HAA COLLECTION

Weaving Home: The story of the Karenni people through daily craft

Video about the Karenni weaving tradition

Sacred Songs, Sacred Sites

Stories of A Workforce: Installation shots

Installation of Stories of a Workforce at the Julia B. Ideson Library. Houston, Tx.

Trailriders and zydeco media

Videos associated with the Houston Trailrider Exhibition. HAA Folklife Program.

Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna

Anointed & Adorned: Typical Baraat music

Stories of a Workforce

A Gulf Coast Juneteenth

Food & Family Videos

Houston has become known as a food mecca, but its roots/routes are drawn directly from its diverse communities. As an exhibition, Food & Family explores the synergistic role that each of these – food and family – plays in enhancing the cultural significance of the other. The exhibition samples the notion of family as a food delivery system in both its simple (e.g., the domestic kitchen) and its complex (e.g., the ethnic grocery store or the family restaurant) manifestations, while simultaneously treating food as a powerful cultural marker in many aspects of family life, from religion to ethnicity to regional identity.

Food & Family: Other - Houston, TX

Houston has become known as a food mecca, but its roots/routes are drawn directly from its diverse communities. As an exhibition, Food & Family explores the synergistic role that each of these – food and family – plays in enhancing the cultural significance of the other. The exhibition samples the notion of family as a food delivery system in both its simple (e.g., the domestic kitchen) and its complex (e.g., the ethnic grocery store or the family restaurant) manifestations, while simultaneously treating food as a powerful cultural marker in many aspects of family life, from religion to ethnicity to regional identity.

Food & Family: Portraits

Houston has become known as a food mecca, but its roots/routes are drawn directly from its diverse communities. As an exhibition, Food & Family explores the synergistic role that each of these – food and family – plays in enhancing the cultural significance of the other. The exhibition samples the notion of family as a food delivery system in both its simple (e.g., the domestic kitchen) and its complex (e.g., the ethnic grocery store or the family restaurant) manifestations, while simultaneously treating food as a powerful cultural marker in many aspects of family life, from religion to ethnicity to regional identity.

Food & Family: Storefronts

Houston has become known as a food mecca, but its roots/routes are drawn directly from its diverse communities. As an exhibition, Food & Family explores the synergistic role that each of these – food and family – plays in enhancing the cultural significance of the other. The exhibition samples the notion of family as a food delivery system in both its simple (e.g., the domestic kitchen) and its complex (e.g., the ethnic grocery store or the family restaurant) manifestations, while simultaneously treating food as a powerful cultural marker in many aspects of family life, from religion to ethnicity to regional identity.

Food & Family: Installation shot of the exhibition.

Houston has become known as a food mecca, but its roots/routes are drawn directly from its diverse communities. As an exhibition, Food & Family explores the synergistic role that each of these – food and family – plays in enhancing the cultural significance of the other. The exhibition samples the notion of family as a food delivery system in both its simple (e.g., the domestic kitchen) and its complex (e.g., the ethnic grocery store or the family restaurant) manifestations, while simultaneously treating food as a powerful cultural marker in many aspects of family life, from religion to ethnicity to regional identity.

Various videos related to HAA Folklife

Storm Songs & Stories e-flyer

STORM SONGS & STORIES is an outgrowth of two major projects—a 2005 storytelling project, titled Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston, and Houston Grand Opera’s "After the Storm."

Photos of Storm Songs & Stories

STORM SONGS & STORIES is an outgrowth of two major projects—a 2005 storytelling project, titled Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston, and Houston Grand Opera’s "After the Storm."

Photos of Storm Songs & Stories

STORM SONGS & STORIES is an outgrowth of two major projects—a 2005 storytelling project, titled Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston, and Houston Grand Opera’s "After the Storm."