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SUMMARY:Writing for Change: How to Craft Effective Social Justice Articles with Sara Ramey
DESCRIPTION:Mondays\, September 9\, 16\, 23 & 30\, 2024\, from 6:30-8:30pm CST via Zoom\nInstructor: Sara Ramey\nNonmember: $160; Member: $140; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nTWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n \n  \nIs there a social justice issue you’d like to draw more attention to? Do you wish the media would provide a fresh perspective on a matter close to your heart? Do you have a new approach to a social problem? Join this intensive workshop to turn those ideas into publishable articles! \nIn this four-week course\, experienced social justice advocate Sara Ramey will combine lecture and group discussion to help participants gain an overview of writing effective social justice articles. Participants will learn how to understand key content and structure considerations\, achieve the right tone and pacing\, select the best format based on the topic\, consider their audiences to maximize impact\, and use one’s goal to derive the highest impact from an article.  \nWe will also explore a range of interviewing techniques\, including preparing effective questions\, tips for eliciting vivid details and descriptions\, capturing authenticity in voice\, making an interviewee comfortable\, ethical considerations\, and navigating challenges that arise. Participants will write and submit a 600-900-word article during the workshop. We’ll conclude with a discussion on how to pitch social justice articles.  \nThis class is open to writers of all skill levels interested in developing their written advocacy abilities\, 18+.  \nBy the end of the class students will have:  \n\nA workshopped 600-900 word article on a social justice topic of their choice\nA toolbox of skills for persuasive factual and opinion writing\nAn understanding of the market and the crafting process for short-form social justice journalism\nInsight into effective pitching to begin contacting publishers\n\n\nAn experienced interviewer\, Sara Ramey has worked for over twelve years on the U.S.-Mexico border\, meeting with asylum seekers to learn their stories and help them craft compelling narratives for U.S. immigration judges. She has also interviewed immigrants on various issues of public policy for community education initiatives and has written op-eds and journal articles in major publications\, including The Dallas Morning News\, The San Antonio Express News\, The Austin-American Statesman\, The Hill\, The International Lawyer\, Peace Review\, and The Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration. As a lawyer and advocate\, Sara has extensive experience condensing complex topics down to powerful stories that resonate with diverse audiences. She has written public comments to the federal government on proposed regulations\, has hosted a legal podcast on migration issues\, and has interviewed with the press\, including MSNBC\, Fox News\, ABC\, the Associated Press\, VICE\, CNN\, Telemundo\, and more. She most recently worked as an attorney mentor at Immigration Equality. In her free time\, Sara writes urban and YA fantasy.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/writing-for-change/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240911T183000
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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Lit Minds Book Club at Gemini Ink. We’re reading Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.\nRegister\nNearly seventy years after its original publication\, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak\, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. \nGuy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities\, the printed book\, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce\, returning each day to his bland life and wife\, Mildred\, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor\, Clarisse\, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television\, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known \n\n \nRay Bradbury was an American fantasy and horror author who rejected being categorized as a science fiction author\, claiming that his work was based on the fantastical and unreal. His best known novel is Fahrenheit 451\, a dystopian study of future American society in which critical thought is outlawed. He is also remembered for several other popular works\, including The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Bradbury won the Pulitzer in 2007\, and is one of the most celebrated authors of the 21st century. — Biography.com
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-a-book-club/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240914T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240914T153000
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SUMMARY:Telling Stories from the Teaching Trenches with Amie Charney
