Evening for Educators: Music and Film

Event Details

Experience the Bullock Museum – the biggest classroom in Texas – through special tours, activities, and film screenings. Designed for teachers of all grade levels and subjects, this free event will introduce new film-related curriculum guides and activities, professional development opportunities, and unique classroom resources. Enjoy prize drawings, refreshments, the company of fellow teachers, and receive an SBEC-approved certificate of participation.

Pride & Joy: The Texas Blues of Stevie Ray Vaughan highlights the life and career of this iconic musician. Though Texas proudly claimed him, Stevie Ray was a world-famous and world-class guitarist who ignited a blues revival in the 1980s with fiery guitar playing and a mesmerizing stage presence. This exhibition from the GRAMMY Museum includes several guitars, poignant early family photographs, original concert posters, tour ephemera, stage outfits, handwritten lyrics, exclusive archival concert footage — and his iconic hat and Indian headdress.

Common Ground: The Music Festival Experience brings together artifacts and concert footage in this dynamic exhibition from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Whether it's forging human bonds, building a sense of community, providing broad exposure for musical artists – both old and new – or as one of the most important economic engines of the music industry, the story of the music festival is inextricably linked with music's powerful cultural impact around the globe.

Tiny Giants reveals the astonishing lives of the smallest of animals. Using the incredibly immersive power of specialist 3D cameras, audiences will be transported in a very intimate way into another world and experience the titanic battles these creatures face to survive. A chipmunk in a wild wood and a grasshopper mouse in Arizona’s scorched deserts are both forced to grow up fast when they find themselves alone for the first time. Only by using their ingenious ‘superpowers’ can our heroes not only stay alive but also become masters of their universe. Runtime: 44 min.

Come anytime from 5:00-8:00pm, but you won’t want to miss these scheduled events:

5:00 pm-6:45 pm 

• Refreshments in the Grand Lobby
• Explore the summer exhibitions:
  • Pride & Joy: The Texas Blues of Stevie Ray Vaughan
  • Common Ground: The Music Festival Experience
• Science Thursday STEM activities:
  • Make science and engineering connections to music, hearing, and sound waves at hands-on activity stations

6:45 pm Screening of Tiny Giants film by BBC Earth

7:30 pm Prize Drawing

Exhibits will be open for free exploration until 8:00 pm.

The event is free of charge, and parking is complimentary in the Museum’s garage

Questions? Contact (512) 936-4604 or education@thestoryoftexas.com

Support for the Bullock Museum's exhibitions and education programs provided by the Texas State History Museum Foundation.