Craft Cultura

04/28/2026

FREEdom Writing Love with our Familia in Bryan, TX! 🌲 ✌🏽📓 Thank you to all that came out to create community in a beautiful day of plática & storytelling. We were able to make space to listen to the different stories, experiences & perspectives from our brothers & sisters living in Brazos county. Stories that have been passed down generations, and others that are still being written.✍🏾📖

No matter what the State and current administration attempts to do to ban/censor our narratives and education, we remind ourselves that our voices and stories can never be silenced or erased. Our stories and voices are our weapon.
We are Reminded of the Power of our Writing!🫀

Many thanks to for bringing a CRAFT Cultura event to Bryan, TX and for hosting us in their space. We will hit the road any day to help build community with our Familia! 🛣️🌲

Want to join the CRAFT Team? Comment below or send us a message. Where should we take CRAFT Cultura next?💭

"I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry 'home' on my back."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa

04/25/2026

TODAY is the day! Bryan, Texas we have arrived🚂FREEdom Writing from 2-4pm at ✍🏽📓🌳

We look forward to being in community and building community with our Brazos County Familia.🦋

04/24/2026

As we hit the road to bring CRAFT Cultura's FREEEdom Writing workshop to Bryan, TX, we look back at the blog shared by Joseph Lopez sharing his experience attending our first writing event back in February at Basila Frocks on the Westside of San Antonio.

"I learned about how Craft Cultura was founded in the RGV region in south Texas and that over the last year they had moved to San Antonio and began fostering connections with like minded spaces and that this was their first community event in San Antonio.

I cannot thank everyone who helped put the event on enough. It inspired me so much that I plan to host a similar event in Bryan, TX in the coming months. Hopefully collaborating with Craft Cultura and some local groups to facilitate the voices of the community and build out people’s voices in a time when it is desperately needed."

Categories Uncategorized Freedom Writng Post author By joey lopez Post date February 25, 2026 Freedom Writing Workshop, San Antonio, TX – Amplifying Voice for the Comunidad Hey this is joey, I haven’t written an article here in a while that wasn’t documenting a Bryan, TX event. However I was r...

04/15/2026

FREEDOM WRITING is coming to Bryan, TX! ✍🏽📓We are excited to hit the road and bring CRAFT Cultura to Brazos County as we continue to build community through the power of storytelling.🇲🇽✍🏽🛣️📓

🗓️Join us at in Bryan, TX on SATURDAY, APRIL 25th from 2-4PM as we come together to dedicate focused time to write in a supportive, shared space. Let's come together to use our creativity to share writing strategies as we reflect on the importance of writing during times of social injustice.

🗣️Participants are encouraged to share thoughts, feelings, and ideas through free writing while being in community with others.
Attendees are welcome to share their writing if they feel comfortable, but there is no pressure to do so.

💭The goal of FREEdom Writing is to create a collective, welcome space that motivates creative expression, reflection, and connection through writing.

☕This session will be facilitated by Dr. Joseph Lopez aka who attended our first Freedom Writing workshop in February at in San Antonio and is now bringing it to the College Station community. San Antonio native, Dr. Lopez, is an Associate Professor of the Practice at Texas A&M and Director of the Department of Communication's Media & Gaming Lab. He is also the co-founder of .

✊🏽We look forward to being in Community with our Familia in Bryan as we come together to share moments of Art, Activism and Collective Liberation together.

*THIS EVENT IS FREE & OPEN TO ALL.
SNACKS & BEVERAGES will be provided.
🇲🇽🇨🇴🇵🇷🇻🇪🇭🇹🇩🇴🇨🇺🇵🇪🇧🇷🇬🇹

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04/15/2026

FREEDOM WRITING is coming to Bryan, TX! ✍🏽📓We are excited to hit the road and bring CRAFT Cultura to Brazos County as we continue to build community through the power of storytelling.🇲🇽✍🏽🛣️📓

🗓️Join us at in Bryan, Texas, on SATURDAY, APRIL 25th from 2-4PM as we come together to dedicate focused time to write in a supportive, shared space. Let's come together to use our creativity to share writing strategies as we reflect on the importance of writing during times of social injustice.

🗣️Participants are encouraged to share thoughts, feelings, and ideas through free writing while being in community with others.
Attendees are welcome to share their writing if they feel comfortable, but there is no pressure to do so.

💭The goal of FREEdom Writing is to create a collective, welcome space that motivates creative expression, reflection, and connection through writing.

☕This session will be facilitated by Dr. Joseph Lopez aka who attended our first Freedom Writing workshop in February at in San Antonio and is now bringing it to the College Station community. San Antonio native, Dr. Lopez, is an Associate Professor of the Practice at Texas A&M and Director of the Department of Communication's Media & Gaming Lab. He is also the co-founder of .

✊🏽We look forward to being in Community with our Familia in Bryan as we come together to share moments of Art, Activism and Collective Liberation together.

*THIS EVENT IS FREE & OPEN TO ALL.
SNACKS & BEVERAGES will be provided.
🇲🇽🇨🇴🇵🇷🇻🇪🇭🇹🇩🇴🇨🇺🇵🇪🇧🇷🇬🇹

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02/27/2026

FREEdom Writing!✍🏽🌴thank you to all that attended our first event of the year. A beautiful day of building commUNITY through the art of storytelling.