DESCRIPTION:Dates: Saturday\, September 14\, 2024\, 9am-3:30pm CST (with a 30 minute boxed lunch)\, in-person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: Amie Charney\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \nClass Cancelled\nHilarious\, cringe\, nightmarish\, heartwarming\, inspiring–these are just some words teachers might use to describe their experiences in the classroom. Every educator has an interesting story to tell about teaching\, and we want to help you tell it!   \nIn this one-day storytelling workshop for educators of all backgrounds and experience\, we will follow The Moth model of storytelling to script and tell our own creative nonfiction stories. We will then use podcasting technology to record our tales from the teaching trenches.  \nWe will share practical ways to pair storytelling and podcasting as a fun and effective learning tool in the classroom and across the curriculum. This course is open to educators of all kinds and skill levels\, 18+.  \nStudents will leave this workshop with: \n\nA draft of creative nonfiction work\nHands on experience using podcasting equipment\nIdeas for how to incorporate storytelling and podcasting into the classroom environment\n\n\nAmie Charney is a screenwriter who lives in San Antonio\, Texas. She has a BA in Literature from California State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California Riverside Palm Desert. She is the current Director of Creative Writing for the Northeast School of the Arts. Her work can be found in literary journals such as Southern Missouri Press Journal Proud to Be\, As You Were\, Oh! Cat!\, High Country Magazine\, and others. Amie is the inaugural recipient of the Harlequin Creator Fund for Television Writing and is currently developing a new television show with eOne and Harlequin. She’s the wife of a pilot\, mother of two fantastic young adults (both Aggies)\, and a proud Marine Corps wife! She was recently featured in Script Magazine and the Harlequin Creator Space\, as well as San Antonio Magazine.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/telling-stories-from-the-teaching-trenches/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240918T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240918T203000
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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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-09-18/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Colby":MAILTO:veteranscollective@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240918T190000
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Ayokunle Falomo
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n\n\nWednesday\, Sep 18th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: AYOKUNLE FALOMO\, author of Autobiomythography of .\nAutobiomythography of sifts through Nigerian stories and mythologies\, both inherited and invented\, to explore the self\, family\, and nationhood. \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. \nAutobiomythography of \n“Mythmaking serves to create a bridge between what the human mind can understand and what we yet have language for. Yet here in this visually lush and lyrically dexterous collection of poems\, Falomo offers his readers work that bends and reimagines the limits of language\, blends the Divine with the digital present\, contemporary music with the voices of the past while the speaker traverses the friction between their American & Nigerian heritage.”\n—I.S. Jones\, author of Spells of My Name \nSeptember 2024 \nISBN: 9781949944655
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-ayokunle-falomo/
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:20240921T100000
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SUMMARY:Making AI Your Friend: Three Ways Writers Can Use Tech to Enhance Their Craft and Achieve Their Goals with Javier Ortega-Araiza
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 21\, 2024\, 10am-2:30pm CST (including a 30-minute lunch)\, online via Zoom\nInstructor: Javier Ortega-Araiza\nNonmember: $110; Member: $95; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nTWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n \n  \nAre you interested in learning how to use AI (Artificial Intelligence) to support your writing without losing your humanity? Given the hype around this new technology\, this workshop will offer participants a chance to sift through fears and find the real tools AI provides. \nIn this one-day workshop\, author Javier Ortega-Araiza will help participants adapt to AI’s impact on the writing industry and learn to collaborate with technology. Students will explore AI tools\, such as ChatGPT\, and become familiar with how writers can use them to bolster their creative practice. \nThis class is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nIn this workshop\, students will learn how to use AI to: \n\nGenerate ideas and defeat the blank page\nFireproof their pieces to ensure they are well-crafted and understood by their target audience\nRepurpose content to adapt to various social media platforms and increase their exposure.\n\nLearn more about Javier at his Writer’s Desk!