| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | Writing the Family Secrets with Robert FlynnPresented by Gemini Ink at Gemini Ink February 22-March 14, 2012 Writing the Family Secrets
Level: Intermediate
Instructor: Robert Flynn
You are the only authority on your life and a fallible guide to your family’s story. “Writing the Family Secrets” will meet two hours a week for four consecutive weeks. The class will include in-class writing exercises, interviewing, censors, work-shopping, structure of story, dialogue (when and how to use), frailty of memory, unusual or enlightening experience, research (devil in... | Gemini Ink | 02/22/12- 03/14/12 | San Antonio |
Fine Letterpress SeminarPresented by Gemini Ink at Gemini Ink March 17, 2012 Fine Letterpress Seminar
Level: All
Instructor: Juan Pascoe
This seminar will introduce participants to the disappearing art of fine letterpress printing by hand. You’ll hear from a master the story of how a fine press piece’s content is selected, edited, designed, and finally set and printed and bound by hand using an 1838 R. Hoe Washington hand press. You’ll learn why producing 100 copies of a short book of poems can take the better part of year. And... | Gemini Ink | 03/17/12 | San Antonio |
Faculty Reading: Rick BassPresented by Gemini Ink at Gemini Ink March 23, 2012 Rick Bass was born in Fort Worth, grew up in Houston, and is the author of 27 books of fiction and nonfiction. He’s had stories and essays published in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Narrative Magazine, and others. His first short story collection, The Watch, set in Texas, won the PEN/Nelson Algren Award, and his 2002 collection, The Hermit’s Story, was a Los Angeles TimesThe Best American Short Stories. He lives with his... | Gemini Ink | 03/23/12 | San Antonio |
The Other Nine Rules to Better Writing and Editing with Rick BassPresented by Gemini Ink at Gemini Ink March 24, 2012 The Other Nine Rules to Better Writing and Editing
Level: All
Instructor: Rick Bass
There are ten basic rules or guidelines that will help you write well and edit better. “Show, Don’t Tell” is the ancient first one, but for the other nine, come to the workshop, which is open to both creative fiction and short story writers. We’ll learn about story structure and shape in both of these genres.
Date: Saturday, Mar. 24, 9am - 2pm
(1-hour... | Gemini Ink | 03/24/12 | San Antonio |
First Friday Reading: Mike Greenberg, Tomás Q. MorínPresented by Gemini Ink at Gemini Ink April 6, 2012 A San Antonio native, Mike Greenberg was managing editor of Chicago Magazine and D MagazineSan Antonio Express-NewsThe Poetics of Cities, was published by the Ohio State University Press. His first play, Three Views of a Waterfall, deals with the lingering ghosts of war on soldiers and their families. A winner of the Texas Nonprofit Theatres Production of New Plays competition, it was produced by the Bastrop Opera House in October 2011.
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Comedy Relief: On Using Humor to Write About the Serious in Poetry - with Tomás MorínPresented by Gemini Ink at Gemini Ink April 7, 2012 Comedy Relief: On Using Humor to Write About the Serious in Poetry
Level: All
Instructor: Tomás Morín
Have you ever laughed so hard that you cried? That both sadness and happiness can bring tears to our eyes shows the deep connection between these extreme emotions. During the first part of this day-long workshop, we will read and examine the mixing of the comedic with the serious in poems by Gerald Stern, Charles Simic, Tony Hoagland, James Tate, Wislawa... | Gemini Ink | 04/07/12 | San Antonio |
Personal Stories as Universal Themes with Mike GreenbergPresented by Gemini Ink at Gemini Ink April 7, 2012 Personal Stories as Universal Themes
Level: All
Instructor: Mike Greenberg
To his own astonishment, Mike Greenberg's first play was produced. He shares what he learned as a novice playwright about the process of conceiving, peopling, plotting and actually writing a play; submitting it to companies and competitions; and working with the director and the cast of the premier production. Each student should submit in advance a prospectus for a play -- the central theme or... | Gemini Ink | 04/07/12 | San Antonio |
The Hungry Writer with Edmund TijerinaPresented by Gemini Ink at Gemini Ink April 14, 2012 The Hungry Writer
Level: All
Instructor: Edmund Tijerina
Today, everybody can be a restaurant critic and a food writer, but doing it well is a craft. We'll look at different kind of food writing, including reviews, memoirs, essays and blogs, and learn how to convey an enthusiasm for food and eating through the printed (or electronic) word.
| Gemini Ink | 04/14/12 | San Antonio |
Dramatic Readers Theater: Around the World in Darwin's DayPresented by Gemini Ink at Witte Museum May 2, 2012 Gemini Ink and the Witte Museum present: Around the World in Darwin's Day
Darwin developed into the most influential naturalist in history during a five-year around-the-world survey expedition begun in 1931. He also became a researcher who -- as good scientists do -- never stopped questioning his own findings.
