Families
Explore the Story Programs

Want To Learn More About Texas History?  Join us for our monthly Explore the Story programs.  Explore the Story Programs give families and youth an opportunity to connect their own stories with the stories in the Museum's Exhibits.


Color Pattern Grid
November 22
1 - 3 p.m.
Free with Museum admission

Ever wondered why quilting is so popular? Come to the Museum for an afternoon that explores all types of quilts--from the most traditional to the latest contemporary styles.  Tour the new exhibit A Legacy of Quilts: The Briscoe Center's Joyce Gross Collection to see classic quilts and then watch demonstrations of contemporary quilting from Kathy York and the Austin Art Bee to compare today's quilting with historical techniques.  Quilters of all stripes will be around to share patterns and advice.  Kids get the chance to design their own quilt grid too!

Stitch and Kitsch--Intergenerational Stitch Party
December 19
1 - 3 p.m.
Free with Museum admission

In celebration of our Hotsy-Totsy exhibit A Legacy of Quilts: The Briscoe Center's Joyce Gross Collection, join us for an afternoon of 1930s-style celebration. Bring your craft project and spend the afternoon sizzlin' to the hot tunes of Aunt Ruby's Sweet Jazz Babies. Tour the exhibit with expert quilters or sit and stitch with other kindred crafters. We'll have some slick birds on hand to show you the latest fads, get you started on new crafts, or to give you a hand with unfinished projects. Knitting lessons for lads and lasses. Special prizes for dressing the bee's knees. It'll be a real hootenanny!

Previous Programs

Sharing a Legacy--A Celebration of American Indian Heritage Month
Sunday, November 8
1 - 4 p.m.
Free

A great variety of American Indian art forms will be demonstrated during the Museum's 3rd annual collaboration with Great Promise and the Austin Powwow, celebrating American Indian Heritage Month. Spend the afternoon with fiber artists, storytellers, singers and dancers, and learn more about the diversity of cultures. Highlighted artists include Vanessa Jennings, a beadworker and National Living Treasure; Lorraine Herder and Edith Herder Simonson of Black Mesa Weavers; Karen Bellinghausen who creates fine regalia representing many different traditions; and Sequoya Guess, a traditional storyteller of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians. Bring the family to enjoy storytelling, hands-on activities and art making, music, and dancing.
Sharing a Legacy Slideshow

It's My Story!
Saturday, August 8
2-4 pm
Herzstein Hall
FREE with exhibit admission

Everyone has a tale to tell. How did your family get to Texas? Whether it was yesterday or a hundred years ago, share your family immigration story at the Museum in our fun and meaningful family activity. 

Stories From Our Shores
Saturday, July 18
2 pm & 3 pm
Free with exhibit admission

Come on a journey to far away lands, and revisit lands near and dear with storyteller Elida Bonet.  Become spell bound as she weaves a tapestry of colorful folktales and true life stories based on the theme of immigration.  Elida Bonet has been a storyteller for over 12 years at schools, libraries, festivals and universities.


An Immigration Nation Youth Arts Premiere
Saturday, May 30
2-4 pm
Spirit Theater
FREE with exhibit admission
Reservations required, please call (512) 936-4649

Join us for the premiere of emerging theater and film talent in Texas.  In collaboration with Austin Film Festival, the Austin Film Society, The Mobile Film School, Austin Learning Academy, and Theater Action Project, The Immigration Nation Youth Arts Premiere showcases young artists' creative and compelling short theater performances and films on the topic of immigration.  A discussion with the artists will follow each piece.  

It's My Story!
Saturday, May 16
2-4 pm
Herzstein Hall
FREE with exhibit admission

Everyone has a tale to tell. How did your family get to Texas? Whether it was yesterday or a hundred years ago, share your family immigration story at the Bob Bullock Museum in our fun and meaningful family activity.  This program is part of the 2nd International Day for Sharing Life Stories sponsored by The Museum of the Person International Network (Brazil, Portugal, USA and Canada) and the Center for Digital Storytelling (USA, Canada, Denmark, Czech Republic, Ireland and Portugal). 


Moving Myths of India
Saturday, April 25
2-4 pm
Austin Hall, 3rd Floor
Free

This dance performance by Anuradha Naimpally presents colorful stories of gods and demons, movements, and rhythms from ancient India in a fun, entertaining, and interactive manner. Opening with traditional ritual, continuing with storytelling and miming, it concludes with clapping of  rhythms and chanting traditional syllables. Costumes, hand symbols, language, characters, and basic values are all explained during the  performance.



Jan Hart
Saturday, March 14
2-4 pm
Special Exhibits
Free with exhibit admission

Journey back to Texas in early twentieth-century through the tales of Jan Hart, author of Hanna, the Immigrant and The Many Adventures of Minnie.  This dramatic living history presentation is based on oral histories and focuses on the search for freedom to establish new and better lives in America. A book signing in the Museum Store will follow this event.

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Admission to the Museum’s exhibits: $7.00 for adults, $6.00 for seniors/military/college students (with valid ID), $4 for youth ages 5-18, free for ages 4 and under. The Museum is located at 1800 N. Congress Ave., at the corner of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. in downtown Austin. For more information, call 512-936-TSHM (512-936-8746).

Moving Myths of India was generously underwritten by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.