We are beyond grateful to have shared the day with folks from diverse backgrounds in San Antonio to dedicate time to write our experiences and share with one another. Once again, you all reminded us the power in writing, in reclaiming our narratives, supporting each other and using our words as a tool for social justice.🇲🇽🇵🇷🇻🇪🇨🇴🇵🇸

Many thanks to Dr. Marco Cervantes aka for facilitating this writing gathering. We're grateful to have collaborated with Mexstep throughout the years in the RGV in our first years as an org. It was a full circle moment having him facilitate our first event in San Antonio as we now attempt to bring a new social justice platform to the 210.

We are beyond grateful to and Miss Janie Villarreal McClinche for believing in our vision and allowing us to host our first event at their beautiful new cultural center on the Westside.

Thank you to Victor from .gallery.art for opening his art gallery to create a space that nurtures creative expression and connection with others.

Last but not least, thank you to for creating our amazing flyer for the event! We couldn't have asked for a better graphic.✊🏽✏️🎨

Events like these may be hosted by us, but it's the community that makes it possible.

STAY TUNED FOR UPCOMING EVENTS IN 2026. 🗓️

What was your favorite part of the event?
What type of event would you like to see next?

02/21/2026

See Y'all Tomorrow! Sunday, February 22nd from 1-3pm at Basila Frocks 502 N. Zarzamora St., San Antonio, TX

FREE EVENT POSTERS to first 30 to attend!

11/24/2025

The 2025 MAS Youth Conference was a success! Thank you and for inviting Craft Cultura to participate in this year's Mexican American Studies Youth conference at Northwest Vista College.🇲🇽🌵📚 Northwest Vista College

We enjoyed creating a Sci-fi poetry workshop, "Poemas Para El Futuro" inspired by writers Octavia E. Butler, Gloria Anzaldúa and Luis Valdez. ✍🏽☄️🛰️🛸🌎

Thank you to all the organizers & educators of this conference that brought over 300 students from across San Antonio and Austin. We look forward to continuing to develop Mexican American Studies in the community through the arts in San Antonio and beyond.🌱🪶📓

11/20/2025

Poemas Para El Futuro✍🏽📖☄️🛸🌌C.R.A.F.T. Cultura is excited to build community at the 2025 Mexican American Studies Youth Conference at Northwest Vista College. We look forward to our first Sci-fi Poetry Workshop written by current San Antonio youth for the Future youth of the world!

This year's theme is "STEM⚙️s Creando", highlighting the intersections of STEM, creativity, art, and Cultura.🔬🌵

This workshop is inspired by Octavia E. Butler, a renowned Sci-fi writer who once said, "You got to make your own worlds. You got to write yourself in."🌎🪐
📚We will be giving away an Octavia Butler book to a lucky student at our workshop‼️

📓POETRY WORKSHOP: POEMAS PARA EL FUTURO
🪶-Learn from our PAST: read poems by Xicanx writers & poets such as Gloria Anzaldúa and Luis Valdez.
🏫-Archive the PRESENT: Collaborate with San Antonio Youth by writing poems of the current world/s you live in. You may not have a Vote (yet) but you do have a VOICE. What do YOU have to say about the world today?
🌱-Write to and for the FUTURE: what do you want the future world to look like? Write to Future Youth of San Antonio & beyond.
🎙️Spoken word--share what you wrote as a spoken word poem for the chance to win a book by Octavia E. Butler.

📍 Northwest Vista College
Live Oak Hall Rm.108
⏰11:30am-12:15pm
🗓️Friday, November 21, 2025

We are grateful to have been invited to this conference hosted by the Northwest Vista College MAS Student Organization 🇲🇽

Tag a MAS Student from the PAST, PRESENT or FUTURE!

POEMAS PARA EL FUTURO. POEMAS PARA LA CULTURA. BRING YOUR IMAGINATION.💭🇲🇽✍🏽📚🛸

10/24/2025

Thank you to NLPA (National Latinx Psychological Association) for inviting C.R.A.F.T. Cultura to present at this year's conference, Psychology at the Border: Resilience, Mental Health, and the Immigrant Journey.📚🧠🌴🤎

It was our first return to the RGV Borderlands since departing at the end of 2024. Craft Cultura is a result of the UTRGV Mexican American Studies department and the educators that invest in RGV minds/community. As a social justice organization, the community embraced us as we collectively created educational grassroots events outside of academia from 2019-2024. Events that centered BROWN JOY, IMMIGRANT LOVE, INDIGENOUS CONSCIOUSNESS. Events that celebrated us while dismantling the systems that actively work to ban our history, our culture, our art, our education, and our worth. The RGV is where we established our foundation and found our role in the community. This conference was a Beautiful homecoming. Although we are now establishing new roots in San Antonio, we will forever consider the Valley our home.

CRAFT Cultura director, Misael Ramirez, was invited to present on a panel titled, "Healing Justice: What we can learn about Solidarity, Empowerment and Social Change from Rio Grande Valley Organizations"✊🏽🌐🌵🇲🇽

Many thanks to the organizers of NLPA and Dr. Selma Yznaga and Dr. Rebecca Toporek for inviting us to share a bit of the healing work we do and will continue to create on the Borderlands & Beyond. 🌱📖

📍 National Latinx Psychological Association -NLPA
UTRGV - The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

08/28/2025

C.R.A.F.T. Cultura new era loading...🌵🇲🇽

New city. New Struggles. New ideas.

Same roots.📍