Galeria E.V.A. (Ecos y Voces de Arte) operates under the leadership of the nationally acclaimed artist Verónica Castillo Salas. Castillo Salas states that art is a necessity in the life of every human being and yet the traditional arts are disappearing. Together, with an international network of artists, E.V.A. offers the space and support for various forms of cultural art to thrive.
Galeria E.V.A. provides a platform where kids, youth, and adults have the opportunity to develop an understanding of the important role the arts play in their personal lives and in the community at large. Additionally, this learning platform cultivates and augments intellectual skills and contributes to the development of learning abilities with the purpose of preparing them to become professionals in their community while offering lessons and workshops in a variety of artistic skills including, but not limited to: sculpture, traditional dance and music, embroidery, painting, wood carving, handicrafts and other traditional crafts.
E.V.A. is located on the south side of San Antonio, Texas at 3412 South Flores Street, 78204.
Fugitive Libraries & Books in the Barrio
Fugitive Libraries is a project at the intersection of art and activism conceived and facilitated by Marissa Ramirez. It is an evolution of Books in the Barrio, a grassroots effort originally started by a group of high school students in San Antonio, Texas demanding a bookstore in their working-class neighborhood. Instead of focusing on a retail space or a brick and mortar, Fugitive Libraries is an experiment, inviting community to think more expansively about literacy by creating spaces for us to read the world together—critically, culturally and politically.
We are dreamers who envision a world where the environment is honored and respected and where we can live with true dignity and autonomy.
Those of us who have chosen to become an active part of Terra Advocati, have, through a good bit of our lives, been dismayed at the imperfections of the status quo – the inequities, the injustices, the exploitation and the forfeiture of our humanness for temporal materialism.
We see immense possibilities for good to prevail and we long for a world where equality and justice are the rule, where we all can see ourselves as conscientious caretakers of each other and of the land that feeds and sustains us.
¡Hola! Este es un canal dedicado a las aves en México… y a cualquier cosa que pueda tener relación con ellas, un poquito de biología por aquí, algo de historia por acá, unas cosas friki por acullá, ¡pero todo siempre ha de tener plumas!
Hello! This channel is dedicated to birds in México… and anything that may be related to them, a little bit of biology here, some history here, some geeky things there, but everything always has to have feathers!
Deceleration is a nonprofit online journal producing original news and analysis responding to our shared ecological, political, and cultural crises. We write at the intersection of environment and justice—journalistically, academically, and creatively—with emphasis on our home communities and bioregion (the watersheds of San Antonio, South Texas, and the Gulf South, broadly). Deceleration is dedicated to cultivating radical imagination that goes to the roots of climate disturbance in historical systems of oppression while expanding and deepening the sorts of solutions we put into practice for protecting and creating the commons.
Deceleration is inspired by intellectual and political movements around the world for degrowth, buen vivir, the right to the city, and the rights of nature/mother earth.
Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan Nation/Texas Native American Church (Masauki Celso Zepeda & Lupita Lagunes)
The Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan Nation is a tribal community composed of individuals who proudly trace their lineage back to the Coahuiltecan people. As a community, we are deeply committed to preserving and celebrating the rich cultural heritage, traditions, and history of their ancestors. Through our collective efforts, the Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan Nation seeks to ensure that the legacy of the Coahuiltecan people continues to thrive and be shared with future generations.
St. Ph
illips College Mexican American Studies
The St. Philip’s College Mexican American Studies Program is an interdisciplinary program that focuses on the Mexican-American experience. It seeks to highlight the cultural, intellectual, historical, artistic, and political legacies of people of Mexican descent.
The Mexican-American Field of Studies program is geared to guide students in exploring and examining the lives, cultural values, and history of the Mexican-American experience. Mexican-American Studies bring together several various disciplines and themes such as history, humanities, art, music, and literature.
The Mexican American Studies (MAS) Program offers a major for undergraduate students enrolled at UTSA. The mission of the MAS is to draw on the legacy of Mexican American and Chicano activism and history in San Antonio and the Texas-Mexico borderlands to teach, research and analyze the experiences, history, and culture of Mexican-origin, Chicano, and Latina/o/x populations. MAS recognizes UTSA students as agents of conocimiento, preparing them to critically interrogate the sociopolitical, legal, economic, and social conditions that foster the structural marginalization Mexican American, Chicana/o and Latina/o communities are subject to, as well as study and appreciate the mechanisms of resistance, perseverance, and cultural traditions and expressions that challenge that oppression. To do so, MAS cultivates transformative experiences, spaces and relationships that allow students to draw on their conocimiento to produce salient applied research to effect positive social change in their comunidades (communities).
If you would like to become a community partner, please reach out to us at urbanbirdproject@gmail.com.