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SUMMARY:Gemini Ink Holiday Open House
DESCRIPTION:Come Celebrate!\nDate: Thursday\, December 12th Time: 6:30-8pm CST\nLocation: Gemini Ink (In-Person) \nJoin us as we eat\, drink\, and merrily toast the closing of 2024 with our literary community of writers and friends. Drop by when you can\, leave when you need to. \n\nMusic by Excy. Excy Ceiba ili is a Cultural Educator and Musician-Activist from Honduras who employs indigenous instruments and languages in music creation. Instagram: @ceiba_ili\nOpen Mic: 7pm. Show up at 6:30 PM to sign up (12 slots available for 3-minute reads)\n\nStay long enough to have a little eggnog and comfort food. Wine\, non-alcoholic beverages\, and coffee will be served. We will provide the main fare\, but you are also invited to bring a store-bought or prepackaged food item to share. \nKeeping with our annual tradition\, we’ll have a table of books to trade and give away. Feel free to bring a book to share!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/holiday-open-house-2/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241218T183000
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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s 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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-12-18/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241218T190000
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Carmen Calatayud
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, Dec. 18th\, 2024 via Zoom for a conversation with Carmen Calatayud\, author of This Tangled Body. Moderated by Francisco Aragón.\nRSVP for Invite\nThis Tangled Body reads as surreal poetic memoir\, navigating family history\, war\, migration\, and the grit of relationships. Through lyrical language\, the poet searches for ways to rescue a body that knows pain\, addiction\, and generational trauma. Elegies\, love letters\, and concussions cross paths here\, along with planets and stars\, demonstrating that the potential to heal is possible when raw truth and grace are present. Calatayud’s willingness to face the land of the dead and cross all borders is on full display. As she invites us to “leave this continent and/light the path behind us on fire\,” her poetry insists we return to love and love hard. \nCarmen Calatayud is the daughter of immigrants: A Spanish father and Irish mother. Her book This Tangled Body was published by FlowerSong Press\, in conjunction with Letras Latinas\, in 2024. Her first book In the Company of Spirits (Press 53) was a runner-up for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award and a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. Calatayud is a Larry Neal Poetry Award winner and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. \n  \nFrancisco Aragón is the author of three books of poetry\, including After Rubén (2020)\, Glow of Our Sweat (2010)\, and Puerta de Sol (2005).  He’s also the editor of\, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (2007). His more than twenty anthology publications include Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology (2024); Queer Nature: An Ecoqueer Poetry Anthology (2022) and Why To These Rocks: 50 Years of Poems from the Community of Writers (2021). His poems and translations have appeared in numerous literary journals\, both print and online. A native of San Francisco\, CA\, he is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. He is on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies\, where he teaches courses in Latinx poetry and creative writing\, and directs Letras Latinas\, their literary initiative. He has read his work widely\, including at universities\, bookstores\, art galleries\, and the Dodge Poetry Festival. For more information\, visit: http://franciscoaragon.net
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-carmen-calatayud/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241230T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241230T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
CREATED:20191105T141203Z
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SUMMARY:Open Writer's Labs
DESCRIPTION:These peer-driven workshops\, held the last Monday of each month\, are free and open to writers of all levels and focus on poetry\, flash fiction\, and short creative non-fiction.\n \n  \n\n\nOnline Via Zoom\nFor the online workshop\, sign up the day before the class to ensure you receive the Zoom link. \nThis workshop is facilitated by Kevin Ramos. Originally from the northeast\, Kevin studied theater arts at Rutgers University and The University of Washington. He’s lived all over the country before making his home in San Antonio\, Texas. Kevin has written several novels and short stories. Most recently\, publishing a short memoir called Enough about addiction\, mothers\, and missing graves. And a novel\, Hayley’s Sense of Fire (DLG Publishing Partners)\, a modern re-telling of the classic fairy tale\, The Little Matchgirl. \n\nIn-Person at Gemini Ink\n \nJoin our in-person Open Writer’s Lab with Robert Allen at Gemini Ink’s office\, 1111 Navarro St.\, San Antonio\, TX 78205. \nRobert Allen has worked as a librarian and an electrical contractor for most of his life. Many moons ago\, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Texas at Austin\, where he studied poetry under David Wevill. Allen has been active in local writer’s groups and open mics\, including the Sun Poets Society. He’s been published in The Ocotillo Review\, the Texas Poetry Calendar\, Voices de la Luna\, di-verse-city\, the San Antonio Express-News\, and Poetry on the Move. In 2006\, he started attending Gemini Ink’s free Monday night writing classes and has attended regularly ever since. With more than a decade of attending writers’ groups\, classes\, and open mics\, he now co-facilitates Gemini Ink’s Open Writer’s Lab. \nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/open-writers-lab-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25/2024-12-30/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250108T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250108T200000
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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the LitMinds Book Club at Gemini Ink. We’re reading The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child\, Her American Doctors\, and the Collision of Two Cultures\, by Anne Fadiman.\nRegister\n\n\nWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction \nWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest \nA Salon Book Award Winner \nLia Lee was born in 1982 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants\, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding\, over-medication\, and culture clash: “What the doctors viewed as clinical efficiency the Hmong viewed as frosty arrogance.” The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions\, written with the deepest of human feeling. Sherwin Nuland said of the account\, “There are no villains in Fadiman’s tale\, just as there are no heroes. People are presented as she saw them\, in their humility and their frailty—and their nobility. \n\n\n\n \nAnne Fadiman was born in New York City in 1953. She graduated in 1975 from Harvard College\, where she began her writing career as the undergraduate columnist at Harvard Magazine. For many years\, she was a writer and columnist for Life\, and later an Editor-at-Large at Civilization. She has won National Magazine Awards for both Reporting (1987) and Essays (2003)\, as well as a National Book Critics Circle Award for The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader\, a collection of first-person essays on books and reading\, was published by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux in 1998. Fadiman was the editor of the intellectual and cultural quarterly The American Scholar from 1997 to 2004. She now holds the Francis chair in nonfiction writing at Yale. Fadiman lives in western Massachusetts with her husband\, the writer George Howe Colt\, and their two children. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-a-book-club-3/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250115T203000
