still lives with his mom. In other words, it's the Nerds against a nerd.

Join us as we welcome a very funny author to Blue Willow!

New York Times bestselling author Michael Buckley was born in Akron, Ohio. He tried his hand as a stand-up comic and lead singer for a punk rock back before attending Ohio University. After graduating with honors he moved to New York City to be an intern on the Late Show with David Letterman which led to stints developing programming for Discovery Networks, MTV, MTV Animation and Klasky Csupo (producers of Nickelodeon’s Rugrats).

Today he lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, Alison, and their son Finn.

Sophie Jordan: book signing and discussion

09-11-2010 - 09-11-2010

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Blue Willow Bookshop

http://www.bluewillowbookshop.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp

Blue Willow Bookshop - 14532 Memorial Drive Houston TX 77079

Admission: <p>The event is free and open to the public</p> <p><i>Blue Willow Bookshop is proud to be the Houston stop for many wonderful authors We work hard to make each event enlightening and entertaining <br /> <br /> All Blue Willow Bookshop presentations are free of charge <br /> </i></p> <p><i>If you would like to go through the signing line and meet the author for book personalization, you must purchase the author's current book from Blue Willow Bookshop</i></p>

(281) 497-8675

Start Time(s): <p>1:30pm</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Blue Willow Bookshop presents Sophie Jordan, Saturday, September 11, at 1:30pm. New York Times Bestselling author Sophie Jordan will discuss and sign Firelight, the first book in her young adult paranormal series.

With her rare ability to breathe fire, Jacinda is special even among the draki—the descendants of dragons who can shift between human and dragon forms. But when Jacinda’s rebelliousness leads her family to flee into the human world, she struggles to adapt, even as her draki spirit fades. The one thing that revives it is Will, whose family hunts her kind. Jacinda can’t resist getting closer to him, even though she knows she’s risking not only her life but the draki’s most closely guarded secret.

Sophie Jordan grew up in the Texas hill country where she wove fantasies of dragons, warriors, and princesses. A former high school English teacher, she's also the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Avon historical romances. She now lives in Houston with her family. When she's not writing, she spends her time overloading on caffeine (lattes and Diet cherry Coke preferred), talking plotlines with anyone who will listen (including her kids), and cramming her DVR with true-crime and reality-TV shows.

Sophie also writes paranormal romances under the name Sharie Kohler.

Texas Poetry Calendar Reading

09-11-2010 - 09-11-2010

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Blue Willow Bookshop

http://www.bluewillowbookshop.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp

Blue Willow Bookshop - 14532 Memorial Drive Houston TX 77079

Admission: <p>The event is free and open to the public</p> <p><i>Blue Willow Bookshop is proud to be the Houston stop for many wonderful authors We work hard to make each event enlightening and entertaining <br /> <br /> All Blue Willow Bookshop presentations are free of charge <br /> </i></p> <p><i>If you would like to go through the signing line and meet the author for book personalization, you must purchase the author's current book from Blue Willow Bookshop</i></p>

(281) 497-8675

Start Time(s): <p>4:00pm</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Blue Willow Bookshop presents a Texas Poetry Calendar Reading, Saturday, September 11 at 4pm.

It’s time for the annual Texas Poetry Calendar reading!

The following poets are scheduled to appear at Blue Willow:

Vivian Macias
Dede Fox
Katie O’Sullivan
Sandi Stromberg
Becky Travis
Carolyn Dahl
Oscar Pena
Margo Davis
Winston Derden
Mary Ellen Branan
Barbara Carle
Jeannie Gambill
Kay Cox
Kathleeen Cook

Join us for an afternoon of poetry from our favorite state.

VBB Living Room Art: Womens Voices: Alice Valdez and Sheema Kirmani - La Voz

11-06-2010 - 11-06-2010

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Voices Breaking Boundaries

http://www.vbbarts.org/

Admission: <p>$ Free</p>

(713) 524-7821

info@vbbarts.org

Start Time(s): <p>8pm</p>

Voices Breaking Boundaries presents a VBB Living Room Art production, Women’s Voices: Alice Valdez and Sheema Kirmani - La Voz.  Featuring Aisha Gazdar, Vanessa Cerda, Sheherzad Kaleem, Sehba Sarwar, Yunuen Perez Vertti, Gwen Zepeda. 8 pm, Saturday, November 6, 2010. Location:  The home of Larissa Lindsay and Stuart Bailey, 1816 Kane, Houston, TX 77007. $ Free.

VBB is an organization that has long recognized and learned from individuals who have taken risks by speaking out. This fall, VBB’s season will kick off with Women’s Voices, a new production from our much-loved living room art series that will take place in a historical 1888 Houston home located in Sixth Ward, just around the corner from the Multicultural Education and Counseling Center for the Arts (MECA).

The show will recognize the services provided by the arts center and the leadership role played by MECA’s Founding Director and latina icon, Alice Valdez, who has given voice to many Houston artists including Gwen Zepeda and Vanessa Cerda, who will both perform at the event. Like all VBB living room art productions, Women’s Voices will parallel issues of Houston neighborhoods with those in Pakistan.

This year, the production will shed light on art and community activism in Pakistan through a documentary by Sheherzad Kaleem about a grassroots Karachi-based arts organization, Tehrik-e-Niswan, led by dancer/actress Sheema Kirmani. Included in the production will be a documentary by Aisha Gazdar about Pakistan’s Women’s Action Forum, a protest group that grew during the 1980s while Pakistan was run under the US supported right-wing military dictatorship of General Zia.

The evening will feature installations by Sehba Sarwar and Yunuen Perez Vertti. Also part of the experience will be an open mic and altar, so all are encouraged to bring words and share altar art.

As always, there will be music, food, drinks, and surprises. Please join us!

This show is cosponsored by Arte Público Press, Geo TV (Pakistan), Houston Institute for Culture, Pacifica Radio KPFT 90.1 FM and Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast. The goal of VBB's living room art productions are to continue juxtaposing joys, struggles and successes in the US and in Pakistan.

About VBB’s Living Room Art Productions: Four years ago, under the guidance of VBB artist Oskar Sonnen, VBB began a new series called Living Room Art, an innovative approach designed to bring art directly into residential communities around Houston and beyond. Living Room Art productions are "one night stands,” open to the public and take place in private homes. The goals of Living Room Art are: to bring together disparate neighborhoods and communities; to bring together diverse populations who may not ordinarily go to a gallery/museum; and to address social issues through art.

All VBB Living Room Art shows are theme-based, multidisciplinary, and allow space for spoken word artists, writers, visual artists, performance artists, and musicians, and generally draw audiences ranging from 250-400. The shows are conceived and directed by Founding Director Sehba Sarwar with Yunuen Perez Vertti, Mark Lacy and Eric Hester.

Pictured above:  Alice Valdez and Sheema Kirmani.

Racehorse adoption ranch founder Lynn Reardon visits Houston

10-06-2010 - 10-06-2010

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PR by the Book

http://www.beyondthehomestretch.com

Blue Willow Bookshop - 14532 Memorial Drive Houston TX 77079

Admission: <p>Free and open to the public</p>

(281) 497-8675

girlboss@bluewillowbookshop.com

Start Time(s): <p>7pm</p>

PR by the Book and Blue Willow Bookshop present a book signing with Racehorse adoption ranch founder Lynn Reardon, 7pm, Wednesday, October 6.

Lynn Reardon, founder and executive director of the nonprofit racehorse placement agency, LOPE (LoneStar Outreach to Place Ex-Racers), will be in Houston on Sept. 10-12 and Oct. 6th to raise awareness for LOPE and her new book Beyond the Homestretch: What I’ve Learned from Saving Racehorses.

In Beyond the Homestretch, Reardon shares her inspiring story. In 2002, she quit her Washington D.C. office job and moved to Texas to open LOPE with her husband. Since then, she has helped transition more than 750 thoroughbreds into new homes. Beyond the Homestretch presents a vivid inside look into the world of horse racing, complete with colorful horses, jockeys, trainers and gallop girls, depicting the insights horses can offer when we reevaluate our relationship with them.

“My work straddles the line between farm hand, equine psychologist, horse wrangler and kindergarten teacher – I often refer to myself as a career counselor for ex-racehorses,” says Reardon. “I see the horses as exciting, admirable ex-athletes with fully developed personalities and hidden vocations. The horses are my mentors as they continue to guide me toward fuller meaning in my own life as I help them find new careers and homes.”

Galveston Haunted Happenings Tours (Fridays-Sundays)

10-15-2010 - 10-31-2010

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Galveston Historical Foundation

http://www.galvestonhistory.org/

Galveston - various locations - Galveston TX 77550

Admission: <p>Tickets for all the &ldquo;Haunted Happenings&rdquo; tours are available at GHF&rsquo;s website: <a href="http://wwwgalvestonhistoryorg">wwwgalvestonhistoryorg</a> Adult prices are $20 for Ashton Villa, $15 for Haunted Harbor; and $12 for Haunted Cemetery</p> <p>For more information, call GHF at 409-765-7834<br /> <br /> &nbsp;</p>

4097657834

http://ghf.destinationnext.com/

Start Time(s): <p>See dates/times/locations above</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Galveston's Haunted History Comes To Life This October. From its storied harbor to its vault-filled cemeteries to its stately Victorian mansions, historic Galveston is filled with legendary figures and ghostly stories. This October, Galveston Historical Foundation is once again hosting the popular Galveston Haunted Happenings Tours.

Galveston is one of the most haunted cities in America, according to numerous websites, books and “ghost hunters” that track reports of ghostly occurrences. Galveston has been home to the allegedly cannibalistic Karankawa Indians and merciless pirates, including the famous Jean Laffite whose lavish and lawless den of thieves was the island's first European settlement. Galvestonians in the 19th century knew fires, epidemics of yellow fever and malaria, military occupation and bitter war, and of course, storms.

"The Great Storm of 1900, which washed clean of houses great swaths of the island and killed well over 6,000 people, remains the worst natural disaster in American History,” says Dwayne Jones, executive director of Galveston Historical Foundation.

“The organized crime that developed around the seaborne smuggling of liquor during the Prohibition era was supplemented by individualized mayhem and tragedy,” says Jones. “Many, many people have lived and died by these waters, and perhaps some of the dead still reside here. We invite our guests to listen to the stories, and decide for themselves. But you don't have to believe in ghosts to know that the dead are a presence on this island."

During the month of October Galveston’s haunted history will be explored in three series of tours:

ASHTON VILLA’S “ARE WE HAUNTED?” TOURS

• October 15, 16, 22 and 23, and 29: 5 p.m.
• October 30 and 31: 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Is Ashton Villa haunted by the spirit of “Miss Bettie,” the daughter of the house’s first owner, James Moreau Brown? Maybe. Maybe not. Since 1975, when GHF opened the restored mansion to the public, legends and ghost stories have attached themselves to Ashton Villa. The one-hour “Are We Haunted?” tour of Ashton Villa shows the restoration in progress on the ground floor level, following damage by Hurricane Ike, then explores the undamaged second floor where ghostly memories still reside.

HAUNTED HARBOR TOURS ABOARD SEAGULL II

• October 15, 16, 22 and 23: 4 p.m.
• October 29, 30 and 31: 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.

For the Haunted Harbor Excursion, the tour relates specifically to the water and waterfront. Trained GHF guides present a fascinating, frightening look at the many tragic events that have occurred in and around Galveston Harbor for their guests aboard the 50-foot passenger boat, Seagull II.

“SPIRITS OF THE PAST” CEMETERY TOURS

• October 29, 30, 31: 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.

The spirits are easy to find at GHF’s “Spirits of the Past” Cemetery Tour. They await discovery at the Broadway Cemetery, located right on the divided boulevard along which presidents, movie stars, oil moguls and millions of ordinary people pass through the rich history that abounds in every neighborhood of the city.

"The markers in these cemeteries can tell stories that textbooks do not," says Denise Alexander, GHF's Director of Heritage Programs. "Each marker is a piece of Galveston and Texas history."

