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Film Screening – Locked in a Box: Rediscovering our Humanity in Immigration Detention
Join the Interfaith Welcome Coalition for this pre-release film viewing and discussion on the US immigration detention system and the power of visitation ministries. “Locked in a Box” is an award winning short documentary that follows the stories of individuals held in the U.S. Immigration detention system and those who visit them. The film traces the lives of individuals who fled their homelands in search of safety and freedom only to end up in U.S. prisons under a mandatory bed…
Find out more »Mayor’s Housing Summit
The 2016 Mayor’s Housing Summit will offer an opportunity for housing practitioners and advocates to get the latest information, exchange ideas and build relationships to support the creation of healthy neighborhoods. In addition to keynotes and general sessions, there will be five multi-session tracks running concurrently, from which attendees can choose: Financing and Funding—innovative strategies and case studies from Texas and across the country Homelessness—addressing local challenges through national best practices Housing Commission Update—reporting out from the Mayor’s Commission Innovation—design…
Find out more »Dialogue Book Club: Three Mystics Walk Into a Tavern
The Dialogue Institute is pleased to announce bi-weekly book club gatherings starting on October 1st. They will read the book; “Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern: A Once and Future Meeting of Rumi, Meister Eckhart, and Moses de León in Medieval Venice” co-authored by James C. Harrington, a human rights lawyer in Austin, TX, the founder and director emeritus of the Texas Civil Rights Project and Sidney G. Hall III, a United Methodist minister. In Three Mystics Walk into a…
Find out more »Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters – Children’s Theater @Tobin
TICKETS: $9 (everyone who enters the theater needs a ticket) Adapted for the Stage by Karen Abbott Music And Lyrics by S-Ankh Rasa Monday, October 3, 2016, 6:30 pm . After phenomenally successful tours in the 2008-09 & 2011-12 seasons that visited well over 60 cities, Dallas Children's Theater is bringing back its original musical adaptation of this Caldecott Award winning African folktale to The Tobin Center! When a great African king desires a wife, only the most perfect maidens…
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