Esperanza Peace & Justice Center
¡Todos Somos Esperanza!
Esperanza's work helps individuals and grassroots organizations acquire knowledge and skills so that we can control decisions that affect our day-to-day lives in a way that respects and honors shared goals for a just society. We believe that by having a place with resources available we can come together to facilitate and provoke discussions and interactions among diverse groups of people who beli
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This coming Monday, June 24th Planned Parenthood Texas Votes will be at the Esperanza hosting a town hall on the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade.
Come join us at 922 San Pedro Ave to discuss the ramifications of that decision and more!
🔗Click the link to sign up for free: https://www.weareplannedparenthoodaction.org/a/voices-unleashed-townhall-cruelty-texas-abortion-ban
Free Parking available at SAC Lot 28!
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This Friday at 11 am!
Today, Esperanza staff and Buena Gente joined our community to rise up in protest against the wrongful termination of Opportunity Homes CEO Ed Hinojosa. We will not stand by while our people suffer!
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Free! Know Your Rights Presentation at noon. Then at 1pm, a Pro Bono Legal Clinic. Registration is closed but walk-ins are welcome.
Q***r Voices Pachanga 2024 is here! Join us for a kick off of Pride Month at the Esperanza! FREE EVENT!!
4-6pm: Q***r Clothing Swap
6-7pm: A blessing ceremony by the Cuir Curanderas: Erika Casasola, Rebel Mariposa and Sophia Velasquez
7-10: An amazing lineup of poets, artists, musicians, and entertainers will be performing
Hosted by the dynamic duo Anel Flores and Chibbi, enjoy Poetry by Alejandra Sanchez Alanis, MJ Rocha, cloud delfina cardona, Glori B. Cesar De Leon, Diamond Braxton, Natasha Hernandez and Marcela Hernandez, Burlesque by Vixy Van Hellen, Drag Shows by Foxxy Blue Snacks and Live Music by Las Hijas de la Madre, DJ ing is DJ De La O 🏳️🌈🎶💄👠🌈✨🎉🎶
Call us at 210-228-0201 for more information.
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Esperanza Peace & Justice Center ¡Todos Somos Esperanza!
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TODAY’S THE DAY!!!!! Join us for PASEO POR EL WESTSIDE 2024🪁✨ STARTS AT 9AM!
Bring the whole family. Check our stories for a full list of events!
📅 Saturday, May 4th, 2024, 9am-3pm
🌼 816 S. Colorado Ave, San Antonio, Texas
☀️ Free, family-friendly, fun in the sun!
Enjoy live musical performances, 🎶 Mexican children’s games 🧮, songs, art vendors, kite and piñata making workshops 🪅, pan dulce naming y mucho más!
🚶🏽♂️We’ll also have fotobanner tours through the Westside, demos, food & refreshments and poetry readings. ✨
Learn about el Museo del Westside, the history of Ruben’s Icehouse, M&E grocery, and get your family portrait taken! 🎞️
PASEO POR EL WESTSIDE, celebrating the rich history of the Westside in San Antonio for 15 years!
🙏🏽🎨✨ Mary Agnes Rodriguez
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The PASEO POR EL WESTSIDE 2024 is one of San Antonio's most unique, vibrant and authentic outdoor, community events, and it's FREE!
THIS SATURDAY, May 4th, at the Rinconcito de Esperanza, JOIN US in honoring the rich history of our beloved Westside. RSVP and check out our full lineup of workshops, music, kids games and more!!
Workshops include:
🌶 10AM: "Spice of Life": A Culinary History of Enchiladas
🍧11AM: Raspa Making
🧼 11AM: Natural Soap Workshop & MANY MORE!
9AM-12PM Clay Demos by MujerArtes Cooperativa de Esperanza!
🚶♀️🏠 Neighborhood Walking Tours start at 9:30 & 11 AM.
Preview the opening of the Museo del Westside with a new exhibition, a historical mapping activity and FREE family portraits by Antonia Padilla
📍 Rinconcito de Esperanza, 816 S. Colorado, SATX, 78207
📆 May 4th, 9AM-3PM
📣 Food! Kids Games! Workshops! Live Music!
👩👩👧👦 FREE & FAMILY FRIENDLY!
📸: Lupito Conjunto
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Did you see PASEO POR EL WESTSIDE 2024 on KENS 5 & Kens5.com morning show today?
RSVP, SHARE & LEARN about our amazing event THIS SATURDAY May 4th at the Rinconcito de Esperanza, 816 S. Colorado, SATX.
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💥Join us this evening at 6:30 pm for a film screening of "Gaza: Health Under Siege", a healthcare focusd documentary. In light of the genocide taking place in Gaza and the complete destruction of hospitals and the obliteration ot the healthcare structure there, this is a timely and important event.
We will have a short informal discussion following the screening. We are accepting donations for Gaza relief. 💥
We'll have popcorn and a tea bar!🍿🫖
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📣Next Tuesday, April 16 at 6:30 pm join us for some great music (did we hear someone say "Volver, Volver"?), fabulous conversation, and yummy food with Rachel Cruz, Patsy Torres and Shell Lares. 💥🎼
There will be a meet and greet complete with autographs!
