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LAST WEEKEND!! |
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Encanto Flamenco Festival
July 30 - Aug 3
Guadalupe Theatre
High Hair and Jalapenos!
Aug 1 - 31
Cameo Theatre
Running the Numbers
Aug 3 - 29
SA Central Library
Alice, A Rock Opera
Aug 8 - Sept 5
Magik Theatre
Terrific Treehouses Exhibit
Aug 30 - Dec 7
SA Botanical Garden
European Film Festival
Sept 8 - 11
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Gemini Ink Readings
and Discussion
Oklahoma Art in
Public Places
Actor's Workshop
Gemini Ink Intern
Call to Artists: Arts
Council of Greensboro
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 Dignowity Hill Pushcart Derby
July 26, 5-8pm
Dignowity Hill Park
700 Nolan
This annual east side event was started in 2005 by artist Cruz Ortiz, and has continued as part of July's Contemporary Art Month celebrations. Pushcart teams will compete in several areas including: speed (and lack of) and creativity in design. Come watch the derby and enjoy live music. www.myspace.com/dignowity |
 Conjunto Heritage Taller Tardeada
July 26, 6-11pm
Plaza Maverick in La Villita
Conjunto Heritage Taller will celebrate its "8th Annual Conjunto Tardeada." Featured Conjunto groups this year will include Max Baca & the TexManiacs, students of the Conjunto Heritage Taller, .Linda Escobar y Su Conjunto, Ariel Johnson y La Klika, Robert Casillas, Ramon "Rabbit" Sanchez and many other surprise guests. The Conjunto Heritage Taller is dedicated to the preservation, instruction and perpetuation of the traditional conjunto music played by accordion and bajo sexto. 210.532.7260 |
 JUST SO STORIES
Through July 26
Watson Fine Arts Center Theatre
1801 Martin Luther King Drive
The cast for this original production is made up of actors who come from almost every area school district in greater San Antonio, grades 7-12. The stories the Academy team has adapted include the Rudyard Kipling classics: How the Camel got his Hump; How the Rhino got his Skin; and The Cat that Walked by Herself. Since the "Just So Stories" debuted in 1902, people of all ages enjoy Kipling's exotic humorous dialogue and story lines that contain over-the-top accounts of how animals gained their uniqueness. All performances are free and open to the public. www.accd.edu |
 Wizard of OZ
Through August 16
Woodlawn Theater
1920 Fredericksburg Road
Join the Woodlawn Theatre and Amphisphere Theatre Productions in a show stopping presentation of the live stage version of the amazing MGM classic musical, "The Wizard of OZ: The Broadway Musical." Little Dorothy Gale of Kansas, like so many girls her age, often dreams of what lies over the rainbow. One day a twister hits her farm and carries her away over the rainbow to another world. Come join Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tinman, the Cowardly Lion and Toto as they travel the universe of Dorothy's imagination. www.woodlawntheatre.com |
 Chronicles of Time
Through August 25
Instituto de México en San Antonio
600 Hemisfair Park
The Instituto Cultural de Mexico presents the opening exhibition: "Chronicle of Time: Retrospective 1987 - 2008" by the Mexican artist Esther Guinzberg. The exhibition includes fifty art pieces: sculptures, reliefs, painting and drawings. Guinzberg plays, recycles and transforms with many materials as she creates and rebuilds bodies and cities. In her reliefs, structured with freedom and harmony, she transforms and humanizes objects that are mass-produced in factories, imbuing them with another value. www.saculturamexico.org |
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 Get to know local San Antonio artists! The May artist of the month is Rolando Briseño.
Rolando Briseño's public art commissions can be found worldwide, including projects at the Houston Intercontinental Airport, a dynamic sculptural installation at the North White Plains Railroad Station, commissioned by MTA Arts For Transit, and Metro North, NYC, as well as a piece commemorating the 300th anniversary of the founding of the city of San Antonio. Future public art commissions include covered walkways for three bridges over the San Antonio River as part of the Museum Reach project, the Terminal Expansion Project at San Antonio International Airport and projects at two Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority rapid transit stations.
Find out more about Rolando Briseño here, including how you can see his work in person during CAM!
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SAN ANTONIO
The City says an A&E District is the ticket
San Antonio Current (07/23/08)
Jennifer Herrera
"Struggling for generations in the shadow of the downtown skyline, San Antonio's East Side has seen its share of ups-and-downs. The good: The AT&T Center, home to the Spurs and a major venue for all-star performers, and the Carver Community Cultural Center, showcasing African-American arts. The bad: Notoriously high crime stats and a series of broken promises, the latest made by HollyHills development, whose 2005 Eastside Vision was supposed to bring in more professional sports teams, NASCAR dreams, and a resort hotel and golf course."
TEXAS
Long Center budget update
Austin 360 (07/17/08)
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
"Reports that the new $77 million Long Center for the Performing Arts is facing budget shortfalls are wrong, Long Center executive director Cliff Redd said."
NATIONAL
Somerville wants to make use of its creative residents to help better the city
Somerville Journal (07/18/08)
In Somerville, MA, "Mayor Joe Curtatone and Director of the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development Monica Lamboy have announced the city is working with the Somerville Arts Council to seek advice from the creative design industry about ways for the city to grow this segment of the city's economy."
INTERNATIONAL
Cherish our museums. They see the bigger, civic picture
The Guardian (07/24/08)
Charlotte Higgins
"Its budget and collections can't match MoMA, but in reaching out to the public the Tate threatens to eclipse its New York rival."
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