| | | | | News & Information |  (Add news) | Thursday, July 17, 2008 - Cultural Arts SIG Web Page Has July 18 - 19 Gallery Openings & Meadows Mu
Cultural Arts SIG Web Page Has July 18 - 19 Gallery Openings and Meadows Music Special for Thursday, July 17. Music in the time of Fernando Gallego will be performed tonight. The exhibit will be closing Saturday, the 27th.--Betty Jane
| Friday, July 11, 2008 - Free Speaker at the General Meeting!
Date: Sunday, July 20th
Time: 7:00 PM socializing & 7:30 PM Speaker
Location: Preston Tower Condominiums, 6211 W. Northwest Highway
Who: Doug Frazier
Topic: "When the Going Gets Rough . . ."
The city of Dallas has about 700 firefighters, trained and ready to help us in case of fire or other disaster. What happens if a major disaster occurs - an F5 tornado, a major terrorist attack, a hundred year flood - and the professionals are overwhelmed? If that happens, the city will call on trained volunteer resources to fill in, and will depend on everyone to take care of themselves where they can. The city of Houston, with its history of aid to Katrina victims and its own evacuations, has tens of thousands of volunteers trained under the Citizen Corps programs: CERT (Community Emergency Response Team), FIRE Corps, VIPS (Volunteers in Police Service), the Medical Reserve Corps and USAonwatch. Dallas is far less prepared.
Doug Frazier, long-time Mensa Member and a Dallas CERT volunteer since the program's inception, talks about preparedness, both civic and personal. The CERT program, now about 200 in Dallas (as compared to Houston's 5,000) has a goal of training several thousand in the next few years. Founded just a year ago, the team has already served in a major emergency (last July's acetylene depot fire, in downtown Dallas), as part of a multi-city search, and has manned at first aid stations and handled crowd control for several marathons and bike races. CERT, along with its Citizen Corps sister organizations, is here to help.
Personal preparedness is our own responsibility - from something as simple as planning fire escape routes and family rally points to preparing a ditch bag and laying on a supply of emergency food and water, we all know that we should prepare, but few of us do. In addition to discussion of CERT program, Doug will offer guidance and handouts on personal and family preparedness. We've all seen the news photos of floods in the Midwest, hurricanes in the Gulf, earthquakes in California and tornadoes in Oklahoma and figured that the odds of such an event happening here are slim. They're not slim enough to ignore. A little bit of preparation can make your life much easier if it happens. Come to the meeting and see what you can do!
| Friday, July 11, 2008 - Cultural Arts SIG Web Page Has July 8 - 13 Gallery Openings and Tuesdays at
The Cultural Arts SIG Web Page has been updated with July 8 - 13 Gallery Openings from Jim Mathis. It also has been updated with more of the upcoming free Tuesday night events at the Dallas Central Library called Tuesdays at Central. For example, next Tuesday is Lights, Camera, Action!
July 15, 2008 7 pm - 8 pm
Delve into the exciting world of documentary filmmaking with local filmmakers Allen and Cynthia Mondell. The Mondells have won numerous film awards and are the founders of Media Projects, Inc. They will discuss how documentary films are made - from the initial idea to the finished project and will illustrate the different methods of filmmaking with clips from some of their award-winning documentaries. Looks like fun! Check it out! Contact Betty Jane Ferguson for more information or just come.
| Thursday, July 03, 2008 - Cultural Arts Page Has Been Updated with July 3 - 6 Gallery Openings
Thursday, July 3,2008 - The Cultural Arts SIG Web Page on northtexasmensa.org has been updated with July 3 - 6 Art Gallery openings from Jim Mathis.
| Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - Cultural Arts SIG Web Page Has June 26-28 Gallery Openings and Thursday Mea
Cultural Arts SIG Webpage on northtexasmensa.org has Art Gallery Openings for June 26-28 from Jim Mathis. The webpage also has lots of information on the Fernando Gallego Exhibit Event CAS is hosting at the Meadows Museum this Thursday, 4:45 to 9:00 PM (free event). Come see underpaintings found through modern scientific methods that are shown in light boxes as well as the finished paintings. Contact me for more information or look for blue mensa t-shirt at the exhibit.--Betty Jane Ferguson, bookies@gte.net
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