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Mindful Embodiment Through Inspired Mutual Exchange
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Through Inspired Mutual Exchange
….Me Time is an oasis crafted with self-care (and feeding your creative well!) in mind. ✨🫶
The Me Time Mindful Makerspace
is a live/work studio called “Me Time” that serves as a space for strengthening bridges within the creative community & within oneself. Me Time is a DIY-forward artist retreat space in San Antonio, TX, complete with an interactive private gallery that encourages inward exploration, mindful making, and personal well-being.
For Mindfulness Enthusiasts & Creatives:
Book a stay or an appointment to receive healing, create content, or simply to treat yourself to some quality Me Time in a thoughtfully curated urban oasis (:
For Heart-Centered Solo & Entrepreneurs
Use this space to grow your business by having a beautiful, spiritually grounded, dedicated workspace to host private sessions with your clients.
➜ an acronym for Mindful Embodiment Through Inspired Mutual Exchange
➜ a space that prioritizes creative play & inner-work
➜ a queer-owned, TGNC-led private studio & microgallery
➜ Serving the queer, TGNC, and neurodivergent communities in San Antonioʻs Westside.
➜ A procurer of quiet, curiosity-centered, low-pressure, low-stimulation, judgment-free events that encourage connecting with oneself, with community, and with the land we live on.
Visit ME TIME & the QD Garden by attending an event, scheduling a site visit, Booking Me Time, or volunteering on a community Garden Day.
For CommunityCommunity
Our in-house community programming includes meet-ups for DIY skillshares, book clubs, accessible at-home wellness practices, and garden days.
For Space-MakersSpace-Makers
Me Time is a meeting place, hosting artwork and events by space-makers, entrepreneurs, culture-keepers, artists both local and abroad.
Our queer-led community teaching garden
The QD Garden was a dream born out of Me Time’s flagship horizontally-organized program called ‘Queering DIY’.
It was lovingly planned and built by hand, with donated labor and supplies from over a dozen nonbinary community members— all with the shared dream of creating an alternate food source for our ourselves & our neighbors and having an accessible greenspace that was created by and for our local community to connect with each other, the food we eat, and land we live on.
The QD Garden is 100% nonbinary-owned and queer-led community teaching garden for learning about permaculture & practice food sovereignty.
Book studio time, or an extended stay
Perfect for traveling artists, creators, and seekers in need of a space to get away from the big city for some good ol’ fashion *Me Time* to relax & create in solitude. Me Time can be your very own live-work studio, equipped w/ private gallery + creative gear for use during your Me Time.
You’ll have access to the huge, peaceful backyard & covered patio ideal for relaxing, reading, morning tea or birdwatching.
Reserve yourself some much-needed Me Time, so you can quiet your mind, recharge, incubate, or create your next project at this thoughtfully curated artist retreat space.
Me Time is owned, offered, and stewarded by one crafty nonbinary 5th-gen San Francisco-born product of the Bay Area and descendent of survivors from Hong Kong. In order to keep costs lower and divest from partnering with booking platforms with harmful footprints like airbnb, we are prioritizing use of other avenues for bookings including private contracts that are fair and focused on realizing healthier community ecosystems.
If you’d like to help us divest from partnerships with companies like airbnb, and convert Me Time into a full-time community third space, please consider becoming a Sustaining Supporter. As a Sustaining Supporter, you’ll support Me Time in offering community programming for introverts & neurospicy community members who are recharged by more quiet, interactive, curiousity-based convenings centered around connectivity, rather than by loud marketplaces or club environments centered around consuming
Book an extended stay
Perfect for traveling artists, creators, and seekers in need of a space to get away from the big city for some good ol’ fashion *Me Time* to relax & create in solitude. Me Time can be your very own live-work studio, equipped w/ private gallery + creative gear for use during your stay.
You’ll have access to the huge, peaceful backyard & covered patio ideal for relaxing, reading, morning tea or birdwatching.