Through poems, stories, novels, and non-fiction, we will build a portrait of the former theology student whose work put him at the corner of one of the most... | Gemini Ink | 05/02/12 | San Antonio |
First Friday Reading: Tracy L. BarnettPresented by Gemini Ink at Gemini Ink May 4, 2012 Tracy L. Barnett is an independent writer and the founder of The Esperanza Project, a bilingual initiative aimed at giving voice to environmental and sustainability movements throughout the Americas. She is the award-winning former travel editor of the San Antonio Express-News and the Houston Chronicle and former Vida editor of Rumbo newspapers. She currently resides in an ecovillage outside of Guadalajara, Mexico.
This reading includes ONE... | Gemini Ink | 05/04/12 | San Antonio |
Breakthrough Thinkers: Dr. Christopher Phillips Public Reading with Q&APresented by Gemini Ink May 17, 2012 A foremost specialist in the Socratic Method, Phillips reminds us that we ought to ask questions -- "not about any chance question," as Socrates puts it in Plato's Republic, "but about the way one should live."
Dedicated to the Jeffersonian idea of freedom: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, his goal is to inspire curiosity and wonder, to nurture self-discovery and democracy.
Join us in dialogue as he leads us in a space of human... | Gemini Ink | 05/17/12 | |
Breakthrough Thinkers Series: Dr. Christopher Phillips Colloquium LuncheonPresented by Gemini Ink at Pearl Stable May 18, 2012 A foremost specialist in the Socratic Method, Phillips reminds us that we ought to ask questions -- "not about any chance question," as Socrates puts it in Plato's Republic, "but about the way one should live."
Dedicated to the Jeffersonian idea of freedom: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, his goal is to inspire curiosity and wonder, to nurture self-discovery and democracy.
Join us in dialogue as he leads us in a space of human... | Gemini Ink | 05/18/12 | San Antonio |
Americans for the Arts 2012 National ConventionPresented by City of San Antonio, Office of Cultural Affairs at Grand Hyatt Hotel Riverwalk Hotel June 8-June 10, 2012 The New Normal—a term we hear every day, but does it mean anything to the work of your organization?
If not, it should. The New Normal isn't just "learning to do more with less." It's also about rapidly changing demographics: a huge increase in the number of Americans over the age of 65; a switch from majority-minority America to one that is increasingly multiethnic; and a swelling digital generation with different world views. The New Normal isn't just our... | City of San Antonio, Office of Cultural Affairs | 06/08/12- 06/10/12 | San Antonio |
Sun Poet's Society Open-Mic Poetry ReadingsPresented by Sun Poet's Society at Barnes & Noble - San Pedro Crossing January 3-November 27, 2012 Sun Poet's Society Open-Mic Poetry Reading is San Antonio's longest running poetry event. All levels of writers are welcomed. We hold our readings at Barnes and Noble, 321 N.W. Loop 410, Suite 104, San Antonio, Texas (in the Best Buy Shopping area across from North Star Mall) | Sun Poet's Society | 01/03/12- 11/27/12 | San Antonio |
Jazz Poets of San AntonioPresented by G.I.G. on the Strip at G.I.G. February 13, 2012-February 24, 2014 Poets perform original poetry pieces and perform them over a live band making improv jazz/blues music. GIG on the Strip is an alcohol and smoke free venue that is great for the whole family! | G.I.G. on the Strip | 02/13/12- 02/24/14 | San Antonio |
PuroSlam PoetryPresented by PuroSlam Poetry at On the Half-Shell Bar February 7, 2012-February 28, 2014 PuroSlam is the only nationally certified poetry slam operating in San Antonio, Texas. A poetry "slam" is similair to an open mic in that everyone can read. It differs in that poets are scored 1-10 by randomly selected audience members over the course of three rounds. PuroSlam is a rough reading for those used to the conventional open mic being the audience is given more respect than the poet. As a poet you must demand attention and be ready for heckles hollered from a frequently... | PuroSlam Poetry | 02/07/12- 02/28/14 | San Antonio |