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Church World Service, Texas Conference of Churches, Houston Metropolitan Ministries and Church Women United held an ecumenical service to mark the culmination of a national campaign to sail a ship of wheat to Vietnam as an expression of postwar reconciliation

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Lecture given by Juan Cortina, S.J., University of Central American, San Salvador, cosponsored with Lawndale Art and Performance Center. Series: Art Under Duress, El Salvador, 1980- Present.

Abstract Saving Iraqi Culture Dr. Nada Shabout Thursday, October 5, 2006 at 7:30 PM Dr. Nada Shabout, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of North Texas, will discuss the damage inflicted on Iraq’s cultural artifacts by the current war and the need for their restoration. Considered one of the world's leading authorities on contemporary Iraqi art, Dr. Shabout traveled to Iraq in 2003 to construct a list of artworks missing and stolen from the Iraqi...

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A talk by Dr. George Archibald, founder of the International Crane Foundation to study and preserve cranes

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A film at the Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Rothko Chapel

Abstract Art & Activism: An Evening with Peter Sellars Pay What You Can, suggested contribution $20The arts play an important connecting role in society in ways that other sectors cannot. Artists can move through a variety of environments using music, performance, visual arts and other media to address difficult topics, challenge cultural stigmas, bring diverse people together, and provoke new ways of thinking that can lead to powerful social and political changes. In a time of...

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Co-sponsored by the Menil Collection

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Contains all items related to public programs held during the third decade of chapel operations.

Does not contain items related to awards or to colloquia (see those series)

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Contains all items related to public programs held during the third decade of chapel operations.

Does not contain items related to awards or to colloquia (see those series)

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By renowned author and scholar, Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, Columbia University