Apr 18 Thursday
Experience the ultimate FOODIE🌮🍷 event with the most exquisite flavors of San Antonio while supporting a great cause at Brighton Center's TASTE of the Northside! Join us on April 18, 2024, as San Antonio's top restaurants showcase their finest dishes, paired with curated wines, craft cocktails, and cold brews.
As a VIP ticket holder, you'll indulge in unlimited food tastings from more than 30 restaurants, top-shelf libations, curated wines, cold brews, and upscale Fiesta fun. Boasting a convenient north San Antonio location, Taste of the Northside offers onsite covered parking, an expansive indoor/outdoor event space, and indoor restrooms. This is the Fiesta celebration you won't want to miss!
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Women & Whiskey With A Twist! FlingFeaturing LALO Tequila6 to 9 p.m., Thursday, April 18
Always on the third Thursday, Women & Whiskey With A Twist! social hour is from 6 to 9 p.m. at Sire Bar, just off the main lobby at La Cantera Resort & Spa, located at 16641 La Cantera Parkway. Featured speakers will share history, distilling, marketing and little-known insights about the brand.
Tickets are $15 pre-sale, $20 at the door, $2 from each ticket benefits Culinaria. Enjoy free tastings, lite bites and live entertainment.
For tickets, visit: Women & Whiskey With A Twist! at LaCanteraResort.com. Tickets must be presented at the door, printed or on a mobile device.
Join us Thursday, April 18th at 6pm to celebrate the debut novel of local author Etta Easton! Etta will be joined in conversation by fellow author Gabriella Gamez. Don't miss out!
This collection of work stitches together Louisiana imagery with domestic lesbian life. Alex uses iconography such as catfish, gas stations, ‘gators, and baptist themes to allow her to converse about the Southern lesbian experience in a way that refuses to demonize the South as a whole. Some of these icons, such as the catfish, have become a self-identifier for her throughout her MFA experience. While the catfish is a symbol of community and Louisiana culture, to “catfish” someone is to lie about who you truly are. In becoming a catfish, she confronts the reality that many LGBT community members faces of not being completely out to family, friends, and loved ones. Alex repurposes recorded conversations with family, old family photos, and memories to see them through a lens of both yearning and apprehension.
My artwork expresses the permanent dialog occurring in the psyche of a middle-aged Mexican ex-patriate. “Uprooting” depicts a cumulus of experiences and life occurrences that continuously steer the personal path toward eventful situations that modify the perception of the self. It is a search for the self through the examination of statements of faith, a sense of displacement, beliefs of belonging, ideas of existence, and acceptance of the human condition. Juxtaposed images and ideas pursue balance for experienced concepts like life vs. death, faith vs. despair, and innocence vs. corruption. Fetishism is embedded in the materials chosen for the work. The ritualistic mechanics of working with these materials evoke a nostalgic reminiscence of my childhood, Mexican heritage, and domesticity. The mixture of elements helps the artwork achieve, at first glance, a whimsical feeling, which yields to an emergence of the dire under-layered content that is constantly searching for belonging. The realization of meaning proves to be more irreverent and biting than innocent. My artwork is not only denunciatory—solutions are presented within. Balance is pursued with nurturing and creative power from the female perspective.
Register for this class here!
Have you ever wanted to try your hand at poetry but didn’t know where to start? Are you a newbie poet who’s ready to learn more about the genre? If so, this National Poetry Month workshop is for you! In this four-week class, we will review the history of poetry, study contemporary poets and their craft, and review different poetic forms, including prose, lists, lyrical and narrative, and more. Using these texts and forms for inspiration, we will write and give poetic form to our own experiences and dreams. Participants will receive light feedback and resources to keep them writing.
WORKSHOP DATES:Thursdays, April 4, 11, 18 & 25, 2024, 6:30-8:30pm CST, In person at Gemini Ink
COST: Nonmember: $135; Member: $115; Student/Educator/Mil $75
EARN CPE’S * SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE
Originally from San Antonio, Texas, Jonathan Fletcher holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Columbia University School of the Arts. He has been published in The Adroit Journal, Arts Alive San Antonio, FlowerSong Press, riverSedge, and The Thing Itself. He has served as a Columbia Artist/Teacher for iHOPE, a specialized school for students with traumatic brain injury, and a poetry editor for Exchange, Columbia’s literary magazine for incarcerated writers and artists. Currently, he serves as a Zoeglossia Fellow.
Tired of being on the sidelines? Want to pick up a new sport? Want a way to get steps outdoors? Looking to expand your network? Consider golf. Chips & Walk is a woman's social golf community. Join us for an unforgettable evening of night golf. Meet other women golfers, make connections, and have fun on the green. Get ready to tee off and make lasting memories on the fairway. We welcome all skill levels. No clubs, no problem.
Visit our website at chipsandwalk.com to get more information and register. Follow us on Instagram @chipsnwalk for updates and info.
Every third Thursday, SNIPSA partners with Mobile Om to bring a little cuteness to your flow. You’re invited to our next guided puppy yoga class with Cassandra and some of our tiniest tail-waggers! These heartwarming and interactive sunset sessions are a wonderful way to re-center. Sign up and secure your spot with a donation to our life-saving mission.
Thursday, April 18th6:30 p.m.Confluence Park 310 W Mitchell St. 78204
Monday, April 15, 2024 is the kickoff of the MEGA CORAZÓN celebration, an online spoken word marathon that is part of San Antonio’s National Poetry Month participation. This festival presents San Antonio’s poetic tradition that combines street, classical, and slam performance styles in a production that is improvisational, at times painful, and choreographed for a highly visual impact. The festival will begin streaming at urban15.org/live-stream/ at 8pm on April 15, and will highlight about 90 poems from various artists throughout a continuous 24-hour loop.
This year’s poet lineup includes past San Antonio Poets Laureate Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson, Octavio Quintanilla, and Carmen Tafolla, as well as Texas Poet Laureate ire’ne lara silva, and newly named San Antonio Poet Laureate Eddie Vega. Returning also will be a variety of talented and locally recognized poets such as Anthony “The Poet” Flores, Amalia Ortiz, and Jim LaVilla-Havelin, among others.
The winner of Mega Corazón will be determined by an online vote that URBAN-15 will launch on the same day as the livestream. Once Mega Corazón comes to a close, votes will be tallied, and the winner will be awarded the $500 Gregg Barrios “Precious Words Prize”.
The Gregg Barrios “Precious Words Prize” was created by world-renowned poet and author Gregg Barrios in 2021 to award the Mega Corazon poet selected by the on-line audience for the best performance during the festival. The 2021 winner was Amalia Ortiz, 2022 winner was Jessica Tilton Zertuche and 2023 winner was Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson.
Apr 19 Friday
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center announces the call for entries for CineFestival San Antonio, the nation’s original and longest-running Latino film festival. Celebrating its 45th edition, San Antonio’s annual celebration of independent Latino cinema will take place July 11-14, 2024. The festival will accept films finalized after January 2023, continuing its call for programming focusing on Chicano, Latinx and Native American cinema, with an emphasis on Texas and San Antonio related films. The regular deadline for call for entries is May 5, 2024.