In 1840, the Galveston City Company officially donated blocks between 40th and 42nd streets for the purpose of public burials; other blocks adjacent to the site were soon donated to make up for seven named cemeteries that make up the Broadway Cemetery. The first burial was in October, 1839.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEW "SPIRITS OF THE PAST" TOUR -

James B. Magruder (ca. 1810 -1871): Major General Magruder led a combined land and sea operation that successfully returned the City of Galveston to the Confederacy on January 1, 1863.

Perugini Brothers: Frank and Tony Perugini were brothers born on the same date two years apart. They joined the Navy in separate states on the same day, unbeknownst to each other. They both died on the same day in a torpedo gun turret on the cruiser New Orleans during the Battle of the Solomons in World War II.

Alberti Family: Louis G. Alberti operated a butcher shop in Galveston. He and his wife Lizzie became parents of eight children. Two children died of natural causes and four more died on the night of December 4, 1894, after being poisoned by their mother. Eight days later, a court declared her insane and committed Mrs. Alberti to an asylum in San Antonio. Four years later, she died of a morphine overdose and is buried alongside her children.

Tickets for all the “Haunted Happenings” tours are available at GHF’s website: www.galvestonhistory.org. Adult prices are $20 for Ashton Villa, $15 for Haunted Harbor; and $12 for Haunted Cemetery. For more information, call GHF at 409-765-7834.

Poetry Reading

09-25-2010 - 09-25-2010

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Heights Books-Libros

http://www.myheightsbooks.com/index.html

Heights Books-Libros - 502 E 20th St #D Houston TX 77008

Admission: <p>Free and open to the public</p>

713-869-9966

Start Time(s): <p>4pm-6pm</p>

Heights Books-Libros presents a Poetry Reading, Saturday, September 25, 4pm-6pm.

Featuring:

Christopher Bear Beam
Diana X. Muniz
Yvonne Zepeda

Over the last twenty-three years, Chris Beam has worked in the helping professions as a youth and family counselor, outreach worker, pastoral care counselor and facilitator for anti-racism groups. He is very interested in the mind-body connection in common problems such as racism and mental health. At the heart of his philosophy is the notion that human beings are holistic beings consisting of physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual components. He wrote this book to provide a text that uses a Systems Model on the nature of how racism and mental health impact our culture in positive and negative ways. With this in mind, the author hopes to give hope and healing to all who struggle with these issues. Chris has a Masters Degree in Counseling, and is presently studying to become a Spiritual Director.

The poems, essays, and other writings on Christopher Bear Beam’s website are ways to spread the word through digital art. Christopher Bear Beam’s vision is that artists do contribute to changing the human consciousness to one of peace, internalizing oneness, non-violence, and the promotion of human dignity for all people.

Christopher Bear Beam has several self-published books of poetry.

Yvonne Zepeda works for The Museum Of Fine Arts Houston and City Art Works teaching art to children and adults. She is also a visual artist, poet and short story writer.

"My art is an expression of the many facets of my life. I draw inspiration from images, dreams, visions, memories, real-life events and the connection I have with other beings in the world. I'm mostly a self-taught artist. Every piece I create has not been without the struggle of having to learn something new. I believe this is the beauty of my artistic exploration. Each body of work I create is a direct truth of the "influences" of many things in my life. Past present and within me. The journeys I've taken and the people I've come across have left a piece of themselves with me, as a gift of inspiration. My hope is that my audience will be touched by my work and possibly find their own inspirations".

Great Conversations: What Matters Most

09-29-2010 - 09-29-2010

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Jung Center of Houston

http://www.cgjunghouston.org/

Jung Center of Houston - 5200 Montrose Houston TX 77006

Admission: <p>Supporter - $75<br /> Patron - $150<br /> Benefactor - $250 - includes reserved seating<br /> Individual Underwriting Partner - $500 or more -&nbsp;Includes preferred reserved seating and acknowledgement at the event and in our Program Guide</p> <p>Online registration for this event is now closed Contact Jolene Romero, registrar, at <a href="mailto:jrracs@junghoustonorg">jrracs@junghoustonorg</a> &nbsp;or 7135248253 for availability information</p>

713-524-8253

jrracs@junghouston.org

http://www.junghouston.org/programs/fall/whatmatters.html

Start Time(s): <p>Conversation: 7 pm <br /> Reception: 8:15 pm&nbsp;<br /> &nbsp;</p>

The Jung Center of Houston presents Great Conversations: What Matters Most , Wednesday, September 29.  This special evening benefiting The Jung Center features James Hollis and J. Pittman McGehee exploring what it means to live a fulfilling life.

Why are we here? What is the meaning of our existence? Where did I lose the trail? Can I find my way back? If we do not engage in dialogue with these questions that emerge from our depths, then we will live an unconscious, unreflective, accidental life. Beginning with these insistent questions, two of Houston’s most thoughtful teachers explore a fresh concept of a fulfilling life–one that embraces growth over security, engagement versus avoidance, and a recognition that the forces in our lives, far from being accidental, are the heat, the cold, the pressure that temper us into a looking glass through which we can see into the heart of what matters…what really matters.

James Hollis, PhD, is a Jungian analyst, author of more than a dozen books, and director emeritus of The Jung Center. He is Director of Jungian Studies at Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco and lectures internationally on depth psychology.

J. Pittman McGehee, MDiv, is a Jungian analyst, author, poet and director of the Institute for the Advancement of Psychology and Spirituality. Formerly the Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Pittman is widely known as a lecturer and educator in the field of psychology and religion.

Author Appearance: A Speaking engagement by Alex Heard

09-14-2010 - 09-14-2010

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University of Houston - History Department

http://vi.uh.edu/default.asp

University of Houston - MD Anderson Library - 4800 Calhoun Road Houston TX 77004

Admission: <p>Free event</p>

713/743-3083

brazos@brazosbookstore.com

Start Time(s): <p>7:00pm</p>

Co-Sponsors the UH Graduate College of Social Work, the UH Department of History, the UH African American Studies Program, and the UH Law Center present A Speaking engagement by Alex Heard, author of The Eyes of Willie McGee.

Critically acclaimed author Alex Heard will discuss his new book, The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South, on Tuesday, September 14 at 7PM at the University of Houston's Rockwell Pavilion in the M.D. Anderson Library.

Based on exhaustive documentary research—court transcripts, newspaper reports, archived papers, letters, FBI documents, and the recollections of family members on both sides—Mississippi native Alex Heard tells a moving and unforgettable story that evokes the bitter conflicts between black and white, North and South, in America.

The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South is a gripping saga of race and retribution in the Deep South and a story whose haunting details echo the themes of To Kill a Mockingbird.

About the author: Alex Heard is the editorial director of Outside magazine. He has worked as an editor and writer at The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Wired, and The New Republic, and is the author of Apocalypse Pretty Soon. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Author's site: http://eyesofwilliemcgee.com/.

Seinfeld: The Continuing Search for Meaning (Wednesdays)

09-15-2010 - 10-27-2010

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Jung Center of Houston

http://www.cgjunghouston.org/

Jung Center of Houston - 5200 Montrose Houston TX 77006

Admission: <p>$105 ($90 Jung Center members)</p>

713-524-8253

http://www.cgjunghouston.org/courses/fall/applebaum2.html

Start Time(s): <p>Wednesdays, 5:45 - 7:15 pm, <br /> Sept 15 - Oct 27 (<span style="background-color: #ffff99"><i>no class Sept 29</i></span>)<br /> &nbsp;</p>

The Jung Center of Houston presents Seinfeld: The Continuing Search for Meaning, with Edward Applebaum, PhD, Wednesdays, 5:45 - 7:15 pm, Sept 15 - Oct 27 (no class Sept 29)

What can we learn by talking, endlessly, about nothing? We will continue our survey of the world according to Seinfeld with new episodes in this continuing saga. We will study the inner relationships between Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer with particular attention to those psychological forces which motivate each of them.

We will also focus on their seemingly effortless abilities to dramatically change the moods and dialogues. Most important, we will attempt to define the existential force that guides the entire series....which is, as Jerry says, nothing.

Ed Applebaum, PhD, composer and conductor, has taught at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University and in the UH Honors College. He conducts research on depth pscyhology and the arts.

Psyche's Cinema: Dreams, Myths, and Monsters in Early Silent Film (Wednesdays)

09-15-2010 - 10-27-2010

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Jung Center of Houston

http://www.cgjunghouston.org/

Jung Center of Houston - 5200 Montrose Houston TX 77006

Admission: <p>$105 ($90 Jung Center members)<br /> 9 CE hours</p>

713-524-8253

http://www.cgjunghouston.org/courses/fall/baugher.html

Start Time(s): <p>Wednesdays, 7:30 - 9 pm, <br /> Sept 15 - Oct 27 (<span style="background-color: #ffff99"><i>no class Sept 29</i></span>)<br /> &nbsp;</p>

The Jung Center of Houston presents Psyche's Cinema: Dreams, Myths, and Monsters in Early Silent Film, with Tiffany Baugher, PhD, Wednesdays, 7:30 - 9 pm, Sept 15 - Oct 27 (no class Sept 29).

Encounter the Faustian bargains, dangerous dopplegangers, and fantastic atmospheres of Germany's golden silent film era. A fascinating, seminal, and very brief period in film history, German Expressionism was tremendously psychological in character, inspired by dreams, the subconscious and powerful symbols.

The imagery, ambience and themes of Expressionism would live on to inspire such great directors as Wells and Bergman, as well as film noir. We will view film clips and discuss The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, (pictured) Metropolis, Waxworks, and other films. A reader will be available in the bookstore.

Tiffany Baugher, PhD, is a depth psychologist practicing in the Houston area. She holds degrees in Counseling and Clinical Psychology with emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Blaffer Brown Bag Gallery Tours: Gabriel Kuri: Nobody needs to know the price of your Saab and Amy Patton (Wednesdays)

09-08-2010 - 09-15-2010

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Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston

http://www.class.uh.edu/blaffer/

Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston - The University of Houston 120 Fine Arts Building Houston TX 77204

Admission: <p>The tour is free and open to the public, and lunch will be provided</p> <p>Blaffer Gallery is located in the Fine Arts Building on the University of Houston's central campus<br /> &nbsp;</p>

713-743-9521

Start Time(s): <p>12 noon</p>

After hosting a successful opening reception that saw higher-than-average attendance figures, Blaffer Art Museum begins its fall program of educational events in conjunction with the exhibitions Gabriel Kuri: Nobody needs to know the price of your Saab and Amy Patton.

Kicking off the educational programs is a Brown Bag Gallery Tour on Sept. 8 at noon. The free guided tour of Amy Patton will be led by Wendy Vogel, a critic and curator based in Houston. A complimentary lunch will be provided.

Vogel is currently a critical studies fellow in the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Glassell School of Art. She received her Bachelor of Arts from New York University and her Master of Arts from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in New York. She has written for Artforum.com, ArtLies and ...might be good, and she has worked in the curatorial departments at The Museum of Modern Art in New York and Wiels in Brussels, Belgium.

The following week, on Sept. 15 at noon, Jillian Conrad, an assistant professor in the sculpture program at the University of Houston, will lead the Brown Bag Gallery Tour for Gabriel Kuri: Nobody needs to know the price of your Saab. Admission to the tour is free, and lunch will be provided.

Conrad received a Master of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, R.I. and a Bachelor of Arts from St. John's College in Santa Fe, N.M. She has exhibited her work nationally, and she was recently awarded a fellowship in the Core Program at the MFAH's Glassell School of Art.

About Blaffer:
Founded in 1973, Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston was named in honor of the late Sarah Campbell Blaffer, a noted Houston arts patron and collector. Since its inception, the museum has been a vital force in the presentation and promotion of contemporary visual arts in Houston. Blaffer is located in the Fine Arts Building on the University of Houston's central campus, entrance 16 south of Cullen Boulevard. It is free and open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Sundays, Mondays, university holidays and during exhibition installations (visit the website or call to confirm). The museum is ADA compliant. For general inquiries, please call 713.743.9521, or visit the museum online at www.blafferartmuseum.org.

