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  "description": "March 21–28, 2026: A week honoring water, tradition, and community.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-13T22:23:56.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "South Texas Environmental Justice Network",
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  "textContent": "From March 21–28, we gather in San Antonio, Texas, for conversations where art, memory, and water justice meet. Elders, artists, organizers, and community voices come together through dialogue, song, and reflection to honor water as life and shared responsibility.This year’s gathering includes:\n\n  * Community conversations on Texas waters\n  * Ancestral perspectives on water shared by elders and community leaders rooted in their lands\n  * Song and poesía offerings\n  * Online dialogues and workshops\n  * A closing gathering by the river with plant walks, writing, and collective song\n\n\n\nLocations:\n\n  * Esperanza Peace & Justice Center\n  * Brackenridge Park (Joske Pavilion)\n  * Online gatherings\n\n\n\n**Day 1 – _Water, Territory and Memory_\nOpening Gathering and Community Forum\nSaturday, March 21, 6-9 PM\nEsperanza Peace and Justice Center**\n\nWe begin by standing within the history of waters in Texas, the springs that sustained Indigenous peoples and early communities, the urbanization that redirected them, and the environmental battles that continue today. From the ancient springs of this region to present struggles over aquifers and industrial expansion, we ask how water carries memory of land, displacement, race, and resistance. The evening features a conversation with Juan Mancias, Tribal Chair of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, and Christopher Basaldú, PhD., tribal member and co-founder of the South Texas Environmental Justice Network, whose combined decades of work defending sacred sites and waterways in South Texas ground this dialogue in the living realities of this region.\n\nThe gathering unfolds through an activist talk, community dialogue, and concludes with canto/poesia offering a closing reflection.\n\n**Day 2 – _Water, Urbanization and Environmental Justice_\nCommunity Forum on Environmental Justice\nSunday, March 22, 3-6 PM\nEsperanza Peace and Justice Center**\n\nWe continue by confronting how drought, privatization, contamination, and unchecked development reshape access to water across Texas. Working-class communities and communities of color often face the first and deepest impacts.\nThis gathering brings focus to the rapid expansion of large-scale data centers and industrial development, and their strain on regional water systems.\nWe are joined by members of the Data Center Action Coalition, a community-based group in San Marcos organizing to protect water, land, and people. Locally and across the region, DC/AC works to build a broad and diverse movement defending the right of communities to decide their own future.\nThe afternoon unfolds through activist reflection, moderated dialogue, and closes with a canto/poesía offering.\n\n**Day 3 – _Imox: Water, Oceanic Mind and Vision_\nOnline Dialogue\nTuesday, March 24, 7 PM\nVia Zoom**\nIn the Mayan calendar, water is reflected through the energy of Imox, the oceanic mind, intuition, and the world of dreams. Through dialogue, we explore water not merely as a resource but as origin, movement, and living presence, reflecting on what it teaches about memory, adaptation, and clarity in times of collective pressure featuring Tata Kajkan Felipe Mejia Sepet, and Excy Guardado.\n\n**Day 4 – _Vivir Cantando II_\nWorkshop & Plática with Julián Herreros Rivera\nThursday, March 26, 7 PM\nVia Zoom**\nVivir Cantando returns as an invitation to explore singing not only as art but also as a relationship to territory and community. Through reflective conversation, we consider how song carries memory, builds presence, and strengthens our capacity to listen deeply to ourselves and one another.\n\n**Day 5 – _Song, Memory & Living Water_\nOnline Concert with Julián Herreros Rivera\nFriday, March 27, 7 PM\nVia Zoom**\nAn evening of traditional and contemporary song rooted in territory, memory, and ancestral lineage. Through music that honors living waters and cultural continuity, we gather across distances to listen, reflect, and reconnect with the currents that sustain collective life.\n\n**Day 6 – Returning to the Water\nClosing Ceremony and Outdoor Gathering\nSaturday, March 28, 11 AM\nBrackenridge Park’s Joske Pavilion**\nWe gather on the land to close the week in relationship. A guided walk invites us to learn about local plants and Coahuiltecan–Pakahua traditions of this region. Through writing, chant, and embodied reflection, we offer back what we have learned. The gathering concludes in a collective movement by the river with danzantes.\n\nArtwork by: @redsbodyart Design by: Carmen Vidal\n\nMore Events",
  "title": "Todos Agua III ~ Water Calls Us to Remember",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-20T20:01:20.058Z"
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