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SA RISE Presents: A Conversation on Education in San Antonio
SA RISE (San Antonio Rising in Solidarity for Equity) invites you to join us on January 18th at 6:00 to have a conversation around educational equity. This is a great opportunity to meet and engage with more people in San Antonio who care about our students, hearing their stories and ideas for action, and engaging to join our growing effort. We’ll spend time in conversation about the three issues we’re collectively tackling: tailoring education to the student; supporting whole child…
Find out more »Arms Around Our Schools
On Jan. 19, school staff, parents, students and community allies will stand together in a national day of action at schools across the country to: • Demand that our schools and campuses be safe places from the threat of racism, bullying, and deportation. • Protect our public schools from being taken away from us via privatization schemes. • Call on policymakers to invest in our students and our public schools. In San Antonio, we will gather at Edison HS to…
Find out more »Dream Speak: Poets Speaking the Dream
Experience the emotion, truth, and beauty of poetry with a purpose with Andrea Vocab Anderson, Darell Pittman and Regional African American Poets. This event is in collaboration with the “United We Are One” exhibit, which celebrates how San Antonians have stood, marched, and sat together for equality. The exhibit features works by local artists that showcase our success on the road towards equality and recognizes the challenges we’ve faced and must continue to overcome. The City of San Antonio hosts…
Find out more »San Antonio Immigration Forum: Know your rights
Join us for an important Community Forum on January 19th as we try to answer what’s next for immigrants in the United States. Everyone has certain basic rights. Come to learn more about what your rights are, and how together we can work on a plan to make sure that our families are safe and secure. Attorneys and the new Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar will be sharing information with the community. ---- Acompáñenos a un foro comunitario el 19…
Find out more »Lecture @ the McNay: NYT Art Critic Holland Cotter
In his New York Times column of March 16, 2016, Holland Cotter encourages museums to engage in risky behavior—truth telling. Such truths about slave trade, war-time looting, or women artists excluded from museum collections have been glossed over or omitted in many museum labels and didactics. He suggests that telling untold truths offers a way forward with visitor engagement. Holland Cotter is co-chief art critic and senior writer at the New York Times. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for…
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