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SUMMARY:Razzmatazz & All That Jazz: An Evening in Celebration of Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson
DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets and Sponsor Levels\n\n\n\nCelebrating Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson at the McNay Art Museum Moroccan Courtyard and Leeper Auditorium\, Friday\, November 8th\, 6:30-9:30 pm\n\n\n\n\n2024 Award for Literary Excellence\nAndrea Vocab Sanderson \nHonorary Co-Chair\nDr. Eric Castillo\nAssociate Vice Chancellor of Arts\, Culture\, and Community Impact for the Alamo Colleges District \nModerator\nGlo Miles \nEmcee\nMolly Cox \n2024 Inkstravaganza Committee\nCary Clack\, Aminah Dece\, Barbara Felix\, Winifred Hodge\, Zach Jewell\, Andrea Lopez\, Gloria Miles\, Chibbi Orduña\, Aaronetta Pierce\, Gerard Robledo\, Andrea Rodriguez\, Zsaire Shaheid (Shai)\, Aissatou Sidime-Blanton\, Kirsten Thompson\, Maria Williams\, Bria Woods\, Alexandra van de Kamp \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Gemini Ink\, San Antonio’s Writing Arts Center\, at the beautiful McNay Art Museum on Friday\, November 8th\, for an unforgettable\, festive evening celebrating the extraordinary achievements of Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson\, our 2024 Recipient of The Award for Literary Excellence. Enjoy our star-packed lineup (details coming soon!) and mingle with friends and fellow literary fans as we honor this brilliant poet\, multifaceted artist\, performer\, and community leader who is at the heart of the writing arts in our city. \nAndrea “Vocab” Sanderson is a multifaceted artist in the worlds of music\, poetry\, spoken word performance\, and community artistic collaborations\, and to say she is a powerhouse poet and creative performer only scratches the surface of her talent! We couldn’t be more honored to spotlight her as the featured writer of our annual gala in support of the power of the writing arts in our city. Vocab is San Antonio Poet Laureate Emeritus 2020-2023. She facilitates workshops throughout the U.S. and is the author of She Tastes Like Music (Flower Song Press\, 2020). She is an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and was voted Best Local Poet in 2023 and 2021 by The SA Current. Vocab has had the distinct honor of opening up for Dr. Cornell West\, Phylicia Rashad\, and Nikki Giovanni. Her albums and collaborative works can be streamed on all major music platforms. Learn more about her at her website andreavocabsanderson.com.
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LOCATION:McNay Art Museum\, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave.\, San Antonio\, TX\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
DESCRIPTION:Autograph Series ticketed luncheon at the McNay Art Museum\nPURCHASE TICKETS AND SPONSORSHIPS AT EVENTBRITE.\nAimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the New York Times best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays\, WORLD OF WONDERS: IN PRAISE OF FIREFLIES\, WHALE SHARKS\, & OTHER ASTONISHMENTS. She also wrote four previous poetry collections including OCEANIC. Her most recent chapbook is LACE & PYRITE\, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Pushcart Prize\, a Mississippi Arts Council grant\, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She is poetry editor for SIERRA magazine\, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program and her forthcoming book of food essays is called BITE BY BITE (Ecco\, May 2024).  \n\nAutograph Series with Terrance Hayes\, with local high school students\, 2019. \nAutograph Series presents writers of national and international stature—many of them recipients of major prizes such as the Pulitzer or National Book Award—in free public performances followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. Ours is one of the few such series in the nation offered to the public at no cost. A ticketed luncheon with the visiting writer partially supports the Autograph Series. Local businesses also sponsor tables for high school students\, cultivating a community of support and encouragement for the writing arts. \nPrevious Autograph writers include Margaret Atwood\, U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera\, Ha Jin\, Edward P. Jones\, Tim O’Brien\, Grace Paley\, Philip Levine\, Luis Alberto Urrea\, Terrance Hayes\, Ben Fountain\, among others.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/afternoon-with-aimee-nezhukumatathil/
LOCATION:McNay Art Museum\, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave.\, San Antonio\, TX\, United States
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SUMMARY:Inkstravaganza 2023 honoring Jenny Browne
DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT\n“Fellow Travelers: Celebrating the Poetic Journeys of Jenny Browne”\n\n\n\n\nCelebrating Jenny Browne at the McNay Art Museum Moroccan Courtyard and Leeper Auditorium\, Friday\, November 10th\, 6:30-9:30 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAward for Literary Excellence\nJenny Browne \nHonorary Co-Chairs\nDr. Vanessa B. Beasley\, Trinity University’s 20th President\n& Naomi Shihab Nye \nModerator\nDr. Rachel Pearson \nEmcee\nMolly Cox \n2023 Inkstravaganza Committee\nWendy Atwell\, Amie Charney\, Eileen Curtright\, Joey Fauerso\, Meaghan Ritchey\, Claudia Stokes\, Burgin Streetman\, Alexandra van de Kamp\, and Laura Van Prooyen \n\n\n\n\n\nDon’t miss Gemini Ink’s  23rd Inkstravaganza in celebration of the writing arts by joining us on November 10th in honoring Jenny Browne\, as we celebrate her remarkable accomplishments as a groundbreaking poet\, gifted educator\, and community voice for the transformative impact of literature in our lives. \n\n\nJenny Browne is the author of four collections: Fellow Travelers: New and Selected Poems (2019)\, Dear Stranger (2014)\, The Second Reason (2007)\, and At Once (2003). A prolific poet and dynamic literary citizen at home and abroad\, she served concurrent terms as City of San Antonio Poet Laureate (2016-18) and Poet Laureate of the State of Texas (2017) and\, in 2020\, was Distinguished Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre\, Queens University\, in Belfast\, Northern Ireland. Other awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and the Cecil Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has been an integral part of the Trinity University faculty for 15 years\, having joined the Department of English in 2007\, where she currently teaches courses in creative writing and environmental studies\, as well as co-directs Women and Gender Studies. In 2004\, she received a prestigious three-year James Michener Fellowship from the University of Texas in Austin\, where she received her MFA in Poetry. \nJenny Browne learned to walk on the grounds of Fort Sam Houston. After moving with her family to Maine and the Midwest\, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1993. She continued her travels and lived in Alaska\, West Africa\, El Salvador and the South of France. These formative experiences with other cultures and landscapes shaped her commitment to literature as a means of opening minds\, cultivating imagination\, and creating empathy for people and places beyond one’s own skyline. \nFor most of her adult life\, Browne has brought communities together to strengthen literacy and celebrate literary arts. From 1998-2004 she worked in local schools\, libraries\, and community centers with support from the Texas Commission on the Arts\, the City’s UrbanSmarts Program\, ARTSSanAntonio\, and Gemini Ink. She created and designed a K-12 curriculum integrating writing\, environmental education\, and the poetics of place that was piloted in Gulf Coast schools. From 2000-2003\, she founded and directed the Good Samaritan Center’s Literary Arts Program on San Antonio’s Westside. \nOver the years\, Browne’s work has created platforms and opportunities for people to engage in writing and to explore ideas and identities across cultures\, economic backgrounds\, and ages. She continues to build local\, regional\, and global partnerships and worked with Borderland Collective to create Narratives of Resettlement\, a two-year-long creative collaboration with refugee families. \nIn 2012\, Browne traveled with the U.S. Department of State and the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program on two cultural diplomacy tours\, teaching poetry in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya and the U.S. Embassy in Sierra Leone. She also completed a semester-long sabbatical in the Atacama Desert of Chile\, and Oaxaca\, Mexico\, and continues to return to Belfast\, Northern Ireland. \nWhen she is not teaching or traveling\, Browne writes in a hundred-year-old house in the historic La Vaca neighborhood where she lives with her husband\, photographer Scott Martin\, and their daughters Lyda and Harriet. \n\nAbout our Teaching Artist of the Year\, Joyous Windrider Jimenez!\nJoyous Windrider Jiménez\, a Gemini Ink teaching artist since 2016\, is a poet\, teatrista\, mixed-media visual artist\, and video creator. She melds performance and visual elements to articulate her healing journey and emotional literacy. Since 2009\, she’s showcased her work both in San Antonio and online\, with a recent publication in Puro Chicanx: Writers of the 21st Century by Cutthroat\, A Journal Of The Arts and The Black Earth Institute.  \nAs a teaching artist since 2012\, she has worked with notable organizations such as SAY Sí\, Gemini Ink\, the Magik Theatre\, San Antonio Wolf Trap\, the McNay Art Museum\, the San Antonio Museum of Art\, and Blue Star Contemporary’s MOSAIC program for youth. Her teaching experience spans diverse demographics\, from preschoolers to retired adults\, and includes cancer survivors\, incarcerated youth\, mental health warriors\, title I students\, and foster care children. Her students have achieved recognition through public exhibitions\, performances\, publication\, and awards\, including Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards. \n 
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LOCATION:McNay Art Museum\, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave.\, San Antonio\, TX\, United States
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