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SUMMARY:Felon: An American Washi Tale with Reginald Dwanye Betts
DESCRIPTION:Performed by poet\, lawyer and MacArthur Fellow Reginald Dwayne Betts\, Felon: An America Washi Tale is a powerful solo performance exploring the unexpected significance of paper in the American prison system. The play is about reimagining paper\, from legal documents that initiate and end sentences to “kites” — letters from loved ones providing vital lifelines\, or book pages slid under the cell door of an incarcerated teenager— paper serves as both a burden and a beacon of hope. \nWeaving together traditional theater\, poetry\, fine art and Japanese papermaking aesthetics\, the piece is a meditation of Betts’ own experience with incarceration and his legal advocacy work to free others. This reflection on the challenges of living in the shadow of mass incarceration is a story of violence\, love and fatherhood. The world of Felon is shaped by set design by Japanese paper artist Kyoko Ibe\, crafted from “prison paper” that artist Ruth Lingen constructed from the clothes of men Betts first met in prison as a teenager\, visually extending the play’s reach beyond the artist’s own story to illuminate how incarceration touches us all.
URL:https://arts.utsa.edu/event/felon-an-american-washi-tale-with-reginald-dwanye-betts/
CATEGORIES:Performances
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SUMMARY:Arts & Health Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us on April 10 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center for a special Public Health Week gathering exploring the intersections of art\, healing\, and justice. The event features a screening of The Quilters\, hands-on participatory fiber arts activities\, and a community dialogue on transformative and restorative justice frameworks. Together\, we will reflect on the impacts of arts in incarceration and imagine more compassionate\, health-centered approaches to justice. \nFeatured Artists & Speakers:  \nDeb Harris (Fiber Thoughts) \nTrish Ashton (San Antonio Handweavers Guild) \nRasa Silenas (San Antonio Handweavers Guild) \nRhonda BeLue (UT San Antonio Public Health) \nJelena Todić (UT San Antonio Social Work) \nRobert Rico (Director of Restorative Practice\, UT San Antonio) \n  \nParking for the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center (922 San Pedro Ave) includes Garage 3 and Lot 28 at SAC\, and there is also street parking on Maverick. There is also a designated area for physically disabled individuals in the Planned Parenthood lot next to the Esperanza.  \n  \n:
URL:https://arts.utsa.edu/event/arts-health-workshop/
LOCATION:Esperanza Peace & Justice Center\, 922 San Pedro Ave\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78212\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:Xicanxfuturism: A Sci-Fi and  Speculative Fiction Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join the UT San Antonio Creative Writing Reading Series on April 8th at 7:30 PM on Main Campus\, Mckinney Humanities Building (3.01.28) for XicanXfuturism: A Sci-Fi and Speculative Fiction Reading with contributors: Xicano Writer Scótt Russell Dúncan\, Artist Luis Valderas\, Poet Juan Manuel Pérez\, Writer R.Ch.Garcia\, and Writer Javier Guajardo.  \nXicanXfuturism: Gritos for Tomorrow Codex I is a codex of speculative futurist thought\, art\, comics\, novellas\, stories\, flash fiction\, poetry\, and essays exploring the Xicanx tomorrow as our numbers and cultura grow today. Contributors include Xicanx sci-fi veterans\, social justice thinkers\, influential speculative artists\, and trailblazing new writers charting the future for our gente: elindiocopyright1985\, Osmani Ochoa\, Luis Valderas\, Pedro Iniguez\, Martin Hill Ortiz\, Ernesto Ayala\, Angela Acosta\, Juan Manuel Pérez\, Erika Said Izaguirre\, E.C.