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October 2018
Our family Reads: Diversity @Igo Branch Library
Join us with Councilman Manny Pelaez as we explore the importance of diversity and multicultural understanding in San Antonio. Activities are hands-on and invite education through creativity. Add your handprint to the diversity mural and make your own stick puppet! The Human Library will also be open: participants can borrow a “human book” for a one-on-one, informal conversation about the diverse cultures that make up our city. Ron, Erika, and Jonah Nirenberg encourage families in the community to read along…
Find out more »TU Distinguished Scientists Lecture: Gretchen Daily
Trinity's Distinguished Scientists Lecture Series, in partnership with Trinity University Press, presents Gretchen C. Daily -- Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute, Director of the Center for Conservation Biology, and co-founder and faculty director of the Natural Capital Project -- with a lecture titled "A New Business Model for People and Nature". A powerful awakening is underway, to the value of trees, bees, and other elements of nature. In this engaging lecture, Gretchen Daily…
Find out more »CIVILITY: A Community Conversation
It will help us plan if you register for this event: civilitysa.brownpapertickets.com Meaningful small group conversations Practical techniques & hands-on practice Useful resources & next steps
Find out more »November 2018
The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline
The Department of Public Administration is pleased to present to you its fall 2018 semester speaker Dr. Jennifer Carlson, who will discuss her book "Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline" on Thursday, Nov. 1 at the UTSA Downtown Campus. This FREE event will consist of two parts: a lunch & learn and later an evening panel followed by an engaging round table discussion about gun culture and the perception of guns in regards to race…
Find out more »Forced From Home: Doctors Without Borders Interactive Exhibition on Refugee Crisis
Located at the corner of Main Plaza and Nueva Streets on the West side of the Riverwalk, across the street from the Bexar County Courthouse. Accessible by VIVA bus lines at Dolorosa and S Main, St. Mary’s and Villita stops. If driving, pay-for parking is available across the street. Doctors Without Borders presents Forced From Home, a free interactive tour that takes you behind the headlines about the global refugee crisis. Guided by experienced Doctors Without Borders aid workers, you’ll…
Find out more »San Antonio CROP Hunger Walk
New Location! Walker Ranch Historic Park - family friendly -- Playground -- Dinosaur tracks -- Pavilion Come and picnic before or after the CROP Hunger Walk. The funds you help raise support 4 local hunger-fighting groups and the global and national work of Church World Service. Local hunger-fighting agencies are: SATX Food Bank, Christian Assistance Ministries, Bethel AME Outreach Program, and Temple Beth-el Summer Food & Fun Camp. Together, we can help end hunger in our community and around the…
Find out more »Revisiting the ’68 US Commission on Civil Rights: SA Conference
50th Anniversary of the Landmark U.S. Civil Rights Commission Hearing in San Antonio, Texas, on Mexican Americans in the U.S. Southwest In 1968, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a landmark hearing at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas, on Mexican Americans in the U.S. Southwest. That six-day hearing shined a spotlight on the social, economic and civil rights injustices suffered by an ethnic population that would later become the fastest-growing and largest “minority” population…
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