Pictured Above:  Amy Patton, detail Production still, 2010. Courtesy the artist, commissioned through a residency at the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts with additional support from Blaffer Art Museum and the University of Houston School of Theatre and Dance. Photo: dabfoto creative.

Gulf Coast Reading Series - October 2010

10-08-2010 - 10-08-2010

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Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts

http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/

Brazos Bookstore - 2421 Bissonnet Houston TX 77005

Admission: <p>Free Event</p>

713 743-1000

Start Time(s): <p>7pm</p>

Houstonians, however, have the benefit of hearing works straight from the writers' mouths during the monthly Gulf Coast Reading Series. During its 2010-2011 season, the series will introduce Houstonians to 21 talented students from UH's acclaimed Creative Writing Program. All readings are free and presented at Brazos Bookstore.

Gulf Coast, a biannual journal featuring innovative fiction for the literary-minded, presents this reading series, bringing writers from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program to the ears of our city. Through the University of Houston's literary journal Gulf Coast, audiences around the world can experience the poetry and fiction of emerging authors.

"The Gulf Coast Reading Series offers residents an opportunity to hear some of the best young writers read their work," said J. Kastely, director of the UH Creative Writing Program. "The series takes place in an intimate setting, and it is fun to be part of the audience. It epitomizes what a literary community can be."

All readings are free and open to the public and begin at 7 p.m. at Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet, Houston, TX 77005.  

October 8, 2010: Jason Daniels, Karyna McGlynn, Kevin Tynan

Jason Daniels is a second year MFA candidate in fiction at UH and an assistant editor for Gulf Coast. He can reliably be found reading, writing, playing videogames or eating delicious foods.

Karyna McGlynn is the author of I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, winner of the 2008 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry from Sarabande Books. She’s released several chapbooks including the collaboration Small Shrines (Cinematheque Press, 2010). Her poems appear in Fence, Octopus, Denver Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, Copper Nickel and Salt Hill. Karyna is currently pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Houston. She edits the journal linelinelineline with Adam Theriault.

Kevin Tynan is a first-year MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Houston. He grew up in rural New England and attended Union College and the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, where he earned his BA in English. Before moving to Houston, Kevin briefly worked in publishing at Tupelo Press.

Red Block Bash - UH Arts Open House

09-30-2010 - 09-30-2010

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Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts - UH

http://www.mitchellcenterforarts.org/2010_uhartsopenhouse.php

Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston - The University of Houston 120 Fine Arts Building Houston TX 77204

Admission: <p>Free and open to the public</p>

7137435749

mitchellcenter@uh.edu

Start Time(s): <p>4:00pm - 7:00pm</p> <p><strong>Location:</strong> Arts Quadrangle at Entrance 16 University of Houston (Entrance 16 off Cullen Blvd; free parking in Lot 16)</p>

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts - UH presents the Red Rock Bash, Thursday, September 30, 4pm-7pm.

The Red Block Bash, a UH Arts Open House presented by the Blaffer Student Association and the Mitchell Center, features live music from the Moores School of Music, readings from the Creative Writing Program, demonstrations by the School of Art and performances by the School of Theatre & Dance.

All events offer a sneak peek at the UH arts fall season.

LOCATION: UH Arts Quadrangle and the Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, 120 Fine Arts Building, Entrance 16 off Cullen Blvd.

ADMISSION: Free!

HMNS Special Lecture: The Indian Ocean Trade, A Maritime Silk Route

10-20-2010 - 10-20-2010

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Houston Museum of Natural Science

http://www.hmns.org/

Houston Museum of Natural Science - 5555 Hermann Park Drive Houston TX 77030

Admission: <p>Member-Adult $1200<br /> Member-Child (&lt;18) $1200<br /> Adult $1700<br /> Child (3-11) $1700<br /> Senior (62+) $1700<br /> College (Current ID) $1700<br /> Group (20+ persons) $1700</p>

(713) 639-4629

http://store.hmns.org/

Start Time(s): <p>6:30pm<br /> &nbsp;</p>

The Houston Museum of Natural Science presents an HMNS Special Lecture entitled The Indian Ocean Trade, A Maritime Silk Route, Wednesday, October 20, 6:30 p.m. Featuring Derek Kennet, Ph.D., (pictured) The University of Durham, England. Co-sponsored by AIA - Houston.

Starting in the Roman period, a maritime silk route as valuable as the overland Silk Road developed in the Indian Ocean from China to Arabia. Fabulous silks, spices, incense, pearls, ivory and gem stones traversed these routes. This maritime route grew into the most important trade network in the medieval world where cultural exchange brought about shifts in ideas, technology and beliefs—and the beginning of a truly global economy.

Archaeologist Dr. Derek Kennet will tell the adventurous tale of the development and impact of the silk route of the Indian Ocean, including the “graveyard of gold.”

Dr. Derek Kennet has conducted archaeological field work at several locations along the Indian Ocean’s silk route. He is a pioneer of economic archaeology that traces the patterns of economic interaction and interdependence.

This lecture sponsored by AIA - Houston is underwritten by Saudi Aramco.

Deborah Hay

10-02-2010 - 10-02-2010

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Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts - UH

http://www.mitchellcenterforarts.org/2010_deborahhay.php

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston - 5216 Montrose Houston TX 77006

Admission: <p>Free and open to the public</p>

7137435749 or 713-284-8250

mitchellcenter@uh.edu

Start Time(s): <p>2:00pm<br /> &nbsp;</p>

In collaboration with the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), the Mitchell Center will bring legendary choreographer and artist Deborah Hay to Houston for a lecture and performance, Saturday, October 2.

This event is in conjunction with the CAMH exhibition Dance with Camera. The exhibition explores a crossover between artists and dancers who create choreography for the camera.

Deborah Hay (pictured, Photo Credit Rino Pizzi ©2010) was born in Brooklyn. Her mother was her first dance teacher, and directed her training until she was a teenager. She moved to Manhattan in the 1960s, where she continued her training with Merce Cunningham and Mia Slavenska. In 1964, Hay danced with the Cunningham Dance Company during a 6-month tour through Europe and Asia.

Deborah Hay was a member of a group of experimental artists that was deeply influenced by Merce Cunningham and John Cage. The group, later known as the Judson Dance Theater, became one of the most radical and explosive 20th century art movements.

By 1967, Hay had already achieved a prominent status as a young choreographer, and her unique style began to emerge as a distinct voice within the aesthetics of Judson. Sharing with her colleagues the ideas that dance engage with other art forms, and that the artificial distinction between trained and untrained performers be challenged, she focused on large-scale dance projects involving untrained dancers, fragmented and choreographed music accompaniment, and the execution of ordinary movement patterns performed under stressful conditions.

In 1970 she left New York to live in a community in northern Vermont. Soon, she distanced herself from the performing arena, producing 10 “Circle Dances,” performed on 10 consecutive nights within a single community and no audience whatsoever. Thus began a long period of reflection about how dance is transmitted and presented. Her first book, Moving Through the Universe in Bare Feet (Swallow Press, 1975), is an early example of her distinctive memory/concept mode of choreographic record, and emphasizes the narratives underlining the process of her dance-making, rather than the technical specifications or notations of their form.

In 1976 Hay left Vermont and moved to Austin, Texas. Her attention focused on a set of practices ("playing awake") that engaged the performer on several levels of consciousness at once. While developing her concepts over the course of 15 years, she instituted a yearly four-month group workshop that culminated in large group public performances and from these group pieces she distilled her solo dances. Her second book, Lamb at the Altar: The Story of a Dance (Duke University Press, 1994), documents the unique creative process that defined these works.

In the late 1990’s Deborah Hay focused almost exclusively on rarified and enigmatic solo dances based on her new experimental choreographic method, such as The Man Who Grew Common in Wisdom, Voilà, The Other Side of O, Fire, Boom Boom Boom, Music, Beauty, The North Door, The Ridge, Room, performing them around the world and passing them on to noted performers in the US, Europe, and Australia. She also choreographed a duet for herself and Mikhail Baryshnikov, Single Duet, which toured with the Past/Forward project in 2000.

Her third book, My Body, The Buddhist (Wesleyan University Press, 2000) is an introspective series of reflections on the major lessons of life that she has learned from her body while dancing.

Hay’s work has now reached a new stage, where she redefines the inimitable choreographic method of her solo pieces in collaboration with highly trained dancers. In 2004 she received a NYC Bessie award for her choreography of the quartet The Match. In 2006 she choreographed “O, O” for 5 New York City choreographer/dancers and then for 7 French dancers of comparable experience. The Festival d’Automne, in Paris, presented The Match in 2005 and “O, O” in 2006. They also presented Hay’s new piece, If I Sing To You, in 2008. The work was commissioned by The Forsythe Company and premiered in Dresden, Germany, April 3-6, 2008. The Toronto Dance Theatre premiered her latest work, Up Until Now, on January 29, 2009.

Deborah Hay has collaborated with many artists such as composers Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Lucier, Richard Landry, Terry Riley, Ellen Fullman, artist Tina Girouard, and Australian actor/playwright/director Margaret Cameron, among others. She has been the recipient of many grants and fellowships, including a 1983 Guggenheim Fellowship in choreography, numerous National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowships, and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship in 1996.

In 2007 she received a BAXten Award. The award was presented with the following words: “Your experimental work has remained alive & contemporary over four decades, inspiring your colleagues and peers and now - new generations of choreographers & performers. Your sustained commitment and your willingness to change course provides an example for others. Your articulate writing on the body & dance has had a profound impact on the field.”

In October 2009 the Theater Academy in Helsinki, Finland, conferred on Deborah Hay an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Dance at the Doctoral Degrees Graduation Ceremony.

LOCATION: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 5216 Montrose Blvd.

ADMISSION: Free.

Contemporary Salon: Gabriel Kuri

10-20-2010 - 10-20-2010

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Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts - UH

http://www.mitchellcenterforarts.org/2010_gabrielkuri.php

Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston - The University of Houston 120 Fine Arts Building Houston TX 77204

Admission: <p>Free and open to the public</p>

7137435749

mitchellcenter@uh.edu

Start Time(s): <p>6:30pm<br /> <i>A short wine and cheese reception will precede the event</i></p>

The Mitchell Center joins forces with the Blaffer Art Museum to co-present its ongoing series of Contemporary Salons.

The new partnership continues with a discussion about Gabriel Kuri's exhibition at Blaffer, Nobody needs to know the price of your Saab, on view August 28- November 13, 2010. Experts in a wide array of fields will discuss the exhibition in a moderated conversation.

A short wine and cheese reception will precede the event.

LOCATION: Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, 120 Fine Arts Building, Entrance 16 off Cullen Blvd.

ADMISSION: Free.

POSTPONED Contemporary Salon: Amy Patton

09-22-2010 - 09-22-2010

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Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts - UH

http://www.mitchellcenterforarts.org/2010_contemporarysalon_amypatton.php

Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston - The University of Houston 120 Fine Arts Building Houston TX 77204

Admission: <p>Free and open to the public</p>

7137435749 or 7137439521

mitchellcenter@uh.edu

Start Time(s): <p>6:30pm<br /> <i>A short wine and cheese reception will precede the event</i></p>

POSTPONED UNTIL OCTOBER.  NEW DATE TBD....

The Mitchell Center joins forces with the Blaffer Art Museum to co-present its ongoing series of Contemporary Salons.

The new partnership continues with a discussion about Amy Patton's exhibition at Blaffer, on view Aug. 28- Nov 13, 2010. Exhibition curator Rachel Hooper, Blaffer's Associate Curator and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fellow, will moderate a spirited conversation between experts in a wide array of fields.

A short wine and cheese reception will precede the event.

This event continues the Blaffer/Mitchell Center Contemporary Salon partnership, where the two institutions work together to select a diverse range of artists, community members and experts to discuss Blaffer exhibitions.

Amy Patton's recent experiments in performance and theater employ complex strategies of sound, text and voiceover to explore the various ways images and meaning are constructed. Commissioned through a residency at the UH Mitchell Center and shot entirely in a black box theater at UH, the artist's most recent film Oil (2010) centers on a young woman preparing for her role in a theater production inspired by Upton Sinclair's Oil!