Parking is available in lot #28 at SAC and at Planned Parenthood parking lot, 920 San Pedro (after 6 and with a permit from Esperanza)
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We’re back and bigger than ever!!! Join us for PASEO POR EL WESTSIDE 2024🪁✨
📅 Saturday, May 4th, 2024, 9am-3pm
🌼 816 S. Colorado Ave, San Antonio, Texas
☀️ Free, family-friendly, fun in the sun!
Enjoy live musical performances, 🎶 Mexican children’s games 🧮, songs, art vendors, kite and piñata making workshops 🪅, pan dulce naming y mucho más!
🚶🏽♂️We'll also have fotobanner tours through the Westside, demos, food & refreshments and poetry readings. ✨
Learn about el Museo del Westside, the history of Ruben’s Icehouse, M&E grocery, and get your family portrait taken! 🎞️
PASEO POR EL WESTSIDE, celebrating the rich history of the Westside in San Antonio for 15 years!
🙏🏽🎨✨ Mary Agnes Rodriguez
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Tomorrow at 7 pm. If you missed Azul Barrientos and Julian Herreros Rivera at the Esperanza make sure you go see them tomorrow.
Join us for a very special surprise concert TOMORROW NIGHT, Friday 4/5 at the Little Carver Civic Center.
This FREE intimate concert experience in-the-round, will feature San Antonio’s beloved artist, Azul Barrientos, and Chilean visiting artist, guitarist and vocalist, Julian Herreros Rivera.
Presented in collaboration with the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center and the Carver Community Cultural Center, this captivating acoustic duo concert will be an unforgettable and mesmerizing experience for all in attendance. This is a very limited seat concert, so don’t be late.
Doors open at 6:30pm
Concert runs 7pm-8pm
FREE SHOW
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San Antonio’s first water focused festival was a huge success!! 🙏🏽 💧TODOS AGUA 2024💧
We want to thank all of the incredible artists who participated, and the energy of every single audience member. It was both a joyous and transformative 3 day event. WATER IS LIFE 🌊 We must protect at all cost. ✊🏾
Thanks to the participating artists, poets and musicians:
Azul Barrientos (creative director)
Julian Hereros Rivera
Carmen Tafolla
Vocab
The Honorable Maria Berriozabal
Greg Harman .news
Marisol Cortez .news
Eduardo Garza
Ceiba Ili
Diana dos Santos
Mazatl Cihuatl
Mauro de la Tierra
Juan Cabrera
Hermanos Bonifacio
Special thanks to the team behind the scenes who made this happen, the staff and buena gente de Esperanza!! ✨
👨🏽💻social media & graphic design .creativos
📸 special thanks to our photographer Antonia Padilla (photos 1,8,10) & community photographer extraordinaire Guadalupe Acuña (photos 2,3,4,5,6,7,9)
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Join us TODAY @ 3:30PM for the final day of Todos Agua 2024, San Antonio's first ever water focused festival!
🎫Purchase tickets at the door for $10 or online at tr.ee/UqG0qTN4rf
On Sunday, March 24, the festival will begin at 3:30 PM with a cacao ceremony led by Diana Dos Santos, offering attendees an immersive experience to connect with nature and each other. Following this serene start, Julian Herreros Rivera and Azul Barrientos will come together to weave a musical journey celebrating water and the beauty of Latin American folk music.
🌊Concessions and festival merch will be available to purchase during the festival.
📍922 San Pedro Ave, Esperanza Peace & Justice Center
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Thank you Marian Navarro and Norma Martinez of Texas Public Radio Fronteras for this awesome interview on the meaning behind Todos Agua Water Festival 2024. Listen to the full interview at tr.ee/THhSJIPHj0
Todos Agua 2024 Day 3 starts at 3:30pm TODAY. Purchase tickets at the door for $10 or online at tr.ee/UqG0qTN4rf
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TODOS AGUA 2024 🌊 continues TONIGHT, 6PM with Chilean singer/songwriter and storyteller Julian Hererros Rivera.
Performances by Mexican folk musician and creative director of Todos Agua, Azul Barrientos. 🌊
The festival continues for a second night on Saturday, March 23 2024. We are thrilled to present Julian Herreros Rivera in a captivating solo concert. Julian’s magnetic stage presence and poignant lyrics promise to enchant the audience, creating an unforgettable experience for all in attendance.
🎫Festival Passes are available online through Eventbrite and at the door with prices starting at $10! tr.ee/UqG0qTN4rf
🌊Concessions and festival merch will be available to purchase during the festival.
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TONIGHT, 6PM, TICKETS AT THE DOOR 🎫
see yall sooon!!!
🌊TODOS AGUA DAY ONE 🌊
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Todos Agua Water Festival 2024 IS HERE!!! and so are the official festival shirts! Grab yours tonight at 6pm! 💫
🎫Festival Passes are available online through Eventbrite and at the door with prices starting at $10! tr.ee/UqG0qTN4rf
🌊Concessions and festival merch will be available to purchase during the festival.
