Holocaust Museum Houston, The Center for the Healing of Racism, and Texas Tribal Buffalo Project invite you to an in-person presentation about efforts around rematriation of Texas Indigenous land and communities, reconnecting and rekindling kinship. A facilitated dialogue will follow the presentation. Lucille Contreras is the CEO and Founder of Texas Tribal Buffalo Project. Bio: This project is […]
Amy Spitalnick – Executive Director of Integrity First for America America is grappling with a crisis of violent, white supremacist extremism. There are flashpoints like Charlottesville, Pittsburgh, El Paso, the Capitol insurrection, and Buffalo – and they go hand-in-hand with the broader normalization of extremism and unraveling of democratic norms. Join Amy Spitalnick – Executive […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston in partnership with Más Que Tres in our second annual Día De Los Muertos Community Workshop. Participants at this family-friendly event will have an opportunity to learn about creating an altar with Indigenous and Christian elements, creating a shadow box dedicated to a deceased loved one, and making paper flowers out […]
This free public program is available to experience in-person at Holocaust Museum Houston and online via Zoom. All times are listed in Central Time. Dr. Peter Hotez is an internationally recognized physician-scientist in neglected tropical diseases and vaccine development. He is perhaps most well-known for keeping Houston and the nation up to date on the […]
To support Latinx Heritage Month and inclusive curriculum year round, educators are invited to attend our half-day workshop on Latinx representation in the classroom. As a part of the workshop experience, educators will explore the stories of Latinx leaders through HMH galleries and classroom activities designed for elementary, middle, and high school students. Participants will […]
All times are listed in Central Time. Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a special presentation by Christina Chavarria, Program Coordinator, Education Initiatives, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, on the experience of Tony Acevedo, a devoted American despite his Mexican heritage discrimination. He was among more than 500,000 Latino men and women who served in the […]
Houston Coalition Against Hate (HCAH) in partnership with Holocaust Museum Houston cordially invites you to the 2022 A Time of Perspective featuring Valarie Kaur. Kaur's talk will draw from her #1 LA Times Bestseller SEE NO STRANGER: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love. Kaur envisions a world where love is a public ethic and […]
Tracing the last 10 years in the brief life of German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, the animated biopic, "Charlotte," deals head-on with depression and suicide as well as the Nazis’ genocidal war. Growing up in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War, Charlotte is fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, but her dreams of becoming […]
For Banned Books Week (Sept. 18-24), Brave Little Company, Holocaust Museum Houston, and the Montrose Center announce, “Our Stories Belong: Rainbow Storytime for ALL of Houston’s Kids.” Our Stories Belong is a free, in-person book club packed with creative activities, ideal for families with kids aged 5-10. A boy who wants to be a mermaid? […]
All times are listed in Central Time. In this hour-long program, poet, writer and performer Jasminne Mendez will share poems and a brief history commemorating the 85th anniversary of the 1937 Haitian Massacre which occurred along the northwestern border of the Dominican Republic and Haiti during the Trujillo Era. These poems and her work seek […]