FEBRUARY 5, 2025 www.wintertexantimes.com 16 WINTER TEXAN TIMES We Love Our Winter Texans! Thank you for making us your home away from home! • Nightly, 7 Day Plus Rates Available • Fully Equipped Kitchens • Free Wi-Fi • Outdoor Pool • Small Pet Welcome (with fee) • Guest Laundry Service Walking Distance to the La Plaza Mall and several restaurants. For Reservations 956-378-4046 www.mcallen-studio6.com 700 Savannah Ave. McAllen, TX Lock In Your Rates For Next Winter Winter Texan 7 Day Plus Special! $327.67 Queen Bed • $375.97 2 Full Size Beds PLEASE MENTION AD FOR SPECIAL! SPECIAL! 7 Day Plus Winter Texans invited to Discount Day at the Zoo The Gladys Porter Zoo will host its annual Winter Texan Discount Day on Wednesday, February 5. On this day, Winter Texans will receive a special discounted admission rate of only $8.00 with proof of out-of-state residence. At this event, the Zoo will be giving all Winter Texans a coupon to redeem a hot cup of coffee from the Oasis concession stand. Additionally, the Education Department will be conducting train tours throughout the day. The schedule will be as follows, if space and weather permits: 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Don’t miss out on these great opportunities at the Gladys Porter Zoo. To receive the discounted admission rate for Winter Texan Discount Day, guests must show proof of out-of-state residence, such as a driver’s license or passport. For more information about Winter Texan Discount Day, please contact the Gladys Porter Zoo at (956) 546-7187 or visit www.gpz.org. Last Poet in the Woods at Quinta Mazatlán Quinta Mazatlán is honored to host select works from the poetry-art exhibit, Last Poet in the Woods. Join them for an opening reception, Thursday, February 6, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. to experience a plea to preserve the natural beauty left in our world by artist Reefka Schneider and poet Steven P. Schneider. These paintings and poems are informed by the concept of Biophilia as defined by Pulitzer Prize winning author Edward O. Wilson: “the urge to affiliate with other forms of life.” The Last Poet in the Woods is a bold aesthetic statement to create an enduring testimony to the wonders of the natural world. Reefka Schneider, Artist, is the creator of the artwork in the highly acclaimed ekphrastic books and traveling exhibits Borderlines: Drawing Border Lives / Fronteras: dibujando las vidas fronterizas and The Magic of Mariachi / La Magia del Mariachi. Reefka’s artwork has been published in Writing Towards Hope: Human Rights in Latin America (Yale University Press) and many prestigious journals. She has had exhibitions of her work throughout the Southwest, including “Dreamwalkers” at the Michael McCormick Gallery in Taos, NM, “Ekphrasis: Sacred Stories of the Southwest” in the Obliq Gallery in Phoenix, AZ; “Daughters of Juarez” in the Parks Gallery in Taos, and more. Steven P. Schneider, Poet, is the founder of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). Professor Schneider, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, has pioneered the teaching of culturally relevant literature at UTRGV and through his NEA Big Read grants developed innovative community literacy programming. He is the co-creator with his artist wife Reefka of two bilingual, ekphrastic exhibits and books: Borderlines: Drawing Border Lives / Fronteras: dibujando las vidas fronterizas and The Magic of Mariachi / La Magia del Mariachi. Meet the artists at the opening reception of Last Poet in the Woods, Thursday, February 6, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. for a taste of an exhibit inspired by the contemporary classic Last Child in the Woods, by Richard Louv. This program is free. For more information, contact (956) 681-3370 and follow Quinta Mazatlán on social media. Courtesy photo Reefka Schneider and Steven P. Schneider are the creators of Last Poet in the Woods. Photo courtesy of Quinta Mazatlan
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