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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s 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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2025-01-15/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250115T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250115T203000
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Kimberly Garza
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, Jan 15th\, 2025 online for a conversation with Kimberly Garza\, author of The Last Karankawas. Moderated by Elizabeth Gonzalez James.\n\n\n\n(Zoom Readings Monthly @ 7pm CST) \nRSVP for the Google Meet link\n“Beautiful\, complex\, and subversive\, The Last Karankawas is an important book about Texas from a powerful new voice in American fiction. I loved it. These characters and their stories will stay with me.”\n— Elizabeth Wetmore\, New York Times–bestselling author of Valentine \n“Garza debuts with an accomplished account of the ties between members of a Filipino and Mexican community… This is a worthy love letter to Galveston.”\n— Publishers Weekly \n“Devastating in its own clarity and nuance. The Last Karankawas has the power to change the way we see where we’ve been and what we may have left behind. A stunning debut from a talented writer.”\n— Oscar Cásares\, author of Where We Come From \nWelcome to Galveston\, Texas\, a popular tourist destination and major shipping port with a population of 50\,241. While millions visit each year\, few venture beyond the boulevards to Fish Village\, home to generations of island residents. Carly Castillo has only known Fish Village\, her grandmother claiming their family descended from the Karankawas\, an indigenous Texas people. As she grows older\, she dreams of a life undefined by her family’s history. Her boyfriend\, Jess\, a former all-star shortstop turned seaman\, cherishes the salty\, familiar air of Galveston and has turned down opportunities to leave. When news of Hurricane Ike spreads\, residents face a tough choice: stay and protect their homes or flee inland. The Last Karankawas weaves together the lives of these characters\, creating a powerful portrait of survival\, familial ties\, and the histories we create\, reminding us that true bonds are forged\, not by blood\, but by fire. \n\nKimberly Garza (she/her) is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Copper Nickel\, Puerto del Sol\, Creative Nonfiction\, TriQuarterly\, and elsewhere. She holds degrees in English\, Spanish\, and creative writing from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of North Texas\, where she earned a PhD in 2019. A native Texan—born in Galveston\, raised in Uvalde—she is the daughter of a Filipina immigrant mother and a Mexican-American father from the Rio Grande Valley. She lives in San Antonio\, where she is an associate professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio. The Last Karankawas is her first novel. \n\nElizabeth Gonzalez James is a screenwriter and bestselling author of the novels\, Mona at Sea and The Bullet Swallower\, as well as the chapbook\, Five Conversations About Peter Sellers. She has taught fiction writing at Grub Street\, Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop\, Story Studio\, and elsewhere. Originally from South Texas\, Elizabeth now lives with her family in Massachusetts.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/tbtat-kimberly-garza/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250118T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250118T120000
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SUMMARY:Poets & Coffee with Alexandra van de Kamp
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink’s Executive Artistic Director\, Alexandra van de Kamp\, for an informal craft conversation about what’s happening right now in the world of poetry. \nWe’ll make the coffee. You bring a friend and enjoy a seat in the company of your peers.  \nAlexandra will share some of the poems she’s been reading and discuss a selection of contemporary poets she believes are lighting up the page and stage. Then\, we’d love to hear from you about the poems you’ve been reading and why poetry matters. \nYou’ll benefit from a welcoming poetic community and leave with a bundle of new poems to explore and generative prompts to fuel future writing.  \n\n​​Alexandra van de Kamp is the Executive Director for Gemini Ink\, San Antonio’s Writing Arts Center. Her third book of poems\, Ricochet Script\, was published by Next Page Press in 2022. ​​Her previous full-length collections include: Kiss/Hierarchy (Rain Mountain Press 2016) and The Park of Upside-Down Chairs (CW Books 2010). She has also published several chapbooks\, including A Liquid Bird Inside the Night (Red Glass Books 2015) and Dear Jean Seberg (2011)\, which won the 2010 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. Her poems have been published in journals nationwide\, such as The Cincinnati Review\, Connecticut Review\, The Texas Observer\, and Denver Quarterly.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/poets-coffee-with-alexandra-van-de-kamp/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra van de Kamp":MAILTO:avandekamp@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250118T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250118T170000
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SUMMARY:Voices of San Anto Workshop with Marisela Barrera
DESCRIPTION:Please email Sarah.DeLaRosa@sanantonio.gov to request being added to the waitlist.\n\n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/voices-of-san-anto-2/
LOCATION:San Antonio Public Library\, 600 Soledad\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78205
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250125T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250125T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
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SUMMARY:First Page Fiction Bootcamp with Chaitali Sen
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, January 25\, 2025\, 10am-4pm CST (with 30-minute lunch)\, in person at Gemini Ink \nNonmember $140        Member    $120                 Student $80 \n*EARN CPE’S\n \n\n  \n\nA formidable first page of fiction grabs the reader\, sets the tone for what’s to come\, and captures the essence of the entire work. But how do we create an opening that keeps the reader turning the page? \nIn this one-day workshop\, we will study and discuss various examples of compelling first pages to see what works; we will review craft elements such as character\, setting\, point-of-view\, and narrative voice; and we will write and examine our own first pages in a safe\, supportive environment.  \nThis course is open to fiction writers of all skill levels\, 18+. \nStudents will leave this class with: \n\nAn understanding of what makes for a strong first page\nTechniques for writing strong openings\nA strong first page of fiction\n\n\nChaitali Sen is the author of the novel The Pathless Sky (Europa Editions 2015) and the story collection A New Race of Men from Heaven (Sarabande Books 2023)\, chosen by Danielle Evans as the winner of the 2021 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Her stories and essays have been published by American Short Fiction\, Boulevard\, Catapult\, Colorado Review\, Ecotone\, Electric Literature\, LitHub\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, New England Review\, Shenandoah\, and many other publications. Born in India and raised in New York and Pennsylvania\, she currently lives in Austin\, Texas.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/fiction-bootcamp/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250125T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250125T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250217T191402Z