Organized by Rachel Hooper, Patton's exhibition at Blaffer Art Museum also debuts a new series of photographs and earlier films with Texan origins. Patton was born in Texas and currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

LOCATION: Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, 120 Fine Arts Building, Entrance 16 off Cullen Blvd.

ADMISSION: Free.

About Blaffer:
Founded in 1973, Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston was named in honor of the late Sarah Campbell Blaffer, a noted Houston arts patron and collector. Since its inception, the museum has been a vital force in the presentation and promotion of contemporary visual arts in Houston. Blaffer is located in the Fine Arts Building on the University of Houston's central campus, entrance 16 south of Cullen Boulevard. It is free and open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Sundays, Mondays, university holidays and during exhibition installations (visit the website or call to confirm). The museum is ADA compliant. For general inquiries, please call 713.743.9521, or visit the museum online at www.blafferartmuseum.org.

About the Mitchell Center:
The University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts cultivates interdisciplinary collaboration in the performing, visual and literary arts. From its base at the University of Houston, the Mitchell Center offers public events, residencies and courses that fuse artistic disciplines, ignite dialogue and present new ways of experiencing the arts in contemporary life. The Mitchell Center forms an alliance among five units at the University of Houston: The School of Art, Creative Writing Program, Moores School of Music, School of Theatre and Dance, and Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston. For general inquiries, please call 713.743.5548, or visit the Mitchell Center online at www.mitchellcenterforarts.org.

RESCHEDULED Faith, Labor and Justice: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Houston

09-29-2010 - 09-29-2010

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Rothko Chapel

http://www.rothkochapel.org

Rothko Chapel - 1409 Sul Ross Houston TX 77006

Admission: <p>All programs are free and open to the public Seating is first-come, first-serve For additional information, please call 713-524-9839</p> <p>Parking is available along the street or in the St Thomas Parking Garage on the corner of West Alabama and Graustark for $200</p>

713-524-9839

Start Time(s): <p>7pm</p>

The Rothko Chapel presents Faith, Labor and Justice: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Houston, Tuesday, September 7, at 7pm. Christine Diaz, moderator.

The Rothko Chapel event, The Struggle for Worker Rights in Houston planned for this evening (Sept 7 at 7pm) is being rescheduled. Weather conditions, including heavy rains, flood and tornado warnings are such that it is not safe to hold the event this evening.
The event is rescheduled for Wednesday, Sept 29 at 7pm. Please mark your calendars and plan to join the Rothoko Chapel and Houston Interfaith Worker Justice Center for a fascinating exploration of worker rights in Houston.

Wishing you safe journeys today!

On the day following Labor Day please join us for a discussion of the current state of worker rights here in the Houston area. Organized in conjunction with the national Interfaith Worker Justice Committee campaign titled Labor in the Pulpits, on the Bimah in the Minbar, our program will explore the links between faith, labor and justice through conversations with four local workers involved in organizing efforts. Workers will present personal reflections on unionization, health and safety issues, wage theft, and the importance of organizing for worker justice and respect for labor laws.

Christine Diaz with the KPFT radio program Voices at Work will moderate the conversation. This program is co-sponsored with the Houston Interfaith Workers Justice Center.

The Rothko Chapel is funded in party by a grant from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.

Rothko Chapel Fall Speaker Series: Transformative Encounters with the Rothko Chapel

09-25-2010 - 09-25-2010

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Rothko Chapel

http://www.rothkochapel.org

Rothko Chapel - 1409 Sul Ross Houston TX 77006

Admission: <p>All programs are free and open to the public Seating is first-come, first-serve For additional information, please call 713-524-9839</p> <p>Parking is available along the street or in the St Thomas Parking Garage on the corner of West Alabama and Graustark for $200</p>

713-524-9839

Start Time(s): <p>3pm</p>

The Rothko Chapel presents the Rothko Chapel Fall Speaker Series: Transformative Encounters with the Rothko Chapel, Saturday, Sept. 25 at 3pm.

Featuring:
HELEN WINKLER-FOSICK
CAROL MANCUSI-UNGARO
CHRISTOPHER ROTHKO, PhD
HARRY COOPER, moderator

Helen Winkler Fosdick, art historian; Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, art conservator; and Christopher Rothko, Ph.D., son of Mark Rothko, come together for a discussion of their own transformative encounters with the Rothko Chapel (pictured).

These three professionals make a rare appearance together in the beautiful afternoon light and intimate space of the Chapel to offer insights into the profound mystery of the Rothko Chapel. The program will be moderated by Harry Cooper, PhD., head of the department of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., who recently oversaw the exhibition In the Tower: Mark Rothko.

The Rothko Chapel is funded in party by a grant from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.

Rothko Chapel Fall Speaker Series: Juarez a Killing Field: Murder City - Charles Bowden

10-05-2010 - 10-05-2010

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Rothko Chapel

http://www.rothkochapel.org

Rothko Chapel - 1409 Sul Ross Houston TX 77006

Admission: <p>All programs are free and open to the public Seating is first-come, first-serve For additional information, please call 713-524-9839</p> <p>Parking is available along the street or in the St Thomas Parking Garage on the corner of West Alabama and Graustark for $200</p>

713-524-9839

Start Time(s): <p>7pm</p>

The Rothko Chapel presents the Rothko Chapel Fall Speaker Series: Juarez a Killing Field:  Murder City - Charles Bowden, Tuesday, October 5 at 7pm.

Our fall series continues with three lectures on the roots of violence in Ciudad Juárez, where 1,900 people have been murdered so far this year. We have invited three pre-eminent analysts of the political, social and economic context of the violence and the impact it is having on the people living in border region.

Schedule of Lectures:
October 5: Charles Bowden, author of Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Field

October 12: Cecillia Ballí, professor of anthropolgy at University of Texas, Austin

October 19: Alfredo Corchado, Mexico Bureau Chief, Dallas Morning News

There have been thousands of murders in Juárez, Mexico and nearby cities bordering the United States, and an escalation in the violence over the past three years. Issues facing U.S. border cities include the presence of drug cartels and their business infrastructure, the increasing presence of U.S. security and law enforcement, and the migration of Mexicans who are fleeing the violence. This series goes beyond the headlines to reveal the challenging realities in Mexico and the implications for the United States. Programs on October 5, 12, and 19 feature three prominent journalists and authors who address different aspects of border violence.

“Murder City”
Charles Bowden, Author
Tuesday, October 5, 7pm

Charles Bowden (pictured) writes and talks frankly about the brutal violence in the Mexican city Juárez, which borders El Paso, Texas. His latest book, Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields, looks at the life of three people in the city over the course of one year.

Bowden has written about the city for over fifteen years, and his work has been published by Harper’s, The New York Times, Esquire, and Mother Jones Magazine.

The Rothko Chapel is funded in party by a grant from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.

Rothko Chapel Fall Speaker Series: Not For Sale: The Scandal of Human Trafficking in Houston and Beyond

09-17-2010 - 09-17-2010

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Rothko Chapel

http://www.rothkochapel.org

Rothko Chapel - 1409 Sul Ross Houston TX 77006

Admission: <p>All programs are free and open to the public Seating is first-come, first-serve For additional information, please call 713-524-9839</p> <p>Parking is available along the street or in the St Thomas Parking Garage on the corner of West Alabama and Graustark for $200</p>

713-524-9839

Start Time(s): <p>7pm</p>

The Rothko Chapel presents the Rothko Chapel Fall Speaker Series: Not For Sale: The Scandal of Human Trafficking in Houston and Beyond, Friday, September 17 at 7pm.  Speaker: DAVID BATSTONE, PhD.

David Batstone (pictured), an internationally recognized expert on human trafficking and author of Not For Sale, an examination of the global slave trade, will speak at the Rothko Chapel. In 2007, he co-founded the "Not For Sale" campaign, which is inspiring thousands of people from grassroots activists to business leaders to celebrities to join together to put an end to modern-day slavery.

David Batstone will be joined by Maria Trujillo, executive director of Houston Rescue and Restore Coalition, Houston's foremost agency in confronting the crisis of human trafficking. A reception will follow the discussion on the Rothko Chapel plaza.

This program is presented as part of Houston's fourth annual Human Trafficking Awareness Week.

The Rothko Chapel is funded in party by a grant from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.

Rothko Chapel Fall Speaker Series: Juarez a Killing Field: City of Death; City of Hope - Dr Cecilia Balli

10-12-2010 - 10-12-2010

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Rothko Chapel

http://www.rothkochapel.org

Rothko Chapel - 1409 Sul Ross Houston TX 77006

Admission: <p>All programs are free and open to the public Seating is first-come, first-serve For additional information, please call 713-524-9839</p> <p>Parking is available along the street or in the St Thomas Parking Garage on the corner of West Alabama and Graustark for $200</p>

713-524-9839

Start Time(s): <p>7pm</p>

The Rothko Chapel presents the Rothko Chapel Fall Speaker Series: Juarez a Killing Field:  City of Death; City of Hope - Dr. Cecilia Balli, (pictured), Tuesday, October 12 at 7pm.

Our fall series continues with three lectures on the roots of violence in Ciudad Juárez, where 1,900 people have been murdered so far this year. We have invited three pre-eminent analysts of the political, social and economic context of the violence and the impact it is having on the people living in border region.

Schedule of Lectures:
October 5: Charles Bowden, author of Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Field

October 12: Cecillia Ballí, professor of anthropolgy at University of Texas, Austin

October 19: Alfredo Corchado, Mexico Bureau Chief, Dallas Morning News

There have been thousands of murders in Juárez, Mexico and nearby cities bordering the United States, and an escalation in the violence over the past three years. Issues facing U.S. border cities include the presence of drug cartels and their business infrastructure, the increasing presence of U.S. security and law enforcement, and the migration of Mexicans who are fleeing the violence. This series goes beyond the headlines to reveal the challenging realities in Mexico and the implications for the United States. Programs on October 5, 12, and 19 feature three prominent journalists and authors who address different aspects of border violence.

“City of Death; City of Hope”
Dr. Cecilia Balli, Journalist
Tuesday, October 12, 7pm

Dr. Cecilia Balli, a senior editor of Texas Monthly and an assistant professor of anthropology at The University of Texas, is writing a book on the violence toward young girls and women in Ciudad Juárez. A graduate of Stanford and Rice Universities, where she was awarded a Ph.D., she has lived and worked in Brownsville, Texas.

The Rothko Chapel is funded in party by a grant from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.

Rothko Chapel Fall Speaker Series: Juarez a Killing Field: The Most Dangerous Place to Practice Journalism - Alfredo Corchado

10-19-2010 - 10-19-2010

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Rothko Chapel

http://www.rothkochapel.org

Rothko Chapel - 1409 Sul Ross Houston TX 77006

Admission: <p>All programs are free and open to the public Seating is first-come, first-serve For additional information, please call 713-524-9839</p> <p>Parking is available along the street or in the St Thomas Parking Garage on the corner of West Alabama and Graustark for $200</p>

713-524-9839

Start Time(s): <p>7pm</p>

The Rothko Chapel presents the Rothko Chapel Fall Speaker Series: Juarez a Killing Field:  The Most Dangerous Place to Practice Journalism - Alfredo Corchado, (pictured), Tuesday, October 19 at 7pm.

Our fall series continues with three lectures on the roots of violence in Ciudad Juárez, where 1,900 people have been murdered so far this year. We have invited three pre-eminent analysts of the political, social and economic context of the violence and the impact it is having on the people living in border region.

Schedule of Lectures:
October 5: Charles Bowden, author of Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Field

October 12: Cecillia Ballí, professor of anthropolgy at University of Texas, Austin

October 19: Alfredo Corchado, Mexico Bureau Chief, Dallas Morning News

There have been thousands of murders in Juárez, Mexico and nearby cities bordering the United States, and an escalation in the violence over the past three years. Issues facing U.S. border cities include the presence of drug cartels and their business infrastructure, the increasing presence of U.S. security and law enforcement, and the migration of Mexicans who are fleeing the violence. This series goes beyond the headlines to reveal the challenging realities in Mexico and the implications for the United States. Programs on October 5, 12, and 19 feature three prominent journalists and authors who address different aspects of border violence.