\n\nJavier Ortega-Araiza is the author of Three Years Later: Poems of Loss\, Love\, and Renewal (2024) and a co-author of Stories from Montréal (2019)\, an anthology featuring over 20 Hispanic-Canadian writers. He is passionate about storytelling’s power to heal and unite us. He believes technology can be a fantastic ally in helping writers enhance their careers and have a bigger impact. Javier is a lifelong traveler\, entrepreneur\, and storyteller whose thoughts on the impact of AI in the writing profession can be found here. \nOrtega-Araiza’s writings\, spanning various genres\, have been featured by leading outlets such as Business Insider\, Forbes\, the New York Post\, FOX\, the Toronto Star\, and the Winnipeg Free Press. Through Mindset Consulting\, a strategic communications firm\, he has also worked with several tech startups and venture funds\, gaining first-hand exposure to the impact of AI in several industries. He has also worked with leading brands such as MGM and Caesars. 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/making-ai-your-friend/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240926T183000
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SUMMARY:Eddie Vega & Friends & Community Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink on Thursday\, September 26th\, for a night of poetry and performance as we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month 2024 and honor our new San Antonio Poet Laureate Eddie Vega!  \nEddie is a poet\, educator\, open mic host\, and voice for the people\, who’s poetry focuses on the routine struggles and small beauties of life in South Texas. He will be accompanied by award- winning poet Violeta Garza and veteran educator and poet Jacinto Jesús Cardona. \nFollowing the featured reading\, we will host a community open mic. Bring your poems\, stories\, and thoughts to share (there will be a 3-minute limit for each reader). Open mic sign-up in person\, starting at 6pm. \n\nVioleta Garza is a non-binary Latinx poet and member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. Her work has been published in Acentos Review\, Boundless\, and riverSedge\, among others. \nJacinto Jesús Cardona is a San Antonio poet whose two poetry books\, PAN DULCE and AMAPOLASONG celebrate his growing up Tex Mex in Alice\, the Hub of South Texas. In 2016 New York Symphony Space selected his poem “Bato Con Khakis” to be performed as part of their literacy program. Among Cardona’s awards are a Gemini Ink Voz de San Antonio Poetry Award and his poetry is documented in Voices From Texas by San Antonio filmmaker Ray Santiesteban. Cardona teaches English at Incarnate Word High School. \nEddie Vega (the Taco-Poet of Texas) is a poet\, storyteller\, and educator. The author of Chicharra Chorus (FlowerSong Press\, 2019) and Somos Nopales (FlowerSong Press\, 2024)\, his poetry also appears along the San Pedro Creek Cultural Park. He is the editor of Asina is How We Talk\, a collection of Tejano poetry. A Macondo Workshop Fellow\, Vega directs the Mouth Dakota Poetry Project\, a biweekly open mic. He currently serves as the 7th Poet Laureate of San Antonio.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/reading-and-open-mic/
LOCATION:Poetic Republic Coffee Co.\, 2330 S. Presa St\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 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:20240928T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240928T210000
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SUMMARY:Our Word is Our Vote: A Poetry Pachanga
DESCRIPTION:Don’t Miss Our Word is Our Vote:\nA Poetry Pachanga this Saturday\, Sep 28!\nJoin the dynamic San Antonio poetry community for this special election year event\, encouraging voter registration and using our voice to create the change we want to see:\nSaturday\, Sep 28\, 5-9pm\nUTSA Main Campus\n1 UTSA Circle\, San Antonio\, TX 78249\nRichard Liu Auditorium\, Business Bldg\, 2.01.02 \nRegister to Vote! Free Event! Free Food!\nLive Music from Kitten Mitten\, Mexstep\, and Patsy Torres!\nAnd all the poets—Andi Garcia-Linn\, Alexandra Vandekamp\, Alex Z. Salinas\, Amalia Ortiz\, Anthony the Poet\, Carmen Calatayud\, Carmen Tafolla\, Chibbi Orduña\, Chris Carmona\, E.D. Watson\, Eddie Vega\, Eduardo C. Garza\, Edward Vidaurre\, Fernando E. Flores\, Frances Santos\, Gerard Robledo\, Gume Laurel III\, Jen Yanez-Alaniz\, Jim LaVilla-Havelin\, John Olivares Espinoza\, John Phillip Santos\, Jonathan Fletcher\, Joshua Robbins\, KB Brookins\, Lace Garcia\, Mandy Lynn Lara\, Matthew Tavares\, Myra Dumapais\, Natalia Treviño\, Nazli Siddiqui\, Octavio Quintanilla\, Rooster Martinez\, Sajhar Roshan\, Saúl Hernández\, Tony Diaz\, Violeta Garza\, Zach Sokoloski!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/our-word-is-our-vote/
LOCATION:UTSA\, 1 UTSA Circle\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78249
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:20240930T183000
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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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25/2024-09-30/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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