Monthly Archives: February 2024

Reserve your booth for Old Weird Houston. Deadline is March 15th. Old, Weird Houston at the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art. 2334 Gulf Terminal Drive. Houston, TX 77023 takes place Saturday, March 30th 10am-6pm.

Sign-up to Exhibit at Old, Weird Houston, Deadline 3/15

Sign-up to exhibit your repository at the annual Old, Weird Houston at The Orange Show on March 30th. The deadline is March 15th. Please share this with anyone who might be interested in participating at the event! 

Sign-up to Exhibit

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We would like the archives bazaar to represent all of the diverse repositories and collections around the city, so we encourage y’all to sign up to be an exhibitor. You can bring anything from your repository that is interesting or relevant to the history of Houston, as well as any printed materials or swag items from your institution/organization. The main goal is to get folks interested in archives and to become familiar with local area repositories. Each exhibitor will get a “booth” provided by the Orange Show to showcase their materials. More details about exhibiting and signing up is included in the sign-up form.

This event features an archives bazaar, a day-long schedule of speakers and panels, along with food trucks and vendors.

You can read more details about the event on the Orange Show’s website, and check out some videos of the speakers who participated at last year’s event. 

Save the date! Saturday, March 30, 2024, 10am-6pm. Old, Weird Houston at the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art. 2334 Gulf Terminal Drive. Houston, TX 77023.

2024 Old, Weird Houston @ The Orange Show

It’s that time of year again! We are teaming up with the Orange Show for the annual Old, Weird Houston event on March 30th. This event features an archives bazaar, a day-long schedule of speakers and panels, along with food trucks and vendors. 

We would like the archives bazaar to represent all of the diverse repositories and collections around the city, so we encourage y’all to sign up to be an exhibitor. You can bring anything from your repository that is interesting or relevant to the history of Houston, as well as any printed materials or swag items from your institution/organization. The main goal is to get folks interested in archives and to become familiar with local area repositories. Each exhibitor will get a “booth” provided by the Orange Show to showcase their materials. 

More details about exhibiting and signing up can be found here. 

Save the date! Saturday, March 30, 2024, 10am-6pm. Old, Weird Houston at the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art. 2334 Gulf Terminal Drive. Houston, TX 77023.

Save the date! Saturday, March 30, 2024, 10am-6pm. Old, Weird Houston at the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art. 2334 Gulf Terminal Drive. Houston, TX 77023.

The deadline to sign up is March 15, 2024. Please share this with anyone who might be interested in participating! 

We also will need some volunteers to help with the event. You can sign up to volunteer here. 

You can read more details about the event on the Orange Show’s website, and check out some videos of the speakers who participated at last year’s event. 

  • Add it to your calendar! 
    • Old, Weird Houston
    • Saturday, March 30, 2024 
    • 10:00 am- 6:00 pm 
    • Orange Show Center for Visionary Art
    • 2334 Gulf Terminal Drive
    • Houston, Texas 77023
PowerPoint Party! 2/24 @ 2pm. In-person: 2375 Bolsover, Houston, TX 77005 (see note about parking) Virtual Meeting ID: 880 0818 7968 Passcode: 874871 Short 1-3 slide presentations on any archive-related topic. Practice your in-person and/or virtual presentation skills or support your local archivists as an observer. In-person and virtual presentations will be viewable to all participants. (Cody is grilling a little bit!)

PowerPoint Party! 2/24 @ 2pm (hybrid event)

Please join us for a PowerPoint Party on Saturday 2/24 at 2 PM! This will be a hybrid event hosted in person and online via Zoom.

Yes, you read that right, a PowerPoint Party! Come learn about local repositories, projects, and other interesting archives-related concepts from our AHA! members. We encourage people to participate by presenting a short 1-3 slide presentation on any archive-related topic. Tell us about the repository you work at, an interesting collection you recently browsed, any projects you may have worked on, some interesting news or tea you may have heard, or anything else that you’d like to share. Presenting a PowerPoint is not required, and you are more than welcome to come and just observe 🙂

Presenting is such an important professional skill, but also something that many people prefer to avoid. Whether it’s anxiety or frustrations with technology, we hope that this event will provide a low-stakes and friendly environment for AHA! members to practice this skill in a fun way. As more conferences are hosted in a hybrid format, this is an opportunity to practice either/both skill sets.

Online participants can join us on Zoom.

In-person participants can join us at 2375 Bolsover, Houston, TX 77005
Be mindful of parking signage, especially in front of the house. Free parking on Dunstan, East of Greenbrier; Paid Parking in garage near Morningside and Rice Blvd near Coppa Osteria

Map showing Free parking on Dunstan, East of Greenbrier; Paid Parking in garage near Morningside and Rice Blvd near Coppa Osteria

Map showing Free parking on Dunstan, East of Greenbrier; Paid Parking in garage near Morningside and Rice Blvd near Coppa Osteria

in-person: 2375 Bolsover, Houston, TX, 77005. Virtual: zoom ID: 880 0818 7968 passcode: 874871. | Short 1-3 slide presentations on any archive-related topic. | Practice your in-person and/or virtual presentation skills or support your local archivists as an observer. | In-person and virtual presentations will be viewable to all participants. (Cody is grilling a little bit!)

in-person: 2375 Bolsover, Houston, TX, 77005. Virtual: zoom ID: 880 0818 7968
passcode: 874871. | Short 1-3 slide presentations on any archive-related topic. | Practice your in-person and/or virtual presentation skills or support your local archivists as an observer. | In-person and virtual presentations will be viewable to all participants.
(Cody is grilling a little bit!)