Exhibition of artwork and writing from the Artbound! and Writers in the Schools (WITS) residencies at Wharton Elementary Writers in the Schools and Art League Houston have partnered to present WhARTon NARraTives, an exhibition of over sixty pieces of artwork and writing by second and third grade students from the Wharton Elementary School who have [...]
Don’t miss out on what Houston Press named the Best Reading Series 2011. The next Public Poetry event will take place at 2 PM on November 5th at Discovery Green. As usual, you’ll meet award-winning poets as well as children authors who have worked with WITS writers in schools, hospitals, libraries, museums, and homeless shelters. [...]
Ten WITS writers, adults and students, will speak out at the Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts (MECA) on Friday, Sept. 16th. MECA, an organization that emphasizes justice, diversity, and creativity through arts and cultural programming, presents a synergy of visual and literary works through WAR, featuring written responses to photography by artist Pablo Bobbio. The [...]
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Writers in the Schools is a proud sponsor of the Houston Arts Partners inaugural conference, Shaping the Future of Education & Creating 21st Century Leaders, taking place on September 13, 2011 at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston as part of National Arts in Educations Week. The conference will bring together a diverse representation of 300 educators, administrators, researchers, [...]
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Have you heard about Gulf Coast Reads: On the Same Page, a “one book, one city” program that will take place through September 30th, 2011? Everyone in the the city of Houston is invited to read and discuss the book One Amazing Thing by author Chitra Divakaruni, an internationally acclaimed writer who is featured in one of our WITS [...]
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Public Poetry and the Houston Public Library present another series of excellent readings by Houston’s finest. The program includes photography by Katya Horner and selected works from Joseph Campana, Jeannie Gambill, Van Garrett, a resident writer of WITS, Destiny Gonzalez, a current WITS student, and former WITS writers Alan Ainsworth and Sarah Cortez. What: Pubic [...]
What: WITS Writers Laura Eve Engel, Eric Kocher, and Kent Shaw will close the Gulf Coast Reading Series presented by the University of Houston’s English Department and Brazos Bookstore. Rid your tax-day troubles with a nice helping of literature read by Houston’s finest. When: Friday, April 15, 2011 at 7PM Where: Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet [...]
The Whole World Was Watching, a photography exhibit tracing the Civil Rights Movement, opens this Saturday at the Menil Collection and The African American Library at the Gregory School. The collected works from Edmund Carpenter and Adelaide de Menil portray a vivid and haunting account of what it meant to be an African American living [...]
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Writers in the Schools (WITS) is offering a special discounted ticket to the annual A Celebration of Story gala on November 4th. For a limited time only, the $250 seats are available for $150. Come meet Jeannette Walls, best-selling author of The Glass Castle, in a rare Houston visit. Jeannette’s story about how she survived [...]
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What: Cool Brains! Inprint Readings for Young People presents award winning children’s writer T.A. Barron for discussion and book signing Where: Pershing Middle School Auditorium, 3838 Blue Bonnet at Stella Link When: Sunday, October 17th at 3:00 pm (doors open at 2:30 pm) Why: Cool Brains! Inprint Readings for Young People is presented by Inprint, [...]
I have had nearly 9,000 lunches in my lifetime. Some have been out of a paper bag or a Star Wars lunch box. Some have been at fancy restaurants that serve food that I can’t pronounce. I’ve had a hamburger in a revolving restaurant, and I had a chicken basket once in an underground cavern. [...]
I was born in Gamma’s house and every time I spend the night there she wakes up and cooks me sausage and grits. I have a nephew named Jaden who I play ball with. My favorite things to do are eat, watch TV, and play video games all day. My favorite video game is Teenage [...]
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I hear… girls laughing with deep voices like men. clapping like you’re at church. Lydia talking softly like rats at night. birds chirping like they are talking. hammers beating like a giant stomping. airplane vrroooooming like an eighteen wheeler. truck squeaking like a rubber duck. These are the sounds of the Third Ward. By Chelsea, [...]
This evening in The Menil Collection (1515 Sul Ross, 77006), Writers in the Schools (WITS) and The Menil Collection will debut new work from their most recent collaboration in a poetry reading titled, Ekphrasis: Poems about Paintings. The reading is the culmination of a project that used five specific works of art as a springboard [...]
BEFORE I visited other neighborhoods, I thought mine was just seemed like any other one in Houston. Then my dad and I went on a drive through River Oaks. Do you know this place? I was amazed because that neighborhood seems so different from mine. The houses were big, white mansions, and the yards took [...]
