Community Calendar

Howard Rains is an artist and master fiddler originally from Texas and now living in Kansas. Rains performs, records and collaborates with his wife, fellow artist and musician Tricia Spencer. The portraits seen in this collection are all from 2019 and 2020 and represent both where he has been with his work and where he is going. The abandonment of touring and the quiet hours in the studio during the pandemic have begun to shift Rains’ portraits into the realm of the surreal as can be seen in some of the work. Rains continues to create with Tricia and their children, playing music every evening and making art every day. The exhibit will be available to view online on December 18th at https://qrco.de/howardrains.

BATC presents Profile Theatre's production of Mlima’sTale by Lynn Nottage, directed by Reginald L. Douglas. Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, tells the provocative story of Mlima, a majestic elephant trapped in the clandestine international ivory market. Beginning in a game park in Kenya and traveling around the world to a billionaire’s penthouse in the West, the play tracks the trajectory of Mlima’s tusks through real-life consequences of animal poaching. Mlima’s phantom follows close behind marking everyone involved as complicit in his demise.

In celebration of National Poetry Month, URBAN-15 is hosting the annual spoken word marathon featuring San Antonio’s premiere performance poets, Mega Corazon. Celebrating a hybrid San Antonio poetic tradition that combines street, classical, and slam performance styles, Mega Corazón is frontal, improvisational, at times painful, and often choreographed for a highly visual impact. This year’s MEGA CORAZON will take place every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday starting April 5th from 10am-1pm (youth focus) and again from 6-10pm (general audience.) Mega Corazon can be viewed for free online at urban15.org/live-stream or facebook.com/urban15/live. Featured Poets include nationally-recognized poetry slam champions Amalia Ortiz, Anthony “The Poet” Flores, and Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson; National Poetry Month SA organizer Jim LaVilla-Havelin, Eduardo Garza, local San Antonio author Marisol Cortez, and many other talented San Antonio poets. A full listing is available on our website at urban15.org. Performances for Middle and High School students are designed for in-class or at-home-viewing All MEGA CORAZON segments are free and can be viewed online at facebook.com.urban15/live or http://urban15.org/live-stream. We are also happy to set up interviews profiling individual performers. If interested, please contact us at (210) 736-1500 or events@urban15.org. Visual content and photos are available.

Scobee Education Center presents this FREE Virtual Planetarium presentation of Dynamic Earth narrated by Liam Neeson!! The award-winning Dynamic Earth explores the inner workings of Earth's climate system. With visualizations based on satellite monitoring data and advanced supercomputer simulations, this cutting-edge production follows a trail of energy that flows from the Sun into the interlocking systems that shape our climate: the atmosphere, oceans, and the biosphere. Audiences will ride along on swirling ocean and wind currents, dive into the heart of a monster hurricane, come face-to-face with sharks and gigantic whales, and fly into roiling volcanoes. Duration: 24 minutes Audience: General (ages 6+) *Disclaimer: This is NOT a live event. Tickets are only through eventbrite. The shows are available throughout the day. **

Conservation nonprofit, Texan by Nature has opened its Certification program to recognize innovative conservation projects from Houston businesses, organizations, and individuals. Led by Texans for Texans, Texan by Nature connects businesses to conservation initiatives to benefit the Lone Star State’s people, prosperity and natural resources. To learn more about the Texan by Nature Certification program, submit a project or get involved, visit www.texanbynature.org

The play Antigone begins with two brothers fighting for the kinship of Thebes. Both men die in battle. Their successor and uncle, Creon, decides that one brother will be buried but the other brother will be left on the field of battle. Their sister, Antigone, finds herself having to choose between what she believes to be right, burying her brother, or following the laws of man and facing death herself. What happens when we are forced to choose between doing what we feel is right and what the world is telling us is right? What forces us to take a stand? What are we willing to die for?

Cultures clash as a family plans for the rehearsal dinner for the son's wedding. A traditional family finds their plans and assumptions going awry as the bride's guests are gathering with very Untraditional plans for the event. TICKETS ON SALE BEGINNING MARCH 22.

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BATC presents Profile Theatre's production of Mlima’sTale by Lynn Nottage, directed by Reginald L. Douglas. Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, tells the provocative story of Mlima, a majestic elephant trapped in the clandestine international ivory market. Beginning in a game park in Kenya and traveling around the world to a billionaire’s penthouse in the West, the play tracks the trajectory of Mlima’s tusks through real-life consequences of animal poaching. Mlima’s phantom follows close behind marking everyone involved as complicit in his demise.