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Event: Interwoven Tradition-The Spiritual Journey from African
to African American Date: 6/10- 9/28 Time: See Heritage Society Website Cost: Free- $6.00 Location:
The Heritage Society 1100 Bagby @ Allen Parkway Houston, TX Details: Despite enslavement and oppression, Africans
were able to use their spiritual beliefs, and merged, over time, with Christian traditions, to both survive and create their
own unique culture. Interwoven Traditions features many objects which reflect these beliefs, found during archeological excavations
of plantations in Texas, Louisiana, and South Carolina. Web: www.heritagesociety.org
Event: African American Battlefields of the Civil War Date:
8/1- 9/14 Time: See Museum of Fine Arts web site Cost: Free- $7.00 Location: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1001 Bissonnet Street Houston, TX Details: In 1995, American photographer William Earle Williams set out to celebrate
these unsung heroes by creating a comprehensive pictorial record of important sites where black troops fought. This exhibition
presents a selection of prints from a larger series, which is published in a book available in the museum´s Hirsh Library. Web: www.mfah.org
Event: The Black List Project: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis
Mitchell Date: 8/3- 10/26 Time: See Museum of Fine Arts web site Cost: Free- $7.00 Location:
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1001 Bissonnet Street Houston, TX Details: The traditional definition of
the word blacklist is rendered obsolete by the new documentary The Black List: Volume One, which seeks to
bury the negative weight of the term by allowing African Americans to provide an up-to-the-minute response to the word´s
grim origins. In a film that works as a series of living portraits, 21 prominent African Americas offer their own stories
and insights on the struggles, triumphs, and joys of black life in the United States. In the process, they manage to redefine
blacklist for a new century. The film is presented as a series of vignettes—a kind of living portrait—in
which the subjects address the camera directly as they tell their stories. Web:
www.mfah.org
Event: Houston Black Professionals August Community Block Party Mixer Date: 8/7 Time: 6:30- 9:30 P.M. Cost: Free (with paid member and donation)- $10.00 Location: See web site Details: Join Houston Black Professionals for their monthly networking mixer. This month, members will hear from area
business owners. Members will also participate in a clothing/ hygiene drive for the Star of Hope Shelter. Web: http://blackbiz.meetup.com/178
Event: Rev. Run Book Signing Date: 8/9 Time: 2:00
P.M. Cost: Free Location: Shrine of the Black Madonna Details: Rev. Run, aka Joseph Simmons,
is the younger brother of Def Jam Records founder, Russell Simmons. He is currently the star of the blockbuster MTV reality
show Run's House. His wife, Justine Simmons, is the designer of the Brown Sugar Jewelry Collection
for Simmons Jewelry. In today's world of cell phones, iPods and online networking, it is harder than ever for parents
to keep in tune with what is going on with their children. In Take Back Your Family, the duo share
their advice for raising successful and happy children. They also challenge today's parents to take charge of their home
and connect with their children. Web: http://www.shrinebookstore.com/events.aspx?cid=14#RevRun
Event: Houston Restaurant Week Date: 8/11- 8/17 Time: See Website Cost: $35.00 (not including tax or gratuity) Location: Participating Restuarants Details:
A week of dining in great Houston restaurants! Benefiting End Hunger Network. (www.EndHungerNetwork.org). Participating
restaurants will donate $5 from every HRW meal sold to Houston's End Hunger Network. Reservations are required for the
special HRW $35 dinner and availability is limited. When making your reservation, please make sure to let the restaurant know
that you want the "Houston Restaurant Week Special Dinner." This will ensure that $5 from the cost of your meal
will be donated to End Hunger. (Restaurants may seat walk-ins at their discretion.) Bon Appétit! Menus and reservation
info will be posted starting July 18th. Participating restaurants are being added daily. Web: http://www.houstonrestaurantweek.com
Event: Ain’t Misbehavin’
Date: 8/16 & 17 Time: 8:00 P.M. Cost: Free Location: Miller Outdoor Theatre 100
Concert Drive Houston, TX 77030 Details: Exhilarating
musical revue of songs by the legendary Fats Waller, a major figure in the “Harlem Renaissance” of the 1920s and
1930s. Hear favorites such as “Honeysuckle Rose,” “Mean to Me,” “Your Feet’s
Too Big,” and, of course, the great title tune. Produced by The Ensemble Theatre. Web: http://www.milleroutdoortheatre.com
Event: Jazz- A Tribute to the Big Band Era
Date: 8/22 Time: 8:00 P.M. Cost: Free Location: Miller Outdoor Theatre 100 Concert
Drive Houston, TX 77030 Details: Featuring
original works by the late Conrad Johnson and other big band greats such as Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington, performed by
the Conrad Johnson Youth Orchestra, the Young Adult Orchestra and the Conrad Johnson Jazz Heritage Orchestra. Produced by the Conrad Johnson Music and Fine Arts Foundation. Web:
http://www.milleroutdoortheatre.com
Event: Women in Jazz Date:
8/24 Time: 7:30 P.M. Cost: Free Location: Miller Outdoor Theatre 100 Concert Drive Houston, TX 77030 Details: Jazz and r&b great Freda Payne performs her acclaimed
“Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald.” Also on the bill will be vocalist Carolyn Blanchard in a salute
to Dinah Washington. Produced by the Community
Music Center Music Center . Produced by the Community Music Center Music Center Community
Music Center . Web: http://www.milleroutdoortheatre.com
Event: Opera Preview- An Inside View of Porgy
and Bess Date: 8/21 Time: 6:30 P.M. Cost: Free Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
(Brown Auditorium) 1001 Bissonnet Houston, TX 77005 Details: As a part of the Artful Thursday series at the
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston Ebony Opera will offer a stimulating discussion by a celebrity panel and a musical preview
of its upcoming concert presentation of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (at Miller Outdoor Theatre on 8/29 & 8/30).
Web: http://www.houstonebonymusic.org
Event: Mixers, Elixers & IMAX-
Music Guest Lady D and the Zydeco Tornadoes Date: 8/22 Time: 6:00 P.M. Cost: $13- $30 Location: Museum of Natural Science One Hermann Circle Drive Houston, TX 77030 Details: Where the science
club meets the social set.The Houston Museum of Natural Science revs up the summer with their fabulous parties and music every
Friday night. Music guest Lady D and the Zydeco Tornadoes will perform August 22 Start the evening out right in the Grand
Entry Hall at 6 p.m. with a live DJ or an IMAX® show. Doors open at 7 p.m. for the live band, dancing under the dinosaurs,
cash bar and complimentary appetizers. Web: http://www.hmns.org
Event: Rock the Bayou Date:
8/28- 9/1 Time: All Day Cost: Free Location: Old Astroworld Location Details: Rock the Bayou
4 day music bash with legendary performances by AliceCooper, Sammy Hagar, Queensryche, Twisted Sister, Ratt, LA Guns, Skid
Row, Ynqwie Malmsteen, Dokken and many others. Contact:
Freda Graves Phone: 713-551-6975 Email: gravesfreda@youthreadiness.org
Event: Porgy and Bess Date:
8/29-30 Time: 8:00 P.M. Cost: Free Location: Miller Outdoor Theatre 100 Concert Drive Houston, TX
77030 Details: A concert version of excerpts from the great George Gershwin opera, which features such classics
as “Summertime,” “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” and “Bess, You Is My Woman Now.” Produced by HoustonHouston
Ebony Opera Guild. Web: http://www.milleroutdoortheatre.com
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