Reserve yourself some much-needed Me Time, so you can quiet your mind, recharge, incubate, or create your next project at this thoughtfully curated artist retreat space.
Visiting & Resident Makers
Ongoing Offerings w/ Resident Makers:
Creative Block Tarot Readings w/ Marisol de la Muerte
Visit the Me Time Private Gallery
Current exhibit on view:
“TAP IN” — an intercommunal archive & collection of posters featuring the work of space-makers that lean into our interconnectedness and the power we can access when we ‘tap in’; intergenerationally, inter-communally, as individuals, as people.
For those looking to ‘tap in’ themselves, these selected works and their origin stories offer touchpoints and inspiration that can help guide one along the process.
Curated with care by The House of Malico.
“It’s like kindergarten, but for grown-ups!”
— Sky
FAQ
What does Me Time offer?
- A private gallery with rotating artwork
- live/work space for 1-3 people
- kitchenette w/ microwave & mini fridge
- newly renovated bathroom w/ utility sink
- studio space for creative play
- Curated space with meditation resources
- Interactive QR codes
- unique backdrop for filming/photography
- a venue to host 1-on-1 sessions, small gatherings, or facilitate community care
- a big, green backyard
What's in the private gallery?
- an ✦ experience ✦
- exclusive poster prints
- QR codes that lead to thought-provoking reflection questions from the makers themselves, and buying options for framed or unframed prints!
How can I visit?
There are a few options, all with varying length & price points.
- If you book a session with a Resident Maker, the time and cost would be determined by the Maker & the services they offer. You can see the current offerings and book sessions with Makers here.
- Me Time is a live/work studio, it does have a full bathroom and kitchenette, making it a great place for short term stays, where you'd have the place to your self. We currently offer a 21% discount for weekly stays, and a 33% discount for monthly stays, though this space is more equipped as a creative studio and gallery, than a place to cook. You can see a full list of amenities & book a stay instantly here, OR! save on 3rd party processing fees & request a private lease here.
- If you'd like to check out the space to see if it's right for hosting or becoming a Resident Maker, schedule a viewing here.
Is there creative equipment?
Yes! Me Time is made with creative play in mind, and being that it's a makerspace, we are focusing on providing space for things you do with your hands, or in your body. Think: drawing, painting, writing, tattooing, photographing, filming, accupressure-ing... you get the picture. We do have wi-fi, but consider this a space to tap out of the matrix, and get Lo-Fi (:
Anyway, here are some tools we provide to get you started:
- chalkboard wall
- photo/video backdrop stand w/ sandbags & standard backdrops
- travel tripod (for shoots on-the-go!)
- custom all-over mural backdrop
- utility sink
- 2x classic black stools
- aesthetic chairs available upon request
What services can I host?
This space is ideal for healing practitioners & creative entrepreneurs. The possibilities are abundant! Here are just a few examples:
- talk therapy
- private photoshoots
- tarot reading
- body & energy work (reiki massage, cupping, acupressure, etc)
- hair braiding
- sound baths
- creative & healing consultations or repeating sessions
- small team meetings (2-6 people)
- yoga (2-6 people max)
How do I book a session?
Click "CYOA", then "BOOK" in the menu above to see current offerings by Resident & Visiting Makers!
Can I bring my pets?
Nope, sorry. In order to protect the health & safety of our allergen-sensitive community members, animals are not allowed inside the building. If you must bring your animal, you'll be required leave them outside.
Hosted by LO (Openi 張)
For the past 15 years, Openi has made offerings of curated virtual & physical spaces, as well as digital, tactile, and auditory artworks to the multifaceted communities in which they’ve lived, worked, loved, and grown.Housed at House of Good Qi
The House of Good Qi is home to artfully revived vintage apartments, for people to live a more sustainable and balanced life, providing queer-owned designer dwellings in San Antonio, TX.Gallery by The House of Malico
The House Of Malico creates inclusive productions & public programming centering and cultivating safe(r) spaces for healing and joy within black, brown & queer communities.