“The Most Dangerous Place to Practice Journalism”
Alfredo Corchado, Journalist
Tuesday, October 19, 7pm

As bureau chief in Mexico City for the Dallas Morning News, Alfredo Corchado risks his life to write about drug dealers, police and government corruption, the disappearance of women, and the activities of drug cartels moving into Houston and Dallas. A native of Mexico and a graduate of The University of Texas at El Paso who has also written for the Wall Street Journal, his writings have brought him a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University and the Maria Cabot Moors Prize for bravery from Columbia University.

The Rothko Chapel is funded in party by a grant from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.

Neale Donald Walsch: DIRECT CONNECTION, An Invitation to Alter Your Reality Forever

10-28-2010 - 10-28-2010

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Unity Church of Christianity

http://www.unityhouston.org/

Unity Church of Christianity - 2929 Unity Drive Houston TX 77057

Admission: <p>$2500</p> <p>Tickets can be purchased at <a href="http://wwwunityhoustonorg">http://wwwunityhoustonorg</a></p>

713-782-4050

http://www.unityhouston.org/events-and-classes/special-events/neale-donald-walsch.aspx

Start Time(s): <p>7:30pm</p>

Unity Church of Christianity presents  Neale Donald Walsch:  DIRECT CONNECTION, An Invitation to Alter Your Reality Forever, Lecture & Booksigning, Thursday, October 28, 2010, at  7:30 PM.

Each one of us yearns to have a direct and clear communication with The Divine about the burning questions of our hearts. In Conversations with God, Neale Donald Walsch is told over and over again that it is not a question of whether God speaks to us, but whether we listen. In the Direct Connection program, Neale teaches how to do just that. He will invite you to enter into a moment in which you can know the physical presence of God—and receive a direct answer to the most pressing questions in your life. Past participants have called it an experience they will never forget...and one which they know they can duplicate whenever they wish.

If you are facing a challenge, coping with unexpected, unbidden and unwanted change in your life, or if you are simply one of the millions who have been buffeted by life challenges, now you can experience the most wonderful healing you could ever devise.

In this workshop you will have an opportunity to:

• Have your own conversation with God, and physically experience God, in the room.
• Understand, at last, how you create your own reality
• Expand the data of the mind to include the wisdom of the soul as you move through your daily encounters.
• Finish your “unfinished business” by healing past injury, anger, sadness, disappointment, or resentment.
• Deal with present or future unexpected, unwanted change, replacing anger, frustration, and regret with peace and grace.

This program is based on the book When Everything Changes, Change Everything In a time of upheaval, a doorway to peace through a direct experience of The Divine.

Neale's Bio
Neale Donald Walsch, Author of the “Conversations with God” Series. Neale Donald Walsch has been a newspaper reporter and managing editor, a radio station program director, public information officer for one of the nation's largest public school systems, creator and owner of his own advertising and marketing firm, and a nationally syndicated radio talk show host. He has now "retired" from his career in communications arts to pursue his vision of a world in which people no longer live in fear of God, or of each other.

He has written more than twenty books on spirituality and its practical application in everyday life, including the multimillion-selling "With God" series: Conversations with God, Books I–III; Friendship with God; Communion with God; The New Revelations; Tomorrow’s God; What God Wants; and Home with God. Seven of those books reached the New York Times Bestseller List. Walsch is the creator of several nonprofit organizations, all of which seek to create a new spirituality on the planet.

Neale has a home in southern Oregon where he lives with his wife, Em Claire, who is a working poet ( www.emclairepoet.com ). They travel extensively throughout the world, speaking to audiences and sharing the messages of the Conversations with God material. His newest book is When Everything Changes Change Everything.

For more information, visit www.nealedonaldwalsch.com.

Darlene Koldenhoven: Healing With Your Voice & Music

10-17-2010 - 10-17-2010

Unity Church of Christianity

http://www.unityhouston.org/

Unity Church of Christianity - 2929 Unity Drive Houston TX 77057

Admission: <p>$2000</p> <p>Tickets can be purchased at <a href="http://wwwunityhoustonorg">http://wwwunityhoustonorg</a></p>

713-782-4050

http://www.unityhouston.org/events-and-classes/special-events/darlene-koldenhoven.aspx

Start Time(s): <p>1:30pm</p>

Unity Church of Christianity presents Darlene Koldenhoven: Healing With Your Voice & Music. a Workshop to Harmonize Your Mind, Body & Life, Sunday, October 17th at 1:30 PM.

Join Grammy-winner Darlene Koldenhoven (pictured) in opening a “new” and healing part of you, Your Voice, in her informative, entertaining and rejuvenating adventure with sound, utilizing the many newly researched and proven benefits of music and sound-making for the brain, body and all around health. Guiding you through the space-time code of music, Darlene will demonstrate how you can open your voice and strengthen your ear-voice-body connection while balancing your energy, release stress and emotional blockages, improve circulation, blood pressure, oxygen flow, mental focus, frequency, range, pitch centering, and so much more. Discover how the pitch and tone of your speaking & singing voice reveals much about your state of mind, health of body, and intent of purpose; that when tuned, returns the body to a state of homeostasis.

Exploring a variety of “healing-with-sound” methods from the ancients to modern medicine around the world, you will learn how to activate a deeper connection between voice and Spirit. You will experience deep breathing, rhythmic entrainment, resonance balancing, sensory connecting, sonic strengthening exercises, and much, much more. Emerge with a freer, more confident voice and restored, enriched, balanced, life energy.

No singing experience necessary.

Don Campbell, author of The Mozart Effect says, “Enjoy Darlene’s energetic and knowledgeable invitation to SING.”

Darlene has a Masters Degree in Voice and Bachelors in Music Education. She is a Vocalist, Sound Healer, Composer, Songwriter, Speaker, Credentialed Educator, & Author of Tune Your Voice: Singing and Your Mind’s Musical Ear (Book w/7CDs) endorsed by Juilliard, Don Campbell, Berklee, NYU & more. She has presented workshops nationwide on the voice and vibrational healing, such as The Global Sound Conference, in Los Angeles and The Dynamic Listening Conference, in Boulder. Her articles on healing with the voice are published in Evolve Magazine and New Age & New Sounds, Italy

Rice Design Alliance (RDA) Fall Lecture Series: We Are Living in a Material World (Wednesdays)

10-06-2010 - 10-27-2010

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Rice Design Alliance

http://ricedesignalliance.org/

Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium - 1001 Bissonnet Street Houston TX 77006

Admission: <p><strong>Series Tickets</strong>:<br /> $20 &ndash; RDA, MFAH members<br /> $15 &ndash; Senior citizens 65 and older<br /> $10 &ndash; Students with identification<br /> $35 &ndash; Others</p> <p><strong>Single Tickets (upon availability):</strong><br /> $7 &ndash; RDA, MFAH members; Senior citizens 65 and older; Students with identification<br /> $10 &ndash; Others</p> <p>As the lecture dates draw closer, tickets may be purchased in advance&nbsp;on the RDA&nbsp;website: <a href="http://wwwricedesignallianceorg">wwwricedesignallianceorg</a> &nbsp;For more information, please call the Rice Design Alliance, (713) 348-4876</p> <p>Additional parking at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is available until 7:00 pm for $3 in the museum garage located at the corner of Binz and Fannin Streets</p>

713-348-4876

http://ricedesignalliance.org/2010/we-are-living-in-a-material-world-rda-fall-lecture-series

Start Time(s): <p>All lectures begin at 7pm&nbsp;<br /> <i>Please join us for a 6 pm pre-lecture wine reception in the MFAH Foyer at 1001 Bissonnet&nbsp;</i>&nbsp;</p>

Rice Design Alliance is pleased to announce that the annual RDA Fall Lecture Series will take place October 6 through October 27 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The series, titled We Are Living in a Material World, will focus on innovative and cutting-edge uses and practices of materials in the built environment.

The speakers will address various topics, ranging from what “green” buildings and materials really consist of and how they fare throughout their lifecycles, to how different materials are chosen for a particular project and how materials function both aesthetically and practically.

The tactile and aesthetic qualities of materials have always been integral to construction and architectural experience, but emergent materials and their associated technologies are rapidly altering the way designers work and the way end-users engage buildings.

This series seeks to address the ever-expanding world of materials and their incorporation into our built environment.

The public and RDA members are invited to hear the following speakers during the series:

October 6 –Blaine Brownell
Transstudio, St. Paul, Minnesota
http://transstudio.com/
Reception Sponsor: SpawMaxwell Company

October 13 – Gail Peter Borden
Architect, Borden Partnership LLC, Los Angeles
http://www.bordenpartnership.com/
Reception Sponsor: D. E. Harvey Builders

October 20 – Andrew Dent
Material ConneXion, New York
http://www.materialconnexion.com/
Reception Sponsor: Brochsteins Inc.

October 27 – John Fernandez
Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://architecture.mit.edu/people.php?type=faculty&id=51
Reception Sponsor: WHR Architects, Inc. / E&C Engineers & Consultants

All lectures will be held at 7:00 p.m. in Brown Auditorium in the Caroline Wiess Law Building, each with a pre-lecture reception at 6:00 p. m. in the museum lobby. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, located at 1001 Bissonnet (enter via the Main Street door.) No guaranteed seating for ticket holders after 7:00 p.m. Additional parking at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is available until 7:00 pm for $3 in the museum garage located at the corner of Binz and Fannin Streets.

RDA will gladly make special accommodations for anyone needing assistance to attend a lecture. Contact RDA directly. A minimum of two week’s notice is appreciated. Call Kathryn Fosdick, RDA Associate Director of Programs, at 713-348-5583.

Pictured:  cover Transmaterial 3: A Catalog of Materials that Redefine our Physical Environment, February 2010, by Blaine Brownell.

Deborah King: Workshop: Having Courage: 'Living a Healthy Life'

09-26-2010 - 09-26-2010

Unity Church of Christianity

http://www.unityhouston.org/

Unity Church of Christianity - 2929 Unity Drive Houston TX 77057

Admission: <p>$2000</p> <p>Tickets can be purchased at <a href="http://wwwunityhoustonorg">http://wwwunityhoustonorg</a></p>

713-782-4050

http://www.unityhouston.org/events-and-classes/special-events/Deborah-King.aspx

Start Time(s): <p>1:30pm</p>

Unity Church of Christianity presents Deborah King: Workshop: Having Courage: "Living a Healthy Life," Sunday, September 26, at  1:30 PM.

Deborah King knows that having courage is the first step ...Deborah is passionately committed to offering people the tools with which to develop courage-day after difficult day- in the workplace, in personal life, and in the world. While many believe that you're either born with courage or not, Deborah King knows that courage can be learned. It is courage that creates strong, productive individuals and organizations that successfully meet the demands of our complex modern world. Now is the time for your staff and spa guests to learn how to have the courage to conquer their problems, whether health, relationships, or finances.

Deborah works with the audience in a transformational program that:

• Details and clarifies the energetic connection between repressed emotions and physical health
• Gives specific recommendations for losing weight that go beyond dieting or exercise
• Rejuvenates the will to change while deepening serenity and inner beauty
• Connects participants to their own higher guidance
• Rebalances the body's energy centers
• Leads to positive, personal change overall

This is an especially entertaining presentation appropriate for every type of group.

Deborah...

Is an internationally recognized speaker in the motivational field, sought after by businesses and organizations for her humor, wisdom, and insights. She keynotes to groups as diverse as spas, large and small, airline personnel for over 100 domestic and international carriers, and a medical congress in Munich.

Is entertaining, motivational, and has fully customizable programs that allow the listeners to learn at their own pace and become enthusiastic about personal productive change.

Is a health and wellness expert, with an emphasis on helping individuals achieve positive lifestyle changes.

Is a successful attorney and businesswoman, qualified to speak about reaching goals and improving relationships for both management and staff -resulting in lower costs, higher revenues, and sustainable profits.

