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A part of you, Parte de ti   June 26, 2009

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Contemporary Art Month
July 2009
City-Wide

Texas Drawing Invitational
July 2 - Sept 6
Southwest School
of Art & Craft

Lonely Are the Brave
July 2 - Aug 15
Blue Star

Graham Toms
July 2 - 28
Jump-Start

Frida Celebration
July 9
Pearl Stable

Cactus Pear Music Festival
July 9 - 19
Our Lady of the Lake

Summer Literary Festival
July 10 - 27
Gemini Ink

Humanness Thereafter
July 11 - Aug 5
Gallista Gallery
Opportunities

Arts Highlights

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SAFilm Fest SAFILM - San Antonio Film Festival
June 25 - 28
HemisFair Park Arch Plaza
600 HemisFair Plaza Way

The San Antonio Film Festival takes place at the beautiful Instituto Cultural de Mexico. This year the festival celebrates its 15th anniversary with day and evening screenings scheduled daily on two screens, free workshops, Q&A sessions with filmmakers, and live music. For a complete schedule of films visit the web site at www.safilm.com.
JumpStart Robert Rehm
Closing June 26
Jump-Start Performance Co.
108 Blue Star

San Antonio's coolest quad artist returns to the Jump-Start gallery with QUAD TRAX. Using the wheels of his wheelchair to apply paint, quadriplegic Rehm creates unique works of art by tracking color across his canvases in various innovative ways. Rehm will also exhibit a selection of mouth paintings that he creates by manipulating brushes and paint by mouth. FREE  www.jump-start.org
Guadalupe Avenida 30th Anniversary Free Variety Concert Series
June 27 - September 12, 6:30-9 pm
Avenida Plaza Guadalupe
1327 Guadalupe

Avenida Guadalupe presents a summer concert series at the Avenida Plaza Guadalupe featuring salsa, country & western and "oldies" music from the 50s, 60s and 70s. Performers for the series include Salsa Brava Band, Javier Galvan y Fama, Los Fabulocos and Grupo FAMA. Visit the website for a complete performance schedule. FREE www.avenidaguadalupe.org
McNay In Their Own Right: Contemporary Women Printmakers
Through August 23
McNay Art Museum
6000 N. New Braunfels

Focusing on the achievements of women printmakers from 1960 to the present, this exhibition reveals a growing area of collection strength at the McNay. In Their Own Right showcases nearly 30 prints by contemporary women printmakers from the McNay's collection, surveying the different trends and movements of American art over the past four decades. www.mcnayartmuseum.org
Artpace Jonathan Monk: Rew-Shay Hood Project
Through September 6
Artpace San Antonio
445 North Main Avenue

Rew-Shay Hood Project Part II consists of a series of airbrushed car hoods featuring images borrowed from Ed Ruscha's artist book Twentysix Gasoline Stations. By re-presenting the book-based photographs in sculptural form, Monk transforms the former small scale of the images into something monumental. Moreover, each hood has its own particular shape, lending the work a sculptural physicality absent in the original. FREE www.artpace.org

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FundingNewsFunding News
 
OCA Technical and Economic Development Assistance Program applications are now open. The Technical and Economic Development Assistance Program is designed to assist local not for profit arts and cultural organizations and artists with organizational stability, development and professional growth. For more information, including application and guidelines, visit the web site HERE.
 
AOTMJune Artist of the Month

SA OperaThe June Artist of the Month is Enrique Patrón De Rueda.

One of the most recognizable talents in the world of opera, Enrique Patrón De Rueda has an impressive list of credentials including appointments as the head of the Orchestra at the Theatre of Bellas Artes, Artistic Director of the National Opera Company, Artistic Director of the Seasonal Opera Concerto of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Mexico and Artistic Director for the Sinaloan Cultural Festival. Maestro Patron is currently Principal Visiting Conductor for the San Antonio Opera.

Find out more about Maestro Patron and San Antonio Opera's performance of Il Trovatore HERE.
NewsArt News Headlines
SAN ANTONIO

In the red
San Antonio Express News (6/24/09)
Dan Goddard
"The Adjaye building's on hold thanks to the recession, but Linda Pace's legacy hasn't faded"

NATIONAL
 
Off B'way makes impact, report finds
Variety (6/23/09)
Gordon Cox
"Off Broadway business generated a citywide economic impact of $461.3 million during the 2007-08 season, according to a report from the Off Broadway Alliance."

INTERNATIONAL

Flutes Offer Clues to Stone-Age Music
New York Times (6/24/09)
John Noble Wilford
"Archaeologists Wednesday reported the discovery last fall of a bone flute and two fragments of ivory flutes that they said represented the earliest known flowering of music-making in Stone Age culture."
 

 
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