Come see this special performance by young musical performers by Ms. Mila’s String Studio. Their instructor also plays for some of Houston's most notable musical and performance organizations! This community outreach recital event will be at the Bagby Street Patio for Downtown District’s “City Light Downtown Holiday Magic”.

Some of the performers will also be sharing the history behind the holiday music.

Come see this special performance by young musical performers by Ms. Mila’s String Studio. Their instructor also plays for some of Houston's most notable musical and performance organizations! This community outreach recital event is free and open to everyone.

Some of the performers will also be sharing the history behind the holiday music.

Dessert will be served - cookies and hot chocolate!

Please RSVP to info@heritagesociety.org.

Downtown Houston + presents…

Hop aboard the “City Light Downtown Holiday Magic” Bus Tour and unveil the best new holiday sites of Houston. This is an extraordinary evening tour, to explore 11 Holliday Villages places in Downtown Houston!

Meeting point: The Heritage Society, 1100 Bagby Street Houston. Texas 77002. Parking is free at 212 Dallas Street. Additional parking is available at the Heritage Clay Street Garage at 1200 Bagby Street.

HOLIDAY VILLAGES IN DOWNTOWN

• Deck the trees at GRB Convention Center.

• Land of Sweets at Hilton Americas

• Holiday Ice Village at Discovery Green

• Texas Winter Lights at Marriott Marquis.

• Trebly Park

• Mistletoe Square at Market Square Park

• Post

• Sugar Plum Plaza

• Lynn Wyatt Square

• Winter Wanderland on Bagby Street (near The Heritage Society)

• City Hall (on December 2 during Mayor’s Holiday Annual Tree Lighting)

HOLIDAY BUS DEPOT AT THE HERITAGE SOCIETY

From November 18 - December 30, our Holiday Village and Museum Gallery is open to the public on Fridays and Saturdays, from 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM, at 1100 Bagby Street. Free Parking is at 212 Dallas. It is free for the public to attend!

Downtown Houston + has a Texas Santa and Letters to Santa on the Bagby Street Patio.

The Heritage Society is hosting AO Art Show artists and Freedmen’s Town Holiday Market on Friday and Saturday evenings on the Bagby Street Patio.

The Heritage Society’s Museum Gift Shop will be open from 6:30 - 10 PM. The museum exhibit is only $5 and includes hot chocolate and cookies.

Winter Wanderland is in its third year of celebration since the City of Houston redesigned Bagby Street to be an enjoyable promenade near City Hall. Sam Houston Park has a sparking Constellation Tunnel and across the street at the Houston Public Library are the enormous lighted Angel Wings for that perfect holiday photo. 1000 Bagby Street.

Armistice Day - Remembering Our Harris County World War 1 Soldiers

The World War 1 Cenotaph that sits in the John Connally Plaza at the Heritage Society honors 200 of the young Harris County soldiers who lost their lives in that conflict over one hundred years ago.  The stone cenotaph was designed by Frank Teich, the same man who later designed the base of the Sam Houston statue in Hermann Park and who was responsible for many of the beautiful carved angels at Glenwood Cemetery.  The bronze tablet carries the names of soldiers lost to combat or the Spanish Flu which ravaged the world in 1918.

Each year, around Veterans Day, members of the John McKnitt Alexander Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) gather to rededicate this monument and remember these soldiers who made that ultimate sacrifice and to honor their mothers who "bore these undying sons of liberty."  It was these Gold Star Mothers who erected this monument at the entrance to City Hall, then at Market Square, in 1920.

This year's re-dedication will be Saturday, November 11 at 2:30 p.m.  All are welcome to join us to remember their lives and the freedoms they fought to preserve.  You can read about their lives at this link (Click Here).  

As a bonus, we hope to have with us the grandson of General Pershing's aide by whose watch all nations set their watches to coordinate the end of World War 1 at the 11th Hour.

For more information, please contact Caroline Hassell at Caroline@JMANSDAR.org

3rd Annual Houston Día de los Muertos Parade & Festival at Sam Houston Park in Downtown  Saturday, November 4, 2-10 PM | FREE – The Día de los Muertos festival returns to Downtown, offering an evening of live music, a parade procession, delicious concessions, arts and crafts, and more. Free to participate in the parade, but traditional attire—full of pageantry and beauty—is recommended. Parade starts at 7 PM.

Did you know? Day of the Dead, a Latin American tradition that originated in Mexico, is a time that families take to remember their loved ones that have passed.  In honoring them, families create ofrendas, or altars, that are decorated by the person’s favorite foods, drinks, photos and memorabilia to encourage the spirits to visit.  Across the city, communities and Houston’s signature institutions will host Día de los Muertos events that honor the tradition and pay respects to the city’s dearly departed.