The World Matters Film Festival, Mexico Hoy, Indie Book Festival, What a Way to Go
Mark Lacy
-The World Matters Film Festival, April 1-10, Free
-Upcoming Programs - Bharatajazzyam and Juneteenth
-Wanted: Volunteers with Bold Vision for the Future
-First Annual Houston Indie Book Festival
-Discovery Green Family Day Grand Opening
-Environmental Films - What a Way to Go
-Center for Mexican American Studies Mexico Hoy Conference
-Conference on 'The Widening Gap' - Saturday, April 19
-About this Email Newsletter
The World Matters Film Festival, April 1-10, Free
Presented by Houston Institute for Culture and University of St Thomas
The World Matters Film Festival brings critically important subjects
to Texas audiences for their consideration and action. This year the
festival surveys the world's narrowly-owned food supply, migration and
human trafficking, labor exploitation, ongoing conflict, and
international justice.
April 1 - 10, 2008
Free and open to the public
http://www.houstonculture.org/film
University of St Thomas, Doherty Library [Building 22]
http://www.stthom.edu/Visitors_Community/Maps/Index.aqf
Yoakum Blvd and West Main Street; Additional Parking in Moran Center
(Graustark and West Alabama)
FILM SCHEDULE AND DESCRIPTIONS
We Feed the World (Tuesday, April 1, 7pm)
Vividly reveals the dysfunctionality of the industrialized world food
system and shows what world hunger has to do with us.
http://www.houstonculture.org/film/index.html#we
Kabul Transit (Thursday, April 3, 7pm)
A street-level documentary that explores the soul of a city devastated
by nearly three decades of war.
http://www.houstonculture.org/film/index.html#kabul
Lives for Sale (Saturday, April 5, 7pm)
A one-hour investigative documentary that exposes the growing black
market trade in human beings.
http://www.houstonculture.org/film/index.html#lives
Intimidad (Saturday, April 5, 8pm)
An in-depth, poetic story of life on the Mexico/Texas border and the
difficult decisions a family faces.
http://www.houstonculture.org/film/index.html#intimidad
Raised to be Heroes (Tuesday, April 8, 7pm)
Through the example of Israeli Refuseniks we learn what happens when
soldiers act out of conscience.
http://www.houstonculture.org/film/index.html#raised
In Search of International Justice (Tuesday, April 8, 8pm)
The first film about a crucial new commitment to the international
rule of law: the International Criminal Court.
http://www.houstonculture.org/film/index.html#in
China Blue (Thursday, April 10, 7pm)
A clandestinely shot, deep-access personal account of how the clothes
we buy are actually made.
http://www.houstonculture.org/film/index.html#china
Supported by Literal - Latin American Voices and KPFT 90.1FM Pacifica Radio
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Upcoming Programs - Bharatajazzyam and Juneteenth
Mark you calendars for these great upcoming Houston Institute for
Culture programs. And if you want to volunteer with Houston Institute
for Culture, organizing and making great programs happen, please see
our note below about an upcoming volunteer meeting.
Namita Bodaji and Samskara Academy of Fine Arts will present a
traditional program of Bharatanatyam fused with modern influences and
titled "Bharatajazzyam". Performances will take place at University of
St. Thomas Jones Hall (Wednesday, April 30) and Rice University Hamman
Hall (Sunday, May 4). As an added treat, Houston Azerbaijanis Dance
will perform traditional folk dances of Azerbaijan.
Stay tuned for more information.
http://www.houstonculture.org/namita
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A Gulf Coast Juneteenth
Houston Institute for Culture will honor Juneteenth in Houston on June
19, 2008 with a 7:00pm concert at Miller Outdoor Theatre.
A Gulf Coast Juneteenth features New Orleans' ReBirth Brass Band; Geno
Delafose and French Rockin' Boogie (Zydeco) from Eunice, Louisiana;
and Houston's own Blues legends Trudy Lynn and Sherman Robertson.
There will also be Houston singer/songwriters and Gospel artists
performing original Juneteenth compositions that have been
commissioned for the occasion.
Stay tuned for more information.
http://www.houstonculture.org/juneteenth
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Wanted: Volunteers with Bold Vision for the Future
Houston Institute for Culture seeks effective, energetic volunteers
and leaders to achieve its vision of a better future for everyone
through significant way-of-life changes.
Why is this the mission of Houston Institute for Culture? At the
source of most everything positive and negative in our lives are
cultural influences – history, family, religion, education, health,
technology, media, arts, environment, business and marketing
practices, and economics – that impact our quality of life and the
living conditions of people around the world.
While people eagerly look to politicians to make positive changes,
there is much greater potential for change in the world through the
actions and lifeways of all people. Houston Institute for Culture
works to increase the potential for communities to determine their own
quality of life and lessen detrimental impacts on others in the world.
The organization works to improve community responsiveness and
implement proactive practices.