Is a media correspondent who appears frequently on CNN, Fox News, ABC, on radio and in print, Internet, and other media,
speaking on a broad range of topics, from health concerns to celebrity snapshots to legal issues.

Is a featured blogger for the Huffingron Post and Psychology Today, commenting on current events to bring attention to health and wellness issues of contemporary society.

Is an established source for the press, having been quoted in such diverse media as USA Today, The Newark Star-Ledger, W Magazine, Fox News, and ABC News.

Is an author whose national bestselling book, Truth Heals: What You Hide Can Hurt You (Hay House 2009), answers the question; How can the truth change your life! It probes the powerful impact of truth on the emotional and physical issues we face every day.

Dr Joe Dispenza: Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

09-17-2010 - 09-18-2010

Unity Church of Christianity

http://www.unityhouston.org/

Unity Church of Christianity - 2929 Unity Drive Houston TX 77057

Admission: <p>Friday night lecture is $30<br /> Saturday workshop is $55<br /> Lecture and workshop package $75</p> <p>Tickets can be purchased at <a href="http://wwwunityhoustonorg">http://wwwunityhoustonorg</a></p>

713-782-4050

http://www.unityhouston.org/events-and-classes/special-events/joe-dispenza.aspx

Start Time(s): <p>Friday 7:30pm - 9:30pm Lecture <br /> Saturday 10:00am - 5:00pm Workshop</p>

Unity Church of Christianity presents Dr. Joe Dispenza: Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, lecture Friday, September 17, and workshop Saturday, September 18.

Rewire your brain by taking a journey in brain evolution – using scientifically proven neurophysiological principles. Join Joe Dispenza, (pictured) featured in What the BLEEP Do We Know?! and bestselling author of Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind and explore the multi-faceted relationship between your brain and body. Multimedia presentations and interactive processing enables you to begin to make important changes in your body-mind connection.

You will be given the important steps to overcome destructive emotional states such as insecurity, unworthiness, and anger. Replace those emotions with new states of mind as you are guided through a step-by-step process of personal change to transform yourself from thinking to doing to being.

You will interactively discover the 10 steps to rewiring your brain – the basis of Dispenza’s upcoming book, due for release in 2010.

Joe Dispenza, D.C., studied biochemistry at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. He has a Bachelor of Science degree with an emphasis in Neuroscience from Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Dr. Dispenza also received his Doctor of Chiropractic Degree at Life University in Atlanta, Georgia, graduating magna cum laude.

Dr. Dispenza's postgraduate training and continuing education has been in neurology; neuroscience; brain function and chemistry; cellular biology; memory formation; and aging and longevity. He is an invited member of Who's Who in America, an honorary member of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners, the recipient of a Clinical Proficiency Citation for clinical excellence in doctor-patient relationships from Life University, and a member of Pi Tau Delta - the International Chiropractic Honor Society.

Over the last 10 years, Dr. Dispenza has lectured in over 17 different countries on six continents educating people about the role and function of the human brain. He has taught thousands of people how to re-program their thinking through scientifically proven neuro-physiologic principles. As a result, this information has taught many individuals to reach their specific goals and visions by eliminating self-destructive habits. His approach, taught in a very simple method, creates a bridge between true human potential and the latest scientific theories of neuroplasticity. He explains how thinking in new ways, as well as changing beliefs, can literally rewire one’s brain. The premise of his work is founded in his total conviction that every person on this planet has within them, the latent potential of greatness and true unlimited abilities.

His new book, Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind connects the subjects of thought and consciousness with the brain, the mind, and the body. The book explores “the biology of change.” That is, when we truly change our mind, there is a physical evidence of change in the brain. As an author of several scientific articles on the close relationship between the brain and the body, Dr. Dispenza ties information together to explain the roles these functions play in physical health and disease. His DVD series, Your Immortal Brain, looks at the ways in which the human brain can be used to affect reality through the mastery of thought. He also sits as an invited editorial advisor of Explore Magazine.

In his research into spontaneous remissions, Dr. Dispenza has found similarities in people who have experienced so-called miraculous healings, showing that they have actually changed their mind, which then changed their health.

One of the scientists, researchers, and teachers featured in the award winning film, “What the BLEEP Do We Know!?” Dr. Dispenza is often remembered for his comments on how a person can create their day, which he discussed in the film. He also has guest appearances in the theatrical directors cut, “What the BLEEP Down the Rabbit Hole”; as well as the extended Quantum Edition DVD set, “What the BLEEP Down the Rabbit Hole”.

When not traveling and writing, he is busy seeing patients at his chiropractic clinic near Olympia, Washington.

Menil Illustrated Conversation: 'Objects of Devotion' with Kristina Van Dyke and Linda Neagley

10-12-2010 - 10-12-2010

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Menil Collection

http://menil.org/

Menil Collection - 1515 Sul Ross Houston TX 77006

Admission: <p>Free admission</p>

713-525-9400

Start Time(s): <p>7:30pm</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

The Menil Collection presents an Illustrated Conversation:  "Objects of Devotion" with Kristina Van Dyke and Linda Neagley, Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 7:30.

A ninth century Maya chocolate-drinking vessel and a thirteenth-century Japanese Shinto shrine figure are among the works in the exhibit Objects of Devotion, on view August 12 through October 31, that explores, in different times and places, the shared ground of religion and art.

Exhibition curator Kristina Van Dyke will be joined by Linda Neagley, Associate Professor of Art History at Rice University, where she is Director of Graduate Studies, for a discussion about the intertwined relationship of art and religious practice.

Rice University/JCC Lecture Series: Envisioning Jerusalem in the Pre-Modern World (Thursdays)

10-14-2010 - 10-28-2010

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Jewish Communitiy Center of Houston

http://www.jcchouston.org/

Jewish Community Center of Houston - 5601 S Braeswood Houston TX 77096

Admission: <p><strong>Per Lecture:</strong><br /> $10 members<br /> $15 non-members</p> <p><strong>Lecture Series:<br /> </strong>$20 members<br /> $30 non-members</p>

713-729-3200

nbarancik@jcchouston.org

https://www.jcchouston.org/forms/rice-university-jcc-lecture-series/

Start Time(s): <p>Thursdays, October 14, 21, and 28<br /> All Lectures at 8pm at the Jewish Community Center</p>

The Center for Jewish Living and Learning at the Jewish Community Center of Houston and Rice University present  Rice University/JCC Lecture Series: Envisioning Jerusalem in the Pre-Modern World.

The Jewish Community Center, in collaboration with Rice University, has created an annual lecture series presented by faculty associated with the Jewish Studies Program. Lectures will be held at the Jewish Community Center. The series is underwritten by the Maurice Amado Foundation.

Schedule of 2010 Fall Lectures:

Thursday, October 14
The Earthly Jerusalem: Judean, Roman, and Byzantine Remains of the Holy City
Instructor: Dr. Shira Lander

Thursday, October 21
Heavenly Jerusalem in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature
Lecture by Dr. Matthias Henze

Thursday, October 28
Imagining Jerusalem in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art
Lecture by Dr. Diane Wolfthal

The Jewish Community Center has founded the Center for Jewish Learning and Living, a collaborative process that brings together the arts and culture programming of the Center, such as the Book and Arts Fair, the Jewish Film Festival, and the Jewish Music Festival, and the education initiatives of the Center, such as the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School, and the Bunny and Leo Horvitz Scholar-in-Residence Program. In addition, this collaboration brings additional programs and staff to the Jewish initiatives of the JCC, with high hopes that more members of our community may be touched by meaningful Jewish experiences.

MEXICO 2010: 'El Grito' Independence and Revolution

09-16-2010 - 09-16-2010

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East End Studio Gallery (Houston Institute for Culture)

http://www.eestudiogallery.com

East End Studio Gallery (Houston Institute for Culture) - 708C Telephone Road Houston TX 77023

Admission: <p>Free and open to the public</p>

713-363-0054

eestudiogallery@gmail.com

Start Time(s): <p>6PM - 9PM</p>

East End Studio Gallery (Houston Institute for Culture) presents MEXICO 2010: “El Grito” – Independence and Revolution, Thursday, September 16, 6pm-9pm.  An evening of spoken word, art, and mariachi music.

Celebrating 200 years of Independence and 100 years of the Revolution of Mexico. In 2010, Mexico will commemorate the bicentennial of its independence and the centennial of its revolution. MEXICO 2010: “El Grito” – Independence and Revolution will celebrate this occasion with a visual arts show encompassing painting, photography and film.

MEXICO 2010 will be a reflection of Mexico’s past, present and future.

Halloween Cemetery Safari

10-30-2010 - 10-30-2010

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Leisure Learning Unlimited

http://www.llu.com

Leisure Learning Unlimited - 2990 Richmond Avenue Houston TX 77098

Admission: <p>$42 (including school bus transportation &amp; hand-outs) + money for lunch</p> <p><strong>NOTE</strong>: Be prepared for three hours of walking in about six cemeteries; see 10 more throughout the day Bring money for lunch or brown bag it<br /> &nbsp;</p>

713 529 4414

http://www.llu.com/sdc/regclass.html?&class=49999

Start Time(s): <p>9am-3pm</p>

 Leisure Learning Limited presents a Halloween Cemetery Safari, Saturday, October 30, 9am-3pm. Instructor:  Gary White.

Rolling hills and some of the prettiest land in Houston are in cemeteries. A school bus will take you to cemeteries mammoth, tiny, unusual, surprising, historic, beautiful, and abandoned. Learn about some of the fascinating, famous, infamous, and almost unknown people who are buried there.

See beautiful statues, imposing mausoleums, signed Tiffany windows, graves of both union and confederate Civil War soldiers, slaves, Howard Hughes (proving you can't take it with you), and some of the people whose names you see on streets, buildings, and subdivisions throughout the city.

NOTE: Be prepared for three hours of walking in about six cemeteries; see 10 more throughout the day. Bring money for lunch or brown bag it.

Gary White has been researching, restoring, and leading tours in cemeteries throughout the greater Houston area for almost two decades. He is a long-time Heritage Society staffer and founding member of the Professional Tour Guide Assn. of Houston.

Pictured:  Glenwood Cemetary.  Glenwood was landscaped to take advantage of its beautiful site on the north bank of Buffalo Bayou. (photo by Paul Hester).

An Evening with Marc Tyler Nobleman

10-24-2010 - 10-24-2010

Jewish Communitiy Center of Houston

http://www.jcchouston.org/

Jewish Community Center of Houston - 5601 S Braeswood Houston TX 77096

Admission: <p>$10 members<br /> $15 non-members</p>

713-729-3200

nbarancik@jcchouston.org

Start Time(s): <p>7:30pm-9:00pm</p>

The Center for Jewish Living and Learning at the Jewish Community Center of Houston presents An Evening with Marc Tyler Nobleman, author of It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Siegel and Shuster! The Two Jewish Teens Who Created Superman. Sunday, October 24, at 7:30pm.

Over a feverishly hot 24 hours in 1934, geeky writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster dreamed up a character who was everything they were not - and who launched both the superhero genre and the comic book industry. Did Hitler personally ban Superman comics? Does Superman have a Hebrew name? Why couldn't Joe draw on Thursday nights? In this lively talk, Nobleman shares secrets and rare, unpublished photos about the creation of the world's first comic book superhero.

Marc Tyler Nobleman is the author of more 70 books for children and one for adults. His picture book Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman (Knopf; 8/08; a Junior Library Guild selection) is the first all-ages biography of writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster and the first picture book on the story behind a fictional character, let alone the world's first superhero.

He writes humor regularly for Nickelodeon magazine, among others. He is also a cartoonist whose work has appeared in more than 100 magazines, seven of which you’ve heard of including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Good Housekeeping.

The Jewish Community Center has founded the Center for Jewish Learning and Living, a collaborative process that brings together the arts and culture programming of the Center, such as the Book and Arts Fair, the Jewish Film Festival, and the Jewish Music Festival, and the education initiatives of the Center, such as the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School, and the Bunny and Leo Horvitz Scholar-in-Residence Program. In addition, this collaboration brings additional programs and staff to the Jewish initiatives of the JCC, with high hopes that more members of our community may be touched by meaningful Jewish experiences.