-Dukes\, Ronnie Dukes\, Patrick Fontes\, Ernesto Mireles\, Natalia Rivas\, Sendy (Sail) Tapia\, Juan G. Berumen\, Irene Blea\, Fabio Chee\, R. Ch. Garcia\, Scott Russell Duncan\, El Henry Madrid\, Victoria Bañales\, Salvador Ayala\, W.O. Torres\, Joe Menchaca\, Rocio Anica\, Frederick Luis Aldama\, Ricardo Tavarez\, Catrióna Rueda Esquibel\, Dante Olivas\, Gerardo Aldana\, Ernest Hogan\, Javier Guajardo\, M.M. Olivas\, Joel Flores\, and Samantha  “Eggsy” J. and Colton “Cuca” Campbell. \nEdited by Scott Russell Duncan and Jenny Irizary\, this codex is not just a collection. It is a call\, a vision\, and a grito for the worlds we will walk upon. \nPublished by Riot of Roses. \n  \nMeet the Contributors: \n  \nScótt Russell Dúncan\nScótt Russell Dúncan\, a Xicano writer\, edited the first Chicano sci-fi anthology\, El Porvenir\, ¡Ya!: Citlalzazanilli Mexicatl and is creator and editor of Xicanxfuturism: Gritos for Tomorrow\, Codex I. He is director of Palabras del Pueblo writing workshop and co-creator of Maíz Poppin’ Press. His novel\, Old California Strikes Back\, a magic memoir and meta-novel described as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets Yo Soy Joaquin\, is published through FlowerSong Press. www.scottrussellduncan.com \n  \n  \n  \nLuis Valderas\nLuis Valderas received a BFA in Art Education from the University of Texas-Pan American in 1995. In 2005\, Valderas co-founded and produced Project: MASA I\, II\,III\, IV & V—a national group exhibit series that continues to feature Latinx artists and focuses on Chican@ identities. He co-founded The A3 Press and Bishop & Valderas\, LLC. a large-scale printmaking community engagement collaborative and production house. Currently\, Valderas is a mentor and board member for the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). He has exhibited at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia(MOA)\, Medellin Museum of Art\, Colombia\, the Queens Museum\, NYC and the UCR-Arts Block\, Riverside\, CA. His work is featured in books such as Altermundos-Latin@ Speculative Literature\, Film and Popular Culture-2017\,  Mundos Alternos-Art\, Science Fiction in the Americas-2017\,  Chicano Art for Our Millennium-2004\, and Triumph in Our Communities: Four Decades of Mexican American Art-2005. His work  is in the permanent collections of the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)\, Arizona State University\, Art Museum of South Texas\, and the San Antonio Museum of Art. \n  \nJuan Manuel Pérez\nJuan Manuel Pérez\, an Indigenous Mexican-American poet and the Poet Laureate for Corpus Christi\, Texas (2019-2020)\, is the author of numerous poetry books including the recently released bilingual haiku collection\, THE ENIGMATICAL SPHERE OF EL CHUPA-KU (Space Cowboy Books\, 2025) as well as the award-wining\, poetic-memoir\, THIRTY YEARS AGO: LIFE AND THE FIRST GULF WAR (2023). Juan\, a former migrant field worker\, is also the 2021 Horror Authors Guild’s Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award winner and a recipient of a 2021 Horror Writers Association Diversity Grant. This poet’s credits also include a recent Honorable Mention in the Poetry Society Of Virginia’s 2025 Veterans Poetry Project/Edward W. Lull Memorial Contest\, two International Latino Book Honorable Mention Awards (2025)\, one Regal Summit Book Award (2024)\, an Honorable Mention in the 2025 Inaugural War Poetry Postcard Contest\, one Best Of The Net Nomination (2023)\, two Aphelion’s Best Poetry Of The Year Listings (2023\, 2024)\, two Pushcart Prize Nominations (2017\, 2023)\, three Elgin Book Award Nominations (2021\, 2022\, 2023)\, four Rhysling Award Nominations (2011\, 2012\, 2013\, 2020)\, four Dwarf Star Award Nominations (2012\, 2020\, 2021\, 2022) with one Honorable Mention win in 2022\, and one H.E.R.O.I.C. People’s Choice Award Nomination (2024). To learn more about this award-winning poet\, migrant field worker\, combat vet\, history teacher\, and Native American Gourd Dancer\, please check out his official website at: https://www.juanmperez.com/ . \n  \n \nR.Ch.Garcia \nGarcia’s speculative stories appear in Latinos in Lotusland\, Needles and Bones\, Rudy Rucker’s Flurb\, Lost Trails: Forgotten Tales of the Weird West\, Cricket’s Revista Iguana\, and the Xicanxfuturism Codex II and the RMFW 2026 Anthology. Contests: honored by Writers Digest Fiction Contest\, 1st in Somos en Escrito’s Extra Fiction Contest. His novel The Closet of Discarded Dreams\, honored by the International Latino Book Awards; his SW/Mexico fantasy Death Song of the Dragón Chicxulub took 1st place with ILBA Fantasy Book-to-Movie; his YA fantasy The Obsidian Princess and the Grandest Gardener is set in Mexico 100 years before Cortez. More at rchgarcia.com \nGarcia is a co-founder of LaBloga.blogspot.com\, holds a B.A. in Writing from the University of Colo.