e-culture: Color Conference, Travel Dates, Texas Powwow, Houston Events
November 12, 2004


IN THIS ISSUE

- The Color Conference
- Houston Events
- Upcoming Travel Dates
- The Colorado Plateau



The Color Conference: An investigation of social values, identity, aesthetics, and the psychology of color

Presented by Houston Institute for Culture and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of St. Thomas

November 15 and 16, 2004, 6:00pm - 8:30pm
University of St. Thomas, Anderson Auditorium
(in Anderson Hall, adjacent to Chapel of St Basil)

PRESENTERS
Debra Andrist, "The Color of Change: Morocco"
Nan Linke, "Chakras and Color: A Reflection of Unseen Energy"
Patricia Gras, "How Color Affects People from a Journalist's Point of View"
Michelle Bonilla, "Fear of Color in Modern Cultures"
Fernando Castro-Ramirez, "The Ideology of Color"
Reginald Adams, "Color, Culture and Community Development"

Conference registration is free; refreshments will be provided.
For more information: Call 713-521-3686; or email info@houstonculture.org.

Anderson Auditorium, 3815 Mt. Vernon Street, Houston, Texas, 77006
Anderson Auditorium at University of St. Thomas is located in Anderson Hall (adjacent to Chapel of St. Basil), on Mt. Vernon Street two blocks south of West Alabama Street. (See Bldg. 20 on Map) http://www.stthom.edu/map/map.htm

http://www.houstonculture.org/color

The Color Conference series, a three-year initiative, is a broad investigation of the language and implications of color. Writers, artists, scholars, media and medical professionals, and community members will explore the color of emotions, energy, violence, money, and human relations, through discussions on race, spirituality, media, business, and cultural history.

We invite all community members to help in the planning of this unique event.

http://www.houstonculture.org/color

____________________________________________________
Houston Events

2004 National Peacemaker Award

The Houston Peace and Justice Center has named Kathy Kelly as recipient of its 2004 National Peacemaker Award. Ms. Kelly will accept the award and give the keynote speech at HPJC1s Annual Awards Dinner. During the decades between the two Gulf Wars, She helped found Voices in the Wilderness in an effort to lift economic sanctions on Iraq, which contributed to the deaths of over a million Iraqi children by malnutrition or disease. Kelly repeatedly defied U.S. government prohibitions against bringing aid to the people of Iraq and has been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Friday, November 12, 7:00pm
University of Houston Hilton Hotel
Call 713-522-9850 for information and reservations
http://www.hpjc.org

====================================

Viet Nam 2005: Development Futures and Global Integration
Presented by Vietnamese Culture and Science Association, The University of St. Thomas, and Ngay Nay Newspaper

The purpose of Viet Nam 2005 Symposium is to provide an academic environment in which high caliber individuals within the Vietnamese Diaspora in the U.S. and elsewhere, will present their views, and share research, on Vietnam's development and current state of affairs.

Friday, November 12, and Saturday, November 13, 2004
University of St Thomas, Center for International Studies
4004 Yoakum Blvd.
Houston, Texas 77006
713-525-3530
http://www.vietnam2005.org

====================================

"48 Hours" The 8TH Annual Arts and Music Festival
Hosted by Project Row Houses

This annual celebration of art, music and African-American culture, history and heritage is a FREE, city-wide festival event, located in the grassy park area behind the newly renovated Eldorado Ballroom on 2310 Elgin @ Dowling and connecting to the main campus at 2500 Holman. The Dupree Park Stage and the Row House Village Stage will feature several of America's best R&B, zydeco, blues, rock and much more. Additionally, Saturday night at 8 pm in the Eldorado Ballroom you can dance and enjoy the sounds of Sherman Robertson, plus Dora & the Zydeco Badboyz for only a $10 cover charge at the door.

The Festival features artists and artisans from all over the world, selling their original art works to excited collectors. This year's Festival will include for the first time 34 Houston area artists who will create an array of site-specific art works throughout the festival sites. In conjunction with the festival, Project Row Houses Round 21 (new art installations) will open featuring the works of Paul Druecke, J. Hill, Demetrius Oliver and Saba Oskoui in addition to the new Public Artworks Artists Carter Ernst and the team of Karen Atkinson and Jane Jenny. Families will enjoy the Row House Village where artists will work with kids to create exciting arts and crafts while at the same time listening to live music and open-mike poetry on the Village Stage. In addition to the art and music events plan to bring your appetite to indulge in our wide selection of tastes from our local food vendors.

Talent includes: Lady "D" Zydeco, Sonny Boy Terry, The Zydeco Players, Gloria Edwards, Rick Lee, kayumanggi, Stackin Chips, J.B. Money, Space City Gamelan, StreetSoldYa, D.D. Bret , Curtis King Jewel Brown, The Kuumba Kids, The Blackout Arts Collective, Kenyha Shabazz and The Starving Poets.

Free
Saturday, Nov.13th, 11:00am to 7:00pm
Sunday, Nov.14th, Noon to 7:00pm
ELDORADO BALLROOM
2310 Elgin at Dowling and the 2500 block of Holman
(713) 526-7662
http://www.projectrowhouses.org

====================================

15th Annual Texas Championship Pow Wow
Presented by the Dallas-Fort Worth Inter-Tribal Association

Several hundred Native Americans, representing dozens of tribes from across the United States will take part in this celebration of culture and heritage. Dancers in full regalia of feathers, buckskin, bells and beadwork will be competing for prize money and awards in eighteen different dance categories. Participants will range in age from two-year old toddlers to grandmothers in their 80's. The Indian food booth will serve authentic Native American fry bread and Indian tacos. Artists, craftsmen and traders from Texas and surrounding states will showcase their wares and talents in the arts & crafts event under The Red Expo, so come rain or shine - the show will go on.

