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Mayor’s Housing Summit
The 2016 Mayor’s Housing Summit will offer an opportunity for housing practitioners and advocates to get the latest information, exchange ideas and build relationships to support the creation of healthy neighborhoods. In addition to keynotes and general sessions, there will be five multi-session tracks running concurrently, from which attendees can choose: Financing and Funding—innovative strategies and case studies from Texas and across the country Homelessness—addressing local challenges through national best practices Housing Commission Update—reporting out from the Mayor’s Commission Innovation—design…
Find out more »Dialogue Book Club: Three Mystics Walk Into a Tavern
The Dialogue Institute is pleased to announce bi-weekly book club gatherings starting on October 1st. They will read the book; “Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern: A Once and Future Meeting of Rumi, Meister Eckhart, and Moses de León in Medieval Venice” co-authored by James C. Harrington, a human rights lawyer in Austin, TX, the founder and director emeritus of the Texas Civil Rights Project and Sidney G. Hall III, a United Methodist minister. In Three Mystics Walk into a…
Find out more »Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters – Children’s Theater @Tobin
TICKETS: $9 (everyone who enters the theater needs a ticket) Adapted for the Stage by Karen Abbott Music And Lyrics by S-Ankh Rasa Monday, October 3, 2016, 6:30 pm . After phenomenally successful tours in the 2008-09 & 2011-12 seasons that visited well over 60 cities, Dallas Children's Theater is bringing back its original musical adaptation of this Caldecott Award winning African folktale to The Tobin Center! When a great African king desires a wife, only the most perfect maidens…
Find out more »The Nonprofit Council 2016 Social Media/Advocacy Workshop
REGISTER Alliance for Justice will deliver a special training to teach nonprofits about the rules of nonprofit advocacy in the digital age. Nonprofit organizations can bring the concerns of their communities to policy makers and elected officials and help inform and encourage voters safely. But in order to do so, they should understand the rules associated with online communications and social media advocacy. This workshop will address the legal rules associated with online nonprofit advocacy so that groups can boldly…
Find out more »Special Screening: Willie Velasquez: Your Vote Is Your Voice
UTSA Libraries Special Collections will have on display a sampling of the newly acquired Southwest Voter Registration Education Project collection that they are working to catalog and digitize. Reception at 6 PM Screening followed by Q&A at 6:30 PM This fifty four minute PBS documentary features Willie Velzsquez, a San Antonio Westside native and 1966 graduate of St. Mary’s University whom founded the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously by President…
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