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Hammonds House Digital invites you and your Valentine to join us for
Conversations About Jazz & Other Distractions hosted by former jazz radio host and founder of Notorious Jazz,
Carl Anthony. On
Sweet Lu Olutosin, Nicole Henry, and
Tony Hightower will discuss and share music around the theme of celebrating love. It s sure to be a lively and romantic evening! Conversations About Jazz comes out twice a month – on the second and fourth Thursdays. The program is free and will stream on Hammonds House Museum s Facebook and YouTube channels. For more information about upcoming virtual events visit hammondshouse.org.
Only one person openly disagreed. Since when do losers of laws make the rules? said a phone caller who didn t want the Fallon statue removed. You re erasing history.
The forum hosted by the City Manager s Office, the San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs, San Jose Arts Commission and Mayor Sam Liccardo was held to discuss and understand divergent views on the city s public art.
Activists have long demanded the city remove the Fallon statue.
The statue of one of San Jose s first mayors was commissioned in 1988 to memorialize the raising of the U.S. flag in the city in 1846, but Fallon is a divisive figure because of his hostile treatment of native people and embodiment of American imperialism, after he claimed the city shortly after the United States declared war on Mexico in 1846.
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The city of Houston is looking for a local poet, writer or spoken-word artist to serve as its fifth poet laureate in a two-year term that includes a $20,000 honorarium.
Houston’s Fourth Poet Laureate Leslie Contreras Schwartz, reading at a reception for Hispanic Heritage Month at The Rice Hotel in 2019
Houston s next poet laureate will serve from April 2021 to April 2023, and duties include developing a community outreach project that engages nontraditional or otherwise underserved audiences, creating written works, conducting public poetry workshops and mentoring the Houston Youth Poet Laureate, while adhering to COVID-19 safety precautions.
Jan 15, 2021
Remember how the Mayor said there was no money to pay the firefighters. But somehow the city has money for this.
The position will run from April 2021 to April 2023 & pays $20,000. Mayor Sylvester Turner and the Director of Houston Public Library (HPL), Dr. Rhea Brown Lawson, are pleased to announce the search for the City of Houston s next poet laureate.
The Poet Laureate Program celebrates Houston s rich culture and diversity through the work of a Houston poet who serves as the City s ambassador for the literary arts. The Houston poet laureate s role is to stimulate poetic impulse, foster appreciation of poetry in all its forms, and serve Houston residents and visitors with expressions of culture through words.
Houston is looking for its next poet laureate. Here’s how you can apply.
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Gwen Zepeda, Houston s 2013-2015 poet laureate, at the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference XV in February 2020. (City of Houston Mayor s Office of Cultural Affairs)
HOUSTON – The Mayor’s Office and the Office of Cultural Affairs is looking for the next poet laureate to celebrate Houston’s culture and diversity through literature.
Serving as the city’s ambassador for literary arts, the goal for the Poet Laureate is to represent Houston by creating excitement about poetry through outreach, programs, teaching, and written work, the Office of Cultural Affairs said.