By providing children from at-risk families
with books they can take home and keep, First Book-Houston targets the
only variable that correlates significantly with reading scores, the
number of books in one's home. First
Book-Houston's Local Advisory Board unites leaders from all sectors of
the community who volunteer and distribute new books to literacy
programs, and other community based programs in an effort to help
children of at-risk families start their own home libraries. It is a professional touring company that produces fully
staged portable operas in English for students in Kindergarten through
7th grade.

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members learn to elect officers and work together to implement
activities in four areas: service to Club and community, education,
health and fitness and social recreation.

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Located at 6 rue Verdaine, 1211 Geneva 3 , Switzerland, the gallery
will be open Monday to Friday, 10:30 a.

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Through their social enterprises , Torch Club youth raised $200 to host
a live opera performance.C.
"All of the remarkably preserved pieces feature such innovative
techniques as granulation, chasing, gilding and relief work that are
virtually impossible for today's jewelers to recreate, even with
modern technology.

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Approximately 100
children will see HGO's Opera to GO! performance of Cinderella in
Spain/Cenicienta en Espana and have the opportunity to ask the
performers questions regarding the show.

WHAT: Effort to give children their first opera experience +
ownership of their first new books
WHEN: Saturday, March 12, 2005 at 10 a. - 6.

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Opera to GO! is sponsored by Houston Grand Opera and its singers
are artists and residents at Houston Community College's Central
Campus. These objects are all individual testimonies to the
extraordinary levels of craftsmanship achieved by ancient cultures ,
and their technical ability to produce artistically exquisite and
unique works of art," said Ali Aboutaam, president of Phoenix Ancient
Art. The show also focuses on pieces accented with
precious stones from antiquity, including safire, carnelian, agate,
sardonyx, and emerald.30 p.com

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that is especially notable since Egyptian silver is
extremely rare; and a Classical Greek gold ring with a spectacularly
fine engraved figure of a beardless Hercules.

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Vessels are also prominently featured, including a 5th - 4th
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First Book-Houston Partners with Houston Grand Opera's Opera To GO! to Improve Literacy + Promote the Arts at Boys + Girls Clubs

One striking theme is the
reverence for gold and silver, which have fascinated and appealed to
mankind for millennia. Greek rhyton with fluted body and scenes in chasing
technique, and a Hellenistic Greek gold cup with scenes of fishermen
in relief work, from the 2nd - 1st century B., New York, at (212 ) 288-7518;
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There are also figures of gods, including a gilt silver statuette
of the Egyptian god Khnum, dating from the beginning of the first
millennium B.

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Business Editors /Entertainment Editors/Education Editors

HOUSTON----First Book-Houston and
HGO's Opera to GO ! join forces with Torch Club to help give brand new
books and an opera experience to children of residents served through
the Spring Branch Family Development Center.

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First Book-Houston is part of First Book, a national non-profit
organization with a single mission: to give children from at -risk
families the opportunity to read and own their first new books.
The exhibit displays a variety of wearable items--including rings,
necklaces, earrings, and bracelets--such as a gold torque necklace
originating from Western Europe in the 2nd millennium B. The necklace's simple, linear design makes it
appear very contemporary.

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Originating from
cultures throughout Western civilization--including Spain, Germany,
Central Europe, the Balkans, Greece and Rome, Anatolia, the Levant and
Mesopotamia -- the pieces showcase various artistic styles and
impeccable craftsmanship. Natural pearls are also found, particularly in
Byzantine jewelry. made from a
hammered bar of gold.

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WHERE: Spring Branch Family Development Center's Boys and Girls Club
(8575 Pitner Road, Houston, Texas 77080)
CONTACT: LaTonya Moore, 713-419-3947, houston_tx@firstbook.

Business Editors/Art Writers

NEW YORK----Phoenix Ancient Art,
one of the world's leading dealers in rare and exquisite antiquities
from Western civilizations, today announced that its latest exhibit,
"6000 Years of Jewels: Fine Metalwork and Jewelry from Antiquity" was
unveiled at its Geneva gallery on April 20 , 2005, and will remain on
view until June 3.

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The performance features costumes, portable sets, an
accompanist, and live singers.m.

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D, and starting in value
from CHF 2700 (US$2,200), the exhibition offers a fascinating look at
superb metalworks and jewelry in ancient times.C.

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In the
past three years, First Book has distributed over 20 million new books
to children in need in hundreds of communities nationwide.

Lifestyles of Ancient Aristocrats from Western Civilizations Come Alive at Jewelry Exhibit in Geneva April 20 - June 3; Phoenix Ancient Art's Exhibition Showc

The collection presents an intriguing display of how the various
civilizations used metallurgic techniques. Appointments for
Saturday can be made by calling (011) 41 22 318 8010, or Phoenix
Ancient Art, 47 East 66th St.

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Featuring 150 breathtaking pieces dating from approximately the
4th millennium B.

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Immediately following the
performance, the children will be treated to a special story time and
receive a new copy of the book that the performance is based upon,
provided by First Book-Houston at a reception with Torch Club
participants and their parents. Offering the opportunity to see an
opera provides these youth with an appreciation for cultural arts,
lasting memories, and helps satisfy their community service
requirement. Torch Club-Spring Branch is part of Boys +
Girls Clubs of Americas' leadership program , a chartered small-group
leadership and service club for boys and girls ages 10-12. to the 13th century A.

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Access to cultural arts and books are essential to reading
development and character building; however, over 90 percent of
at-risk families enrolled in Boys + Girls Clubs have no access to
books or cultural events.
Torch Club works to promote and facilitate the distribution of new
books to literacy programs in the Houston and Spring Branch areas.C.

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