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For more information about any of these events, contact the sponsors directly. The peaceCENTER is at 1443 S. St. Mary's, San Antonio TX 78210. [get map]
The weekly VIGIL FOR PEACE, every Thursday, 4-5 pm, now takes place at the corner of Flores and Commerce Streets, one block west of Main Plaza / Plaza de las Islas. (Main Street is now closed to street traffic.)
Wednesday Night Meditation Circle gathers at 7:00 pm at the Quaker Meeting House, 7052 N. Vandiver, San Antonio (at the corner of Eisenhauer Rd. approximately 1/2 mile west of Austin Hwy.) Rudolf Harst of Celebration Circle leads these weekly sessions with a combination of guided and silent meditations well-suited to experienced meditators and beginners alike. Love offerings are accepted and support the use of this beautiful and consciously created sacred space.
On the last Saturday of each month, there is a Peace Rosary and Peace Mass at St. Mary's Catholic Church downtown, 202 N. St. Mary's. Each month, the Rosary for Peace begins at 11:30 am, with the Mass for Peace following at 12 noon. The monthly Queen of Peace Mass has been going on for over 15 years in San Antonio.
Through March 31, the Half Pint Library Book Drive will be conducted at the five Half Price Book stores in San Antonio. New and gently used children’s books will be accepted to be donated to the children at Respite Care of San Antonio. More information is available at www.halfpricebooks.com.
March 2008
March 15: Creating Art, Creating Friendship. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., University of the Incarnate Word Fine Arts Building. Youth and children are invited to make art for and to write letters to Iraqi refugee children and others and to hear Middle Eastern stories and music. Learn to write your name in Arabic! Groups of children, as well as individuals, are invited. For more information, call 210-829-6000. The March 15 event is a part of Luminaria, the city wide celebration of the arts, see www.luminariasa.com/
Sunday, March 16: The next Wednesday will mark the 5th anniversary of the War on Iraq and for the 2nd year the peaceCENTER will facilitate a poetry reading at the Alamo Plaza (the gazebo is booked, so look for us on the Plaza!). Bring your own poems — those you wrote yourself or poems written by others — that express how you feel about war. It's very informal: we'll have a portable sound system, start at 2 pm and read until we run out of steam. We'll bring a bucket of poems in case you don't have any of your own. For more information, call the peaceCENTER at 210-224-HOPE.
March 19 MoveOn vigil to end the war, 7 pm at Alamo Plaza. RSVP Online.
March 19: Dr. Ashis Brahma, who has been serving the people of Darfur for the last several years in the refugee camps in Chad will be speaking at the UT Health Science Center Medical School at Floyd Curl and Medical Drive in a lecture hall right next to the library, room 3.102. Free and open to the public. Most recently, he was the sole physician responsible for managing health care in Oure Cassoni Refugee Camp, eastern Chad, for over 26,000 refugees fleeing genocide across the border in Darfur, Sudan. The same lecture will be repeated on Thursday, March 20 at noon, same location.
March 24: The Mind Science Foundation invites you for a presentation by Sandra Blakeslee, a New York Times premier science writer, as she discusses her recent opus, The Body Has a Mind of Its Own. In her compelling new book she explores the exciting science of "body maps" in the brain and how startling new discoveries about the mind-body connection can change and improve our lives. Learn more about Sandra at www.sandrablakeslee.com.
Reception and Book Signing: 5:30 - 6:30 pm; Lecture: 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Q&A: 7:30 - 8:00 pm at Pearl Stable at the Historic Pearl Brewery
312 Pearl Parkway, Bldg 2. Mind Science Members - Free; Non-members - $15
Students & Military with ID- $5 Seniors Over 60 - $5. For more information, call the Mind Science Foundation, (210) 821 6094.
NEW - March 27: Remembering Cesar E. Chavez Film Presentation - Reception
Thursday, at 6 p.m., Guadalupe Cultural Arts Theatre at 1300 Guadalupe Street. Film presentation on the life and legacy of Cesar E. Chavez will be followed by a group panel discussion. Free and open to the public.
