The Interreligious Council of San Antonio will meet on Monday, JULY 13 at 6:00 p.m. at 12500 N.W. Military Drive at the Campus for the San Antonio Community in the Federation Board Room on the upper level near the elevators. Our topic will be a discussion of Chapter 8: Anne Hutchinson from Deepak Chopra’s book: GOD: A Story of Revelation. Hutchinson was a key figure in the development of religious freedom in the American colonies and in the history of…

Author Mat Johnson will give a free public reading at 7 p.m. Friday at the Carver Community Cultural Center. From the Express News: "Mat Johnson’s new novel, “Loving Day,” takes its title from an unofficial holiday, one his narrator likens to “Mulatto Christmas.” It’s the observance of the Supreme Court ruling in Loving v. Virginia, which in 1967 decriminalized interracial marriage in America.  Johnson, whose previous novels include the excellent “Pym” (2011), is himself the product of such a marriage…

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qWNjXjHxo8&w=560&h=315] Free and open to the public. RSVP here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/nalac-community-event-keynote-address-by-luis-valdez-tickets-17657403770 Often regarded as the key pioneer of Chicano theater in the U.S., Luis Valdez will be our keynote speaker on Saturday, July 18, at 2:00 pm in the Aula Canaria auditorium of UTSA's Downtown Campus. His talk and presentation are open to the public. An iconic figure in the landscape of American and Latino art, Luis Valdez is the founder and long-time artistic director of El Teatro Campesino -a…