From October 11–27, the Austin Community College Drama Department will present the musical Appeal: The New American Musical of Mexican Descent. For more information, contact Austin Community College.
Events
October 11–27, 2024
Performance
October 14-November 18, 2024
Exhibition
In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff visited a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros still worked cattle in traditional ways. Wittliff photographed the vaqueros as they went about daily chores that had changed little since the first Mexican cowherders learned to work cattle from a horse's back. Wittliff captured a way of life that now exists only in memory and in the photographs included in this exhibition. This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition features photographs with bilingual narrative text that reveal the muscle, sweat, and drama that went into roping a calf in thick brush or breaking a wild horse in the saddle. For more information, contact the Midland County Public Library.
October 20–November 20, 2024
Exhibition
From October 20–November 20, 2024, the exhibition "History in Focus: Central and Eastern Europe Through the Lens of Chris Niedenthal," a collection of some of the iconic works by one of the most respected photojournalists and a renowned photographer, will be on display at Round Rock Public Library. For more information, contact Dot Dot Dot…Connect.
October 25–27, 2024
Conference
From October 25–27, the Museum of the Coastal Bend at Victoria College and the Coastal Bend Archeological Logistics Team will host the 95th Texas Archeological Society Annual Meeting.
Professional and avocational archeologists, historians, conservationists, preservationists, and the general public are invited to attend this meeting and learn more about the important archeological work being conducted locally, around the state, and nationally. For more information contact Texas Archeological Society.
October 28-November 23, 2024
Exhibition
Created to celebrate the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, this Humanities Texas traveling exhibition features archival photographs, newspaper clippings, cartoons, cards, and texts detailing the struggle in Texas. For more information, contact the Falls on the Colorado Museum.
November 1, 2024, 6:30 p.m.
Film screening
At 6:30 p.m. on November 1, the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum will continue their family- and community-oriented film series with the film Something The Lord Made. The screening will be followed by a scholarly panel discussion. For more information, contact the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum.
November 7–December 6, 2024
Exhibition
This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition provides a historical overview of U.S. Latino participation in World War II and features historical photographs from the U.S. Latino & Latina WWII Oral History Project archives and contemporary photographs of men and women of the WWII generation by photojournalist Valentino Mauricio. It focuses on individual stories that reveal larger themes such as citizenship and civil rights and features excerpts from the more than five hundred oral history interviews that were part of the project. For more information, contact the Haskell County Historical Commission.
November 7-December6, 2024
Exhibition
Sam Houston remains a larger-than-life figure in Texas and American history with a career that spanned the Texas Revolution, the Republic of Texas, annexation and early statehood, and the state's secession from the Union in 1861. This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition traces the life and career of Houston from his boyhood in Virginia and Tennessee through his retirement and eventual passing in Huntsville, Texas. For more information, contact the Jasper County Historical Museum.
November 12, 2024
Workshop
"Teaching Latino Poetry" will take place in Edinburg on October 2 and in San Antonio on November 12. The workshop will explore possible classroom uses of Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology by secondary-level English language arts (ELA) teachers. The anthology includes the work of close to two hundred poets from the seventeenth to twenty-first centuries and presents English translations of poems originally written in Spanish. Workshop faculty includes Emmy Pérez of The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
November 12 and 19, 5:00–6:15 p.m.
Workshop
"Teaching Native American Literature" will take place on Zoom from 5:00–6:15 p.m. CT on November 12 and 19. The webinars will focus broadly on the history of Native American literature and narrowly on the most influential and frequently taught works. Strategies and content will align with the secondary-level English language arts TEKS. Both webinars will highlight the most important takeaways for middle and high school students. James H. Cox of The University of Texas at Austin will lead the webinars.