Mi Gente Heritage Month
Our Stories: From Grassroots Communities to College Campuses and Beyond
Opening Ceremony: A Celebration of Latinx Arts
Monday, Sept. 16
12:15 - 2 p.m.
Loftin Student Center (LSC) Fiesta Room
Experience exciting performances by the SAC Mariachi group, Estrellas del Alamo, and the SAC Dance Program. Listen to the incisive and moving poetry of Jo Reyes Boitel and Natalia Treviño.
Antojitos Festival
Wednesday, Sept. 25
9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
SAC Mall
Enjoy a festival of food, music, games, and support this fundraiser for our student clubs.
Santita's Sweet Sixteen
Thursday, Sept. 26
Noon - 1 p.m.
LSC Fiesta Room
Come celebrate Santita the chihuahua's “sweet sixteen” birthday and help raise funds for Meals on Wheels – AniMeals! Please bring a small bag of dog or cat food.
Making San Antonio: How the Westside Became the Westside
Katie Best-Richmond, storytelling manager, H.E. Butt Foundation
Madalyn Mendoza, reporter, Axios San Antonio
Tuesday, Oct. 1
10:50 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.
NAHC 218 A&B
Why are San Antonio neighborhoods so divided? Learn how the Westside was created through deed restrictions and redlining and how those policies continue to affect our neighbors today.
Editor's Insight: Dr. Frederick Aldama on 'Tales from La Vida'
Thursday, Oct. 3
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Moody Learning Center (MLC) Library Performance Area (LPA), 4th floor
Meet Dr. Frederick Aldama, the editor behind Tales from La Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology. Gain unique insights into the anthology, Tales from la Vida’s, creation.
Heritage as Power: How One Journalist’s Backstory Fueled Award-winning Journalism
Arelis R. Hernandez, reporter, Washington Post
Monday Oct. 7
9:25 to 10:40 a.m.
NAHC 218 A&B
Washington Post reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner Arelis R. Hernandez will speak on how she leaned into her cultural background and reclaimed her Spanish as a superpower to pursue stories others had ignored and reach under covered communities.
Lup and Lil
Wednesday, Oct. 9, and Thursday, Oct. 10
12:15 p.m.
MLC 4th Floor Performance Area
Friday, Oct. 11
7 p.m.
Fletcher Administration Building Amphitheater (Outdoors)
Three performances of a play by SAC English Professor and playwright, Mariano Aguilar Jr. People often call upon God for help; over the centuries, Lup and Lil have answered the call.
Indigenous Peoples Day
Monday, Oct. 14
11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
SAC Mall
Commemorate and learn about various Indigenous Peoples' cultures and histories with the Society of Native Nations.
Closing Ceremony: Punkera Diatribas
Tuesday, Oct. 15
10:50 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.
SAC Mall
Punkera Diatribes is a Chicanx feminist punk outcry for social change. New work incorporates themes such as consent, solidarity in social movements, border feminist voices, people over profits, environmental justice, queer and self-love, and POC global liberation.