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SUMMARY:Gemini Ink Holiday Open House
DESCRIPTION:Save the date for Dec 11!\n  \nJoin our community of writers\, readers\, and friends to share your work\, make connections\, and close the year on a high note. \nWe’ll also be celebrating our Partner Classes Teaching Artist of the Year for 2025 is Daniel Ramirez! Daniel is our TA of the Year for the amazing work he has been doing\, especially with youth\, for his wonderful creativity\, and his ability to be a great co-teacher and to take the lead when the situation calls for it. He has an excellent way of building rapport quickly with students\, whether they are reluctant 5th graders or busy public health workers. Through this rapport\, he helps participants feel safe enough to take risks in their writing and play creatively with ideas and words. We are so excited to honor Daniel this year! \nOpen mic sign-up starts at 6:30pm.Hosted by Mandy Lynn\, Public Classes Coordinator. \nWine\, non-alcoholic drinks\, coffee\, and snacks will be served. \nThank you to our sponsors! \n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/holiday-open-house-3/
LOCATION:UTSA Southwest Campus – Coates Chapel\, 300 Augusta\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78205
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251213T100000
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SUMMARY:Poetry as Praise with Amanda Johnston
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, December 13\, 10am–1pm CT\, online via Zoom\nNonmember $75; Member $65; Student/Educ/Mil $53 \n*EARN CPEs\nTWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n \nHonor that special someone\, a major milestone\, or that first sip of coffee with a praise poem! \nThrough times of hardship and joy\, poetry connects us to our shared human experience. Praise poems give writers a vessel to carry wonder and gratitude and to deliver loving messages to their community. \nIn this one-day workshop led by Texas Poet Laureate Emeritus Amanda Johnston\, participants will explore poetic forms of praise\, learn how to identify and celebrate the awe-inspiring everyday moments of life\, and craft new works that can be given as gifts to loved ones. \nThis class is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nIn this workshop students will: \n\nExplore poetic forms of praise.\nWrite and share new praise poems.\nBuild an idea catalog for future works.\n\n\nAmanda Johnston is a writer\, visual artist\, and the 61st Poet Laureate of Texas. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine. She is the author of two chapbooks\, GUAP and Lock & Key\, and the full-length collection Another Way to Say Enter\, and editor of the anthology Praisesong for the People: Poems from the Heart and Soul of Texas\, coming Fall 2025 from Host Publications. Her work has appeared in numerous online and print publications\, among them Callaloo\, Poetry Magazine\, The Moth Radio Hour\, Bill Moyers\, The Rumpus\, and the anthologies Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry and Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism. She has received fellowships\, grants\, and awards from Cave Canem\, Hedgebrook\, Tasajillo\, the Kentucky Foundation for Women\, The Watermill Center\, American Short Fiction\, Prizer Arts & Letters\, and the Academy of American Poets. She is a former Board President of Cave Canem Foundation\, a member of the Affrilachian Poets\, and founder of Torch Literary Arts. \nIG: @poetamandajohnston\nFacebook: Amanda Johnston\nWebsite: AmandaJohnston.com \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/poetry-as-praise/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Online Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20251217T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20251217T203000
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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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2025-12-17/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251217T190000
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Cyra Sweet Dimitru
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, December 17th\, 2025\, via Zoom for a conversation with Cyra Sweet Dimitru\, to discuss her new book\, Words Make a Way Through Fire: Healing After My Brother’s Suicide (Simon & Schuster).\n\n\n\n\n(Virtual Readings Quarterly @ 7pm CST) \n\n\nRSVP \nWords Make a Way through Fire is an intimate\, courageous memoir of a woman shattered by witnessing her eldest brother’s horrific suicide when she was a teenager. The book traces her creative journey of recovery and healing with poetry as a constant companion. \nThe primary means of Cyra Dumitru’s healing process\, from age sixteen through adulthood\, is writing poetry and journaling. During this decades-long journey\, Cyra experiences a transcendent\, loving presence called Voice who guides her and helps her imagine wholeness. She finds community with others through the sharing of poems. She studies poetry as craft and as medicine—becoming a published poet with multiple books\, an award-winning college instructor of poetry writing\, and a certified practitioner of poetic medicine who creates spaces where others can heal through poetry. \nIn Words Make a Way through Fire\, Cyra explores the specific medicinal properties of poetry—giving order to interior anxiety\, trusting the wisdom within—and invites her brother David to speak through her as he reflects upon his final hours. In doing so\, poem by poem\, she shifts gradually from being traumatized and feeling haunted to feeling empowered and spiritually expansive. \n\nAbout the Author\nCyra Sweet Dumitru is a published poet and instructor of poetry\, and one of four certified practitioners of poetic medicine in Texas. Her poems have appeared on the walls of City Hall\, been spoken on national public radio and in museums\, and appeared in city newspapers and national literary journals. Her collections of poems include What the Body Knows\, Listening to Light\, Remains\, and Elder Moon. She offers therapeutic writing circles for adults learning to live with trauma\, bereavement\, depression\, anxiety\, and religious trauma. Cyra lives in San Antonio\, Texas with her family. \n\nAbout the Moderator\nNatalia Treviño‘s fiction appears in Mirrors Beneath the Earth (Curbstone Press)\, The Platte Valley Review\, and her non-fiction appears in Wising Up Anthologies\, Complex Allegiances and Shifting Balance Sheets: Women’s Stories of Naturalized Citizens. Her first book of poetry\, Lavando La Dirty Laundry\, is available from Mongrel Empire Press and most online bookstores. A member of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop\, Natalia has been working to increase young adult literacy since 1992 in her teaching career and through programs sponsored by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center\, Gemini Ink\, and the Bexar County Juvenile Detention Center.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-cyra-sweet-dimitru/
LOCATION:Texas
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20251218T180000
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SUMMARY:MOSAIC Poetry Reading & Print Sale
DESCRIPTION:We’re celebrating the work of high school students who created original visual art and poetry in this special series of workshops\, in partnership with MOSAIC Studio\, Contemporary at Blue Star. The celebration will be held at MOSAIC Studio at Contemporary at Blue Star. \nLearn more about our Partner Classes Program!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/mosaic-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Contemporary at Blue Star\, 116 Blue Star\, San Antonio\, Texas
CATEGORIES:Event,Youth
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ORGANIZER;CN="Catherine Burianek":MAILTO:cburianek@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20251227T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20251227T133000
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SUMMARY:Teen Writing Circle with Daniel Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:Register\nLast Saturday of Every Month 12-1:30pm 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-2025-03-29-2025-04-26/2025-12-27/
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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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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25-2025-04-28-2025-05-26/2025-12-29/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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