Event Type : Activism

UPDATE: Informed by THC this item has been removed from this week’s agenda and being planned (most likely) for April. Pending official announcement.

San Antonio’s Parks and Public Works departments are determined to restore or recreate historic features at Brackenridge Park within a new development vision, including a performance plaza. Their vision, however, has run into extended controversy over their claimed needs to remove towering heritage trees from the San Antonio River’s headwaters and forcefully evict migratory birds from the park. Though caught lying repeatedly on key elements of the bond-funded project, COSA staff have persevered and are are now taking their proposal for the first phase of the project to the Texas Historical Commission for state approval. Roughly 50 trees would be removed to make way in this first phase, including some towering oaks.

Background on case here.

Item 3.2 on the Feb. 1 THC agenda here.

Current phase Tree Map of removals from application packet.

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Free and open to all.

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Join Trinity University Press for Jennifer McGaha, author of Bushwhacking: How to Get Lost in the Woods and Write Your Way Out, in conversation with writer Katherine Crawford. Part writing memoir, part nature memoir, and part meditation on a life well lived, Bushwhacking draws on McGaha’s experiences running, hiking, biking, paddling, and getting lost across the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina to offer readers encouragement and practical suggestions to accompany them on their writing and life journeys. Free and online. For more information or to purchase the book, visit tupress.org/9781595349811/bushwhacking.

Join us for an evening of in person storytelling where we share stories, reconnect with bike friends and make new ones. (1st San Antonio event!)

✨Bike Story Night is on a mission to help folx share their Stories with the community, in-person and online.

Have a Story to share??

– Submit your Story in advance to be a featured storyteller. Give us the short synopsis of your Story. This only needs to be a few sentences.

– Submission Form – https://forms.gle/Noi1SJxZ6A4ahvKMA

– Submissions are Due Jan.24th

🎟️EVENTBRITE RSVP IS REQUIRED

– Suggested $10 – $20 Donation in advance OR at Check-in at the event. Your donation comes with entry to the event and a raffle ticket to win cool prizes.

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Your help in this endeavor is greatly appreciated and helps us continue to host these events! Feel free to send your donation in advance for smoother check in.

✨Featured Local Bike Non profit:

Ghisallo Cycling Initiative

Helping people of all ages and abilities become self-sufficient riders who can use bikes for transportation.

✌🏽Come meet the newest director Kari Kuwamura (they/them) – hear more about the exciting upcoming events and learn more on how you can get involved.

✨Group Ride Details

Ride to Bike Story Night with @ San Antonio Babes on Bikes

Meet at HUB MRKT 1203 S. Alamo San Antonio, TX – 6PM

Wheels Down at 6:30PM

NO DROP RIDE, no one will be left behind.

✨Door Prizes:

Small planet ebikes / HUB MKT , Blue Star Bike Shop, Level Up Bike Shop

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The Kerrville Renaissance Festival 2023 returns to Kerrville and the Texas Hill Country for the 7th year! The event will start one week earlier than in the past, adding a 3rd weekend of Renaissance-style fun, Entertainment, Food, Crafts, and Games.

Eight stages of entertainment feature both returning and new acts, including dancers, musicians, magicians, jugglers, and contests, plus the return of Last Chance Forever, The Bird of Prey Conservancy. (Entertainment schedule to be announced in the coming weeks)

Renaissance Festival Marketplace
More than 30 shops offer handmade crafts such as wooden toys, leather accessories, clothing, hats, glassware, jewelry, and more.

Food Court
Offering funnel cake, cinnamon-roasted nuts, chocolate-covered cheesecake, fresh donuts, turkey legs, kettle corn, jerky, deep-fried caramel apple, deep-fried Oreos, and deep-fried pecan pie, paired with craft beer, wine, and mead.

They now have a full liquor license for more fun drink options. Every week through Feb 05, 2023.

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This conversation on Buddhism and Ecology addresses the notions of wild and rewilding from both internal and external perspectives; how can wildness be understood in relation to contemplative practice, as cultivation of the wilderness around us and a felt sense of the wild in ourselves? The conversation draws from the work of Gary Snyder, an award-winning writer, environmentalist, and Buddhist practitioner, and by using visual prompts from Kaisu’s environmental art. 

Dr. Kaisu Koski is a cross-disciplinary artist with a background in performance, film, and biological materials. She collaborates with scientists, clinicians, and engineers, focusing on the climate crisis, multispecies relationships, and the art-science methodology. Kaisu is an Associate Professor of Art and Design at Lab4Living at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK.

