[PAA-Discuss] Spread far & wide: Film & Raffle Benefit for Houston Institute for Culture and Kids Write to Know, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan, 10, 708 Telephone Rd. at Lockwood

[Bill Crosier]

Thanks, Lee, for sending this out. 

I hope everyone will put this on you calendar and plan to attend.  Besides being an interesting event, Houston Institute For Culture has supported many worthwhile progressive causes -- now let's support HIFC.

Bill


At 10:42 PM -0600 1/2/10, C. Lee Taylor wrote:
>Join the Houston Institute for Culture for a film and raffle to
>benefit HIFC and Kids Write to Know.
>
>Sunday, January 10, 2010
>6:00pm - 8:30pm
>Houston Institute for Culture (HoustonCulture.org)
>708 Telephone Road
>Houston, TX 77023
>713.521.3686
>
>The benefit will support important youth programs offered by the
>organizations and maintain the Houston Institute for Culture gallery
>and meeting space for much needed community activities.
>
>Our goals for increasing activities in this space include:
>-Increased youth events, workshops and classes (including writing,
>art, environment and nutrition for youth and families)
>-Increased talks by authors and film directors
>-Increased art exhibits and music performances
>-Community economic education programs
>-Valuable meeting space for non-profit organizations
>
>Your support will keep these goals alive.
>
>Items to be raffled include:
>-A Trip to New Mexico
>-Roger Wood's book "Texas Zydeco"
>-Artery Media Project DVDs
>-And more
>
>The program will feature presentations about the valuable work that is
>done by Houston Institute for Culture and Kids Write to Know. There
>will be a film screening of "Milagro Beanfield War". Based on the
>novel by John Nichols, "Milagro Beanfield War" tells the true story of
>a vanishing way of life, of the willful and coercive displacement of
>the traditional people by aggressive, profit-driven outsiders.
>
>The raffle features a trip to New Mexico to attend the centuries-old
>San Lorenzo Feast Day activities, the Gallup Inter-tribal Ceremonial,
>Santa Fe museums, archaeological sites, and more. The trip takes place
>August 7-15, 2010. More information will be provided. Books and DVDs
>will also be raffled.
>
>The suggested donation to attend the benefit program and film
>screening is $5-10. Raffle tickets will cost $10. A person may buy
>multiple tickets.
>
>This is a very important benefit. Proceeds will ensure Houston
>Institute for Culture and Kids Write to Know can offer very needed
>programs in the face of a struggling economy. Please invite friends to
>come with you.

-- 
Bill Crosier
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