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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club: The Safekeep
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the LitMinds Book Club at Gemini Ink. We’re reading The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden.\nRegister for the Book Club\n\nA house is a precious thing… \nIt is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled\, buildings reconstructed\, and the war is truly over. Living alone in her late mother’s country home\, Isabel knows her life is as it should be—led by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her brother Louis brings his graceless new girlfriend Eva\, leaving her at Isabel’s doorstep as a guest\, to stay for the season. \nEva is Isabel’s antithesis: she sleeps late\, walks loudly through the house\, and touches things she shouldn’t. In response\, Isabel develops a fury-fueled obsession\, and when things start disappearing around the house—a spoon\, a knife\, a bowl—Isabel’s suspicions begin to spiral. In the sweltering peak of summer\, Isabel’s paranoia gives way to infatuation\, leading to a discovery that unravels all Isabel has ever known. The war might not be well and truly over after all\, and neither Eva—nor the house in which they live—are what they seem. \nMysterious\, sophisticated\, sensual\, and infused with intrigue\, atmosphere\, and sex\, The Safekeep is “a brave and thrilling debut about facing up to the truth of history\, and to one’s own desires” (The Guardian). \n\n\nAbout the Author\n\nYael van der Wouden is a writer and teacher. She currently lectures in creative writing and comparative literature in the Netherlands. Her essay on Dutch identity and Jewishness\, “On (Not) Reading Anne Frank”\, has received a notable mention in The Best American Essays 2018. The Safekeep is her debut novel and was acquired in hotly-contested nine-way auctions in both the UK and the US. Rights have sold in a further twelve countries. \nVisit our LitMinds page to see what we’re reading next!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-book-club-van-der-wouden/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:Touch Paper: A Creative Journaling Workshop for Teens
DESCRIPTION:Register to join “Touch Paper” in-person at Gemini Ink\nRegister to join “Touch Paper” online via Zoom\nFree for Bexar County teens ages 13–19\nLooking for a safe space to disconnect from the overstimulating world of social media? \nA place to share your real feelings?\nTeen writers will leave this workshop with:\n\nAt least one new piece of writing\nWays to use writing for coping and resiliency\nTools & exercises to keep writing at home\n\nWhether you’re an experienced writer or picking up the pen for the very first time\, this workshop is for you! Join us as we touch paper and turn worry into written words. \nIn this free one-day workshop\, teens will focus on using writing as a way to get it all out. We’ll start with an introduction to creative journaling and learn how it can promote positive mental health. Then we’ll put pen to paper and play on the page! All youth writers will have an opportunity to share their writing with an audience. \nWe will offer the same workshop simultaneously–online and in-person. Teens aged 13-19 are encouraged to register for one of the workshops.  \nCelebrate Your Writing\nAll participating youth are invited to celebrate their writing in person with family and friends the following day. Light refreshments will be served. \n *For participants attending in person at Gemini Ink\, supplies and snacks will be provided. \n*For participants attending online via Zoom\, supply kits will be available for pick up at Gemini Ink prior to the workshop. We will also provide a list of suggested supplies to gather from around the house. \nSeating is limited; please register early.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/touch-paper/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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SUMMARY:Dig Into Your Subconscious to Enliven Your Writing with Carmen Calatayud
DESCRIPTION:Sat\, Aug 8\n10am – 2pm CT\, In-person at Gemini Ink\nNonmember: $100; Member: $85; Student/Educ/Mil: $70\n*EARN CPEs; SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n \n \n  \nThe subconscious mind is a hidden vault that holds our deepest motives\, feelings\, and beliefs. It is also the cradle of dreams\, where meaning emerges and creativity takes shape. So what if we tapped  into this inner world to unlock a richer\, more profound artistic expression? \nIn this one-day workshop\, we will use guided writing exercises and meditative prompts to quiet the inner critic and awaken the intuitive voice that lies just beneath the surface of everyday thought. Through the study of surrealist writers\, we will explore how symbols\, images and fragments from the subconscious can transform into powerful narratives. Whether you write poetry\, fiction or creative nonfiction\, this workshop provides practical tools to write from emotional truth and psychological depth. Come prepared to dig into your fertile inner landscape\, using dreams\, intuition and memory as seeds for evocative storytelling. \nThis workshop is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nStudents will leave this course with the following:\n\nAn understanding of how the subconscious mind can galvanize writing\nStrategies for connecting with body sensations and imagery to access deeper\, archetypal truths\nSeveral pieces of new writing that open up to unexpected places\n\n\nCarmen Calatayud is a poet\, nonfiction writer and psychotherapist who is fascinated by the subconscious and the surreal. She is the author of two poetry collections: This Tangled Body (FlowerSong Press/Letras Latinas\, 2024) and In the Company of Spirits (Press 53\, 2012)\, a runner-up for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies\, including POETRY Magazine\, Poet Lore\, Rogue Agent\, Tahoma Literary Journal and Verse Daily. She is a Larry Neal Award Winner\, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow\, and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. Calatayud is on the editorial staff of The Skinny Poetry Journal. