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Our DreamWeek / DreamVoice event is right around the corner! Get your tickets now for this special ONE NIGHT ONLY event! This is a MUST SEE performance! Where Did We Sit on the Bus? Saturday, January 20, 2018 at 9:00 p.m. Russell Hill Rogers Theater By Brian Quijada Directed by Chay Yew Where Did We Sit on the Bus? is an electric one-man show pulsing with Latin rhythms, rap, hip-hop, spoken word, and live looping. During a third grade lesson on the Civil Rights movement and Rosa Parks, a Latino boy raises his hand to ask, “Where did we sit on the bus?” and his teacher can’t answer the question. This thrilling autobiographical production examines what it means to be Latino through the eyes of a child, turned teenager, turned adult. Brian Quijada, a native Chicagoan, and the son of Salvadorean parents, tries to figure out where he fits in. He grew up in a contrasting melting pot watching Michael Jackson’s moves on TV while the smell of pupusas filled the air, and at school, he mingled with friends from different cultural and racial backgrounds. With nonstop laughter, “Where Did We Sit on the Bus?” attempts to answer the question, “Where do I fit in as a Latino millennial growing up in America? Tickets and show info: https://goo.gl/VuXuUM General tickets- $25 Student tickets- $20

With thousands of people streaming into Pittman-Sullivan Park on Monday, an irresistible drumbeat rose above the crowd.

It was an impromptu concert of two African drummers celebrating the inclusiveness of MLK Day in San Antonio.

Nearby, another man has made inclusiveness a centerpiece of the city.

Shokare Nakpodia is the founder of DreamWeek, a January conference of speakers, artists, and educators who gather to promote big ideas like tolerance.

An official DreamWeek event, this free film screening will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with students who have traveled the world with Summer of Service, a local organization that looks to “educate San Antonio youth through community service (service-learning) and travel abroad.”

The documentary itself, released in 2008, follows adventurers-turned-documentarians Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell as they “retrace Marco Polo’s entire 25,000-mile, land-and-sea route from Venice to China and back.” Through the course of the breathtaking and deeply empathetic 90-minute film, which fuses shots from their journey with quotations from Polo’s own descriptions of his, the two learn a great deal about themselves and discover that travel can serve as a kind of antidote to xenophobia and bigotry.

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DreamWeek / DreamVoice is in full force! What event have you gone to? Did you know San Antonio hosts the largest MLK march in the nation? #MLKDay #ihaveadream #DreamWeek

Conversations on equality and minority rights don’t happen in a vacuum. Many of this year’s DreamWeek events focus on issues pulled straight from local, state and national news headlines. Here’s a few we’ll be tuning in to.

Immigrant Rights After the 85th Legislative Session and the End of DACA
Immigrant rights advocates spent 2017 fighting political moves that would significantly impact the lives of undocumented immigrants, on both a state and national level. Last summer, the Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 4, known as an anti-sanctuary, “show me your papers” law, and later in the year, President Donald Trump announced he’d be ending DACA, the program that allowed undocumented people who had arrived in the U.S. as children to legally live and work here. This presentation organized by the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund will discuss the impact those moves will have on the immigrant community, and inform community members how to get involved with legislation. Sat. Jan. 6, 2018 from 10 a.m. – noon. El Progreso Hall, 1306 Guadalupe St.

Planned Parenthood’s Second Annual Action Forum
For the second year in a row, Planned Parenthood Texas Votes will be hosting a forum to talk about their victories and losses in 2017, and what’s on their radar for the new year. Staff and activists are calling on the community to get involved to help them strategize ways to improve reproductive health access and women’s rights in the next election cycle. Wed. Jan. 10, 2018 from 6 – 8:30 p.m. The Movement Gallery/ Galeria de Movimiento, 1412 E Commerce St.

Digital Inclusion
This panel brimming with local leaders, internet service providers and organizations will go over the importance of internet access in San Antonio, and what it means to be a “Digitally Inclusive Community. ” The panel, hosted by the brand-new Upgrade SA, will discuss achieving city-wide digital inclusion for all residents, and why universal internet connectivity is an important resource to improve education and provide more career opportunities for all. Fri. Jan. 19, from 4-6 p.m. Las Palmas Branch Library, 515 Castroville Rd.