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SUMMARY:Teen Writing Circle with Daniel Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:Register\nLast Saturday of Every Month 11:30am-1pm cst via Zoom \nFor ages 13-19 years old \nAre you a teen who enjoys writing in their free time? Or are you someone who’s never had the chance to write on their own? If so\, this Online Teen Writing Circle is for you!  \nIn this once-a-month writing circle\, teens will enjoy writing in a judgment free zone. We’ll break the ice with one another and perform various writing exercises. You are encouraged to share your work with your peers and get constructive feedback\, but it is not required. Our only goal is to keep you writing! \nThis course is open to teen writers of any skill level. \nParticipants will leave the writing circle with:  \n\nNew\, unique written work\nListening and sharing experience\nConstructive feedback to help improve their writing\n\nWant to learn more about our Teen Writing Circle? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions!\n \n\nDaniel Ramirez has been an educator for over 15 years. After studying History in grad school\, he tromped around the outdoors doing conservation with teenagers. Spending time as a Montessori educator revealed the power of incorporating creativity with learning. Encouraging youth to tap into their creative abilities convinced him to discover his own. Since then\, in addition to his original love of storytelling\, he’s found a penchant for calligraphy\, puppetry\, poetry\, and block printing. A San Antonio native\, he explores the crystalline waters of Central Texas in his free time. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/teen-writing-circle/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250127T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250127T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
CREATED:20191105T141203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T145423Z
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SUMMARY:Open Writer's Labs
DESCRIPTION:These peer-driven workshops\, held the last Monday of each month\, are free and open to writers of all levels and focus on poetry\, flash fiction\, and short creative non-fiction.\n \n  \n\n\nOnline Via Zoom\nFor the online workshop\, sign up the day before the class to ensure you receive the Zoom link. \nThis workshop is facilitated by Kevin Ramos. Originally from the northeast\, Kevin studied theater arts at Rutgers University and The University of Washington. He’s lived all over the country before making his home in San Antonio\, Texas. Kevin has written several novels and short stories. Most recently\, publishing a short memoir called Enough about addiction\, mothers\, and missing graves. And a novel\, Hayley’s Sense of Fire (DLG Publishing Partners)\, a modern re-telling of the classic fairy tale\, The Little Matchgirl. \n\nIn-Person at Gemini Ink\n \nJoin our in-person Open Writer’s Lab with Robert Allen at Gemini Ink’s office\, 1111 Navarro St.\, San Antonio\, TX 78205. \nRobert Allen has worked as a librarian and an electrical contractor for most of his life. Many moons ago\, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Texas at Austin\, where he studied poetry under David Wevill. Allen has been active in local writer’s groups and open mics\, including the Sun Poets Society. He’s been published in The Ocotillo Review\, the Texas Poetry Calendar\, Voices de la Luna\, di-verse-city\, the San Antonio Express-News\, and Poetry on the Move. In 2006\, he started attending Gemini Ink’s free Monday night writing classes and has attended regularly ever since. With more than a decade of attending writers’ groups\, classes\, and open mics\, he now co-facilitates Gemini Ink’s Open Writer’s Lab. \nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/open-writers-lab-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25/2025-01-27/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250201T160000
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SUMMARY:Live Storytelling: Voices of San Anto Showcase
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to a live storytelling show featuring students from our Voices of San Anto Bilingual Storytelling workshop!\nStudents from our workshop\, led by local actor\, performer\, and artist Marisela Barrera\, will share deeply personal stories. Each participant will read a 5-7 minute piece about a significant moment in their life. \nCome experience the power of live storytelling and hear these moving narratives firsthand. \nWe hope you can join us!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/voices-of-san-anto-reading/
LOCATION:San Antonio Public Library\, 600 Soledad\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78205
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Catherine Burianek":MAILTO:cburianek@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250203T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250203T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
CREATED:20241125T165022Z
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SUMMARY:Uncovering the Whole Self: Create Poetic Self-Portraits with Ayokunle Falomo
DESCRIPTION:Monday(s)\, February 3 & 10\, 2025\, 6:30-8:30pm\, CST\, via Zoom \nNonmember $135        Member    $115                  Student $80 \n*EARN CPE’S\nONE SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n \n  \n\nEverything in the world that we touch\, smell\, see\, taste\, or hear is a mirror reflecting us\, if we dare to look closely. Despite this truth\, the world (sometimes violently) demands we hide who we are. How do we bring our whole selves to the page\, especially when it feels dangerous to do so?  \nIn this two-session workshop\, we will use works of art by revered artists like Frida Kahlo plus poems by Safia Elhillo\, Chen Chen\, Aimee Nezhukumatathil\, and Tarfia Faizullah to generate new work through the lens of self-reflection. Participants will also use writing prompts to reflect deeply on who they are. What new truths will be discovered\, or uncovered\, about the self? How will you use these exercises to shape poems that are honest and vulnerable? \nThis course is open to writers of all genres\, backgrounds\, and skill levels\, 18+. \nStudents will leave this workshop with:  \n\nAt least two drafts of new written work and one revised draft\nNew close reading techniques and critical observation skills\nStrategies to overcome fears when it comes to writing about the vulnerable\n\n\nAyokunle Falomo is Nigerian\, American\, and the author of Autobiomythography of (Alice James Books\, 2024)\, AFRICANAMERICAN’T (FlowerSong Press\, 2022—finalist for Texas Institute of Letters’ Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Best Book of Poetry)\, two self-published collections and African\, American (New Delta Review\, 2019; selected by Selah Saterstrom as the winner of New Delta Review’s 8th annual chapbook contest). A recipient of fellowships from Vermont Studio Center\, MacDowell\, and the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program\, where he obtained his MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry\, his work has been anthologized and widely published.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/poetic-self-portraits/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250211T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250211T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
CREATED:20241125T165909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250207T200405Z
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SUMMARY:From Story to Song: Crafting Memorable Lyrics with Nathan Brown
