The Houston-Abu Dhabi Sister City Association held their bi monthly meeting. See below for a photo from their meeting.

Come meet some new friends and visit with old friends at the Houston Grampian Association’s Annual General Meeting and Happy Hour on Thursday, March 7th at Union Kitchen on Washington from 6:00 – 8:00 PM. RSVP and information can be found at the following URL:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mix-mingle-hga-annual-general-meeting-2019-tickets-56597930935

Houston-Nice Sister City Association is a proud partner of Francophonie-French Culture 2019 organized by Cultural Services, French Embassy, in Houston.
Ghislaine Thomsen and Lina Corinth, Vice Président of the Houston-Nice Sister City Association presents the 2019 Carnival After-Hours at the Aperitivo, Granduca Hotel, Thursday, March 14, 5:00 pm to 7 pm – Library, Piano Bar. Free appetizers “The Aperitivo” with purchase of drinks. Bar open until 11 pm. Free Valet parking upon stamped receipt.
We encourage guests to wear costumes and any film themed items to reflect our Sister City Nice Carnival 2019 theme: “All Hail the King of Cinema” “Roi du Cinéma”

Join Houston-Leipzig for a presentation by Michael Pullara, author of The Spy Who Was Left Behind: Russia, the United States, and the True Story of the Betrayal and Assassination of a CIA agent.

Date: March 14, 2019
Time: 6:30 pm

For more information, click here:

http://houstonleipzig.org/2019/02/17/houston-leipzig-presents-the-case-of-freddie-woodruff-the-true-story-of-the-betrayal-and-the-assassination-of-a-cia-agent/

The monthly SCH board meeting will be held on March 19, 2019 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm.

Have you registered for the Japan-Texas leadership Symposium yet?

The Japan-Texas Leadership Symposium is the first in a planned series of binational leadership forums and delegation visits during 2019 and 2020 to culminate with an ALL Japan-US Sister Cities Mayors Summit held in Okayama, Japan, coincident with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. This Symposium and the subsequent leadership gathering are aimed at refreshing, reinvigorating and revitalizing key binational relationships across all leadership sectors within both countries.

We are delighted that Ruth Cotter, senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, Human Resources and Investor Relations at AMD, will be a featured speaker at the symposium, sharing her observations, examples, lessons learnt and strength of partnerships as we collectively drive successful citizen diplomacy efforts in business development. Ruth is a member of Sister Cities International Honorary Board Alumni Association, our Global Leaders Circle member and a longtime supporter of SCI. She was recently named a 2018 Silicon Valley 50 Honoree. AMD is one of the sponsors for the symposium.

The symposium would not be possible without The Koyamada International Foundation (KIF), Sister Cities International’s partner in this effort. Shin Koyomada is the Founder of KIF, is a member of the Board of Directors at SCI, and is a Country Representative for Japan and Eastern Asia.

Join us as we connect mayors, city elected and municipal officials, business leaders, academicians and other civic leadership as well as engage lead Japanese/US citizen diplomats, to discuss the issues of the day, share best practices and produce measureable outcomes. In-kind donors to the symposium include GR Consultores and San Jose Stock.

To access the agenda, click here.

For more information about the symposium click here.

Sister Cities of Houston will hold their second SCI Conference meeting to continue collaboration and planning efforts as we get ready for the SCI Conference in Houston from July 17-19.

See your email for more details.