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    Our Image/HMAAC FREE screening - PARIS IS BURNING

    Presented by Our Image Film and Arts Group and Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) at Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC)

    September 29, 2011

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    Our Image/HMAAC FREE screening - PARIS IS BURNING

    OUR IMAGE and the Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) present a special One Night Only Free screening of PARIS IS BURNING (runtime 71 minutes).  Screening is at the Houston Museum of African American Culture -- There is a free museum parking lot and free street parking.

    The award winning documentary, PARIS IS BURNING, takes an honest, humorous, and surprisingly...

    OUR IMAGE and the Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) present a special One Night Only Free screening of PARIS IS BURNING (runtime 71 minutes).  Screening is at the Houston Museum of African American Culture -- There is a free museum parking lot and free street parking.

    The award winning documentary, PARIS IS BURNING, takes an honest, humorous, and surprisingly poignant peek into one of America's overlooked subcultures: the world of the urban drag queen. It's a parallel dimension of bizarre beauty, where "houses" vie like gangs for turf and reputation ... only instead of street-fighting, contestants vogue their way down makeshift catwalks in competitive "balls." The only rule of the ballroom: be real.

    In surprisingly candid interviews, you discover the grace, strength, and humor it takes to be gay, black, and poor in a straight, rich, white world.

    “ It's a great watch for anyone interested in the whole range of humanity, or anyone who's ever been an outsider, desperately wanting something the world hides out of reach.” --Grant Balfour


    Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC)

    4807 Caroline
    Houston, TX 77004

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    Tickets:

    Free event.


    Times:

    7pm - screening begins {Q&A discussion follows}


    Phone: 713-280-5225

    Accessibility Info: Currently, no accessibility information is available for this event.

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