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Porch Talk – Shaping Culture: Care, Community, and Creativity

Name: Porch Talk – Shaping Culture: Care, Community, and Creativity
Start: 2026-02-26T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-26T20:00:00+00:00
Location: Freedmen’s Town Visitor Center

February 26 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Shaping Culture: Care, Community, and Creativity brings together Houston-based educators, historians, artists, and culture-bearers for a dynamic panel discussion and community conversation exploring how Black life actively creates and shapes culture across generations. Centering lived experience, scholarship, and creative practice, panelists reflect on the ways care, memory, and storytelling sustain communities and fuel cultural innovation. Through dialogue grounded in history and the present moment, the conversation highlights Black women’s leadership in preserving legacy while imagining new futures. The evening invites collective reflection, audience engagement, and connection.

Date & Time: Thursday, February 26, 2026 | 6:00–8:00 PM

Location: Freedmen’s Town Visitor Center

Parking: 1300 Cleveland St, Houston, TX 77019, African American History Research Center at the Gregory Campus.

Please park in the lot in front of the library. Then walk between the library and the HFTC houses, and enter the Visitor Center via the porch. The Visitor Center is the last house in the row.