Menil Gallery Talk: A Conversation with Isabel Schulz and Josef Helfenstein

10-22-2010 - 10-22-2010

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Menil Collection

http://menil.org/

Menil Collection - 1515 Sul Ross Houston TX 77006

Admission: <p>Free admission</p>

713-525-9400

Start Time(s): <p>7:00pm</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

The Menil Collection presents a Gallery Talk: A Conversation with Isabel Schulz and Josef Helfenstein, Friday, October 22, 2010, 7:00pm.  In conjunction with the exhibition Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage, on view October 22, 2010 through January 30, 2011.

Isabel Schulz, executive director of the Kurt and Ernst Schwitters Collection, is guest curator, with Menil Collection director Josef Helfenstein, of this first representative overview of the work of Kurt Schwitters (1887 - 1948) since his 1985 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.

With more than 100 assemblages, reliefs, sculptures, and collages, and the reconstruction of his Merzbau - a room-sized walk-in sculpture made of found materials, and destroyed in 1943 - the exhibition makes clear why Schwitters has remained one of the most influential figures of the international avant-garde.

Isabel Schulz is also curator of the Kurt Schwitters Archive at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany.

Hill/Finger Lecture: French Town

10-21-2010 - 10-21-2010

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Heritage Society

http://www.heritagesociety.org

Heritage Society - 1100 Bagby Houston TX 77002

Admission: <p>$5 for non-members,<br /> members are free</p> <p>If you would like to reserve a box lunch for this lecture, please contact <a href="javascript:locationhref='mailto:'+StringfromCharCode(101,109,97,114,116,105,110,64,104,101,114,105,116,97,103,101,115,111,99,105,101,116,121,46,111,114,103)+'?'">Elizabeth Martin </a>by 11 AM on Wednesday, October 20, 2010</p> <p>Complimentary parking in the paved lot directly behind the historic Kellum-Noble House; Enter the lot via Allen Parkway inbound</p>

713-655-1912

emartin@heritagesociety.org

Start Time(s): <p>12-1 pm</p>

Please join The Heritage Society for a Hill/Finger Noontime Lecture: French Town.  The October 21, 2010 lecture will be presented by Denise Labrie, (pictured) a freelance writer, poet, and songwriter who has chronicled the rich history of the Creole families whose descendents migrated to Houston from Louisiana.

These individuals settled in Houston’s 5th Ward where they established the community known as Frenchtown, founded Our Mother of Mercy Catholic Church, and preserved their rich cultural heritage of Creole food and Zydeco music.

Ms. Labrie is the author of several short stories about her heritage as well as three books. "The Louisiana to Houston Connection", "Parle Creole French: Southern Louisiana Dialect", and "Reflections: A Poetry Collection".

 If you would like to reserve a box lunch for this lecture, please contact Elizabeth Martin by 11 A.M. on Wednesday, October 20, 2010.

The Hill/Finger Lectures are made possible by William J. Hill and the Jerry and Nanette Finger Foundation. The Heritage Society is funded in part by a grant from the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.

Hill/Finger Lecture: Camp Logan

09-16-2010 - 09-16-2010

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Heritage Society

http://www.heritagesociety.org

Heritage Society - 1100 Bagby Houston TX 77002

Admission: <p>$5 for non-members,<br /> members are free</p> <p>If you would like to reserve a box lunch for this lecture, please contact <a href="javascript:locationhref='mailto:'+StringfromCharCode(101,109,97,114,116,105,110,64,104,101,114,105,116,97,103,101,115,111,99,105,101,116,121,46,111,114,103)+'?'">Elizabeth Martin </a>by 11 AM on Wednesday, September 15, 2010</p> <p>Complimentary parking in the paved lot directly behind the historic Kellum-Noble House; Enter the lot via Allen Parkway inbound</p>

713-655-1912

emartin@heritagesociety.org

Start Time(s): <p>12-1 pm</p>

Please join The Heritage Society for a Hill/Finger Noontime Lecture: Camp Logan. Take an hour off and escape into Houston’s history while grabbing a bite to eat at the Hill/Finger Lecture Series. Local historian and author, Louis Aulbach, will present the September 16 lecture.

Louis Aulbach will discuss the history of Camp Logan, a World War I era Army base established in the Houston area in 1917 where 35,000 soldiers lived while they were in military training. Camp Logan served as a base for the 33rd Infantry Division of the National Guard as well as other troops.

Designed as a "tent camp" supplemented by 1329 buildings, Camp Logan also included a base hospital, YMCA Hostess House and an extensive library operated by the American Library Association.

 If you would like to reserve a box lunch for this lecture, please contact Elizabeth Martin by 11 A.M. on Wednesday, September 15, 2010.

The Hill/Finger Lectures are made possible by William J. Hill and the Jerry and Nanette Finger Foundation. The Heritage Society is funded in part by a grant from the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.

Pictured:  Camp Logan entrance gate located at Westcott and Washington Avenue.

Menil Gallery Talk: Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions

09-20-2010 - 09-20-2010

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Menil Collection

http://menil.org/

Menil Collection - 1515 Sul Ross Houston TX 77006

Admission: <p>Free admission</p>

713-525-9400

Start Time(s): <p>8:00pm</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

The Menil Collection presents a Gallery Talk:  Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions, Monday, September 20, 2010, at 8:00 p.m.

Earth • Paint • Paper • Wood presents the sculptures, paintings, and works on paper that have entered the museum collection recently by gift, purchase, or bequest. In this fast-paced program, Menil curators and conservators will introduce you to acquisitions that they particularly admire, and in seven minutes tell you why.

In conjunction with the exhibit Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions, on view August 27 through November 28.

Does Judaism Believe in Karma? (Wednesdays)

10-06-2010 - 10-27-2010

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Jewish Communitiy Center of Houston

http://www.jcchouston.org/

Jewish Community Center of Houston - 5601 S Braeswood Houston TX 77096

Admission: <p>$30 members<br /> $40 non-members</p>

713-729-3200

nbarancik@jcchouston.org

Start Time(s): <p>Four Wednesdays beginning October 6<br /> 7:30pm-8:30pm</p>

The Jewish Community Center of Houston presents Does Judaism Believe in Karma?, presented Rabbi Judith Abrams, Ph.D.,(pictured)  for four Wednesdays, beginning October 6.

The Jerusalem Talmud presents many extensive texts on the idea of Karma: that the energy we send out is the energy that returns to us. This class will examine the many stories and teachings about Jewish Karma and how it works. No Talmud study background or Hebrew is needed for this class.

Judith Z. Abrams was ordained at Hebrew Union College in 1985. She earned her Ph.D. in Rabbinic Literature from the Baltimore Hebrew University in 1993. Rabbi Abrams is the founder and director of Maqom: A School for Adult Talmud Study, where everyone, regardless of their background, can learn. She received the Covenant Award for outstanding performance in the field of Jewish Education. She teaches through the Siegal College Distance Learning Program and the ALEPH rabbinic program and is the author of many books about Talmud and prayer.

Kulanu: An Adult Jewish Learning Collaborative: Kulanu is an initiative for adult Jewish learning developed in cooperation with Jewish organizations across Houston. Kulanu, which means "all of us," is designed to offer learning opportunities for adults of all backgrounds and interests.

The JCC is pleased to partner with Maqom, a school fo adult Talmud study, founded and directed by Rabbi Judith Z. Abrams, Ph.D.

An Evening with Author David Grossman

10-18-2010 - 10-18-2010

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Jewish Communitiy Center of Houston

http://www.jcchouston.org/

Jewish Community Center of Houston - 5601 S Braeswood Houston TX 77096

Admission: <p>$10 members<br /> $15 non-members</p>

713-729-3200

nbarancik@jcchouston.org

Start Time(s): <p>8pm-9:30pm</p>

The Center for Jewish Living and Learning at the Jewish Community Center of Houston presents An Evening with Author David Grossman, Monday, October 18 at 8pm.

From one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life - the greatest human drama - and the cost of war. In To the End of the Land, Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother on the verge of her son’s release from army service, sets out for a hike in the Galilee leaving no forwarding information for the soldiers who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Never have we seen so clearly a presentation of the reality and surreal of daily life in Israel and the burdens that fall on each generation anew.

Leading Israeli novelist David Grossman (pictured, b. 1954, Jerusalem) studied philosophy and drama at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and later worked as an editor and broadcaster at Israel Radio. Grossman has written seven novels, a play, a number of short stories and novellas, and a number of books for children and youth. He has also published several books of non-fiction, including interviews with Palestinians and Israeli Arabs.

Among Grossman`s many literary awards: the Valumbrosa Prize (Italy), the Eliette von Karajan Prize (Austria), the Nelly Sachs Prize (1991), the Premio Grinzane and the Premio Mondelo (Italy, 1996), the Vittorio de Sica Prize (Italy), the Juliet Club Prize, the Marsh Award for Children`s Literature in Translation (UK, 1998), the Buxtehude Bulle (Germany, 2001), the Sapir Prize (2001), the Bialik Prize (2004), the Koret Jewish Book Award (USA, 2006), the Premio per la Pace e l`Azione Umanitaria 2006 (City of Rome), Onorificenza della Stella Solidarita Italiana 2007, Premio Ischia - International Award for Journalism 2007, the Geschwister Scholl Prize (Germany), the Emet Prize (Israel, 2007), the Albatross Prize (Germany, 2009), and the Frankfurt Peace Prize (2010). Grossman was also decorated as Chevalier de l`Ordre des Arts et Belles Lettres (France, 1998) and received an Honorary Doctorate from Florence University (2008).

In 2007, his novels The Book of Internal Grammar and See Under: Love were named among the ten most important books since the creation of the State of Israel. His books have been translated into over 25 languages.

The Jewish Community Center has founded the Center for Jewish Learning and Living, a collaborative process that brings together the arts and culture programming of the Center, such as the Book and Arts Fair, the Jewish Film Festival, and the Jewish Music Festival, and the education initiatives of the Center, such as the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School, and the Bunny and Leo Horvitz Scholar-in-Residence Program. In addition, this collaboration brings additional programs and staff to the Jewish initiatives of the JCC, with high hopes that more members of our community may be touched by meaningful Jewish experiences.

Menil Publication party and Booksigning: Art & Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil

11-03-2010 - 11-03-2010

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Menil Collection

http://menil.org/

Menil Collection - 1515 Sul Ross Houston TX 77006

Admission: <p>Free admission</p>

713-525-9400

Start Time(s): <p>7:00pm</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

The Menil Collection presents a Publication party and Booksigning for the new book Art & Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil.  Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.

The 22 essays gathered here show that when the de Menils were building their collection of art, they were also making significant contributions to architecture and film, to education, and to civil and human rights on a local and international level. The public is invited to the Menil collection to help celebrate the publication of Art and Activism.

 Among scheduled events: brief readings from the essays; a filmed conversation with John and Dominique de Menil about the origin of the Rothko Chapel; a show of images from the book (with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Adelaide de Menil, and Eve Arnold among the photographers.)

Copies of Art and Activism will be available for purchase and for signing by those who contributed essays.

Exploring Jewish Texas: A Visit to the Baytown and Beaumont Jewish Communities

10-24-2010 - 10-24-2010

Jewish Communitiy Center of Houston

http://www.jcchouston.org/

Jewish Community Center of Houston - 5601 S Braeswood Houston TX 77096

Admission: <p>$25 members<br /> $35 non-members</p>

713-729-3200

nbarancik@jcchouston.org

Start Time(s): <p>10:00 AM-5:30 PM</p> <p>Depart from the JCC at 10:00am/return 5:30pm</p>

The Center for Jewish Living and Learning at the Jewish Community Center of Houston presents Exploring Jewish Texas: A Visit to the Baytown and Beaumont Jewish Communities. Sunday, October 24.  Instructor: Keith Rosen.