DESCRIPTION:Tue-Thu\, February 11-13\, 2025\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, in-person at Gemini Ink \nNonmember $140         Member    $120                  Student $85 \n \n  \n\nEvery song is a story waiting to be sung. Join us for an immersive songwriting experience where we explore the art of storytelling through music!  \nIn this three-day workshop\, we’ll compare and contrast the worlds of story and songwriting\, uncovering their similarities and differences while discussing what makes a song lyric unforgettable. Then\, we’ll use real-world examples to highlight the rich narratives that live behind some well-known tunes that we love. \nUsing a hands-on approach we will guide you through the process of drafting your own story\, identifying “leaping lines” that spark inspiration. We’ll examine how specific story details can elevate lyrics\, focusing on practical techniques rather than theoretical concepts. And we’ll explore the significance of space\, repetition\, and emotional resonance with your lyrics.  \nWhether you aim to evoke emotion\, tell a story\, or create a connection with your audience\, this workshop is the perfect place to start your journey. Come ready to write\, share\, and discover the song within your story!  \nThis course is open to writers of all genres\, backgrounds\, and skill levels\, 18+. \nStudents will leave this workshop with:  \n\nAn understanding of how to weave compelling stories into your song\nTools and techniques to make your lyrics shine\nA first draft of a new song\n\n\nNathan Brown is an accomplished poet and songwriter who has performed readings and concerts from the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association in Long Island\, NY to the Sisters Folk Festival in Oregon\, the Woody Guthrie Festival in Okemah\, Oklahoma\, and Sultan’s Pool just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem in Israel\, to name a few. He’s taught writing workshops from the famous Blue Rock Artist Ranch and Studio near Austin to the Everwood Farmstead in Wisconsin\, and the Descanso Writers Retreats in Tuscany and Ireland. His performances of poetry have been likened to musical concerts\, and\, in fact\, he now makes a good part of his living from house concerts and live shows that combine songs and poems.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/from-story-to-song/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250218T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250218T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
CREATED:20241125T172808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T205517Z
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SUMMARY:Story Core with Rubén Degollado
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday(s)\, February 18\, 25 & March 4\, 11\, 18\, 25\, 2025\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, via Zoom \nNonmember $155       Member    $135                  Student $95 \n*EARN CPE’S\n \n  \n\nGet down to the core of a fantastic story! Understanding how setting\, plot\, and character are inextricably linked is vital to creating immersive narratives that keep the reader invested through to the last page.  \nIn this six-session generative virtual workshop\, participants will begin by exploring examples of the core elements of setting\, plot\, and characters working well together to create a cohesive storyline. We will do pre-writing exercises focused on drafting complicated characters who connect to the reader’s emotions and make them want to keep reading.  Then we will move through a series of setting exercises that build the details of place and transport the reader there. This generative work will prime writers for creating memorable stories with believable characters navigating the worlds they inhabit. \nThis course is open to fiction writers of all backgrounds and skill levels\, 18+. \nStudents will leave this workshop with:  \n\nA character empathy map\nA full character profile\nA developed setting for their story\n\nJoin us for the Lit Minds Book Club on March 12! We’re reading The Family Izquierdo\, by Rubén Degollado.\nRead Rubén’s Writer’s Desk Q&A!\n\nRubén Degollado’s work has appeared or been featured in Texas Highways\, Literary Hub\, CRAFT\, The Common\, The Rumpus\, Image Journal\, and elsewhere. His first novel Throw won the Texas Institute of Letters Best Young Adult book for 2020. His debut literary novel The Family Izquierdo is a New York Times Book Review editor’s choice and a long list title for the PEN/Faulkner and Mark Twain American Voice in Literature awards. Rubén lives and writes along the southern border\, in the Río Grande Valley of Texas.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/story-core-with-ruben-degollado/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250219T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250219T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
CREATED:20191105T075945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T163806Z
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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s 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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2025-02-19/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Colby":MAILTO:veteranscollective@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250219T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
CREATED:20250128T222925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T132452Z
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Octavio Quintanilla
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, Feb 19th\, 2025 via Zoom for a conversation with Octavio Quintanilla\, to discuss his new book\, Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours (University of Arizona Press); moderated by Monique Quintana.\n\n\n\n\nBrought to you by WritingWorkshops.com and Gemini Ink.\n(Virtual Readings Monthly @ 7pm CST) \nRSVP \n“‘I want to think where I’m going will be free of borders\,’ Quintanilla writes. These poems—informed by an artist’s eye\, the art shifted by a poet’s vision—refuse to ignore thresholds\, strange angles\, and blockades. We lodge in tight corners and find prayers emerge from line and shadow.”\n—Lauren Camp\, New Mexico Poet Laureate and author of In Old Sky: Poems Inspired by the Grand Canyon \n“Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours pushes against itself and ruptures the poetic grids inhabited by beasts\, storms\, scarecrows\, black cows\, neighbors digging graves at night\, and poems that dismantle the physical and psychological structure of our realities. It invites us to confront our own mortality\, and bears witness to the testimonies of rage and hope tattooed on our flesh/spirit.”\n—Elizabeth Torres\, winner of the 2022 Ambroggio Prize for Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes \n“With alacrity and wit\, the poet pokes and jokes at life and the elements that make human existence a conundrum.”