Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a lecture by Dr. Yolanda Chávez Leyva, Director of the Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso and an Associate Professor in History, as she explores the ethical and historical issues associated with curating an art exhibit created by anonymous migrant youth held in detention. […]
oin us for a community art workshop with artist Theresa Escobedo. Participants will have an opportunity to learn how to make sugar skulls, paper flowers and create papel picado in honor of Día de los Muertos. The sugar skulls, flowers, and papel picado created in this workshop will also be included in the community ofrenda […]
This month Boniuk Library’s Book Club is joining hundreds of readers across the Gulf Coast Region in reading, discussing, and attending special events around this year’s Gulf Coast Reads pick: “The Library Book,” by Susan Orlean. Equal parts true crime and love-letter to libraries, “The Library Book” examines the Los Angeles Public Library fire. Susan […]
This month Boniuk Library’s Book Club is joining hundreds of readers across the Gulf Coast Region in reading, discussing, and attending special events around this year’s Gulf Coast Reads pick: “The Library Book,” by Susan Orlean. Equal parts true crime and love-letter to libraries, “The Library Book” examines the Los Angeles Public Library fire. Susan […]
Houston Grand Opera (HGO) and the Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) present “How Identity Ages,” a panel discussion on the impact of aging on our identity, personal agency, and mental health, as part of HGO’s Seeking the Human Spirit and inspired by the opera Saul. This six-year, multi-disciplinary initiative, under the auspices of HGOco, explores universal […]
1987 Jobs With Justice march, Nacogdoches, TX1987 Jobs With Justice march, Nacogdoches, TXEmma Tenayuca with strikers in 1938Emma Tenayuca with strikers in 1938Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a screening of the documentary, “A Strike and An Uprising! (in Texas),” based in the telling of two events: the San Antonio pecan shellers’ strike of 1938 and […]
In partnership with Gulf Coast Reads, Holocaust Museum Houston is celebrating libraries and the right to read throughout the month of October. Join us for a free screening of, “The Book Thief.” Based on Markus Zusak’s bestselling novel, this film shares the magic of reading with audiences through the story of Liesel Meminger, a young […]
Authors Jack Fairweather and Bev Saltzman Lewyn will discuss their respective books. Fairweather’s The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz tells the incredible true story of Witold Pilecki, a Polish resistance fighter’s infiltration of Auschwitz to sabotage the camp from within, and his death-defying attempt to warn the […]
Photo: A Toddle House in Atlanta has the distinction of being occupied during a sit-in by some of the most effective organizers in America when the SNCC staff and supporters take a break from a conference to demonstrate, 1963 © Danny Lyon, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ Photographer Danny Lyon will discuss his exhibition, Danny Lyon: […]
Explore your family’s culinary history with Boniuk Library Book Club. On November 7, Boniuk Library book club is coming together for a book discussion and recipe swap, in honor of this month’s book “The Cooking Gene,” by Michael Twitty. In this illuminating memoir, culinary historian Michael Twitty traces his family history through the recipes and […]