This is a special edition of First Sunday, participation links will be available here: https://www.dawnmountain.org/upcoming-live-webcasts-2/

Group dedicated to rail transit for San Antonio.

Hybrid in-person & online meeting.

Follow them on Facebook for updates on times/locations: https://www.facebook.com/events/581609107353519/.

Meet outside the Urban Ecology Center.  Once gathered, the group will go on a short nature walk to gain some inspiration for the embroidery activity. Then we’ll return to the outdoor picnic tables to arrange materials and learn the basics of embroidery. We’ll use images of native plants [since it’s still winter!] and basic techniques to try our hand at this classic art form. 

Encounter the Savannah Restoration and Wildscape Demonstration Garden and learn a little bit about these unique features here at Phil Hardberger Park. Please note, we will be working with hoops, thread, needles, and scissors.

No Art Experience Necessary! Weather permitting.  Class size is limited.  Registration required.

What To Expect

• Wear comfortable walking shoes. 
• Bring water!
• Bring your own phone to capture photos, and feel free to bring a camera or binoculars too!

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Join Gardopia Gardens on Saturday mornings to volunteer on the 0.5 acre Eastside Micro-Farm to practice healthy living and sustainability!

On Saturday morning Gardopia invites community members to get their hands dirty and cultivate San Antonio’s little slice of a garden utopia! From composting, chicken care, planting, crop rotation, organizing, and more! We are open to individuals, friends, families, beginners, experts, and anyone else who wants to help cultivate an educated, health, and environmentally sustainable city!

COVID-19: In order to help keep volunteers healthy, we offer free masks, have an open air space to allow for ventilation, and are currently keeping volunteer groups to 25 people or less to allow for optimal physical distancing.

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The farmers market, happening every Wednesday at Woodlawn Pointe, offers farm fresh produce, local baked breads, pickles and other pantry staples. All produced or grown in our area. Vendors joining every week.

Contact 01farmersmarket@gmail.com for inquiries.

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FPCSA welcomes everyone to join in the monthly conversation as we work to build a strong and viable local food system. Learn about hot topics, relevant announcements and how you can be a part of the this growing movement. Sign up on their webpage.

Meetings are normally held at noon on the third Wednesday of every month at: EcoCentro 1802 N. Main Avenue San Antonio, TX 78212.

Click here for agenda.

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AITSCM welcomes you to our civic unity fair, ¡Unidos, Si Se Puede! March 18, 2023 located at the Historic Mission Marquee Plaza. The goal of the event is to offer San Antonio students and their families an opportunity to explore their civic rights, duties, and opportunities.

AIT’s Office of Civic Engagement and a host of civic-centered organizations will offer resources targeting ballot access, education, community engagement, and wellness.

Additionally, local government and community organizations will showcase their public service initiatives and provide students with an opportunity to volunteer and/or learn at their respective organizations. Local employers offering summer employment will also be in attendance.

The run of show will feature cultural arts performances, healing circles, educational displays, public speakers and a film screening. The 2014 biopic film “Cesar Chavez” will cap off the day’s festivities. Of course, local vendors will provide food, arts and crafts, and product giveaways.

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Bandera Market is a state-certified farmer’s market open every weekend Saturdays 10 am-5 PM, Sundays 11 am-5 PM, and the third Friday night of every month 2-6 PM for a special event. The market offers to produce, eggs, honey, artisan bread, German & Puerto Rican baked goods, plants, planters, custom wood products, CBD, boutiques, artisan crafts, jams, jellies, and much more. Come support small and local San Antonio businesses.

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Our general meetings are on the third Tuesday of each month at William R. Sinkin Eco Centro. They are free and open to everyone. Socializing begins at 6:00 p.m., program at 6:30 p.m.. Presentations last about an hour. 