\n—Norma E. Cantú\, author of Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Writers \nIn Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours\, Octavio Quintanilla takes us on a profound journey to witness what it means to erase those boundaries devised by genre and politics intent on stifling memory\, imagination\, and creativity. \nPresented in Spanish with English translations\, this poetry collection comprises lyric and concrete poems—or frontextos—that explore intimacy and different shades of violence as a means to reconcile the speaker’s sense of belonging in the world. From the opening poem to the last in the first section\, Quintanilla captures the perilous journeys that migrants undertake crossing borders as well as the paths that lovers forge to meet their endless longing. These themes are skillfully woven by Quintanilla\, guiding us back and forth across the Rio Grande to encounter the apparitions of the disappeared and to witness the willingness of many to risk life and limb for a better life. The second half of the collection is one long poem\, a letter addressed to a lost lover who will never get to read the speaker’s secret thoughts. Haunted by loss—of parents\, of children\, of the self—the speaker reaches an inevitable epiphany: “[A]nd sometimes it’s hard to know / on which side of the river I stand.” Stylistically\, these poems destabilize our notions and expectations of genre and lyricism. \nLas Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours is more than just an exercise in poetic virtuosity; it is an excavation into the complexities of what it means to be a human being in our contemporary world. \n\nOctavio Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collections If I Go Missing and The Book of Wounded Sparrows. He served as the 2018–2020 Poet Laureate of San Antonio\, Texas. His visual work has been exhibited in numerous spaces\, including the Mexican Cultural Institute in San Antonio\, the El Paso Museum of Art\, the Southwest School of Art\, Presa House Gallery\, the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art\, and the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center / Black Box Theater in Austin\, Texas. Octavio is the founder and director of the Literature and Arts Festival and VersoFrontera and the founder and publisher of Alabrava Press. Octavio holds a PhD from the University of North Texas and is the regional editor for Texas Books in Review. He is the recipient of the Nebrija Creadores Scholarship\, which allowed him a month-long residency at the Instituto Franklin at Alcalá University in Alcalá de Henares\, Spain. He teaches literature and creative writing in the MA/MFA program at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio\, Texas. \n\n \nModerator\nMonique Quintana is the author of Cenote City (Clash Books\, 2019). Her work  has been supported by Yaddo\, The Community of Writers\, Sundress Academy for the Arts\, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center\, and Storyknife. You can find her at moniquequintana.com
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-octavio-quintanilla/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250220T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250220T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
CREATED:20250124T192253Z
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SUMMARY:Open House: New Year\, New Writing Adventures
DESCRIPTION:Please Join us on Thursday\, February 20th at 6:30pm CST for our open house to rev up your creative engines for the new year! We are excited to introduce our dynamic roster of teaching artists who can help take your writing to the next level.  \nCome connect with talented writers from San Antonio and beyond as they share new work and discuss the classes they’ll be teaching. \nIt all happens at Gemini Ink’s downtown writing arts center at 1111 Navarro Street. Don’t leave without our spring calendar of classes and events!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/spring-open-house-2/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250222T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250222T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
CREATED:20241125T170232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250217T191330Z
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SUMMARY:Teen Writing Circle with Daniel Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:Register\nLast Saturday of Every Month 11:30am-1pm cst via Zoom \nFor ages 13-19 years old \nAre you a teen who enjoys writing in their free time? Or are you someone who’s never had the chance to write on their own? If so\, this Online Teen Writing Circle is for you!  \nIn this once-a-month writing circle\, teens will enjoy writing in a judgment free zone. We’ll break the ice with one another and perform various writing exercises. You are encouraged to share your work with your peers and get constructive feedback\, but it is not required. Our only goal is to keep you writing! \nThis course is open to teen writers of any skill level. \nParticipants will leave the writing circle with:  \n\nNew\, unique written work\nListening and sharing experience\nConstructive feedback to help improve their writing\n\nWant to learn more about our Teen Writing Circle? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions!\n \n\nDaniel Ramirez has been an educator for over 15 years. After studying History in grad school\, he tromped around the outdoors doing conservation with teenagers. Spending time as a Montessori educator revealed the power of incorporating creativity with learning. Encouraging youth to tap into their creative abilities convinced him to discover his own. Since then\, in addition to his original love of storytelling\, he’s found a penchant for calligraphy\, puppetry\, poetry\, and block printing. A San Antonio native\, he explores the crystalline waters of Central Texas in his free time. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/teen-writing-circle-2025-02-22/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250224T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250224T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
CREATED:20191105T141203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T145424Z
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SUMMARY:Open Writer's Labs
DESCRIPTION:These peer-driven workshops\, held the last Monday of each month\, are free and open to writers of all levels and focus on poetry\, flash fiction\, and short creative non-fiction.\n \n  \n\n\nOnline Via Zoom\nFor the online workshop\, sign up the day before the class to ensure you receive the Zoom link. \nThis workshop is facilitated by Kevin Ramos. Originally from the northeast\, Kevin studied theater arts at Rutgers University and The University of Washington. He’s lived all over the country before making his home in San Antonio\, Texas. Kevin has written several novels and short stories. Most recently\, publishing a short memoir called Enough about addiction\, mothers\, and missing graves. And a novel\, Hayley’s Sense of Fire (DLG Publishing Partners)\, a modern re-telling of the classic fairy tale\, The Little Matchgirl. \n\nIn-Person at Gemini Ink\n \nJoin our in-person Open Writer’s Lab with Robert Allen at Gemini Ink’s office\, 1111 Navarro St.\, San Antonio\, TX 78205. \nRobert Allen has worked as a librarian and an electrical contractor for most of his life. Many moons ago\, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Texas at Austin\, where he studied poetry under David Wevill. Allen has been active in local writer’s groups and open mics\, including the Sun Poets Society. He’s been published in The Ocotillo Review\, the Texas Poetry Calendar\, Voices de la Luna\, di-verse-city\, the San Antonio Express-News\, and Poetry on the Move. In 2006\, he started attending Gemini Ink’s free Monday night writing classes and has attended regularly ever since. With more than a decade of attending writers’ groups\, classes\, and open mics\, he now co-facilitates Gemini Ink’s Open Writer’s Lab. \nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/open-writers-lab-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25/2025-02-24/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250224T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250224T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
CREATED:20241125T171829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250131T195509Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Blank Page: Introduction to Creative Writing with Christen Barrón