March 28 & 29: The Episcopal Church of Reconciliation is presenting Paula D'Arcy's play, On My Way Home, about grief, loss, and the transforming power of forgiveness. 7:30pm; suggested donation $15. The church is at 8900 Starcrest, 2 blocks north of Loop 410. For ticket information, call 210-655-2731.
NEW - March 29: 12th Annual Cesar E. Chavez March for Justice, 1 p.m. Avenida Guadalupe, 1321 El Paso
March follows 11 a.m. community program. For information visit, www.sachavezfoundation.org.
March 28 IN HOUSTON Nobel Peace Laureate Betty Williams speaks – Betty Williams will be at the University of Houston this weekend in connection with PeaceJam, which always features a Nobel Peace laureate. Activities on Saturday and Sunday are reserved for those participating in this high school student-oriented peace education and peace making program, but the Friday evening talk is open to the general public. Williams shared the 1976 prize with Mairead Corrigan, with whom she founded the Northern Ireland Peace Movement to end the sectarian violence in their country. 7 p.m. in the Houston Room of the University Center at UH. For more information, contact Jamie Parker, 713/743-8039, pjam@central. uh.edu.
March 26: Lecture: The Quest for the Historical Mary by Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, whose books have a large impact upon Catholic thought in the U.S. Catholic Church, most recently her books on the Communion of Saints, Friends of God and Prophets, and especially her book on Mary, Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Mary in the Communion of Saints. She is also a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. Marian spirituality in the Marianist world, from its Chaminadean beginnings, has been scripture-based rather than "devotion" based. Elizabeth will reflect with us upon the historical Mary, a Galilean peasant woman of the first century, and the implications of her life for faith and social justice in our day. This Event Series is called The Catholic Intellectual Tradition. 7 pm at St. Mary's University Treadaway Hall Guadalupe Chapel; free and open to the public. For more information, Cindy Stooksberry, 210-431-8094.
March 31-April 5: OLLU’s 2008 literary festival will explore social justice in literature. Just Words / Palabras de Justicia takes place March 31-April 5, 2008. All events are free and open to the public.
March 31, 7 p.m.: Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists -- Readings and features from the Trinity University Press Anthology featuring Steven G. Kellman, Rolando Hinojosa Smith, Wendy Barker, Jan Jarboe Russell, Evangelina Vigil-Piñon and Olga Samples Davis, Providence Hall, West Social Room
March 31-April 5: Just Words / Palabras de Justicia, OLLU’s 2008 literary festival continues . . .
April 1, 7 p.m.: An Evening with Naomi Shihab Nye and Pamela Johnston, Providence Hall, West Social Room
April 2, 4 p.m.: The Thing Itself Publication Party, Sueltenfuss Library Community Room
April 2, 7 p.m.: Ernest Gaines: Readings from his Collections -- A live multi-media, interactive presentation, Sueltenfuss Library Community Room
April 3, noon: Favorite Poem Project with Pamela Johnston, Providence Hall. Blue Room
April 3, 4 p.m.: Dramatic Reader’s Theater -- Production of Ernest Gaines’ A Lesson before Dying directed by Nan Cuba and produced by John Milton, Sueltenfuss Library Community Room
April 4, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.: Latino / Latina Arts Day -- Panel discussion featuring Ray Santisteban, Norma Elia Cantú, John Phillip Santos and moderator Pablo Martinez and special presentation by Sandra Cisneros, Thiry Auditorium
April 4, 7 p.m.: Paul Loeb on Hope for the Long Haul -- An exploration on what keeps us going despite all the obstacles, Sueltenfuss Library Community Room
April 5, 7 p.m.: Anarchist Pep Rally: A Compilation of Manic, Funny Stories on the Politics of Everyday life -- Monologues by Boston spoken-word Artist Michael Anderson, Sueltenfuss Library Community Room April 2: David Spener, associate professor of sociology and anthropology, "From Bull Connor to Border Walls: Reading Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail in Light of Today's Immigration Debate." Trinity University's Food For Thought Luncheon Lecture Series, at noon in the Trinity University Coates University Center Fiesta Room. $14 per person. Reservations should be made three days in advance by calling the Alumni Relations Office at 210-999-8404.
