Home + Place

Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc.

Funding Received: 2011
Houston, TX
$250,000
Funding Period: 1 year and 5 months

Bringing opera into the streets in an unprecedented way, Home + Place, a project of the Houston Grand Opera will use oral histories conducted with diverse communities in the city to generate projects created by students and local groups that will be performed at neighborhood festivals. By using opera to stimulate intimate, personal storytelling, the project will bridge cultures and generations and foster a stronger sense of civic identity.

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Houston Grand Opera is proud to implement Home and Place, a community-focused program committed towards fostering pride and identity through arts-based programming and activities at... Read More
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Houston Grand Opera (HGO) administers the Home and Place project, which serves to foster a strong sense of community identity through community-building programs within three... Read More
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Home + Place, a project of the Houston Grand Opera, is using oral histories conducted with diverse communities in the city to generate projects created... Read More
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Ever wonder what would happen in a room full of teenagers if they were given a creative project, minimal instructions and left to their own... Read More
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HGOco is Houston Grand Opera ’s education and community collaboration initiative. Since 2007, HGOco has involved art in the lives of over 700,000 Houstonians of... Read More