-Denver and retired as a Denver bilingual elem. teacher. \nWriting in Northside Denver\, Garcia gardens\, landscapes\, woodworks and cares for cacti and wild birds that visit his and his wife Carmen’s gardens. Plus he has two Nietos\, a bright\, friendly dog Menqui\, and a sorta feral cat\, Panther. His adopted credo: “Give up on the adults!” [P. Bacigalupi] \n  \nJavier Guajardo\nJavier Guajardo is just starting out writing and publishing speculative fiction. He has published one story\, “Edgar Alvarado’s Mal-Sueño of Real Estate” which appeared in Latin@ Literatures in 2023. His second story\, “Requiem for the Biohuman” will appear in Xicanxfuturism Codex 2 later this summer. Originally from the Rio Grande Valley\, he’s working on getting his first novel accepted by a publisher who isn’t afraid of mixing sci-fi with cultura Tejana. Many years ago\, a transporter accident created an evil version of him who uses the last name Rodríguez. Rodríguez worked as a newspaper reporter in the 1980s in various Texas cities before going back to graduate school and getting a Ph.D. He taught US-American literature at the college level and retired last year. These days\, Guajardo lives in San Antonio and tries to avoid the internet. \n  \n 
URL:https://arts.utsa.edu/event/xicanxfuturism-a-sci-fi-and-speculative-fiction-reading/
LOCATION:UT San Antonio Main Campus\, Mckinney Humanities Building 3.01.28\, 1 UTSA Circle\, San Antonio\, TX\, United States
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SUMMARY:Inside/Outside: Considerations for Teaching Artists
DESCRIPTION:This workshop equips teaching artists to engage thoughtfully and responsibly in carceral settings by grounding their practice in critical ethical frameworks\, trauma-informed and healing-centered methodologies\, and deeply relational approaches to arts-making. Moving beyond technical instruction\, the workshop invites participants to examine power\, consent\, agency\, and accountability in environments shaped by surveillance\, coercion\, and structural violence. Through dialogue\, case studies\, and embodied exercises\, artists will reflect on their positionality and develop practices that prioritize dignity\, care\, and mutual transformation. Participants will also receive practical tools for navigating the institutional realities of carceral spaces\, including understanding security protocols\, establishing collaborative relationships with correctional staff and community partners\, designing adaptable curricula\, and planning for long-term sustainability. Attention will be given to maintaining ethical boundaries\, responding to trauma in ways that avoid re-harm\, and cultivating creative processes that honor participants’ lived experiences without instrumentalizing them. Centering radical imagination as a form of resistance and possibility\, the workshop positions arts engagement not as charity\, but as a site of solidarity\, critical inquiry\, and collective meaning-making. Teaching artists will leave with concrete strategies\, reflective frameworks\, and a renewed commitment to fostering artistic spaces that affirm humanity within and beyond carceral institutions. \n\n\n\n\nDr. André de Quadros is a professor of music at Boston University whose work is centrally engaged with incarceration\, prison education\, and the global carceral state. With affiliations spanning African\, African American & Black Diaspora\, American\, Asian\, Jewish\, and Muslim Studies\, as well as Forced Migration\, his scholarship and artistic practice examine the intersections of race\, mass incarceration\, state violence\, and human rights. As an artist\, scholar\, poet\, and activist\, he has led sustained music initiatives in prisons and detention centers across multiple countries\, working alongside incarcerated people\, individuals in psychosocial rehabilitation\, refugees\, and survivors of torture and sexual violence. His carceral work foregrounds music-making as a site of dignity\, resistance\, and collective transformation\, challenging punitive logics and advancing abolitionist imaginaries. He directs choirs and choral projects in Indonesia\, Sri Lanka\, the United States\, Israel and the Arab world\, and along the Mexico–US border\, often in contexts shaped by confinement and displacement. He is the author or editor of eight books and numerous scholarly publications and choral editions. In 2019\, he was a Distinguished Academic Visitor at the University of Cambridge\, and he has received many honors\, including an honorary doctorate from the University of Melbourne.
