LITERATURE + LECTURES

Houston Arts Alliance presents Writing & C/Siting Houston. Writing & C/Siting Houston is a of collaboration Houston writers, folklorists and historians that will share the special places that make the city so unique.

Ten Houstonians will craft written portraits of distinctive urban settings with personal significance. By exploring neighborhoods, parks, street corners, restaurants and other community-based locales, they share the ways and "the wheres" Houston is known and cherished by its residents. These pieces of literary "place making" offer diverse insights into how Houstonians construct and connect with their home at a grassroots level.

Old Neighborhoods, New Neighbors
Thursday, October 20, University of Houston Downtown, Robertson Auditorium
Nimmi Jayathurai, “Banana Leaves and Migrant Passages”
Raj Mankad, “America Varshe, America Kande: Hinduism, Ornament, and the Suburban Box”
Thomas Meloncon, “My Fifth Ward”
Gwendolyn Zepeda, “The Old Sixth Ward District (or, as we used to call it, Del Sesto)”

Writing & C/Siting Houston is produced Houston Arts Alliance’s Folklife & Traditional Arts program in collaboration with The Cultural Enrichment Center of the University of Houston-Downtown and the Houston Folklore Archive of the University of Houston. Writing & C/Siting Houston is funded in part with support from the City of Houston Mayor's Special Initiative Program of the Houston Arts Alliance; Humanities Texas--the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities; the National Endowment for the Arts; and the Houston Endowment.

Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit arts organization that exists to enhance the quality of life and tourism in the Houston region by supporting and promoting the arts through programs, initiatives and alliances. HAA distributes over $3.5 million in grants to approximately 250 nonprofit arts organizations and individual artists. In addition, HAA manages the city's civic art collection of 400 artworks, as well as new acquisitions.