January Topic & Speaker

The San Antonio Zoo’s Center for Conservation & Research (SAZCCR) has active conservation programs across the globe. Danté Fenolio, who runs the Center for Conservation & Research for San Antonio Zoo (SAZCCR), will describe several projects, including: 

1. A collaboration with indigenous groups in Amazonian Peru, working to maintain stands of rainforest on traditional lands, in spite of very challenging logging, hydrocarbon extraction, and mining activities. 
2. A partnership with the Austral University in Valdivia, Chile, developing a series of labs to breed critically endangered amphibians from the temperate rainforests in the region, to address stressors from deforestation and forest fragmentation. 
3. A partnership with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, documenting the diversity and distribution of cavefishes in south China; amazingly, China has 120 species of cavefishes, more than any other region of the world, however nearly all are threatened with contamination and over-extraction of groundwater. 
4. A partnership with Japanese biologists to keep Japanese Giant Salamanders in the wild, by implementing “salamander ladders”, along streams with small to mid-sized dams that isolate populations and reduce genetic diversity. 
5. The DEEPEND project, a consortium of biologists examining impacts of oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico on the local species. 
6. Finally, SAZCCR works with state and federal wildlife authorities to bioinventory subterranean habitats ranging from the Ozarks to Texas to the Floridan Aquifer;  it also develops captive husbandry and breeding protocols for imperiled and critically endangered species.

Zoom meeting access info

• Meeting ID: 966 5254 0606
• Passcode: 377093
• Link: https://sierraclub.zoom.us/j/96652540606?pwd=UUVISUw3OHluQ2xsQk5IeENxeXFZdz09

Eco Centro is located at San Antonio College, 1802 North Main Avenue @ Locust Street. There is a parking lot adjacent to Eco Centro which is entered from Locust Street. We can also use SAC parking lots 14, 15 and 17 (map of parking lots) to the north, west and south of the STIC building across North Main Avenue from Eco Centro.

Parking is also allowed on the residential streets to the east, north and south of Eco Centro.

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Bexar Audubon is a diverse and supportive community that values our natural world and works together to ensure a healthy habitat for birds, other wildlife, and people. They host regular outings and events, including a monthly meeting on a range of environmental topics.

Deceleration will update this page with current programming for their monthly meetings.

January Event:

Field Ornithology Camp at Hog Island

Join us Wednesday, January 25 in the conference room at Alamo Colleges District, 2222 N. Alamo, for our first in-person gathering for a monthly meeting in almost three years! We’d like to invite you to arrive at 6:00 PM for refreshments and socializing before the program begins at 6:30 PM. If you plan to attend in person, please sign up here so we know how many people we will need to accommodate with refreshments and seating.

Yvette Stewart, Community Outreach Coordinator for Audubon Texas, will present via Zoom about her Field Ornithology Camp at Hog Island, which was a week of all things avian, learning in small groups, field settings about bird biology and evolution, nesting behavior, songs, migration, and conservation. Yvette has a Bachelor’s in Wildlife and Conservation Biology from the University of Rhode Island and Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Texas. A lover of all creatures from tiny spiders to soaring eagles, Yvette is most happy when she’s showing others the wonders of the natural world and prompting people to learn and grow in the great outdoors. She has been with Audubon Texas since 2018 and currently leads two state-wide programs: Audubon’s Conservation Leaders for Young Women (ACL) and Bird City Texas (BCT).

Corina Solis, Senior Conservation Assistant, Mitchell Lake Audubon Center (MLAC), will give a recap in person of the camp she attended, Birds of Maine Island: A service week. The campers learned seabird identification, bird banding, adaptations, migration, and ecology while participating in active restoration work. Corina has a degree in Biology with a concentration in Ecology from Texas A&M-San Antonio and has been with MLAC for four years.

This meeting is approved for AAMN AT hours.

To Join the Zoom Meeting From Home, Click HERE
Meeting ID: 830 1430 9223
Passcode: 061445

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disABILITYsa invites Pharmacists, Physicians, RN’s, and technicians to help break down the barriers that may inhibit individuals living with various disabilities from seeking care at local pharmacies and clinics. Through our Vax-abilitySTRONG Provider Workshop, participants can increase their knowledge on how to easily make a health care environment more disability-friendly.

Register Here: https://hipaa.jotform.com/disABILITYsa/DFC_WS_Registration

Following the completion of the workshop:

• Pharmacists, Registered Nurses, and Physicians who oversee a clinic or pharmacy and complete the training will receive a disability-friendly starter kit for their clinic/pharmacy. (Limit one per location) Also available for purchase – $245
• Attendees will begin the process to be recognized as part of a Welcoming Provider Initiative in SA.
• Attendees will have the opportunity to receive 3.5 hours of CEU’s from Alamo Colleges.

Event Supported By:

disABILITYsa

(210) 704-7262

mcawthon@disabilitysa.org

 

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