DAY 1: (Opening day & International Water Day)
Join us for an unforgettable time at the Todos Agua 2024 Water Festival! 🌊Get ready to dive into a celebration of our most precious resource - water through music, poetry and art! 🎭
The festival starts on Friday March 22 2024, which coincides with International Water Day. We’ve curated a diverse lineup of local talent, including renowned poets Carmen Tafolla , Andrea Sanderson , and Eduardo Garza , all hailing from San Antonio. Adding to the cultural tapestry, we have musicians from various backgrounds. Ceiba Ili is joining us from Honduras, promising to bring a taste of Central American melodies. Mazatl Cihuatl, a two-spirit American Indigenous woman with roots in Mexica and Chichimeca heritage, will surely mesmerize the audience with her songs. Juan Cabrera from Paraguay will enchant the audience with his harp. And Los Hermanos Bonifacio, representing the vibrant Garifuna culture of Honduras through their soulful rythms. Furthermore, we’re thrilled to feature the artwork of Mauro De La Tierra, who will showcase his talent through live painting and previous work, adding an extra layer of creativity to the festival. We also have Greg Harman, a multimedia journalist and the founder and editor of Deceleration News , a bioregional journal of environmental justice that covers topics such as climate change, public health, water policy, biodiversity, and renewable energy and Marisol Cortez, author of Luz at Midnight, a story of an ill-timed love that unfolds in the time of climate change.
Don’t miss out on the Todos Agua 2024 Water Festival! Grab your friends and family, and come celebrate with us artistry, conscience, and heritage!
📍922 San Pedro Ave, Esperanza Peace & Justice Center
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Check out Todos Agua Water Festival 2024 in the San Antonio Report! Thank you Nicholas Frank! 🙏🏽✨
“The Esperanza Peace and Justice Center will celebrate World Water Day on Friday and through the weekend with the new Todos Agua Water Festival featuring art, poetry, music and discussion.”
JOIN US THIS WEEKEND!
Purchase your tickets today: tr.ee/UqG0qTN4rf
Todos Agua Festival celebrates World Water Day The Todos Agua Water Festival will take place at the Esperanza Center for Peace and Justice March 22-24, with a full program of poetry and music.
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Thank you Deborah Martin San Antonio Express-News for this thoughtful write up on Todos Agua Water Festival 2024. We can’t wait!
Don’t forget to purchase your tickets before they’re gone! tr.ee/UqG0qTN4rf
New festival celebrates water with music, art and poetry Inaugural festival at the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center will feature Chilean guitarist Julián Herreros Rivera.
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💧💧💧Todos Agua Water Festival 2024: THIS FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY featuring our headliner JULIAN HERREROS RIVERA 💧💧💧
Composer, singer, producer and graphic artist, Julián Herreros Rivera has dedicated over 20 years to sharing and honoring traditional ways and ceremonial songs.🍃Having studied flamenco guitar, Chilean and Latin American folklore, composition, and musical production, Julian's magnetic stage presence and poignant lyrics promise to enchant all in attendance.✨
A singer-songwriter since 2001, he formed the Creole waltz group LOS CELESTINOS in 2009, and he has worked as director of the ensemble Coral Rojo since 2015. 🎹
🎫Festival Passes are available online through Eventbrite and at the door with prices starting at $10! tr.ee/UqG0qTN4rf
🌊Concessions and festival merch will be available to purchase during the festival.
📍922 San Pedro Ave, Esperanza Peace & Justice Center
THIS WEEKEND!! A Z U L, the creative director of Todos Agua Water Festival 2024🌊, will grace the stage 3 nights in a row, sharing her vision and bringing together dozens of artists, poets and musicians from Chile, Mexico, Honduras, and San Antonio, all together in celebration and honor of -WATER.- 💧💧💧
Check out our day-to-day full line up and purchase your tickets 🎟️ tr.ee/UqG0qTN4rf
Friday March 22, 6PM
Saturday March 23, 7PM
Sunday March 24, 3:30PM
Azul Barrientos, born in Mexico City, is a multi-talented artist who uses her music as a vehicle for cultural education and storytelling, with a deep passion for preserving Mexico’s traditions and heritage. But Azul’s performances go beyond just entertainment. With a unique educational approach, she weaves historical context, personal anecdotes, and engaging narratives to create a truly immersive experience for her audience. Azul aims to educate through her music, providing a deeper understanding of the cultural significance and historical roots behind each song.
Azul’s commitment to preserving Mexican heritage and fostering cultural unity shines through her performances. Her warm and inviting stage presence effortlessly connects with her audience, creating an atmosphere of shared appreciation and celebration.
📍922 San Pedro Ave, Esperanza Peace & Justice Center
🎫Festival Passes are available online through Eventbrite and at the door with prices starting at $10! tr.ee/UqG0qTN4rf
🌊Concessions and festival merch will be available to purchase during the festival.
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