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SUMMARY:The Lion & Pirate Open Mic - Virtual
DESCRIPTION:The Lion & Pirate invites you to our virtual inclusive open mic for writers\, performers\, and musicians! As always\, we’re open to work in any genre: music\, spoken word\, improv\, skits\, storytelling\, dance\, poems or prose… Anything you can perform!\n🗓️ **When**: Saturday\, February 1st\, 2025\n🕖 **Time**: 7:00 – 8:30 PM CDT \nJoin our co-host Amy Litzinger\, as she and Laura Perna launch our co-hosting Lion and Pirate Open Mic project! \nand remember\, next month we will be writing together\, and then a hybrid gathering in April at the Art Spark studio location on San Bernard! \nPlease sign up Here to speak/read/sing: \nIf you have any questions\, please email Celia at celia@artsparktx.org \nPLEASE NOTE: Zoom link to the open mic here
URL:https://www.artsparktx.org/event/the-lion-pirate-open-mic-virtual-2/
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85231105344#success
CATEGORIES:Accessible Performances,Community Events,Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Call for Entries: Expressions 2025 Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Mental Illness Awareness Week is an annual national observance that a 1986 presidential proclamation created to recognize “the urgent need to educate the American public about mental illnesses and their treatments.”  The 2025 Mental Illness Awareness Week activities will be held from Oct 5\, 2025 – Oct 11\, 2025.  During this week\, millions of Americans will honor the challenges of mental illness\, as well as celebrate the recoveries they or their loved ones have embraced.\n\nArt Spark Texas is hosting “Expressions” our annual Mental Illness Awareness Week art exhibition at Barshop Jewish Community Center of  San Antonio Texas through the month of October with an art opening on Thursday\, October 23rd from 5:00-8:00 pm.\n\nArt Spark Texas invites all artists ages 18+ in San Antonio and surrounding areas with a mental health diagnosis to submit artwork to the exhibition. There is no entry fee and 2D and 3D works in all media are eligible. The exhibit will be on display at Barshop Jewish Community Center in San Antonio in October 2025. \nFill out the linked registration form to participate: \nExpression Call for Art 2025 \nPlease contact our organization or Expressions Exhibit Coordinator Susan Beattie at 210-908-1776 if you have any further questions.
URL:https://www.artsparktx.org/event/call-for-entries-deadline-expressions-2024-exhibition/2025-02-07/
LOCATION:Barshop Jewish Community Center\, 12500 NW Military Hwy #275\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78231\, United States
CATEGORIES:Calls for Art
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ORGANIZER;CN="April Sullivan":MAILTO:april@artsparktx.org
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SUMMARY:Veteran Writing Workshop: Writing in Harmony: The Collective Voice in Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Characters in stories are not always confined to solitary existences. They exist in groups\, in congregated masses\, in what we might term as collectives. \nThese collectives might be construction workers\, or a platoon of soldiers\, or a classroom filled with twelfth-graders. They might be a grocery co-op\, or a neighborhood social group\, or even a barrel of monkeys or a pride of lions. In this session\, we will generate fiction that gives narrative voice to a collective within a story while showing how a single\, articulate murmur might emerge from this group consciousness. Register today! Open to all skill levels. Free for current and prior military members. Register at Eventbrite \nTaught by Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal. \nClayton (they/them) is a queer\, previously unhoused veteran who holds an MFA and a PhD in Creative Writing. They teach Creative Writing at Gannon University and are the Managing Editor of New Ohio Review and No Place is Foreign Editor at Another Chicago Magazine.