DESCRIPTION:Mondays\, February 24 & March 3\, 10\, 17\, 24\, 31\, 2025 6:30-8:30pm CST\, in-person at Gemini Ink (6-week workshop) \nNonmember $155        Member    $130                  Student $90 \n*EARN CPE’S\nTWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n \n  \n\nDo you want to try creative writing but you don’t know where to begin? Or are you unsure if you want to try poetry\, fiction\, or anything else? Have you felt too intimidated to sign up for a Gemini Ink workshop? Then\, this workshop is for you!  \nIn this hands-on 6-week writing workshop\,  participants will receive a gentle and fun introduction into creative writing and opportunities to dabble in poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction to see which one resonates most. This course is perfect for beginners or anyone looking to rediscover their creativity. At each interactive session\, participants will generate new writing and will be encouraged to share their work with others. \nThis course is open to writers of all backgrounds and skill levels\, 18+. \nStudents will leave this workshop with:  \n\nan understanding of the three main creative writing genres \nnew writing in three genres (poetry\, creative nonfiction\, and fiction)\nstrategies and techniques for accessing creativity and overcoming writer’s block\nresources for continuing a creative writing practice in the genre of choice\n\nLearn more about Christen at her Writer’s Desk!\n\nChristen Barrón is a creative nonfiction writer\, editor\, and writing instructor. Originally from Savannah\, Georgia\, Christen holds an M.F.A. in Writing and a B.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). She currently teaches first-year writing and creative writing at Texas A&M-University San Antonio. For nearly a decade\, Christen taught community creative writing classes for The Deep Center’s nationally-recognized Young Author Project and she has served as a Teaching Artist for Gemini Ink since 2017. Christen’s writing has appeared in YARN Literary Review\, Black Fox Literary Magazine\, Document\, and The Journal of Writing Assessment. She is a faculty supervising editor for Mosaic\, a student-led literary magazine at Texas A&M-University San Antonio. 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/beyond-the-blank-page/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250305T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250305T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
CREATED:20241125T172335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250307T190350Z
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SUMMARY:Prepare Your Story Idea for the Pitch of a Lifetime with Marilyn Atlas
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 5\, 2025 & April 2\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, via Zoom \nNonmember  $160   Member  $135    *No student rate available for this class* \n  \n\nDo you have a story or an idea that would make a compelling movie or television series? Are you ready to package your idea and make the pitch to television executives\, but don’t know how to take the next step? Let’s get our stories together and get ready for the big pitch!  \nIn this two-day workshop\, talent/literary manager and producer Marilyn Atlas will teach you the tricks and tips it takes to make that professional pitch. She will cover how to distill the essence of your story into short\, sharp\, easily digestible bite-size parts that strike the right balance between brevity\, colorful detail\, and cliffhanging suspense. The class will also review common mistakes writers make when pitching\, strategies for adapting your pitch to your target audience\, and advice on how to use comparable titles of similar works to prove there is an audience for your work. \nStudents will build pitch decks and have the opportunity to receive feedback from Marilyn on how to tighten and reveal the idiosyncratic narrative thrust of their stories. \nThis course is open to writers of all genres\, backgrounds\, and skill levels\, 18+. \nWhat you can expect in this workshop:  \n\nHow to make a pitch deck \nHow to synthesize your story in an attention-grabbing way \nAn opportunity to pitch your idea to a Hollywood producer\n\n  \n\nMarilyn R Atlas is a Talent/Literary Manager and Producer. Among her credits as film producer are Real Women Have Curves for HBO\, which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival\, A Certain Desire\, starring Sam Waterston\, and Echoes\, which won the Gold Award at the Texas International Film Festival. She produced a movie at Lifetime\, based on a YA book\, airing in summer 2014\, titled The Choking Game. \nIn live theater\, Marilyn co-produced the West Coast premiere of the musical God Bless You Mr. Rosewater by Ashman and Menken (the writers of both Enchanted and Tangled). She also co-produced the Ovation award-winning play To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday\, which was made into a film starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Peter Gallagher. She is currently developing a musical based on her Sundance-winning film Real Women Have Curves (originally produced by Marilyn for HBO)\, amongst other projects. She was involved in several writers’ debut books for HarperCollins\, Grand Central Publishing\, and Source Books. She is in development on the movie Lola Goes to Roma\, amongst other projects. She has long been committed to projects that celebrate diversity. \nMarilyn is a member of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers. Marilyn has spoken at various colleges\, film festivals\, and industry events on creating three-dimensional\, non-stereotypical characters. She is the co-author of a relationship-based\, screenwriting guide called Dating Your Character\, about an organic approach to character creation for Stairway Press’s Summer 2015 catalog. She is also featured in the book Write Now! from Penguin/Tarcher.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/pitch-of-a-lifetime/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250306T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250306T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
CREATED:20250220T181525Z
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SUMMARY:Floricantos y Tumbaos: A Panel on Latinx Music in Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we explore the fusion of Latinx music and poetry at this Library of America event. This panel will feature Latinx poets discussing how Latin American musical traditions have inspired\, shaped\, and informed their creative work. \nOur featured authors include flutist Excy Guardado (Ceiba ili)\, renowned poet Urayoán Noel\, and hip-hop artist Marco Cervantes (Mex Step) all of whom will engage in a rich discussion with moderator Amalia Ortiz. Experience the talents of these artists who will share intimate renditions of their work. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nParking\nParking is located directly south of Central Library in a multilevel parking garage. It’s free for the first 3 hours.  \n\nPanelists\nMarco Cervantes\, Mexstep\, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Race\, Ethnicity\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio where he researches Black and Brown solidarity and cultural overlap. He also performs as a solo hip-hop artist and is a member of the group Third Root. \nExcy Guardado is a cultural educator and Musician from Honduras\, dedicated to connecting migrant communities\, supporting Indigenous rights\, and advocating for environmental justice. On stage\, she is known as Ceiba ili\, after the statuesque tree\, la Ceiba\, the Mayan tree of life. She lives with her niece\, Excy Veronica. They share a love for music\, dancing\, and best of all\, reading.  \nUrayoán Noel is the author of eight books of poetry\, most recently Transversal (Arizona\, 2021)\, named a Book of the Year by the New York Public Library and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. Noel’s other publications include the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa\, 2014)\, winner of the LASA Latino Studies Book Award\, and\, as translator\, No Budu Please by Wingston González (Ugly Duckling\, 2018)\, adjacent islands by Nicole Cecilia Delgado (Ugly Duckling/DoubleCross/La Impresora\, 2022)\,  and Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry by Pablo de Rokha (Shearsman\, 2018)\, a finalist for the National Translation Award. A Letras Boricuas fellow in poetry\, Noel has been a fellow and faculty at CantoMundo and the Macondo Writers Workshop and is an editorial advisor for Latino Poetry (Library of America) and a board member of the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center. Originally from Río Piedras\, Puerto Rico\, Noel lives in the Bronx and serves as Director of Graduate Studies for NYU’s MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish and as editor-in-chief of Intervenxions (The Latinx Project). \nModerator\nAmalia Ortiz is a Tejana spoken word performer\, playwright\, and author of 2 award-winning books of poetry. She was awarded the 2020 American Book Award for Oral Literature\, and appeared on three seasons of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry on HBO and the NAACP Image Awards on FOX. She was awarded a City of San Antonio Individual Artist Grant  and most recently\, her band\, Las Hijas de la Madre\, were awarded a Democratizing Racial Justice Artist Residency from the Mellon Foundation to complete their new project Diatribas Punk. Amalia received her MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/floricantos-y-tumbaos/
LOCATION:San Antonio Public Library\, 600 Soledad\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78205
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250312T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250312T200000
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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the LitMinds Book Club at Gemini Ink. We’re reading The Family Izquierdo\, by Rubén Degollado.\nRegister\nA Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2022\nLonglisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award \nA masterful debut that weaves together the lives of three generations of a Mexican American family bound by love\, and a curse. \nThe tight-knit Izquierdo family is grappling with misfortunes none of them can explain. Their beloved patriarch has suffered from an emotional collapse and is dying; eldest son Gonzalo’s marriage is falling apart; daughter Dina\, beleaguered by the fear that her nightmares are real\, is a shut-in. When Gonzalo digs up a strange object in the backyard of the family home\, the Izquierdos take it as proof that a jealous neighbor has cursed them―could this be the reason for all their troubles? As the Izquierdos face a distressing present and an uncertain future\, they are sustained by the blood that binds them\, a divine presence\, and an abiding love for one another. Told in a series of soulful voices brimming with warmth and humor\, The Family Izquierdo is a tender narrative of a family at a turning point. \n\nRubén Degollado’s work has appeared in Beloit Fiction Journal\, Gulf Coast\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Image\, and the anthologies: Bearing the Mystery\, Nepantla Familias\, and Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America. His debut novel Throw won the Texas Institute of Letters Best YA Book for 2020 along with several accolades and his second book\, The Family Izquierdo\, a literary novel\, is a New York Times Editor’s Choice and a PEN/Faulkner Award longlisted book.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-book-club/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250319T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250319T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s 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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2025-03-19/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Colby":MAILTO:veteranscollective@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250319T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250319T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
CREATED:20250227T220317Z
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Melissa Studdard
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, March 19th\, 2025 via Zoom for a conversation with Melissa Studdard\, to discuss her new book\, Dear Selection Committee (Jackleg Press). Moderated by Elena Karina Byrne.\n\n\n\n\n(Virtual Readings Monthly @ 7pm CST) \n\n\nRSVP\nSign up for Melissa Studdard’s class\, The Poetics of You: An Intro to Poetry Workshop on Monday\, April 7th! \n“I buried // everything they told me to bury. Then\, I dug it up again\,” Melissa Studdard writes in Dear Selection Committee\, an apt description of the work these poems do to unearth the incorrigible self and bury conventionality and its offspring\, shame. The speaker revels in her largesse\, claiming\, in one poem’s title\, she’s “Huge Like King Kong\, Like Godzilla\, Like Gulliver\,” and that the “world is my diorama of a world\,” and in another\, that her honeymoon pictures are “the cover / of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass.” All of this immensity\, this grand unburying\, is squeezed into the prosaic corseting structure of a job application\, intensifying the split between tame and wild. Even her own birth is enacted with kinetic magnificence: “I broke the kingdom inside her\, broke the gala / of horses straining to get out. I broke the dancehall // mirrors and even the gilded faucet handles. / I was a river that strong. Made for flooding.” Indeed\, these poems are so desirous and animated that they spilled over the edges of the page and into my thirsty soul. “-Diane Seuss \n“The poems in Dear Selection Committee say what I’ve always wanted to say in a job application (and what I’m thinking as I perform the role of Normal Job Person) but never had the guts. Melissa Studdard’s burn-it-down-radical honesty is elating af—exactly what I needed to read—but the poetic attentiveness\, from the first page to the last\, was the real thrill. At the heart of the cyclone\, a dependable\, deepening pulse of self preservation.” -Jennifer L. Knox \n“In the universe of Melissa Studdard’s poems\, both the speaker and the audience will always have their cake and eat it too. After all\, “Life’s never dull when your name’s Melissa\,” and oh my goddess\, does Dear Selection Committee serve hard as a brilliant 21st-century take and critique of the epistolary\, filled with infinite heart and infinite humor and infinite neon signs that point towards the larger-than-life nature of poetry. This is excess. This is extravagance. This is the definition of sensuality. Studdard has the tremendous gift of finding the center of every poem\, giving us the whole damn thing.” -Dorothy Chan \nFramed as a job application and bounding with associative leaps and surrealist underpinnings\, Dear Selection Committee is a subversive\, sexy love song to an endlessly messy self and the burning world it inhabits. Full of apostrophic power\, these poems shift among registers of loss\, desire\, and joy as they wrestle with issues such as climate change\, addiction\, modern distractions\, gender presentation\, religious questioning\, and the nature of pain. Dear Selection Committee attests that although life can feel like a bumpy cab ride to an interview for a job you feel uniquely unqualified for\, if you lay aside the anxieties of self just long enough to peer out the window\, you’ll see great beauty amidst the chaos. \n\nMelissa Studdard is the author of five books\, including the poetry collection I ATE THE COSMOS FOR BREAKFAST. Her work has been published or featured by places such as NPR\, PBS\, The New York Times\, The Guardian\, POETRY\, Kenyon Review\, Psychology Today\, and New England Review. Her awards include The Poetry Society of America’s Lucille Medwick Memorial Award\, The Penn Review Poetry Prize\, the REEL Poetry Festival Audience Choice Award\, the Tom Howard Prize\, and more. \n\nModerator\nA Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry recipient\, Elena Karina Byrne served as a final judge for PEN’s “Best of the West” award\, for the 2016-2018 Kate and Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards\, and for the international Laurel Prize in environmental poetry. Her five poetry collections include If This Makes You Nervous (Omnidawn\, 2021). Poems\, reviews\, essays\, and interviews can be found in POETRY\, The Kenyon Review\, The Paris Review\, APR\, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day\, Poetry Daily\, Verse Daily\, LA Review of Books\, Plume anthologies\, Reel Verse: Poems About the Movies\, BOMB\, and elsewhere. Former 12-year Regional Director of the Poetry Society of America\, Elena now works as a freelance editor\, lecturer\, reviewer\, and Programming Consultant & Poetry Stage Manager for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-melissa-studdard/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250329T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250329T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