November 13 & 14, 2004
Traders Village
7979 N. Eldridge Rd., Houston, Texas 77041
281-890-5500
http://www.tradersvillage.com/events/hn/017-powwow.html

====================================

Found Magazine Found Video
Juried by Jason Bitner and Davy Rothbart, Found Magazine

These superb videos come straight to you in their unaltered found state. Subjects include (but are not limited to) Creationism, divorce, space travel, kitty litter, hot pants, and gigantic sneakers. Kudos to all the brave souls who searched for and rescued this once lost video footage.

Saturday, November 13, 8:00pm; Sunday, November 14, 1:00pm and 3:00pm
Admission $5, unless otherwise indicated
Aurora Picture Show
800 Aurora Street
Houston, Texas 77009
713-868-2101
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org

====================================

Croatian Folk Ensemble Filip Devic from Split, Croatia
Saturday, November 13, 7:00pm
University Center, Houston Room
University of Houston
281-482-1319
http://www.lonestarcroatianclub.com

====================================

41st Annual Slavic Heritage Festival

The festival is the oldest ethnic festival in Houston and allows for the Slavic communities to celebrate the heritage of Sts. Cyril and Methodius. The event is sponsored by the Slavic communities of the Greater Houston area. Each year the festival highlights one Slavic nationality; the 2004 festival will focus on the Croatians. Other nationalities featured are the Czechs, Polish and Ukrainians.

Sunday, November 14, Noon - 6:00pm
University Center, Houston Room
University of Houston
http://www.lonestarcroatianclub.com

====================================

The Globalization Forum

Globalization Forum offers an outstanding panel of speakers: University of Houston Bauer College of Business professor on globalization, Tyler Priest, will discuss "The Impact of Globalization." Guy Leflar will present "The Hope of Globalization: Socially Responsible Business."

Wednesday, November 17, 7:30pm
Olive Branch Room
2960 Rice Blvd (behind Mary Knoll House, four doors from Greenbriar)

____________________________________________________
Upcoming Travel Dates

A Winter Wonderland, December 23, 2004 - January 2, 2005

Winter and the Christmas holiday traditions of the Southwest are special in New Mexico. Following Christmas in Santa Fe, we will take off on a weeklong journey through the Pueblos and the Navajo Nation.


Multicultural New Orleans, March 16 - 20, 2005

We will arrive in New Orleans in time for St. Patrick's Day celebrations and the building St. Joseph's Day altars, tour the marshlands of Cajun and Native American southern Louisiana, and we will conclude this great multicultural experience with the Super Sunday parade of the Mardi Gras Indians.


DC Latino Music Initiative and NYC Adventure, July 1 - 9, 2005

We will set out for a Manhattan and Staten Island tour book-ended by two weekend adventures to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and great museums on the National Mall. We will enjoy two weekends in Washington, DC during the Smithsonian Folklife Festival Latino Music Initiative, visit the National Museum of the American Indian, take in a DC United soccer match (schedule permitting), and Caribbean Carnival in the nation's capitol. Taking the Amtrak to New York, we will tour the historic Lower East Side, enjoy international restaurants and traditional delis, hear Puerto Rican plena and bomba music in the parks, and enjoy some Italian traditions on Staten Island.


West Indian Celebration and NYC Adventure, September 1 - 6, 2005

If you can't get enough of New York when we visit Manhattan in July, you can join us for this tour of Brooklyn and Queens, as we go for the liveliest party in America, the West Indian Day Celebration. We'll enjoy West Indian roti shops on Liberty Avenue in Queens, museums in Brooklyn, and a great Labor Day weekend tradition, Coney Island.


El Dia de los Muertos, October 28 - November 4, 2005

We will experience Mexico's traditional Day of the Dead remembrances in communities around Taxco and in the state of Michoacan.


Please contact us if you are interested in these educational adventures. We must reserve lodging early, particularly with the New York City trips, to get the best possible rates.

We will publish more trip details and itinerary information in upcoming newsletters. You may also choose to visit with me about the trips during the presentation mentioned below.

____________________________________________________
REI Presentation: The Colorado Plateau

If you would like to learn more about our travel adventures, please join us at REI's new Willowbrook location for a presentation on one of our favorite destinations - the Colorado Plateau.

The Four Corners region is the land of the Anasazi, the Ute, Escalante and Dominguez, the Mormons, Kit Carson and John Wesley Powell. When Brigham Young looked down into the Salt Lake Valley, he reportedly said, "This is the place," and the Mormons settled there. When Ebenezer Bryce looked out across the pinnacles and mesas of southern Utah, he said, "This is a hell of a place to lose a cow." Scarce people populated this spectacular region that includes ancient ruins, pioneer sites and great expanses of protected National Park lands. The few who did brought with them an interesting social fabric so rarely described by journalists of the region, Elizabeth Forster and Edward Abbey.

Join us Tuesday, November 30 to discover what so few know about the Colorado Plateau.

HIKING AND PHOTOGRAPHING THE COLORADO PLATEAU
A visual presentation of the scenic beauty and cultures of the American Southwest.
Tuesday, November 30, 7:00pm
REI Willowbrook, 17717 Tomball Parkway, Houston, TX 77064
(832) 237-8833
http://www.rei.com/stores/willowbrook/index.html


Thank you for supporting diverse activities in Houston.

____________________________________________________
M  a  r  k @houstonculture.org


Traditions of Mexico:
http://www.houstonculture.org/mexico

Latino Music Initiative:
http://www.houstonculture.org/musica

Texas-Mexico Border Issues:
http://www.houstonculture.org/border