With many accomplishments in its first five years, Houston Institute
for Culture plans to increase its influence and potential through
greater involvement of community leaders in its mission. Visionary
leaders and volunteers are needed to implement important programs and
advocacy campaigns, including:
-Forums on cultural, social and economic issues
-Promotion of diverse interests through arts and media
-Educational programs and resources
-Youth development programs
-Centers with specific missions
-Informative public service campaigns
-Cultural exchange programs
-Service and research projects
Join us for a meeting on Monday, April 7 at 7pm at The Artery. It is
located at 5401 Jackson at Prospect, just north of the Houston
Children's Museum.
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First Annual Houston Indie Book Festival
Support local through the written word. Don't miss the very first
Houston Indie Book Festival!
Sample local independent booksellers, publishers, and magazines.
Browse hundreds of titles from the underground out in the sunshine.
Grab a cup of coffee at Brazil. Rub shoulders with Marjane Satrapi.
Start the spring with books and magazine right with all the magazines
and books you can carry off from our FIRST ANNUAL HOUSTON INDIE BOOK
FESTIVAL and Fifth Annual CLMP Literary Magazine & Small Press Fair in
Houston, where hundreds of regional and national independent literary
publishers will converge to sell their discounted journals and books.
Houston Indie Book Festival and CLMP Literary Magazine & Small Press Fair
Saturday, April 12, 2008
10am-5pm, free and open to the public
Domy Bookstore
1709 Westheimer (at Dunlavy)
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Discovery Green Family Day Grand Opening
Sunday, April 13, Noon to 9pm
Free and open to the public
Celebrate the Grand Opening of Discovery Green and the start of the
Spring/Summer programming season at the park. Enjoy 12 acres of urban
green space including a one-acre lake, children's playground,
interactive water features, amphitheater stage and slope, small and
large dog runs, public art works, HPL Express, open lawns and great
restaurants.
Family Day Activities - Ribbon Cutting by Mayor Bill White; Car Horn
Concerto by The Art Guys & UH Music students; Performances by Kaminari
Taiko Drummers; Citizens for Animal Protection Dog Costume Contest;
and much more.
http://www.discoverygreen.com
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Environmental Films - What a Way to Go
In What A Way to Go, a middle man comes to grips with Peak Oil,
Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise
of the Culture of Empire. Featuring interviews with Daniel Quinn,
Derrick Jensen, Jerry Mander, Chellis Glendinning, Richard Heinberg,
Thomas Berry, William Catton, Ran Prieur and Richard Manning. What is
it doing to us as thoughtful human beings as we face the overwhelming
challenges of: Peaking fossil fuel flow rates?; Critically degraded
ecosystems?; A changing climate?; An exploding global population?;
Teetering global economies?; An unstable political climate?; And what
is it doing to life on the planet?
Free
Wednesday, April 9, 7 pm
Rice Media Center
Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston, TX 77006
http://www.cleanhouston.org
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Center for Mexican American Studies Mexico Hoy Conference
Mexico Hoy - Economic Dependency, Social Inequality and Political
Resistance in a Globalized World
The UH Center for Mexican American Studies Mexico Hoy Conference will
analyze the economic, political, social and ecological conditions and
dynamics facing Mexico, particularly in light of its economic and
political ties with the United States. What this means for the future
of Mexico and its people will be a major focus of the conference. The
keynote address will be given by Mexico's foremost historian and
political analist, Dr. Lorenzo Meyer, Professor, El Colegio de Mexico
(Mexico City).
Free and open to the public
April 17 and 18, 8:30am - 5:00pm
University of Houston
Hilton Hotel, Shamrock Room
4800 Calhoun Rd.
Houston, Texas 77004
Entrance 1 (off of Calhoun Rd.)
For more information call 713-743-3133.
http://www.class.uh.edu/cmas
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Conference on 'The Widening Gap' - Saturday, April 19
Houston Peace and Justice Center's 2008 Spring Conference is entitled
'The Widening Gap: Economic Injustice at Home and Abroad.' Its goals
are to display the causal connections between economic distress in the
U.S. and a global system of elite domination; indicate the ways that
the well-being of a large majority of Americans is being subverted by
the economic, political, and media power of the wealthiest 1% of our
population; raise economic justice to major importance in the public
discourse surrounding the 2008 elections; and energize people to
organize for November. Luncheon talk on fixing our broken healthcare
system will be delivered by Dr. Ana Malinow of Baylor College of
Medicine and Healthcare for All Texas. There will be workshops on the
Drive to Privatize, Economic Motives and Consequences of Immigration
from Mexico, Building Local Economies, Worker Control, and others.
Co-sponsored by Office of Justice and Peace-Catholic Archdiocese of
Galveston/Houston, Coalition of Working People and the Poor, Harris
County AFL-CIO, Harris County Green Party, Houston Institute for
Culture, and United Students Against Sweatshops-UH Chapter.
$25 registration fee, $10 for students and those with lower income.
(Includes lunch and conference materials.)
8:30am registration; 9am program in The Honors College in the main UH
Library (enter front door and immediately turn to the right; use
stairs or elevator to second floor). The full program and on-line
registration will be on the website, www.hpjc.org, starting April 5.
Or call 713-467-2996 for information.
Thank you for supporting educational events in Houston.
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M a r k @houstonculture.org
Houston Institute for Culture
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Houston, Texas 77036
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