URL:https://www.artsparktx.org/event/veteran-writing-workshop-writing-in-harmony-the-collective-voice-in-fiction/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Classes,Classes for Veterans,Veteran Writing Workshops,Veterans,Virtual Classes
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ORGANIZER;CN="Art Spark Texas -Veterans":MAILTO:april@artsparktx.org
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SUMMARY:Vibrancy Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Vibrancy is a group exhibition that brings together 3 Austin-based artists who explore visual harmony\, color and light in their work. Hosted by Art Spark Texas\, this group show includes works created across multiple mediums; including painting\, photography and digital processes. \n\n\nLocated @ AUSTIN LIGHTHOUSE \, TRAVIS ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND4512 S Pleasant Valley Rd\, Austin\, TX 78744 Hours: 8:00AM – 4:30 PM\, Exhibition dates: Feb 7- April 4
URL:https://www.artsparktx.org/event/vibrancy-exhibition/2025-02-10/
LOCATION:Austin Lighthouse for the Blind\, 4512 S Pleasant Valley Rd\, Austin\, TX\, 78744\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibits,Artworks,Community Events
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SUMMARY:Vibrancy Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Vibrancy is a group exhibition that brings together 3 Austin-based artists who explore visual harmony\, color and light in their work. Hosted by Art Spark Texas\, this group show includes works created across multiple mediums; including painting\, photography and digital processes. \n\n\nLocated @ AUSTIN LIGHTHOUSE \, TRAVIS ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND4512 S Pleasant Valley Rd\, Austin\, TX 78744 Hours: 8:00AM – 4:30 PM\, Exhibition dates: Feb 7- April 4
URL:https://www.artsparktx.org/event/vibrancy-exhibition/2025-02-12/
LOCATION:Austin Lighthouse for the Blind\, 4512 S Pleasant Valley Rd\, Austin\, TX\, 78744\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibits,Artworks,Community Events
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SUMMARY:Texas Veterans Strong Creative Network
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this monthly virtual creative network that connects Arts Organization\, Veteran Organizations\, and Creative Veterans to share ideas\, network\, and collaborate to elevate and support or creative Texas Veterans. Together\, we are strong! \nRegister to receive the meeting link: tps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrdOmgpzMsHNYYU-Wv-UyUGYxf7d6OvDrU \n 
URL:https://www.artsparktx.org/event/texas-veterans-strong-creative-network-2023-12-14/2025-02-13/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Classes for Veterans,Veterans
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ORGANIZER;CN="April Sullivan":MAILTO:april@artsparktx.org
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SUMMARY:Call for Art- Community Exhibition Spaces
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: Ongoing \nThis call for art is open to all Texas artists with a disability\, Texas veteran or current military member artists\, and any senior artist 55 and over. \nArt Spark Texas curates solo and group exhibitions at a few locations around Austin. These spaces are suitable for framed work with wire across the back for hanging.  (Currently we have one community space available) \n\nAustin Lighthouse for the Blind – Southeast Austin\nWe can hang around 15-20 pieces (depending on size) at this space on a two-month rotation.\n\nCommunity-Gallery-Entry-Form \nOr contact Jerry at jerry@artsparktx.org or 512-454-9912
URL:https://www.artsparktx.org/event/call-for-art-community-exhibition-spaces/
LOCATION:Art Spark Texas\, 1152 San Bernard St.\, Austin\, TX\, 78702\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibits,Artworks,Call for Art,Calls for Art
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SUMMARY:Vibrancy Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Vibrancy is a group exhibition that brings together 3 Austin-based artists who explore visual harmony\, color and light in their work. Hosted by Art Spark Texas\, this group show includes works created across multiple mediums; including painting\, photography and digital processes. \n\n\nLocated @ AUSTIN LIGHTHOUSE \, TRAVIS ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND4512 S Pleasant Valley Rd\, Austin\, TX 78744 Hours: 8:00AM – 4:30 PM\, Exhibition dates: Feb 7- April 4
URL:https://www.artsparktx.org/event/vibrancy-exhibition/2025-02-19/
LOCATION:Austin Lighthouse for the Blind\, 4512 S Pleasant Valley Rd\, Austin\, TX\, 78744\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibits,Artworks,Community Events
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SUMMARY:Vibrancy Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Vibrancy is a group exhibition that brings together 3 Austin-based artists who explore visual harmony\, color and light in their work. Hosted by Art Spark Texas\, this group show includes works created across multiple mediums; including painting\, photography and digital processes. \n\n\nLocated @ AUSTIN LIGHTHOUSE \, TRAVIS ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND4512 S Pleasant Valley Rd\, Austin\, TX 78744 Hours: 8:00AM – 4:30 PM\, Exhibition dates: Feb 7- April 4
URL:https://www.artsparktx.org/event/vibrancy-exhibition/2025-02-26/
LOCATION:Austin Lighthouse for the Blind\, 4512 S Pleasant Valley Rd\, Austin\, TX\, 78744\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibits,Artworks,Community Events
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SUMMARY:Therapeutic Art
DESCRIPTION:For all military veterans and active duty. \nFree therapeutic art classes/meet ups on the last Thursday of each month from 3:30pm to 5pm. \nAt Caldwell County VFW Post 8927. \nAddress:  7007 US-183\, Lockhart\, TX 78644
URL:https://www.artsparktx.org/event/texas-veterans-strong-creative-network-2023-12-14-2024-10-10/2025-02-27/
LOCATION:Caldwell County VFW Post 8927\, 7007 US-183 Hwy\, Lockhart\, TX\, 78644\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes for Veterans,Veterans
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ORGANIZER;CN="Art Spark Texas -Veterans":MAILTO:april@artsparktx.org
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