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Interreligious Council: Teachings of death & dying according to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition
The Interreligious Council of San Antonio will meet on Monday, January 12, 2015, 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 program will be a presentation by Dr. Jan Puckett on teachings of death & dying according to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. These teachings, known as the “bardo” teachings, were brought to the Himalayan region in the 8th Century…
Find out more »Free: Survival of the Kindest Lecture, Dr. Dacher Keltner @ Mind Science
In this talk Dr. Dacher Keltner will detail the latest thinking on how we have evolved to be kind. This thinking will begin with Darwin, cover the latest neuroscience of the pleasures of giving, and detail how contagious kindness is. He will then devote the second half of the talk to concrete, science tested practices by which we can move towards a kinder society. Dacher Keltner is the Director of the Social Interaction Lab at the University of California at…
Find out more »Middle Eastern Cuisine and Hospitality: An Evening of Food and Cultural Exchange
with Narjis Pierre and friends Tuesday, Jan. 13; 7 – 9 p.m.; $15 or $60 for series Register By: Jan. 9. Enrollment: 12 min. / 60 max. Hospitality is a hallmark of Middle Eastern and Islamic culture. Get to know our San Antonio neighbors of Middle Eastern heritage through their stories and samples of their delicious foods in this first class. Yasmine Amir and others will highlight cultural traditions and special dishes. Through their hospitality you will make new friends…
Find out more »The Big Give S.A. 2015 Kick-Off Meeting
The Big Give S.A. will take place from midnight to midnight on May 5, 2015 The purpose of this community-wide giving challenge is to increase public awareness of the impact local nonprofits are making in our community’s social challenges, bring nonprofits and donors together for a collaborative effort to scale change, expand the idea of online giving, connect people to the causes that move them the most and, of course, make giving FUN. Who should attend this meeting? Any 501c(3) nonprofit interested…
Find out more »Book Signing: The Train to Crystal City
The dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II, where thousands of families—many US citizens—were incarcerated.From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas, a small desert town at the southern tip of Texas. The trains carried Japanese, German, Italian immigrants and their American-born children. The only family internment camp during World War II, Crystal City was the center of…
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