URBAN-15

The URBAN-15 Group is happy to once again be one of 500 venues across the globe to host the 23rd Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival! This brilliant festival with roots in the streets of New York City screens nine films from filmmakers all around the world during the week of September 29th – October 7th. Join URBAN-15 in celebration of their 21st year participating in this festival and enjoy these compelling works brought to life at their studio’s big screen! Tickets are available online for $20.

People who live in the Presa Real, Roosevelt Park and Santa Cecilia neighborhoods are invited to a Saturday morning cafecito with Councilwoman Teri Castillo.

This informal gathering will be held on Saturday, June 17, 2023 from 9:30 to 11 am in the Dance Studio of URBAN-15’s Center for Creative Arts located at 2500 S Presa.

Come enjoy the company of neighbors, meet the recent arrivals who have decided to move into this historic locale and most importantly, contribute your thoughts and ideas that will help the Councilwoman better understand our needs.

Since this is our yoga and teaching space, only certified service animals will be allowed into the space.  Please leave pets at home. Plenty of secure storage area for bicycles.

WANT TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE POET?? ITS EASY! CLICK RIGHT HERE WHERE IT SAYS VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE POET!

As part of National Poetry Month, URBAN-15 again is hosting Mega Corazon, the annual spoken-word marathon featuring San Antonio’s premiere performance poets.  

Celebrating a hybrid San Antonio poetic tradition that combines street, classical, and slam performance styles, Mega Corazón is frontal, improvisational, at times painful, and often choreographed for a highly visual impact.  

This year’s MEGA CORAZON premiers April 17th, 2023 at 8 pm CST with performances by 17 San Antonio Poets. We continue throughout the Month of April with TWO distinct presentations. 

 

EVERY Tuesday and Thursday in April starting at 10am and looping for 24 hours! 

MEGA CORAZON’s “Poetry for Young Adults”, designed specifically as a FREE Cultural Enhancement resource for Middle and High Schools. Content is geared toward students in English, Creative Writing, Fine Art classes in Theatre, Music, Dance, Visual Arts and Media. 

Performances for Middle and High School students are designed for in-class or at-home-viewing All MEGA CORAZON segments are free and can be viewed online at http://urban15.org/live-stream.  

 

EVERY Mon, Weds, Fri, Saturday and Sunday in April starting at 10am and looping for 24 hours! 

MEGA CORAZON: Performance Poetry Marathon for true lovers of performance and poetry.  

Featured Poets include poet laureate Nephtali DeLeon, Anthony “The Poet” Flores, and Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson; National Poetry Month SA organizer Jim LaVilla-Havelin, Eduardo Garza, Our Lady of the Lake Professor Octavio Quintanilla, Natalia Trevino, Marisol Cortez, and many other talented San Antonio poets. A full listing is available on our website at urban15.org.  

Join us on March 25th for “Lighten Up” celebration at the Woodlawn Casting Pond and Park 115 Alexander, San Antonio, TX 78201 An event hosted by Keller-Rihn Studio/Blue Star Art Collective in collaboration with the Bliss House Meditation Center. On this wonderful day, we celebrate life and light, conscious creativity, and explore endless possibilities for inner growth. This family-friendly event is absolutely FREE to the public and will feature live music, FREE veggie food, yoga, live art, holistic vendors, mandala installations, floating illuminated artworks, light art installations, poetry, and more! Live music and performances Rudy Harst, Dharma Paax, Oceteanah, Kaveri Natya Yoga Bharatanatyam, and more to be announced soon!

If you are interested PLEASE Contact us at: urban15@dcci.com or 210-736-1500

Congratulations are in order! We officially have our winners for our 2022 Josiah Media Festival, and now we cordially extend our invitation for your participation in our awards celebration, taking place this month February 2023!

URBAN-15 announces an OPEN CALL to all poets living in Bexar County for consideration in the Invitational 2023 MEGA CORAZON Poetry Festival.  Poets accepted into the festival will be eligible to compete for the Gregg Barrios “Precious Words Prize” of $500 for the best performance presentation. 

 

Monday, April 17,2023 is the kickoff of the month-long MEGA CORAZON celebration, a hybrid live/online spoken word marathon that is part of San Antonio’s National Poetry Month participation. This festival presents San Antonio’s poetic tradition that combines street, classical, and slam performance styles in a production that is improvisational, at times painful, and choreographed for a highly visual impact. While this year’s lineup is still in development, previously participating poets include Poets Laureates Carmen Tafolla, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Jenny Browne, Octavio Quintanilla and Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson; internationally recognized writers Naomi Shihab Nye, Nephtali De Leon and John Phillip Santos; “Slam Poetry” champions Anthony “The Poet” Flores and, and many other talented local poets. The Gregg Barrios “Precious Words Prize” was created by world-renowned poet and author Gregg Barrios in 2021 to award the Mega Corazon poet selected by the on-line audience for the best performance during the festival. The 2021 winner was Amalia Ortiz, 2022 winner was Jessica Tilton Zertuche. 

Guidelines for consideration in The 2023 Mega Corazon Poetry Festival: 

• Poets, of any age, currently must reside in Bexar County.  
• Poets must submit a 3 to 5–minute audition video (or online link) displaying original poetry performance. Selection will be based on power of content and power of performance commitment. Auditions videos will not be judged on production expertise, video technique nor platform.  
• List of publications, if any 
• Artist bio notes and artistic statement 

 

Please email materials to events@urban15.org.  There is no entry fee to submit application materials, and the deadline is Friday, February 10, 2023.  

 

Final selections will be announced March 1, 2023. Poets selected, this year’s Mega Corazon will be pre-recorded live in our studio (2500 S. Presa 78210) during March.  The internet broadcast of all performances will also be accessible free of charge and without a password on URBAN-15 website’s at https://urban15.org/live-stream.