April 3: Seymour M. Hersh, journalist, The New Yorker, 7:30 p.m. will be speaking at Trinity University, Laurie Auditorium. For more information, call Trinity at (210) 999-8406.
April 12: An introduction to Pax Christi, a national Catholic organization promoting justice and peace, 10:30 am at Viva Bookstore, 8407 Broadway, 210-826-1143 (opportunity to bag or to buy lunch). We will learn about Pax Christi, consider some of our interests, and ask if we should have a local Pax Christi chapter in San Antonio. If you have any questions, about this meeting, contact Rosalyn Collier at 210-379-5660.
April 15: Marc Jacobson, of the Texas Fair Trade Coalition, will speak on
The 'Sweat Free' Campaign in Latin America, Apr. 15 4 p.m. in the Science Lecture Hall at Trinity University. For more information, call Trinity at (210) 999-8406.
April 16 IN HOUSTON Oscar Romero's Legacy Two persecuted champions of poor people in Central America will speak about the Catholic Archbishop who was martyred in El Salvador in 1980 for opposing the U.S.-supported military's violent suppression of the movement for economic justice and human rights. Medardo Gomez is the Lutheran Bishop of El Salvador; at one time he endured threats and arrest for his commitment to justice. Sister Dianna Ortiz was abducted and tortured in 1989 while she was working as a missionary among indigenous people. Later she founded the Torture and Survivors Support Coalition International, the only organization in the U.S. founded by and for torture survivors. 7:30 p.m. at the Rothko Chapel, 1409 Sul Ross. For more information, call the Chapel, 713/524-9839 or visit www.rothkochapel.org.
April 22: Ruben Rumbaut, School of Social Sciences, UC Irvine
will speak on The Distorted Immigration Debate: Crime, Language, Health, and the Widening Disconnect Between Rhetoric and Reality, Apr. 22, 5 p.m. Science Lecture Hall, Trinity University. For more information, call Trinity at (210) 999-8406.
April 25-27 IN DALLAS: 2008 South Central Regional Conference for a U.S. Department of Peace, at Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Creating a Politics of Hope and Possibility. Keynote speaker is Marianne Williamson. For more information, www.txdop.com/.
May 2008
May 3: Solarfest, a local community event, which provides valuable information to the general public on the possibilities of renewable energy technologies, the impact of sustainable living, and green building techniques. At Maverick Park.
AUGUST 2008
August 1-3: IN JEFFERSON (East Texas) A Vets4Vets Workshop
is being held at Shepherd's Pasture, 5645 US HWY 59 South
Jefferson, TX 75657, Friday, August 1, 2008, 5 p.m. to
Sunday, August 3, 2008, 2 p.m. Vets4Vets (www.vets4vets.us) is a non-partisan peer support organization for veterans dedicated to helping post 9/11 Iraq and Afghanistan-era veterans support one another in healing from the negative effects of service and war. This workshop is designed to train veterans to establish local groups. Travel, lodging and meals will be provided. To obtain an application, contact Monica, vets4vets@gmail.com, (520) 319-5500.
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Saturday, March 15: There will be a book signing at Viva! Bookstore and Gallery, 8407 Broadway (just inside Loop 410) at 2:30 PM. Insights on the Journey: Trauma, Healing and Wholeness, an anthology of women's writing compiled and edited by Maureen Leach, OSF is available as an affordable and convenient eBook ($10, PDF format) and as a trade paperback ($15). Both can be purchased from the peaceCENTER's Web site,