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/dig-into-your-subconscious/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Open Writers’ Lab Reading & Community Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink as we celebrate the literary artistry of our Open Writers’ Lab members with a community reading and open mic.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/open-writers-lab-reading/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club: Art Above Everything
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we read Art Above Everything by Stephanie Elizondo Griest.\n \n\n\n\n  \n\nA new kind of travel writing.\n— Booklist\n…a potent testament to the value of pursuing one’s passion.\n— Publishers Weekly\nA global exploration of what it means to choose a creative life.\nAll artists struggle. But women are especially pushed to give up their creative ambitions\, from societal disapproval against “selfishness” to the pressure (or desire) for children and economic stability. Throughout her 20s and 30s\, Stephanie Elizondo Griest wondered if constantly prioritizing her writing over everything else was leading her to fulfillment or regret. After a brutal break-up and narrowly surviving a health crisis in her early 40s\, she turned to other women for their perspectives on that haunting question: is art enough? \nArt Above Everything documents her travels to 10 nations—from Cuba to Iceland; Rwanda to Qatar—where she meets with legendary painters\, poets\, actors\, dancers\, and musicians who talk intimately about their art\, both what it gifts them and what it costs them. Collectively\, these artists speak dozens of languages and worship a spectrum of faiths\, but their compulsions to create despite financial hardship\, misogyny\, sexual violence\, and family ostracization are wholly akin. Bold and inspiring\, Art Above Everything illuminates the ways we can wield creativity as a vitalizing force. \n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephanie Elizondo Griest is a globetrotting author from the Texas/Mexico borderlands and the author of six books\, including Around the Bloc\, Mexican Enough\, All the Agents and Saints\, and Art Above Everything. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, VQR\, The Believer\, BBC\, Orion\, Lit Hub\, and Oxford American\, and has earned a Margolis Award\, a PEN Southwest Book Award\, an International Latino Book Award\, and two Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism prizes. \nShe is currently Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. She has traveled to 50 countries and 49 states\, is a cancer survivor now in remission\, and recently endowed Testimonios Fronterizos\, a research grant for borderlands student journalists at the University of Texas at Austin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisit our LitMinds page to see what we’re reading next!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-art-above-everything/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club: The Awakening
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we read The Awakening by Kate Chopin.\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n“The great power of The Awakening resides not in the answers it provides\, but in the questions it exposes.”  —Washington Post \n“Kate Chopin . . . smoked and went hatless and played cards into the small hours; she wrote stories about venereal disease\, adultery\, divorce and the ‘monstrous joy’ of widowhood . . . scandalous in her own age; held up as a heroine by feminists of the Seventies.”  —Observer\nFirst published in 1899\, this beautiful\, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward.\nOn vacation in Grand Isle\, Louisiana\, a married woman falls in love with a charming\, attentive young man. The relationship spurs Edna Pontellier to explore her longing for independence and creative fulfillment. It also compels her to defy conventions\, rejecting the constraints of marriage and motherhood. \nFirst published in 1899\, this beautiful\, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired\, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of women’s emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman’s abandonment of her family\, her seduction\, and her awakening to desires and passions that threatened to consumer her. Originally entitled A Solitary Soul\, this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction\, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. \n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBorn and raised in St. Louis\, Kate Chopin (1850-1904) moved to Louisiana to marry the son of a cotton grower. A mother of six by the age of twenty-eight and a widow at thirty-two\, she turned to writing to support her young family. She is best known today for The Awakening (1899)\, a portrait of marriage and motherhood so controversial it fell out of print shortly after publication and was not rediscovered until the 1960s. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisit our LitMinds page to see what we’re reading next!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-the-awakening/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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