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MFAH Films Virtual Experience: John Lewis: Good Trouble
Museum of Fine Arts Houston 1001 Bissonnet St, , Houston
$12
MFAH Films Virtual Experience: Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed
Museum of Fine Arts Houston 1001 Bissonnet St, , Houston
$4.99
MFAH Films Virtual Experience: AI WEIWEI: YOURS TRULY
Museum of Fine Arts Houston 1001 Bissonnet St, , Houston
$10
Week of Events
Plastic Free Ecochallenge!
Plastic pollution is a major environmental issue. The Interfaith Environmental Network of Houston invites Houstonians of all faiths to join their team for the Plastic Free EcoChallenge and make an impact on plastic pollution with personal lifestyle changes.
Free
MFAH Films Virtual Experience: John Lewis: Good Trouble
Chronicling Georgia’s U.S. Representative John Lewis’s 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights,
gun control, health-care reform, and immigration, this new documentary explores his Alabama childhood with his family and his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and also includes interviews with political leaders and Congressional colleagues.
$12
MFAH Films Virtual Experience: Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed
Celebrate the centennial of women’s suffrage with this compelling documentary chronicling the 1972 presidential campaign of Brooklyn-based Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (1924–2005)—the first Black woman elected to Congress—who received support from many groups during her ambitious campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
$4.99
MFAH Films Virtual Experience: AI WEIWEI: YOURS TRULY
In 2014, Ai Weiwei, the renowned Chinese artist and activist, assisted by curator and filmmaker Cheryl Haines, transformed the former penitentiary
on Alcatraz Island into an astonishing exhibition of socially engaged art, focusing on the plight of the unjustly incarcerated. Visitors were invited to send postcards to prisoners in the exhibition. Several of the formerly imprisoned activists, including Chelsea Manning, speak about the impact of receiving those messages of hope.
$10
Hurricane Laura Disaster Relief Drive
Houston's Launch Point Disaster Relief Organization is collecting disaster relief donations and supplies for Lake Charles Louisiana and Beaumont, Texas. They are working in partnership with the Red Cross to provide aid to those areas that were hit the hardest by Hurricane Laura.
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Jubilee for the Earth
Jubilee for the Earth
Join with Christians of all traditions in a Jubilee for the Earth, an observance of the 2020 World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. This ecumenical service, hosted by Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church in Houston, will be a time to pray, to praise, to profess our faith, to confess, and to leave empowered to lead transformed lives.
Free