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SUMMARY:Teen Writing Circle with Daniel Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:Register\nLast Saturday of Every Month 11:30am-1pm cst via Zoom \nFor ages 13-19 years old \nAre you a teen who enjoys writing in their free time? Or are you someone who’s never had the chance to write on their own? If so\, this Online Teen Writing Circle is for you!  \nIn this once-a-month writing circle\, teens will enjoy writing in a judgment free zone. We’ll break the ice with one another and perform various writing exercises. You are encouraged to share your work with your peers and get constructive feedback\, but it is not required. Our only goal is to keep you writing! \nThis course is open to teen writers of any skill level. \nParticipants will leave the writing circle with:  \n\nNew\, unique written work\nListening and sharing experience\nConstructive feedback to help improve their writing\n\nWant to learn more about our Teen Writing Circle? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions!\n \n\nDaniel Ramirez has been an educator for over 15 years. After studying History in grad school\, he tromped around the outdoors doing conservation with teenagers. Spending time as a Montessori educator revealed the power of incorporating creativity with learning. Encouraging youth to tap into their creative abilities convinced him to discover his own. Since then\, in addition to his original love of storytelling\, he’s found a penchant for calligraphy\, puppetry\, poetry\, and block printing. A San Antonio native\, he explores the crystalline waters of Central Texas in his free time. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/teen-writing-circle-2025-03-29/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250331T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250331T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
CREATED:20191105T141203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T145425Z
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SUMMARY:Open Writer's Labs
DESCRIPTION:These peer-driven workshops\, held the last Monday of each month\, are free and open to writers of all levels and focus on poetry\, flash fiction\, and short creative non-fiction.\n \n  \n\n\nOnline Via Zoom\nFor the online workshop\, sign up the day before the class to ensure you receive the Zoom link. \nThis workshop is facilitated by Kevin Ramos. Originally from the northeast\, Kevin studied theater arts at Rutgers University and The University of Washington. He’s lived all over the country before making his home in San Antonio\, Texas. Kevin has written several novels and short stories. Most recently\, publishing a short memoir called Enough about addiction\, mothers\, and missing graves. And a novel\, Hayley’s Sense of Fire (DLG Publishing Partners)\, a modern re-telling of the classic fairy tale\, The Little Matchgirl. \n\nIn-Person at Gemini Ink\n \nJoin our in-person Open Writer’s Lab with Robert Allen at Gemini Ink’s office\, 1111 Navarro St.\, San Antonio\, TX 78205. \nRobert Allen has worked as a librarian and an electrical contractor for most of his life. Many moons ago\, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Texas at Austin\, where he studied poetry under David Wevill. Allen has been active in local writer’s groups and open mics\, including the Sun Poets Society. He’s been published in The Ocotillo Review\, the Texas Poetry Calendar\, Voices de la Luna\, di-verse-city\, the San Antonio Express-News\, and Poetry on the Move. In 2006\, he started attending Gemini Ink’s free Monday night writing classes and has attended regularly ever since. With more than a decade of attending writers’ groups\, classes\, and open mics\, he now co-facilitates Gemini Ink’s Open Writer’s Lab. \nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/open-writers-lab-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25/2025-03-31/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250401T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250401T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170311
CREATED:20241125T174011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250331T201257Z
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SUMMARY:Everything but the Kitchen Sink: A Workshop on Writing Hybrid Essays with ire’ne lara silva
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday(s)\, April 1\, 8 & 15\, 2025\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, in-person at Gemini Ink \n(Rescheduled from May 1\, 8 & 15) \nNonmember $150        Member    $ 125                Student $90 \n*EARN CPEs\n \n  \n\n\nAre you a fan of essay writing who is bored to tears with the standard five-paragraph essays taught in school? Want to learn a new approach to essay writing that is fresh and fun? A hybrid essay crosses the boundaries of genre and can include elements of visual art\, photography\, found items and is pulled together by your voice. \nIn this three-week workshop\, we will liberate our minds and recover from the trauma of the “school-essay” mentality by creating hybrid essays that engage the reader\, reflect our realities\, and push the limits of what an essay can be. Bring any projects or ideas you’re working on–memoirs\, family histories\, love letters\, journals\, or thoughts you want to share about life\, art\, history\, spirit\, geography\, the world!  \nThis course is open to writers of all genres\, backgrounds\, and skill levels\, 18+. \nStudents will leave this workshop with:  \n\nA fresh approach to gathering source material for essays\nA first draft of one or more hybrid essays\n\n\nire’ne lara silva\, 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate\, is the author of five poetry collections\, furia\, Blood Sugar Canto\, CUICACALLI/House of Song\, FirstPoems\, and the eaters of flowers; two chapbooks\, Enduring Azucares and Hibiscus Tacos; a comic book\, VENDAVAL; and a short story collection\, flesh to bone\, which won the Premio Aztlán. ire’ne is the recipient of a 2021 Tasajillo Writers Grant\, a 2017 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant\, the final Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award\, and the Fiction Finalist for AROHO’s 2013 Gift of Freedom Award. Most recently\, ire’ne was awarded the 2021 Texas Institute of Letters Shrake Award for Best Short Nonfiction. Her second short story collection\, the light of your body\, will be published by Arte Publico Press in Spring 2025. http://www.irenelarasilva.wordpress.com \nSocial media links: Facebook: www.facebook.com/irenelarasilva\, Instagram: @silvairenelara
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/writing-hybrid-essays/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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