Apr 25 Thursday
For the past half-century, our mission has been to inspire heartfelt giving. Wondering why you should consider donating blood? Well, your generous gift has the power to transform the lives of cancer and transplant patients, trauma victims, newborns, mothers, and countless other individuals seeking medical care in hospitals and clinics within your community. Today, let's come together and bring hope to South Texas. Join us for the South Texas Blood & Tissue blood drive and make a difference. Remember, when you give, they live.
The event is free and open to the public. No registration required.
Committed to serving law enforcement, veterans, and active service members, WBU-SA is opening its doors to the community to make it easy for individuals looking for a career in law enforcement and public safety to connect with agencies that have open positions. The goal of the job fair is to promote law enforcement and government agencies in their search for quality candidates and to be a resource for the public as working adults look to further their careers or begin new ones.
Attendees can expect to visit with various local law enforcement agencies, including but not limited to Bexar County Sheriff's Office, Texas Department of Public Safety, Bexar County Detention Center, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and local police departments and school districts.Individuals attending the job fair in anticipation of securing employment should come professionally dressed with copies of their current resume. Private rooms will be available for on-the-spot interviews and one-on-one discussions. Attendees will have access to computers to complete online applications on-site.
UTSA's Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching will host a virtual open house where participants will learn about about ILT graduate programs and speak with faculty. Attendees will receive an application fee waiver.
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.
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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.
Don't miss this HIGH ENERGY ORCHESTRA CONCERT featuring the music of Nirvana, Journey, Kansas, The Beatles, Coldplay, and more, with Pieper High and Pieper Middle School orchestras, alongside world-renowned performer, producer, inventor, Emmy-winning composer and music education advocate, Mark Wood.
Mark rose to fame as the original string master of the internationally acclaimed Trans Siberian Orchestra, Mark has released seven solo albums. His commission credits include The Juilliard School, and extensive TV broadcast music including The Winter Olympics and The Tour de France (for which he won his Emmy). He has collaborated with and appeared alongside some of the biggest names in music such as Lenny Kravitz, Celine Dion, and Kanye West. Mark will be here in San Antonio sharing his passion of music with the Warrior Orchestra!
Free parking, and 100% of ticket sales benefit the Pieper High School Orchestra program!
Tickets are limited, and for pre-sale only, so reserve your seats now!
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.
Doors — 7:00pm
Play — 7:30pm
Experience the magical world of Peter Pan brought to life on the Arcadia stage, presented by students at the Hill Country Micro School.
This event is seated General Admission, first come first served.
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.