This page showcases our community partnerships, SAISD Partnerships, and Mitchell Lake/Laguan De Los Patos.
Community Partnerships
If you would like to become a community partner, please reach out to us at urbanbirdproject@gmail.com.
Galeria E.V.A (Ecos y Voces de Arte)
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 & 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.
Terra Advocati
Terra AdvocatiWe 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.Â
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.
Crónicas del Chivizcoyo
¡Hola! Este es un canal dedicado a las aves en México… y a cualquier cosa que pueda tener relación con ellas, un poquito de biologÃa por aquÃ, 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!Â
Deceleration News
Deceleration NewsDeceleration 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, & the rights of nature/mother earth.
Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan Nation/Texas Native American Church (Masauki Celso Zepeda & Lupita Lagunes)
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. Phillips College Mexican American Studies
St. Phillips 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.
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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.
A Todo Dar Productions
A Todo Dar ProductionsSAISD School Partnerships
The Urban Bird Project partners with three SAISD schools:
the Young Women’s Leadership Academy, Longfellow Middle School, and Woodlawn Academy to bring nature & culture programming to SAISD urban schools. Students participate in bi-weekly community science meetings and engage in workshops ranging from avian ecology and field techniques to Mexican-American & Indigenous cultural relationships to birds, land, and community. These intersections culminate in student projects that focus on restor(y)ing our multiple relationships with birds and their habitats.
Mitchell Lake/Laguan De Los Patos
Our team partners with the Laguna de los Patos/Mitchell Lake Audubon Center, to bring birding and outdoor education to local schools and neighborhoods to increase avian nature engagement in urban areas of San Antonio. Each December, the team takes a field trip to Laguna de los Patos/Mitchell Lake to learn more about the center’s outdoor education, conservation, and world-class birding on reclaimed natural habitat.
Mitchel Lake Education Coordinator, Erin Magerl, presents to students
Student examine samples from the water at Laguna de los Patos