Remember El Alma: The Untold Women's Stories, March 14th

Remember El Alma:
The Untold Women’s Stories of the Alamo,
Reclaiming Its Soul

@ Bihl Haus Arts
Saturday, March 14th 3-5 p.m.

The women didn’t fight at the Alamo, but they are the true heroines of that battle. They had to survive without husbands, fathers, sons, brothers, and lovers. What happened to them? How do women survive war? What side were they on?

Did the (white/brown/black) women enjoy the benefits of the “freedom” the men fought and died for? “I think it’s time for women to turn the Alamo into a monument to peace, a wailing wall, if we are serious about ending war,” says writer Barbara Renaud Gonzalez.

Former journalist and author Denise McVea, Making Myth of Emily: Emily West de Zavala and the Yellow Rose of Texas Legend, and journalist/writer Barbara Renaud Gonzalez, author of Golondrina, why did you leave me?, the first Chicana novel to be published by UT Press/Chicana Matters series, join forces on Saturday, March 14th, at Bihl Haus Arts, from 3 p.m. -5 p.m. to read and talk about their books, and their exploration into the soul of the Alamo, an examination and reclaiming that women must do for the future generations of Texas.

Q&A after the Reading/Platica. For more on women and the Alamo, go to Barbara's daily blog http://barbararenaud.blogspot.com/

This program, the fourth in a series of annual reconsiderations of the Alamo by artists, authors, poets, performers, and scholars organized by Bihl Haus Arts, is an official Luminaria event. Free and open to the public.

In a related literary event, Austin poet and playwright Celeste Guzman Mendoza will read from her recent poetry about women, their lives, and their work, at Bihl Haus Arts on Saturday, April 4, 2-4 pm. This Poetry Month event is also free and open to the public.

Bihl Haus Arts (www.bihlhausarts.org) is a not-for-profit contemporary art gallery located at 2803 Fredericksburg Rd., on the premises of Primrose at Monticello Park Senior Apartments, an affordable housing community.

The gallery is made possible with the generous support of The Potashnik Family Foundation and Primrose. This program is funded in part by the San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs. For more information, (210) 383-9723, or kellenkee@swbell.net

Kellen Kee McIntyre, PhD
Executive Director Bihl Haus Arts
P.O. Box 100806 2803
Fredericksburg Rd. San Antonio, TX 78201 (210) 383-9723 (cell)
(210) 732-3502 (off)
kellenkee@swbell.net
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