URL:https://arts.utsa.edu/event/inside-outside-considerations-for-teaching-artists/
LOCATION:The Josephine Theatre\, 339 W Josephine\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78212\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:Voices in Action: Arts\, Dialogue & Community Writing
DESCRIPTION:Voices in Action: Arts\, Dialogue & Community Writing is a participatory gathering that invites community members into shared reflection\, conversation\, and creative expression. The evening will include artistic offerings\, facilitated dialogue\, and opportunities for writing as tools for connection and collective exploration. Centered on storytelling and lived experience\, the event opens space to consider the impacts of incarceration and how art can support empathy\, awareness\, and community care. This event is intended for adults (18+)\, with multiple ways to engage at one’s own comfort level through listening\, reflecting\, and responding. \nGuest Moderator: Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson
URL:https://arts.utsa.edu/event/voices-in-action-arts-dialogue-community-writing/
LOCATION:Little Carver Civic Center at the Carver Community Cultural Center\, 226 N Hackberry St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:Poets & Coffee with Gemini Ink
DESCRIPTION:A morning of poems and conversation\nSaturday\, February 21 · 10am–12pm · FREE * OPEN TO EVERYONE! \nWe’ll have the coffee ready—just bring a friend and settle in among fellow poetry lovers. \nExplore what’s happening now in the world of contemporary verse. We’ll share a few favorite poems and spotlight contemporary poets who are making waves both on the page and on the stage. This is your chance to join the conversation! Share the poems that have moved you and tell us why poetry matters in your life. \n  \nWhat to Expect\n• Fresh coffee and a relaxed\, come-as-you-are atmosphere• A guided\, informal conversation led by Gemini Ink Executive Director Alexandra van de Kamp• Readings of contemporary poems• Space to listen\, reflect\, and share (only if you want to)• New poems to take home and simple prompts to spark your own writing• A room full of people who love poetry—or are just getting curious\n• No lectures. No pressure. Just good poems\, good conversation\, and good company. \nYou’ll leave with a sense of community. Whether you’re a seasoned poet or simply curious\, everyone is welcome at our poetic gathering.
URL:https://arts.utsa.edu/event/poets-coffee-with-gemini-ink/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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SUMMARY:In Conversation with Katie Gutierrez
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the UT San Antonio Creative Writing Department and Gemini Ink \nKatie Gutierrez is the bestselling author of the mystery novel MORE THAN YOU’LL EVER KNOW\, a Good Morning America Book Club pick and Edgar Award finalist. Her essays and features have appeared in TIME\, Texas Highways\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and more. She has an MFA from Texas State University and lives in San Antonio\, Texas. Gutierrez will be reading from her work and sharing her approach to writing in a conversation with Dr. Kimberly Garza\, followed by an audience Q&A and book signing to follow. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://arts.utsa.edu/event/in-conversation-with-katie-gutierrez/
LOCATION:Maverick Carter House\, 119 Taylor St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings
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