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SA Symphony
Season Finale
June 30 & 31
Majestic Theatre
McNay Art Museum
Grand Opening
June 7 & 8
Texas Folklife Festival
June 13 - 15
Institute of Texan Cultures
SA Film Festival
June 19 - 22
Instituto Cultural
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Mandala Gallery
Call for Entries
Special Projects
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NALAC Fund for the Arts
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Local Summer Art "Tour"
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 State Fair
May 23 - June 22
San Pedro Playhouse
800 West Ashby Place
Set against the colorful backdrop of an American heartland tradition, "State Fair" travels with the Frake family as they pursue adventure, romance and blue ribbons at the Iowa State Fair. The performance is set to the Academy Award-winning score by Rodgers and Hammerstein. www.sanpedroplayhouse.com |
 Joan Fabian and Micro-Phobic:
Your Lips Make My Body Quiver
Through May 25
Blue Star Contemporary Art Center
116 Blue Star
In this exhibition at Gallery 4 in the Blue Star Art space, Joan Fabian transforms the space with an installation involving the music and work of Micro-Phobic's underground hit "Your Lips Make My Body Quiver". Inspired by the head of a golden Buddha, the installation consists of highly reflective assemblage constructions by Fabian of which draws upon the highly decorative truck decorating found in Pakistan. www.joanfabian.com |
 Sideshow
Through June 7
Sheldon Vexler Theatre
12500 NW Military
This Broadway musical was inspired by the lives of Daisy and Violet Hilton, who the "San Antonio Siamese Twins" and stars of vaudeville during the Depression. The story is a moving portrait of two women joined at the hip whose extraordinary bondage brings them fame but denies them love. The musical follows them on their quest for fame from a seedy side show to Vaudeville to the eve of their move to 1932 Hollywood and their desperate desire to be "normal". www.vexler.org |
 All School Exhibition 2008
Through June 15
Southwest School of Art & Craft
Russell Hill Rogers Gallery, Navarro Campus
300 Augusta Street
The annual "All School Exhibition 2008" showcases outstanding recent works in a variety of media by artists, teachers and students at the Southwest School of Art & Craft. Juried works have been selected by Mary Mikel Stump, Texas State University. The 2008 Award for Teaching was given to painting and teens after-school faculty member Rainey. Another student exhibition, "Paint to Grind", is located in the nearby Russell Hill Rogers Lecture Hall. The works highlight youth culture by Southwest School teen painting students (self-named "Bee Nation") and their instructor, Rainey. www.swschool.org |
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 Oliver Lutz: Paint It Black
Through August 17
Artpace
445 North Main Avenue
New York based artist Oliver Lutz tackles themes of power, control and disintegration through bodies of work that conflate painting, drawing, video, and audio. Lutz's Artpace installation, Paint It Black brings together several facets explored previously alone. Commissioned and produced by Artpace, all of the work in the Hudson (Show)Room was conceived and executed for this occasion. Resituating the subject of art in relation to the world of sports, the exhibition takes on contemporary mass spectacle as a breeding ground for culturally conditioned rituals, myths, and social interaction. www.artpace.org |
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DEADLINE FOR PROJECT AND OPERATIONAL
APPLICATIONS IS WEDNESDAY, MAY 28 AT 5 pm
The Office of Cultural Affairs is committed to ensuring that all applicants to the arts funding division are afforded complete and equitable access to the application process, which includes the ability to work on the application for the originally allocated number of days. Last week our SAHEARTS web site was subject to a technical shut-down for two business days and recent technical upgrades and information was lost in the process of uploading. The technical and information issues were also reported by several agencies working on their applications. In order to fully comply with the original total number of allowable dates to work on the On-Line application, the Office of Cultural Affairs is extending the deadline for two (2) additional business days to Wednesday, May 28th by 5 pm. All of the identified issues have been updated. We have also verified the information in those applications already submitted and found no issues or concerns. The deadline for all attachments remains the same, Friday, May 30th at 4pm at the Office of the City Clerk. Should you have any questions please feel free to contact Frank Villani at 210-207-6963 or by e-mail at frank.villani@sanantonio.gov.
Remaining OCA 2008 Funding Workshops
Thursday - May 22, McCreless Library
Neighborhood Arts Program Workshop 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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SAN ANTONIO
Theater program aims to get all hands on boards
San Antonio Express-News (05/20/08)
Deborah Martin
"Carol Gulley - a sweet-faced woman who bears a strong resemblance to her mom, former San Antonio Mayor Lila Cockrell - oversees AccessAbility. The program, which was in the pilot phase at Winston last semester, aims to bring a hands-on theater experience to youngsters facing all sorts of challenges, including learning and physical disabilities."
TEXAS
How to reach and engage the renaissance generation
Houston Chronicle (05/09/08)
Shannon Buggs
"The revolution will not be televised because the revolution is live and direct on the Internet. A paraphrase of Gil Scott-Heron's classic spoken-word anthem describes Patricia Martin's message to community arts and business leaders. Martin, a cultural marketing consultant based in Chicago, is documenting a "cultural metamorphosis" that is part of "the disruption that occurs when the dominant civilization loses its relevance and another rises to replace it."
NATIONAL
Louisiana's Investing In Culture
Forbes (5/16/08)
Mitch Landrieu
"Louisiana's Lt. Governor, Mitch Landrieu, writes about the Cultural Economy Initiative he launched in 2003. "The Cultural Economy Initiative encourages the organic growth of the cultural economy as a viable industry. The initiative has produced several programs including, arts in education legislation, cultural product districts, historic preservation grants, the Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation and the World Cultural Economic Forum."
INTERNATIONAL
Cuba Celebrates Cultural Diversity Day
Escambray (05/21/08)
"A colloquium organized by Casa de las Americas, a seminar about integration of culture and tourism and the screening of the film Crossed Glances, are a few of the events taking place here to celebrate Cultural Diversity Day."
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 Get to know local San Antonio artists! The May artists of the month are Jayne King and Amber Ortega-Perez of Modern Dancers' Co-Laboratory.
Jayne King is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, where she was Artistic Director of Janlyn Dance Company, creating more than twenty original works for the ensemble from 1997-2004. Her most recent choreographic projects include Floodgate, a dance film shot on location at the Flood Control Tunnel Outlet Building on the San Antonio River, and Work it On Out: Dance Narratives and Fantasies, an intergenerational community performance project. Amber Ortega-Perez is a founding member of the Modern Dancers' Co-Laboratory, a cooperative of San Antonio modern dancers, and also a co-founder of SpareWorks dance company. She recently collaborated with SOLI chamber ensemble member, Stephanie Key and guitarist/composer, Joe Reyes on a unique performance entitled, "(Re)Action", a performance piece concerning global warming.
See Jayne King and Amber Ortega-Perez in action when Modern Dancers' Co-Laboratory collaborates with StoneMetal Press for PrintDance, May 18 - 25 at the Cody Branch Library. Find out more about Jayne King and Amber Ortega-Perez here. | |
