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The Japanese Festival of Houston, located in Houston, Texas is considered one of the largest Japanese festivals in the United States. Hosted originally by the Japan America Society of Houston (JASH, ヒューストン日米協会 Hyūsuton Nichibei Kyōkai), the festival is now handled by the Japan Festival of Houston Inc. under the Japan-America Society of Houston advisement.
Miller Outdoor Theatre is an outdoor theater for the performing arts in Houston, Texas.It is located on approximately 7.5 acres (30,000 m 2) of land in Hermann Park, at 6000 Hermann Park Drive, Houston, Texas 77030.
Hermann Park is a 445-acre (180-hectare) urban park in Houston, Texas, situated at the southern end of the Museum District. The park is located to the immediate north end of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at Texas Medical Center and Brays Bayou , east of Rice University , and slightly west of the Third Ward .
The Houston Shakespeare Festival (HSF) is a regional repertory theatre in Houston, Texas, United States. Each summer, the Houston Shakespeare Festival produces a season of two Shakespeare plays in repertory. Since its inception in 1975, HSF has entertained over a million theatergoers with free performances in Hermann Park's Miller Outdoor Theatre.
An episode of Houston Public Media TV-8's Arts InSight was filmed in the garden in 2014. [3] In 2017, the garden hosted the Hermann Park Conservancy's fifteenth annual "Evening in the Park" fundraiser. The event commemorated the garden's 25th anniversary and raised more than $600,000 for restoration efforts. [4] [5]
The Houston Museum of Natural Science (abbreviated as HMNS) is a natural history museum located on the northern border of Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States.The museum was established in 1909 by the Houston Museum and Scientific Society, an organization whose goals were to provide a free institution for the people of Houston focusing on education and science.
Type: Gardens: Location: Houston, TX: Coordinates: Created: 2014: Operated by: Hermann Park Conservancy: Status: Open year-round, except Thanksgiving and Christmas Day [1]: Plants: 650 azaleas, 490 trees of over 50 species, 55,000 perennial bulbs, 760 hedge shrubs & 4.5-acre (1.8 ha) of grass [1]
Mahatma Gandhi is an outdoor sculpture of the Indian independence movement leader of the same name, installed at Hermann Park's McGovern Centennial Gardens in Houston, Texas, in the United States. The statue was dedicated in Hermann Park on October 2, 2004. [1]