UPCOMINGEVENTS
MUSEUMEXPERIENCEFEATURESEIGHTMUSEUMS
TheMuseumExperience
Saturday, April 26, 2014, 10 a.m. to5p.m.
Morgan FamilyCenter
Get to know the new Houston Museum District Day by joining the Museum
Experience. Featured museums in Zone 2 set for Saturday, April 26, are
Holocaust Museum Houston, Asia Society Texas Center, The Weather
Museum, Houston Museum of African American Culture, Czech Center
Museum Houston, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Lawndale Art
Center and the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum. For more information, visit
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YOMHASHOAH
COMMEMORATIONPAYS TRIBUTE
Citywide
YomHaShoah
Commemoration
Sunday, April 27, 2014, 3p.m.
CongregationBethYeshurun, 4525Beechnut, Houston, TX77096
Join us for Houston’s annual
YomHaShoah
commemorative service inmemory
of all who died in theHolocaust and to pay tribute to thosewho survived. The
service is free andopen to the public.
AMBASSADORTODISCUSSCAMBODIANKILLING FIELDS
“From theKillingFields to theWhiteHouse”
Thursday, May 1, 2014, 6:30p.m. to8p.m.
Albert andEthel Herzstein Theater
WhiletheUnitedStatesbattledVietnameseCommunists inthe1960sand1970s,
in neighboringCambodia, dictator Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge declaredwar
on their own people, enslaving and slaughtering anybody who disagreed with
them. SichanSiv knewhewouldsoonbea target—endingup, perhaps, asone
of themillions of anonymous human skeletonsburied inhis nation’s killing fields
soheheededhismother’spleas and ran. Capturedand forced toperform slave
labor, Siv feared that hewouldbeworked todeathor killed. Itwasonly amatter
of time. But henever abandonedhopeor his improbabledreamof freedom— a
dream that liberated him, astonishingly, from his brutal captors and ultimately
led him to the United States, where he later became a senior White House
aide. Ambassador Siv is the author of “Golden Bones,” which chronicles his
experiences.Hewilldiscusshiswork inthispublic lecture.Ticketsare$5 forHMH
members , seniors and students and$8 for nonmembers. ToRSVPonline, visit
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CURIOUSGEORGEMAKESFINALAPPEARANCE
“CuriousGeorgeArts andCraftsStory Time”
Saturday, May 10, 2014, 2p.m. to4p.m.
Laurie andMiltonResourceCenter and Library
Bring the kids to relax on colorful bean bags in our library for “Story Time”
while readers from theHoustonCenter for Literacy andHoustonPublic Library
read from books about the cartoon character “Curious George.” “Story Time”
admission is free, but advance registration is required. Visit ww.hmh.org/
RegisterEvent.aspx to RSVP online. This activity is presented in conjunction
“TheWartimeEscape:Margret andH.A.Rey’s Journey fromFrance,”which runs
through June15.
