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SUMMARY:Mind Over Mic: A Gemini Ink Storytelling Show & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Open mic sign-up starts at 6 PM.\nThu\, May 7\, 2026\, 6:30-8pm\, in-person at Gemini Ink\n1111 Navarro St. San Antonio\, Texas 78205\nFree & Open to the Public \nAbout the Event\nJoin Gemini Ink and a collection of local storytellers as we share gripping stories of solitary struggles\, tiny triumphs\, and soothing self-care in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month 2026.   \nOur featured truth-tellers will include Jen Yáñez-Alaniz\, Jonathan Fletcher\, Joyous Windrider Jiménez\, and Daniel Ramirez. These writers will deliver powerful personal stories in support of Mental Health Awareness Month’s mission to draw attention to the importance of mental health and wellbeing for all. \nFollowing the featured reading\, we will host a community open mic. Bring your poems\, short stories\, and thoughts to share (there will be a 5-minute limit for each reader). Open mic sign-up in person\, starting at 6pm. Light refreshments will be served. \nWe will have a list of community mental health resources available.  \n\nFeatured Readers\nJonathan Fletcher holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University School of the Arts. His work has been featured in numerous literary journals and magazines\, and he has won or placed in various literary contests.  A Pushcart Prize\, Best of the Net\, and Best Microfiction nominee\, he won Northwestern University Press’s Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize contest in 2023\, for which he will have his debut chapbook\, This is My Body\, published in 2025.  Currently\, he serves as a Zoeglossia Fellow and lives in San Antonio\, Texas. \nDaniel Ramirez is a longtime educator and writer from San Antonio. He has published nature writing essays in Foliate Oak\, Twisted Vine\, and you are here journals and nature-based journalism with StateImpact Texas (KUT Austin) and Texas Public Radio. He also writes stories\, puppet shows\, and poetry; as a teaching artist\, he’s taught in multiple genres. He believes that the quest to develop one’s inner creativity parallels the quest to encounter one’s deeper\, truer self. \nJen Yáñez-Alaniz is a Chicana Cúelcahén Ndé scholar\, poet\, and community organizer whose work centers cultural preservation\, land-based ceremony\, and decolonial epistemologies. Her poetry can be found in There is So Much I Want to Tell You (Mouthfeel Press) and Somos Xicanas (Riot of Roses Publishing House)\, as well as in various anthologies and journals. She is the author of Surrogate Eater (Alabrava Press). Her current manuscript\, Pain Theory: Sweetness Ferments into a Beast\, reflects poetically and critically on healing\, endurance\, and living beyond multiple autoimmune conditions. \nJoyous Windrider Jiménez is an educator\, artist\, and trauma-informed somatic coach. A storyteller at heart\, she blends performance and visual elements into stories that articulate her own journey of self-growth and emotional literacy.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/mind-over-mic-a-gemini-ink-storytelling-show-open-mic/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:Voices of San Anto Storytelling Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Participants gather during a Voices of San Anto bilingual storytelling workshop led by Marisela Barrera in 2025. \nJoin Gemini Ink and the San Antonio Public Library for an afternoon of live bilingual storytelling featuring local San Antonio storytellers. \nOver the past several weeks\, community members from across San Antonio have worked with writer and performer Daniel Ramirez to craft original stories rooted in family history\, neighborhood memory\, music\, identity\, immigration\, friendship\, and everyday life in San Antonio. This final celebration brings those stories to the stage in English and Spanish. \nVoices of San Anto is a free bilingual storytelling workshop series presented in partnership with the San Antonio Public Library and designed to help local residents shape and share their personal stories in a welcoming community setting. \nEvent Details\nFree and open to the public.\nSaturday\, May 9\, 2026\n2–4pm \nSchaefer Library\n6322 US Hwy 87 E\nSan Antonio\, TX 78222 \nPresented by Gemini Ink and the San Antonio Public Library. \n\nAbout Voices of San Anto\nSince 2023\, Gemini Ink has partnered with the San Antonio Public Library to offer free bilingual storytelling workshops led by local writers and performers including Daniel Ramirez\, Marisela Barrera\, Eddie Vega\, and Chibbi Orduna. \nParticipants develop original 5–7 minute stories and share them during a live public celebration with family\, friends\, and the community.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/vosa-storytelling-showcase/
LOCATION:Schaefer Library\, 6322 US Hwy. 87 E.\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78222
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the LitMinds Book Club at Gemini Ink. We’re reading The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace.\nRegister\n\nThe “dazzling\, exhilarating” (San Francisco Chronicle) debut novel from one of this century’s most groundbreaking writers \nPublished when David Foster Wallace was just twenty-four years old\, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny\, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine\, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990\, and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland\, Ohio. Lenore’s great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau and boss\, Rick Vigorous\, is insanely jealous\, and her cockatiel\, Vlad the Impaler\, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho-babble\, Auden\, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining\, this debut from one of the most innovative writers of his generation brilliantly explores the paradoxes of language\, storytelling\, and reality. \n\n\nAbout the Author\n\nDavid Foster Wallace was an American author and professor who wrote novels\, essays\, and short stories. His work is known for its linguistic skill\, inventive structure\, and exploration of moral and existential questions. His 1996 novel Infinite Jest\, a complex\, sprawling dystopian tale\, is his best-known work. Wallace’s essays\, published in magazines like The Atlantic and Harper’s\, are also celebrated.  \nVisit our LitMinds page to see what we’re reading next!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-book-club-wallace/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:Veterans' Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veterans’ Writing Collective (VWC) encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest\, positive\, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military\, veterans\, retirees\, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome. \nThe VWC meets monthly online via Zoom.\nIf you would like an invitation to this class\, send an email to veteranscollective@geminiink.org\n\nSarah Colby was born in northern New Mexico and raised in the Rocky Mountains. She is married to a retired Army Chaplain and is mother to a son in the Navy. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. Her war-time experiences have motivated her to be a voice for the mostly untold stories of families and loved ones during these years of protracted conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about her experiences as a military family member.\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/veterans-writing-collective-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-05-20/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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