The Future Forum serves as a nexus for Austin's leaders. Our members are actively engaged in many organizations. We encourage you to find out more about these Doers and Builders Organizations on our Website.


GENaustin (Girls' Empowerment Network) GENaustin, formerly The Ophelia Educational Fund, is based on Dr. Pipher's book, "Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls." We inspire girls to become healthy resisters through self awareness, body awareness, and learning specific coping skills. GENaustin is committed to helping girls grow into healthy, confident women who feel valued for what's inside, and not outside, themselves. Our mission is to help adolescent girls develop and maintain healthy self-esteem and leadership skills by educating them, parents, teachers and others about cultural and media influences that seek to undermine girls' sense of self. We facilitate skill-building programs that empower girls to be true to themselves while advocating for positive change in the world.

To learn more about GENaustin, and about how you can get involved, check out their website.

Come find out more about our Four Future Forum Clusters: The Cultural Cluster, The Film Cluster, The Book Club, and the Public Policy Cluster.

The Film Cluster met on July 10th at 6:00 to watch "Ride Around The World" The Film Cluster is helping host the Kickoff Event and Film Fun on August 24th.
If you would like to be added to the Film Cluster email list, or have a suggestion for a film, please email Taline Manassian at taline@austin.rr.com.
The Film Cluster meets on the first Monday of the month to watch and discuss a film. < Filmmaker Jeff Fraley is a member of the Future Forum and was inattendance. After the film, we had a wonderful Q&A with our own jeff Fraley. If you haven't seen the film, go check it out at the Bob Bullock Museum. And, talk with Jeff about the film.
See you at the movies!

The Book Club is currently reading "The Devil's Highway" by Luis Alberto Urrea.
If you would like to be added to the Book Club list, please email Rob Crosnoe at crosnoe@mail.la.utexas.edu.
To RSVP for this event, please click here: www.lbjfutureforum.org/register.cfm

The Cultural Cluster is gearing up for some fun cultural events in and around Austin. We'll have information at the Ice Cream Social. Come sign up for the cultural cluster and/or learn what they have planned.

We are planning a Kickoff event for the 2006- 2007 season. Please come join us for an Ice Cream and Film party on August 24th at 6 p.m. the LBJ Library and Museum. We will have ice cream, reconnect with friends and other members and let you know what we have planned for the new Future Forum season. We will then watch "The Last days of The San Jose" and have a Q&A with owner Liz Lambert.
Please bring friends and anyone else who you think might be interested in joining the Future Forum. We want your friends to be our friends!

“Big cattleman is trying to run the little cattleman out. I’m going with the little cattleman.”—Gerry Van King, Room No. 14 The San Jose Motel was once a charming family motor court in one of Texas’ great cities. It is now one of the last residential hotels on Austin’s strip. Wallowing in disrepair, it is a haven for the down, out, recovering and most wanted. Uniquely shot from the point of view of owner/manager Liz Lambert, 'The Last Days of the San Jose' shares the stories of the San Jose’s transient population and of Liz's own struggle to close the motel's doors. Transforming the San Jose into a stylish boutique hotel is the goal, but as Liz becomes more entrenched and more involved with her tenants it hardly seems such a cut and dried business venture. What begins as a look into the process of gentrification quickly becomes an exploration of the human condition. Hopes, aspirations and love abound. Resources are spare. As the camera focuses in, the resident’s curbside philosophies and struggles to get by play out in an utterly honest, sometimes moving and often inspiring way. What we come to discover is that Lord is not so far from Subject, that down and out is a state of mind, not a state of being, and that what goes on behind the closed doors of a seedy cash-only motel is often not what we think...

More about the Future Forum: The purpose of the Future Forum is to expand the involvement of young Texans with the LBJ Library and its programs by initiating dialogue about current issues and by providing educational and cultural information to its members. It is the ultimate goal of the Future Forum to foster greater civic involvement within our community. Future Forum Seeks to Inspire!

The 2006-2007 Future Forum season is just starting. That means that your membership has expired; BUT, we want you back. We hope that you will come join us for another season. You can Renew (or join) online now. Or, come to the August 24th event and renew there. But, please don't forget to renew. We'd hate to lose you because you thought "Oh, I'll just do that when I have more time." We want you back!
And, don't forget: You can always give the gift of a Future Forum Membership.

If you have any ideas about how we can improve the Future Forum, events you'd like to see, or other thoughts, please let us know.

Other LBJ Family sites - LBJ Library: www.lbjlib.utexas.edu, LBJ Now: www.lbjnow.org, LBJ School: www.utexas.edu/lbj/

Come check out the Permanent Exhibits at the LBJ Library and Museum. And, come check out the new Exhibit opening September 2nd, "Power to the People: The Electrification of Rural Texas."
Walk into a world before television, computers, the iPod, refrigerators or even running water.

The exhibit, Power to the People: The Electrification of Rural Texas, is a unique story of one of the most dramatic events in Texas history. Rural Texas in the 1930s was still in the dark as electric lines hadn’t penetrated the beautiful, but rugged Texas Hill Country.

Lyndon Johnson grew up here, without electricity, and vowed that once he had the political power to bring change, he would. Visitors will journey through time – feeling how tough life was without electricity, seeing how Johnson worked his political will to bring power lines to the region, and understanding the difference electrification made in the lives of Central Texans. A highlight of the exhibit: home movies of the era narrated by Lady Bird Johnson.

Come to the Opening Celebration
Power to the People: The Electrification of Rural Texas

Sunday, Sept. 10, 2006
An afternoon of music, barbecue, and history Free to the public

Please join the LBJ Library, Texas Electric Cooperatives, and Pedernales Electric for the opening celebration of the new exhibit.

1:00 to 4:00 p.m. – concert by the Gimbles, featuring legendary fiddle player Johnny Gimble 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. - Bar-b-que lunch by The Salt Lick

We ask that visitors tour the Power to the People exhibit, receive a ticket, and present that ticket for their bar-b-que lunch.

The festivities will be by the fountain in front of the Library. 2313 Red River Free Parking

For more information: www.lbjlib.utexas.edu

Please join us in celebrating President Johnson’s birthday, August 27, 2006. The Library will be serving cake and coffee to the public from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. that day.

Also, don't forget, the LBJ Library and Museum is open from 9-5 every day of the year except Christmas day. And, admission is free (we are the only Presidential Library that is free). By the way, another bonus of the LBJ Library and Museum - the view! The great picture of Texas Tower and the Fountain looking out from the LBJ Library and Museum is courtesy of Charles Bogel, who always takes the great pictures at our events.

There are lots of great events happening in and around Austin.