Join the JCC as we visit the only two congregations east of Houston and still in Texas. Congregation Knesseth Israel in Baytown is the third oldest building still in operation as a Jewish House of Worship in Texas. Temple Emanuel in Beaumont (pictured) has some of the finest Jewish-themed stained glass windows in the US. It is the second oldest temple building in use as a temple in Texas.

We will also visit the cemeteries of these communities.

Keith Rosen has lead tours of Houston since 1985. He shares his love of the city and the histories that few people know, have been written, or read. Keith is a research historian. He has taught with colleges and universities in Alvin, Hurst, Denton, Dallas, Houston, and Melbourne, Florida since 1987. Currently, he is a professor of history and government with local community colleges and the Florence Melton School. He has also taught history at Texas Southern University (TSU). He has been nominated or selected as the teacher of the year four times.

In 2003, Keith was chosen as the Master Tour Guide for the City of Houston multi-cultural tours; in 2007, he was appointed to the Harris County Historical Commission. Keith has been profiled in several books and newspapers.

In his spare moments, Keith enjoys hiking, tubing, spelunking, horseback riding, rafting, and camping. He also plays tennis and softball. He also teaches courses in backgammon, blackjack, roulette, and craps. He currently is working on a book about the history of Jews in Houston.

The Jewish Community Center has founded the Center for Jewish Learning and Living, a collaborative process that brings together the arts and culture programming of the Center, such as the Book and Arts Fair, the Jewish Film Festival, and the Jewish Music Festival, and the education initiatives of the Center, such as the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School, and the Bunny and Leo Horvitz Scholar-in-Residence Program. In addition, this collaboration brings additional programs and staff to the Jewish initiatives of the JCC, with high hopes that more members of our community may be touched by meaningful Jewish experiences.

MFAH Gallery Conversations: The Interactive Book

09-11-2010 - 09-11-2010

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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

http://www.mfah.org

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Weiss Law Building - 1001 Bissonnet Street Houston Tx 77005

Admission: <p>Admission is open to the public and free with general museum admission Museum members always receive free admission</p> <p><b>Museum Admission:<br /> </b>$700 adults<br /> $350 seniors/children 5-18</p> <p><span style="background-color: #ffff99">RSVPs requested Email: </span><a href="mailto:lectures@mfahorg"><span style="background-color: #ffff99">lectures@mfahorg</span></a><span style="background-color: #ffff99"></span></p>

713-639-7300

lectures@mfah.org

Start Time(s): <p>2:30pm</p> <p><b>NOTE:&nbsp;</b> Meet in the Lobby of the Caroline Wiess Law Building&nbsp;</p>

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents MFAH Gallery Conversations: The Interactive Book, Saturday, September 11, 2:30 p.m. Presented by Jon Evans, Director of the Hirsch Library, MFAH.  Meet in the Lobby of the Caroline Wiess Law Building.

Beginning in the 1960s, artists began to stretch the concept of the book in new and surprising ways. One of the ways they transformed our expectations of what a book should be was by altering our interaction with books, requiring us to become ´active´ participants with the physical book instead of just ´passive´ readers.

Join Jon Evans, Director of the MFAH´s Hirsch Library, for a gallery talk on the exhibition, The Interactive Book, during which he will share examples of books by Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and Kara Walker, and other artists who transformed the book into a creative object.

Gallery Conversations are open to the public and free with general museum admission. Museum members always receive free admission. Campstools and MFAH listening devices that amplify the presenter´s voice will be provided on a first come, first-served basis. MFAH listening devices are available for loan with a valid photo ID, such as a driver´s license.

Image: Kara Elizabeth Walker and David Eisen, Freedom: A Fable. A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times, with Illustrations, 1997, California: Peter Norton Family, The Hirsch Library Collection.

Tree ID for the Novice

10-17-2010 - 10-17-2010

Houston Arboretum & Nature Center

http://www.houstonarboretum.org/

Houston Arboretum & Nature Center - 4501 Woodway Drive Houston TX 77024

Admission: <p>$75 for members<br /> $95 for non-members<br /> <br /> Cost includes two books: &quot;National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Trees of North America&quot; and &quot;Trees of Texas&quot;&nbsp;<br /> &nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

7136818433

http://www.houstonarboretum.org/tree_id.asp

Start Time(s): <p>2pm-5pm</p>

The Houston Arboretum & Nature Center presents Tree ID for the Novice, Sunday, October 17, 2pm-5pm.

Have you ever wondered what that tree is growing in your backyard? Or next door? Or at the Arboretum? In this 3-hour workshop, you will learn how to use leaves and field guides to identify 30 tree species native or naturalized to the Houston area. After the first hour of learning the various parts of a leaf and their positional relationships, you will confirm the identity of 18 labeled specimens in the classroom using two novice-friendly field guides. The third hour will be spent on our trails using your new skills to correctly identify 12 additional non-labeled trees.

Note: No prior botany knowledge required.

Cost of workshop includes two books: "National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Trees of North America" (2008) by Kershner, Mathews, Nelson & Spellenberg and "Trees of Texas" (2003) by Carmine Stahl & Ria McElvaney.

Bring a small leaf-covered tree branch from home for identification. Closed toe shoes are highly recommended. Registration limited to 25.

Instructor: Joe Blanton

Arianna Huffington

09-15-2010 - 09-15-2010

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Progressive Forum Houston

http://www.progressiveforumhouston.org/

Wortham Theater Center - Cullen Theater - 501 Texas Avenue Houston TX 77002

Admission: <p>Ticket prices are $14, $24, $34, $44, and $54</p> <p>A limited number of patron seats are available at $74 and include private patron reception with Arianna Huffington at 6:45 pm and center-front seating</p> <p>Discounts of 10% are available off all regular price levels except $74-patron level for students; educators including teachers and administrators at all levels; seniors 65 and older; and groups of 10 or more; valid ID required at the door</p> <p>Tickets are available at the door on event night Prior to event night, there are no tickets sold at the Wortham box office or any other physical box office Tickets are sold only through <a href="http://wwwprogressiveforumhoustonorg/">the website</a>,&nbsp; email blasts, and by phone at 832-251-0706</p> <p>If you have any problems purchasing your tickets online, please call the help desk at the box office at 888-695-0888 Feel free to call The Progressive Forum office at any time at 713-664-0020</p> <p>For the hearing impaired, free headsets are available from the ushers</p> <p>Parking is available underground at the Wortham, entrances on Texas Avenue or Prairie Street</p>

713-664-0020 or 832-251-0706

info@progressiveforumhouston.org

http://www.progressiveforumhouston.org/

Start Time(s): <p>7:30pm<br /> (<i>Private patron reception with Arianna Huffington starts earlier than usual at 6:45 pm in the green room for those purchasing $74 tickets and for Forum donors of $1,000 or more within the past 12 months)</i></p> <p><i>Arianna Huffington will sign books in the grand foyer at the end of the evening</i></p>

Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, will appear at The Progressive Forum Wednesday September 15, 2010, at the Wortham Center, Cullen Theater, at 7:30 PM. Books will be on sale at the event, Huffington will sign books and greet fans at the end of the evening.

Huffington is releasing a new book, Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream (Crown Business, Random House, releasing September 7).

Randall Morton, Progressive Forum president, said, “Arianna Huffington represents many important things at once, she’s successfully pioneering the world of online media, her book provides an important focus on the middle class plight, she’s a star political commentator, and she’s an inspiration for women.”

In launching her new book, Third World America, Huffington is also launching an online component, a new section with the same name on her website, HuffingtonPost.com, which will continue her stories of ordinary middle class Americans with a special focus on solutions.

Huffington says of her book, “Clearly, we’re not in the middle of a normal recovery. I detail all the ways this is happening, and the reasons why. Just as important, I also talk about the steps we can all take to help stop the slide. As soon as I finished writing the book, I knew I wanted to keep telling the stories of the middle class families whose lives have been turned upside down by the economic crisis, and to provide interactive tools that would allow people to get involved.

“That’s why HuffPost is launching a Third World America section to bear witness to what is happening to the American middle class in small towns and big cities all across the country. And we will, every day, focus on the solutions that are making a difference in the lives of ordinary Americans.”

Of the book, Elizabeth Warren said, “A voice of conscience in a time when we need conscience more than ever… Arianna is right: it’s not too late for citizens to wake up politicians or to take matters into their own hands. Time is short: read this book now.”

Robert Reich says, “With great passion and insight, Arianna tells it like it is. Blending outrage and optimism - indignation at how America’s crony capitalists have wrecked the nation’s great middle class, and unremitting hope that our people will rise and put things right - she explains what’s happening and what must be done. Here, clearly, is a book for our times.”

Arianna Huffington launched The Huffington Post in May 2005, a news, opinion, and blog-site with a progressive perspective. An article in Newsweek of July 25 said, “If you had to declare a winner among internet media companies today, the victor easily would be Arianna Huffington. Her site, The Huffington Post, attracted 24.3 million unique visitors last month, five times as much traffic as many new-media rivals, more than The Washington Post and USA Today, nearly as many as The New York Times…. And Huffpo has finally started to eke out a profit.”

Arianna Huffington is also a nationally syndicated columnist and co-host of the popular public radio show, Left, Right, & Center. She is the author of 13 books which also include Right is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made us All Less Safe (2008); and On Becoming Fearless…in Love, Work, and Life (2007). She is a constant presence on television shows such as Charlie Rose, Larry King Live, Countdown with Keith Obermann, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and The O’Reilly Factor.

Huffington was born Arianna Stassinopoulos in Athens, Greece. She moved to England at the age of 16 and attended Cambridge University where she became the president of the Cambridge Union Society, the world’s oldest student debate society. She kept the name of her ex-husband, Michael Huffington, with whom she has two daughters. Time magazine named her among the top 100 most influential people in the world. The Financial Times named her among the 50 people who shaped the decade.

The Progressive Forum is a nonpartisan, nonprofit 501(C)(3) civic speaker organization presenting its events at The Wortham Center. It’s the only civic speaker organization in America dedicated expressly to progressive values. Its purpose is to enrich our democracy and culture by striving to present the greatest minds from all the fields of human endeavor, the sciences and the humanities as well as politics and public affairs, great minds it believes are advancing the success of individuals, our species, and life on the earth. This year of 2010 marks the fifth anniversary of The Progressive Forum.

The Progressive Forum premiered on June 13, 2005, with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Houston Mayor Bill White in a program called “Our Environmental Challenges.” Al Gore launched An Inconvenient Truth at The Progressive Forum, his first U.S. book event for that title. Others include Jared Diamond, Seymour Hersh, Molly Ivins, George Soros, Edward O. Wilson, Frank Rich, Garrison Keillor, Joe Klein, Tim Flannery, Anna Deavere Smith, Gloria Steinem, James Hansen, Ken Burns, George Lakoff, Robert Redford, Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Edwards, Larry Wilmore, T. Boone Pickens, Lester Brown, Nancy Pelosi, Brian Greene, and Karen Armstrong.

The Progressive Forum originated a new model in civic speaker organizations in Houston to deliver a higher quality experience in a theater rather than a hotel luncheon, as well as generate a much larger audience than traditional speaking events. The Progressive Forum operates similarly to a performing arts company by using the finest theaters, paying speaker fees to present top intellectual stars, and marketing throughout the region. It offers convenient box office services through its website allowing ticket buyers to print tickets at their computer in addition to traditional phone sales.

Founder and president, Randall R. Morton has owned Randall Morton International, Inc. for 34 years, an advertising and public relations agency whose clients have included leading oil equipment companies in the U.S., Japan, Mexico, and Europe. He served as an adjunct professor at the University of Tulsa teaching advertising design and copy writing. Morton created, produced, and hosted the Oilfield Breakfast Forum from 1994 to 2003, an industry speaker platform which is still the largest in the oil business. While earning a degree in government from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., he served as an issue writer for the Democratic National Committee.

Tickets range from $14 to $54. A limited number of $74 tickets are available which include a green room reception with Arianna Huffington at 6:45 PM, a complimentary signed book, and center-front seating.

Tickets are available at www.progressiveforumhouston.org  or by calling 832-251-0706. There is no physical box office except at the theater on event night.