A Resilient Future for All Rests on Prioritizing the Most Vulnerable

Join Kristen Schlemmer, Legal Director at Bayou City Waterkeeper, as she considers how disasters, while affecting large portions of the Houston population, impact the vulnerable more severely and why building resilience is critical.  Hurricane Harvey and Winter Storm Uri showed us that disasters increasingly affect large portions of our region's population. While many of us […]

Free

Waking (Let’s Talk) News!

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street (@ Holman), Houston, TX

Bring a bag lunch!  Come; share an article with us!  Bring your articles clipped from newspapers, magazines, journals, or computers relating to discrimination, oppression and all forms of racism.  Join us in a lively discussion and contribute your ideas and materials to the Center’s tool kit. This event is free and open to the public. […]

Free. Donations appreciated

Contemplation & Sound: Unitarian Universalist Tradition

Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon St, Houston

Join the Rothko Chapel for a livestream meditation in celebration of Pride month in the Unitarian Universalist tradition led by Rev. Dr. Colin Bossen and Mark Vogel of First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston. This family-friendly offering will include songs of social justice, readings and interactive meditations. Register to receive the livestream link.

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Racism in Transportation

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX

Access to safe, reliable and affordable transportation is vital to all of us. Whether we travel in a car, bus, train, bicycle, wheelchair or on foot, we can’t get to where we need to go — work, school, healthcare, supermarket or socializing — without transportation.  All too often, government transportation policies promote driving a car […]

Free. Donations appreciated

Houston Franchise Show – Free Tickets

NRG Center 1 NRG Park, Houston

You are invited to The Franchise Show at the NRG Center from June 5 – 6, 2021!   (*Safety Precautions are in Place*)   Buying a franchise or proven business opportunity eliminates all the hard work of opening a business independently and will help avoid much of the risk of starting a new business. Take […]

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Faith & Resilience: Spiritual Hubs

Faith & Resilience: Spiritual Hubs Sunday, June 6, 3 p.m, online Join Jim Blackburn, long-time environmental lawyer/planner and Professor in the Practice of Environmental Law in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Rice University, for a talk on faith and resilience.  Jim’s talk will focus on physical, economic and spiritual resilience in the context of […]

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Explore Rothko’s Design Process & the Chapel Paintings with Art Historian Sheldon Nodelman

Join us for a livestream lecture and conversation exploring the Rothko Chapel paintings with art historian Sheldon Nodelman and Christopher Rothko!  In 1997, Sheldon Nodelman authored Rothko Chapel Paintings: Origin, Structure, Meaning, where he explored the Rothko Chapel as a "masterpiece of twentieth century art and incontestably the greatest work of pictorial installation to date, […]

NEW SOCIAL DEMOCRATS READING GROUP – George Orwell – The Road to Wigan Pier

Please join us for our first reading group  event.  We have chosen  the work of George Orwell.  He was a socialist, author, and war correspondent for the BBC.   If you would like the Webex link for it, and for the free online book, please go to our website at newsocdems.org and  click the subscriber button […]

Bystander Intervention Training

Zoom Event

Learn how to help people targeted by identity-based bigotry and harassment. Register today at https://houstonagainsthate.org/BIT This FREE 1.5-hour, interactive training will teach you Hollaback!’s 5D’s of bystander intervention methodology. We’ll start by talking about the types of disrespect — from microaggressions to violence — that people with marginalized identities face and the history of identity-based violence. […]

Free

Bystander Intervention Training

Zoom Event

Learn how to help people targeted by identity-based bigotry and harassment. Register today at https://houstonagainsthate.org/BIT This FREE 1.5-hour, interactive training will teach you Hollaback!’s 5D’s of bystander intervention methodology. We’ll start by talking about the types of disrespect — from microaggressions to violence — that people with marginalized identities face and the history of identity-based violence. […]

Free

28th Ally Awards Fundraiser / Special Honoree: Lupita Nyong’o

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX, United States

Please join us to honor Lupita Nyong’o, recipient of our 28th Juneteenth Ally Award.  Don’t miss Lupita’s insightful conversation with Houston’s own Cherry Steinwender, co-founder and director of the Center for the Healing of Racism.  The Academy Award winning actress is being honored for being such an inspiring role model for young people of color throughout […]

$25

Against the Current

Veiga Grétarsdóttir is the first person in the world to attempt to kayak more than 1,200 miles around Iceland, counterclockwise and “against the current.” Veiga’s personal journey is no less remarkable: she was born as a boy 44 years ago in an Icelandic fishing village. Veigar had a wife and family but decided at the […]

Houston’s Transition to a Low Carbon Future

Join Dr. Bruce Race, FAIA, FAICP, Professor of Architecture at the University of Houston, as he considers how Houston could transition to a low carbon future.  Texas is the historic global epicenter for the carbon economy. Oil and gas represent over one third of the state economy. Texas’ $1.9 trillion GDP, if a country, would […]

Free

Racism in Foster Care

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX, United States

The foster care system is failing Black and Brown children and the death of Ma’Khia Bryant is just one of many examples.  Please join us for a presentation about Racism in Foster Care by Alan Dettlaff, Dean of the University of Houston Graduate School of Social Work on Monday, June 28, 2021, 12:00-2:00PM.  A facilitated […]

Free. Donations appreciated

Sun Children

This timely social drama from Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi considers the human rights of children. The story follows a clever 12-year-old and his resourceful friends who live on the streets of Tehran. When a criminal hires them to find treasure hidden under the maintenance tunnel of a school for homeless and immigrant youth, they must […]

Amnesty International-Bay Area (Houston) July meeting

Our next monthly virtual meeting will be on Monday, July 5th, 2021 at 6:15 PM (Central).  The speaker for this meeting is Diana Mushtaha, Member of the Palestinian American Bridge (PAB). The title of her talk is “Eye Witness to the Gaza Crisis”. She will be joining us, live, from the West Bank.  Please register for […]

Contemplation & Sound: Laughter Meditation

Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon St, Houston

Join the Rothko Chapel for a Zoom laughter meditation led by Stephen Findley. This interactive, family-friendly offering will focus on the power of laughter and humor to encourage healing and release stress from our bodies. Register to receive the Zoom link.

Hurricane & Flood Safety

Join Jeff Lindner, Director of Hydrologic Operations, Harris County Flood Control District, as he discusses how to stay safe in a natural disaster.  Jeff’s presentation will cover the various hazards that impact a region during a hurricane landfall, including wind, rainfall and storm surge flooding.  Jeff will then go on to address how to prepare […]