Standing with Ukraine Poetry Reading

Main Plaza 115 N Main Ave, San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio Poets in Solidarity with Ukraine are joining together for a reading in support of Ukraine. Please stay as long as you can in solidarity with one another and the people of Ukraine on this day we can peacefully and safely stand together in public for peace and equity and justice at this time of crisis. You can bring a sign. You can BE a sign. You already are a sign of peace to come.

Free

MOSAIC Youth Writing Workshop

MOSAIC Studio 116 Blue Star, San Antonio, Texas

Blue Star Contemporary and Gemini Ink present a special afternoon workshop for middle and high school students interested in exploring their creative writing and visual arts skills. Join us for this special National Poetry Month event featuring writer Chibbi Orduña. Cost is $5. Register at https://bit.ly/3qa0E0R

$5

Television Writing 101 with Amie Charney

Have an amazing idea for a television or streaming pilot, but don’t know how to start? This six-week Fundamentals of Television Writing course is the perfect introduction. You'll learn how to take your idea from the early stages of concept to an outline to write a pilot. We will also focus on how to structure your plot specifically for the television platform in a simulated writer's room. You can expect six real-time craft lectures, lively conversation, and feedback from your instructor and fellow students, written assignments and exercises, and a solid jumpstart on your own script.

$150

Poetry Reboot 2022 with Edward Vidaurre

Online via Zoom

Work with award-winning poet Edward Vidaurre to dismantle the obstacles that stop your creative process. By welcoming pain and allowing the beauty of the same pain to flow in your writing, you will learn to write without reserve. In week two, we will focus on practical aspects of the poetry publishing process.

$135

CONFESS! (ional) poetry with Veronica Golos

What brings a poem from a first-person narrative, to what has been termed Confessional poetry?  Looking at poems by groundbreaking poets Sylvia Plath, Ann Sexton, and Ai,  we will explore how these women poets broke through barriers of sex and language, how they shaped their work, and, using their examples, we will break through our own boundaries. A packet will be sent to participants before the workshop, with poems from each of the poets and background information of their eras,  along with suggestions for our own writing. Each participant will write 3 poems,  inspired by each of these Confessional poets, and poems by participants will be read carefully and discussed.

$145

Fascinating Characters in the Time of Netflix—An Intensive Workshop with Award-Winning Producer Marilyn Atlas

Online via Zoom

Spend an evening with LA producer and Talent Manager Marilyn Atlas, as she offers an insider’s look into the world of book-to-TV projects, TV screen-playing, and creating those memorable characters and scenes that everyone wants to binge-watch. Atlas will offer user-friendly advice, hands-on guidance, and an industry pro’s know-how and passion to discuss a range of techniques to take your screenplays and prose projects to the next level.

$125

Open Writers Lab with Dario Beniquez and Robert Allen

Online via Zoom

This peer-driven workshop, held the last Monday of each month, is open to writers of all levels. Facilitated by Gemini Ink volunteers Dario Beniquez and Robert Allen.

Free

Black and Blue: 400 Years of Struggle and Transcendence

Guadalupe Theater 1301 Guadalupe St, San Antonio, Texas

Th e inaugural Sterling Houston Festival is a month-long series of events scheduled
for June 2022 presented by a city-wide collaboration of arts organizations honoring
the late African-American writer and San Antonio native, Sterling Houston. Join
Gemini Ink for a dramatic reading of “Black and Blue: 400 Years of Struggle and
Transcendence,” one of Houston’s seminal works; followed by a panel discussion on
the bold vision of this playwright.

Free